PSTET Solved Paper ( English) March 2026
PSTET Solved Paper ( English) 2026
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Syllabus:
*Language – II (English) 30 Questions*
*a. Comprehension*
Two unseen prose passages (discursive/literary/narrative/scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
*b. Pedagogy of Language development*
- Learning and Acquisition
- Principles of Language teaching
- Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- Critical Perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally or in written form
- Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
- Language skills
- Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
- Teaching-Learning Materials: Text-books, multi-media materials, multi-lingual resource of the classroom
- Remedial Teaching
Language II (English) – Comprehension Passage
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions (61–68) that follow by choosing the best alternative:
The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind; and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage; it must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly, you cannot mark it, you cannot turn down the pages, you cannot use it familiarly. And then, someday, although this is seldom done, you really ought to return it.
But your own books belong to you; you treat them with that affectionate intimacy that annihilates formality. Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly, and then in later years, it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail. You have the pleasure of going over the old ground, and recalling both the intellectual scenery and your own earlier self.
Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth; the instinct of private property, which is fundamental in human beings, can here be cultivated with every advantage and no evils. One should have one's own bookshelves, which should not have doors, glass windows, or keys; they should be free and accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. The best of mural decorations is books; they are more varied in color and appearance than any wallpaper, they are more attractive in design, and they have the prime advantage of being separate personalities, so that if you sit alone in the room in the firelight, you are surrounded with intimate friends. The knowledge that they are there in plain view is both stimulating and refreshing. You do not have to read them all. Most of my indoor life is spent in a room containing six thousand books; and I have a stock answer to the invariable question that comes from strangers, “Have you read all of these books?” “Some of them twice.” This reply is both true and unexpected.
There are of course no friends like living, breathing, corporeal men and women; my devotion to reading has never made me a recluse. How could it? Books are of the people, by the people, for the people. Literature is the immortal part of history; it is the best and most enduring part of personality. But book-friends have this advantage over living friends; you can enjoy the most truly aristocratic society in the world whenever you want it. The great dead are beyond our physical reach, and the great living are usually almost as inaccessible; as for our personal friends and acquaintances, we cannot always see them. Perhaps they are asleep, or away on a journey. But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They “laid themselves out,” they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.
61. According to the passage, we enjoy reading books more when they are:
Answer: A) Our own
62. A borrowed book is compared to:
Answer: C) A guest in the house
63. Which of the following should NOT be done to a borrowed book?
Answer: C) Turn down its pages
64. Why does the writer suggest marking favourite passages in personal books?
Answer: D) To remember important ideas easily
65. According to the author, bookshelves should be:
Answer: A) Free and accessible
66. Choose the correct meaning of the phrase “must be treated with punctiliousness”:
Answer: B) Treated strictly and carefully
67. Choose the correct passive form of the sentence: “You cannot mark it.”
Answer: A) It cannot be marked by you
68. The word “recluse” refers to a person who:
Answer: B) Lives a lonely and isolated life
69. The pattern of sounds in poetry is called:
Answer: B) Rhythm
π Rhythm means the musical flow of words (stress, beat, pattern).
70. Number of vowel phonemes in RP English:
Answer: A) 20
π RP English has 12 pure vowels + 8 diphthongs = 20
71. /p/, /t/, /k/ are examples of:
Answer: C) Plosive
π These sounds are made by blocking air and releasing it suddenly.
72. Reading quickly to find specific information is called:
Answer: D) Scanning
π Scanning = looking for specific details (date, name, number)
π Trick:
Skimming = general idea
Scanning = specific info
73. A word formed from a verb but used as an adjective is called:
Answer: D) Participle
π Example: a running train (running = participle)
74. Bloom’s taxonomy mainly deals with:
Answer: B) Cognitive abilities
π It focuses on thinking skills (remember, understand, apply, etc.)
75. Teaching method where rules are given first, then examples:
Answer: B) Deductive
π Rule → Example
π Trick: D = Direct rule
76. The best way to learn a language naturally is to:
Answer: C) Maximize exposure to the target language
π More listening, speaking, reading = better learning
77. Method focusing on translation and grammar rules:
Answer: C) Grammar Translation Method
π Uses mother tongue + memorizing rules
78. Who proposed the theory of Universal Grammar?
Answer: D) Noam Chomsky
π He said language ability is innate (inborn)
79. “Repudiate” means:
Answer: A) Reject
π To refuse or deny something strongly
80. Opposite of “gripe” is:
Answer: D) Praise
π Gripe = complain → Opposite = praise
81. _____ great Caesar : _____ immortal Shakespeare
Answer: D) The, The
π Use “the” with famous personalities (unique identity)
82. Teaching done after identifying learning difficulties is:
Answer: B) Remedial Teaching
π Diagnosis → Solution = remedial teaching
Comprehension Passage
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions (83–90) that follow by choosing the best alternative:
The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers. Now, it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers, but it is not discerning to infer, as this person did, that the dreams of poets have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion. The truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes; and just as close to reality and truth. Where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone; they are ahead of their time, whereas the logicians and scientists are abreast of their time.
We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicableness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes in any field of life is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination. Robert Fulton did not discover his steamboat with full steam up, straining at a hawser at some Hudson River dock; first he dreamed the steamboat, he and other dreamers, and then scientific wisdom converted a picture in the mind into a reality of steel and wood.
The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget of gold; first men dreamed the automobile and afterward, long afterward, the practical-minded engineers caught up with what had been created by winging fantasy. He who looks deeply with a seeing eye into the poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic of today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow.
If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of this vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected, he must not for that reason be smiled upon as merely the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like the engineer, is a specialist. His being, tuned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today. To the scientist he says, “Here, I give you a flash of the future.” The wise scientist thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fibre of today.
83. According to the passage, how are poets similar to scientists and engineers?
Answer: C) They are equally close to reality and truth
84. In what way do poets differ from logicians and scientists?
Answer: D) They are ahead of their time
85. According to the writer, what can be found in the poetry of the past?
Answer: A) Scientific ideas of the present and future
86. What is meant by “Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding a new day”?
Answer: C) Dreams signal future progress
87. Why was the automobile not “dug out of the ground”?
Answer: B) It was first imagined before being created
88. Why should poets not be treated as having “harmless madness”?
Answer: B) Their dreams have serious practical value
89. Identify the tense used in the sentence.
Answer: A) Simple Present
90. “Abreast of their time” means:
Answer: C) Equal to the demands of their time
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π Quick Revision Trick
Phonics → plosive, vowel (Q70–71)
Reading skills → scanning (Q72)
Grammar → participle, articles (Q73, 81)
Teaching methods → deductive, GTM, remedial (Q75, 77, 82)
Vocabulary → repudiate, gripe (Q79–80)
Poets = dream + future vision
Scientists = make dreams real
Dream → Imagination → Invention → Progress
Phonics → plosive, vowel (Q70–71)
Reading skills → scanning (Q72)
Grammar → participle, articles (Q73, 81)
Teaching methods → deductive, GTM, remedial (Q75, 77, 82)
Vocabulary → repudiate, gripe (Q79–80)
Poets = dream + future vision
Scientists = make dreams real
Dream → Imagination → Invention → Progress
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