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Life Skills Education — Practice

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Q1. Life skills are best defined as
- A. Vocational skills that prepare adolescents for paid employment after class 8.
- B. Psycho-social and interpersonal competencies that consist of bundles of habits.
- C. Subject-content skills like reading, writing and arithmetic.
- D. Physical exercises that strengthen the adolescent body.
Q2. Which organization has identified the set of 'core' life skills used in life-skills education?
- A. UNICEF
- B. World Health Organization (WHO)
- C. NCPCR
- D. CBSE
Q3. The WHO core life skills are grouped under how many heads?
- A. Two heads
- B. Three heads
- C. Four heads
- D. Five heads
Q4. Self-esteem as the state of mind arrived at as a result of
- A. Accurate and objective assessment of one's abilities, affiliations and influences.
- B. Constant comparison of oneself with high-achieving classmates.
- C. Listening only to praise from family and ignoring criticism.
- D. Inheriting confidence from genetically gifted parents.
Q5. Two main ways to build self-awareness are
- A. Watching television and scrolling social media.
- B. Introspection and feedback from others.
- C. Memorising textbooks and writing exams.
- D. Visiting friends and attending parties.
Q6. Assertiveness is NOT the same as
- A. Aggression
- B. Empathy
- C. Honesty
- D. Patience
Q7. A student commonly feels stress when she has the habit of
- A. Revising every day for one hour.
- B. Postponing the task of learning till the exam date approaches.
- C. Asking questions in class.
- D. Studying in a group of three or four peers.
Q8. The three components of face-to-face communication. They are
- A. Reading, writing and arithmetic.
- B. Tone, words and body language.
- C. Internet, telephone and television.
- D. Pitch, volume and silence.
Q9. The 'essence of empathy' is defined as the ability to
- A. Tell others what they should do in their lives.
- B. See reality from the other person's perspective.
- C. Hide your own feelings to please others.
- D. Always agree with whatever others say.
Q10. The FIRST step in the collaborative style of conflict resolution as
- A. Define the problem in mutually acceptable terms.
- B. Confront the conflict — both parties decide to resolve it.
- C. Generate all possible alternatives.
- D. Take action and evaluate.
Q11. Critical thinking as the skill that helps us
- A. Criticise our friends and find faults in them.
- B. Look analytically at events, people, objects, actions and even literary works to assess and evaluate them.
- C. Memorise long passages from textbooks.
- D. Imitate the answers of high-scoring students.
Q12. The four main characteristics of creativity are
- A. Memory, attention, perception and motivation.
- B. Fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.
- C. Reading, writing, listening and speaking.
- D. Hard work, discipline, obedience and silence.
Q13. The four steps of the decision-making model used in the technical area. They are, in correct order
- A. Problem-finding, Problem-stating, Option-finding, Decision-making.
- B. Decision-making, Option-finding, Problem-stating, Problem-finding.
- C. Option-finding, Decision-making, Problem-finding, Problem-stating.
- D. Problem-finding, Decision-making, Problem-stating, Option-finding.
Q14. The CBSE first introduced life skills education in
- A. Class 5 in 2001-02.
- B. Class 6 in 2003-04 and class 7 in 2004-05.
- C. Class 8 in 2008-09 only.
- D. Class 10 in 2010-11 only.
Q15. The 'infusion approach' to life-skills teaching with the example of a teacher who teaches
- A. Mathematics through fraction word problems.
- B. Social Science — extending the topic of colonization to discuss its pros and cons so students practise critical thinking and decision making.
- C. Physical education through cricket drills.
- D. Art class through clay modelling.

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