50 sample multiple type job interview questions

50 sample multiple type job interview questions

1. Which of the following skills has the largest share in communication time in schools/ college?

(a) Listening

(b) Speaking

(c) Writing

(d) Reading

2. Which of the following statement is incorrect?

(a) It is a social process. Education is imparted both by formal and informal means. It is significant means of socialization. Though, it has been emphasized upon and resorted to by all societies, yet there have been differences in emphasis and variation in mechanism of imparting it from society to society. The Western dictum has been, “those who can do, those who cannot teach”. Education thus did not thrive for long, in Europe. In the Indian social milieu, education has been traditionally given significant importance.

(b)Thus in the Taittiriya Upanishad “teacher asks his parting pupil not to neglect this study, learning and teaching of the Vedas.” Varna ashram dharma devotes first quarter of life, (taking life span to be of 100 years) to learning. “Education has thus been given greater prominence in India than in Western or Islamic societies or in China”

(c) The educated was the Dvija, the twice born, first the physical birth, which one owes to one’s parents and second, that one owes to the guru and the Savitri, which represents the quickening power of the sun. The continuity and perpetuation of education was emphasised as a social pre-requisite the rina theory, gives it the full recognition. It emphasises, among other things that one has to pay off, the rinas (debts) to rishis and to gurus, and it is best paid by studying the texts and by imparting education to one’s children

(d) None of these

3. The agrarian economy, in many cases has become partially

(a) Industrialized

(b) Traditional

(c) As it is

(d) None of the above

4. Before using secondary data the only thing to be seen is that they are

(a) Adequate for the purpose in hand

(b) Reliable

(c) Representative

(d) All of these

5. A democratic society is one which

(a) Respects the enlightened individuals

(b) Follows the principles of equality, freedom, fraternity and justice

(c) Believes in equal educational opportunity

(d)All of the above

6. It is said that education requires a period of social infancy. The implication is that

(a) The society should realise its limitations in being able to educate young

(b) The young should be released from the need of self supporting efforts

(c) There should be special attention towards societies in a state of infancy to their education

(d) Every effort should be made to enhance the educational standards of the infants of the society

7. People of all age levels form

(a) Society

(b) Peer group

(c) Reference group

(d) Team

8. Which of the following statements would be true in your opinion about creative teachers?

(a)They create problems for the school administrators

(b)There is a correction between their subject knowledge and creativity

(c)They command good regard from colleagues, etc.

(d)They are very friendly and predictable among their colleagues

9. A teacher who is not able to draw the attention of his students should

(a) evaluate his teaching method and improve it

(b) find fault in his pupils

(c) resign from the post

(d) start dictating

10. Which of the following statements would be consistent with the theory that knowledge of the good is received through revelation?

(a) Formal reading instruction should be delayed until age

(b) Education should exclude the study of foreign languages

(c)Education should consist of abstract subjects like dialectics

(d)All learning should be subordinated to religious dogma

11. To have an aim is to act with meaning like

(a) Unautomatic machine

(b) Automatic machine

(c)Not like automatic machine

(d) Nothing can be said

12. If a teacher is not able to answer the question of a pupil he should

(a) Say that he will answer after consultation

(b) Say that the question is wrong

(c) Rebuke the pupil

(d) Feel shy of his ignorance

13. Family helps in shaping the basic

(a) Child’s personality

(b) Structure of culture

(c)Character

(d) All of the above

14. The largest cranial nerve is

(a) Optic

(b) Vagus

(c) Facial

(d) Mandibular

15. The SUPW has been introduced in the school curriculum due to the recommendations of

(a)The University Education Commission’s report

(b) The Kothari Education Commission’s report

(c)The Secondary Education Commission’s report

(d) The Eshar Bhai Patel Education Review Committee

16. Which of the following is not a purpose of educational philosophy?

(a)To clarify values and aims in teaching

(b) To professionalize the job of teaching

(c)To increase the teacher’s love of and control over, the pupils

(d)To critically examine assumptions behind educational practice

17. Second cranial nerve supplies

(a) Retina and lens

(b) Retina and ivis

(c) Ciliary muscles

(d) None of these

18. The word ‘transcendentalism’ means

(a) Moving from deductive to inductive logic

(b) Belief in the doctrine of immanence

(c) Doctrine of first principles derived from use of the senses

(d) Going beyond man’s experience for knowledge of truth

19. That which educators criticise most severally in the practices of the so-called progressive schools might best be termed

(a) Scholasticism

(b) Realism

(c) Idealism

(d) Laissez-fairies

20. In the growth of our society, which of the following were first taught formally on a level above the elementary schools?

(a) Business and commercial subjects

(b) Liberal arts and sciences

(c) Social work and teaching

(d) Vocational and industrial training

21. John Locke’s phrase of tabular rasa means

(a) Free education

(b) Tal and Ras

(c) Mind itself is a result of the process of evolution

(d) All of the above

22. All of the following are the limitations of televised instruction except

(a) It does not permit the exchange of ideas between the teacher and taught

(b) Televised lesson moves at a fixed speed ₂₈ and thus cannot take the individual differences of students into account

(c) It does not properly help the students in making the materials clearly understood

(d) Experts consume much time in planning and preparation of the programme

23. Which one is a simple reflex?

(a) Climbing a stairs in dark

(b) Closing of eyes if an object suddenly approaches them

(c) Watering of mouth at the sight of delicious food

(d) Tying laces while talking to and looking at another person

24. The only institution which is the essential agency for child caring, Socialisation and for introducing the child to the culture of its society is

(a) Family

(b) School

(c) College

(d) All of the above

25. Trigeminal nerve arises from

(a) Medulla and divides into palatine, chord, tympani and hyomandibular

(b) Cerebellum and divides into palatine, chord tympani and hyomandibular

(c) Medulla and divides into ophthalmic, maxillary and Mandibular

(d) Cerebellum and divides into ophthalmic, maxillary and Mandibular

26. One may change his class position through

(a) Marriage

(b) Illegal means

(c) Leadership

(d) Monopoly

27. As a plural noun, statistics refers to

(a) Statistical methods

(b) Numerical statements of facts

(c) Interpretation of numerical data

(d) Compilation of numerical data

28. Who said that members of the same species are not alike?

(a) Darwin

(b) Good

(c) Best

(d) Herbert Spencer

29. Which one does not involve brain?

(a)Spinal reflex

(b)Voluntary action

(c) Cranial reflex

(d)Cerebral reflex

30. Which of the following teachers will you like most?

(a) A loving teacher

(b) A teacher of who often amuses his students

(c) A teacher of highly idealist philosophy

(d) A disciplined teacher

31. Which is the more desirable outcome of teaching in higher education?

(a)Increase in student’s achievement

(b)Increase in the level of independent thinking of students

(c) Increase in the number of students who opt for the subject

(d)Higher percentage of result

32. A college teacher will really help the students when she

(a) Dictates notes in the class

(b) Is objective in her evaluation?

(c) Covers the syllabus completely in the class

(d) Encourages students to ask questions

33. To which are the concepts of internal and external criticisms associated?

(a) Descriptive research

(b) Validity of experimental designs of research

(c) Historical research

(d) Literary research

34. In any discipline, theories and observable (related experimental results)

(a) Should complement each other

(b) Need not have anything to do with each other

(c) More often than not should contradict each other

(d) Should compensate each other

35. The family is an important…. but active agency of education

(a) Regional

(b) Informal

(c) Education

(d) Social

36. The school is also basis for reconstruction of society through

(a) Study

(b) Research

(c) Both a & b

(d) Religion

37. Kindergarten (KG) system of education means garden of small kids which is indebted to

(a) Plato

(b) Froebel

(c) Dewey

(d) Spencer

38. Revelation differed among primitive people and among Hebrews, Catholics, and Protestants, in respect to

(a) The interpretation of the revealed knowledge

(b) The agent for transmitting true knowledge

(c) The location of the source of true know

(d) All the above answers

39. Mass education among people of the West originated in the

(a) Court school of Vitterinolda Feltre

(b) Place school of Charlemagne

(c) Cateckumenal and catechetical schools

(d) Protestant Vernacular reading schools

40. Child at the primary school is strongly

(a) Family oriented

(b) No any type of orientation

(c) Peer oriented

(d) Centred

41. Who challenged the superstitions and priestly ceremonies and changed the attitudes of people towards religion

(a) Mahavir

(b) Buddha

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Both a & c

42. The first state board of public health was created

(a) In New York in 1800

(b) In New Hampshire in 1798

(c) In Maryland in 1820

(d) In Georgia in 1842

43. To Plato, the main role of education was to

(a) Cultivate the personality of each individual

(b) Develop the power of contemplation

(c) Train each person for a vocation

(d) Strengthen the power of perception

44. “The family was an all inclusive social institution” said by

(a) Moore

(b) Patanjali

(c) Ballard

(d) Dewey

45. I.Q. is the ratio of mental age to

(a) Chronological age multiplied by 100

(b) Chronological age multiplied by ten

(c) Chronological age only

(d) Chronological age divided by 100

46. It. Family is the institution into which each I individual is

(a) Born

(b) Live

(c) Preying

(d) None of these

47. It is recommended that the house system would be better for arranging sports and games in school. These houses are formed better if

(a) Different groups are formed in schools according to ages

(b) Students from all classes are represented in each house as a group

(c) Care is taken to see that the number of students is kept equal in all houses.

(d) Different games are specified for different games and sports

48. The concept of academic freedom for teachers, should be taken to mean that

(a) It could be admissible only at higher level of taking academic ladder

(b)Teachers are completely free to teach whatever they feel as true

(c)All the relative scholars alone should have freedom to teach truths

(d)Freedom should be given only to teachers and no to learners

49. In these rapidly changing times and for different back grounds of pupils a

(a) Very flexible school curriculum

(b) Very rigid school curriculum

(c) Partial flexible school curriculum

(d) None of the above

50. The educational philosophy which is rooted in revelation as a method of receiving knowledge of the good is called

(a) Naturalism

(b) Supernaturalism

(c) Romantic naturalism

(d) Classical realism

Answers:

1(a)	2.(d)	3. (a)	4. (d)	5. (d)
6- (c)	7. (b)	8. (a)	9. (a)	10. (d)
11.(c)	12. (a)	13. (d)	14. (c)	15. (d)
16. (c)	17. (a)	18. (d)	19. (d)	20.(b)
21.(c)	22. (c)	23. (d)	24.(a)	25. (a)
26.(a)	27. (b)	28. (a)	29. (c)	30. (a)
31(b)	32. (b)	33. (c)	34.(a)	35. (b)
36. (c)	37.(b)	38. (c)	39. (d)	40. (a)
41(d)	42. (c)	43. (b)	44. (c)	45. (b)
46. (a)	47. (b)	48. (c)	49. (b)	50. (b)