Q. 1-5)

Q.1) The number of employees who got promoted from the HR department is approximately ______ % of the number of employees working in the department.

[1] 36.18

[2] 30.56

[3] 47.22

[4] 28.16

Correct Answer: 2

Q.2) The total number of employees who got promoted from all the departments together is approximately ______ % of the total number of employees working in all the departments together.

[1] 56

[2] 21

[3] 45

[4] 33

Correct Answer: 4

Q.3) Total number of female employees working in the Production and Marketing department together is:

[1] 234

[2] 406

[3] 201

[4] 486

Correct Answer: 3

Q.4) If half of the number of employees who got promoted from the IT department were males, then the approximate percentage of males who got promoted from the IT department was_____ .

[1] 61%

[2] 29%

[3] 54%

[4] 38%

Correct Answer: 4

Q.5) How many females work in the Accounts department ?

[1] 309

[2] 296

[3] 283

[4] 312

Correct Answer: 1

Q.6) The sequence of using Cognitive Apprenticeship model in the classroom is :

[1] Modelling, Coaching, Scaffolding, Articulation, Reflection and Exploration

[2] Coaching, Mentoring, Assimilation, Socialisation, Retention, and Effect

[3] Identifying, Memorisation, Coaching, Socialisation, Assimilation and Adaptation.

[4] Exploration, Memorisation, Retention, Remembering, Visualisation and Implication.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.7) Which of the following statement best describes “Formative Evaluation” in evaluation procedure?

[1] A teacher awards grades to students after having transacted the course work.

[2] The teacher clarifies the doubts of the students in the class itself.

[3] The overall performance of students is reported to parents every six months.

[4] The teacher gives marks to students in the final examination at the end of the year.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.8) Match the column:

A. Modelling

B. Coaching

C. Scaffolding

D. Articulation

I. helping learner in starting and gradually fading the support

II. observing the performance of an expert (teacher or more experienced peer)

III. giving words to their understanding of the process and content

IV. giving external support to learner in the form of hints, feedback, reminders etc.

[1] A-IV B-I C-III D-II

[2] A-III B-II C-IV D-I

[3] A-II B-IV C-I D-III

[4] A-I B-III C-IV D-II

Correct Answer: 3

Q.9) Akshay, an eight-year old boy, was emotionally stable and performed well in school. His parents have divorced recently. Due to this, he has become a very anxious child. What can Akshay’s teacher do to help alleviate his anxiety in the classroom?

[1] His teacher could provide structure, organizational tools and choices

[2] His teacher could respect Akshay’s emotional state and leave him alone

[3] His teacher could provide Akshay with counseling regarding his anxiety

[4] His teacher could tell the other children that Akshay is anxious. and that they must be extra nice to him

Correct Answer: 3

Q.10) Which of the following are the key elements of cooperative learning ?

A, Groups consisting of high, average and low achievers are heterogeneous.

B. Students are mostly passive.

C. Students work in groups to master academic materials.

D. Reward system is individually oriented.

E. Students receive information transmitted only from teachers.

[1] BD

[2] AC

[3] ABE

[4] CDE

Correct Answer: 2

Q.11) The approach of accepting knowledge because people have agreed upon, following a reasonable argument is known as

[1] Authoritarian

[2] A-priori

[3] Scientific

[4] Experiential

Correct Answer: 2

Q.12) Values assigned to nominal scale of measurement are

[1] Permanent

[2] Orderly

[3] Arbitrary

[4] Meaningful

Correct Answer: 3

Q.13) Use of scientific research to promote one’s own cause inappropriately is described as-

[1] Improper science

[2] Unscience

[3] Routine Science

[4] Junk Science

Correct Answer: 4

Q.14) Which of the following are categories of participants in research?

A. Good participants

B. Negative participants

C. Faithful participants

D. Apprehensive participants

E. Traditional participants

[1] ABCD

[2] BCE

[3] ABDE

[4] ACDE

Correct Answer: 1

Q.15) Summative evaluation is also known as

[1] Content evaluation

[2] Primary evaluation

[3] Cost Evaluation

[4] Impact evaluation

Correct Answer: 4

Q.16) When media create pictures in the head, they act as-

[1] Corporate agendas-setters

[2] Political representatives

[3] Tools of dissonance

[4] Agents of consonance

Correct Answer: 4

Q.17) Western concepts of communication are based on

[1] Collectivism

[2] Individualism

[3] Impressionalism

[4] Absolutism

Correct Answer: 2

Q.18) The three divisions of signs identified by Charles Pierce are :

A. Modular

B. Prescriptive

C. Iconic

D. Indexical

E. Symbolic

[1] ABC

[2] BCD

[3] CDE

[4] ABE

Correct Answer: 3

Q.19) Match the column:

A. High brow

B. Middle brow

C. Low brow

D. Post brow

I. those who want to escape from daily routine

II. much sophisticated and have deeper understanding of the medium

III. Intellectual satisfaction oriented

IV. can distinguish between good and bad films

[1] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[2] A-II B-III C-IV D-I

[3] A-III B-IV C-I D-II

[4] A-IV B-I C-II D-III

Correct Answer: 3

Q.20) Statement I : According to some experts, communication reflects the primary group affiliation of a person.

Statement II : Communication should be understood within the broad social structure and process.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are True.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are False.

[3] Statement I is true but Statement II is False.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement II is True.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.21) If simple interest on a certain principal amount at 5% per annum for 5 years is Rs.900 more than the simple interest on the same principal amount for 4 years at 4% per annum, then find out the principal amount.

[1] Rs.9,000

[2] Rs.10,500

[3] Rs.10,000

[4] Rs.12,000

Correct Answer: 3

Q.22) Pointing towards a Picture (P), a man ‘Q’ says that “He is the son of only daughter of my father-in-law”. How is the man ‘Q’ related to the person in the Picture (P) ?

[1] Brother-in-law

[2] Brother

[3] Son

[4] Father

Correct Answer: 4

Q.23) If in a certain code language PROFESSOR is written as ‘RTQHGUUQT”, then in that language, how the word SCIENTIST will be written ?

[1] ‘TDJFOUITU’

[2] ‘UEKGOVKUV’

[3] ‘UEKGPVLUV’

[4] ‘UEKGPVKUV’

Correct Answer: 4

Q.24) A girl walking in the south direction from a point U. She walks 50 meters and then turns to her right and walks 30 meters. She again turns right and walks for 40 meters. Finally, she moves east wards and goes 40 meters stopping at point W. Find how far is the girl from her starting point U.

[1] 5√10m

[2] 2√10m

[3] 10m

[4] 10√2m

Correct Answer: 4

Q.25) What number should replace the question mark in the series given below?

11,13, 29, 91, 369, ?

[1] 1845

[2] 1850

[3] 1851

[4] 3201

Correct Answer: 3

Q.26) “Soft drinks sector has shown good growth in profits over past few years therefore we can conclude that each individual soft-drinks company is making good profits”. Above argument is an example of which of the following fallacies?

[1] Hasty generalization

[2] slippery slope

[3] Begging the question

[4] The fallacy of division

Correct Answer: 4

Q.27) Which of the following statements are logically equivalent ?

A. No aeroplanes are clectric vehicles.

B. All non-clestric vehicles are non-acroplancs.

C. No electric vehicles are acroplancs.

D. All acroplancs are non-clectric vehicles.

[1] BCD

[2] ABC

[3] AB

[4] BD

Correct Answer: 2

Q.28) If the statement ‘No aeroplanes are electric vehicles’ is given as true, then which of the following statements can be immediately inferred to be true?

[1] All aeroplanes are electric vehicles.

[2] Some aeroplanes are electric vehicles.

[3] Some aeroplanes are not electric vehicles.

[4] Some aeroplanes are not non-polluting vehicles.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.29) Which of the following statements are so related that one is the denial or the negation of the other ?

A. All aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

B. No aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

C. Some aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

D. Some aeroplanes are not polluting vehicles.

[1] CD

[2] BD

[3] AD

[4] AB

Correct Answer: 3

Q.30) According to Classical Indian School of Logic (Nyaya) which of the following argument involves the fallacy of Sadharana (middle term being too wide)?

[1] The hill has smoke because it has fire.

[2] Sound is eternal because it is audible.

[3] The hill has fire because it is knowable.

[4] Al things are non-eternal, because they are knowable.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.31) What exactly is cloud computing?

[1] A way to organize desktop computers.

[2] Software that takes up little space on a hard drive.

[3] Computing resources that can be accessed on demand, like electricity from a utility.

[4] The World Wide Web.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.32) Statements I : In an email system, Bcc: allows recipients to be visible to all other recipients of the message.

Statement II : VoIP is the use of Internet to make phone cells.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are True.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are False.

[3] Statement I is true but Statement II is False.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement II is True.

Correct Answer: 4

Q.33) Using broadband to connect to the Internet has many benefits. Which of the following statements are TRUE in this context ?

A. This connection does not allow you to use the land phone at the same time as being connected to the

Internet.

B. This connection allows a wireless connection

C. You are always connected to the Internet.

[1] AB

[2] AC

[3] BC

[4] ABC

Correct Answer: 3

Q.34) Which of the following statements about networked computers are TRUE ?

A. Network users can communicate by email and instant messenger.

B. Files can easily be shared between users.

C. Viruses cannot be spread to other computers throughout a computer network.

D. It is possible for many users to access and share on printer on a network

[1] ABD

[2] AC

[3] BCD

[4] AB

Correct Answer: 1

Q.35) Which of the following are features that allow you to manage the Windows Desktop Environment ?

A. Creating shortcuts

B. Renaming folders

C. Videoconferencing

D. Creating auto shapes

E. Adjusting icon size

[1] CD

[2] DE

[3] ABE

[4] AB

Correct Answer: 3

Q.36) Statement I : Turbulent and rapidly flowing waters are generally depleted in oxygen.

Statement II : Adding organic materials, such as sewage or paper pulp, to water stimulates activity and oxygen consumption by decomposers.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are Correct

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are Incorrect

[3] Statement I is Correct but Statement II is Incorrect

[4] Statement I is Incorrect but Statement II is Correct

Correct Answer: 4

Q.37) Meaning of Tsunami is ?

[1] Oceanic wave

[2] Harbour Wave

[3] Coastal Wave

[4] Oceanic earthquake

Correct Answer: 2

Q.38) Statement I : International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched on the side-lines of COP24.

Statement II : ISA was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of France, Emanuel Macron.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are True.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement Il are False.

[3] Statement I is true but Statement II is False.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement II is True.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.39) Match the column:

A. Hazard identificaiton

B. Dose response assesment

C. Exposure assesment

D. Risk characterization

I. determining the size and nature of the population that has been exposed to toxicants

II. estimation of the magnitude of the public health problem

III. characterizing the relationship between the dose received and the adverse health effect

IV. process of determining whether or not a particular chemical is linked to particular health effect

[1] A-IV B-III C-II D-I

[2] A-IV B-III C-I D-II

[3] A-I B-II C-III D-IV

[4] A-I B-II C-IV D-III

Correct Answer: 2

Q.40) Which of the following education commissions of India noted that – “It is obvious that if higher education is not radically improved, our administration and technical progress, our intellectual standards and social advance, will all be most seriously handicapped” ?

[1] Kothari Commission

[2] Radhakrishnan Commission

[3] Hunter Commission

[4] University Education Commission of 1948.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.41) Statement I : Central University is established under an act of Parliament.

Statement II : The Prime Minister of India acts as the visitor of the Central University.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are Correct

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are Incorrect

[3] Statement I is Correct but Statement II is Incorrect

[4] Statement I is Incorrect but Statement II is Correct

Correct Answer: 3

Q.42) Which of the following major initiatives have been taken by UGC, with a mission to address ethical practices in research and publications.

A Jeevan Kaushal

B. Mulya Prawah

C. GARP – Guidance Document on Good Academic and Research Practices

D. CARE – Consortium for Academic Research and Ethics

E. DIKSHA – Digital Infrastructure for knowledge sharing.

[1] ACE

[2] ABCD

[3] BCD

[4] BE

Correct Answer: 3

Q.43) Which among the following served as centres of learning and teaching during the ancient period in Southern parts of India ?

A. Agraharas

B. Ghatika

C. Brahmapuri

D. Maktabas

[1] AB

[2] AC

[3] ABCD

[4] ABC

Correct Answer: 4

Q.44-48) Read RC Passage to Answer:

During about a hundred years after the thirteen English colonies on the cast coast of North America had won their independence from England and emerged as the United States of America, that country had attained its present territorial proportions. The westward territorial expansion of the United States took place at the cost of the American Indian Tribes which inhabited those areas. The American Indians resisted these encroachments but by 1890 this resistance finally ended in a massacre at a place called Wounded Knee in South Dakota. USA. also purchased vast territories of Louisiana and Alaska from France and Russia, respectively and Seized Texas and California from Mexico after a war with that country. Between 1861 and 1865, there was a civil war when the southern States of USA, which were primarily agricultural with plantations worked by slave labour, seceded from the Union. As a result of the defeat of the southern States in the civil war, the Union was preserved and slavery was abolished.

Within about three decades after the end of the Civil War, USA had become the foremost industrial power in the world. By the end of the nineteenth century; she was producing about one-third of the total production of iron and steel in the world. In almost every branch of industry. she outstripped every other country in the world.

Q.44) USA purchased vast territories from-

A. France

B. England

C. Mexico

D. Russia

[1] AB

[2] AC

[3] BC

[4] AD

Correct Answer: 4

Q.45) USA became the topmost industrial power of the world by-

[1] The end of eighteenth century

[2] The beginning of the nineteenth century

[3] The middle of the nineteenth century

[4] The end of the nineteenth century

Correct Answer: 4

Q.46) Statement I :The territories near the West coast of North America became part of USA much later than those near the East Coast.

Statement II : USA gained independence from England in the nineteenth century.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are Correct

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are Incorrect

[3] Statement I is Correct but Statement II is Incorrect

[4] Statement I is Incorrect but Statement II is Correct

Correct Answer: 3

Q.47) The resistance of American Indians against the territorial expansion of USA ended

[1] About 50 years after USA came into existence

[2] About 25 to 30 years after the Civil war in USA

[3] About 25 to 30 years before the Civil war in USA

[4] About 25-30 years after USA came into existence

Correct Answer: 2

Q.48) Statement I : The southern states were successful in receding from the USA after the civil war.

Statement II : Abolition of slavery was one of the outcomes of civil war in USA.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are Correct

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are Incorrect

[3] Statement I is Correct but Statement II is Incorrect

[4] Statement I is Incorrect but Statement II is Correct

Correct Answer: 4