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  1. LPU MCA Semester 1
  2. PEL546
  3. Unit 1

PEL546 · Unit 1: Attitude, emotional maturity and growth mindset

Learning from failures, embracing challenges, accepting feedback and building resilience

10 practice questions · in the MTE and ETE syllabus

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Key points

  • Resilience is recovering and continuing
  • Accept, analyse, adjust and retry
  • Constructive feedback is specific and about behaviour
  • Turn feedback into an action plan

Resilience is the ability to recover from setbacks and keep going. A healthy response to failure follows a loop: accept the setback, analyse what went wrong, adjust the plan and try again. Failure of a task does not define a person; treat it as information.

Embracing challenges means treating a difficult task as a chance to stretch skills instead of avoiding risk.

Accepting feedback: listen without interrupting, ask for specific examples, thank the speaker, and agree on an action plan. Defending, ignoring or complaining to colleagues wastes the feedback.

Constructive feedback is specific, focuses on observable behaviour rather than personality, and suggests how to improve.

Example: after a failed interview, a candidate who asks for feedback and practises the weak areas shows resilience and openness.

Exam trap: blaming others or hiding failure feels safer but blocks learning.

Try two questions

Question 1 · Tier 3, Apply

A trainee's report is returned with many corrections. Which reaction shows resilience?

  1. Reviewing each correction and revising the report
  2. Deciding the manager is unfair and stopping work
  3. Submitting the same report again with no changes
  4. Resigning because the first attempt was imperfect
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A. Resilience means using the feedback to improve and carrying on.

Why not B: Stopping shows low resilience.

Why not C: Ignoring feedback shows poor learning.

Why not D: Quitting after one setback shows low resilience.

Question 2 · Tier 3, Apply

Which action helps embrace challenges?

  1. Always choosing the easiest tasks available
  2. Treating a hard task as a chance to stretch
  3. Waiting for someone else to solve every problem
  4. Avoiding any task with a risk of mistakes
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B. Challenges build skill when approached as opportunities.

Why not A: Easy tasks do not stretch skills.

Why not C: Waiting avoids the challenge.

Why not D: Avoiding risk avoids growth.