CTET December 2024 Paper 1 Mock Test

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Welcome to your December 2024 Paper 1

Mastery Oriented learners typically attribute success to __________ and failure to __________.

ability and good luck; task difficulty

ability and effort; bad luck

ability and good luck; low ability

ability and effort; insufficient effort

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Which of the following statement represents ‘Proximodistal’ principle of development ?

Development is multidirectional and multidimensional.

Identical twins living in different cultures can develop at different rates.

Children develop ability to grasp the ball before putting beads in thread.

Children develop ability to sit up before standing.

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According to Vygotsky children speak to themselves :

To aid thought and for self-regulation.

To provide self-reinforcement when adults are ignoring them.

Because they are egocentric.

Because their thought is illogical.

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Challenges in social communication are evident in :

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Cerebral palsy

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Learning Disabilities

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According to Vygotsky’s theory of learning and development, which of the following is an example of scaffolding ?

Breaking a task down into smaller steps and providing support as needed.

Providing a student with a grade for their work as motivation.

Providing a student with a reading assignment and asking them to answer questions independently.

Demonstrating a skill to a student and then having them master it on their own.

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Dysgraphia is characterised by :

Delayed motor skills

Difficulties in writing

Lack of reading fluency

Repetitive behavioural patterns

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In order to help students to become good problem solvers, a teacher should emphasize on the practice of :

focusing on information that confirms existing beliefs and preconceptions.

approaching problems in a particular fixed fashion.

breaking large complex problems into smaller manageable problems.

centering only on one particular piece of information related to problem.

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Assertion (A) : Teachers should use multisensory materials to cater to needs of students in an inclusive classroom. Reason (R) : Inclusive classrooms should adopt standardization of curricular materials as well as assessment strategies. Choose the correct option :

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

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In the constructivist view :

Individuals are passively influenced by environmental events.

Individuals are conditioned to learn new behaviours.

Learning is extending and transforming the current understanding.

Learning is simply writing associations on the blank slates of our brains.

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10.

Assertion (A) : Effective teachers familiarize themselves with daily lives and socio-cultural backgrounds of learners. Reason (R) : Learning takes place in a social context. Choose the correct option.

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

None

11.

Meaningful learning is primarily NOT about :

memorizing information

understanding the concept

constructing knowledge

developing skills

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12.

Assertion (A) : Teacher should encourage boys of her class to participate in sports while assigning art decoration to girls. Reason (R) : Children acquire gender roles primarily because of the underlying biological differences. Choose the correct option.

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

None

13.

Kinesthetic learners prefer to learn through __________.

seeing

touching

doing and moving

listening

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14.

According to Howard Gardner while a scientist would exhibit high __________ Intelligence, a sculptor would have high __________ Intelligence.

Naturalistic; Spatial

Transductive; Spatial

Logical-mathematical; Bodily Kinesthetic

Spatial; Bodily Kinesthetic

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15.

Inclusion needs to be promoted through : (i) Flexible curriculum (ii) Cooperative learning (iii) Segregation and labelling (iv) Accessibility of building

(ii) (iii) (iv)

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(i) (ii) (iii)

(i) (ii) (iv)

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16.

Children learn better if they experience :

Low level of alertness during activity

Moderate level of excitement to learn

High degree of anxiety to perform

Learned helplessness

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17.

Assertion (A) : Children below the age of 5 - 6 years should not be pressurized to write ‘properly’ and ‘within the lines’. Reason (R) : Children gain a control of finer motor skills from 5 - 6 years onwards. Choose the correct option.

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

None

18.

Children often come up with their own explanations of events around them. On being probed as to why does it rain Sia says - “God was tired of carrying the buckets of water on his shoulders”. Such explanations :

Depict that children have an egocentric view and cannot consider other’s viewpoint.

Illustrate that children are not capable of any reasoning.

Prove that children’s thinking is much lesser than adults quantitively.

Indicate that children have naïve understanding rooted in their cultural context with which they try to understand events.

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19.

Piaget described cognitive development as occurring in :

A continuous continuum

Four overlapping culture specific stages

Four qualitatively different stages

Three progressive levels

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20.

During play time at school, Rishab, a 7-year-old boy picked a doll to play with. Some of his peers made fun of him for his choice of toy. As a teacher who wants his students to grow up with gender role flexibility, which of the following would be the best response to the situation by the teacher ?

Talk to Rishabh that dolls are suitable for girls and boys should not play with dolls.

Tell Rishabh that he should play with something else because his friends won’t approve of him playing with doll.

Let Rishabh play with doll and tell other children that they can also choose any toy of their choice.

Quitely take away the doll and give a car toy to Rishabh without saying anything.

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21.

In developmental terms, a time frame where an individual upholds an amplified sensitivity to particular incentives for developing particular skills to function in an efficient manner is referred to as __________ of development.

Incentive period

Stimulus period

Critical period

Encoding period

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22.

In order to cater to needs of students struggling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder teachers should avoid :

Creating distractions and making noises

Flexibility in curricular materials and instructions

Breaking the task into small easily manageable parts

Using multi-sensory materials

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23.

Lawrence Kohlberg argued that :

moral development in children occurs in a continuous manner.

there are cultural differences in moral reasoning of children.

moral development occurs progressively in stages.

there are gender differences in moral reasoning of children.

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24.

At which level of Kohlberg’s moral development does individual’s ethical behavior mainly depends on the mindset that “what do people think of me”?

Postconventional

Non-conventional

Preconventional

Conventional

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25.

According to Jean Piaget a child who is unable to understand the logic behind simple mathematical reversals such as 4+5=9 so 9−5=4, it is because of :

animistic thinking

irreversibility

egocentrism

perceptual centration

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26.

Assertion (A) : Teachers should distance themselves from students and place primary responsibility for learning on them only. Reason (R) : Learning takes place affectively in an authoritative rather than a democratic environment. Choose the correct option.

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

None

27.

Assertion (A) : Scaffolding provided by the teachers hinders the learning process of children. Reason (R) : Lev Vygotsky proposed that children learn independently by acting upon and manipulating the environment. Choose the correct option :

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

None

28.

Which of the following correctly describes extrinsic motivation ?

Motivation that comes from environmental consequences.

Motivation that comes from a sense of personal satisfaction.

Motivation that comes from personal enjoyment of the task.

Motivation that comes from internal factors.

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29.

Two important cognitive development milestones of sensorimotor stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development are :

Animism and Transformation

Classification and seriation

Object permanence and deferred imitation

Reversibility of thought and hypothetic-deductive reasoning

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30.

Children -

Are born unruly and need to be socialized.

Come into this world with genetic codes that determine their destiny.

Are greatly influenced by the social cultural context they grow up in.

Come into this world as tabula rasa or blank slate.

None

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