AP TET 2025 English Practice test Questions answers

Question: A specialist who studies records of languages and words is

1. Physician
2. Philanthropist
3. Philologist
4. linguist

Answer:c

Question: English developed from which language family?

1. Euro-Indian
2. Euro-English
3. Indo-American
4. Indo-European

Answer:d

Question: Arrange the following in the order of development of Modern English, beginning with the root language family.

1) Indo-European

2) Low-German

3) Middle English

4) West-Germanic

5) Germanic

6) Old-English

1. 1,5,4,2,6,3
2. 1,4,5,6,2,3
3. 1,5,2,4,6,3
4. 5,1,4,6,2,3

Answer:a

Question:………… are the main branches of the Indo-European language family

1. Germanic
2. Hellenic
3. Italic
4. All the above

Answer:d

Question: Match the following

i) 1954     [      ]         a) University Education Commission

ii) 1968      [     ]        b) Kunzru Committee

iii) 1948     [     ]        c) NCERT

iv) 1986     [     ]        d) Three-Language formula

1. b,d,a,c
2. d,b,a,c
3. b,a,d,c
4. d,c,b,a

Answer:a

Question: Match the below with their years of establishment

1) C.I.E.F.L (EFLU),Hyderabad        [     ]        a) 1963

ii) R.I.E, Mysore                                [     ]        b) 1857

iii) Allahabad Language Institute  [     ]        c) 1958

iv) Calcutta University                     [     ]        d) 1954

1. c,b,a,d
2. b,c,d,a
3. c,a,b,d
4. c,a,d,b

Answer:d

Question: Match the following

ⅰ) English Review Committee (1960)       [    ]      a) Harold E-Palmer

ii) 3 study Groups of English

(1965,1969, 1971)                                      [    ]       b) N.S. Prabhu

iii) L.S.R.W Skills                                          [    ]      c) Prof. Gokak

iv) Procedural Syllabus                              [    ]     d) Prof. Benerji

1. d,b,a,c
2. b,d,c,a
3. c,a,d,b
4. d,c,a,b

Answer:d

Question: What Status does Article 343 of Indian Constitution give to English as per Language Act 1963?

1. It is official language
2. It is unofficial language
3. It is a foreign language
4. It is associate official language

Answer:d

Question: Who was the Inspector of Education in India, working in Bengal that endeavoured to bringforth New Method of teaching English for Indian students ?

1. Harold E. Palmer
2. Michael West
3. Macaulay
4. Prof. Gokak

Answer:b

Question: Name of the social reformer who requested William Bentinck to introduce English in India is…………

1. Raja Gopalachari
2. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
3. Tagore
4. Tilak

Answer:b

Question: Who believes that ‘every child has an innate ability to learn language ? 

1. Cognitivist
2. Behaviourist
3. Psychologist
4. Psycholinguist

Answer:d

Question: Who was the cognitivist that experimented with the involvement of brain in language learning and published a book called “The Language of the Crib” ? 

1. Skinner
2. Ruth Wier
3. Watson
4. Pavlov

Answer:b

Question: Which act / commission allotted a sum of one one lakh rupees for the first time to promote English Education in India? 

1. Charter Act 1833
2. Charter Act 1813
3. Macaulay’s Minutes
4. Wood’s Despatch – 1854

Answer:b

Question: English is not the Mother Tongue of one of the following countries. Identify it

1. South Africa
2. Newzealand
3. Canada
4. Polland

Answer:d

Question: Choose the option that doesn’t denote a feature of language 

1. Arbitrariness
2. Creativity
3. Cultural rigidity
4. Redundancy

Answer:c

Question: Name the work that standardized English language.

1. Caxton’s Printed books
2. Chaucer’s Canterbury tales
3. Shakespeare’s plays
4. King James’ Bible

Answer:d

Question: Which is the first authorized dictionary in English ?

1. Dr. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary
2. Caxton’s dictionary
3. Wordbook of Wordsworth
4. Oxford dictionary

Answer:a

Question: Name the only Indian State that has English as an official language

1. Meghalaya
2. Delhi
3. Sikkim
4. Nagaland

Answer:d

Question: Name the linguists that prescribed 500 most frequently used English words for Indian students.

1. Thorndike
2. West
3. Lorge
4. 1 & 3

Answer:d

Question: Choose the factor that caused the rapid spread of English language across the World during 20th century

1. Computers
2. trade
3. World Wars I & II
4. U.N.O

Answer:c

Question: Which among the below is not a feature of a language ? 

1. Language is systematic
2. Language is dynamic
3. Language is arbitrary
4. Language is not extendible

Answer:d

Question: The following is not a characteristic of a language

1. Language has duality in structure
2. Displacement
3. Interchangeability
4. Language is rule bounded

Answer:d

Question: English language can be acquired by………….

1. Extensive reading
2. Intensive teaching
3. Constant exposure
4. Learning more vocabulary

Answer:c

Question: Which among the below is not a problem of teaching & learning English in India

1. Lack of infrastructure
2. Having large classrooms
3. Mother tongue influence
4. Lack of exposure

Answer:a

Question: The following is not a problem of teaching English in India 

1. lack of clear-cut policy
2. lack of efficient teachers
3. Non-availability of job security
4. Non-availability of T.L.M.