COUNCIL OF HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION, MANIPUR

SAMPLE QUESTION, 1999

EDUCATION

 

Full Mark - 100

Pass Mark - 33

Time : 3  hours

 

  The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions Attempt all the questions

GROUP-A

I.  Why is the subject of psychology so important in the profession of a teacher ? 8
2. How can you make the students interested in your class. room teaching ? 8
3. What, according to Binet, is intelligence ? Give any six important uses of intelligence tests. 2+6
4.  Answer the following questions in about 50 words. Each question carries 4 marks only
(a) What is peripheral nervous system ?
(b) Draw the structure of a human brain and indicate cerebellum.
( c) In order to give healthy emotional education to your young pupils, as a teacher, suggest your own four ways of treating them.		 4 X 3=12
5. Answer the following questions in about 40 words. Each question carries 3 marks only : (a) Give the meaning of the term 'Concept’.
(b) Why is the later part of infancy marked as the "Questioning age" ?
(c) What did Raymont say about the peculiar characteristics of adolescence ?
(d) Why is the period of later childhood known as the period of gang hood ?
(e) What, according to Woodworth, is learning ?
(f) What is sublimation ?
(g) Why is instinct so important in the life of an infant child ?		 3X7=21
6.  Answer the following questions by a word/words/a sentence. Each question carries only 1 mark
(a) From which language is the term 'Psychology' derived ?
(b) Does sensation preceed perception ?
(c) Who said that the period of adolescence is a period of storm and. stress of human life?
(d) Do you agree that during early childhood. stage the child is ego-centric ?
(e) Does an infant child imagine ?
(f ) Who said, "Memory consists in remembering what has previously been learnt" ?
(g) Can the use of drugs cause forgetfulness?
(h) Who was the first psychologist to devise the concept of intelligence Quotient ?
(i) Do you agree that two different persons having the same mental age should compulsorily have the same I.Q. in all the times ?		 IX9=9
7. Re-write the sentences by filling the gaps with the appropriate word/s/name/s from the given alternatives against the respective sentences :
(a) --said, "First lost its soul, then it lost its mind, then it lost its consciousness, it still has behaviour of a kind."( Descarte, Freud, Woodworth, Plate)
(b) Generally girls reach the period of -- before theboys.( infancy, early childhood. later childhood, adolescence)
(c) --said. "Life is a tissue of habits and character is a bundle of these. "Ross, James,. Clapper, Guilford)
(d) Trial and error method is the -- form of learning. (highest, economical, commonest, unused)		  1 X4=4

GROUP-B

8.  What is statistics ? Write any six important uses of statistics in education. 2+6=8
9.  Answer the following questions. Each question carries 4 marks only:
(a) In a particular group of 50 children between 3 to 11 years of age, how will you classify the magnitude of variable characters in different children, so that you may deal with them with reasonable comfort ?
(b) Draw a histogram in a graph paper from the scores given below :
| Scores: | 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-11|12-14 | 15 – 7|
|Frequencies: | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
(c) Calculate Mean by short method from the scores given below :
|Scores: | 10 - 1 4 | 15 - 19 | 20 - 24 | 25 – 29 | 30 – 34 |
| Frequencies | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 |		  4x3=12
10. Answer the following questions. Each question carries 3marks only:
(a) What is central tendency ?
(b) Calculate Median from the scores given below :
Scores: | 3 –5 | 6 - 8 | 9 – 11 | 2 – 14 | 15 – 17 |
|Frequencies: | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |		  3 x2=6
11.  Answer the following questions by a word/words/a sentences. Each question carries 1 mark only :
(a) Can Mode be used when any measure of central tendency is roughly workable ?
(b) When two or more graphs in the same diagram with the same axis are to be compared, which graph do you prefer ?		 1x2=2
12.  Rewrite the sentences by filling the gaps with the appropriate word/term from the given alternatives against the respective sentences :
(a) --is the size of the item possessing the highest frequency in a variable.( Mean, Median, Mode, Range)
(b) Mean can be used when the distribution of scores is--- .
(skewed, normal, abnormal, incomplete)		 1x2=2

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