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Curriculum development involves deciding what learners should know, how they should learn it and how achievement will be judged. Coverage includes needs analysis, aims and objectives, content selection and sequencing, learning experiences, curriculum design models, implementation, evaluation and revision. Curriculum is broader than a syllabus because it includes learning experiences and assessment as well as content.

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Hard
  • A. All communities get education in Punjab
  • B. Most of the teachers are volunteers in Punjab
  • C. There is a large scale education in Punjab
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Arnold’s account portrayed Punjab’s educational activity as broad, involving different communities and many voluntary teachers.

Correct answer: All of these
Fairly easy
  • A. Government services will be offered to the graduates of Madarasas
  • B. Government services will be given to the graduates of government educational institutions
  • C. Steps should be taken for the promotion of Arabic and Persian
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Hardinge’s 1844 resolution gave preference in government employment to applicants educated in government institutions, reflecting the…

Correct answer: Government services will be given to the graduates of government educational institutions
Hard
  • A. Private schools
  • B. Private colleges
  • C. Government deepened its group over the educational affairs
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Wood’s Despatch introduced a grant-in-aid system that brought private schools and colleges under government standards and supervision…

Correct answer: All of these
Hard
  • A. Islamic heritage can guarantee progress
  • B. The educational heritage of the Muslims should be given importance
  • C. British Education System is a poison
  • D. All of these

Explanation: This refers to the conservative Muslim view that Muslim educational and Islamic heritage should be protected and that uncritical adoption…

Correct answer: All of these
Easy
  • A. Magna Carta
  • B. Bentick Resolution
  • C. Charter Act 1813
  • D. Education Commission

Explanation: Macaulay’s 1835 educational policy was embodied in the Bentick Resolution, issued under Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

Correct answer: Bentick Resolution
Easy
  • A. Britain
  • B. American
  • C. Subcontinent
  • D. China

Explanation: Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 laid out a comprehensive structure for education in British India, including universities, departments and teacher…

Correct answer: Subcontinent
Moderate
  • A. Sergeant Report
  • B. Charles Grant Report
  • C. Lord Macaulay Report
  • D. Charter Act 1813

Explanation: The Sergeant Report of 1944 recommended practical and vocational schooling, including the practical teaching of science.

Correct answer: Sergeant Report
Moderate
  • A. Did not correspond to the Islamic Education
  • B. Didn't have the capacity cater th ideological needs of Pakistan
  • C. Both A&B
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The inherited colonial system was not designed around Islamic educational ideals and could not adequately meet Pakistan’s ideological…

Correct answer: Both A&B
Fairly easy
  • A. Hadith
  • B. Arabic language
  • C. Tafsir-e-Quran (Quranic interpretation)
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Deoband produced scholars who served Islamic learning through Hadith, Arabic and Quranic interpretation.

Correct answer: All of the above
Fairly easy
  • A. They got government jobs/services
  • B. They got closer to the British Government
  • C. They overtook Muslim financially
  • D. All of these

Explanation: English education opened access to government employment and closer contact with the colonial administration, helping many Hindus gain…

Correct answer: All of these
Moderate
  • A. 1889
  • B. 1867
  • C. 1857
  • D. 1861

Explanation: Sir Syed’s organised educational plan is generally dated to 1889 in this historical account, when his educational movement was being…

Correct answer: 1889
Moderate
  • A. Charter Act 1813
  • B. Charles Grant Report
  • C. All India Mohammadan Educational Conference
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The All India Muhammadan Educational Conference created an organised platform for Muslim public and educational concerns.

Correct answer: All India Mohammadan Educational Conference
Easy
  • A. 1900
  • B. 1920
  • C. 1930
  • D. 1940

Explanation: Jamia Millia Islamia was established at Aligarh in 1920 during the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation period, with Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar…

Correct answer: 1920
Moderate
  • A. Johnn Heinrich Pestalozzi
  • B. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
  • C. Quaid e Azam
  • D. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar

Explanation: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan is widely regarded as the intellectual pioneer or founding father of the Pakistan Movement because his Two-Nation idea…

Correct answer: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Very hard
  • A. 70
  • B. 80
  • C. 90
  • D. 74

Explanation: The college administration received a donation of 74 acres for the Aligarh educational project through Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s fundraising…

Correct answer: 74
Moderate
  • A. Agriculture
  • B. History
  • C. Economics
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: The Scientific Society translated useful works into accessible languages on practical and academic subjects, including agriculture…

Correct answer: All of the above
Moderate
  • A. Madarasa Muradabad
  • B. Aligarh High school
  • C. Madarasa Nizamiyah
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Sir Syed’s first educational institution was the school established at Muradabad in 1859.

Correct answer: Madarasa Muradabad
Very hard
  • A. Seventy
  • B. Seventeen
  • C. Eighteen
  • D. Twenties

Explanation: Historical accounts note that only 17 Muslims were among the 846 graduates of the universities of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta up to 1857.

Correct answer: Seventeen
Hard
  • A. Rational sciences
  • B. Theology and logic
  • C. Revealed sciences
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Traditional Muslim education included revealed sciences as well as rational disciplines, with theology and logic receiving special…

Correct answer: All of these
Moderate
  • A. English teachers were highly regarded and had prestigious place in the society
  • B. English language was compulsory from class Three to class B. A (Graduation)
  • C. Most of the time/hours were fixed for the instruction of English
  • D. All of the following

Explanation: Colonial education gave English high social prestige, made it a compulsory subject through advanced study and devoted substantial…

Correct answer: All of the following