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APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II question paper with answers
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Topics in this paper (12)
- Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers23
- Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development23
- Community, Language, Values & Peace Education19
- Sociological Foundations of Education16
- Learning & Motivation15
- Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education12
- Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance7
- Universalisation of Elementary Education7
- Teacher & Vocational Education6
- Educational Statistics5
- Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions5
- Disadvantaged Learners & Welfare Education4
Questions and answers
- Q1 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Which of the following modern Indian Educationalist was very much naturalist ?
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Answer C. Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore is the Indian educationist most identified with naturalism: learning in the lap of nature, as at Santiniketan, with freedom and self-expression.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q1, final key
- Q2 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Which of the following is a key theoretical principle of pragmatism, according to John Dewey ?
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Answer A. Experience
For Dewey, knowledge grows out of experience: we learn by doing and testing ideas against their consequences.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q2, final key
- Q3 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
The project method in teaching is most closely associated with which Philosophical Ideology ?
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Answer C. Pragmatism
The project method was developed by Kilpatrick, a follower of Dewey, and is the typical pragmatist teaching method.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q3, final key
- Q4 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
The root word of 'Education' is
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Answer B. Educare
'Education' is traced to the Latin 'educare' (to bring up, nourish), with 'educere' (to lead out) as the other root.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q4, final key
- Q5 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Who introduced the concept of Kindergarten ?
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Answer B. Frobel
Friedrich Froebel opened the first kindergarten ('children's garden') in Germany in 1837-40, with gifts, occupations and play.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q5, final key
- Q6 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Which philosophy emphasizes on the fact, men in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure of their meaning and fearful of their annihilation ?
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Answer C. Existentialism
Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre) centres on the lonely individual facing anxiety, freedom and the search for meaning.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q6, final key
- Q7 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"My Experiments with Truth" is written by
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Answer B. Mahatma Gandhi
'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' is Gandhi's autobiography, first published in Gujarati in instalments (1925-29).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q7, final key
- Q8 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
What is called education acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period and place ?
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Answer C. Informal education
Informal education happens incidentally through family, peers, media and life, with no fixed aim, time, place or syllabus.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q8, final key
- Q9 Disadvantaged Learners & Welfare Education
Champion-90 Scheme has been launched by which department of Madhya Pradesh ?
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Answer C. Department of Tribal Affairs
As per the official key, Madhya Pradesh's Champion-90 scheme was launched by the Tribal Affairs Department to coach tribal students for competitive exams.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q9, final key
- Q10 Disadvantaged Learners & Welfare Education
Name of the scheme launched in June 2021 by the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh to encourage digital learning among students and to bridge the digital divide between connected and sectors.
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Answer A. YounTab
Ladakh's L-G launched the YounTab scheme in June 2021, giving tablets to government school students to bridge the digital divide.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q10, final key
- Q11 Teacher & Vocational Education
OTPRMS certificates, which was seen in the news recently is associated with which Union Ministry ?
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Answer A. Ministry of Human Resources
OTPRMS (Online Teacher Pupil Registration Management System) certificates are issued by NCTE under the Ministry of Education, earlier called the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q11, final key
- Q12 Sociological Foundations of Education
Which is the first school for child's education ?
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Answer C. Family
The family is the child's first and most informal school, where language, habits and values are first learnt.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q12, final key
- Q13 Sociological Foundations of Education
In the sociological perspective education is seen as
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Answer B. A cultural process
Sociologists see education as a social and cultural process that transmits a society's culture and values from one generation to the next.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q13, final key
- Q14 Sociological Foundations of Education
Which of the following is a positive impact of education on society ?
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Answer C. Promotes social mobility
Education lets people move up the social ladder through better jobs and status, which is social mobility.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q14, final key
- Q15 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Swami Vivekananda in Chicago, 1893 "Universal Acceptance" which of the following type represents Vivekananda contribution to education ?
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Answer C. Education for man-making
Vivekananda's best-known idea about education is man-making: education that builds character, strength of mind and self-reliance.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q16, final key
- Q16 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"Education of the masses" is the concept of
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Answer A. Vivekananda
Vivekananda insisted that neglect of the masses was India's great sin and that education must reach the poor, even taken to their doorsteps.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q17, final key
- Q17 Sociological Foundations of Education
The process of imbibing one's own culture in one's personality is called
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Answer A. Enculturation
Enculturation is learning and absorbing the culture of one's own group; acculturation is taking on traits of another culture.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q18, final key
- Q18 Sociological Foundations of Education
Who is the author of 'Human Nature and the Social Order' ?
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Answer B. Charles H. Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley wrote 'Human Nature and the Social Order' (1902), where he set out the looking-glass self.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q20, final key
- Q19 Sociological Foundations of Education
The concept of "Looking – Glass Self" means
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Answer C. Self is a reflection of other's perceptions
Cooley's looking-glass self says we form our self-image from how we think others see and judge us.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q21, final key
- Q20 Sociological Foundations of Education
Which of the following has a direct bearing with cultural lag ?
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Answer A. Social changes taking place at a slow speed
Ogburn's cultural lag is the gap when non-material culture (values, institutions) changes more slowly than material culture; the official key links it to slow social change.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q22, final key
- Q21 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The best definition of educational psychology is a study of "Teaching and Learning" has given by
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Answer C. Charles C. Skinner
Charles E. Skinner defined educational psychology as the branch of psychology that deals with teaching and learning.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q23, final key
- Q22 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Where was the first experimental psychology laboratory set up ?
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Answer D. Leipzig
Wilhelm Wundt set up the first psychology laboratory at Leipzig, Germany, in 1879.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q24, final key
- Q23 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which method of research contributes most to the advancement educational psychology as a science ?
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Answer B. Experimental method
The experimental method controls variables and tests cause and effect, which made psychology a science.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q26, final key
- Q24 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The first book of psychology was written by
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Answer B. William James
William James's 'The Principles of Psychology' (1890) is treated as the first major textbook of psychology.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q27, final key
- Q25 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Cephalocaudal sequence motor/skills development is
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Answer A. Head – Trunk – Hand – Leg
Cephalocaudal means development proceeds from head to tail: head control first, then trunk, then arms and finally legs.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q28, final key
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Start free - Q26 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
A child holding the Pencil by using his fingers and thumb shows which principle of development ?
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Answer A. General to specific
Development moves from general, whole-hand movements to specific, fine ones; a pincer grip with fingers and thumb is the specific end.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q29, final key
- Q27 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following statement is correct about the process of development of an individual ?
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Answer C. There is cultural diversity in the process of development
Development is multi-dimensional and shaped by both heredity and environment, and it varies across cultures.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q30, final key
- Q28 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the personality structure that operates on the principle is
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Answer A. ID
In Freud's model the id works on the pleasure principle, the ego on the reality principle and the superego on moral principles. (The word 'pleasure' is missing from the printed question.)
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q31, final key
- Q29 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The process of changing existing schemes or creating new schemes to incorporate new information is called
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Answer B. Accommodation
In Piaget's theory, accommodation changes existing schemas or makes new ones; assimilation fits new information into existing schemas.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q32, final key
- Q30 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following neurotransmitters are associated with feelings of pleasure and reward ?
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Answer B. Dopamine
Dopamine drives the brain's reward pathway and is linked to pleasure, motivation and reinforcement.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q33, final key
- Q31 Learning & Motivation
The tendency to rely on cognitive shortcuts and mental models when making decisions is known as
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Answer B. Availability heuristic
Heuristics are mental shortcuts; the availability heuristic judges likelihood by how easily examples come to mind.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q34, final key
- Q32 Learning & Motivation
Which psychologist is mostly associated with the theory of classical conditioning ?
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Answer B. Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov showed classical conditioning with dogs salivating to a bell paired with food.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q35, final key
- Q33 Learning & Motivation
The process of learning through imitation or observation is known as
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Answer D. Social learning
Bandura's social learning theory says we learn by observing and imitating models.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q36, final key
- Q34 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
What is the intelligence quotient of a normal child ?
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Answer D. 90 – 100
Average (normal) intelligence is an IQ of about 90-110; of the options, 90-100 falls in that band.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q37, final key
- Q35 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
What is the formula of I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient) ?
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Answer C. (Mental age / Chronological age) × 100
IQ = (Mental age ÷ Chronological age) × 100 (Stern/Terman). E.g. MA 12, CA 10 gives IQ 120.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q38, final key
- Q36 Educational Statistics
A measure of the spread of variability of scores in a group of people is called
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Answer C. Standard Deviation
Standard deviation measures how widely scores spread around the mean.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q39, final key
- Q37 Universalisation of Elementary Education
Free and compulsory education is provided to children of the age group
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Answer D. 6 – 14 years
Article 21A and the RTE Act, 2009 guarantee free and compulsory education to children aged 6 to 14.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q40, final key
- Q38 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions
According to which commission "Elementary education should prepare children become responsible and useful citizens" ?
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Answer D. Kothari
The Kothari Commission (1964-66) linked education to national development and stressed preparing children as responsible, useful citizens.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q41, final key
- Q39 Universalisation of Elementary Education
Right to Education Act, 2007 is applicable under which Article of the Indian Constitution ?
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Answer B. Article – 21(A)
The right to education is Article 21A (86th Amendment, 2002); the RTE Act that gives it effect was passed in 2009 (the question's '2007' is a slip).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q42, final key
- Q40 Universalisation of Elementary Education
In which Section of RTE Act, 2009 it has been told that corporal punishment to a child is treated as torture ?
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Answer A. Section 17
Section 17 of the RTE Act, 2009 prohibits physical punishment and mental harassment of children.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q43, final key
- Q41 Universalisation of Elementary Education
Problem of 'wastage' and 'stagnation' is primarily related to which level of education ?
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Answer B. Primary level
Wastage (dropping out) and stagnation (repeating a class) were identified by the Hartog Committee (1929) mainly at the primary stage.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q44, final key
- Q42 Universalisation of Elementary Education
Removal of heterogeneity in the society is one of the remedial measure of
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Answer C. Wastage and Stagnation
Social and economic differences (heterogeneity) among pupils are a cause of wastage and stagnation, so reducing them is listed among its remedies.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q45, final key
- Q43 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
The folk school was started in
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Answer D. Denmark
The folk high school movement for adult education was started in Denmark by N. F. S. Grundtvig in the 19th century.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q46, final key
- Q44 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
The department of Adult Continuing Education and Extension has been renamed as Lifelong Learning and Extension from which plan period ?
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Answer A. XI Plan
Under the UGC's Eleventh Plan (2007-12) guidelines, university departments of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension were renamed Departments of Lifelong Learning and Extension.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q47, final key
- Q45 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where the world is not brokenup into fragments by narrow domestic walls" is written by
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Answer B. Rabindranath Tagore
These lines are from Tagore's poem in Gitanjali, the collection for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q48, final key
- Q46 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Andragogy is
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Answer D. Arts and science of helping adults to learn
Malcolm Knowles defined andragogy as the art and science of helping adults learn, as against pedagogy for children.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q49, final key
- Q47 Teacher & Vocational Education
Provision of separate vocational courses is an example of
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Answer B. Diversified curriculum
A diversified curriculum offers different streams, including vocational courses, to suit varied abilities and needs (recommended by the Mudaliar Commission).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q50, final key
- Q48 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
What is a major barrier to effective school community relationships ?
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Answer C. Lack of trust and transparency
School-community ties rest on mutual trust; when parents and the community do not trust the school or cannot see how it works, cooperation breaks down.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q51, final key
- Q49 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
How can schools best initiate a relationship with the community ?
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Answer B. By organizing parent-teacher meeting and community events
Parent-teacher meetings and community events bring families into the school and open two-way contact, the usual first step in building the relationship.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q52, final key
- Q50 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Which of the following can be the best place for a school ?
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Answer D. In a locality safe for students
The first test for a school site is the safety of the students; the other features are desirable but secondary.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q53, final key
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Start free - Q51 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
According to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, what should be the medium of instruction at least until Grade 5 in primary education ?
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Answer B. The mother tongue
NEP 2020 says that wherever possible the medium of instruction until at least Grade 5 (preferably Grade 8) should be the home language, mother tongue or regional language.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q54, final key
- Q52 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following is a significant unique feature of language ?
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Answer D. Language consists of symbols
Language is a system of arbitrary symbols (sounds, letters, signs) that stand for meanings; this symbolic nature is its defining feature.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q55, final key
- Q53 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The nativist perspective of language development was proposed by
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Answer C. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky argued that children are born with an innate capacity for language (the Language Acquisition Device), the nativist view.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q56, final key
- Q54 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
In which year UNFPA's started in India ?
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Answer C. 1974
The United Nations Population Fund began its programme of support to India in 1974.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q57, final key
- Q55 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Where was the UNESCO conference on "population education and family planning" held ?
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Answer D. Bangkok
UNESCO's regional meeting on population education and family planning (1970) was held in Bangkok, the seat of its Asian regional office.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q58, final key
- Q56 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Nepotism is
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Answer A. Hiring friends or relatives and showing favouritism work
Nepotism means favouring one's relatives or friends, especially in giving jobs or work, instead of judging on merit.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q59, final key
- Q57 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
The National Integration Day is observed on
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Answer B. 19th November
National Integration Day is observed on 19 November, the birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q60, final key
- Q58 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Which of these is not fundamental factor of National Unity ?
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Answer C. Employment
Textbook discussions of national unity list language, education, religion and caste among the social factors that bind or divide a nation; employment is an economic matter, not one of these basic factors.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q61, final key
- Q59 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions
The name of Yashpal Committee Report (1993) is
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Answer B. Learning without burden
The Yash Pal Committee's 1993 report on reducing the academic load on school children was titled 'Learning Without Burden'.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q62, final key
- Q60 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
"It is essential for us not to live apart but to live together, understanding one anothers fears and anxieties, aspirations and thoughts. We must work for racial harmony. We may be American, Russian, but we are essentially human beings". Who said this ?
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Answer A. Dr. Radha Krishnan
This plea for living together across nations and races is attributed to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, who stressed world unity and common humanity.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q63, final key
- Q61 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
What does the dove, often depicted with an olive branch, symbolize in the context of Peace ?
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Answer B. A Universal Symbol of peace and non-violence
A dove carrying an olive branch is a worldwide symbol of peace and non-violence.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q64, final key
- Q62 Sociological Foundations of Education
Human Nature Develops in man as a
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Answer D. Member of a Society
Human nature is shaped through social interaction; a person becomes human by growing up as a member of society.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q65, final key
- Q63 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
C.W.S.N. is related to
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Answer B. Children with Special Needs
CWSN stands for Children With Special Needs, the term used in Samagra Shiksha and inclusive education.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q66, final key
- Q64 Sociological Foundations of Education
The passive agency of socialization is
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Answer D. Public Library
Passive agencies such as libraries, press, radio and cinema influence people one way without direct interaction; the family is an active agency.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q67, final key
- Q65 Disadvantaged Learners & Welfare Education
A deprived child is one who is
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Answer B. Without a parent, guardian or custodian
A deprived child lacks parental or guardian care; such children need special care and protection.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q68, final key
- Q66 Universalisation of Elementary Education
Operation Black Board was introduced under which policy ?
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Answer C. NPE 1986
Operation Blackboard (1987) came from the National Policy on Education 1986 to give primary schools basic facilities and teachers.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q69, final key
- Q67 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions
The suggestion to establish UGC came from
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Answer B. Radha Krishnan Commission
The University Education Commission (1948-49) under Dr. S. Radhakrishnan recommended a University Grants Commission, set up in 1953 and made statutory in 1956.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q70, final key
- Q68 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions
The National Knowledge Commission (2005-2009) was headed by
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Answer C. Sam Pitroda
Sam Pitroda chaired the National Knowledge Commission (2005-2009).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q71, final key
- Q69 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Which of the following is not typically considered one of the "four pillars of learning" as defined by UNESCO ?
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Answer D. Learning to compete
The Delors Report (1996) gave four pillars: learning to know, to do, to live together and to be. 'Learning to compete' is not one of them.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q72, final key
- Q70 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
In the context of lifelong learning, what does the term "Self-directed learning" primarily refer to ?
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Answer C. Taking responsibility of one's own learning process
In self-directed learning the learner takes charge of diagnosing needs, setting goals, finding resources and evaluating progress; guidance may still be used.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q73, final key
- Q71 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
In the context of lifelong learning, what does the term "Digital Divide" primarily refers to ?
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Answer C. Inequalities in access to digital technologies and the internet
The digital divide is the gap between those who have access to computers and the internet and those who do not.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q74, final key
- Q72 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Match the items of List – I with that of List – II.
List – I List – II A. Exaltation of human personality 1. Idealism B. Learning by doing 2. Realism C. Develop the democratic values in education 3. Naturalism D. Emphasis on mass production 4. Pragmatism 5. Existentialism 6. Marxism Which sequence is correct ?
A B C D
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Answer C. 1 4 5 6
Idealism exalts human personality (A-1), pragmatism stands for learning by doing (B-4) and Marxism stresses mass production (D-6); only option 3 fits these, pairing democratic values with existentialism (C-5).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q75, final key
- Q73 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
The man who drenched deep in the nectar of Indian spiritual philosophy of Vedanta
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Answer B. Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda based his whole thought, including his views on education, on Advaita Vedanta.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q76, final key
- Q74 Sociological Foundations of Education
The famous book "The Vindication of the Rights of Men" was written by
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Answer C. Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote 'A Vindication of the Rights of Men' (1790), followed by 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q78, final key
- Q75 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"Knowledge comes primarily through senses" belongs to which school of philosophy ?
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Answer A. Realism
Realism holds that the external world exists independently and that we know it chiefly through sense experience, so it favours sense training and the sciences.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q79, final key
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Start free - Q76 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Founder of Existentialism
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Answer A. Soren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard, the 19th-century Danish thinker, is regarded as the father of existentialism.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q80, final key
- Q77 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"No disinterested pursuit of knowledge and no intellectual education for its own sake", was the slogan of
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Answer B. Pragmatist
Pragmatists value knowledge only for its use in solving problems of life, so they reject learning for its own sake.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q81, final key
- Q78 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Establishing a classless society is the aim according to
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Answer C. Socialism
Socialism (in its Marxist form) aims at a classless society with common ownership of the means of production.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q82, final key
- Q79 Sociological Foundations of Education
The book "Races and Culture of India" was written by
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Answer D. D. N. Majumdar
Anthropologist D. N. Majumdar wrote 'Races and Cultures of India'.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q83, final key
- Q80 Sociological Foundations of Education
The phenomenon where technology and material aspects of culture advanced more rapidly then non material aspects like customs, ethics and laws is called
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Answer C. Cultural lag
W. F. Ogburn called the delay of non-material culture in catching up with material culture 'cultural lag'.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q84, final key
- Q81 Sociological Foundations of Education
Important factor in cultural change
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Answer A. Diffusion
Most cultural change comes from diffusion, the spread of traits from one culture to another; invention and innovation are less frequent sources.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q85, final key
- Q82 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Philosophy and Education are the two sides of same coin; "the former is contemplative side while the other is active side", said by
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Answer C. Ross
J. S. Ross described education as the dynamic side of philosophy and philosophy as its contemplative side.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q87, final key
- Q83 Sociological Foundations of Education
According to which Article, the Constitution has made provisions for special advantages for the socially and economically backward classes particularly for SC's and ST's ?
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Answer D. Article 15(4), 46
Article 15(4) lets the State make special provisions for socially and educationally backward classes, SCs and STs; Article 46 directs the State to promote their educational and economic interests.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q88, final key
- Q84 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Match the following :
1. Idealism A. Learning by doing 2. Naturalism B. Aesthetic and ethical life 3. Pragmatism C. Realization of truth, beauty and goodness 4. Existentialism D. Education through environment Show answerHide answer
Answer B. 1 – C, 2 – D, 3 – A, 4 – B
Idealism aims at truth, beauty and goodness (1-C), naturalism at education through the environment (2-D), pragmatism at learning by doing (3-A) and existentialism at the aesthetic and ethical life (4-B, Kierkegaard's stages).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q89, final key
- Q85 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
What is required for the formation of integrated set of values, to be implemented on society ?
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Answer A. Family
The family is the first and most basic institution where a child forms an integrated set of values that later shapes society.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q90, final key
- Q86 Sociological Foundations of Education
"The parameter role for achieving any kind of development which is great enough to benefit the whole world of the future belongs to education", said by
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Answer B. Alva Hydal
The quote on education's central role in development is attributed to the Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate Alva Myrdal (printed as 'Alva Hydal').
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q91, final key
- Q87 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Who believed God as a creator of nature ?
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Answer C. Tagore
Tagore saw God as the creator revealed in nature and wanted children educated in close contact with nature, as at Santiniketan.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q92, final key
- Q88 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"Arise, awake and do not stop until the goal is reached" is said by
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Answer A. Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda popularised this call, drawn from the Katha Upanishad.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q93, final key
- Q89 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Educational psychology helps the teachers to
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Answer C. Understand learners' behaviour and needs
Educational psychology studies the learner's behaviour, development and needs, so it helps teachers understand their pupils.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q94, final key
- Q90 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Educational psychology is concerned with
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Answer D. Learning process and situation
Educational psychology deals with the learner, the learning process and the learning situation.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q95, final key
- Q91 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Who is the father of Educational Psychology ?
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Answer C. E. L. Thorndike
E. L. Thorndike, who wrote 'Educational Psychology' (1903) and the laws of learning, is called the father of educational psychology.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q96, final key
- Q92 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following is not a function of educational psychology ?
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Answer B. To define the goals for which education is to strive
Setting the goals of education is the job of philosophy of education; educational psychology studies how those goals can be reached through the learner and the learning process.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q97, final key
- Q93 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The method of introspection was primarily used by
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Answer D. Structuralists
Wundt and Titchener's structuralism analysed consciousness into elements through trained introspection.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q98, final key
- Q94 Learning & Motivation
Which learning framework involves planning, monitoring and adjusting strategies based on awareness of one's cognition ?
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Answer B. Self-regulated learning
Self-regulated learning uses metacognition: the learner plans, monitors and adjusts strategies.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q99, final key
- Q95 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
The method of research that most significantly advances Educational Psychology as a science is
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Answer D. The experimental method
The experimental method controls variables and tests cause and effect, which made educational psychology a science.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q100, final key
- Q96 Learning & Motivation
According to behaviourism, learning occurs through
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Answer C. Interaction with the environment
Behaviourists explain learning as observable responses shaped by stimuli and consequences in the environment.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q101, final key
- Q97 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following is not a principle of development ?
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Answer C. Development is always linear
Development is continuous, proceeds from general to specific responses and differs between individuals, but it is not uniform or linear; its rate varies across stages.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q102, final key
- Q98 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
At what stage does a child typically develop a sense of autonomy ?
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Answer B. Early childhood
In Erikson's theory, autonomy versus shame and doubt is the crisis of early childhood (about 1.5 to 3 years).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q103, final key
- Q99 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
A child who believes that everyone sees things from the same perspective as they do is demonstrating
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Answer C. Egocentrism
Piaget called the pre-operational child's inability to take another person's viewpoint egocentrism (shown in the three-mountains task).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q104, final key
- Q100 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Which of the following is a critical period in human development ?
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Answer B. The period during early childhood when children develop language skills
A critical period is a limited window when the brain is especially ready for a skill; early childhood language acquisition is the classic example.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q106, final key
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Start free - Q101 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Rahul learns to hold a glass and a bottle before holding a pen. This example indicates that
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Answer C. Direction of development is proximo-distal
Control develops from the centre of the body outwards: gross arm and palm grasping (glass, bottle) comes before fine finger control (pen). This is the proximo-distal direction.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q107, final key
- Q102 Learning & Motivation
Select the correct hierarchy of learning given by Robert M. Ganges.
a. Signal learning
b. Chain learning
c. Rule learning
d. Concept learning
e. S-R learning
Choose the answer from the following options :
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Answer A. a, e, b, d and c
Gagne's eight types run: signal, stimulus-response, chaining, verbal association, discrimination, concept, rule (principle) learning, problem solving. So the listed ones are in the order a, e, b, d, c.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q108, final key
- Q103 Learning & Motivation
When a conditioned response disappears due to the absence of the unconditioned stimulus, it is called
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Answer A. Extinction
If the CS is repeatedly presented without the US, the conditioned response weakens and disappears; Pavlov called this extinction.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q110, final key
- Q104 Learning & Motivation
What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning ?
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Answer C. Classical conditioning pairs stimuli ; operant conditioning uses consequences to shape behaviour
Classical conditioning links two stimuli (CS with US) to elicit a reflex; operant conditioning strengthens or weakens voluntary behaviour through its consequences.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q111, final key
- Q105 Learning & Motivation
Which of the following is designated as an independent variable in classical conditioning ?
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Answer C. Number of pairing as CS and US
The experimenter manipulates the number of CS-US pairings (trials) and measures the strength or latency of the CR, which are the dependent variables.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q112, final key
- Q106 Learning & Motivation
Which theory focuses on the internal mental processes such as thinking, memory and problem-solving ?
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Answer C. Cognitivism
Cognitivism studies the mind as an information processor: attention, thinking, memory and problem solving.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q113, final key
- Q107 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
Who emphasized learner-centred education and the importance of experience in learning ?
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Answer C. John Dewey
John Dewey, the pragmatist philosopher, championed child-centred education and learning by doing (experience).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q114, final key
- Q108 Learning & Motivation
Match the following :
List – I (Concepts) List – II (Psychologists) a. Reflexes 1. Tolman b. Successive 2. Hull c. Habit Strength 3. Skinner d. Latent Learning 4. Pavlov 5. Watson Choose the answer from the following options :
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Answer B. a – 4, b – 3, c – 2, d – 1
Reflexes (conditioned reflex) - Pavlov; successive approximation (shaping) - Skinner; habit strength - Hull; latent learning - Tolman.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q115, final key
- Q109 Learning & Motivation
Science and Human Behaviour book was written by
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Answer C. B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner wrote Science and Human Behavior (1953), applying operant principles to society.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q116, final key
- Q110 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development
Development of language in children according to B. F. Skinner, is the result of
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Answer B. Imitation and reinforcement
Skinner (Verbal Behavior, 1957) explained language as operant behaviour learned through imitation and reinforcement.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q117, final key
- Q111 Learning & Motivation
Which theory suggests that learning is most effective when it is relevant to the learner's experiences ?
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Answer B. Constructivism
Constructivism holds that learners build new knowledge on their existing experiences, so learning tied to those experiences works best.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q118, final key
- Q112 Learning & Motivation
Which of the following is not a concept introduced by Hull ?
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Answer D. Cognitive schemas
Hull's drive-reduction theory uses habit strength, drive and reinforcement; schemas are a cognitive idea associated with Piaget and Bartlett.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q119, final key
- Q113 Learning & Motivation
The famous "Little Albert" experiment conducted by Watson, demonstrated
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Answer C. Classical conditioning in humans
Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned fear in an infant by pairing a white rat with a loud noise, showing classical conditioning works in humans.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q120, final key
- Q114 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
According to Freud, the ego is governed by the
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Answer B. Reality principle
Freud said the id follows the pleasure principle, the ego the reality principle and the superego moral (idealistic) standards.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q121, final key
- Q115 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
According to Jung, art, religion, myths and drama are important to individual functioning because they
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Answer B. Are symbols that appeal to basic archetypes
Jung held that myths, religion and art carry universal symbols that express the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q122, final key
- Q116 Individual Differences, Personality & Guidance
Which personality trait is defined by high levels of thoughtfulness, good impulse control and goal-directed behaviours ?
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Answer C. Conscientiousness
In the Big Five model, conscientiousness means being organised, careful, self-disciplined and goal-directed.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q123, final key
- Q117 Educational Statistics
Which measure of central tendency is appropriate for nominal data ?
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Answer C. Mode
Nominal data are just categories with no order or numeric value, so only the most frequent category (mode) can be found.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q124, final key
- Q118 Educational Statistics
If two variables X and Y have significant negative correlation, which of the following statement is true ?
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Answer C. X and Y vary together
Correlation, positive or negative, only shows that two variables vary together (here in opposite directions); it does not prove cause and effect.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q125, final key
- Q119 Educational Statistics
Which of the following is positional average ?
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Answer B. Median
The median is fixed by its position (the middle item) in ordered data, so it is called a positional average; the mean is a mathematical average.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q126, final key
- Q120 Educational Statistics
The arithmetic mean of 15 items is 8 and the arithmetic mean of 10 items is 6. What is the combined arithmetic mean ?
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Answer B. 7.2
Combined mean = (15 x 8 + 10 x 6) / (15 + 10) = (120 + 60) / 25 = 180 / 25 = 7.2.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q127, final key
- Q121 Education Commissions, Policies & AP Admissions
Which committee laid the foundation for education reforms in India during British Period in the year 1882 ?
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Answer A. Hunter committee
The Indian Education Commission of 1882, chaired by William Hunter, reviewed progress since Wood's Despatch and stressed primary and mass education.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q129, final key
- Q122 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
The scheme of Continuing Education was launched in the year
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Answer B. 1996
The National Literacy Mission's Scheme of Continuing Education for neo-literates, the stage after total literacy and post-literacy campaigns, is dated to 1996 in APPSC's key (approved in 1995, launched from 1996).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q130, final key
- Q123 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
As per ULLAS scheme functional literacy means
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Answer C. A State with more than 95% literacy rate
Under ULLAS (Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram), a State or UT reaching over 95% literacy is treated as equivalent to fully (functionally) literate.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q131, final key
- Q124 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Which State is fully functionally literate as per PLFS survey 2023-24 ?
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Answer B. Mizoram
In May 2025 Mizoram became the first State declared fully functionally literate under ULLAS, with literacy of about 98.2% per PLFS 2023-24.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q132, final key
- Q125 Teacher & Vocational Education
Provision of separate vocational course is an example of
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Answer B. Diversified curriculum
A diversified curriculum offers different streams, such as separate vocational courses, to suit varied interests and abilities (as the Mudaliar Commission recommended).
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q133, final key
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Start free - Q126 Teacher & Vocational Education
As per NEP 2020, which of the following is emphasized for vocational education ?
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Answer B. Integrating with academic curriculum
NEP 2020 calls for integrating vocational education into mainstream school and higher education, removing hard separations between academic and vocational streams.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q134, final key
- Q127 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers
"The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship." Who said this ?
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Answer B. Mahatma Gandhi
This line comes from Gandhi's writing on basic (Nai Talim) education, which linked productive work and the useful use of time to good citizenship.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q135, final key
- Q128 Sociological Foundations of Education
"One of the important social objectives of education is to equalize opportunity, enabling the backward or underprivileged classes and individuals to use education as a lever for the improvement of their condition". Which Education Commission stated this ?
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Answer A. Kothari Education Commission (1964-66)
The Kothari Commission report (Education and National Development, 1966) has a chapter on equalisation of educational opportunity that uses this wording.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q136, final key
- Q129 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
The beginning of Population Education in India according to the Third Five Year Plan in the year
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Answer A. 1961 – 66
The Third Five Year Plan ran from 1961 to 1966, and the question ties the start of population education to that plan period.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q137, final key
- Q130 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Launch of the National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) is on
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Answer A. 2nd October, 1978
NAEP was launched on Gandhi Jayanti, 2 October 1978, to make adults aged 15-35 literate; the National Literacy Mission followed on 5 May 1988.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q138, final key
- Q131 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
How can teachers create a moral learning environment in the classroom ?
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Answer B. By encouraging open dialogue on moral education
Moral development grows through discussion and reasoning about values (as in Kohlberg's dilemma discussions), not through imposed rules alone.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q139, final key
- Q132 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Which philosopher is known for his work on virtue ethics ?
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Answer C. Aristotle
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the founding text of virtue ethics, which judges morality by character and virtues.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q140, final key
- Q133 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
The true statement regarding moral education and religious education in its approach is
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Answer B. Moral education is based on universal values, while religious education is tied to specific faiths
Moral education teaches universal values such as honesty and compassion that do not depend on any religion; religious education teaches the beliefs and practices of particular faiths.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q141, final key
- Q134 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Which of the following is a major challenge to national integration in India ?
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Answer B. Regionalism and linguistic differences
APPSC's key takes regionalism and linguistic differences as the major challenge to national integration. Communalism is also a recognised threat, so option 4 is close; the key prefers option 2.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q142, final key
- Q135 Disadvantaged Learners & Welfare Education
How can teachers support culturally disadvantaged students in the classroom ?
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Answer B. By incorporating culturally relevant teaching methods
Culturally responsive teaching links lessons to students' backgrounds, languages and experiences, helping disadvantaged learners take part and succeed.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q143, final key
- Q136 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
Which organization is primarily responsible for promoting international peace and understanding ?
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Answer B. United Nations Organizations (UNO)
Maintaining international peace and security is the first purpose of the United Nations under its Charter. UNESCO also works for peace through education, but the key takes the UN as the body primarily responsible.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q144, final key
- Q137 Community, Language, Values & Peace Education
India ranked ________ in the Global Peace Index 2025 among 163 countries.
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Answer C. 115
The Institute for Economics and Peace's Global Peace Index 2025 ranked India 115th of 163 countries; Iceland was first.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q145, final key
- Q138 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Literacy changes future species of human being.
Statement II : Literacy changes society.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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Answer D. Statement I is incorrect and statement II is correct
Literacy is a social and cultural change; it does not change human biology or species. It does change society through awareness, participation and development.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q146, final key
- Q139 Adult, Non-formal & Lifelong Education
Why is lifelong learning important in the modern world ?
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Answer A. It helps individuals adapt to changing job markets
Fast changes in technology and work mean people must keep learning new skills throughout life to stay employable.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q147, final key
- Q140 Teacher & Vocational Education
The approaches of designing in-service teacher education programme as per NCFTE-2009
A. Contextual and pedagogic approach
B. Educational attainment approach
C. Subject expertise
D. Addressing teachers as learners
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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Answer C. A and D
NCFTE 2009 asks that in-service programmes be designed around teachers' context and pedagogy and treat teachers as adult learners with their own experience, rather than around attainment targets or subject content alone.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q148, final key
- Q141 Teacher & Vocational Education
Match the organization with its year of establishment.
Organization Year A. NCTE 1. 1969 B. SCERT 2. 1995 C. RCI 3. 1956 D. UGC 4. 1992 Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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Answer B. A – 2, B – 1, C – 4, D – 3
NCTE became a statutory body in 1995 (NCTE Act 1993); SCERT (Andhra Pradesh) dates from 1969; the RCI Act was passed in 1992; UGC became a statutory body in 1956.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q149, final key
- Q142 Universalisation of Elementary Education
The Right to Education Act recently passed by our Parliament is an extension of the following Article of our Constitution
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Answer C. 45
The RTE Act 2009 gives effect to Article 21A, which grew out of the Directive Principle in Article 45 on free and compulsory education for children; of the options, Article 45 is the source.
Source: APPSC HWO 2025 Paper II (Notification 15/2025), Q150, final key
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