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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 28

Topic: Teaching practices

Q28

Read the following statements :
Assertion (A) : Teachers who believe in constructivist pedagogy should provide a lot of materials to the children.
Reason (R) : Young children depend solely on verbal instructions and lectures for meaningful learning.
Choose the correct option.

  1. (1) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
  2. (2) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. (3) A is true but R is false.Correct answer
  4. (4) Both A and R are false.

Solution.

CBSE answer: (3)

Answer: (3) A is true but R is false.

  1. A is true: in constructivist classrooms children build ideas by handling, exploring and experimenting with materials.
  2. R is false: young children do not learn meaningfully only through talk and lectures; they need concrete experiences, activity and interaction.
  3. The word 'solely' makes R clearly wrong.

Trap: (1) accepts R, which goes against the very reason constructivists supply materials.