1. Answer the following questions: (any twelve)

Fill in the Blanks:

(a) The Indira Gandhi National Open University was established in __________.

(b) On the basis of the recommendation of __________ Commission Government of Assam decided to change some high schools into multiple school.

(c) Prior to ___________ Secondary education in Assam was controlled by the Gauhati University and Government of Assam.

(d) The concept of correspondence education was first introduced by ______ in 1840.

(e) The name of the largest Open University of the world is _______.

(f) World Environment Day is celebrated on ___________.

(g) Ivan Pavlov was a Russian Physiologist and __________.

(h) Conditioning method of learning establishes bond between natural tendency and __________.

• Give short answer in one sentence:

(i) Which Education Commission suggested the 10+2+3 structure of education?

(j) “Non formal education differs from formal education in the sense that it takes place outside the formal school system” -Who said this?

(k) “Physical education is the sum of changes in the individual caused by experiences centring motor activity.” Who said this?

(l) “Learning is both acquisition and retention of habit, knowledge and attitudes.” Who said this statement?

(m) What is voluntary or volitional attention?

(n) What is image memory?

(o) What is Mode?

(p) Write the formula for finding out first quartile from groups data.

2. Answer any twelve of the following questions? 2 x 12= 24

(a) Write two suggestions of Kothari Commission regarding education and productivity.

(b) Write two importance of vocationalisation secondary education in the present context.

(c) Write two objectives of “Operational Blackboard” scheme.

(d) Define the concept of physical education.

(e) What do you mean by value education?

(f) Define the concept of women empowerment.

(g) Write two differences between maturation and learning.

(h) What do you mean by law of readiness in learning?

(i) What is retention?

(j) What is retroactive inhibition?

(k) Write any two characteristics of attention.

(l) Define the concept of mental health and hygiene.

(m) Write two objectives of mental hygiene.

(n) Define the preventive function of mental hygiene.

(o) Find the Median and Mode from the following data: 1 + 1=2

58, 42, 30, 64, 57, 42, 34, 53, 44 and 38

(p) Write two merits of quartile deviation as a measure of variability.