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XAT 2019 — Decision Making Question 2

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While Mrs. Bhalla understands the problems of overcrowded classrooms and classroom management, she foresees in them an opportunity to develop more sensitive and selfmotivated learners.

Mrs. Bhalla is considering the following actions:

  1. Take the student and teacher councils on board and seek their ideas to redress the challenge the school faces.
  2. Brainstorm with teachers and students on a strategy to engage all learners in teams for meaningful learning and healthy relationships.
  3. Encourage students for self-learning and teachers into more supervisory roles to ensure discipline.
  4. Engage students in a process of periodic reflection so that they can get in touch with their thoughts, feelings and actions towards self and others.
  5. Create achievement based student groups to encourage competition and ease classroom management.

hich of the following combination of actions would be most effective in developing sensitive and self-motivated learners?

Answer & solution

  • A

    1 , 2 , 3

  • B

    1 , 3 , 5

  • 1 , 2 , 4

  • D

    5 , 4 , 3

  • E

    2 , 1 , 5

Solution

Mrs. Bhalla is facing the problems of overcrowded classrooms and classroom management. Moreover, she wants the students to develop more sensitive and self motivated learners. In such a scenario, encouraging students for self-learning or making them compete will not make any difference to the problem at hand. Actions 3] and 5] are thus eliminated. This eliminated options [1], [2], [4], [5]. We are left with option [3]. Actions 1], 2] and 4] are appropriate steps for Mrs. Bhalla to carry out.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.