PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ‘EDUCATION’

Practice questions are beneficial because they offer a dynamic and effective way to reinforce learning, identify knowledge gaps, and build confidence. They are helpful in active learning and engaging with the material. It helps in attempting to answer questions and retrieve information from your memory and strengthen neural pathways, and improve retention. Here are some questions about “EDUCATION”, which is also considered “A DISCIPLINE” to achieve your destination for your goal, i.e, SET(education), NET( education), TET/TRT/DSC (perspective in education), etc……

Let’s dive into the world of EDUCATION  

1 – 25 QUESTIONS :-

1) Individuals’ mental abilities are the product of

A) Heredity

B) Heredity and Environment

C) Environment

D) Neither heredity nor Environment

2) This is not a component of ‘Products’ in Guilford Model of intelligence

A) Classes

B) Evaluation

C) Relations

D) Unit

3) Self-smart people possess this type of intelligence

A) Naturalistic intelligence

B) Intra-personal intelligence

C) Interpersonal intelligence

D) Visual spatial intelligence

4) The percentage of a child’s cumulative brain development that occurs before the age of 6 years, according to NEP-2020, is

A) 55%

B) 60%

C) 85%

D) 90%

5) Fluency, flexibility, and originality are the characteristic features of

A) Creativity

B) Intelligence

C) Aptitude

D) Memory

6) The following is the classification done by Kreshmer

A) Endomorphic, Mesomorphic, Ectomorphic

B) Sangune, choleric, Malachonic, Plegmatic

C) Pyknic, Athletic, Leptosomatic 

D) Introverts, Extroverts

7) The celebrations that are performed at the beginning of students’ learning in the Buddhist Education System

A) Pabbaja

B) Upanayana

C) parivrajaka

D) Upasampada

8) The correct order concerning the process of memory is

A) Retention, Retrieval, Encoding

B) Encoding, Retention, Retrieval

C) Retrieval, Encoding, Retention

D) Retention, Encoding, Retrieval

9) “We must at present do our best to form a new class of people with Indian blood and colour, but English in taste, opinions, morals and intellect is the objective of English Education,” is said

A) Charles Grant

B) Hartag

C) Elphinstone

D) Macaulay

10) Choose the wrongly matched pair

A) Two-factor theory – Spearman

B) Group Factor Theory – Binet

C) Model of intellect – Guilford

D) Multiple intelligences _ Gardner

11) A girl learnt to write Urdu words. Now she wishes to learn to write Telugu words, then the transfer of learning would be

A) Positive Transfer

B) Negative Transfer

C) Zero Transfer

D) Bilateral Transfer

12) Identify the wrong-matched defense mechanism

A) Displacement – Change his goal

B) Regression – Reversion to earlier stage

C) Fantasy – refusing unpleasant aspects

D) projection – Make others responsible for his failure

13) “Anthropometric Lab” was established

A) Wilhelm Wundt

B) Francis Galton

C) Ebbinghaus

D) Sigmund Freud

14) The word “MAKTAB” is derived from the Arabic word ‘Kutub’. Kutub means

A) a place of prayer

B) A place to learn writing

C) Gifts to Children

D) Textbook

15) “Oedipus complex” means

A) Girls are affectionate towards their fathers

B) Boys are affectionate toward their mother

C) Lack of mental health

D) Hormone deficiency

16) Identify the INCORRECT one concerning the Army Alpha Test

A) Speed Test

B) Non-verbal Test

C) paper and pencil Test

D) Group Test

17)Group test  of intelligence in the following is

A) Bhatia Intelligence Test

B) Object Assessment Test

C) Block Design Test

D) Army Alpha Test 

18) One of the following is NOT related to the psychomotor domain

A) Imitation

B) Articulation

C) Manipulation

D) Response 

19)Choose the correct answer regarding the theory and the psychologist

a. Type Theories: Hippocrates, Sheldon, Spranger

b. Trait theories: Allport, Cattell, Eyenck

c. Structure Theories: Freud, Vygotsky, Erikson

A) a, c

B) b, c

C)  a, b

D) a,b,c

20) What changes did the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India bring to the Indian education system?

A) Made elementary education a fundamental right

B) Provide free access to higher education

C) Education was removed from the Directive Principle

D) Implemented compulsory vocational training

21) In which year was the subject ‘Education’ transferred from the State List to the ‘Concurrent List’?

A) 1986

B) 1968

C) 1976

D) 1996

22) Highest objective in the Psychomotor domain

A) Imitation

B) Precision

C) Articulation

D) Naturalisation

23) According to Gardner the Intelligence that is possessed by an artist who draws pictures is

A) Bodily kinaesthetic intelligence

B) Visual spatial intelligence

C) Naturalistic

D) Music Rhythm intelligence

24) One of the following is not a child-centered method

A) Activity-based method

B) Heuristic Method

C) Lecture method

D) Project Method

25) Advantage of an essay-type question

A) More items can be tested

B) More reliable

C) Objectivity

D) Possibility of freedom of expression

 26 – 50 PRACTICE QUESTIONS :-

26) One of the demerits of “Objective Type Questions”

A) More items in the syllabus can be tested

B) Possibility of Freedom of Expression is low

C) More reliable

D) Answers can be written in a short time

27)  One of the following does not belongs to effective domain

A) Precision

B) Receving

C) Characterstic

D) Organisation

28)  The intelligence required to understand letters, digits, symbol, pictures, numbers and words is

A) Mechanical Intelligence

B) Verbal Intelligence

C) Abstract Intelligence

D) Social Intelligence

29) “Curriculum is a tool in the hands of an artist (teacher) to moulds his material (pupil) according to his ideals (aim) in his studio (school)”- This statement is given by

A) Saiyidain

B) Spears

C) Cunnigham

D) Frobel

30) This stage is called as ‘ Gang Stage’ in child development

A) Late childhood stage (6 – 10 years)

B) Early childhood stage ( 3-5)

C) Pubescent stage (11-13)

D) Early adolescent stage (13-19)

31) The defence mechanism adopted by Sagar, who failed in love, earning fame as a poet by writing poems on his lover is

A) Regression

B) Sublimission

C) Displacement

D) Projection

32) Segregation is the Educational programme for

A) Learning Disabled children

B) Hearing Impaired children

C) mentally Retarded children

D) Gifted children

33) What does wastage in education refer to?

A) Excessive use of textbooks

B) Dropout of students before completing a level of education

C) Repetition of the same curriculum every year

D) Ovecrowding in classrooms

34) The Secondary Education Commission is also known as

A) Mudliar Commission (1952)

B) Kothari Commission ( Indian education commission-1964)

C) Radhakrishnan Commission (University Education Commission-1948)

D) Ramamurti Review Committee (1990)

35) Which of the following bodies proposed to regulate higher education under NEP2020

A) UGC

B) AICTE

C) HECI

D) National Knowledge Commission

36)  According to NEP 2020, teachers will be able to teach lessons in mother tongue or regional language up to which

A) Grade 5

B) Grade 8

C) Grade 10

D) Grade 12

37) According to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory ,which part of the human psyche contain repressed desire, wishes, feeling, impulses, and motives?

A) Concious mind

B) Unconcious mind

C) Preconcious mind

D) Subconcious mind

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