Primary content should be relevant, meaningful and of
Adifficulty to the child
Buse in later exams
Csimilarity to secondary
Dinterest to the child
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. interest to the child
1. The paper gives criteria for choosing primary content.
2. These are relevance, meaningfulness and interest to the child.
3. Difficulty and later examinations are not the criteria.
_Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of Science, 5.2.1 Primary Stage (Classes I to V)_
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