449 English questions asked in CTET previous year papers, each with the correct answer and explanation. Read them free on UTpaper, or attempt the full papers as timed online tests.
Q201CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Looking for a number in the contact list of your phone is an example of
Ascanning
Bsurvey
Creview
Dskimming
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Correct answer: (A) scanning
Explanation
Searching quickly for one specific piece of information, such as a phone number, is scanning. Skimming is reading quickly for the general idea.
Q202CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Defining new words within context instead of making the children learn meanings of new words
Aoften confuses the children
Bhelps in better understanding of the word
Cpromotes rote memorization
Dleads to wastage of time
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Correct answer: (B) helps in better understanding of the word
Explanation
Meeting a word in context shows how it is actually used, which gives deeper understanding and better retention than memorising meanings in isolation.
Q203CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
The type of writing in which the author mostly places himself as a character, (sometimes he may not) and narrates the story, is known as
Aexpository
Bpersuasive
Cdescriptive
Dnarrative
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Correct answer: (D) narrative
Explanation
Narrative writing tells a story, often with the writer as narrator or a character (first person), though it can also be in the third person.
Q204CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
You want to ensure maximum participation of the students of your class. Which of the following methods would you adopt for this purpose?
ADiscussion
BDemonstration
CModel reading
DRecitation
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Correct answer: (A) Discussion
Explanation
In a discussion every learner can share ideas and respond to others, so it ensures the most active participation. Demonstration and model reading are teacher-centred.
Q205CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
A listener while listening listens to the specific details recognises cognates and word order patterns. What is this listening process known as?
ABottom-up process
BTop-down process
CInferential process
DLinear process
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Correct answer: (A) Bottom-up process
Explanation
Building meaning from small units such as sounds, words, cognates and word order is bottom-up processing; top-down processing uses background knowledge and context.
Q206CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Which one of the following could be the 'while-reading activity' when doing a short story?
ALearners discuss to predict the events in the story.
BLearners do pair work and read mutually to one another.
CLearners discuss biographical details of the poet.
DTeacher asks meaning of new words and encourages them to frame sentences on them.
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Correct answer: (B) Learners do pair work and read mutually to one another.
Explanation
Pair reading takes place during the reading of the story, so it is a while-reading activity. Predicting events and discussing the author are pre-reading, and framing sentences with new words is post-reading.
Q207CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
In one class you don't ask any questions, instead you give them some short texts and ask your learners to frame questions. The objective behind your task is to _____.
Adevelop your learners as good paper setters
Btake their help in your own task of setting questions
Cmake your learners realize how difficult it is to frame questions
Denhance your learners' analytical and critical thinking
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Correct answer: (D) enhance your learners' analytical and critical thinking
Explanation
To frame questions, learners must analyse the text, find the key ideas and think critically about them, so the task builds analytical and critical thinking.
Q208CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Language assessment aims at measuring _____.
Ahow each learner achieved in comparison to his peers
Btheir overall or summative achievement
Cthe language achievement of learners
Dthe language proficiency of learners
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Correct answer: (D) the language proficiency of learners
Explanation
Language assessment aims to find out how well learners can actually use the language, i.e. their language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing, rather than comparing them with peers.
Q209CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
The use of teaching aids aims at
Aengaging learners in learning tasks
Boptimizing learning outcomes of the learners
Cminimizing cases of indiscipline in the classroom
Ddrawing learners' attention in the classroom
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Correct answer: (B) optimizing learning outcomes of the learners
Explanation
Teaching aids make concepts concrete and learning multi-sensory; their ultimate aim is to improve (optimise) learners' learning outcomes, not just to attract attention.
Q210CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
One of your students takes a favourite book and retells the story often by using pictures as cues. This strongly suggests
Aemergent reading stage
Bphonological awareness
Csyntactic awareness
Dnarrative awareness
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Correct answer: (A) emergent reading stage
Explanation
Retelling a familiar story from the pictures, before actually decoding the print, is typical of the emergent reading stage.
Q211CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
The word opposite in meaning to the underlined word in the given sentence is :
‘Right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling’. (underlined word: spacious)
Aspecial
Bcramped
Cairy
Dfresh
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Correct answer: (B) cramped
Explanation
'Spacious' means having plenty of room; its opposite is 'cramped' (too small, crowded). 'Airy' is close to a synonym.
Q212CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words in the sentence given below :
‘Right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling’. (underlined words: actually, feeling)
Aconjunction, verb
Badverb, noun
Cverb, adverb
Dpreposition, verb
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Correct answer: (B) adverb, noun
Explanation
'Actually' modifies the verb 'helps', so it is an adverb; 'feeling', preceded by 'the spacious', is a noun.
Q213CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
As mentioned by the writer in para 2, some ways by which you can break the monotony of the room is :
Aby blending light and dark shades
Bpainting all the 4 walls in plain colours
Cboth (1) and (2)
D(1) is correct, but not (2)
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Correct answer: (D) (1) is correct, but not (2)
Explanation
Para 2 suggests blending light and dark colours instead of a plain monotonous colour on all four walls; painting all walls in plain colours is what creates monotony. So (1) is correct but not (2).
Q214CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
‘To think out of the box’ does not mean to think :
Atraditionally
Bcreatively and imaginatively
Cabout novel ideas
Din unusual ways
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Correct answer: (A) traditionally
Explanation
Thinking out of the box means thinking creatively, in new and unusual ways; thinking traditionally is the opposite.
Q215CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
According to the writer, it is important to pay attention to the colour scheme of your home because :
Athe monotonous shades add life to the rooms
Bthe ambience created makes it look boring
Cit reflects the personality of the owner
Dthe walls reveal the secrets of your life
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Correct answer: (C) it reflects the personality of the owner
Explanation
Para 3 says, 'Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail.'
Q216CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Read the following statements :
(A) Colours if used creatively can give the perfect look to a room.
(B) Space is abundant nowadays.
(C) The right colour combination on walls and the roof creates a spacious feeling.
A(A) and (C) are incorrect, (B) is correct
B(A) and (C) are correct, (B) is incorrect
C(B) and (C) are correct, (A) is incorrect
D(A), (B) and (C) are all correct
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Correct answer: (B) (A) and (C) are correct, (B) is incorrect
Explanation
The passage says colours used right give a perfect look and create a spacious feeling, so (A) and (C) are correct; it says there is an abundance of everything 'but space', so (B) is incorrect.
Q217CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Complete the given word analogy :
monotonous : dull :: ambience : ?
Aweather
Broom
Ctemperature
Daura
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Correct answer: (D) aura
Explanation
'Dull' is a synonym of 'monotonous'; likewise 'aura' (the feeling or atmosphere of a place) is a synonym of 'ambience'.
Q218CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Some people draw colourful sceneries on their home walls to :
Ablend dark and light colours
Bgive a deeper significance to their home
Cbring nature into their homes
Dcreate a sense of space
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Correct answer: (C) bring nature into their homes
Explanation
Para 3 says people draw an entire scenery on a wall 'to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside', i.e. bringing nature into the home.
Q219CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
As mentioned by the writer in para 1, In today’s times, what is a modern day home owner longing for ?
AImagination
BColours
CSpace
DSheer appeal
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Correct answer: (C) Space
Explanation
Para 1 says there is an abundance of everything but space, and colour helps create 'the space that you crave for'.
Q220CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
The poetic devices in line 2 and line 4 are :
Ametaphor and simile
Bmetaphor and personification
Chyperbole and metaphor
Dsimile and alliteration
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Correct answer: (D) simile and alliteration
Explanation
Line 2 compares the pen to a gun using 'as' ('snug as a gun'), a simile; line 4 repeats the 's' and 'g' sounds ('spade sings', 'gravelly ground'), alliteration.
Q221CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
What is the overall tone of the poem ?
Anostalgic and admiration
Bannoyance and anger
Cpitiful and sympathetic
Ddisgust and animosity
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Correct answer: (A) nostalgic and admiration
Explanation
The speaker fondly remembers his father digging 'twenty years away' and describes his skill admiringly, so the tone is nostalgic and admiring.
Q222CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
Complete the word analogy :
coarse : rough :: snug : ?
Acomfortable
Blazy
Cperfect
Dlethal
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Correct answer: (A) comfortable
Explanation
'Rough' is a synonym of 'coarse'; similarly 'comfortable' (cosy, fitting closely) is a synonym of 'snug'.
Q223CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
How does the speaker’s father feel about his son’s choice of career ?
AHe is ambivalent towards the choice.
BThe poem doesn’t make it clear.
CHe wishes, his son choose a more practical path.
DHe is glad his son is not a farmer.
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Correct answer: (B) The poem doesn’t make it clear.
Explanation
The extract only shows the son with a pen remembering his father digging; nothing tells us what the father thinks of the son's career.
Q224CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
In the second stanza, the poet is observing :
Apotato growers in the countryside
Ba gardener tending flower beds
Chis father digging potatoes
Dfarmers in the fields
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Correct answer: (C) his father digging potatoes
Explanation
In the second stanza the poet looks down at 'My father, digging' and recalls him stooping 'through potato drills'.
Q225CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sings into gravelly ground.
My father, digging, I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills,
Where he was digging
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep.
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
‘. . . . . loving their cool hardness in our hands’. What is the speaker referring to the given line ?
Athe potato drills
Bthe gun
Cthe handles of the spade
Dthe potatoes
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Correct answer: (D) the potatoes
Explanation
'Their' refers to the 'new potatoes that we picked' in the previous line; the children loved their cool hardness.
Q226CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
‘Authenticity of materials’ refers to :
Amaterials which children bring from home.
Bmaterials written by the teacher for her class.
Cmaterials written or developed by people in authority.
Dmaterials written or developed in real life content.
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Correct answer: (D) materials written or developed in real life content.
Explanation
Authentic materials are texts produced for real-life purposes (newspapers, menus, ads, letters), not specially written for teaching.
Q227CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Aparna, a learner of class V understands that listening involves listening to each sound, words, then sentences to get the meaning of the speech or an audio. Which approach/strategy she believes in for learning to listen ?
AIt is neither top-down nor bottom-up approach
BTop-down approach
CBottom-up approach
DBoth top-down and bottom-up approach
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Correct answer: (C) Bottom-up approach
Explanation
Building meaning from the smallest units (sounds, then words, then sentences) is the bottom-up approach; top-down starts from context and background knowledge.
Q228CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
What is ‘systemic competence’ in language learning ?
AUnderstanding that all human have a systems of many languages.
BUnderstanding and applying that language works as a system.
CUnderstanding and applying that languages have a grammatical system.
DUnderstanding that all languages have a common structural system.
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Correct answer: (B) Understanding and applying that language works as a system.
Explanation
Systemic competence is the learner's understanding and use of language as a rule-governed system (sounds, words, structures and meaning working together).
Q229CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Here is text or some statements. Find out which language register does this text represent ?
The Indian Constitution recognises every person as equal. This means that every individual in the country, including male and female, person from all castes, religions, tribes, educational and economic background are recognised as equal. This is not to say that inequity ceases to exist. It doesn’t. But at least, in democratic India, the principle of the equality of all persons is recognised.
AScientific register
BPolitic register
CSocial Science register
DLegal register
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Correct answer: (C) Social Science register
Explanation
The text uses vocabulary and style typical of a Social Science (civics) textbook – Constitution, equality, castes, democracy – explained for learners, so it is in the Social Science register.
Q230CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
A teacher of class VI does a warm up activity to connect their previous knowledge and experience with the text they would read. She asks her learners to look at the illustrations of the reading text (the story) before she begin to teach the text. What does she want her learners to do ?
AMake them understand the illustrations.
BVisualize the story through the illustrations.
CAppreciate the illustrations.
DMake prediction about the reading text.
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Correct answer: (D) Make prediction about the reading text.
Explanation
Looking at illustrations before reading is a pre-reading activity that activates prior knowledge and helps learners predict what the text is about.
Q231CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
A continuous record of instances of learning by the learners is known as :
ADiagnostic test
BPortfolio
CContinuous Comprehensive Assessment
DProficiency assessment
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Correct answer: (B) Portfolio
Explanation
A portfolio is a purposeful collection of a learner's work over time that records progress and instances of learning.
Q232CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Which of the following are known as receptive skills ?
AListening and reading
BListening and writing
CReading and speaking
DSpeaking and writing
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Correct answer: (A) Listening and reading
Explanation
Listening and reading are receptive skills (receiving language); speaking and writing are productive skills.
Q233CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Many Indians who go abroad for jobs learn the language of the place. What is this motivation known as ?
AIt is neither instrumental nor integrative motivation.
BBoth integrative and instrumental motivation.
CIntegrative motivation.
DInstrumental motivation.
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Correct answer: (D) Instrumental motivation.
Explanation
Learning a language for a practical gain such as a job is instrumental motivation (Gardner and Lambert); integrative motivation is the wish to become part of the language community.
Q234CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Which of the following language is NOT a classical language ?
AHindi
BTamil
CSanskrit
DTelugu
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Correct answer: (A) Hindi
Explanation
Tamil, Sanskrit and Telugu are among India's notified classical languages; Hindi is not.
Q235CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Which of the following is NOT true of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on the study of foreign languages ?
AFrench is one of the language recommended to be studied as an additional option.
BStudy of foreign languages as an additional option during the secondary stage.
CStudy of foreign languages included as one of the languages under the three language formula.
DForeign language does not include in the three languages studied under three language formula.
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Correct answer: (C) Study of foreign languages included as one of the languages under the three language formula.
Explanation
NEP 2020 offers foreign languages such as French as additional options at the secondary level; they are not one of the three languages under the three-language formula, so statement (3) is not true.
Q236CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Which of the following refers to ‘Knowing about language’?
AStrategic competence
BDeclarative knowledge
CProcedural knowledge
DGrammatical knowledge
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Correct answer: (B) Declarative knowledge
Explanation
Declarative knowledge is knowing about the language (its rules and facts), whereas procedural knowledge is knowing how to use it.
Q237CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
A teacher of class VI develops the following task for a speaking activity.
Speak five sentences about desert and its climatic conditions.
Is it a good task or not a good task ? Select from option your response and reason for the same.
AIt is not a good task because it lacks context as there is no input for speaking about desert and its conditions.
BIt is a good task because the learners may have studied about desert in their geography class and will have inputs to speak.
CIt is a good task because it makes the learner to talk about something i.e the desert.
DIt is not a good task because some of the learners may not know about desert.
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Correct answer: (A) It is not a good task because it lacks context as there is no input for speaking about desert and its conditions.
Explanation
A good speaking task gives learners a context and input (pictures, a text, a situation) to talk from; this task gives none, so it is not a good task.
Q238CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Which of the following tasks promotes integrated learning skills ?
AWriting an article
BRole play
CAssignment
DProject work
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Correct answer: (D) Project work
Explanation
Project work makes learners read, listen, discuss, write and present, so it integrates all four language skills.
Q239CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
What is the following strategy in the context grammar teaching known as ?
Introducing language item in contexts, making learners notice the language items, enabling them to use in real life contexts and drawing the attention of learner to the form by discovering it.
AConsciousness Raising
BCreating a Schema
CDeductive method
DDiscovery methods
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Correct answer: (A) Consciousness Raising
Explanation
Consciousness raising draws learners' attention to a grammatical form in context so they notice and discover the rule themselves before using it.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Mr. Upadhyay’s professional role in the institution was that of ...
Aa teacher
Bthe hostel warden
Can administrator
Dthe principal
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Correct answer: (B) the hostel warden
Explanation
The narrator and Mrs. Upadhyay both call him 'Warden Saheb', and he stops the boys leaving the hostel, so he was the hostel warden.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
‘We had managed ... ’ Identify the tense of the underlined expression. (Underlined: had managed)
APast Indefinite
BPresent Continuous
CPresent Perfect
DPast Perfect
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Correct answer: (D) Past Perfect
Explanation
'had + past participle' (had managed) is the Past Perfect tense, showing an action completed before another past event.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
How did Mrs. Upadhyay receive the boys at home ?
AShe received them coldly.
BShe was displeased with her husband for bringing them home.
CShe welcomed them.
DShe was unhappy to see them.
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Correct answer: (C) She welcomed them.
Explanation
The passage says 'She was pleased to see me' and she offered to make the coffee herself, so she welcomed them.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) The boys had purchased the tickets in advance.
(B) Mrs. Upadhyay supported the boys in their endeavour.
A(A) is True but (B) is False.
B(B) is True but (A) is False.
CBoth (A) and (B) are True.
DBoth (A) and (B) are False.
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Correct answer: (C) Both (A) and (B) are True.
Explanation
The boys had already got the tickets 'after much running around' (A true), and Mrs. Upadhyay asked her husband to let them go to the play (B true).
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Choose the expression similar in meaning to ‘improvised’ as used in the passage.
Ato make it up
Bto declare
Cto tell the truth
Dto shout
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Correct answer: (A) to make it up
Explanation
Patil invented the excuse about there being no milk on the spot - 'improvised' here means made it up.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Why were the boys sneaking away from the hostel ?
ATo have a stroll
BTo play football
CTo watch a movie
DTo see a play
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Correct answer: (D) To see a play
Explanation
They were going to Gandhi School to see a play in which Shreeram Lagoo was acting.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) Mr. Upadhyay met the boys inside the hostel.
(B) The boys were already getting late for the play.
A(A) is True but (B) is False.
B(B) is True but (A) is False.
CBoth (A) and (B) are False.
DBoth (A) and (B) are True.
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Correct answer: (B) (B) is True but (A) is False.
Explanation
He met them on the road to the station, not inside the hostel (A false); the play started at 9.30 and it was already 9.15 (B true).
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
What did Mr. Upadhyay do after hearing the boys ?
AHe talked to them and walked away.
BHe took them home for coffee.
CHe did not react at all.
DHe allowed them to go.
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Correct answer: (B) He took them home for coffee.
Explanation
He said 'Come with me. I'll get you some coffee' and brought them to his home.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
‘The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets.’
What literary device has been used in the underlined expression. (Underlined: were squirming in our pockets)
APersonification
BSimile
CAlliteration
DOxymoron
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Correct answer: (A) Personification
Explanation
Squirming (wriggling uneasily) is a human/living action given to lifeless tickets - personification, reflecting the boys' restlessness.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
Down in the valley drumming, drumming ?
Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,
The soldiers coming.
O what is that light I see flashing so clear
Over the distance brightly, brightly ?
Only the sun on their weapons, dear,
As they step lightly.
O what are they doing with all that gear,
What are they doing this morning, this morning ?
Only the usual manoeuvres, dear,
Or perhaps a warning.
O why have they left the road down there,
Why are they suddenly wheeling, wheeling ?
Perhaps a change in the orders, dear,
Why are you kneeling ?
Where is the ‘sound’ coming from ?
AFrom a crowded street
BFrom a group of commoners
CFrom a contingent of soldiers
DFrom a market place
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Correct answer: (C) From a contingent of soldiers
Explanation
The drumming sound comes from 'the scarlet soldiers ... coming' - a contingent of soldiers in the valley.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
Down in the valley drumming, drumming ?
Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,
The soldiers coming.
O what is that light I see flashing so clear
Over the distance brightly, brightly ?
Only the sun on their weapons, dear,
As they step lightly.
O what are they doing with all that gear,
What are they doing this morning, this morning ?
Only the usual manoeuvres, dear,
Or perhaps a warning.
O why have they left the road down there,
Why are they suddenly wheeling, wheeling ?
Perhaps a change in the orders, dear,
Why are you kneeling ?
The poem presents itself as a conversation...
Aamong three persons
Bin a crowd
Camong a group of people
Dbetween two persons
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Correct answer: (D) between two persons
Explanation
The poem is a dialogue of questions and answers between two speakers - one asks, the other replies addressing them as 'dear'.
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