Q.1-5)

Q.1) The foreign investment in Insurance sector in Rajasthan is approximately ________ % of the foreign investment in Construction sector in Haryana

[1] 101

[2] 108

[3] 107

[4] 103

Correct Answer: 4

Q.2) What is the total foreign investment (in Rs crore) in ‘Others’ sector in all the seven states together?

[1] 3297

[2] 3505

[3] 3705

[4] 3905

Correct Answer: 3

Q.3) For which of the following pair of states, the ratio of foreign investment in Defence sector is 52 : 23?

[1] Rajasthan, TN

[2] Haryana, TN

[3] MP, AP

[4] MP, TN

Correct Answer: 1

Q.4) What is the difference (in Rs crore) between the foreign investment in Defence sector in Gujarat and in Construction and Insurance sectors together in MP?

[1] 142.8

[2] 184.4

[3] 176.2

[4] 162.6

Correct Answer: 4

Q.5) The foreign investment in Pharmaceutical sector in AP is approximately_______ % less than the foreign investment in Telecom sector in Delhi.

[1] 47.6

[2] 44.6

[3] 49.6

[4] 45.8

Correct Answer: 2

Q.6) “No one has been ever able to prove that Glaciers in the arctic region are melting because of Global warming. Therefore, glaciers in the arctic region must be melting on their own.” Which fallacy is committed in the above statement?

[1] Fallacy of Accident

[2] Slippery Slope

[3] Hasty Generalisation

[4] Appeal to Ignorance

Correct Answer: 4

Q.7) When a water body is deficient in nutrients, it is known as-

[1] Oligotrophic

[2] Eutrophic

[3] Mesotrophic

[4] Dystrophic

Correct Answer: 1

Q.8) In a certain coding language:

a) ‘AMAN’ is coded as 29

b) RAMAN’ is coded as 47

How ‘SHAM’ will be coded in that language?

[1] 43

[2] 28

[3] 41

[4] 37

Correct Answer: 3

Q.9) Who among the following opposed the implementation of western system of education in India?

[1] William Adam

[2] Lord Canning

[3] Mrs. Annie Besant

[4] BL Rice

Correct Answer: 3

Q.10) Which of the following is not the objective of teaching?

[1] To help students to become better thinkers

[2] To facilitate the development of problem solving ability among students

[3] To follow a rigid teaching plan

[4] To help learner, adjust his perceptions to reality, attaining harmony between internal and external experiences

Correct Answer: 3

Q.11) Statement I: Communication media are neither neutral nor value free containers that carry information to different places.

Statement II: No Communication technology has its own unique set of physical, technical, symbolic and environmental characteristics.

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 3

Q.12) Who among the following are said to have had their education at Takshashilla?

A. Sri Chaitanya

B. Panini

C. Nagarjuna

D. Chanakya

[1] (A) and (C) only.

[2] (B), (C) and (D) only.

[3] (A), (B) and (C) only.

[4] (B) and (D) only.

Correct Answer: 4

Q.13) Statement (1): In a reference written in APA style, the first name of an author is written first.

Statement (II): In a reference written in APA style, the year of the publication s written after the page number.

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 2

Q.14) Statement I: Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack s the large number of requests sent at the same time to the web server, thereby causing the server to crash

Statement II: Virus is a self-replicating malicious software causing computer to run siowly.

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 1

Q.15) If the statement “All trucks are polluting vehicles” is given as true, which of the following statements could be immediately inferred to be false?

A. Some trucks are polluting vehicles

B. Some polluting vehicles are trucks

C. Some trucks are not polluting vehicles

D. No trucks are polluting vehicles

[1] (C) and (D) only

[2] (A) and (B) only

[3] (B) and (C) only

[4] (A) and (C) only

Correct Answer: 1

Q.16) Two persons X and Y can do a piece of work in n days. If X alone can complete the work in (n+3) days and Y alone can do the work in (n+12) days, find the value of n.

[1] 6

[2] 10

[3] 7

[4] 5

Correct Answer: 1

Q.17) Which among the following types of variables can NOT be rank ordered?

[1] nominal

[2] ordinal

[3] interval

[4] ratio

Correct Answer: 1

Q.18) According to the Hindu tradition, the purpose of good communication is to-

[1] create social groups

[2] produce tasteful entertainment

[3] make people seek enlightenment

[4] offer an insight into materialism

Correct Answer: 3

Q.19) What number would replace question mark (?) in the series given below?

1,6, 18, 44, 98, 208, 430, ?

[1] 638

[2] 876

[3] 896

[4] 999

Correct Answer: 2

Q.20) Which of the following statements is equivalent to the statement- “Some non-realists are not non-philosophers.”?

[1] Some philosophers are not realists.

[2] No philosophers are realists.

[3] Some realists are philosophers

[4] Some philosophers are realists

Correct Answer: 1

Q.21)

[1] =VLOOKUP(A2,J2:L5,1,FALSE)

[2] =VLOOKUP(J2,A$2:C$7,1,FALSE)

[3] =VLOOKUP(J2,A$2:C$7,3,FALSE)

[4] =VLOOKUP(J2,A2”C7,3,FALSE)

Correct Answer: 3

Q.22) The maximum amount of information sent over a channel within a specific period of time reflects-

[1] Communication process

[2] Information overload

[3] Transmission barriers

[4] Channel capacity

Correct Answer: 4

Q.23) Which of the following autonomous scientific institutions come under the financial umbrella of the Department of Science and Technology?

A. Bose Institute, Kolkata

B. Agarkar Research Institute, Pune

C. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.

D. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun

E. Indian Council of Astrological science, Banglore.

[1] ABE

[2] BDE

[3] CDE

[4] ABD

Correct Answer: 4

Q.24) Which of the following facilities are available in word-processing software such as MS-WORD?

A. Find and Replace

B. Mail Merge

C. Spell check and thesaurus

D. Automatic Recalculation

[1] (A), (B) and (C) only

[2] (B) and (C) only

[3] (C) and (D) only

[4] (A), (B) and (D) only

Correct Answer: 1

Q.25) Statement (I): Edpuzzle is a tool used for mind mapping in education

Statement (Il): Mindmeister is a tool used for creating interactive videos in education

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 2

Q.26) A girl walks straight in the opposite direction of the front door of her house. The front door of the house s facing towards south After walking for 50 meters, the girl turns to her left and walks 100 meters, thereafter the girl turns right and stops after walking for 100 meters. Which direction the girl is facing now?

[1] North

[2] South

[3] North-west

[4] North-east

Correct Answer: 1

Q.27) A man, while pointing towards a lady, said, “Her husband is the only son of my mother”. How is the man related to the lady?

[1] Husband

[2] Son

[3] Father-in-law

[4] Brother-in-law

Correct Answer: 1

Q.28) Discovery of Ozone hole was first made over-

[1] Arctic

[2] Equator

[3] Antarctic

[4] Tropics

Correct Answer: 3

Q.29) Which of the following are true in the case of metacommunication?

(A) It is intentional

(B) It is not always intentional

(C) It often takes place spontaneously.

(D) It can modify itself.

(E) It decontextualises itself

[1] (A), (B) and (C) only

[2] (B), (C) and (D) only

[3] (C), (D) and (E) only

[4] (A), (D) and (E) only

Correct Answer: 2

Q.30) Which of the following are the National coordinators for the production of best quality content in SWAYAM?

(A) NCTE

(B) AICTE

(C) IGNOU

(D) UGC

(E) CEC

[1] (A), (B), (D) and (E) only

[2] (B), (C), (D) and (E) only

[3] (B) and (C) only

[4] (A) and (D) only

Correct Answer: 2

Q.31) Statement I: A nuclear power reactor is a system designed to sustain a fission chain reaction and extract useful energy.

statement II: Light water reactors use ordinary water as the moderator.

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 1

Q.32) In 1902 , in a telegram to Hamilton, who among the following proposed to appoint Indian Universities Commission with six permanent members?

[1] S.H. Wood

[2] A. Abbott

[3] Lord Curzon

[4] Lord Macaulay

Correct Answer: 3

Q.33) Statement I: Composting is aerobic degradation of organic materials under controlled conditions, yielding a marketable manure.

Statement II: In such composts, concentrations of key nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are sufficient enough to compete with commercial fertilizers.

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 3

Q.34) Match the column:

A. Basic research

B. Correlation research

C. Case study

D. Longitudinal study

I. investigation meant to discover whether variables covary

II. an indepth study of a single or a few individuals to see how changes affect the person’s behaviour

III. a group of participants is observed and measured over time

IV. a study / research that tests or expands on theory

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer: 2

Q.35) Which of the following is not a benefit of Mind Mapping?

[1] Improving memory retention

[2] Enhancing creativity and problem solving skills

[3] Reducing stress and anxiety

[4] Making information more difficult to comprehend

Correct Answer: 4

Q.36) Which of the following statements about quantum computing are correct?

A. Principles of quantum physics are applied in it

B. Quantum bits (qubits) are used as the information unit

C. Quantum Computers emit radiation fatal to humans/users

[1] (A) and (B) only.

[2] (A) and (C) only.

[3] (B) and (C) only.

[4] (A), (B) and (C).

Correct Answer: 1

Q.37) A Media Access Control (MAC) address refers to a number which uniquely identifies a device on the Internet and is usually made up of_____ bits

[1] 16

[2] 32

[3] 48

[4] 128

Correct Answer: 3

Q.38) Which of the following statements are so related that if one of them is false, the other must be true, even though both of them can be true?

A. Some cars are e-vehicles

B. Some cars are not e-vehicles

C. No cars are e-vehicles

D. All cars are e-vehicles

[1] (A) and (B) only

[2] (B) and (C) only

[3] (A) and (C) only

[4] (C) and (D) only

Correct Answer: 1

Q.39) Which of the following are not the characteristics of Adolescent learers?

A. They have uniformity in their physical development

B. They have stable self-concepts

C. They often experience mood swings and emotional turmoil

D. They have high hopes and aspirations for their future.

E. They have increased peer group pressure.

[1] ACDE

[2] CD

[3] BCE

[4] AB

Correct Answer: 4

Q.40) Identify the characteristics of open-questions in survey research:

A. The questions suggest certain kinds of answer to the respondents.

B. They are useful for exploring new areas.

C. They are time consuming for interviewers to administer.

[1] (A) and (B)

[2] (B) and (C)

[3] (A) and (C)

[4] (A), (B) and (C)

Correct Answer: 2

Q.41) What is the correct increasing order of prescribed limits for following pollutants on 24-hours basis in residential areas by CPCB?

A Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM)

B. Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM)

C. Lead (pb)

D. Ammonia (NH3)

[1] (A), (B), (C), (D)

[2] (B), (A), (C), (D)

[3] (C), (D), (B), (A)

[4] (C), (B), (A), (D)

Correct Answer: 4

Q.42) The Indian University Act, 1904, was passed during the period of ____ as Viceroy.

[1] Lord Wellesley

[2] Lord Ripon

[3] Lord Curzon

[4] Lord Chelmsford

Correct Answer: 3

Q.43) Statement I: In the modern day world, language is an effective instrument of communication.

Statement II: The Buddhists regard language as an important social practice

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 1

Q.44) According to UGC Regulations 2018 on Plagiarism, Level 3 Plagiarism refers to similarities

[1] above 60%

[2] below 10%

[3] above 10% to 30%

[4] above 40% to 60%

Correct Answer: 1

Q.45-49)

Read RC Passage to Answer:

Based on molecular evidence, we know life evolved from one common ancestor around three billion years ago. From then, evolution progressed, slowly to begin with – in the last billion years, we see very rapid diversification of life forms on Earth as multiple components clicked into place, including multicellularity or multiple cells coming together to form one organism, etc. Against this backdrop, we find all insects share a relationship with each other – they have a certain body plan, cellular functions genetically encoded features (many have six legs, for instance) and the information of how these features are formed encoded in their genome. Butterflies share many evolutionary features with insects. Butterflies are also specialised moths, the two separating from their sister group of insects 150 to 200 million years ago. Thereafter, moths themselves evolved significantly before butterflies emerged as a separate group about 85 million years ago, around when dinosaurs went extinct. All the characteristics butterflies have-including much more acute vision compared to moths who rely more on smell – grew thereon. Visual cues are extremely important for butterflies which explains why many are so attractive. Their appealing colours evolved to help them either evade predators or attract mates, dark colours developing to help butterflies maintain body temperature, being cold-blooded.

Some species developed fascinating traits. Aposematism is a combination of two features – one is a defence against predators, like a chemical cover, some butterflies being toxic to birds, spiders, etc. These caterpilars feed on toxic plants which are difficult, if not deadly, for predators to digest. Being protected thus is an interal property – but butterflies with toxins then developed bright wing patterns to show predators they are dangerous, signalling the risk they bear.

Q.45) Compared to moths, butterflies

A. have better vision

B. rely more on smelling power

C. are less attractive

D. are more colorful

[1] AC

[2] BCD

[3] AD

[4] ACD

Correct Answer: 3

Q.46) Appealing colours of butterflies serve all these purposes:

A. Repel mates

B. Evade predators

C. Maintain body temperature

D. Attract predators.

E. Attract mates

[1] ABC

[2] ABCD

[3] BCDE

[4] BCE

Correct Answer: 4

Q.47) Butterflies and insects separated

[1] 1 million years ago

[2] 85 million years ago

[3] 150-200 million years ago

[4] 3 billion, years ago,

Correct Answer: 3

Q.48) Statement (I): Butterflies are specialized moths

Statement (II): Butterflies emerged as a separate group about the time when dinosaurs went extinct

[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 (Il) is incorrect

[4] Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct

Correct Answer: 1

Q.49) Aposematism is a combination of-

A. Defence against predators by emitting a bad smell

B. Bright wing patters for camouflage.

C. Defence against predators by butterflies with toxins.

D. Bright wing patterns to show predators they are dangerous

[1] AD

[2] BC

[3] CD

[4] D

Correct Answer: 3