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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 29

Topic: Learning and cognition

Q29

Critical thinking in students can be promoted by :

  1. (1) Discouraging metacognition
  2. (2) Discouraging collaborations
  3. (3) Encouraging students to do rote rehearsal
  4. (4) Encouraging questions such as what, why, howCorrect answer

Solution.

CBSE answer: (4)

Answer: (4) Encouraging questions such as what, why, how

  1. Critical thinking means analysing, questioning and judging ideas.
  2. Asking why and how pushes children to look for reasons and evidence.
  3. Metacognition and collaboration actually support critical thinking, so discouraging them harms it; rote rehearsal only builds recall.

Trap: (3) may improve memory, but not reasoning.