Assistant Education Officer - Paper 9
Q1: The Seminar Method is most appropriate for teaching at the university level because it primarily encourages:
A) Rote learning
B) In-depth discussion and research presentation ✅ Answer
C) Basic skill practice
D) Teacher demonstration
Q2: Motivation based on a student's internal desire for self-improvement and mastery is defined as:
A) Extrinsic Motivation
B) Achievement Need
C) Intrinsic Motivation ✅ Answer
D) Affiliation Need
Q3: The set of informal and sometimes unofficial knowledge, values, and norms transmitted through the school's social environment is known as the:
A) Explicit Curriculum
B) Technical Curriculum
C) Hidden Curriculum ✅ Answer
D) Core Curriculum
Q4: The primary aim of decentralization in educational administration is to foster:
A) Uniformity and rigidity
B) Centralized control
C) Local autonomy and responsiveness to community needs ✅ Answer
D) Bureaucratic control
Q5: A Qualitative Research method that involves the researcher deeply immersing themselves in a particular cultural setting to study its people is:
A) Survey Research
B) Experimental Research
C) Ethnography ✅ Answer
D) Correlational Research
Q6: The educational philosophy that views knowledge as emerging from the resolution of conflicts through experience is:
A) Idealism
B) Realism
C) Pragmatism (Experientialism) ✅ Answer
D) Essentialism
Q7: The teaching maxim "From simple to complex" is based on the principle of:
A) Randomness
B) Memorization
C) Psychological Sequencing (gradual difficulty) ✅ Answer
D) Punishment
Q8: The key cognitive ability that emerges in the Concrete Operational Stage is Conservation, which is the understanding that:
A) Objects exist when unseen
B) Quantity remains the same despite changes in shape/appearance ✅ Answer
C) Abstract ideas are possible
D) Language is symbolic
Q9: The consistency of test scores when the test is divided into two halves is measured by:
A) Test-retest Reliability
B) Concurrent Validity
C) Split-Half Reliability ✅ Answer
D) Inter-rater Reliability
Q10: The administrative process of setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals for the school is:
A) Organizing
B) Staffing
C) Planning (SMART Objectives) ✅ Answer
D) Reporting
Q11: The level of Commitment or attachment to a particular value in the Affective Domain is called:
A) Receiving
B) Organization
C) Characterization
D) Valuing ✅ Answer
Q12: B.F. Skinner's concept of Negative Reinforcement involves:
A) Punishing a behavior
B) Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase a behavior ✅ Answer
C) Adding a pleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior
D) Ignoring a behavior
Q13: Curriculum Revision is a continuous process primarily needed to ensure that the curriculum remains:
A) Cheap
B) Relevant and up-to-date ✅ Answer
C) Static
D) Long
Q14: Perennialism advocates that the teacher should primarily be a master of:
A) Technology
B) Social reform
C) Subject Matter and the Classics ✅ Answer
D) Vocational skills
Q15: When a researcher uses a test to measure an underlying, non-observable trait or concept (like intelligence or anxiety), the validity most concerned is:
A) Content Validity
B) Predictive Validity
C) Construct Validity ✅ Answer
D) Face Validity
Q16: The sociological term for the process through which schools function to reinforce the existing social class structure is:
A) Social Mobility
B) Social Reproduction ✅ Answer
C) Cultural Lag
D) Functionalism
Q17: The most reliable measure of central tendency for a skewed distribution is the:
A) Mean
B) Median ✅ Answer
C) Mode
D) Range
Q18: Bureaucratic Management (Weber) in education emphasizes adherence to rules, hierarchy, and:
A) Creativity
B) Flexibility
C) Impersonality and rationality ✅ Answer
D) Emotional intelligence
Q19: Which curriculum document typically contains the minimum required knowledge and skills for a specific subject at a particular grade level?
A) Lesson Plan
B) Syllabus (Course Outline) ✅ Answer
C) School Budget
D) Annual Report
Q20: Repression (pushing threatening thoughts out of conscious awareness) is a type of defense mechanism described by:
A) Carl Rogers
B) Jean Piaget
C) Sigmund Freud ✅ Answer
D) Ivan Pavlov
Q21: The Expository Method of teaching is essentially synonymous with the:
A) Heuristic Method
B) Discovery Method
C) Lecture Method ✅ Answer
D) Project Method
Q22: The primary goal of a Summative Assessment is to provide a final judgment of learning for the purpose of:
A) Immediate course correction
B) Grading, certification, or promotion ✅ Answer
C) Identifying specific difficulties
D) Motivating students
Q23: Existentialism views the school's purpose as helping students confront:
A) Pre-established truths
B) Social expectations
C) The meaninglessness of existence (finding personal meaning) ✅ Answer
D) Scientific laws
Q24: The administrative activity of Auditing primarily focuses on the verification of:
A) Teacher performance
B) Student learning outcomes
C) Financial accounts and records ✅ Answer
D) Curriculum content
Q25: The measure of variability that is simply the difference between the maximum and minimum score is the:
A) Variance
B) Standard Deviation
C) Mean Deviation
D) Range ✅ Answer
Q26: The psychological phenomenon where an organism responds differently to two similar stimuli (e.g., distinguishing between tones) is:
A) Generalization
B) Extinction
C) Spontaneous Recovery
D) Discrimination ✅ Answer
Q27: An exam where the results are presented as a percentage of correctly answered items is a measure of:
A) Relative Performance
B) Absolute Performance ✅ Answer
C) Aptitude
D) Prognosis
Q28: The administrative concept of Efficiency is achieved when goals are met with:
A) Maximum time consumption
B) Highest cost
C) Minimum waste of resources (time, money, effort) ✅ Answer
D) Maximum effort
Q29: Convergent thinking is a process that is often associated with the task of:
A) Brainstorming
B) Writing a poem
C) Taking a multiple-choice test ✅ Answer
D) Imagining scenarios
Q30: Cognitive restructuring is a key technique used in which psychological approach to change a person's maladaptive thought patterns?
A) Psychoanalysis
B) Behaviorism
C) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) ✅ Answer
D) Humanism
Q31: The curriculum element that answers the question "How should the content be organized?" is:
A) Objectives
B) Content Selection
C) Curriculum Design/Organization ✅ Answer
D) Evaluation
Q32: Naturalism in education, as advanced by Rousseau, places great emphasis on the importance of which stage of development?
A) Adulthood
B) Adolescence
C) Early Childhood (following nature) ✅ Answer
D) Old age
Q33: Research that is purely driven by curiosity and the need to expand theoretical knowledge, without immediate practical application, is:
A) Applied Research
B) Evaluation Research
C) Basic (or Pure) Research ✅ Answer
D) Action Research
Q34: In a questionnaire, a scale that uses categories like "Strongly Disagree," "Disagree," "Neutral," "Agree," "Strongly Agree" is called a:
A) Semantic Differential Scale
B) Guttman Scale
C) Likert Scale ✅ Answer
D) Nominal Scale
Q35: The concept of Learned Optimism (Seligman) is a counterpoint to learned helplessness and focuses on developing an individual's:
A) Need for power
B) Explanatory style (how they interpret negative events) ✅ Answer
C) Social skills
D) Rote memory
Q36: The administrative task of Resource Mobilization primarily deals with acquiring:
A) Rules and regulations
B) Financial and material resources ✅ Answer
C) New policies
D) Teaching methods
Q37: Which philosophy is often criticized for being too retrospective, focusing excessively on the past and neglecting modern social problems?
A) Pragmatism
B) Existentialism
C) Perennialism ✅ Answer
D) Reconstructionism
Q38: The ability to detect and correct errors in a physical performance falls under the level of Adaptation in which domain?
A) Cognitive
B) Affective
C) Psychomotor ✅ Answer
D) Social
Q39: A type of research that is focused on determining the effectiveness of teaching or instructional methods is:
A) Historical Research
B) Survey Research
C) Methodological Research ✅ Answer
D) Basic Research
Q40: Piaget's term for the mental structures or building blocks of knowledge that help organize past experiences is:
A) Accommodation
B) Equilibration
C) Schemas ✅ Answer
D) Concepts
Q41: The Role-Playing method in teaching is highly effective for improving students':
A) Logical reasoning
B) Calculation speed
C) Empathy, social skills, and perspective-taking ✅ Answer
D) Factual recall
Q42: The administrative activity of Conflict Resolution in a school is essential for maintaining a positive:
A) Budget
B) Syllabus
C) School Climate/Harmony ✅ Answer
D) Exam schedule
Q43: The principle of Correlation in curriculum design aims to establish a relationship between:
A) Teacher and administration
B) Two or more subjects ✅ Answer
C) Student and parent
D) Past and future
Q44: Metaphysics in philosophy is the study of:
A) Knowledge
B) Value
C) Ultimate reality and existence ✅ Answer
D) Logic and reasoning
Q45: The process of taking the planned curriculum and putting it into practice in the classroom is:
A) Curriculum Design
B) Curriculum Evaluation
C) Curriculum Implementation ✅ Answer
D) Curriculum Selection
Q46: Which teaching method involves the teacher telling a continuous, logical story or description?
A) Demonstration
B) Narrative/Storytelling ✅ Answer
C) Inquiry
D) Drill
Q47: Vocational Guidance is distinct from career counseling primarily in its focus on:
A) Long-term personality issues
B) Specific job skills and occupational knowledge ✅ Answer
C) Academic performance
D) Personal relationships
Q48: The total area under the Normal Distribution Curve is equal to:
A) 0.0
B) 0.5
C) 1.0 (or 100%) ✅ Answer
D) 2.0
Q49: The sociological concept of Social Stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals into:
A) Different schools
B) Social classes or layers ✅ Answer
C) Different subjects
D) Different teams
Q50: Laissez-faire leadership in a school can often lead to:
A) Centralized control
B) High efficiency
C) Lack of direction and low productivity ✅ Answer
D) Strict adherence to rules
Q51: The primary purpose of the Pakistan National Curriculum (e.g., SNC) is to provide a standardized framework for the content of:
A) Teacher training only
B) School education across the country ✅ Answer
C) University research
D) Administrative rules
Q52: The NEP 1972-80 made a commitment to provide free education up to Class 10, primarily aiming for:
A) Total privatization
B) Mass literacy and universal access ✅ Answer
C) Exclusive focus on the elite
D) Compulsory military service
Q53: In-Service Training programs are primarily designed to address the needs of:
A) Retired teachers
B) New graduates
C) Current, actively practicing teachers ✅ Answer
D) Students
Q54: The NEP 1998-2010 emphasized the improvement of madrasah education by proposing the integration of:
A) Military subjects
B) Secular/formal subjects (like Science and English) ✅ Answer
C) Only religious studies
D) Foreign languages only
Q55: Teacher Effectiveness is increasingly defined by the observable measure of a teacher's impact on:
A) School finance
B) Student learning outcomes ✅ Answer
C) Administrative paperwork
D) Classroom decoration
Q56: The 18th Amendment (2010) transferred the subject of education from the Concurrent List to the Provincial List, which led to:
A) Absolute standardization across all provinces
B) Provincial autonomy in curriculum and policy ✅ Answer
C) Complete federal control
D) The abolition of all education policies
Q57: Mentoring in teacher education is an instructional strategy focused on professional growth and is typically conducted by:
A) Students
B) Experienced senior teachers ✅ Answer
C) Administrative staff only
D) Parents
Q58: The NEP 1979 introduced the establishment of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) to promote:
A) Conventional classroom teaching
B) Distance and non-formal education ✅ Answer
C) Private schooling only
D) Military academies
Q59: Which professional role involves continuous classroom visits, observation, and direct feedback to teachers to help them improve instructional skills?
A) Principal
B) Administrator
C) Supervisor (Instructional Leader) ✅ Answer
D) Clerk
Q60: A key aim of the NEP 2017 Draft was the promotion of early childhood education (ECE) to improve a child's:
A) High school grades
B) Cognitive, social, and emotional readiness for primary school ✅ Answer
C) Administrative skills
D) Retirement planning
Q61: The Earth's revolution around the Sun causes:
A) Day and Night
B) Tides
C) Seasons ✅ Answer
D) Eclipses
Q62: The smallest country in Asia by area is:
A) Singapore
B) Bahrain
C) Maldives ✅ Answer
D) Bhutan
Q63: The Pakistan Monument (a petal-shaped structure symbolizing national unity) is located in:
A) Lahore
B) Karachi
C) Islamabad ✅ Answer
D) Peshawar
Q64: The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of member states located primarily in:
A) North America
B) Europe ✅ Answer
C) Asia
D) South America
Q65: The Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth, is located in the basin of which ocean?
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Indian Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean ✅ Answer
D) Arctic Ocean
Q66: The largest single-source of freshwater in Pakistan is the:
A) Jhelum River
B) Chenab River
C) Indus River ✅ Answer
D) Sutlej River
Q67: The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, is located off the coast of:
A) USA
B) Mexico
C) Indonesia
D) Australia ✅ Answer
Q68: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is composed of representatives from:
A) Only the largest countries
B) Only permanent members
C) All member states ✅ Answer
D) Non-governmental organizations
Q69: The Hindu Kush mountains are famous for containing the legendary pass called the:
A) Bolan Pass
B) Khunjerab Pass
C) Khyber Pass ✅ Answer
D) Gomal Pass
Q70: Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates the level of what in the blood?
A) Fats
B) Proteins
C) Glucose (Sugar) ✅ Answer
D) Hormones
Q71: The Lahore Resolution (1940) was presented by:
A) Quaid-e-Azam
B) Allama Iqbal
C) A. K. Fazlul Huq ✅ Answer
D) Liaquat Ali Khan
Q72: The Second Martial Law in Pakistan was imposed by General Yahya Khan in the year:
A) 1958
B) 1969 ✅ Answer
C) 1977
D) 1999
Q73: The Indus Waters Treaty (1960) allocated the three Eastern Rivers (Ravi, Sutlej, Beas) to:
A) Pakistan
B) Both countries equally
C) India ✅ Answer
D) The World Bank
Q74: The first female Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan was:
A) Benazir Bhutto
B) Hina Rabbani Khar
C) Shamshad Akhtar ✅ Answer
D) Maryam Nawaz
Q75: The Bolan Pass is a mountain pass linking Quetta with:
A) Iran
B) Afghanistan
C) Sibi (Pakistan) ✅ Answer
D) China
Q76: The Quaid-e-Azam served as the First Governor General of Pakistan until his death in:
A) 1947
B) 1948 ✅ Answer
C) 1949
D) 1951
Q77: The Minar-e-Pakistan monument, commemorating the Lahore Resolution, is located in the Iqbal Park of:
A) Islamabad
B) Karachi
C) Lahore ✅ Answer
D) Peshawar
Q78: The Chief Minister of a Pakistani province is appointed by the:
A) President
B) Prime Minister
C) Governor ✅ Answer
D) Chief Justice
Q79: The concept of a separate electorate for Muslims was officially recognized for the first time in the:
A) Lucknow Pact (1916)
B) Minto-Morley Reforms (1909) ✅ Answer
C) Cripps Mission (1942)
D) Cabinet Mission Plan (1946)
Q80: Which province of Pakistan is known as "The Land of the Brave People"?
A) Punjab
B) Sindh
C) Balochistan
D) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) ✅ Answer
Q81: The total number of Prophets and Messengers mentioned in the Holy Quran is:
A) 15
B) 20
C) 25 ✅ Answer
D) 30
Q82: The second wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) after the death of Hazrat Khadija (RA) was:
A) Hazrat Ayesha (RA)
B) Hazrat Hafsa (RA)
C) Hazrat Saudah bint Zam'ah (RA) ✅ Answer
D) Hazrat Umm Salamah (RA)
Q83: The term Fard (or Fard-e-Ain) in Islam denotes an act that is:
A) Optional
B) Disliked
C) Obligatory (must be performed) ✅ Answer
D) Forbidden
Q84: The First Migration (Hijra) in Islam was made to which country?
A) Madinah
B) Taif
C) Abyssinia (Ethiopia) ✅ Answer
D) Syria
Q85: The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had one daughter who survived him and later played a significant role in early Islam. Her name was:
A) Hazrat Ruqayyah (RA)
B) Hazrat Umm Kulthum (RA)
C) Hazrat Zaynab (RA)
D) Hazrat Fatima (RA) ✅ Answer
Q86: The concept of Qadar in Islam is the belief in:
A) Final Judgment
B) Prophets
C) Divine Decree (Predestination) ✅ Answer
D) Angels
Q87: The act of removing the smallest types of impurities before prayer is called:
A) Ghusl
B) Wudu ✅ Answer
C) Tayammum
D) Taharah
Q88: The Battle of Badr (2 AH) took place in the Islamic month of:
A) Muharram
B) Rajab
C) Ramadan
D) Shawwal ✅ Answer
Q89: Which Prophet is titled Khalifat-ullah (Successor of God) and was given the ability to judge among people?
A) Hazrat Ibrahim (AS)
B) Hazrat Isa (AS)
C) Hazrat Dawood (AS) ✅ Answer
D) Hazrat Sulaiman (AS)
Q90: The month of the Islamic calendar that marks the beginning of the new year is:
A) Safar
B) Rabi' al-Awwal
C) Ramadan
D) Muharram ✅ Answer
Q91: Choose the correct synonym of 'Perilous':
A) Safe
B) Calm
C) Dangerous/Hazardous ✅ Answer
D) Easy
Q92: Antonym of 'Affluent' is:
A) Rich
B) Luxurious
C) Prosperous
D) Poor/Impecunious ✅ Answer
Q93: The cat jumped over the fence. (Identify the part of speech of the word 'over'):
A) Adverb
B) Conjunction
C) Adjective
D) Preposition ✅ Answer
Q94: Choose the correct spelling:
A) Indispensible
B) Indispensabel
C) Indispenseble
D) Indispensable ✅ Answer
Q95: Which sentence is written in the Active Voice?
A) The cake was eaten by the children.
B) The lesson will be taught by the teacher.
C) The students solved the equation. ✅ Answer
D) The book had been read by her.
Q96: The chemical symbol for Sodium is:
A) S
B) Si
C) So
D) Na ✅ Answer
Q97: The instrument used to measure the intensity of an earthquake is the:
A) Barometer
B) Anemometer
C) Seismograph ✅ Answer
D) Hydrometer
Q98: URL is the address of a document or resource on the World Wide Web. It stands for:
A) Universal Resource Link
B) Unlimited Retrieval Locator
C) Uniform Resource Locator ✅ Answer
D) User Remote Link
Q99: Which blood group is considered the Universal Donor (can be given to almost anyone)?
A) A
B) B
C) AB
D) O-Negative (O−) ✅ Answer
Q100: The process of splitting a heavy atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei, releasing energy, is called:
A) Fusion
B) Oxidation
C) Fission ✅ Answer
D) Sublimation
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