Q.1-5)

Q.1) Company earned the maximum percentage profit in the year 2021

[1] A

[2] B

[3] C

[4] D

Correct Answer: 4

Q.2) The companies A and B together had a percentage profit/loss of_____.

[1] 12% loss

[2] 10% profit

[3] 10% loss

[4] There was no loss or profit

Correct Answer: 4

Q.3) In 2021, the approximate percentage of profit/loss of all the five companies taken together was ____.

[1] 5% profit

[2] 4% loss

[3] 7 % loss

[4] 10 % profit

Correct Answer: 1

Q.4) If the income of Company D in 2021 was 10% more than its income in 2020 and the company had earned a profit of 20% in 2020, then its expenditure (in million ) in 2020 was approximately______.

[1] 28.28

[2] 30.30

[3] 32.32

[4] 34.34

Correct Answer: 2

Q.5) For Company E, if the expenditure had increased by 20% in the year 2021 from the year 2020 and the company had earned a profit of 10% in 2020, then the company’s income (in million %) in 2020 was _______.

[1] 37.25

[2] 38.50

[3] 41.25

[4] 42.75

Correct Answer: 3

Q.6) Statement I: In formative evaluation, the overall performance of the students are reported to parents at the end of the year.

Statement II: In summative evaluation, the teacher clarifies the doubts of students in the class itself.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.7) Statement I: SWAYAM is a program initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the six cardinal principles of education policy.

Statement Il: SWAYAM has been developed cooperatively by Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education) and All India Council for Technical Education with the help of Infosys.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.8) Which of the following is said to occur without reinforcement of particular responses and seems to involve changes in the ways information is processed?

[1] Passive learning

[2] Latent learning

[3] Active learning

[4] Insight learning

Correct Answer: 2

Q.9) According to Brown and Ciufflectelli Parker, which of the following are the elements of cooperative learning?

A. Individual Accountability

B. Demonstration

C. Brainstorming

D. Group processing

E. Social skills

[1] BCE

[2] BD

[3] ADE

[4] CD

Correct Answer: 3

Q.10) Statement I: Good teaching is formal in nature.

Statement II: There is no difference between teaching and training.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.11) A conceptual hypothesis is drawn from the implications of a-

[1] Prediction

[2] Theory

[3] Spurious relation

[4] Time-order

Correct Answer: 2

Q.12) In inductive approach theory is generated out of

[1] Simple observation

[2] Research done

[3] Field notes

[4] Another theory

Correct Answer: 2

Q.13) When a sampled individual is observed over a pre-determined period of time in structured observation , it is called:

[1] Focus sampling

[2] Observed sampling

[3] Random sampling

[4] Purposive sampling

Correct Answer: 1

Q.14) In ethnographic research, the researcher involves himself in a over a period of time.

[1] philosophical discourse

[2] political campaign

[3] financial transaction

[4] social setting

Correct Answer: 4

Q.15) Statement I: The double blind procedure is an effective solution to the issue of experimenter bias in research.

Statement II: The problem of experimenter bias can also be solved by non-verbal cuing of the participants.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.16) The arrival of interactive communication technologies has been described as

[1] The first media age

[2] The second media age

[3] Post-media age

[4] Post-technology age

Correct Answer: 2

Q.17) One of the features of broadcast communication is that it is

[1] Static for the audience

[2] Hidden from the audience

[3] High- brow for the audience

[4] Live for the audience

Correct Answer: 4

Q.18) A cool medium has the features of :

A. High definition

B. High participation

C. It provides small amount of information

D. Tends not to be supplemented by hot media

E. supplemented by hot media

[1] ABC

[2] CD

[3] BCE

[4] BDE

Correct Answer: 3

Q.19) Which of the following directly affect or influence the listening skills of the students?

A. Student protocol

B. Administrative interest

C. Speed of the speech

D. Timing of the speech

E. The regional accent

[1] ABC

[2] BCD

[3] CDE

[4] ADE

Correct Answer: 3

Q.20) Statement I: The power elites by controlling the communication media extend their hegemonic rule further is a statement of myth.

Statement Il: Through communication media, they always plan to win over the common publics and continue to overlord them.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 4

Q.21) A certain principal amount in 2 years at some simple interest becomes Rs 10,000 and the same principal amount on the same rate of simple interest becomes Rs 11,000 in 3 years. Find the principal and rate of interest.

[1] Rs 9200 and 14%

[2] Rs 8500 and 13.5%

[3] Rs 9000 and 13%

[4] Rs 8000 and 12.5%

Correct Answer: 4

Q.22) Raman said to Aman, “That boy playing football there is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father’s wife”. How is the boy playing football related to Raman?

[1] Cousin

[2] Brother-in-law

[3] Son

[4] Brother

Correct Answer: 4

Q.23) A girl starts from a point P and walks 10 meters in the North-West direction and reaches the point Q. She then turns to her left and walks 10 meters to a point R which is directly west ward to point P. She again moves towards south-east direction and goes 10 meters and reaches a point S which is directly southward to point Q. From the point S she turns towards point P and walks 10 meters. What is the shape of the geometrical figure PQRS?

[1] Rhombus

[2] Rectangle

[3] Square

[4] Parallelogram

Correct Answer: 3

Q.24) In a certain code language TROUBLE is written as ETLRBOU. How PROBLEM will be written in that language?

[1] MPEROLB

[2] MPELROB

[3] MPERLOB

[4] MEPLROB

Correct Answer: 3

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

15, 15, 22.5, 45, 112.5, 337.5, ?

[1] 1181.25

[2] 1350

[3] 1518.75

[4] 562.5

Correct Answer: 1

Q.26) “Although I am very happy to win the lottery, I am also a little worried. The last time I had won a lottery, my pocket was picked the next morning.” Which logical fallacy is committed in the above argument?

[1] Post hoc

[2] Hasty generalisation

[3] Red herring

[4] False alternative

Correct Answer: 1

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

A. All aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

B. No polluting vehicles are aeroplanes.

C. All non-polluting vehicles are non-aeroplanes.

D. No aeroplanes are non-polluting vehicles.

[1] BC

[2] BD

[3] AD

[4] ACD

Correct Answer: 4

Q.28) If the statement- “All aeroplanes are polluting vehicles’, is given as true, then which of the following statements can be immediately inferred to be true?

[1] No aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

[2] Some aeroplanes are polluting vehicles.

[3] Some aeroplanes are not polluting vehicles.

[4] No polluting vehicles are aeroplanes.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.29) Which of the following propositions are so related that they can not both be false, although they may both be true?

A. Some cars are polluting vehicles.

B. Some cars are not polluting vehicles.

C. All cars are polluting vehicles.

D. No cars are polluting vehicles.

[1] CD

[2] AB

[3] BC

[4] AC

Correct Answer: 2

Q.30) According to classical Indian School of logic (Nyaya) which of the following arguments involves the fallacy of ashrayasiddha?

[1] The sky-lotus is fragrant, because it is a lotus, like the lotus of a lake.

[2] Sound is not eternal because it is produced.

[3] Sound is eternal because it is produced.

[4] Sound is eternal because it is audible.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.31) In ICT, which one of the following pairs of acronym and its expansion is incompatible?

[1] ISP – Internet Service Provider

[2] URL – Uniform Resource Locator

[3] Blog – weB LOGic

[4] VPN – Virtual Private Network

Correct Answer: 3

Q.32) A photograph occupies 10 MB of storage. A memory stick with 4GB capacity can store approximately______ such photographs.

[1] 300

[2] 400

[3] 500

[4] 450

Correct Answer: 2

Q.33) Statement I: You can read from and write to RAM, whereas you can read from ROM but you can’t write to ROM.

Statement IIl: CD-RW stands for Compact Disc- ReWritable and can be written to and modified many times, whereas CD-R stands for compact Disc- Recordable and R here indicates that the disc is recordable once only.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.34) Using the Ribbon in MS-WORD software, the Word count command/ feature displays the number of words as well as the number of ________in the current document.

A. Lines

B. Characters

C. Paragraph

[1] AB

[2] AC

[3] BC

[4] ABC

Correct Answer: 4

Q.35) Which of the following statements are correct?

Most web browsers:

A. have a HOME page.

B. have the ability to store user’s favourite websites /pages.

C. keep a history of the websites visited by the users.

D. give the ability to go backward and forward to websites opened.

E. provide the user with access to Internet

[1] DE

[2] ACD

[3] ACE

[4] ABCD

Correct Answer: 4

Q.36) Wind farms are?

[1] Places where winds blow at a speed of more than 5 m/s.

[2] Potential places of wind energy generation.

[3] Places where winds help in good farming practices.

[4] Large concentrations of wind generators producing electricity.

Correct Answer: 4

Q.37) Match the column:

A. Sewage

B. Agricultural fertilizers

C. Land erosion

D. Power plants

I. Thermal pollution

II. sediments

III. oxygen demanding waste

IV. plant nutrients

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer: 2

Q.38) Which of the following are overwhelming evidence of climate change?

A. In Alaska, Western Canada and Eastern Russia average temperatures have increased by over 4°C during past 50 years.

B. Tropical regions have warmed much faster than rest of the world.

C. Mount Kilimanjaro has lost 85% of its famous ice cap since 1915.

D. Over the last century the average global temperature has climbed 0.6 °C.

[1] ABC

[2] ACD

[3] BCD

[4] BC

Correct Answer: 2

Q.39) Assertion (A) : Many human activities increase both the severity and frequency of floods.

Reason (R) : Paved roads and parking lots increase water infiltration into the soil and slow down the rate of run off in streams and lakes.

[1] Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

[2] Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).

[3] (A) is true but (R) is false.

[4] (A) is false but (R) is true.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.40) The ‘Loss and Damage’ funding in the context of climate change impacts was agreed upon by the international community at-

[1] COP 25

[2] COP 26

[3] COP 21

[4] COP 27

Correct Answer: 4

Q.41) Statement I: According to ancient Hindu system of Education an aspect of education which is emphasized by the upholders of education in democratic society is that education should be free as far as practicable.

Statement II: According to ancient Hindu system of education an aspect of education which is emphasized by the upholders of education in democratic society is that education should be compulsory as far as practicable.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 1

Q.42) According to NEP 2020, the first vertical of Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) will be the

[1] National Accreditation Council (NAC)

[2] National Education Regulatory Council (NHERC)

[3] General Education Council (GEC)

[4] Higher Education Grants Council (HEGC)

Correct Answer: 2

Q.43) Statement I: According to National Education Policy document, the teacher must be the locus of basic reforms in the country’s educational reforms.

Statement II: Historically marginalised or the disadvantaged student sections of the society should get paid quality education irrespective of their place of residence.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 3

Q.44) Which of the following Universities threw all University examinations open to girls in 1883?

[1] Allahabad University

[2] Bombay University

[3] Delhi University

[4] University of Madras

Correct Answer: 2

Q.45) Statement I: Xuan Zang visited India and became a student of Takshashila University.

Statement II: Xuan Zang visited India and became a student of Yogashastra.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 4

Q.46-50)

Read RC Passage to Answer:

Indian rulers, particularly the Pala and Sena rulers of Bengal, and the Pallava and Chola rulers of south India, tried to encourage the trade with China.

The Chola ruler, Rajendra 1, sent a naval expedition against Malaya and neighbouring countries to overcome their interference in the trade with China.

There is evidence to show that there were many shipyards in south India, Orissa and Bengal engaged in the construction of ships. Such, shipyards were also located on the west coast including Gujarat. Thus, growth of India’s foreign trade in the area was based on a strong naval tradition, including ship building and a strong navy, and the skill and enterprise of its traders. The Chinese trade was very favourable to the countries engaged in it, so much so that in the thirteenth century, the Chinese government tried to restrict the export of gold and silver from China. Indian ships gradually gave way to the Arabs and the Chinese whose ships were bigger and faster. We are told that the Chinese ships were several storeys high and carried 600 passengers apart from 400 soldiers. An important factor in the growth of the Chinese ships was the use of a primitive Mariner’s compass an invention which later travelled from China to the West.

Q.46) The naval expedition against Malaya was sent by a-

[1] Pala ruler

[2] Sena ruler

[3] Pallava ruler

[4] Chola ruler

Correct Answer: 4

Q.47) Statement I: Trade between India and China always occured in the Chinese ships as these were always better than the Indian ships.

Statement II: Malaya was located in Kerala.

[1] Both Statement I and Statement Il are true.

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

[3] Statement I is true but Statement Il is false.

[4] Statement I is false but Statement Il is true.

Correct Answer: 2

Q.48) Which among the following factors played an important role in India’s trade with China?

A. Ship building in India

B. Strong navy

C. Skill and enterprise of the traders.

[1] AB

[2] BC

[3] AC

[4] ABC

Correct Answer: 2

Q.49) Indian rulers from which of the following regions tried to encourage trade with China?

A. Bengal

B. Gujarat

C. South India

[1] AB

[2] BC

[3] AC

[4] ABC

Correct Answer: 3

Q.50) Shipyards in India were located at:

A. Bengal

B. Orissa

C. South India

D. Gujarat

[1] ABC

[2] AC

[3] ACD

[4] ABCD

Correct Answer: 4