UPESSC UP TGT & UP PGT 2026 Mock Test 1 – Hard Level Free Online Practice Test

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Pre­pare for the Uttar Pradesh TGT (Trained Grad­u­ate Teacher) and PGT (Post Grad­u­ate Teacher) recruit­ment exam­i­na­tions with UPESSC UP TGT & UP PGT 2026 Mock Test 1, a free online prac­tice test fea­tur­ing 20 chal­leng­ing, orig­i­nal mul­ti­ple-choice questions.

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This hard-lev­el prac­tice set cov­ers impor­tant top­ics such as Indi­an Con­sti­tu­tion, His­to­ry, Geog­ra­phy, Eco­nom­ics, Teach­ing Apti­tude, Edu­ca­tion­al Psy­chol­o­gy, Research Method­ol­o­gy, Log­i­cal Rea­son­ing, Math­e­mat­ics and Eng­lish Gram­mar. It is designed to help can­di­dates strength­en con­cep­tu­al under­stand­ing, improve accu­ra­cy and devel­op prob­lem-solv­ing skills for com­pet­i­tive teacher recruit­ment examinations.

UPESSC UP TGT PGT 2026 Mock Test 1 - Hard Level Practice Test

UPESSC UP TGT & UP PGT 2026
Mock Test 1 – Hard Level

Uttar Pradesh Teacher Recruit­ment | 20 Chal­leng­ing Gen­er­al Stud­ies Questions 

Test Instruc­tions
Total Ques­tions: 20
Max­i­mum Marks: 60
Cor­rect Answer: +3 marks
Incor­rect Answer: ‑1 mark
Unat­tempt­ed Ques­tion: 0 marks
Dif­fi­cul­ty: Hard
This is an orig­i­nal prac­tice test, not an offi­cial UPESSC ques­tion paper. Con­firm the applic­a­ble mark­ing scheme from the lat­est offi­cial notification.

1. Which of the following constitutional amendments introduced the words “Socialist” and “Secular” into the Preamble of the Indian Constitution?

Cor­rect Answer: B. 42nd Con­sti­tu­tion­al Amend­ment.
The Con­sti­tu­tion (42nd Amend­ment) Act, 1976 added “Social­ist” and “Sec­u­lar” to the Pre­am­ble and also added “Integri­ty” to the phrase con­cern­ing the uni­ty of the nation.

2. Under which Article of the Indian Constitution can Parliament legislate on a subject in the State List in the national interest, following a Rajya Sabha resolution?

Cor­rect Answer: A. Arti­cle 249.
Arti­cle 249 empow­ers Par­lia­ment to leg­is­late on a State List mat­ter when the Rajya Sab­ha pass­es a res­o­lu­tion by a two-thirds major­i­ty of mem­bers present and vot­ing that it is nec­es­sary in the nation­al interest.

3. Which writ is issued by a court to prevent a lower court or tribunal from continuing proceedings beyond its jurisdiction?

Cor­rect Answer: C. Pro­hi­bi­tion.
The writ of pro­hi­bi­tion restrains a low­er court or tri­bunal from pro­ceed­ing in a mat­ter beyond its juris­dic­tion. Cer­tio­rari, by con­trast, can be used to quash an order already made in appro­pri­ate circumstances.

4. The Allahabad Pillar inscription praising Samudragupta was composed by which court poet?

Cor­rect Answer: B. Harise­na.
Harise­na, a court poet and offi­cial of Samu­dragup­ta, com­posed the famous San­skrit prashasti inscribed on the Alla­habad Pil­lar, also known as the Praya­ga Prashasti.

5. Which feature of the Indian Constitution was primarily borrowed from the Irish Constitution?

Cor­rect Answer: C. Direc­tive Prin­ci­ples of State Pol­i­cy.
The Direc­tive Prin­ci­ples of State Pol­i­cy were inspired by the Irish Con­sti­tu­tion. Fun­da­men­tal Duties were added lat­er through the 42nd Amend­ment, draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from the for­mer Sovi­et Union.

6. In the context of Indian monsoon circulation, which phenomenon is most directly associated with the northward shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone during summer?

Cor­rect Answer: B. Devel­op­ment of a mon­soon trough over the sub­con­ti­nent.
The sea­son­al north­ward move­ment of the ITCZ con­tributes to the for­ma­tion of the mon­soon trough over north­ern India and is an impor­tant part of the sum­mer mon­soon circulation.

7. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

Cor­rect Answer: D. Arid soil — High humus con­tent in most regions.
Arid soils gen­er­al­ly have low organ­ic mat­ter because veg­e­ta­tion is sparse and mois­ture is lim­it­ed. Their oth­er com­mon fea­tures may include salin­i­ty and accu­mu­la­tion of cal­ci­um carbonate.

8. Which of the following is the best example of a non-excludable public good?

Cor­rect Answer: C. Nation­al defence.
A pure pub­lic good is gen­er­al­ly non-exclud­able and non-rival­rous. Nation­al defence is a stan­dard exam­ple because peo­ple can­not eas­i­ly be exclud­ed from its broad ben­e­fits, and one per­son­’s pro­tec­tion does not ordi­nar­i­ly reduce another’s.

9. If the cash reserve ratio (CRR) is increased, what is the most direct expected effect, other things remaining constant?

Cor­rect Answer: B. Banks have few­er funds avail­able for lend­ing.
A high­er CRR requires banks to keep a larg­er pro­por­tion of spec­i­fied net demand and time lia­bil­i­ties as reserves with the RBI, reduc­ing the funds avail­able for lend­ing, oth­er things equal.

10. Which of the following best describes the difference between fiscal deficit and revenue deficit?

Cor­rect Answer: C.
Fis­cal deficit is total expen­di­ture minus total receipts exclud­ing bor­row­ings. Rev­enue deficit is rev­enue expen­di­ture minus rev­enue receipts.

11. In educational measurement, a test that produces similar results under consistent conditions is said to have high:

Cor­rect Answer: B. Reli­a­bil­i­ty.
Reli­a­bil­i­ty refers to the con­sis­ten­cy or depend­abil­i­ty of mea­sure­ment. Valid­i­ty con­cerns whether evi­dence sup­ports the intend­ed inter­pre­ta­tion and use of the test scores.

12. A teacher asks students to compare several solutions, justify their choices and evaluate the strengths of each. Which revised Bloom’s taxonomy level is most directly targeted by evaluating the options?

Cor­rect Answer: D. Eval­u­ate.
In the revised Bloom’s tax­on­o­my, eval­u­at­ing involves mak­ing judg­ments based on cri­te­ria and stan­dards. Cre­at­ing is the next and high­est lev­el in that framework.

13. A researcher selects every 12th student from an ordered list after randomly choosing a starting point. Which sampling method is being used?

Cor­rect Answer: C. Sys­tem­at­ic sam­pling.
Sys­tem­at­ic sam­pling selects units at a fixed inter­val from a list, nor­mal­ly after a ran­dom start­ing point has been chosen.

14. In an experiment, the researcher deliberately changes the teaching method to study its effect on achievement scores. The teaching method is the:

Cor­rect Answer: B. Inde­pen­dent vari­able.
The inde­pen­dent vari­able is manip­u­lat­ed or var­ied by the researcher. Achieve­ment scores are the depen­dent vari­able because they are mea­sured as an outcome.

15. If all teachers are learners and some learners are researchers, which conclusion necessarily follows?

Cor­rect Answer: D.
All teach­ers belong to the group of learn­ers, while only some learn­ers are known to be researchers. The premis­es do not estab­lish whether those researchers include any teachers.

16. A sum becomes ₹13,310 after two years at 10% compound interest per annum, compounded annually. What was the principal?

Cor­rect Answer: B. ₹11,000.
Amount = Prin­ci­pal × (1.10)² = Prin­ci­pal × 1.21. Prin­ci­pal = 13,310 ÷ 1.21 = ₹11,000.

17. If the mean of five numbers is 28 and the mean of four of them is 25, what is the fifth number?

Cor­rect Answer: C. 40.
Total of five num­bers = 5 × 28 = 140. Total of four num­bers = 4 × 25 = 100. Fifth num­ber = 140 − 100 = 40.

18. Choose the grammatically correct sentence.

Cor­rect Answer: B.
With “neither…nor,” the verb com­mon­ly agrees with the near­er sub­ject. “Teach­ers” is plur­al, so “were” is appro­pri­ate. The sen­tence also cor­rect­ly uses “neither…nor.”

19. Which of the following best describes formative assessment?

Cor­rect Answer: B.
For­ma­tive assess­ment takes place dur­ing learn­ing and pro­vides feed­back that helps teach­ers adapt instruc­tion and helps stu­dents improve their understanding.

20. Which principle of inclusive education most directly supports adapting teaching materials and methods to accommodate different learner needs?

Cor­rect Answer: C. Flex­i­ble teach­ing and removal of learn­ing bar­ri­ers.
Inclu­sive edu­ca­tion aims to increase par­tic­i­pa­tion and reduce bar­ri­ers by adapt­ing instruc­tion­al strate­gies, mate­ri­als, class­room envi­ron­ments and assess­ment approach­es to learn­er needs.

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