APPSC Paper I · Hostel Welfare Officer Paper II · Topic 11
11 APPSC Paper I Teacher & Vocational Education questions with answers
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11.1Teacher education: pre-service, in-service and institutionsNotes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Which of the following is NOT a location of an NCERT Regional Institute of Education?
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Answer D. Hyderabad
NCERT's Regional Institutes of Education are at Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Mysuru and Shillong (North-East).
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The Regional Institute of Education later added by NCERT for the north-eastern States is at:
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Answer D. Shillong
NCERT added the North-East Regional Institute of Education (NERIE) at Shillong to the original four RIEs.
Source: Medha AI, based on BRAOU B.Ed/Psychology textbooks (HWO Paper II)
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Under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), which was a quality intervention for secondary schools?
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Answer A. In-service training of teachers
RMSA's quality interventions for secondary education included in-service training of teachers, along with science labs and ICT.
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While estimating about 16,500 teachers needed for blind, deaf and mentally retarded children, the Kothari Commission assumed a pupil-teacher ratio of:
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Answer D. 10:1
The Kothari Commission based its estimate of special teachers on one teacher for every ten such children.
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The national in-service programme NISHTHA stands for:
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Answer B. National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement
NISHTHA is the National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, launched in 2019.
Source: Medha AI, based on BRAOU B.Ed/Psychology textbooks (HWO Paper II)
11.1Vocational education and vocationalisationNotes
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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
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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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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
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A special-school trainer lists the shops near the school, checks which skills a nearby bakery needs, trains a student at the bakery itself, and keeps visiting him after he is hired. This follows the
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Answer A. community-based approach
Surveying local jobs, matching the trainee to one, training on the real site and supporting job retention are the features of community-based vocational training.
Source: Medha AI, based on BRAOU B.Ed/Psychology textbooks (HWO Paper II)
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Which document of 1854 stressed the spread of 'useful knowledge', including vocational and technical instruction, and is often called the 'Magna Carta of English education in India'?
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Answer D. Wood's Despatch
Sir Charles Wood's Despatch of 1854 asked for 'useful knowledge' and recommended vocational content and institutions alongside general education.
Source: Medha AI, based on the APPSC HWO Paper II syllabus (25/2026)
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The 1985 Working Group on the vocationalisation of education was headed by
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Answer A. V. C. Kulandaiswamy
Just before NPE 1986, a Working Group under V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1985) reviewed the vocationalisation of education.
Source: Medha AI, based on BRAOU B.Ed/Psychology textbooks (HWO Paper II)
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The Kothari Commission described work experience as
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Answer D. participation in productive work in school, home, workshop, farm or factory
For Kothari, work experience meant actual participation in productive work in the school, home, workshop, farm, factory or any other situation, as an integral part of education.
Source: Medha AI, based on BRAOU B.Ed/Psychology textbooks (HWO Paper II)
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