CTET 2021 Exam Memory Based English Language Questions PDF

The Ministry of Education, Govt. of India has entrusted the responsibility of conducting the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) to the Central Board of Secondary Education Delhi to appoint eligible candidates or appointment as a teacher for class I to VIII. CTET 2021 exam, which is the 15th edition, will be conducted between 16th December 2021 to 13th January 2022. It is conducted in online mode twice a year at national level. The CTET certificate has lifelong validity. CTET December 2021 exam will be conducted in 20 languages. The duration of the exam will be 150 minutes.

CTET 2021 Exam will be conducted in two parts:

1. Paper I is for candidates looking forward to becoming teachers for Classes 1 to 5
2. Paper-II is for candidates looking forward to becoming teachers for Classes 6 to 8

Both the papers will have multiple choice questions and there will be no negative markings for incorrect answers.

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CTET 2021 English

The English Language includes 30 MCQs of 30 Marks. The English language is divided into two sections:

1. Content
2. Pedagogy of language development

The content section will have 15 questions where you need to prepare well for reading comprehension. The pedagogy section too will have 15 questions.

Syllabus for English Exam

Content:

Syllabus for English as Language I

Reading unseen passage: There will be two passages – a prose or drama ( which can be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive) and a poem with questions on grammar, inference, comprehension and verbal ability.

Syllabus for English as Language II

Two unseen prose passages ( which can be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive) with questions on grammar, inference, comprehension and verbal ability.

Pedagogy of language development:

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language teaching
• Language skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency
• Teaching – learning materials
• Remedial teaching
• Role of listening and speaking; the function of language and how children use it as a tool
• The critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and it written form
• Challenges of teaching a language in a diverse classroom

Mark Distribution

English as Language I

English as Language II

Pedagogy of language development:

CTET 2021 English Answer Key

CTET Answer Key 2021 will be published by January 2022 by the CBSE ( Central Board of Secondary Education) on the official website of CTET i.e. ‘ctet.nic.in’. Candidates appearing in the ongoing CTET 2021 can download their answer key as soon as it is published.

How To Download CTET Answer Key 2021

• Visit the official website of Central Teacher Eligibility Test i.e. ctet.nic.in
• Click on the option “Answer Key” on the menu bar.
• You will be redirected to a webpage where you will find an option which will be similar to “CTET 2021 Answer Key”. Click on that option.
• You will be asked to fill some required credentials in order to check or download the CTET Answer Key 2021
• Fill all the required fields and check the answer key Central Teacher Eligibility Test 2021.

English Questions and Answers PDF

Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

The cardboard shows me how it was

When the two girl cousins went paddling

Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,

And she the big girl – some twelve years or so.

All three stood still to smile through their hair

At the uncle with the camera, a sweet face

My mother’s, that was before I was born

And the sea, which appears to have changed less

Washed their terribly transient feet.

Some twenty- thirty- years later

She’d laugh at the snapshot.

“See Betty and Dolly,” she’d say,

“and look how they dressed us for the beach.”

The sea holiday was her past, mine is her laughter.

Both wry with the labored ease of loss

Now she’s has been dead nearly as many years as that girl lived.

And of this circumstance there is nothing to say at all,

Its silence silences.

-Shirley Toulson

What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem?

1. A Photo frame
2. A Photograph
3. A Camera
4. A Book

Answer: 2

Explanation: ‘Cardboard’ refers to the photograph only. In the past, photographs used to be fixed to cardboard and hung from the wall for everyone to see.

What has the camera captured?

1. Poet’s happy moment from his childhood.
2. A happy moment of poet and his mother.
3. A happy moment of poet’s father and mother.
4. A happy moment from the childhood of the poet’s mother.

Answer: 4

Explanation: The camera captured some happy moments from the childhood of the poet’s mother. It was a scene taken from a beach where she had gone with her cousins and her uncle for a sea holiday. The girls were paddling in the water.

11. What has not changed over the years?

1. Poet’s feelings
2. Sea in the photograph
3. Poet’s mother in the photograph
4. None of the above

Answer: 2

Explanation: The sea has not changed over the years. It remains the same. The sea symbolizes eternity.

 What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the labored ease of loss”?

1. Poet’s laugh has gone now.
2. Poet’s mother is no more now.
3. Poet’s holiday is a past now.
4. Poet’s mother has stopped laughing now.

Answer: 2

Explanation: ‘Both’ refers to the sea holiday as remembered by her mother and the poet remembering her mother’s laughing face. Both these now belong to the past. Her mother is no more.

What does “this circumstance” refer to?

1. The pain that is going to come in the future to the poet on her mother’s death.
2. Past situation of the poet of feeling pain on her mother’s death.
3. Present situation of the poet of feeling pain on her mother’s death.
4. Present situation of the poet’s happiness.

Answer: 3

Explanation: ‘This circumstance’ refers to the circumstance when the photo was taken.

The poet’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?

1. Being Sarcastic
2. Being Nostalgic
3. Being Tragic
4. Being Unhappy

Answer: 2

Explanation: This laugh indicates her remembering her past. She looked back to her childhood days with nostalgia and remembered the innocent joys of those days.

The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?

1. Three different phases of poet’s mother life.
2. Three different phases of poet’s life.
3. Three different phases of poet’s father life.
4. Three different phases of poet’s friend life.

Answer: 1

Explanation: The three stanzas depict three different phases. The first stanza refers to the childhood of the poet’s mother. The second stanza refers to the poet’s childhood when her mother was an adult. The last stanza refers to the poet’s adulthood when her mother is no more.

Previous year question papers of CTET is the best tool to start your CTET preparation. It gives an idea of the exam pattern and the difficulty level of questions asked. It also helps in understanding the important topics. One can know about different sections and their weightage in the examination.

How to Download CTET Previous Years’ Question Papers pdf

• Visit the official website of CTET: @ctet.nic.in
• Click on the CTET previous year question paper links under the ‘Important Links’ section.
• The CTET question papers will be displayed. You can download the question papers for future reference.
• You can access question papers from the 2011 onwards.

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