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Olympiad (Class 5) Life skills — practice questions

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Which of these is NOT one of the core life skill areas named by the World Health Organization?Read the answer and worked solution →Life skills are also known by which other name?Read the answer and worked solution →Before choosing a school club, Meena asks herself, "What are my options?" Which thinking skill is she using?Read the answer and worked solution →Which life skill helps a person feel in control of a situation and release fears, anger and stress?Read the answer and worked solution →Ravi cannot read road signs or dial a phone number. Which basic skills is he missing?Read the answer and worked solution →Understanding and managing money wisely is an example of which life skill area?Read the answer and worked solution →What does TVET stand for in skills for work and life?Read the answer and worked solution →Positive youth development focuses mainly on a person's what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of programme, such as Outward Bound, often aims to build personal and social development?Read the answer and worked solution →After losing a match, Arjun calms himself and tries harder next week. Which life skill is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Noor notices her friend is sad and tries to understand how she feels. Which skill is Noor using?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of thinking is linked as a related idea to creative thinking in the core life skills?Read the answer and worked solution →What is time management?Read the answer and worked solution →Ria finishes four Pomodoros in a row. Which longer break is recommended next?Read the answer and worked solution →The Pomodoro Technique is named after which kind of timer?Read the answer and worked solution →Who created the Pomodoro Technique?Read the answer and worked solution →Homework is due tomorrow. In the Eisenhower method it is important and urgent. What should you do?Read the answer and worked solution →Watching random videos is neither important nor urgent. What does the Eisenhower method say to do with such tasks?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Eisenhower method, how should an urgent but unimportant task be handled?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two criteria does the Eisenhower method use to sort tasks?Read the answer and worked solution →In Alan Lakein's ABC prioritization, which items are done first?Read the answer and worked solution →Who created the Getting Things Done method?Read the answer and worked solution →The Getting Things Done method suggests writing tasks on paper because keeping them in your head does what?Read the answer and worked solution →After listing tasks, Dev writes 1 next to the task with the highest priority. What does the number 1 show?Read the answer and worked solution →The Franklin Planner was named after which famous person?Read the answer and worked solution →A good task system should allow for unexpected events. Which quality does this describe?Read the answer and worked solution →In a cyclical view of time, time is not seen as wasted because it does what?Read the answer and worked solution →A culture that sees time as flowing from one moment to the next and avoids wasting it has which time view?Read the answer and worked solution →In multi-active cultures, people feel it is better to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Writing a letter or speaking a sentence is which kind of communication?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which of these is NOT one of the core life skill areas named by the World Health Organization?

  1. Problem-solving
  2. Critical thinking
  3. Self-awareness
  4. Typing speed
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Correct answer: D. Typing speed

Typing is a practical technical ability, while the other three appear in the core list of life skill areas.

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Life skills are also known by which other name?

  1. Physical competition
  2. Technical drawing
  3. Academic ranking
  4. Psychosocial competency
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Correct answer: D. Psychosocial competency

Life skills deal with mind and social behaviour, so they are also termed psychosocial competency.

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Before choosing a school club, Meena asks herself, "What are my options?" Which thinking skill is she using?

  1. Cooking food
  2. Telling jokes
  3. Raising a child
  4. Critical thinking
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Correct answer: D. Critical thinking

Weighing the available choices is critical thinking, which is a part of decision-making.

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