1. Which of the following do you consider as cause for a teacher’s maladjustment to the profession?

(a) Not enough work to keep him engaged

(b) Limitations in his qualifications

(c)Too much of leisure and wishful thinking

ADVERTISEMENTS:

(d) Poor relationship with colleagues and administration

2. An effective teacher is expected to

(a) Reduce the anxiety level of students to moderate level

(b) Encourage the students to make initiative

ADVERTISEMENTS:

(c) To make students feel that education is their need

(d) All of the above

3. Reconstruction and adaptation are necessary for urban as well as rural pattern of living because of

(a) Industrialization

ADVERTISEMENTS:

(b) Scientific development

(c) Technological advancement

(d) All of the above

4. Schools cannot be understood without the understanding of

ADVERTISEMENTS:

(a) The religion

(b) The society

(c) The family

(d) The nation

ADVERTISEMENTS:

5. Rousseau’s philosophy of education contents that

(a) Environmental facilities for play activities should be improved in schools

(b) The education of children should start from the women itself.

(c) All evils of education due to departure from nature

ADVERTISEMENTS:

(d) Modern civilisation is to be modified according to the needs of the environment.

6. The history of education reveals that even as take as the 19th century, all the various division of knowledge were spoken of as branches of

(a) Metaphysics

(b) Epistemology

(c) Philosophy

(d) Logic

7. The essentialists in education claimed that

(a) We must teach what is common and essential for all instead of disputing out attention of individual differences

(b) Education should essentially be adjusted to the requirements of the growing children

(c) It is essential to take the interests of individual students into consideration in dividing the aims and methods of education

(d) In conformity with Deway, the practical needs of the society should be treated as essential in framing the curricula in education

8. Person responsible for administration in a school is

(a) Principal

(b) Director of Education

(c) Education officer

(d) None of these

9. It is found in many experiments that the discussion method of teaching is more effective that the lecture method. This is the effect of

(a) Impressionism

(b) Socialisation

(c) Teacher’s dynamism

(d) Group dynamics

10. In its present usage the word statistics is

(a) a decade old

(b) a century old

(c) 10 centuries old

(d) 3 centuries old

11. The number of pairs of cranial nerves in mammals that are purely sensory is

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Five

12. Which of the following approaches could be considered as progressive in the construction of curriculum?

(a) Creating provision for promoting children to exert their potentialities for learning

(b) Providing knowledge from the past culture and achievements of the nation for inheritance

(c) Arranging the subject matter required for compulsory acquisition by students in the interests of the society

(d)Selecting the contents of the curriculum from the disciplinary and cultural values point of view

13. Statistics can

(a) Disprove anything

(b) Prove anything

(c) Neither prove nor disprove anything is just a tool

(d) None of these

14. Acetyl cholinesterase is connected with

(a)Synthesis of protein

(b) Digestion of protein

(c) Conduction of nerve impulse

(d) Digestion of polypeptides

15. When you start teaching a new topic to a class, the foremost precaution to be observed would be to

(a) See that is important is impressed upon the class first

(b) Prepare the teaching matter as thoroughly as possible

(c) See that students do not raise questions in the course of you teaching

(d) Create the feeling among students that the new topic has logical relation with what they knew before

16. Nationalism in education has the aim of

(a) Enforcing obedience and society in the individuals

(b) Supporting the democratic education objectives

(c) Development of individuality as its end

(d) Making education internationalists as well

17. Which of the following provides more freedom to the learner to interact?

(a) Use of film projector

(b) Small group discussion

(c) Viewing Countrywide Classroom Programme on TV

(d) Lecture by Experts

18. Teachers primary responsibility lies in

(a) Planning educational experiences

(b) Keeping students records

(c) Implementing policies

(d) all of the above

19. The Swaminathan study group’s report ol 1972 in our country was concerned with

(a) In-service education teachers

(b) Development of pre-school children’s education

(c) The technical education at the secondary level of education

(d) The vocational aspects of primary education

20. Parasympathetic nervous system

(a) Accelerate heart beat

(b) Dilater pupil of eye

(c)Release of sugar from liver

(d) Stimulation of saliva

21. We usually welcome a liberal outlook on the parts of the members of any society. This comprises

(a) Not hesitating to accept a correct fact.

(b) Not posing problems and objections to what others say or believe

(c) Believing others even if we do not understand them

(d) Accepting statements or saying coming from people whom we know

22. From an instrumentalist’s point of view, the values in education

(a) Have a standard hierarchy

(b) There is always a relativity of value standards

(c) Have superiority in objectives of education at any level.

(d) Are intrinsic to a subject or activity comprising education?

23. Aristotle disagreed with Plato in respect to the brief that

(a) The state should control education

(b) There are universals

(c) Slaves should be excused from education

(d) Ideas are the reals

24. A teacher will become an effective communicator if

(a) He uses instructional aids

(b) He helps students get meaning out of what he teaches

(c) He helps students get correct answers to the questions on the topic

(d) He asks questions in between teaching

25. If a test measures successfully what it attempts to measure, it is termed as

(a) Valid

(b) Diagnostic

(c) Objective

(d) Reliable

26. Education Philosophy is

(a) Concerned with the relation between mind and matter.

(b) A determining factor of the context of education

(c)Concerned with determining the aims of education only

(d) Able to determine the why of education from a theoretical point of view.

27. The first question that a researcher interested in the application for statistical techniques to his problem has to ask is

(a) Whether the data could be quantified

(b) Whether analysis of data would be possible

(c) Whether appropriate statistical techniques are available

(d) Whether worthwhile inferences could be drawn

28. Communication will be effective

(a) If it delivered in a calm situation

(b) If it is delivered slowly and clearly

(c) If it reaches the receiver completely

(d) If it reaches the receiver as intended by the sender

29. Both in the east and in the west, attempts are made to develop character and moral qualities in the school through

(a) Practical situations

(b) Pupil government

(c) Both a & b

(c) Religious book

30. Statistical methods

(a) Can be used by anyone

(b) Have to be used with caution

(c) Are always definite and certain

(d) Are foolproof

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

(a) One who uses chart and maps?

(b) One who uses board occasionally?

(c) One who uses film projector along with the proper use of the board?

(d) One who uses motion picture as a last resort

32. Before starting instruction a teacher should

(a) Be aware of the environmental variables acting on the mind of the pupils

(b) Know the existing knowledge of his students and their background knowledge

(c) Be competent enough to arouse the curiosity of his pupils

(d) All of the above

33. Statistics implies

(a) Both data and statistical methods

(b) only statistical methods

(c) Only data

(d) None of these

34. Religion and philosophy meet in:

(a) Matter

(b) Mind

(c) Spirit

(d) None of the above

35. In which of the following respect, a group and crowd differ from each other?

(a) Size

(b) Suggestibility

(c) Organisation

(d) Intimacy

36. There is a call from some thinkers that there is great necessity to socialise school education. This could be correctly interpreted as

(a)Greater stress on social services to be rendered the schools

(b) The implementation of greater co­ordination between the schools and the society

(c) Establishment of more community schools by private venture

(d) Formations of a common neighbourhood of schools to raise their academic standards.

37. The controversy between science and religion in the West started

(a) Naturalism

(b) Essentialism

(c) Pragmatism

(d) Darwinanism

38. ‘CARE’ is an abbreviation for

(a) Care for Adult Recreation and Employment

(b) Compulsory Attendance at Rural Education

(c) Committee for American Relief Every where

(d) Contacts of American Representatives Everywhere

39. Regarding the state control over education, it is usually felt that

(a) The individuals develop personality quicker.

(b) There is no possibility of the full development of woman personality

(c) The progress of society favorably affects the progress of the individuals.

(d) There are better chances of betterment” of educational institutions.

40. The traditional school is usually associated with

(a) The great books theory

(b) The activities program

(c) The recitation of lessons

(d) The integration of subjects

41. Which of the following statements would correct with regard to the policy of non-for education?

(a) It is not a substitute, but a supple to formal education

(b)It is good only for lower class, unskilled

(c) It is an education of an unplanned nature to be adapted to selected situations

(d)It does not require any theoretical basis or intellectual preparations of train teachers.

42. The 1972 International Commission on Education has entitled its report as

(a) Education and National Development

(b) Learning to be National Development

(c) Learning as a Living

(d) None of the above

43. The latest educational movement started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave and having pursued by some followers even now is called

(a) The Gurukul

(b) None

(c) The Acharyakul

(d) All the above

44. Out of the following four branches of psychology with which sociology has got maximum linkage is:

(a) Child Psychology

(b) General Psychology

(c) Social Psychology

(d) Industrial Psychology

45. If a teacher has to establish credibility in evaluating answer scripts he/she must be

(a) Strict

(b) Prompt

(c) Objective

(d) Lenient

46. The groups which are first in influencing individual and in shaping his attitudes and behaviour patterns is

(a)The society

(b) The family

(c)The village

(d)The country

47. The medieval university was dominated by

(a) Verbal realism

(b)Nominalism

(c) Scholasticism

(d) Social realism

48. Learning is the result of

(a) Social change

(b) Social motivation

(c) Social interaction

(d) Both a & b

49. An autonomic nervous system has

(a) Paired chain ganglia

(b) Sense organs

(c) Brain & spinal chord

(d) Cerebral hemisphere

50. It back-benchers are always talking in the classroom a teacher should

(a) Punish them

(b) Let them do what they are doing

(c) Ask them to sit on the front benches

(d) None of the above

Answers:

1.(d)

2. (d)

3. (d)

4. (b)

5. (c)

6. (c)

7. (a)

8. (a)

9. (d)

10. (a)

11. (b)

12. (b)

13. (c)

14. (b)

15. (d)

16. (a)

17. (d)

18. (a)

19. (b)

20. (b)

21.(a)

22. (b)

23. (d)

24. (b)

25. (a)

26. (d)

27. (a)

28. (d)

29. (c)

30. (b)

31(c)

32.(d)

33. (a)

34.(c)

35. (c)

36. (b)

37.(d)

38. (a)

39. (b)

40. (c)

41(a)

42. (b)

43. (c)

44. (c)

45. (c)

46. (b)

47. (b)

48. (d)

49. (b)

50. (c)