A person with mild intellectual disability would display which of the given social skills?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Has friends, can learn to adjust quickly.
Intellectual disability has four levels, mild (IQ 55 to about 70), moderate, severe and profound, and social skills fall off as the level rises.
Option (1) Capable of making friends but difficulty in social situations. — Incorrect. This describes moderate intellectual disability: the person is capable of making friends but has difficulty in many social situations.
Option (2) Has friends, can learn to adjust quickly. — Correct. People with mild disability develop more slowly than their peers but function quite independently; in social skills a person at this level has friends and can learn to adjust quickly.
Option (3) Not capable of having real friends. — Incorrect. This is the social picture of severe and profound disability, the lowest levels.
Option (4) No Social Interactions — Incorrect. This too belongs to severe and profound disability, not to the mild level.
Note: NTA accepted both Option (1) and Option (2) as correct. In the book’s table of the characteristics of the levels of intellectual disability (Table 4.2), ‘has friends; can learn to adjust quickly’ is the social skill of mild intellectual disability, while ‘capable of making friends but has difficulty in many social situations’ is the social skill of moderate intellectual disability. So NTA seems to have gone wrong in accepting Option (1): only Option (2) is supported by the textbook.
NCERT (2025-26): “Variations of Intelligence … The different levels of intellectual disability are: mild (IQs 55 to approximately 70), moderate (IQs 35–40 to approximately 50– 55), severe (IQs 20–25 to approximately 35–40), and profound (IQs below 20–25). Although the development of people with mild disability is typically slower than that of their peers, they can function quite independently, hold jobs and families.…”
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