McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Education (CBCS) .
Chapters
| 51. |
What percentage of the Indian population do the backward classes constitute approximately in India? |
| A. | More than 30% |
| B. | More than 40 % |
| C. | More than 50% |
| D. | More than 60% |
| Answer» A. More than 30% | |
| 52. |
In which year was the report on backward classes given? |
| A. | 1955 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1957 |
| D. | 1958 |
| Answer» B. 1956 | |
| 53. |
Those who suffer from the stigma of untouchability are classified as |
| A. | Scheduled caste |
| B. | Scheduled tribe |
| C. | Denotified tribes |
| D. | Ex criminal tribes |
| Answer» A. Scheduled caste | |
| 54. |
Those who are not yet sufficiently assimilated into the mainstream of national life are classified as |
| A. | Scheduled caste |
| B. | Scheduled tribe |
| C. | Denotified tribes |
| D. | Ex criminal tribes |
| Answer» B. Scheduled tribe | |
| 55. |
Those tribes who have been forced to commit crime are classified as |
| A. | Scheduled caste |
| B. | Scheduled tribe |
| C. | Denotified tribes |
| D. | Labourers |
| Answer» C. Denotified tribes | |
| 56. |
Membership to the backward classes is determined by |
| A. | Marriage |
| B. | Region |
| C. | Language |
| D. | Birth |
| Answer» D. Birth | |
| 57. |
Which board/body gave recommendations for improving the educational status of the backward classes? |
| A. | CABE |
| B. | UGC |
| C. | NCERT |
| D. | DIET |
| Answer» A. CABE | |
| 58. |
Which among the following is provided for the backward classes for educational benefit by the central government? |
| A. | Free internet facility |
| B. | Post matric scholarship |
| C. | Plot of land |
| D. | Employment |
| Answer» B. Post matric scholarship | |
| 59. |
Which of the following recommended measures to improve educational status of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes? |
| A. | National Policy on Education 1985 |
| B. | National Education Commission 1986 |
| C. | National Education Commission 1987 |
| D. | National Education Commission 1988 |
| Answer» B. National Education Commission 1986 | |
| 60. |
One of the recommendations of NPE 1986 for improving educational status of SCs and STs is |
| A. | Providing free computer sets |
| B. | Introducing foreign languages |
| C. | Appointing teachers from the category of STs and SCs |
| D. | Hindi as medium of instruction |
| Answer» C. Appointing teachers from the category of STs and SCs | |
| 61. |
“Ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” Who gave this definition? |
| A. | UNICEF |
| B. | NCERT |
| C. | WHO |
| D. | UNESCO |
| Answer» D. UNESCO | |
| 62. |
What is literacy according to national Literacy Mission? |
| A. | Acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one’s day-to-day life. |
| B. | Acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to examinations. |
| C. | Acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to the future. |
| D. | Acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to teaching. |
| Answer» A. Acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one’s day-to-day life. | |
| 63. |
The denominator in counting the literacy percentage of an area at a particular time in the Indian census since 1991 is |
| A. | Aged 5 years or more |
| B. | Aged 6 years or more |
| C. | Aged 7 years or more |
| D. | Aged 8 years or more |
| Answer» C. Aged 7 years or more | |
| 64. |
What is the indicator of the level of socio economic development of a society? |
| A. | Literacy rate |
| B. | Per capita income |
| C. | Employment pattern |
| D. | Population |
| Answer» A. Literacy rate | |
| 65. |
Illiteracy is associated with |
| A. | Individual development |
| B. | Poverty |
| C. | Humility |
| D. | Knowledge |
| Answer» B. Poverty | |
| 66. |
The relation between female literacy and life expectancy is |
| A. | Neutral |
| B. | Negative |
| C. | Positive |
| D. | Indistinct |
| Answer» C. Positive | |
| 67. |
Female education is |
| A. | A waste |
| B. | Essential |
| C. | Not necessary |
| D. | Sufficiently provided |
| Answer» B. Essential | |
| 68. |
“Purdah” system is prevalent among |
| A. | Christian women |
| B. | Hindu women |
| C. | Jewish women |
| D. | Muslim women |
| Answer» D. Muslim women | |
| 69. |
According to Hunter Commission (1882), the ratio of girls to every hundred boys in primary schools was |
| A. | Six |
| B. | Seven |
| C. | Eight |
| D. | Nine |
| Answer» A. Six | |
| 70. |
When was the first Women college established? |
| A. | 1901 |
| B. | 1902 |
| C. | 1903 |
| D. | 1904 |
| Answer» A. 1901 | |
| 71. |
Where was the first Women’s college established? |
| A. | Bangalore |
| B. | Lucknow |
| C. | Vishakapatnam |
| D. | Ahmedabad |
| Answer» B. Lucknow | |
| 72. |
When was the first Women’s university established? |
| A. | 1913 |
| B. | 1914 |
| C. | 1915 |
| D. | 1916 |
| Answer» D. 1916 | |
| 73. |
In which article of the Indian constitution is provided “Equal pay for equal work’? |
| A. | 14 |
| B. | 15 (3) |
| C. | 3 |
| Answer» C. 3 | |
| 74. |
National Commission for women education was set up in |
| A. | 1938 |
| B. | 1948 |
| C. | 1958 |
| D. | 1968 |
| Answer» C. 1958 | |
| 75. |
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was launched in the year |
| A. | 1970 |
| B. | 1980 |
| C. | 1990 |
| D. | 2000 |
| Answer» D. 2000 | |
| 76. |
Freedom is defined as the absence of |
| A. | Constraint |
| B. | Liberty |
| C. | Independence |
| D. | Autonomy |
| Answer» A. Constraint | |
| 77. |
Who is in favour of “freedom first, freedom second and freedom last”? |
| A. | Froebel |
| B. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| C. | John Dewey |
| D. | Maria Montessori |
| Answer» D. Maria Montessori | |
| 78. |
What is considered to be the source of all first hand knowledge of children? |
| A. | Textbook |
| B. | Curiosity |
| C. | Parents |
| D. | Neighbourhood |
| Answer» B. Curiosity | |
| 79. |
From which word is the term ‘discipline’ derived from? |
| A. | Greek |
| B. | English |
| C. | Latin |
| D. | German |
| Answer» C. Latin | |
| 80. |
Discipline which is founded on fear is called |
| A. | Negative discipline |
| B. | Imposed discipline |
| C. | Positive discipline |
| D. | Forced discipline |
| Answer» A. Negative discipline | |
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