CTET/TET PRACTICE PAPER - ENGLISH - 1st
2nd Practice Paper of S.St in Hindi
5th Practice Paper of S.St in English
Directions (1-30) Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate option. Best Of Luck.
Q1 - While writing, a student finds difficulty in expressing his/her views clearly due to lack of vocabulary. A possible solution would be the following
(1) Motivate the student to read more story books and the teacher should take informal feedback about new words encountered. (2) Change the topic to suit the student's ability. (3) Give a list of words with meanings to learn and use. (4) Conduct special classes to practice writing with periodic words dictations and drills.
Q2 - _______ education is to use the student's native language to teach some academic content while simultaneously providing an additional L2 instruction.
(1) Multilingual (2) Bilingual (3) Basic (4) Humanistic
Q3 - _______ facilitate communication between schools as well as between students/teachers and programmes or between students/teachers and data.
(1) Reference books (2) Whiteboards (3) Voice recorders (4) Computers
Q4 - A factual description of a laboratory equipment, for a school science journal, requires the student to present the following
(1) Appearance, users, location (2) Function, appearance, use (3) Function, location, colours (4) Comparisons, function, users
Q5 - A reading activity where students focus on phonemic sounds, pronunciation and intonation can be used to assess
(1) Reading accuracy (2) Inference (3) Analysis (4) Literary appreciation
Q6 - Learning a language involves the processess of listening, speaking, reading and writing. These processes involve
(1) Linguistic aspect (2) Psychological aspect (3) Either (1) or (2) (4) Both (1) and (2)
Q7 - Conssidering students learning styles broadens the approaches taken to help language-related problems. An example of a learning style is
(1) Loud (2) Quiet (3) Print-oriented (4) Focused
Q8 - Proverty of stimulus with respect to language acquisition among young children implies that they would
(1) Express themselves ungrammatically. (2) Read later. (3) Not recognize human language. (4) Need more stimulus at home for learning language.
Q9 - An early emphasis on lingistic accuracy along with prompt error correction in L2 class at Class V level results in students
(1) Mastering the language more quickly. (2) Failure to achieve requisite proficiency required of that level. (3) Learning only the minimum or less. (4) Not learning at all.
Q10 - Learners who develop an increased awareness of 'their own style' of learning and teacher's awareness of students individual style enhance _______ learning.
(1) Group (2) Biased (3) Cooperative
Q11 - To develop language functions, teaching of speaking skills for younger children would include
(1) Greeting, informal requests, asking for personal information. (2) Telephonic chat. (3) Debates and declamations. (4) Short project presentations.
Q12 - To access listening skills, the teacher has framed an activity. What can the assessment be based on?
(1) Students interpretation of a visual. (2) Watching a short film and reviewing. (3) Completing a tabulation based on an audio recording. (4) Reading a text aloud.
Q13 - When students work in pairs or groups, they just end up chatting in their own language. This can be overcome/monitored by
(1) Giving an easy task, so that they may chat less. (2) Writing notes on the board, so that they will not use L1. (3) Increasing the difficulty level of task. (4) Instructions for the task and objectives to be made clear first.
Q14 - Communicative competence is a subset of functional grammar and its approach in teaching will allow students to
(1) Learn structures and use them accurately. (2) Use structures in a range of output texts. (3) Learn grammar through meaningful communication. (4) Enable teachers expose students to grammar in the lower classes.
Q15 - Two competency areas, which give a language learner in progress the ability to communicate competently, are
(1) Linguistic and socio-cultural (2) Discourse and accent (3) Audio and expressive (4) Grammar and phonetic
Q16 - Providing students _______ can encourage second language acquisition.
(1) Adequate speaking and writing assignments (2) The opportunity to voice their opinions and to problem solve in the target language (3) Frequent feedback on spoken and written outputs (4) Informal interviews
Q17 - Generally speaking, the first language is
(1) Marked by the characteristic difficulty in matering it (2) Marked by the influences of the school environment the child is studying in (3) Marked by the accent and regional expressions of the area where students grow up (4) Influenced by the grammar and style of second language
Q18 - Language learning is better achieved if what students learn
(1) Is closer in form and sound to their mother tongue. (2) Helps them improve their chances of college admission. (3) Is functinal in terms of their life values and goals. (4) Is in a controlled classroom environment.
Q19 - An activity asks students to determine from a list of possible answers with a title, what kind of information will appear in an input text before an audio recording is played. Here students are
(1) Checking for facts (2) Guessing answers to questions (3) Filling in missing infromation (4) Actively predicting the content of the input
Q20 - A speaking activity can be made more purposeful by
(1) Insisting on correct structure and pronunciation (2) Interrupting the activity with some writing/reading (3) Motivating students to camplete a task at the end (4) Providing a specific list of vocabulary to use
Q21 In the communicative classroom, learners acquire the grammar of second language to
(1) Enhance their formal communication skills (2) Write confidently (3) Understand second language better while reading/listening to it. (4) Understand how to make meaning and become more proficient in speaking and writing
Q22 - Structures in second language are better assimilated in a pedagogical practice
(1) Through meaningful interaction with interesting content (2) Insisting on accuracy, explicit instruction in rules (3) Through repetition and practice of commonly used syntax (4) Through application of learnt structures in discrete language items
Q23 - Error correction in students written work is most effective when the teacher
(1) Writes out the correct answers on the board (2) Revises the wrong answers with them (3) Points out major errors using symbols and students self-correct (4) Gives students more drill work till they learn the correct responses
Q24 - Students always find it difficult to listen to and understand a second language presentation inside or outside their class. This can be helped by
(1) Increasing the number of periods for the second language. (2) Practice by using the second language more. (3) Recommending to choose another language closer to L1 (4) Being, taught by only native speakers of L2
Q25 - When they encounter unfamiliar words during a reading activity, students should be trained to _______ while processing the meaning of the whole text.
(1) Refer a dictionary to find out the meaning immediately (2) Ask the teacher or neighbour (3) Use information in its context to correctly guess its rough area of meaning (4) Choose more simple texts
Q26 - Identify, the question that accesses students ability to infer the meaning of the text.
(1) Why did Mohan change his mind despite his parents advice? (2) Where did Tom and his parents live? (3) Use the phrase 'in disbelief' in a sentence of your own. (4) Give the opposite of 'delighted'.
Q27 - While assessing a report of a school programme for a class journal, the following are the main criteria.
(1) Descriptive presentation, title, writer's name (2) Word limit, title, factual description (3) Literary style, chronological presentation, word limit. (4) Relevance, logical organization of content, a direct style
Q28 - While learning a language, the _______ instruction provides opportunities for independent study, a wide range of regerence material and immediate feedback about achievement.
(1) Programmed (2) Computer-aided (3) Direct (4) Distance
Q29 - A dual-language classroom consisting of students speaking a native language and the target language is beneficial because it
(1) Motivates target language speaking students learn another language and vice versa (2) Offers and opportunity for separate project work (3) Justifies conducting more activites in each language (4) Causes less distractions in the class as students will talk less
Q30 - A student has difficulty in applying the learned knowledge, for example, in word problems, the student also fails to translate sentences into equations or identify the variables. A possible solution to this problem could be
(1) Pairing him/her with high achievers (2) Giving carefully designed assignment simpler simple complex (3) Allowing more time to complete the same activity. (4) Giving only simple assignments to boosttheir confidence.
Structure and content of CTET 2017
All questions in CTET test will be Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), each carrying one mark, with four alternatives out of which one answer will be correct. There will be no negative marking.
There will be two papers of CTET.
i) Paper I will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes I to V.
ii) Paper II will be for a person who intents to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII.
Minimum Qualifying Marks in CTET 2017 Exam
To qualify the CTET 2017 exam, the candidates will have to secure the minimum qualifying marks. The minimum qualifying marks has been fixed by the Board.
> Candidates securing 60% or more will be declared CTET qualified.
> Candidates who will clear the exam will be issued CTET qualifying certificate. The Certificate will be valid for appointment till seven years from the date of declaration of its result.
Details required for checking the CTET Answer Key 2017
> Roll No > Date of Birth
CTET Answer Key 2017 - Steps to download
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CTET Answer Key 2017 - Steps to use
Downloading the Answer Key 2017 of CTET is not enough the candidate must know the procedure to use the answer key. For the candidate's sake of convenience, the description of the process of answer key is given here.
> First is to obtain the answer key by downloading it.
> Check the no options the candidates have marked correctly in the exam.
> Compare the answers in the Answer Key of CTET 2017 as per the test booklets with one in the OMR sheet.
> For each correct answer, the candidates will be provided 1 mark.
> As there is no negative marking hence no marks will be deducted for wrong answers.
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Calculation of marks from CTET Answer Key 2017
Candidates after checking the Answer Key of CTET 2017 can calculate an estimated score in the exam. The Candidates should calculate the marks in the following method:
> Candidates should check the responses marked by them correctly in the exam.
> For every correct response, the candidates will get 1 mark.
There is no negative marking in the CTET exam.
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