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Secondary School Teacher Held on 14.10.2026(2026)
Federal Government Educational Institutions

Q.1A researcher obtain the complete list of Grade 9 learners in a district and uses a random-number generator to select 300 names. Which sampling method is being used?

Simple Random Sampling
Stratified Random Sampling
One-Stage Cluster Sampling
Systematic Random Sampling

(A)

Q.2Two existing classes receive different teaching approaches. Both are tested before and after instruction, but learners were not randomly assigned to classes. The design is best classified as a :

Quasi Experimental
True Experimental
Cross Sectional
Ethnographic

(A)

Q.3A researcher studies classroom participation through questionnaire, interviews and observations, then examines whether the findings converge. This strategy is :

Randomization
Statistical Control
Triangulation
Test Equating

(C)

Q.4A study defines regular attendance as presence son at least 90 % of Scheduled school days. This statement is primarily a /an :

Theoretical framework
Sampling Criterion Only
Operational Definition
Sensational Theory

(C)

Q.5The same cohort of learners is followed over time to examine change in academic performance. This is a :

Cross-Sectional Study
Case-Control Study
Longitudinal Study
Post-Test-Only Study

(C)

Q.6A 95% confidence interval for a mean difference is 2.1 to 5.7. At the corresponding two-sided 5% significance level, Which conclusion follows?

The population difference is guaranteed to lie inside the interval.
The null hypothesis of zero difference is rejected.
The two sample means must have been equal before analysis
The result proves practical importance in every educational setting

(B)

Q.7A researcher plans sensitive interviews with schoolchildren. Which procedure best addresses consent and confidentially ethically?

Rely Solely on the headteacher's approval for every participant.
Promise Complete confidentially even when safeguarding concerns arise.
Obtain consent and assents, with stated confidentially limits.
Record identifiable responses and retain them for external verification

(C)

Q.8In Pakistan's general education progression, which stage ordinarily follows the Secondary School Certificate before under graduate education?

Middle School Stage
Post-Secondary Diploma Stage
Higher Secondary/ Intermediate Stage
Undergraduate Degree Stage

(C)

Q.9What is Principal Function of a Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education in Pakistan?

Conduct and Certify Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations.
Appoint All teachers serving in Government Schools.
Write every Textbook used within its jurisdiction.
Set the Annual Development Budget of Every School

(A)

Q.10Which National Body is primarily associated with coordination and quality assurance in Pakistan's higher education sector rather than routine school administration?

National Curriculum Council
Inter Provincial Education Ministers Conference
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education
Higher Education Commission

(D)

Q.11Which National Institution has a central coordination role in Pakistan's technical and vocational education and training sector?

National Vocational and Technical Training Commission
Higher Education Commission
Board of Intermediate
Inter Provincial Education

(A)

Q.12Which curriculum arrangement best balances national educational coherence with legitimate provincial and local contextualization in Pakistan?

Require Identical examples and pacing in every classroom
Use common learning standards with contextualized examples
Let each province remove all shared learning benchmarks
Use common Textbooks with unrelated local learning outcomes

(B)

Q.13A rural district finds that girl's attendance drops sharply after primary school because the nearest secondary school is distant and the route is unsafe. Which intervention addresses the most immediate access barrier?

Provide safe transport or nearer facility
Offer a stipend without changing the journey
Add teachers while retaining the same distance
Start school later without transport provision

(A)

Q.14A learner with a physical disability is expected to meet the same academic outcomes as classmates but receives accessible seating and additional movement time between rooms. This arrangement is bets descried as:

Lowering the academic outcomes for the learner
Reasonable access adjustments within mainstream schooling
Full-Day separation from the ordinary classroom
Transfer to another school despite available access

(B)

Q.15A Public secondary school introduces blended learning where household internet access is intermittent. Which design most directly protects equitable participation?

Require bandwidth-heavy live video for all learners
Expand laboratory hours but keep all work online
Subsidize data while retaining continuous high resolution video
Provide Equivalent offline and low-bandwidth learning routes

(D)

Q.16A headteacher observes that several teachers ask many recall questions but rarely probe reasoning. Which supervisory response is most likely to improve practice sustainably?

Conduct a one-off workshop before diagnosing the observed practice .
Replace observations with checklist and teacher's self reports.
Use Evidence-based feedback conferences and focused follow-up observations
Increase observation frequency without providing development feedback .

(C)

Q.17A headteacher delegates preparation of the School timetable to a senior teacher. Which statement about accountability is correct?

Final accountability remains with the headteacher
Authority and the accountability transfer completely to the senior teacher.
Accountability transfers while authority remains with the headteacher
The headteacher retains authority while the senior teacher bears final accountability

(A)

Q.18Two teachers research the science laboratory for the same period. What is the most defensible administrative response?

Give priority to the teacher with longer service.
Rotate access regardless of instructional requirements
Give the laboratory to whoever requested it first.
Apply transparent criteria after consulting both teachers.

(D)

Q.19Reading comprehension is weak across several classes taught by different teachers. Before launching a school-wide intervention, the headteacher should first?

Arrange a general workshop before diagnosing the difficulty
Purchase a new reading program immediately
Increase testing of a low-performing learners firrst
Analyze common instructional causes across the classes

(D)

Q.20A learner's confidential record must be shared for a legitimate educational purpose. Which practice is most appropriate?

Provide the complete record to all subject teachers
Circulate a board summary to staff without checking need
Place the file on a shared drive accessible to all employees
Share relevant information only with staff who need it

(D)

Q.21After an emergency evacuation drill, which supervisory practice is most likely to improve future preparedness?

Report the identical drill until evacuation time decreases
Change evacuation routes frequently without formal review
Record only the total evacuation time for future comparison
Review observed problems and revise procedure accordingly

(D)

Q.22After learning proportional reasoning through recipes, a learner successfully applies it to map scales. This illustrates:

Learning transfer
Incidental Conditioning
Response Extinction
Stimulus habituation

(A)

Q.23Before answering each question, learners predict whether their answer will be correct and later compare predictions with actual performance. This activity primarily develops:

Metacognitive Calibration
Stimulus Generalization
External Reinforcement
Sensory Discrimination

(A)

Q.24Which classroom experience is most likely to strength a learner's self efficiency in algebra?

Successful work on progressively challenging problems
Assurance that mathematical ability never changes
Comparison only with the class's highest scorer
Removal of all challenging tasks from practice

(A)

Q.25A learner says, "I am simply not a mathematics person". Which teacher response encourages the the most adaptive attribution?

"Ability is largely fixed, so concentrate on the subject."
"Strategy does not matter if the topic feels difficult."
"Luck is usually the main reason some problem seem easier."
"Try a different strategy and used focused practice.'

(D)

Q.26Which reinforcement schedule is generally most resistant to extinction?

Reinforcement after every correct response
Reinforcement after a fixed time interval
Reinforcement after varying numbers of responses
Reinforcement after a predictable numbers of responses

(C)

Q.27Several learners believe that heavier objects always fall faster than lighter ones. Which teaching response most directly promotes conceptual change?

Ask learners to memorize the accepted scientific rule
Avoid discussing the misconception during subsequent instruction
Test the belief experimentally and revise the explanation
Mark the belief incorrect without examining the reasoning

(C)

Q.28A learner chooses difficult tasks mainly to improve competence rather than the outperform classmates. This behavior is most consistent with a:

Performance-avoidance Goal
Reward-oriented Goal
Performance-approach Goal
Mastery Goal

(D)

Q.29A curriculum outcome requires learners to evaluate competing explanations, but lessons and examinations mainly require recall of definitions. Which principal is most clearly violated?

Curriculum Compacting
Constructive Alignment
Spiral Organization
Horizontal Articulation

(B)

Q.30Learners acquire expectations about punctuality, turn taking and authority through everyday routines even though these expectations are not stated as formal learning outcomes. This is commonly called the:

Null Curriculum
Enacted Syllabus
Hidden Curriculum
Core Curriculum

(C)

Q.31A Curriculum introduces fractions before ratios and ratios before proportional reasoning because later learning depends on earlier concepts. Which curriculum dimension is primarily being addressed ?

Scope
Sequence
Content Validity
Program Evaluation

(B)

Q.32A new curriculum yields weak learning outcomes. Before concluding that the curriculum design itself is ineffective, evaluators should first establish:

Teacher Satisfaction
Learners Motivation
Budget Sufficient
Implementation Fidelity

(D)

Q.33Learners are judged against specified competencies for mastery, regardless of how their classmates perform. This assignment is:

Norm-Referenced
Criterion-Referenced
Ipsative
Rank-Based

(B)

Q.34A test specification maps items to intended learning outcomes and cognitive levels, and subject experts judge whether the resulting coverage adequately represents the domain. This primarily provides validity evidence based on:

Response Processes
Internal Structure
Test Content
External Relations

(C)

Q.35Midway through a unit, a teacher uses a short task to identify a misconception and change. the next lesson accordingly. The assessment is primarily:

Placement
Summative
Certification
Formative

(D)

Q.36After a serious peer conflict has been made safe, which response best reflects a restorative approach?

Keep the learners permanently separated without discussion
Increase the penalty until neither learner wishes to speak
Ignore the incident once ordinary lessons resume
Establish accountability, repair harm and plan re-entry

(D)

Q.37A teacher wants groups of four to hold sustained face-to-face discussions while sharing materials. Which seating arrangement is generally most suitable?

Straight rows facing the front
Clustered tables with members facing one another
A horseshoe facing only the teacher
Random seats changed during every activity

(B)

Q.38A learner frequently calls out when particular peers are nearby, the peers laugh, and the calling out drops sharply when those reactions are prevented. The most likely maintaining consequence is:

Escape from academic demands
Access to preferred materials
Peer Attention
Automatic sensory stimulation

(C)

Q.39In whole class questioning, a few confident learners dominate responses. Which practice most directly broadens participation without lowering question quality?

Accept answers only from volunteers
Use wait time with structured response distribution
Reduce questioning and rely mainly on explanation
Award marks primarily for speed of response

(B)

Q.40One learner is off-task during a particular lesson, but no stable pattern has yet been established. Before imposing a substantial consequence the teacher should:

Assume that motivation is poor across all subjects
Collect antecedent and consequence patterns before targeting intervention
Remove preferred activities for the remainder of the week
Raise task difficulty in every subject immediately

(B)

Q.41A test intended to measure a relatively stable trait gives noticeably different scores to the same learners when administered under comparable conditions a few days apart. Which property is primarily is question?

Content Validity
Test-retest Reliability
Criterion Validity
Scoring Objectivity

(B)

Q.42Seventy-five of 100 learners answer an item correctly. What is the item difficulty index P?

0.75
0.25
1.33
75.00

(A)

Q.43For an MCQ, the proportion correct is 0.70 in the upper group and 0.85 in the lower group. Using D=PU-P,L. What is the discrimination?

+0.15
_0.15
+0.85
_0.85

(B)

Q.44A learner obtains an observed score of 70 and the test's standard error of measured is 3. Using 70+1.96 (SEM) Which approximate interval results?

61.0-79.0
64.1-75.9
67.0-73.9
68.5-71.5

(B)

Q.45Which procedure most directly supports a claim that an examination adequately samples the prescribed syllabus and intended cognitive demands?

Compare scores with an external achievement criterion
Use a test blueprint with expert review
Estimate internal consistency across test items
Convert raw scores into percentile ranks

(B)

Q.46Two raters independently classify each response as "Pass" or "Fail". Which statistic is especially appropriate for their categorical agreement after allowance for chance agreement?

Pearson Correlation
Cronbach's alpha
Cohen's kappa
Spearman correlation

(C)

Q.47A learner is at the 84th percentile on a standardized test. What does this most defensibly mean?

About 84% of the reference group scored no higher
The learner answered exactly 84% of the items correctly
The learner's raw score is 84 points above the mean.
Exactly 84% of all test items were easier for the learner

(A)

Q.48During item analysis, one distracter is selected by almost no examinees. What is the most appropriate interpretation?

The keyed answer is probably incorrect
The distractor is probably non-functioning
The item therefore has strong discrimination
The item therefore has strong construct validity

(B)

Q.49Which appraisal design provides the strongest basis for a dependable judgement about a teacher's classroom performanace?

Use several evidence sources across multiple occasions
Use two observations by one appraiser within one week
Use one observation supplemented by a self report
Use examination results and attendance as the main evidence

(A)

Q.50Which practice best reflects coherent distributed leadership in a school?

Grant broad autonomy without reporting expectations
Invite staff input while retaining every decision centrally
Delegate authority with agreed outcomes and review points
Rotate leadership roles regardless of relevant expertise

(C)

Q.51Which statement is the most measurable school-improvement objective?

Improve overall reading achievement substantially by March
Encourage more learners to engage actively in reading
Raise benchmark attainment to 68% by March
Make the school reading program more effective this year

(C)

Q.52In a project Network, an activity on the critical path has zero float and is delayed by three days. If no corrective action is taken, what is the expected effect?

The project completion date moves three days later
A non-critical activity automatically absorbs the delay
Project duration remains unchanged because float is shared
Only the project budget changes, not its completion date

(A)

Q.53Four proposed interventions compete for a limited school-improvement budget. Which decision rule supports efficient allocation while retaining educational priorities?

Rank interventions by expected effect without considering cost
Compare expected priority gains against required resource cost
Fund the intervention serving the greatest number of people
Select the intervention with the most predictable result

(B)

Q.54A district must plan classrooms while future enrolment and migration remain uncertain. Which approach best manages this uncertainty?

Develop alternative scenarios with predefined decision triggers
Use a weighted average and commit all resources immediately
Plan for the best case and retain only a small reserve
Delay all planning until future enrolment becomes certain

(A)

Q.55A school plans aims to reduce chronic absenteeism. Which measure is the strongest leading implementation indicator?

Annual pass percentage among enrolled learners
Later college-entry rate among former pupils
Weekly follow-up completion rate
Year-end chronic absence reduction rate.

(C)

Q.56Two risks receive the same numerical risk score. One concerns an irreversible learner-safety consequence; the other concerns a recoverable scheduling delay. Which management response is most defensible?

Prioritize the safety risk despite the equal score
Treat the risks identically because their scores match
Prioritize the scheduling risk because it is readily quantified
Use the numerical scores as the only decision criterion

(A)

Q.57In Stakeholder analysis, how should a stakeholder with high influence but relatively low day-to-day interest normally be managed?

Communicate only through board public messages
Keep the stakeholder satisfied without excessive detail
Manage the stakeholder closely through daily consultation
Exclude the stakeholder until active interest develops

(B)

Q.58A planning team prepares optimistic, expected and adverse enrolment projections before deciding classroom requirements. This is an example of:

Benchmarking
Zero-based Budgeting
Scenario-based planning
Routine scheduling

(C)

Q.59A diagram appears on one textbook page while its explanatory labels appear on the facing page, forcing learners repeatedly to search between them. Which revision most directly reduces unnecessary cognitive laod?

Pre-teach all definitions before showing the diagram
Add a second worked example after the diagram
Provide narration together with the complete written text
Place the explanatory labels beside the relevant parts

(D)

Q.60Which task provides the most authentic assessment of learners' ability to investigate a school environmental problem?

Classify waste items using a supplied key
Design a school waste-audit plan from collected data
Recall the textbook definition of waste management
Copy a model diagram of a recycling process

(B)

Q.61A teacher repeatedly asks learners what evidence supports a claim, what assumption it depends on, and what counter-evidence could weaken it. Which method is being used most directly?

Socrates questioning
Expository questioning
Repetitive Drill
Silent Demonstration

(A)

Q.62A teacher presents several examples and non-examples, asks learners to infer their common defining attributes, and only later provides the concept's name. What method is this?

Advance Organiser teaching
Mastery learning
Direct explanation
Concept attainment teaching

(D)

Q.63Novices must learn a multistep laboratory procedure with significant safety implications. Which instructional sequence is most appropriate?

Begin with independent performance before any demonstration
Use open exploration and discuss safety after error occur
Rely on peer discovery without modelling the procedure
Model explicitly, guide practice, then supervise independence

(D)

Q.64Learners work through a difficult passage by predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarising while gradually taking responsibility for these roles. This approach is:

Concept mapping
Reciprocal teaching
Programmed instruction
Didactic teaching

(B)

Q.65Learners investigate how pendulum length affects period. Which procedure best supports a fair inquiry?

Change both mass and length during each trial
Conduct one trial for each selected length
Change the release angle with every new length
Vary length, control other conditions and repeat trials

(D)

Q.66Learners first predict what will happen in a demonstration, then observe it, and finally reconcile the result with their original explanation. This sequence is known as:

Question answer review
Predict observe explain
Read copy recall
Listen repeat practice

(B)

Q.67A teacher retains the same learning outcome for the class but supplies sentence starters and graphic organiser to learners who need temporary support. This is best described as:

Differentiated instruction
Ability tracking
Curriculum Replacement
Grade Acceleration

(A)

Q.68Learners answer a conceptual MCQ individually, discuss their reasoning with peers, and then answer the same question again. The main instructional purpose is to:

Refine conceptual reasoning through peer discussion
Secure unrestricted consensus before marking
Reward the fastest answer in each group
Eliminate independent thinking before discussion

(A)

Q.69A class repeatedly loses time when moving from group work to whole class discussion. Which response is most likely to improve the transition?

Increase homework until learners become more organised
Change the transition procedure every week
Wait for learners to discover a routine independently
Teach, Practice and Cue a brief transition routine

(D)

Q.70A learner begins quite side talk during independent work for the first time. Which response is the least intrusive appropriate intervention?

Stop the class and issue a public warning
Remove the learner immediately from the room
Assign a written punishment before speaking privately
Use proximity and a private cue before escalation

(D)

Q.71Which teacher statement is clearest example of behavior specific praise?

"You begin promptly and checked each step carefully"
"You are clearly the most talented learner in the group"
"This whole class has been generally good today"
"Well done, whatever it was that you were doing "

(A)