1. Which one  of  the  following  is  the most important  quality  of  a  good teacher ?

(A) Punctuality and sincerity

(B) Content mastery             

(C) Content mastery and reactive

(D) Content mastery and sociable

Answer: (C)

2. The primary responsibility for the teacher’s adjustment lies with

(A) The children

(B) The principal

(C) The teacher himself

(D) The community

Answer: (B)

3. As per the NCTE norms, what should be the staff strength for a unit of 100 students at B.Ed. level?

(A) 1 + 7 (B) 1 + 9

(C) 1 + 10 (D) 1 + 5

Answer: (C)

4. Research has shown that the most frequent symptom of nervous instability among teachers is

(A) Digestive upsets

(B) Explosive behaviour

(C) Fatigue

(D) Worry

Answer: (B)

5. Which one of the following statements is correct?

(A) Syllabus is an annexure to the curriculum.

(B) Curriculum is the same in all educational institutions.

(C) Curriculum includes both formal, and informal education.

(D) Curriculum does not include methods of evaluation.

Answer: (C)

6. A successful teacher is one who is

(A) Compassionate and disciplinarian

(B) Quite and reactive

(C) Tolerant and dominating

(D) Passive and active

Answer: (A)

 7. Action research means

(A) A longitudinal research

(B) An applied research

(C) A research initiated to solve an immediate problem

(D) A research with socioeconomic objective

Answer: (C)

8. Research is

(A) Searching again and again

(B) Finding solution to any problem

(C) Working in a scientific way to search for truth of any problem

(D) None of the above

Answer: (C)

9. A common test in research demands much priority on

(A) Reliability

(B) Useability

(C) Objectivity

(D) All of the above

Answer: (D)

10. Which of the following is the first step in starting the research process?

(A) Searching sources of information to locate problem.

(B) Survey of related literature

(C) Identification of problem

(D) Searching for solutions to the problem

Answer: (A)

11. If  a  researcher  conducts  a  research on finding  out  which  administrative style contributes  more  to institutional effectiveness ? This will be an example of

(A) Basic Research

(B) Action Research

(C) Applied Research

(D) None of the above

Answer: (C)

12. Normal Probability Curve should be

(A) Positively skewed

(B) Negatively skewed

(C) Leptokurtic skewed

(D) Zero skewed

Answer: (D)

13. In communication, a major barrier to reception of messages is

(A) audience attitude

(B) audience knowledge

(C) audience education

(D) audience income

Answer: (A)

14. Post-modernism is associated with

(A) newspapers

(B) magazines

(C) radio

(D) television

Answer: (D)

15. Didactic communication is

(A) intra-personal

(B) inter-personal

(C) organisational

(D) relational

Answer: (B)

16. In communication, the language is

(A) the non-verbal code

(B) the verbal code

(C) the symbolic code

(D) the iconic code

Answer: (B)

17. Identify the correct sequence of the following:

(A) Source, channel, message, receiver

(B) Source, receiver, channel, message

(C) Source, message, receiver, channel

(D) Source, message, channel, receiver

Answer: (A)

18. Assertion (A): Mass media promote a culture of violence in the society.

Reason (R): Because violence sells in the market as people themselves are violent in character.

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

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

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

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer: (C)

19. When an error of 1% is made in the length of a square, the percentage error in the area of a square will be

(A) 0 (B) 1/2

(C) 1 (D) 2

Answer: (C)

20. On January 12, 1980, it was a Saturday.  The day of the week on January 12, 1979 was

(A) Thursday (B) Friday

(C) Saturday (D) Sunday

Answer: (B)