SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
Early Childhood Care and Education
Time: 3 Hours
MM: 80
Very Short Answer Questions
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Q.1 The teaching learning process in an ECCE centre must be based on: 1
(i) play and supervision
(ii) play and monitoring
(iii) activity and play based
(iv) activity and coordination
Q.2 An important milestone of cognitive development of toddlers is: 1
(i) distinguishing between ‘you’ and ‘me’
(ii) responding to the mother’s voice
(iii) beginning to babble and gurgle
(iv) wriggling and kicking arms and legs
Q.3 Social value of play is: 1
(i) ensuring proper coordination of muscles
(ii) developing friendly relationships
(iii) developing creativity and imagination
(iv) learning to respect elders
Q.4 An important indicator of development and progress of children is: 1
(i) avoiding challenging activities
(ii) showing indifference to their surroundings
(iii) enjoying and coping well with age-appropriate activities
(iv) being disinterested in skills like art, music and numbers
Explain the following in one sentence only.
Q.5 Solitary Play 1
Q.6 Kinesthetic 1
Q.7 Pre-operational stage 1
(iii)
Q.8 Cognitive development 1
Q.9. Early childhood 1
Q.10. An effective ECCE teacher 1
Short Answer Questions (SA2)
Q.11 Explain the term ECCE. (2)
Q.12 What are the two important goals that we aim to achieve through ECCE? (2)
Q.13 What does the National Early Childhood Care and Education Policy, 2013 lay emphasisis on?
(2)
Q14 Write any four causes for developmental delays in children. (2)
Q.15 In what four areas does ECCE help in improving the health status of children? (2)
Q.16 What are the two important features of the National Curriculum Framework 2005?
Q.17 Which four fine motor skills can you expect of a toddler? (2)
Q.18 Suggest any eight activities that an ECCE teacher can organize to ensure all-round development
of the children. (2)
Q.19 Under the heading, Children’s Records, what four records are expected to be maintained?
(2)
Q.20 What are reflexes? Give two examples of reflexes commonly seen in infants? (2)
Short Answer Questions (SA1)
Q.21 What are the guiding principles of the National Plan of Action for Children 2016? (4)
Q.22 What are the expected four gross motor skills and four fine motor skills of three to six year
old children? (4)
Q.23 What do you understand by the term assistive technologies? Give four examples of assistive
technology. List any four advantages of using assistive technologies. (4)
Q.24 What could be the impact on children if the ECCE centre fails to match the medium of
instruction to the language spoken at home? (4)
Q.25 In what four ways does providing activities for cognitive development in an ECCE centre
help the children? (4)
Long Answer Questions
Q.26 Define heredity and environment. List the factors of heredity and environment. (6)
Q.27 Differentiate between sensorimotor stage and pre-operational stage of development of children.
(6)
Q.28 List the six major responsibilities of the preschool management. (6)
Q.29 As a member of the management, which qualities will you look for in an ECCE Centre?(6)
Q.30 Write the advantages of adopting cooperative teaching learning strategies for children with
special needs. (6)
(iv)
MARKING SCHEME
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
Q1 (iii) 1 1
Q2 (i) 1 1
Q3 (ii) 1 1
Q4 (iii) 1 1
Q5 It is play when children play alone, with toys different 1 1
from those of others, and are not interested or are
unaware of others.
Q6 Kinesthetic means sense of movement, exploring 1 1
physical space, engaging and learning by movement.
Q7 A stage when the thinking of children is illogical, rigid 1 1
and unsystematic.
Q8 This refers to the process of knowing and
1 1
understanding the environment through observation,
problem solving and reasoning.
Q9 Early childhood is the period which spans birth to six
1 1
years.
Q10 A teacher who besides the requisite training, exhibits
1 1
qualities of love and care for the children.
Q11 ECCE refers to:
1+1 2
(i) Providing early care including health and nutrition
(ii) Providing early learning opportunities
Q12 Goals of ECCE:
1+1 2
(i) Promoting holistic development of children
(ii) Providing age and developmentally appropriate
opportunities and learning experiences.
Q13 (i) To achieve holistic development and active
learning capacity of all children below six years
1+1 2
of age
(ii) Promote free, universal, equitable, joyful and
contextualized opportunities for laying the
foundation and attaining potential
Q14 (i) Heredity
½x4 2
(ii) Complications during pregnancy or child birth
(iii) Illnesses
(iv) Accidents after birth (any other)
(v)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
Q 15 (i) Hygiene
½x4 2
(ii) Sanitation practices
(iii) Nutrition
(iv) Immunization
Q16 (i) Strengthening a National System of Education with
special focus on the values enshrined in the
Constitution of India
1+1 2
(ii) The reduction of the curriculum load ensuring
quality education for all
Q 17 (i) Scribble and paint
½x4 2
(ii) Grasp and hold a ball
(iii) Turn over and pour out containers
(iv) Feed themselves (any other)
Q18 Free and structured conversation
• Storytelling and story making
• Dramatization
¼x8 2
• Rhymes and songs
• Music and movement
• Free indoor and outdoor play
• Circle and group activities
• Puppet play
• Water play
• Nature walk
• Field trips and outings
• Structured cognitive and language activities
(any eight/any other)
Q 19 (i) Child’s profile
½x4 2
(ii) Attendance register
(iii) Progress report
(iv) Child’s portfolio
Q 20 A reflex is an inborn, reflexive automatic response to a
particular form of stimulation. Two reflexes observed 1+1
in infants:
2
(vi)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
(i) Shuts and opens eyes when exposed to direct light
(½+½=1)
(ii) Sucks at things that touch their lips
(iii) Grasp an object placed in their hands (any two)
Q 21 (i) To regard children as an asset and a person with
1x4 4
human rights
(ii) To address the issues of discrimination emanating
from biases of gender, class, caste, race, religion etc.
to ensure equality
(iii) To accord utmost priority to the most disadvantaged,
poorest of the poor and least served children in all
policy and programme interventions
(iv) To recognize the diverse stages and settings of
childhood and address the needs of each. Providing
all children the entitlements that fulfill their rights
and meet their needs in each situation
Q 22 Gross motor skills:
(i) Skilled at running, jumping, throwing and kicking ½x4
(ii) Catching and throwing a ball
(iii) Pedaling a tricycle
(iv) Hopping on one foot and balancing on one foot
Fine motor skills:
(i) Drawing a circle, square, triangle ½x4
(ii) Using of blunt scissor to cut paper
(iii) Self dressing 2+2 4
(iv) Managing fork and spoon while eating
Q 23 Meaning of Assistive Technologies
(i) They refer to any item, piece of equipment or product
system whether acquired commercially, modified or
1
customized, that is used to increase, maintain or
improve functional capabilities of individuals with
disabilities.
(ii) Examples: wheelchairs, prosthesis, hearing aids,
1
visual aids, special computer software and hardware
(any four)
(iii) Advantages:
a) Help maintain and improve the individual’s ½x4
functioning
1+1+2 4
(vii)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
b) Independence to facilitate participation
c) Enhance overall wellbeing
d) Prevent impairments and secondary health
conditions
Q 24 Effects of home and school language divide on children: ½x8 4
1) Not able to make friends or interact with peers
2) Not able to participate in classroom processes
3) inability to express themselves
4) Repeated failure could lead to loss of confidence
and self-esteem
5) Lack of belongingness to school and academics
6) Not able to read, write and express in the medium
of instruction
7) Higher rate of school dropout
8) Parents less likely to participate in their children’s
learning and schooling
9) Children do not take pride in their identity and
heritage (any eight)
Q 25 Planning activities to promote cognitive development
of children helps in the following ways:
(1) Symbolic functioning: Children can imagine about 1x4 4
an object, person or event in order to think about
it. It helps develop the ability to engage in symbolic
thought, such as numbers and words
(2) Causality: Helps children to think about causes of
similar events through observation and what they
hear from people around them. They may link two
events that occur close together in time or space,
which may not always be logically correct
(3) Spatial thinking: Children become better at
understanding spatial relationships. They can
understand that a picture represents something that
is not present, but may exist
(4) Categorization and identities: Children learn to
identify similarities and differences in objects and
classify them
Q 26 1. Heredity: Genetic makeup a child receives at the
time of conception from both the parent through 2
genes
(viii)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
2. Environment: It refers to the environment the child
is exposed to before birth and after birth and their
impact on heredity factors.
3. Heredity factors
(1) Intellectual potential 6
(2) Physical appearance
(3) Sex of the child 4
4. Environmental factors
(1) Mother’s state of health, age and emotional
state before the birth of the child
(2) Environmental pollution, drugs etc.
(3) Contextual factors such as family, gender,
culture and society (any other)
Q 27 Sensorimotor stage Pre-operational stage
(i) Lasts from 0 to 2 Lasts from 2 to 7 years
years
(ii) Active learner, Basically, a pre-logical age
responsive to
stimulation
(iii) Learns quickly and Animistic and illogical:
easily distinguishes thinks that non-living
things possess life-like 1x6 6
between various
features of the qualities
i m m e d i a t e
environment
(iv) Reflex actions such Ego-centrism: thinks that
as sucking, everyone is the same as they
grasping become are.
the building blocks
for cognitive
learning
(v) With time, they Conservation: fail to
learn to sit understand that external
intentionally appearance of an object
changes and physical
properties remain the same
(vi) Deferred imitation: Reversibility: do not
as they grow, they understand that for any
can imitate a person activity, the event can be
who is not present traced back to the starting
in the immediate point.
environment
(ix)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
Q 28 (i) The direction and supervision of the work of all
staff working in the centre
(ii) Recruitment, induction, training, development and
performance management of staff
(iii) Overall safety and wellbeing of children in their 1x6 6
care
(iv) Setting policies and procedures for service and
ensuring their implementation
(v) Ensuring compliance with child care (preschool
services) regulations and all relevant legislation
(vi) Management of finances of the services and
reporting the same to the committee/board/
investors (private/community)
Q 29 Qualities required of a good ECCE teacher:
(i) Loving and caring
(ii) Energetic, enthusiastic and motivated
(iii) Active and empathetic listener
(iv) Patient and persistent
(v) Flexible and adjusting
(vi) Creative and innovative
½x12 6
(vii) Organized
(viii) Effective Communication
(ix) Effective in building rapport with parents and
community
(x) Confident and high in self-esteem
(xi) Lifelong learner
(xii) Skilled and qualified
Q 30 Advantages of using cooperative teaching learning
strategies for Children With Special Needs:
(1) Children are more actively engaged in classroom ½x12 6
activities
(2) Children are observed to articulate their thoughts
more freely
(3) Helps children to receive confirming and
constructive feedback
(x)
Q.No. Answer Distribution of Total Marks
Marks
(4) Help them to engage in questioning techniques
(5) Enhances interpersonal relationships among
children
(6) Builds high self-esteem in children
(7) Use team approach to solve problems while
maintaining individual accountability
(8) Encourage understanding and appreciation of
diversity
(9) Promote self-management skills
(10) Receive additional practice of skills
(11) Observe and learn problem solving skills from
peers
(12) Increased opportunity for children to respond
(xi)
