Which of the following are true about End-Text questions? A. Encourage…

End-text questions are the exercises placed at the close of a textbook chapter, and they are pedagogically designed to make learners actively process what they read: restate ideas in their own words, debate their implications, and demonstrate understanding through varied task formats such as projects, comparisons and contrasts, rather than simply testing recall.

Statement A (encouraging learners to explain concepts in their own words and debate issues) matches this design goal directly, since end-text questions are meant to make learners restate and defend ideas rather than just recall them. Statement B (project work, compare and contrast being types of end-text questions) matches the recognised formats such questions take. Statement C describes relating new material to what was taught earlier — a goal that runs through teaching and learning in general, and this item does not attribute it specifically to end-text questions. So the statements grouped together as true here are A and B.

• A, B and C are true — this combination adds statement C into the set, going beyond the two features (self-explanation/debate, and project/compare-contrast formats) that this item treats as defining end-text questions.

• A and C are true — this combination drops the project-work/compare-contrast statement (B) and instead pairs the self-explanation/debate statement with the relate-to-earlier-lessons statement.

• B and C are true — this combination drops the self-explanation/debate statement (A) and instead pairs the project-work/compare-contrast statement with the relate-to-earlier-lessons statement.

The combination that matches the features attributed to end-text questions in this item is: A and B are true. This also matches the answer recorded in the CTET official answer key released for the January 2021 Paper II Social Science / Mathematics-Science pedagogy section, question 78, Set M, which marks the statement pairing A and B as true correct.