FORMAL, INFORMAL AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION - MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS.

1. EDU-01: KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM:
PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVES
MCQ QUESTIONS
TOPIC: FORMAL, INFORMAL AND NON-FORMAL
EDUCATION
Submitted by,
ATHIRA LEKSHMI V.S
NATURAL SCIENCE
ROLL NO: 37

2. 1. Type of education which is usually takes place in the premises of the school is called
a) Formal education
b) Non-formal education
c) Informal education
d) All of these
Ans: formal education
2. Which type of education follows certain set of rules and regulations?
a) Informal education
b) Non formal education
c) Formal education
d) Distant education
Ans: formal education
3. Which one of the following is the example of formal education?
a) Learning in a classroom
b) Someone learning his mother tongue
c) Fitness programmes
d) Community based adult education courses
Ans: learning in a classroom
4. What is called education acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period and
place?
a) Indirect education
b) Individual education
c) Informal education
d) Formal education
Ans: informal education

3. 5. Learning one’s mother tongue or culture is called
a) Formal learning
b) Informal learning
c) Non formal learning
d) None of the above
Ans: informal learning
6. _________ corresponds to the education process normally adopted by schools and
universities.
a) Non formal education
b) Informal education
c) No form education
d) Formal education
Ans: formal education
7. Interaction with friends, family and work colleagues are the examples of which type
of education?
a) Formal education
b) Informal education
c) Non formal education
d) Integrated education
Ans: informal education
8. In ________ the academic structure, standardized curriculum, full time schooling
makes it inconvenient to many rural and poor children
a) Formal education
b) Non formal education
c) Informal education
d) Co-ed education
Ans: formal education

4. 9. The type of education that is not consciously planned, without a fixed curriculum or
method of teaching is called
a) Non formal education
b) Informal education
c) Fixed education
d) Formal education
Ans: informal education
10. The process of education arranged in a precise or regular way that is curriculum
bound and examination-oriented is also described as
a) Informal education
b) Formal education
c) Non formal education
d) Distance education
Ans: formal education
11. Which one of the following is not a feature of non-formal education?
a) There is no specific goal
b) It is structured and planned
c) Means of this education are correspondence courses, television, seminars etc.
d) It is given intentionally but outside the usual formal system of education.
Ans: there is no specific goal
12. Which of the following statement regarding non-formal education system or is/are
correct?
I. It has flexible curriculum and methodology
II. It does not require student attendance, decreasing the contact between the
teacher and student.
a) Neither I nor II
b) Only II
c) Both I and II
d) Only I
Ans: both I and II

5. 13. Learning through correspondence is a type of:
a) Life-long education
b) Formal education
c) Informal education
d) Non formal education
Ans: non formal education
14. _______ is any organized educational activity that takes place outside the formal
education system.
a) Formal education
b) Informal education
c) Non-formal education
d) Traditional education
Ans: non formal education
15. Informal education has
a) Flexible rules of entry and exit
b) Rigid rules of entry and exit
c) Few rules of entry and exit
d) No rules of entry and exit
Ans: no rules of entry and exit
16. Education is not preplanned in
a) Informal education
b) Non formal education
c) Formal education
d) Both b and c
Ans: informal education

6. 17. Informal education is
a) Just schooling
b) Time bound
c) Life long
d) Preplanned
Ans: life long
18. What is the most important element of non-formal education?
a) Techer
b) Student
c) Media
d) School
Ans: media
19. Informal education is
a) Planned
b) Incidental
c) Systematic
d) Arranged
Ans: incidental
20. The education in which one can earn and learn together
a) Formal education
b) Individual education
c) Non formal education
d) Informal education
Ans: non formal education