Dear Readers, Everything that studies our society and the way we interact with each other in it, is a social science.This section NOT ONLY comes CTET Exam 2018 but also come in other TET Exam also i.e UPTET Exam 2018, PTET Exam 2018 & DSSSB Exam 2018 etc. So, we will provide you the questions which will help you in preparing for Exam.
Q1. In teaching of Social Sciences, the emotions of children are most easily aroused not by words but by sights and sounds, for which the most effective way of teaching is through
(a) classroom discussions
(b) project method
(c) lecture method
Q2. In order to promote interactive environment in a Social Science class, which of the following approaches would be most suitable?
(a) Showing documentaries
(b) Dictation and practice
(c) Frequent testing
(d) Lecture and explanation
Q3. A trainee teacher writes one of the instructional objectives as ‘students shall be able to describe the meaning of democracy’. In which domain shall this objective fall?
(a) Skill
(b) Synthesis
(c) Comprehension
(d) Analysis
Q4. Classify the following learning activities into ‘outside’ or ‘inside’ the classroom and select the correct alternative accordingly.
A. Case study
B. Field trip
C. Modeling
D. Co-operative learning
A B C D
(a) inside Outside Inside Inside
(b) inside Outside Inside Outside
(c) Outside Outside Outside Inside
(d) Inside Inside Inside Inside
Q5. Under which of the following conditions will learning activities outside the classroom be successful ?
(a) When they are an integral part of the long term curriculum planning
(b) When they are closely linked to classroom activities
(c) The activities are evaluated for their impact on improving achievement
(d) All of the above
Q6. Which of the following best defines ‘Academic Learning Time’ ?
(a) The time taken by students to achieve success
(b) The amount of time that the students are engaged
(c) The amount of time students are successfully covering content that will be tested subsequently
(d) The time wasted by students in covering content which is not asked in the examination
Q7. Which of the following is not a component of ‘Academic Learning Time’ ?
(a) Content overlap
(b) Success
(c) Engaged time
(d) None of the above
Q8. Which of the following activities is not carried out by the students inside the classroom ?
(a) Visiting a drama production
(b) Verbal Question – Answer
(c) Learning conversations
(d) Relating practice to theory
Q9. Social Science should equip children with
(a) the ability to think independently
(b) the ability to defend social practices
(c) the ability to follow social rules about gender
(d) the ability of withstand social pressure
Q10. Which teaching democratic polity, a Social Sciences teacher invites an expert of Political Sciences from a local college to speak to her class. Before the expert could speak to her class, the teacher must share with him which of the following ?
(a) There are some students belonging to reserved categories in the class
(b) Instructional objectives for the topic
(c) Text-book prescribed for the class
(d) Kind of assessments that will be based on this topic
Solutions
S1. Ans.(d)
S2. Ans.(a)
S3. Ans.(c)
S4. Ans.(a)
S5. Ans.(d)
S6. Ans.(c)
S7. Ans.(d)
S8. Ans.(a)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(b)
