Which of the following is NOT true w.r.t. the nature of Science?

The 'nature of science' (NOS) refers to the epistemological characteristics of scientific knowledge and inquiry, as understood in science education. Accepted NOS tenets include that science is an interdisciplinary enterprise, drawing on mathematics, philosophy, technology, and other domains; that scientific knowledge is tentative and provisional, since theories are revised as new evidence emerges; and that science operates through systematic scepticism, testing and questioning claims rather than accepting them on faith. Science is therefore best understood as an ongoing process of inquiry, not a fixed, finished body of facts.

Checking each given statement against this framework: describing science as interdisciplinary, as always tentative, and as promoting scepticism are all standard, well-accepted descriptions of how scientific knowledge is built and revised. Describing science as equivalent to a set of facts, however, reduces it to static, settled content and ignores the ongoing process of inquiry, testing, and revision that defines it -- so this is the statement that misrepresents the nature of science.

• An interdisciplinary area of learning -- scientific work regularly draws on mathematics, philosophy, technology, and other fields to build and test its explanations, so this description holds.

• Always tentative -- scientific explanations stay open to revision whenever new evidence emerges, so this description holds.

• Promotes scepticism -- scientific claims are routinely tested and questioned rather than accepted outright, so this description holds.

This reading matches the official CTET (Paper 2, December 2019) answer key and the process-oriented view of science taught in NCERT pedagogy material.