KTET Category 1 Question Papers and Answers

KTET Category 1 Previous Year Question Papers: Psychology

The KTET Category 1 exam is mainly designated for lower primary school level teachers. And the exam is conducted in three parts viz., Psychology/ Environmental Science/ Mathematics, Language 1 and English. Find below the KTET Category 1 psychology question paper available on the official website of the Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan and its answers with explanation. Analysing the KTET Category 1 model question papers pdf can help you to attempt the questions in real time.

1. Which of the following period is generally termed as “the period of conflicts” in one’s developmental stage?

A. Infancy

B. Childhood

C. Adolescence

D. Adulthood

Ans: C. Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological developmental changes from puberty to adulthood.

2. Assume that a student is given a list of correlated words to study and is asked to recall the words at a later time. Then according to Guilford’s Structure of Intellect model, the content of this test is:

A. Symbolic

B. Behavioural

C. Figural

D. Semantic

Ans: C. Semantic

This model explains information perceived in words or sentences, which can be oral, written or silently manifested in one’s mind.

3. In order to help a mentally challenged child in your class which of the following strategies would you adopt?

A. Send him to special school

B. Do not give him special attention

C. Provide him with simple, concrete experience

D. Ask him to change his learning style

Ans: C. Provide him with simple, concrete experience

4. A student of your class is being ridiculed by his classmates because he gives foolish answers to all questions. What would you do?

A. Stop asking questions to him so that such situation can be avoided

B. Advice the other students to be sympathetic and not to ridicule him

C. Inform his parents and advise them to arrange for providing private tuition

D. Frequently ask very simple questions to him

Ans: D. Frequently ask very simple questions to him

5. A child in your class always tries to attribute his failure to other children or materials. What kind of defence mechanism does he use?

A. Rationalization

B. Projection

C. Repression

D. Compensation

Ans: B. Projection

Attributing one’s own unexpectable thoughts or feelings to someone else.

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KTET Category 1 Previous Year Question Papers: EVS

Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates all arenas of knowledge to study the environment and how to conserve our ecology for a sustainable future.

1. During the commemoration of August 15 in your school, importance should be given to

A. Environmental protection

B. Anti-war attitude

C. Significance of cleanliness

D. History of struggle for independence

Ans: D. History of struggle for independence

2. As a teacher, what activities will you suggest to enable a child to identify the polluted condition of water resource.

A. Project

B. Interview with experts

C. Conduct seminar

D. Utilise libraries

Ans: A. Project

3. Which of the following principle is involved in the balancing of hammer as shown in the figure.

A. Principle of Floatation

B. Archimedes Principle

C. Laws of Motion

D. Principle of Levers

Ans: Principle of Levers

4. Select the correct one from the given table. Food Items Major nutritive component Vegetables

Ans: D. Vitamins, Minerals

5. Which one is the correct food chain?

A. Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Eagle

B. Frog → Snake → Eagle → Grasshopper

C. Grasshopper → Frog → Grass → Snake

D. Frog → Snake → Eagle → Grasshopper

Ans: A. Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Eagle

KTET Category 1 Previous Year Question Papers: Mathematics

The KTET category 1 Maths sample questions are illustrated below which has both subjective as well as related pedagogy type questions. Practicing the KTET category 1 Maths previous year question papers can gives sufficient excerpt of the actual exam.

1. Which method given below for acquiring the concept of multiplication does not conform to the approach to mathematics learning

A. Rote learning of multiplication table

B. Repeated addition

C. Applying in new situation

D. Solving practical problems.

2. A bus starts at 2: 40 in the morning from Trivandrum and reaches Kannur at 4: 05 in the evening. The time taken for the journey is

A. 13 hours 25 minutes

B. 12 hours 25 minutes

C. 13 hours 15 minutes

D. 12 hours 15 minutes

Ans: 13 hours 25 minutes

3. Which of the following concepts is not a correct interpretation of 3/4?

A. three one fourths

B. three of the four equal parts into which 1 is divided

C. dividing 3 into 4 equal parts

D. four one-thirds

Ans: D. four one-thirds

4. Which of the following paper strips gives a cube on folding?

Ans: D

5. If all the numbers in the operation 5 × 3 × 2 are doubled, then how many times the original would be the new product?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 6

D. 8

Ans: 8 times