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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 25

Topic: Motivation

Q25

Students with mastery goal orientation set :

  1. (1) high goals to impress others.
  2. (2) low goals to avoid failure.
  3. (3) moderate goals motivated by fear and shame.
  4. (4) realistic learning goals.Correct answer

Solution.

CBSE answer: (4)

Answer: (4) realistic learning goals.

  1. Mastery-oriented students want to understand and improve, not to look good.
  2. So they choose challenging but reachable goals and see mistakes as part of learning.
  3. Impressing others is a performance-approach goal; avoiding failure is a performance-avoidance goal; fear and shame are not mastery motives.

Trap: (1) sounds ambitious, but its aim is to impress, not to learn.