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The pass mark is 50.

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The average age of 9 students in a class is 25 years. If another student who is 15 years old joins the class, what is the average age of the 10 students?

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A teacher always greets her students before starting the day's lesson. The most likely reason for her action is to.........

establish rapport with the students.

tell the students to get ready for the lesson.

make her lesson interesting.

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A pre-service teacher tries to nd ways by which the attention of the learners can be sustained during instructional time. Which one of the following strategies would you not suggest to her?

Identify the interest of the learners and use this to inform the instructional design to use.

Conduct intermittent assessment for learners to monitor whether they are following what is being taught.

Adopt formative assessment strategies at the beginning of the lesson.

Design the classroom setting with colorful pictures of fruits, vegetables, animals, etc

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During an advance preparation, a teacher demonstrated awareness of differences in learning abilities, gender, and social background of learners. This teacher is showing …………

knowledge of social inclusion of learners in the class.

sympathy for the vulnerable in his class.

empathy for learning abilities.

love for learners including the disabled in his class.

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Why did mates heave a sigh of relief when he told them he was only joking?

Carefully read the passage below and use it to answer the question

Julius came out of the staff common room leaving the principal and the headmaster

behind. He walked with defiant limp straight into his classroom. He knew that three

hundred pairs of eyes were looking at him from several windows. He could hear

cheering hisses but he despised them all. He felt tall. The class teacher who was also

the headmaster was still in the staff room. The boys stood up and gathered around

him. He was disappointed that the girls did not rush to him as the boys had done.

They red barrels of questions at him but he did not appear eager to answer any. He

knew they must know the details by now and be anxious to hear the end of it. But he

would not give it to them yet. They must see him as he truly was. They must

completely forget all the impressions they had gathered on the football eld and on

the race track. Then, he told himself that he must not look serious because if they

discovered the truth, they might think he was crying for himself. He was a hero and

heroes are to be admired not pitied. ‘They just told me to go home and never come

back’. There was stunned silence. Julius noticed a crumpled look come onto Dora’s

face and quickly said, ‘Oh, it was only a joke’. Then, there was a sigh of relief and

everybody was laughing with him. Julius felt happy because they did not yet know the

truth. He laughed carelessly.

Culled from Ogundipe and Tregido: Practical English Course Book 3

He had been a good student.

He told them the news in class.

They cheered him up.

They did not want him dismissed.

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Which one of the following can be considered as the main reason for introducing the most current basic educational reforms in Ghana?

Private schools always outperforming public schools in external examinations.

Schools in both rural and urban areas with inadequate instructional materials.

Declining quality of education and school structures.

Systematically low rate of school attendance.

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Identify the sentence with the correct subject-verb agreement:

One of the apples is rotten.

One of the apples are rotten.

One of the apples am rotten.

One of the apples be rotten.

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The length of a rectangular playing field is 10 metres longer than its width. If the perimeter of the field is 180 metres, what is its width?

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The statement ‘A student obtained 92% in a test and won second prize’ is an example of …

norm-reference interpretation of test scores.

summative evaluation of teaching and learning

formative evaluation of teaching and learning.

criterion-reference interpretation of test score.

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If a coin is flipped, what is the probability of getting heads?

50%

25%

100%

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A polytank contains 4,000 litres of water. If 3,500 litres of water is used, what fraction of the original quantity is used?

7/8

1/8

3/8

5/8

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In a bag with 3 red marbles and 2 blue marbles, what is the probability of drawing two red marbles without replacement?

9/25

3/5

6/25

3/10

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The most occurring number in the given data, 7, 5, x, 3, 3, 2, 2, 4 is 2. What is the value of x?

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Choose the sentence with the correct subject-verb agreement:

Neither the cat nor the dogs is liking to play outside.

Neither the cat nor the dogs likes to play outside.

Neither the cat nor the dogs are liking to play outside.

Neither the cat nor the dogs like to play outside.

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What type of decision does a teacher make when he indicates whether a child has qualified to be promoted to the next grade or not?

Competency decision

Certificate decision

Diagnostic decision

Placement decision

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‘Content standards’, as used in curriculum development, are statements about ….

what learners should know and be able to do.

how learners should perform in the subject of study.

learners’ response to questions on specific content.

how learners are meeting set standards and their progress in this.

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Which one of the following occurs when learners are able to solve open-ended problems?

Student-centred learning

Content-centred learning

Problem-based learning

Curriculum-based learning

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Azindow has 860 eggs to put into a number of crates. If each crate contains 30 eggs, what will be the maximum number of crates required to pack all the eggs.

28.0

28.6

28.7

29.0

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Points A, B and C are three of the corners of a rectangle. Where should the fourth point D be located to form the rectangle ABCD?

(4, 3)

(3, 4)

(2, 4)

(4, 2)

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As a teacher, how would you ensure that students handle the resources at their disposal carefully to prolong their lifespan?

Give the resources to responsible students.

Explain to students how to handle them.

Handle the resources yourself with care.

Allow students to handle their resources.

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All the following are ways in which teacher professional development can occur except ……….……

participating in a seminar on lesson planning.

attending a workshop on the common core curriculum.

attending teacher professional association welfare meeting.

discussing and learning with colleagues on an issue.

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According to Vygotsky, social interaction is important for learning. This statement implies that children......

learn by passive presentation of information.

are independent problem solvers.

in the crib do not interact and therefore cannot learn.

learn from adults and other children.

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Some headteachers encouraged their teachers to attend a conference on innovative pedagogies for instructional delivery. The reason for the headteachers’ action was to help the teachers to acquire …

competencies on the management of students’ behavior.

skills in helping learners settle for instruction.

prociencies in assessing learners in the classroom.

knowledge on diverse ways of teaching in class.

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A basket contains 45 mangoes. If each mango costs GH¢2.50, what is the total cost of the mangoes in the basket?

GH¢ 112.50

GH¢ 18.00

GH¢ 44.75

GH¢ 1,125.00

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A school teacher plans to use class discussions as a regular part of instruction. The teacher should be aware that class discussions tend to be most productive when the guiding questions 4 are.....

act-based and focused on core content.

centered on a single concept or idea.

open-ended and exploratory in nature.

drawn directly from the course textbook.

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A newly trained Mathematics teacher complained to the headteacher that she is not able to relate what she teaches to real-life situations. Which one of the following is the most appropriate advice to be given by the headteacher?

Be an independent, critical thinker and problem solver.

Adopt instructional approaches which encourage illustrations and role play.

Incorporate real-life scenarios in assessment tasks.

Go on field trips, tours and excursions.

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The students answered the questions according …..… they were instructed by their teacher.

Choose from the alternatives the one that best completes the sentence.

with

against

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A teacher prepares a lesson note and states his objectives as follows: "students will be able to know the importance of food". The teacher lacks the ability to..........

indicate the condition under which the behaviour must be exhibited.

state the instructional objective in behavioural terms.

indicate the level of acceptance in his instructional objective.

consider the ability level of students in his instructional objective.

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What is the mode of the following data set: 5, 8, 2, 5, 8, 10, 5?

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A teacher wishes to ensure inclusion in her teaching. How can she best achieve this in the classroom? The teacher should ……………

make use of different languages during teaching and learning.

be aware of the specific needs of every child in the class.

allow the pupils to put up any preferred behavior in the class.

encourage participation of all learners in class activities.

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We planned to meet him just after his coronation, but we never saw him until his …

Choose from the alternatives the option, which is nearly opposite in meaning to the words italicized.

"We planned to meet him just after his coronation, but we never saw him until his …"

suspension

ousting

enthronment

confirmation

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The scores out of 30 obtained by ten students in a mathematics test are as follows: 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26. What is their median score?

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At a professional development workshop, a teacher sought knowledge about ways by which he can promote reective teaching. Which one of the following is not likely to be amongst the strategies promoted?

Taking video recording of one’s lesson for evaluation purposes.

Conversing with learners on their performance.

Allowing colleague teachers to sit in one’s class to provide feedback.

Making experts take notes on one’s teaching and analyzing it.

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In some classrooms, learners have to be forced to learn. All the following strategies can be adopted by the teacher to motivate learners to learn willingly except …………

planning lessons to meet the different levels of aspirations among the learners.

engaging learners by using appropriate teaching and learning materials.

provoking the learners’ curiosity in the lessons.

encouraging learners to contend with each other in class.

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How would you interpret the students’ silence when Julius said, “They just told me to go home and never come back.” They were ……