UGC NET Mock Test 15 on Education – 20 Questions for Practice

1. Which of the following philosophies claimed that Vasna and Trishna (irrational desires and appetites) lie at the root of human suffering?

2. Psychoanalysis is propounded by

3. The most common “model” a child selects is

4. In handling placement services, one should remember that

5. Pragmatism as a School of Philosophy assumes that

6. In the context of testing of a null hypothesis, if it is significant at

7. Chain learning is connected with

8. Who among the following is an existentialist thinker?

9. The key advantage of using group counselling over individual counselling is

10. Critically judge the following:
Assertion (A): Creativity can be nurtured in the classroom.
Reason (R): If the teacher is open to experience and tolerant of ambiguity

11. For equality of educational opportunities among women, the Constitution has provision under
(i) Article 45
(ii) Article 15(3)
(iii) Article 16(1) and (2)
(iv) All the above
Which of the above is correct?

12. Assertion (A): You can safely generalize the findings of your experiment.
Reason (R1): It is target population.
Reason (R2): It is experimentally accessible population.

13. Purpose of guidance is to

14. Read the assertion and reasons given below and find the correct match.
Assertion (A): An experimenter used section – A students of a class as experimental group and section – B students of the same class as a control group for a period of one year.
Reason-1 (R1): Both the groups are equivalent.
Reason-2 (R2): The experiment would disturb normal activities of the school.

15. Which of the following is not correct in the context of formal operational stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

16. Learning driving is based on

17. Special schools are required for equality of educational opportunities among

18. Who said ‘Education follows social change’?

19. Which of the following is not a condition for creativity?

20. In experimental research an investigator normally prefers to formulate null hypotheses rather than research hypotheses because