The 2021 Promotion Aptitude Test is scheduled to take place next Thursday, 25th February, 2021. The Ghana Education Service has issued index numbers and examination centres to all shortlisted candidates.

The following are sample questions for shortlisted candidates to try their hands to know their preparedness towards the all-important exercise.

1. To increase the confidence of the teacher

a) Selection of suitable strategy is needed

b) Well preparation of the material aids is required

c) Well preparation of the content is required

d) Class room discipline is a must

2. Which types of person should enter in the field of teaching?

a) Meritorious persons

b) Devoted and laborious persons

c) General persons

d) Economically weak persons

3. All of the following are the advantages of lecture strategy except:

a) It will increase the oral communication powers of pupils

b) More content can be presented to pupils in less amount of time

c) Objectives of cognitive as well as effective domains of behavior can be achieved

d) Habit of concentrating to teaching for a longer period can be developed

4. Major advantage of supervised study technique is that:

a) Problems of learning disabled and backward pupils can be removed

b) All of the above

c) Self-learning habits and self-confidence can be developed in pupil

d) Formative evaluation of teaching is possible

5. A very important quality of a good student is:

a) To come to school on time

b) To be quite and well behaved

c) To always obey the teacher

d) To make an effort to understand what is taught in class

6. The primary duty of a teacher is to be responsible to his/her:

a) Students

b) Nation

c) Society

d) Family

7. To study the functioning of the unconscious mind, which of the following techniques can be most profitably used?

a) Situational tests

b) Projective techniques

c) Case studies

d) Personality inventories

8. What should teacher do after teaching the lesson?

a) He should give those answers of the Questions of the lesson

b) He should ask to do Question answers of the lesson

c) He should test the understanding of the students

d) He should leave them if they may write or not

9. The information about internet and computer makes children?

a) Give more knowledge

b) Increase the knowledge of the information

c) Make him best disciple

d) More intelligent

10. One of the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him to express himself?

a) By organizing discussions classroom activities

b) By encouraging children to take part in

c) By organizing educational games/programmers in which children feel like speaking

d) By giving good marks to those who express themselves well

11. Primary teachers should give top priority to___________?

a) Understanding the community

b) Understanding the colleague Teachers

c) Interaction with the parents

d) Understanding the child

12. The best technique of teaching at primary stage is______________?

a) Self-learning

b) The traditional black-board and chalk technique

c) Game technique

d) Practical training

13. A student having scientific attitude:

a) Gets goods job

b) Becomes courageous

c) Studies systematically

d) Thinks rationally

14. When a teacher enters his class on the first day the theme of discussion should be___________?

a) Course-content

b) School principal

c) School building

d) Introduction

15. __________ is a teacher centered model that focuses on student’s activities being guided by the teacher?

a) Thinking Model

b) Pedagogical Model

c) Directive Model

d) Indirect Model

16. Any method of teaching which involves two or more students, can be termed as__________?

a) Class task

b) Group Work

c) Class work

d) Group task

17. The technique in which the students act out roles form stories or historical events, is termed as:

a) Drama

b) Simulation

c) Play

d) All of the above

18. One way to maximize teaching time shorten delays due to transitions and focus on student’s behavior is used to establish __________ in the classroom?

a) Procedures

b) Rules

c) Routines

d) None of these

19. __________ is pair activity in which students have exactly 30 seconds to share all they known

a) Quick talk

b) Quick intro

c) Quick response

d) Quick discussion

20. The new curriculum should be introduced__________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

21. Curriculum revision should be a/an __________ process?

a) Abrupt

b) Continuous

c) Gradual

d) relative

22. Robert Sternberg, a famous psychologist, argued that creativity requires __________ different types of intelligence.

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

23. Evaluation of the process of curriculum development should be made____________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

24. The term heuristic means __________ in decision making.

a) brain storming

b) calculations

c) thoroughness

d) mental shortcuts

25. According to Socrates of Meno, virtue is____________?

a) Teachable

b) Unteachable

c) Reachable

d) unreachable

26. The teacher should know the following thing:

a) What information is required by children?

b) What was last known to the children?

c) In which field difficulty is faced by the children?

d) What is the known to the children before hand?

27. Which of the following is not emphasized in memory level of teaching?

a) Presenting the subject matter by giving least freedom to pupils

b) Helping the pupils generalize the acquired knowledge

c) Conducting tests along with teaching

d) Cramming of the learnt material

28. If one child gives answers to all the Questions at first in your class but disturbs the rest of the children and roams here and there in the class then what will you do?

a) Tell him not to do like that

b) Punished him

c) Engage that child in more activities than rest of the children of the class so that he may learn new things

d) Complain the guardians that his child is breaking the discipline

29. The students learn most from those teachers who:

a) Are gentle

b) Are always ready for discussion

c) Express their ideas comprehensively and clearly

d) Works hard

30. The psychological environment of the class is mainly the duty of__________?

a) Student himself

b) Class teacher

c) Principal

d) Subject teacher

31. In evaluation approach of lesson planning:

a) Teaching strategies and material aids are mentioned in a separate column

b) 1. To increase the confidence of the teacher

a) Selection of suitable strategy is needed

b) Well preparation of the material aids is required

c) Well preparation of the content is required

d) Class room discipline is a must

2. Which types of person should enter in the field of teaching?

a) Meritorious persons

b) Devoted and laborious persons

c) General persons

d) Economically weak persons

3. All of the following are the advantages of lecture strategy except:

a) It will increase the oral communication powers of pupils

b) More content can be presented to pupils in less amount of time

c) Objectives of cognitive as well as effective domains of behavior can be achieved

d) Habit of concentrating to teaching for a longer period can be developed

4. Major advantage of supervised study technique is that:

a) Problems of learning disabled and backward pupils can be removed

b) All of the above

c) Self-learning habits and self-confidence can be developed in pupil

d) Formative evaluation of teaching is possible

5. A very important quality of a good student is:

a) To come to school on time

b) To be quite and well behaved

c) To always obey the teacher

d) To make an effort to understand what is taught in class

6. The primary duty of a teacher is to be responsible to his/her:

a) Students

b) Nation

c) Society

d) Family

7. To study the functioning of the unconscious mind, which of the following techniques can be most profitably used?

a) Situational tests

b) Projective techniques

c) Case studies

d) Personality inventories

8. What should teacher do after teaching the lesson?

a) He should give those answers of the Questions of the lesson

b) He should ask to do Question answers of the lesson

c) He should test the understanding of the students

d) He should leave them if they may write or not

9. The information about internet and computer makes children?

a) Give more knowledge

b) Increase the knowledge of the information

c) Make him best disciple

d) More intelligent

10. One of the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him to express himself?

a) By organizing discussions classroom activities

b) By encouraging children to take part in

c) By organizing educational games/programmers in which children feel like speaking

d) By giving good marks to those who express themselves well

11. Primary teachers should give top priority to___________?

a) Understanding the community

b) Understanding the colleague Teachers

c) Interaction with the parents

d) Understanding the child

12. The best technique of teaching at primary stage is______________?

a) Self-learning

b) The traditional black-board and chalk technique

c) Game technique

d) Practical training

13. A student having scientific attitude:

a) Gets goods job

b) Becomes courageous

c) Studies systematically

d) Thinks rationally

14. When a teacher enters his class on the first day the theme of discussion should be___________?

a) Course-content

b) School principal

c) School building

d) Introduction

15. __________ is a teacher centered model that focuses on student’s activities being guided by the teacher?

a) Thinking Model

b) Pedagogical Model

c) Directive Model

d) Indirect Model

16. Any method of teaching which involves two or more students, can be termed as__________?

a) Class task

b) Group Work

c) Class work

d) Group task

17. The technique in which the students act out roles form stories or historical events, is termed as:

a) Drama

b) Simulation

c) Play

d) All of the above

18. One way to maximize teaching time shorten delays due to transitions and focus on student’s behavior is used to establish __________ in the classroom?

a) Procedures

b) Rules

c) Routines

d) None of these

19. __________ is pair activity in which students have exactly 30 seconds to share all they known

a) Quick talk

b) Quick intro

c) Quick response

d) Quick discussion

20. The new curriculum should be introduced__________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

21. Curriculum revision should be a/an __________ process?

a) Abrupt

b) Continuous

c) Gradual

d) relative

22. Robert Sternberg, a famous psychologist, argued that creativity requires __________ different types of intelligence.

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

23. Evaluation of the process of curriculum development should be made____________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

24. The term heuristic means __________ in decision making.

a) brain storming

b) calculations

c) thoroughness

d) mental shortcuts

25. According to Socrates of Meno, virtue is____________?

a) Teachable

b) Unteachable

c) Reachable

d) unreachable

26. The teacher should know the following thing:

a) What information is required by children?

b) What was last known to the children?

c) In which field difficulty is faced by the children?

d) What is the known to the children before hand?

27. Which of the following is not emphasized in memory level of teaching?

a) Presenting the subject matter by giving least freedom to pupils

b) Helping the pupils generalize the acquired knowledge

c) Conducting tests along with teaching

d) Cramming of the learnt material

28. If one child gives answers to all the Questions at first in your class but disturbs the rest of the children and roams here and there in the class then what will you do?

a) Tell him not to do like that

b) Punished him

c) Engage that child in more activities than rest of the children of the class so that he may learn new things

d) Complain the guardians that his child is breaking the discipline

29. The students learn most from those teachers who:

a) Are gentle

b) Are always ready for discussion

c) Express their ideas comprehensively and clearly

d) Works hard

30. The psychological environment of the class is mainly the duty of__________?

a) Student himself

b) Class teacher

c) Principal

d) Subject teacher

31. In evaluation approach of lesson planning:

a) Teaching strategies and material aids are mentioned in a separate column

b) 1. To increase the confidence of the teacher

a) Selection of suitable strategy is needed

b) Well preparation of the material aids is required

c) Well preparation of the content is required

d) Class room discipline is a must

2. Which types of person should enter in the field of teaching?

a) Meritorious persons

b) Devoted and laborious persons

c) General persons

d) Economically weak persons

3. All of the following are the advantages of lecture strategy except:

a) It will increase the oral communication powers of pupils

b) More content can be presented to pupils in less amount of time

c) Objectives of cognitive as well as effective domains of behavior can be achieved

d) Habit of concentrating to teaching for a longer period can be developed

4. Major advantage of supervised study technique is that:

a) Problems of learning disabled and backward pupils can be removed

b) All of the above

c) Self-learning habits and self-confidence can be developed in pupil

d) Formative evaluation of teaching is possible

5. A very important quality of a good student is:

a) To come to school on time

b) To be quite and well behaved

c) To always obey the teacher

d) To make an effort to understand what is taught in class

6. The primary duty of a teacher is to be responsible to his/her:

a) Students

b) Nation

c) Society

d) Family

7. To study the functioning of the unconscious mind, which of the following techniques can be most profitably used?

a) Situational tests

b) Projective techniques

c) Case studies

d) Personality inventories

8. What should teacher do after teaching the lesson?

a) He should give those answers of the Questions of the lesson

b) He should ask to do Question answers of the lesson

c) He should test the understanding of the students

d) He should leave them if they may write or not

9. The information about internet and computer makes children?

a) Give more knowledge

b) Increase the knowledge of the information

c) Make him best disciple

d) More intelligent

10. One of the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him to express himself?

a) By organizing discussions classroom activities

b) By encouraging children to take part in

c) By organizing educational games/programmers in which children feel like speaking

d) By giving good marks to those who express themselves well

11. Primary teachers should give top priority to___________?

a) Understanding the community

b) Understanding the colleague Teachers

c) Interaction with the parents

d) Understanding the child

12. The best technique of teaching at primary stage is______________?

a) Self-learning

b) The traditional black-board and chalk technique

c) Game technique

d) Practical training

13. A student having scientific attitude:

a) Gets goods job

b) Becomes courageous

c) Studies systematically

d) Thinks rationally

14. When a teacher enters his class on the first day the theme of discussion should be___________?

a) Course-content

b) School principal

c) School building

d) Introduction

15. __________ is a teacher centered model that focuses on student’s activities being guided by the teacher?

a) Thinking Model

b) Pedagogical Model

c) Directive Model

d) Indirect Model

16. Any method of teaching which involves two or more students, can be termed as__________?

a) Class task

b) Group Work

c) Class work

d) Group task

17. The technique in which the students act out roles form stories or historical events, is termed as:

a) Drama

b) Simulation

c) Play

d) All of the above

18. One way to maximize teaching time shorten delays due to transitions and focus on student’s behavior is used to establish __________ in the classroom?

a) Procedures

b) Rules

c) Routines

d) None of these

19. __________ is pair activity in which students have exactly 30 seconds to share all they known

a) Quick talk

b) Quick intro

c) Quick response

d) Quick discussion

20. The new curriculum should be introduced__________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

21. Curriculum revision should be a/an __________ process?

a) Abrupt

b) Continuous

c) Gradual

d) relative

22. Robert Sternberg, a famous psychologist, argued that creativity requires __________ different types of intelligence.

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

23. Evaluation of the process of curriculum development should be made____________?

a) Abruptly

b) Continuously

c) Gradually

d) relatively

24. The term heuristic means __________ in decision making.

a) brain storming

b) calculations

c) thoroughness

d) mental shortcuts

25. According to Socrates of Meno, virtue is____________?

a) Teachable

b) Unteachable

c) Reachable

d) unreachable

26. The teacher should know the following thing:

a) What information is required by children?

b) What was last known to the children?

c) In which field difficulty is faced by the children?

d) What is the known to the children before hand?

27. Which of the following is not emphasized in memory level of teaching?

a) Presenting the subject matter by giving least freedom to pupils

b) Helping the pupils generalize the acquired knowledge

c) Conducting tests along with teaching

d) Cramming of the learnt material

28. If one child gives answers to all the Questions at first in your class but disturbs the rest of the children and roams here and there in the class then what will you do?

a) Tell him not to do like that

b) Punished him

c) Engage that child in more activities than rest of the children of the class so that he may learn new things

d) Complain the guardians that his child is breaking the discipline

29. The students learn most from those teachers who:

a) Are gentle

b) Are always ready for discussion

c) Express their ideas comprehensively and clearly

d) Works hard

30. The psychological environment of the class is mainly the duty of__________?

a) Student himself

b) Class teacher

c) Principal

d) Subject teacher

31. In evaluation approach of lesson planning:

a) Teaching strategies and material aids are mentioned in a separate column

b) Objectives to be realized are written against each teaching point

c) Activities of the teacher and pupils are mentioned separately

d) All of the aboveObjectives to be realized are written against each teaching point

c) Activities of the teacher and pupils are mentioned separately

d) All of the aboveObjectives to be realized are written against each teaching point

c) Activities of the teacher and pupils are mentioned separately

d) All of the above

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