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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 12

Topic: Learning and cognition

Q12

Assertion (A) : An effective pedagogical strategy is to ask children to make linkages of new information with what they already know.
Reason (R) : Identifying commonalities and differences can help children organize information which help them to think as well as remember better.
Choose the correct option :

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

Solution.

CBSE answer: (4)

Answer: (4) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  1. (A) is true: linking new ideas with prior knowledge makes learning meaningful.
  2. (R) is true: noticing similarities and differences helps children organise ideas and remember them.
  3. When a child links new information to what she knows, she compares the two, which is exactly what (R) describes. So (R) explains why (A) works.

Trap: (1) treats the two as unrelated, but comparison is how linking helps.