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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 24

Topic: Vygotsky

Q24

Assertion (A) : Teachers should provide a lot of scaffolding to children in the forms of prompts and cues.
Reason (R) : Jean Piaget emphasized that more knowledgeable others play a significant role in advancing children’s cognitive skills through social interaction.
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.Correct answer
  3. (3) Both (A) and (R) are false.
  4. (4) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) (A) is true but (R) is false.

  1. (A) is accepted: teachers support learners through prompts, hints and cues, which is scaffolding.
  2. (R) is false: the idea of 'more knowledgeable others' and learning through social interaction belongs to Vygotsky, not Piaget.
  3. Piaget stressed the child's own exploration and stages.

Trap: (3) reads 'a lot of' as a flaw in (A). Scaffolding should fade as the child gains skill, but the statement still names the right practice.