CLASS TEST (30.10.
2025)
Subject: ELPD
Syllabus: Units 3 & 4
Instructions: Each of the following questions carries 1 mark. Please write down the correct
response along with the corresponding answer key in your answer scripts. There is NO need
to copy the questions. Please DO NOT use abbreviations, write down the full forms of all the
terms you are using. You have 25 minutes to complete the test.
1. “The ability to reflect on one’s own role in the local community and (global) society,
to continually evaluate one’s actions and prompt further action, and to deal with one’s
feelings and desires”- which sustainability competence laid down by the Education
for Sustainable Development (ESD) does this sentence describe?
a. Self-awareness Competence
b. Critical Thinking Competence
c. Strategic Competence
d. Anticipatory Competence
2. Which of the following is NOT a way to improve domain knowledge?
a. Extensive studies on the specific topic of interest
b. Ensure you don’t share your knowledge with anyone else
c. Apply for internships in the industry
d. Get certified through relevant courses
3. “liking what you do, everyday”- this best describes which of the following?
a. Job satisfaction
b. Career well-being
c. Career satisfaction
d. Job-person fit
4. By creating formative and summative feedback using positive, constructive responses,
Positive Emotions of the PERMA model can be introduced into which of the
following learning phases as given by Bybee (2009)?
a. Elaboration
b. Evaluation
c. Engagement
d. Exploration
5. What is SDG goal number 5 as formulated by the United Nations?
a. Quality Education
b. Peace and Justice
c. Good Health
d. Gender Equality
6. There are two managers in the company, each with their own team. Manager A gives
feedback to their employees once every three months, and remains very eager to point
out all the mistakes committed by the members, urging them to be as perfect as they
can possibly be at their job. Manager B gives feedback every six months and speaks
in a warm tone to all the members. Instead of directly discussing the mistakes, she
reveals details about the job performance of one member to another, urging them to
convey the information to the person concerned. Which manager is closer to being
better at giving good feedback?
a. Manager A
b. Manager B
c. Neither of them
d. Both of them
7. Which of the following is NOT a core responsibility for the CEO to help them fulfil
their goals?
a. Ensure the employees are scared of them
b. Ensure the direction of the company is set
c. Ensure a connection with the stakeholders
d. Ensure the work is mobilized through leaders at every level
8. Taking inspiration from the likes of Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall, Rosa runs a
college program where she holds mock debates to argue in favour of environmental
conservation and trains young students to represent these issues on broader national
and international platforms. Which of the following lessons on sustainability
competence is Rosa inculcating among the students?
a. Developing ethical and responsible behaviours
b. Entrepreneurial thinking for sustainability
c. Fostering leadership and advocacy skills
d. Engagement with Sustainable Technologies
9. In taking his classes, Koutuk always makes it a point to explain a concept at two
levels- the small level and the big level. For instance, when teaching about the
concept of “friendship”, Koutuk tells his students about the friendship that happens
between two classmates sitting together, and also explains how friendship can also
happen between nations where they take care of each other. This is an example of
inserting Meaning of the PERMA model into which of the learning phases as given by
Bybee (2009)?
a. Evaluation
b. Elaboration
c. Exploration
d. Engagement
10. What are the two broad categories of professional skills required in the industry?
a. Social skills and Programming skills
b. Social skills and Technical skills
c. Workplace skills and Programming skills
d. Workplace skills and Technical skills
11. Shauqat is known at his workplace as a hardworking and honest employee who
always maintains his integrity in all that he does. As per the conceptual framework of
competencies, Shauqat possesses which of the following personality traits?
a. Conscientiousness
b. Neuroticism
c. Openness to Experience
d. Extraversion
12. A teacher was invited to speak at a local youth centre in an underprivileged area.
Keeping their well-being in mind, the teacher spoke at length about the need to
remain physically healthy by exercising daily and playing sports, to read books and
solve puzzles to keep the mind sharp, to spend time with friends and participate in
local community functions and finally, to find one thing to do every day that makes
them happy. However, he does not mention anything about the need to find suitable,
stable employment and aim for a financially better life than they started with. Which
type of well-being did he not address then?
a. Objective well-being
b. Social well-being
c. Cognitive well-being
d. Subjective well-being
13. What does “A” stand for in the PERMA model given by Seligman (2011)?
a. Achievement
b. Ambition
c. Association
d. Accomplishment
14. Naina is an active climate-change activist who organises different workshops across
schools and colleges to induce a sense of ownership among the children about their
habitat. As part of her sessions, she asks each student to draw a picture of their home
and neighbourhood, and then asks them to draw small pieces of garbage and filth all
around the roads near their homes. Students feel that this spoils their beautiful
drawings. Then she asks them whether they would like to pick up the eraser
themselves and consciously remove all this filth from their drawings to keep them
beautiful as they were. Which of the following lessons on sustainability competence is
Naina trying to develop among the students?
a. Engagement with Sustainable Technologies
b. Incorporating outdoor learning
c. Developing ethical and responsible behaviours
d. Promoting collaboration and teamwork
15. A student is found to be very anxious before a class test and is constantly worrying
about his performance. He is visibly distressed and squirming restlessly in his seat.
What is a good strategy to help the student’s well-being in this situation?
a. Sending the student to a different corner of the classroom with the supervision of a
classmate in case he wishes to reach out
b. Shouting at the student for getting worried for nothing
c. Giving him a pep talk in front of the class to make sure he is motivated for the test
d. Call his parents right away and inform them that he is ill