Sample paper of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET)

Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) would be conducted in June 2011 and there would be around 30 questions on Child Development and Pedagogy and below are some questions on the same section.

1. Absenteeism can be tackled by :
(1) teaching (2) punishing the students (3) giving the sweets (4) contacting the parents

2. Discipline means: (1) strict-behaviour (2) severe punishment (3) obedience (4) going by the rules

3. If any girl child does not corne to school regularly you will
(1) no bother (2) struck off her name (3) complain to the Principal (4) meet the parents and en-
courage them .

4. In co-education you want't to :
(1) make separate rows of boys and girls (2) you give preference to boys over girls (3) you. give preference to none (4) you deal according to need

5. One of the basic priniclples of socializing Individuals is :
(1) religion (2) caste (3) educational (4) imitation

Directions (6-10) :
Which of the' skills do you consider most essential for a teacher?
6. (1) Oration skills
(2) Listening skills (3) Managerial skills, (4) Teaching skills

7. (1) encourage children to search for knowledge
(2) have all the information for the children
(3) ability to make children memorize materials
(4) enable children to do well in tests

8. (1) identify gifted children (2) have an understanding of all children abilities (3) identify children with learn­ing disabilities (4) none of the above

9. (1) _ ability to help children un­derstand texts thoroughly (2) ability to help children do all the exercises
(3) ability to raise possible ac­tions from the texts
(4) ability to help children from their own opinions on the text

10. (1) to communicate well
{2) to use difficult language
(3) to impress students
(4) to read out the textbook

11. Success in developing values is mainly dependent upon:
(1) government (2) society  (3) family  (4) teacher

12. Good reading aims at develop­ing:
(l) understanding (2) pronunciation (3) sensitivity (4) increasing factual knowledge

13. The primary duty of a teacher is to be responsible to his/her:
(1) family  (2) students  (3) society  (4) nation

14. Which of the following is not related to educational achieve­ment?
(1) Heredity (2) Experiences (3) Practice (4) Self learning

15. One of,the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him to express himself?
(1) By orgariising discussions (2) By encouraging children to take part in classroom activities
(3) By organizing educational games/ programmes in which - children feel like speaking-
(4) By giving good marks to those who express them­'selves well
Answers: 1.4, 2. 4, 3. 4, 4. 4, 5. 3, 5. 4, 7. 1, 8. 2, 9. 4, 10. 1, 11. 3, 12. 1, 13. 2, 14. 1, 15. 3