UTET Paper 2 case studies
UTET Paper 2 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
UTET Paper II (Uttarakhand Teacher Eligibility Test, Paper II) is the upper-primary stage paper of the Uttarakhand teacher eligibility test; the UTET item is hosted on the Uttarakhand Board of School Education site at Ramnagar, Nainital. It is meant for candidates who intend to teach at the upper primary level and must first clear the state eligibility requirement before applying for teaching posts in Uttarakhand schools. The UTET Paper 2 case studies are 5 cases and about 4,347 words.
1The Girl in the Last Row: Attribution, Scaffolding and a Family Under Pressure
Sunita teaches Class VII in a government upper-primary school in Pauri district with 42 students. Ritu, 13, repeated Class VI and now sits in the last row, answers only when called by name, and scored 8/40, 6/40 and 11/40 on three consecutive unit tests, although her classwork notebook is nearly complete.
870 words, about 4 min2Kumaoni in the Hindi Classroom: Diagnosing Transfer Errors
Hindi is the Language I subject at a Class VIII school in Almora, where almost every child speaks Kumaoni at home. In a dictation of twenty words the class average was eleven; frequent spellings were 'हमू' for 'हम', 'किताबु' for 'किताब' and 'जाणा' for 'जाना'.
866 words, about 4 min3Ninety-Two Per Cent Accuracy, Nine Right Answers
In a Class VI classroom in Dehradun, 38 students read a 90-word English passage aloud with roughly 92 per cent word accuracy, but when asked, 'Why did Meena not go to school?' only nine gave a correct answer, and twenty-one copied a whole sentence from the passage verbatim. The teacher's usual method is round-robin oral reading: each child reads one sentence while the rest listen, followed by the teacher explaining difficult words.
852 words, about 4 min4Three-Fifths of 250 kg: Additive Thinking in a Multiplicative World
A Class VII teacher in Haridwar analyses a 40-student diagnostic before teaching ratio and proportion. Thirty-four students correctly find 25 per cent of 80, but only twelve solve 'A shopkeeper had 250 kg of rice and sold three-fifths of it; how much rice is left?' Twenty-seven students write that 0.3 is less than 0.15 'because 15 is bigger than 3'.
894 words, about 4 min5Dates, Maps and a Grandmother's Account: 1857 in the Classroom
A Class VIII class in Nainital has finished a unit on 1857. On the matching section of the test, 33 of 40 students correctly paired dates with events, but on the question 'Why did the revolt spread beyond Meerut?' most answers restated the textbook's first paragraph.
865 words, about 4 min