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MCQ on Commissions related to the development of Education during the British Period | QUIZ and Multiple choice of question and answer

1. Arrange the following events in their chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below: ( UPPSC 2018)

1. Hunter Commission

2. Sadlar Commission

3. Wood's Despatch

4. Sargeant Plan

Codes:

a) 1,2,4,3

b) 3,2,1,4

c) 1,2,3,4

d) 3,1,2,4


Answer. d) 3,1,2,4

1. Wood's Despatch ( Charles Wood Dispatch ): 1854

2. Hunter Commission: 1882 

3. Raleigh Commission ( 1902)

4. Sadlar Commission: 1917

5. Harding Commission: 1929

6. Wardha Commission: 1937

7. Sargeant Plan: 1944


2. Which of the following commissions is not related to education reform during the British Period?

a) Harding Commission

b) Wardha Commission

c) Sargeant Plan

d) Simon Commission


Answer. d) Simon Commission


3. Wardha Commission was established in which year?

a) 1854

b) 1902

c) 1929

d) 1937


Answer. d) 1937


4. Match The following:

    List I ( Education Commission):                        Year

A. Wood's Despatch ( Charles Wood Dispatch ) 1. 1854

B. Hunter Commission                                        2. 1882 

C. Raleigh Commission                                       3. 1902

D. Sadler Commission:                                        4. 1917

Codes:

        A    B    C    D

a)    4    3    2    1

b)    1    2    3    4

c)    3    2    1    4

d)    4    3    1    2


Answer. b)    1    2    3    4


5. Match the following:

List I  ( Education Commission)                  List II ( Year)

A. Sadler Commission                   1. 1944

B. Harding Commission                  2. 1937

C. Wardha Commission                   3. 1929

D. Sargeant Plan                               4. 1917

Codes:

        A    B    C    D

a)    4    3    2    1

b)    1    2    3    4

c)    3    2    1    4

d)    4    3    1    2


Answer. a)    4    3    2    1


6. Provision for the expenditure of One Lakh rupees to development of education in India was done the first time in which act?

a) Regulating Act of 1773

b) Charter Act of 1813

c) Government of India Act 1857

d) Government of India Act 1909


Answer. b) Charter Act of 1813


7. Magna Karta of Indian Education is related to

a) Hunter Commission

b) Sadler Commission

c) Wood's Despatch

d) Sargeant Plan


Answer. c) Wood's Despatch ( 1854)

Wood Despatch suggested:

Primary education: Vernacular language

High School: Ango-vernacular medium

College: English medium


8. Which of the following commissions was mainly established for the development of primary education?

a) Hunter Commission

b) Sadler Commission

c) Wood's Despatch

d) Sargeant Plan


Answer. a) Hunter Commission ( 1882) 


9. Which commission was set up to inquire into the conditions and prospects of universities in India?

a) Hunter Commission

b) Sadler Commission

c) Wood's Despatch

d) Raleigh Commission


Answer. d) Raleigh Commission also established the University Commission ( 1904)


10. Which of the following aimed that, all the children between the ages of 8 and 14 should receive free and compulsory education in their respective vernacular languages?

a) Hunter Commission

b) Sadler Commission

c) Wardha Education 

d) Raleigh Commission


Answer. c) Wardha Education 


11. Which of the following is not correct about Charle's Wood Despatch ( 1854)?

a) It was known as the Magna Carta of Indian Education

b) It suggested the vernacular language as a medium for the primary education.

c) it suggested English as the medium for the higher education system

d) It promoted the Downward Filtration Theory


Answer. d) It promoted the Downward Filtration Theory. Actually, it rejected the downward filtration theory. 


12. Which of the following is not true about the Sadler Commission?

a) It established the Calcutta University Commission in 1917; two Indians were nominated, namely Ashutosh Mukherji and Jiyauddin Ahmed.

b) The Board of Secondary Education was established in Uttar Pradesh

c) It suggested a Vice Chancellor post in the university

d) It suggested the Central Education Advisory board


Answer. d) It suggested the Central Education Advisory Board.

Harding Commission (1929) suggested the Central Education Advisory Board.


13. Which of the following aimed that, all the children between the ages of 6 and 12 should receive free and primary and Junior school should be developed?

a) Sargeant Plan

b) Sadler Commission

c) Wardha Education 

d) Raleigh Commission


Answer. a) Sargeant Plan ( 1944)


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