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www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 2006 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved 5. Which of the two given options is of the level of (C) (v) (ii) (iv) (i) Paper I understanding? (D) (i) (iii) (v) (iv) (I) Define noun. Answer: (A) 1. Which of the following comprise teaching skill? (II) Define noun in your own words.

(A) Black Board writing (A) Only I 8. What do you consider as the main aim of inter (B) Questioning (B) Only II disciplinary research?

(D) All the above (D) Neither I nor II (B) To reduce the emphasis of single subject in research domain. Answer: (D) Answer: (B) (C) To over simplify the problem of research.

(D) To create a new trend in research methodology. 2. Which of the following statements is most 6. Which of the following options are the main appropriate? tasks of research in modern society? Answer: (A) (A) Teachers can teach. (I) to keep pace with the advancement in knowledge. (B) Teachers help can create in a student a desire to learn. (II) to discover new things. 9. One of the aims of the scientific method in research is to: (C) Lecture Method can be used for developing (III) to write a critique on the earlier writings. thinking. (A) improve data interpretation (IV) to systematically examine and critically (D) Teachers are born. analyse the investigations/sources with objectivity. (B) eliminate spurious relations

Answer: (B) (A) IV, II and I (C) confirm triangulation

(B) I, II and III (D) introduce new variables

3. The first Indian chronicler of Indian history was: (C) I and III Answer: (B)

(A) Megasthanese (D) II, III and IV

(B) Fahiyan Answer: (A) 10. The depth of any research can be judged by:

(D) Kalhan 7. Match List-I (Interviews) with List-II (Meaning) (B) objectives of the research. and select the correct answer from the code given below: Answer: (D) (C) total expenditure on the research.

List - I (Interviews) List - II (Meaning) (D) duration of the research.

(a) structured interviews (i) greater flexibility approach 4. Which of the following statements is correct? Answer: (B) (b) Unstructured interviews (ii) attention on the questions to (A) Syllabus is a part of curriculum. be answered

(B) Syllabus is an annexure to curriculum. (c) Focused interviews (iii) individual life-experience Read the following passage and answer the questions 11 to 15: (C) Curriculum is the same in all educational (d) Clinical interviews (iv) Pre determined question institutions affiliated to a particular university. The superintendence, direction and control of preparation of electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, elections to Parliament and State (D) Syllabus is not the same in all educational Code: Legislatures and elections to the offices of the institutions affiliated to a particular university. President and the Vice - President of India are (a) (b) (c) (d) vested in the Election Commission of India. It is Answer: (A) an independent constitutional authority. (A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) Independence of the Election (B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) Commission and its insulation from executive interference is ensured by a specific provision www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com under Article 324 (5) of the constitution that the (A) transparency (D) technological environments chief Election Commissioner shall not be removed from his office except in like manner and on like (B) to maintain law and order Answer: (D) grounds as a Judge of the Supreme Court and conditions of his service shall not be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. (C) regional considerations

In C.W.P. No. 4912 of 1998 (Kushra (D) role for pressure groups 19. The combination of computing, Bharat Vs. Union of India and others), the Delhi telecommunications and media in a digital High Court directed that information relating to atmosphere is referred to as: Government dues owed by the candidates to the Answer: (B) departments dealing with Government (A) online communication accommodation, electricity, water, telephone and transport etc. and any other dues should be furnished by the candidates and this information (B) integrated media should be published by the election authorities 15. The Chief Election Commissioner can be under the commission. removed from his office under Article : (C) digital combine

(A) 125 (D) convergence

11. The text of the passage reflects or raises certain (B) 352 questions: Answer: (D) (C) 226 (A) The authority of the commission cannot be challenged. (D) 324 20. A dialogue between a human-being and a computer programme that occurs simultaneously in (B) This would help in stopping the criminalization Answer: (D) of Indian politics. various forms is described as:

(C) This would reduce substantially the number of (A) man-machine speak contesting candidates. 16. The function of mass communication of (B) binary chat supplying information regarding the processes, (D) This would ensure fair and free elections. issues, events and societal developments is known as: (C) digital talk Answer: (D) (A) content supply (D) interactivity

(B) surveillance Answer: (D) 12. According to the passage, the Election Commission is an independent constitutional (C) gratification 21. Insert the missing number: authority. This is under Article No. 16/32, 15/33, 17/31, 14/34 ? (D) correlation (A) 324 (A) 19/35 Answer: (A) (B) 356 (B) 19/30

(C) 246 (C) 18/35 17. The science of the study of feedback systems in (D) 161 humans, animals and machines is known as: (D) 18/30

Answer: (A) (A) cybernetics Answer: (D)

(B) reverse communication

13. Independence of the Commission means: (C) selectivity study 22. Monday falls on 20th March 1995. What was the day on 3rd November 1994? (A) have a constitutional status. (D) response analysis (A) Thursday (B) have legislative powers. Answer: (A) (B) Sunday (C) have judicial powers. (C) Tuesday (D) have political powers. 18. Networked media exist in inter-connected: (D) Saturday Answer: (A) (A) social environments Answer: (A) (B) economic environments

14. Fair and free election means: (C) political environments www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 23. The average of four consecutive even numbers (a) all businessmen are wealthy. is 27. The largest of these numbers is: 27. Who among the following can be asked to (b) all wealthy people are hard working. (A) 36 make a statement in Indian Parliament? Conclusions: (B) 32 (A) Any MLA (i) All businessmen are hard working. (C) 30 (B) Chief of Army Staff (ii) All hardly working people are not wealthy (D) 28 (C) Solicitor General of India (A) Only (i) follows Answer: (C) (D) Mayor of Delhi (B) Only (ii) follows Answer: (C) (C) Only (i) and (ii) follows 24. In a certain code, FHQK means GIRL. How will WOMEN be written in the same code? (D) Neither (i) nor (ii) follows 28. Which of the following conclusions is logically (A) VNLDM valid based on statement given below? Answer: (A)

(B) FHQKN Statement: Most of the Indian states existed before

independence. (C) XPNFO 31. Using websites to pour out one's grievances is Conclusions: called: (D) VLNDM (I) Some Indian States existed before (A) cyber venting independence. Answer: (A) (B) cyber ranting (II) All Indian States did not exist before

independence. (C) web hate 25. At what time between 4 and 5 O'clock will the (A) only (I) is implied hands of a watch point in opposite directions? (D) web plea (B) only (II) is implied (A) 45 min. past 4 Answer: (A) (C) Both (I) and (II) are implied (B) 40 min. past 4

(D) Neither (I) nor (II) is implied (C) 50 4/11 min. past 4 32. In web search, finding a large number of documents with very little relevant information is Answer: (B) (D) 54 6/11 min. past 4 termed:

29. Water is always involved with landslides. This Answer: (D) (A) poor recall is because it:

(B) web crawl (A) reduces the shear strength of rocks

26. Which of the following conclusions is logically (C) poor precision rate (B) increases the weight of the overburden valid based on statement given below? (D) poor web response (C) enhances chemical weathering Statement: Most teachers are hard working. Answer: (A) (D) is a universal solvent conclusions:

Answer: (B) (I) Some teachers are hard working. 33. The concept of connect intelligence is derived

(II) Some teachers are not hard working. from:

30. Direction for this question: (A) Only (I) is implied (A) virtual reality

Given below are two statements (a) and (b) (B) Only (II) is implied (B) fuzzy logic followed by two conclusions (i) and (ii). Considering the statements to be true, indicate (C) Both (I) and (II) are implied which of the following conclusions logically (C) Bluetooth technology follow from the given statements by selecting one of the four response alternatives given below the (D) Neither (I) nor (II) is implied conclusion : (D) value added networks

Answer: (C) Statements: Answer: (D) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (B) The general slope of the Indian peninsula is (A) System for International technology and from east to west Engineering 34. Use of an ordinary telephone as an Internet applicance is called: (C) The Indian peninsula north of the Satpura (B) Satellite Instructional Television Experiment ranges, is tilted towards the west (A) voice net (C) South Indian Trade Estate (D) The Indian peninsula south of the satpura ranges is tilted towards east (B) voice telephone (D) State Institute of Technology and Engineering

Answer: (A) (C) voice line Answer: (B)

(D) voice portal

39. Soils in the Mahanadi delta are less fertile than Answer: (C) 43. What is the name of the Research station those in the Godavari delta because of: established by the Indian Government for 'Conducting Research at Antarctic?

(A) erosion of top soils by annual floods (A) Dakshin Gangotri 35. Video transmission over the Internet that looks (B) inundation of land by sea water like delayed livecasting is called: (B) Yamunotri (C) traditional agriculture practices (A) virtual video (C) Uttari Gangotri (D) the derivation of alluvial soil from red-soil (B) direct broadcast hinterland (D) None of the above (C) video shift Answer: (A) Answer: (A) (D) real-time video

Answer: (D) 40. Which of the following institutions in the field 44. Ministry of Human Resource Development of education is set up by the MHRD Government (HRD) includes: of India?

(A) Department of Elementary Education and 36. Which is the smallest North-east State in India? (A) Indian council of world Affair, New Delhi Literacy

(A) Tripura (B) Mythic Society, Bangalore (B) Department of Secondary Education and Higher Education (B) Meghalaya (C) National Bal Bhawn, New Delhi (C) Department of Women and Child Development (C) Mizoram (D) India International Centre, New Delhi (D) All the above (D) Manipur Answer: (C) Answer: (D) Answer: (A)

41. Assertion (A): Aerosols have potential for modifying climate 45. Parliament can legislate on matters listed in the 37. Tamilnadu coastal belt has drinking water State list: shortage due to: Reason (R): Aerosols interact with both short waves and radiation (A) With the prior permission of the President. (A) high evaporation (A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the (B) Only after the constitution is amended suitably. correct explanation of (A) (B) sea water flooding due to tsunami (C) In case of inconsistency among State (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the legislatures. (C) over exploitation of ground water by tube wells correct explanation of (A)

(D) At the request of two or more States. (D) seepage of sea water (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

Answer: (D) Answer: (D) (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

Answer: (A)

The following pie chart indicates the expenditure 38. While all rivers of Peninsular India flow into the Bay of Bengal, Narmada and Tapti flow into of a country on various sports during a particular the Arabian Sea because these two rivers: year. Study the pie chart and answer it Question 42. 'SITE' stands for: Number 46 to 50. (A) Follow the slope of these rift valleys

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (A) Hockey and Tennis (C) To give new information

(B) Golf and Basket ball (D) To motivate students to ask questions during lecture (C) Cricket and Football Answer: (B) (D) Hockey and Golf

Answer: (B) 4. Which of the following statement is correct?

(A) Reliability ensures validity 50. If the total expenditure on sport during the year was Rs. 1,50,00,000 the expenditure on cricket and (B) Validity ensures reliability hockey together was: (C) Reliability and validity are independent of each (A) Rs. 60,00,000 other

46. The ratio of the total expenditure on football to (B) Rs. 50,00,000 (D) Reliability does not depend on objectivity that of expenditure on hockey is:

(D) Rs. 25,00,000 (B) 1:1

Answer: (A) 5. Which of the following indicates evaluation? (C) 15:1

(A) Ram got 45 marks out of 200 (D) 3:20 2006 December UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I (B) Mohan got 38 percent marks in English Answer: (B)

(C) Shyam got First Division in final examination 1. Which of the following is not instructional material? (D) All the above 47. if the total expenditure on sports during the year was Rs. 1,20,000,00 how much was spent (A) Over Head Projector on basket ball? Answer: (D) (B) Audio Casset (A) Rs. 9,50,000 (C) Printed Material (B) Rs. 10,00,000 6. Research can be conducted by a person who: (D) Transparency (C) Rs. 12,00,000 (A) has studied research methodology Answer: (D) (D) Rs. 15,00,000 (B) holds a postgraduate degree

Answer: (D) (C) possesses thinking and reasoning ability 2. Which of the following statement is not correct? (D) is a hard worker (A) Lecture Method can develop reasoning 48. The chart shows that the most popular game of Answer: (A) the country is : (B) Lecture Method can develop knowledge

(A) Hockey (C) Lecture Method is one way process 7. Which of the following statements is correct? (B) Football (D) During Lecture Method students are passive (A) Objectives of research are stated in first (C) Cricket chapter of the thesis Answer: (A)

(D) Tennis (B) Researcher must possess analytical ability

(C) Variability is the source of problem Answer: (C) 3. The main objective of teaching at Higher www.netugc.com Education Level is: (D) All the above (A) To prepare students to pass examination Answer: (D) 49. Out of the following country's expenditure is (B) To develop the capacity to take decisions the same on :

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 8. Which of the following is not the Method of memsahib, but a mehbooba. In Ketan Mehta’s The (A) Deewar Research? Rising, the East India Englishman is not the evil oppressor of countless cardboard characterisations, (B) Kabhi Kabhi which span the spectrum from Jewel in the Crown (A) Observation to Kranti, but an honourable friend. (C) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (B) Historical This is Manoj Kumar’s Desh Ki dharti with a difference: there is culture, not contentious (D) Veer Zaara (C) Survey politics; balle balle, not bombs: no dooriyan (distance), only nazdeekiyan (closeness). Answer: (D) (D) Philosophical All four films are heralding a new hero and heroine. The new hero is fallible and Answer: (A) vulnerable, committed to his dharma, but also not afraid of failure - less of a boy and more of a man. 15. Which is the dress of the heroine in Veer- He even has a grown up name: Veer Pratap Singh Zaara? in Veer-Zaara and Mohan Bhargav in Swades. The new heroine is not a babe, but often a bebe, dressed 9. Research can be classified as: in traditional Punjabi clothes, often with the (A) Traditional Gujarati Clothes stereotypical body type as well, as in Bride and (A) Basic, Applied and Action Research Prejudice of Gurinder Chadha. (B) Traditional Bengali Clothes

(B) Quantitative and Qualitative Research (C) Traditional Punjabi Clothes

(C) Philosophical, Historical, Survey and 11. Which word Yash Chopra would not be able to (D) Traditional Madras Clothes Experimental Research pronounce? Answer: (C) (D) All the above (A) Bling + bling

Answer: (D) (B) Zeitgeist 16. Which one of the following can be termed as (C) Montaz verbal communication?

10. The first step of research is: (D) Dooriyan (A) Prof. Sharma delivered the lecture in the class room. (A) Selecting a problem Answer: (B) (B) Signal at the cross-road changed from green to orange. (B) Searching a problem

(D) Identifying a problem (A) Subhash Ghai (D) Dipak wrote a letter for leave application.

Answer: (D) (B) Yash Chopra Answer: (A)

Read the following passage and answer (D) Sakti Samanta 17. Which is the 24 hours English Business news the question nos. 11 to 15: channel in India? Answer: (B) After almost three decades of (A) Zee News contemplating Swarovski-encrusted navels on increasing flat abs, the Mumbai film industry is on a discovery of India and itself. With budgets of (B) NDTV 24×7 over 30 crore each, four soon to be released movies 13. Which movie is associated with Manoj Kumar? by premier directors are exploring the idea of who (C) CNBC we are and redefining who the other is. It is a (A) Jewel in the Crown fundamental question which the bling-bling, glam- sham and disham-disham tends to avoid. It is also a (D) India News question which binds an audience when the lights (B) Kisna go dim and the projector rolls: as a nation, who are we? As a people, where are we going? Answer: (C) (C) Zaara

The Germans coined a word for it, (D) Desh Ki dharti zeitgeist, which perhaps Yash Chopra would not care to pronounce. But at 72, he remains the person 18. Consider the following statements in who can best capture it. After being the first to Answer: (D) communication: project the diasporic Indian on screen in Lamhe in 1991, he has returned to his roots in a new movie.

Veer Zaara, set in 1986, where Pakistan, the (i) Hema Malini is the Chairperson of the traditional other, the part that got away, is the lover Children’s Film Society, India. and the saviour. In Subhas Ghai’s Kisna, set in 14. Which is the latest film by Yash Chopra? 1947, the other is the English woman. She is not a www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (ii) Yash Chopra is the Chairman of the Central 26. Which one of the following statements is Board of Film Certification of India. completely non-sensical? 22. If A stands for 5, B for 6, C for 7, D for 8 and (iii) Sharmila Tagore is the Chairperson of so on, then the following numbers stand for 17, 19, (A) He was a bachelor, but he married recently. National Film Development Corporation. 20, 9 and 8: (B) He is a bachelor, but he married recently. (iv) Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Preeti Zinta (A) PLANE have all been recipients of Dada Saheb Phalke (C) When he married, he was not a bachelor. Award. (B) MOPED (D) When he was a bachelor, he was not married. Which of the statements given above is/are (C) MOTOR correct? Answer: (B) (D) TONGA (A) (i) and (iii)

Answer: (B) www.netugc.com (B) (ii) and (iii)

27. Which of the following statements are mutually (C) (iv) only contradictory? 23. The letters in the first set have certain (D) (iii) only relationship. On the basis of this relationship, what (i) All flowers are not fragrant. is the right choice for the second set? Answer: (B) (ii) Most flowers are not fragrant. AST : BRU : : NQV : ?

(iii) None of the flowers is fragrant. (A) ORW 19. Which of the following pair is not correctly (iv) Most flowers are fragrant. matched? (B) MPU Choose the correct answer from the code given (A) N. Ram: The Hindu (C) MRW below:

(B) Barkha Dutt : Zee News (D) OPW Code:

(D) Prabhu Chawla: Aaj taak (B) (i) and (iii)

Answer: (B) 24. In a certain code, PAN is written as 31 and (C) (ii) and (iii) PAR as 35. In this code PAT is written as:

(D) (iii) and (iv) (A) 30 20. “Because you deserve to know” is the Answer: (D) punchline used by: (B) 37

(A) The Times of India (C) 38 28. Which of the following statements say the (B) The Hindu (D) 39 same thing?

(D) Hindustan Times (ii) “I am a teacher” (said by Binod)

Answer: (D) 25. The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 1/2 : (iii) “My son is a teacher” (said by Binod’s father)

1/3 : 1/4. If its perimeter is 52 cm, the length of the smallest side is: (iv) “My brother is a teacher” (said by Binod’s 21. In the sequence of numbers 8, 24, 12, X, 18, 54 sister) the missing number X is: (A) 9 cm (v) “My brother is a teacher” (said by Binod’s only (A) 26 (B) 10 cm sister)

(B) 24 (C) 11 cm (vi) “My sole enemy is a teacher” (said by Binod’s only enemy) (C) 36 (D) 12 cm Choose the correct answer from the code given (D) 32 below: Answer: (D)

Answer: (C) Code:

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (A) (i) and (ii) 34. Human Development Report for ‘each’ of the year at global level has been published by: (B) (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) Study the following graph and answer question numbers 31 to 33: (A) UNDP (C) (ii) and (vi) (B) WTO (D) (v) and (vi) (C) IMF Answer: (B) (D) World Bank

Answer: (A) 29. Which of the following are correct ways of arguing?

(i) There can be no second husband without a 35. The number of students in four classes A, B, C, second wife. D and their respective mean marks obtained by each of the class are given below: Class A Class B Class C Class D (ii) Anil is a friend of Bob, Bob is a friend of Raj, hence Anil is a friend of Raj. Number of students 10 40 30 20 (iii) A is equal to B, B is equal to C, hence A is equal to C. Arithmetic 31. In the year 2000, which of the following mean 20 30 50 15 Companies earned maximum percent profit? (iv) If everyone is a liar, then we cannot prove it. The combined mean of the marks of four classes (A) a together will be: Choose the correct answer from the code given below: (B) b (A) 32

Code: (C) d (B) 50

(A) (iii) and (iv) (D) f (C) 20

(B) (i), (iii) and (iv) Answer: (D) (D) 15

(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) 32. In the year 2001, which of the following Companies earned minimum percent profit? Answer: (A) 36. LAN stands for: (A) a

(A) Local And National (B) c 30. Which of the following statement/s are ALWAYS FALSE? (B) Local Area Network (C) d

(i) The sun will not rise in the East some day. (C) Large Area Network (D) e

(ii) A wooden table is not a table. (D) Live Area Network Answer: (A)

(iii) Delhi city will be drowned under water. Answer: (B)

(iv) Cars run on water as fuel. Choose the correct 33. In the years 2000 and 2001, which of the answer from the code given below: following Companies earned maximum average percent profit? 37. Which of the following statement is correct? Code: (A) f (A) Modem is a software (A) (i), (iii) and (iv) (B) e (B) Modem helps in stabilizing the voltage (B) Only (iii) (C) d (C) Modem is the operating system (C) (i), (ii) and (iii) (D) b (D) Modem converts the analog signal into digital (D) (ii) alone signal and vice-versa Answer: (A) Answer: (A) Answer: (D)

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38. Which of the following is the appropriate (B) increase in salinity (D) cooler than that in rural areas definition of a computer? (C) growth of phytoplankton Answer: (A) or (B) (A) Computer is a machine that can process information. (D) rise in sea level

(B) Computer is an electronic device that can store, Answer: (C) 46. The University Grants Commission was retrieve and process both qualitative and constituted on the recommendation of: quantitative data quickly and accurately.

(A) Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Commission (C) Computer is an electronic device that can store, retrieve and quickly process only quantitative data. 43. Arrange column II in proper sequence so as to match it with column I and choose the correct (B) Mudaliar Commission answer from the code given below: (D) Computer is a machine that can store, retrieve and process quickly and accurately only qualitative (C) Sargent Commission information Column I Column II (D) Kothari Commission Answer: (B) Water Quality pH Value Answer: (A) 39. Information and Communication Technology (a) Neutral (i) 5 includes:

(b) Moderately acidic (ii) 7 (A) On line learning 47. Which one of the following Articles of the (c) Alkaline (iii) 4 Constitution of India safeguards the rights of (B) Learning through the use of EDUSAT Minorities to establish and run educational institutions of their own liking? (d) Injurious (iv) 8 (C) Web Based Learning (A) Article 19 Code: (D) All the above (B) Article 29 (a) (b) (c) (d) Answer: (D) (C) Article 30 (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

(D) Article 31 (B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) 40. Which of the following is the appropriate format of URL of e-mail? Answer: (C) (C) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)

(A) www_mail.com (D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(B) [email protected] 48. Match List - I (Institutions) with List - II Answer: (A) (Functions) and select the correct answer by using the code given below: (C) [email protected]

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(d) Executing Departments (iv) Legality of expenditure (A) change in weather (C) Refuse burning Justification of Income

(B) sinking of islands (D) Vegetable waste product

(D) extinction of animals (a) (b) (c) (d)

Answer: (A) 45. The urbanisation process accounts for the wind (A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) in the urban centres during nights to remain: (B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) (A) faster than that in rural areas

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(A) during the practice-teaching

50. Electoral disputes arising out of Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections are settled by: (B) after the practice-teaching 9. Fundamental research reflects the ability to:

(A) Election Commission of India (C) before the practice-teaching (A) Synthesize new ideals

(B) Joint Committee of Parliament (D) none of the above (B) Expound new principles

(C) Supreme Court of India Answer: (A) (C) Evaluate the existing material concerning research (D) Central Election Tribunal (D) Study the existing literature regarding various Answer: (C) 5. Which is the least important factor in teaching? topics

(A) punishing the students Answer: (B) 2007 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I (B) maintaining discipline in the class

(C) lecturing in impressive way 10. The study in which the investigators attempt to 1. Teacher uses visual-aids to make learning: trace an effect is known as: (D) drawing sketches and diagrams on the black- (A) simple board (A) Survey Research

(B) more knowledgeable Answer: (A) (B) 'Ex-post Facto' Research

(D) interesting 6. To test null hypothesis, a researcher uses: (D) Summative Research

Answer: (D) (A) t test Answer: (B)

(B) ANOVA

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(D) Good governance (A) Chennai Answer: (A)

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(B) High taxes (B) 6

(C) Complicated rules and regulations (C) 8 17. Adjusting the photo for publication by cutting is technically known as: (D) High prices (D) 4 (A) Photo cutting Answer: (A) Answer: (C) (B) Photo bleeding

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(A) Choropleth

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(B) (iii) and (iv) (B) How various parts are related to the whole? 31. Which of the following methods will you (C) (i) and(iii) choose to prepare choropleth map of India showing urban density of population: (C) How one whole is related to other wholes (D) (ii) and(iv) (A) Quartiles (D) How one part is related to other parts? Answer: (D) (B) Quintiles Answer: (B)

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(A) Arithematic Logic Unit (D) (i), (ii) and (iii) (D) Strong earthquakes and landslides in deserts

(B) Alternating Logic Unit Answer: (B) Answer: (B)

(D) American Logic Unit 46. Value education makes a student: 42. Which of the natural hazards have big effect on Indian people each year? Answer: (A) (A) Good citizen (A) Cyclones (B) Successful businessman (B) Floods 38. "Dpi" stands for: (C) Popular teacher (C) Earthquakes (A) Dots per inch (D) Efficient manager (D) Landslides (B) Digits per unit Answer: (A) Answer: (B) (C) Dots pixel inch

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48. The University which telecasts interactive (D) Deck Top Printing educational programmes through its own channel 44. Sea level rise results primarily due to: is: Answer: (C) (A) Heavy rainfall (A) B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad

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Answer: (D) (C) experimental 4. The students who keep on asking questions in the class should be: (D) all of the above

50. Universities having central campus for (A) encouraged to find answer independently Answer: (D) imparting education are called: (B) advised to meet the teacher after the class

(A) Central Universities (C) encouraged to continue questioning 9. Authenticity of a research finding is its: (B) Deemed Universities (D) advised not to disturb during the lecture (A) Originality (C) Residential Universities Answer: (A) (B) Validity (D) Open Universities

5. Maximum participation of students is possible in (D) All of the above teaching through: 2007 December UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I Answer: (C) (A) discussion method

(B) lecture method 1. Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of: 10. Which technique is generally followed when (C) audio-visual aids the population is finite? (A) Aptitudes (D) text book method (A) Area Sampling Technique (B) Skills Answer: (A) (B) Purposive Sampling Technique (C) Attitudes

(C) Systematic Sampling Technique (D) Relationship 6. Generalised conclusion on the basis of a sample (D) None of the above is technically known as: Answer: (B) Answer: (C) (A) Data analysis and interpretation

(B) Parameter inference 2. Which is the most important aspect of the teacher's role in learning? Read the following passage and answer (C) Statistical inference the questions 11 to 15: (A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance (D) All of the above Gandhi's overall social and environmental philosophy is based on what human (B) The development of insight into what Answer: (A) beings need rather than what they want. His early constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to be avoided introduction to the teachings of Jains, Theosophists, Christian sermons, Ruskin and

Tolstoy, and most significantly the Bhagavad Gita, (C) The provision of encouragement and moral were to have profound impact on the development support www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com of Gandhi's holistic thinking on humanity, nature 13. Gandhiji's deep concern for the disadvantaged, (C) 21th November and their ecological interrelation. His deep concern the poor and rural population created an ambience for the disadvantaged, the poor and rural for an alternative: (D) 30th November population created an ambience for an alternative social thinking that was at once far-sighted, local (A) rural policy and immediate. For Gandhi was acutely aware that Answer: (A) the demands generated by the need to feed and sustain human life, compounded by the growing (B) social thinking industrialization of India, far outstripped the finite resources of nature. This might nowadays appear (C) urban policy naive or commonplace, but such pronouncements 18. The total number of members in the Press were as rare as they were heretical a century ago. Council of India are: Gandhi was also concerned about the destruction, (D) economic thinking under colonial and modernist designs, of the existing infrastructures which had more potential (A) 28 for keeping a community flourishing within Answer: (B) ecologically-sensitive traditional patterns of (B) 14 subsistence, especially in the rural areas, than did the incoming Western alternatives based on nature- blind technology and the enslavement of human (C) 17 spirit and energies. 14. Colonial policy and modernisation led to the destruction of: (D) 20 Perhaps the moral principle for which (A) major industrial infrastructure Gandhi is best known is that of active non- Answer: (A) violence, derived from the traditional moral restraint of not injuring another being. The most (B) irrigation infrastructure refined expression of this value is in the great epic of the Mahabharata, (c. 100 BCE to 200 CE), (C) urban infrastructure where moral development proceeds through 19. The right to impart and receive information is placing constraints on the liberties, desires and guaranteed in the Constitution of India by Article: acquisitiveness endemic to human life. One's (D) rural infrastructure action is judged in terms of consequences and the impact it is likely to have on another. Jainas had (A) 19 (2) (a) generalized this principle to include all sentient Answer: (D) creatures and biocommunities alike. Advanced (B) 19(16) Jaina monks and nuns will sweep their path to avoid harming insects and even bacteria. Non- injury is a non-negotiable universal prescription. (C) 19(2) 15. Gandhi's active non-violence is derived from: (D) 19(1) (a) (A) Moral restraint of not injuring another being 11. Which one of the following have a profound impact on the development of Gandhi's holistic (B) Having liberties, desires and acquisitiveness Answer: (D) thinking on humanity, nature and their ecological interrelations? (C) Freedom of action

(A) Jain teachings (D) Nature-blind technology and enslavement of 20. Use of radio for higher education is based on human spirit and energies the presumption of: (B) Christian sermons Answer: (A) (A) Enriching curriculum based instruction (C) Bhagavad Gita (B) Replacing teacher in the long run (D) Ruskin and Tolstoy 16. DTH service was started in the year: (C) Everybody having access to a radio set Answer: (C) (A) 2000 (D) Other means of instruction getting outdated

(B) 2002 Answer: (C) 12. Gandhi's overall social and environmental philosophy is based on human beings’: (C) 2004 21. Find out the number which should come at the place of question mark which will complete the (A) need (D) 2006 following series: 5, 4, 9, 17, 35, ? = 139

(B) desire Answer: (C) (A) 149

(D) welfare 17. National Press day is celebrated on: (C) 49

Answer: (A) (A) 16th November (D) 69

(B) 19th November Answer: (D) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 25. Which number is missing in the following (C) Monk series? Questions 22 to 24 are based on the (D) Priest following diagram in which there are three 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, ? interlocking circles I, S and P, where circle I stands Answer: (B) for Indians, circle S for Scientists and circle P for (A) 63 Politicians. Different regions in the figure are lettered from a to f (B) 65 30. Choose the number which is different from (C) 67 others in the group:

(D) 69 (A) 49

Answer: (B) (B) 63

26. The function of measurement includes: (D) 81

(A) Prognosis Answer: (D)

(B) Diagnosis 22. The region which represents Non-Indian Scientists who are Politicians: (C) Prediction 31. Probability sampling implies:

(A) f (D) All of the above (A) Stratified Random Sampling

(B) d Answer: (D) (B) Systematic Random Sampling

(D) c 27. Logical arguments are based on: (D) All of the above

Answer: (A) (A) Scientific reasoning Answer: (D)

(B) Customary reasoning

23. The region which represents Indians who are (C) Mathematical reasoning 32. Insert the missing number: neither Scientists nor Politicians: 36/62, 39/63, 43/61, 48/64, ? (D) Syllogistic reasoning (A) g (A) 51/65 Answer: (D) (B) c (B) 56/60

33. At what time between 3 and 4 O'clock will the (C) 50 hands of a watch point in opposite directions? 24. The region which represents Politicians who are Indians as well as Scientists: (D) 51 (A) 40 minutes past three

(A) b 4^2 +1 =17 7^2+1 =50 (C) 50 minutes past three (B) c Answer: (C) (B) 45 minutes past three (C) a 29. Choose the odd word: (D) 55 minutes past three (D) d (A) Nun Answer: (C) Answer: (C) (B) Knight 34. Mary has three children. What is the probability that none of the three children is a boy?

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (A) 1/2 (C) Compact Disk Rewritable (B) Timely Warning System

(B) 1/3 (D) Computer Data Rewritable (C) Rehabilitation

(D) 1 Answer: (B)

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(A) 125 per cent Answer: (A) (D) Urban-governance

(B) 100 per cent Answer: (A)

(D) 50 per cent (A) who what and where 45. The great Indian Bustard bird is found in:

Answer: (A) (B) weird wide web (A) Thar Desert of India

36. CD ROM stands for: (D) world wide web (C) Temperate Forests in the Himalaya

(A) Computer Disk Read Only Memory Answer: (D) (D) Tarai zones of the Himalayan Foot

41. Deforestation during the recent decades has led (B) Compact Disk Read Over Memory Answer: (A) to:

(D) Computer Disk Read Over Memory 46. The first Indian Satellite for serving the (B) Landslides educational sector is known as: Answer: (C) (C) Loss of bio-diversity (A) SATEDU

(D) All the above (B) INSAT - B 37. The 'brain' of a computer which keeps Answer: (D) peripherals under its control is called: (C) EDUSAT

42. Which one of the following natural hazards is (A) Common Power Unit (D) INSAT-C responsible for causing highest human disaster?

(B) Common Processing Unit Answer: (C) (A) Earthquakes

(D) Central Processing Unit 47. Exclusive educational channel of IGNOU is (C) Volcanic eruptions known as: Answer: (D) (D) Tsunami (A) Gyan Darshan

Answer: (A) (B) Cyan Vani 38. Data can be saved on backing storage medium known as : (C) DoorDarshan

43. Which one of the following is appropriate for (A) Compact Disk Recordable (D) Prasar Bharati natural hazard mitigation?

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Codes: (C) Systematic sampling 3. A teacher can establish rapport with his students (a) (b) (c) (d) by: (D) Stratified random sampling (A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (A) becoming a figure of authority Answer: (B) (B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (B) impressing students with knowledge and skill

(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) (C) playing the role of a guide 8. Formulation of hypothesis may NOT be required in: (D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (D) becoming a friend to the students

(A) Survey method Answer: (A) Answer: (B)

(B) Historical studies

(D) Normative studies (A) preparing students for a vocation along with (A) Social transformation knowledge Answer: (B) (B) Personal transformation (B) converting liberal education into vocational education (C) Cultural transformation

(C) giving more importance to vocational than 9. Field-work based research is classified as: (D) All the above general education (A) Empirical Answer: (D) (D) making liberal education job-oriented (B) Historical

Answer: (D)

(C) Experimental 5. A teacher's major contribution towards the 2008 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved maximum self-realization of the student is affected Paper I through: (D) Biographical

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Answer: (B) (D) 15 16. Communication with oneself is known as:

Answer: (C) (A) Group communication Read the following passage and answer the questions 11 to 15: (B) Grapevine communication

The fundamental principle is that 12. The main thrust of Right to equality is that it (C) Interpersonal communication Article 14 forbids class legislation but permits permits: reasonable classification for the purpose of legislation which classification must satisfy the (D) Intrapersonal communication (A) class legislation twin tests of classification being founded on an intelligible differentia which distinguishes persons Answer: (D) or things that are grouped together from those that (B) equality before law and equal protection under are left out of the group and that differentia must the law have a rational nexus to the object sought to be achieved by the Statute in question. The thrust of Article 14 is that the citizen is entitled to equality (C) absolute equality before law and equal protection of laws. In the very 17. Which broadcasting system for TV is followed in India? nature of things the society being composed of (D) special privilege by reason of birth unequals a welfare State will have to strive by both executive and legislative action to help the less (A) NTSE fortunate in society to ameliorate their condition so Answer: (B) that the social and economic inequality in the (B) PAL society may be bridged. This would necessitate a legislative application to a group of citizens otherwise unequal and amelioration of whose lot is (C) SECAM the object of state affirmative action. In the 13. The social and economic inequality in the absence of the doctrine of classification such society can be bridged by: legislation is likely to flounder on the bed rock of (D) NTCS equality enshrined in Article 14. The Court (A) executive and legislative action realistically appraising the social and economic Answer: (B) inequality and keeping in view the guidelines on which the State action must move as (B) universal suffrage constitutionally laid down in Part IV of the Constitution evolved the doctrine of classification. (C) identical treatment The doctrine was evolved to sustain a legislation or 18. All India Radio before 1936 was known as: State action designed to help weaker sections of the society or some such segments of the society in (D) none of the above need of succour. Legislative and executive action (A) Indian Radio Broadcasting may accordingly be sustained if it satisfies the twin Answer: (A) tests of reasonable classification and the rational (B) Broadcasting Service of India principle correlated to the object sought to be achieved. (C) Indian Broadcasting Service The concept of equality before the law 14. The doctrine of classification is evolved to: does not involve the idea of absolute equality (D) All India Broadcasting Service among human beings which is a physical (A) Help weaker sections of the society impossibility. All that Article 14 guarantees is a Answer: (C) similarity of treatment contra-distinguished from identical treatment. Equality before law means that (B) Provide absolute equality among equals the law should be equal and should be equally administered and that the likes should (C) Provide identical treatment be treated alike. Equality before the law does not 19. The biggest news agency of India is: mean that things which are different shall be as though they are the same. It of course means denial (D) None of the above of any special privilege by reason of birth, creed or (A) PTI the like. The legislation as well as the executive Answer: (A) government, while dealing with diverse problems (B) UNI arising out of an infinite variety of human relations must of necessity have the power of making special laws, to attain any particular object and to achieve (C) NANAP www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (D) Samachar Bharati 24. What will be the next letter in the following 28. Value Judgements are: series? Answer: (A) (A) Factual Judgements DCXW, FGVU, HGTS (B) Ordinary Judgements (A) AKPO 20. Prasar Bharati was launched in the year: (C) Normative Judgements (B) JBYZ (A) 1995 (D) Expression of public opinion (C) JIRQ (B) 1997 A normative statement expresses a value (D) LMRS judgment about whether a situation is subjectively desirable or undesirable. (C) 1999 Answer: (C) A value judgment is a judgment of (D) 2001 the rightness or wrongness of something or

someone, or of the usefulness of something or Answer: (B) someone, based on a comparison or otherrelativity 25. The following question is based on the diagram given below. If the two small circles represent 21. A statistical measure based upon the entire Answer: (C) formal class-room education and distance population is called parameter while measure based education and the big circle stands for university upon a sample is known as: system of education, which figure represents the 29. Deductive reasoning proceeds from: university systems? (A) Sample parameter (A) general to particular

(B) Inference (B) particular to general

(D) one particular conclusion to another particular Answer: (C) conclusion Answer: (B)

Answer: (A)

22. The importance of the correlation co-efficient lies in the fact that: 26. The statement, 'To be non-violent is good' is a: 30. AGARTALA is written in code as 14168171, (A) There is a linear relationship between the (A) Moral judgement the code for AGRA is: correlated variables. (B) Factual judgement (A) 1641 (B) It is one of the most valid measure of statistics. (C) Religious judgement (B) 1416 (C) It allows one to determine the degree or strength of the association between two variables. (D) Value judgement (C) 1441

(D) It is a non-parametric method of statistical Answer: (A) (D) 1461 analysis.

Answer: (D) Answer: (C)

27. Assertion (A): Man is a rational being.

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(D) Sample units must be chosen in a systematic (C) 10-12 KHz and objective manner (D) 13-16 KHz 37. Which of the following is not a Computer Answer: (B) language? Answer: (Wrong question)

(A) PASCAL 42. Which one of the following units is used to 33. If January 1st, 2007 is Monday, what was the measure intensity of noise? (B) UNIX day on 1st January 1995? (A) decibel (C) FORTRAN (A) Sunday (B) Hz (D COBOL (B) Monday (C) Phon Answer: (B) (C) Friday (D) Watts/m2

(D) Saturday Answer: (A) 38. A key-board has at least: Answer: (A) 43. If the population growth follows a logistic (A) 91 keys curve, the maximum sustainable yield:

(B) 101 keys 34. Insert the missing number in the following (A) is equal to half the carrying capacity. series: (C) 111 keys (B) is equal to the carrying capacity. 4 16 8 64 ? 256 (D) 121 keys (C) depends on growth rates. (A) 16 Answer: (B) (D) depends on the initial population. (B) 24

Answer: (A) (C) 32 39. An E-mail address is composed of:

(D) 20 (A) two parts 44. Chemical weathering of rocks is largely Answer: (A) dependent upon: (B) three parts (A) high temperature (C) four parts 35. If an article is sold for Rs. 178 at a loss of 11%; (B) strong wind action what would be its selling price in order to earn a (D) five parts profit of 11%? (C) heavy rainfall Answer: (A) (A) Rs. 222.50 (D) glaciation

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45. Structure of earth's system consists of the (A) Indian Council of Cultural Relations (C) His concentration on his work and duties with following: a spirit of obedience to God (B) Indian Council of Scientific Research Match List-I with List-II and give the correct (D) His mastery on the subject and capacity in answer. controlling the students (C) National Council of Educational Research and Training List-I (Zone) List-II (Chemical Answer: (A) Character) (D) Indian Institute of Advanced Studies

(a) Atmosphere (i) Inert gases Answer: (D) (b) Biosphere (ii) Salt, fresh water, snow 2. Which of the following teacher, will be liked most? and ice

(A) A teacher of high idealistic attitude (c) Hydrosphere (iii) Organic substances, 49. Autonomy in higher education implies freedom skeleton matter in: (B) A loving teacher (d) Lithosphere (iv) Light silicates (A) Administration (C) A teacher who is disciplined Codes: (B) Policy-making (D) A teacher who often amuses his students (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Finance Answer: (B)/(A) (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv) (D) Curriculum development

(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) Answer: (D) 3. A teacher's most important challenge is: (c) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

(A) To make students do their home work (D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) 50. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (B) To make teaching-learning process enjoyable Answer: (B) List-I (Institutions) List-II (C) To maintain discipline in the class room (Locations) (D) To prepare the question paper 46. NAAC is an autonomous institution under the (a) Dr. Hari Singh Gour University (i) Mumbai aegis of: Answer: (B) (b) S.N.D.T. University (ii) Baroda (A) ICSSR (c) M.S. University (iii) Jodhpur (B) CSIR (d) J.N. Vyas University (iv) Sagar 4. Value-education stands for: (C) AICTE Codes: (A) making a student healthy (D) UGC (a) (b) (c) (d) (B) making a student to get a job Answer: (D) (A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) (C) inculcation of virtues

(B) (i) (ii) (vi) (iv) (D) all-round development of personality 47. National Council for Women's Education was established in: (C) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) Answer: (C)

(A) 1958 (D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(B) 1976 Answer: (A) 5. When a normal student behaves in an erratic manner in the class, you would: (C) 1989 2008 December UGC NET Previous Years (A) pull up the student then and there Solved Paper I (D) 2000 (B) talk to the student after the class

Answer: (A) 1. According to Swami Vivekananda, teacher's (C) ask the student to leave the class success depends on: www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (D) ignore the student 10. A research problem is not feasible only when:

Answer: (B) (A) it is researchable 11. Both official and corporate India is allergic to:

(B) it is new and adds something to knowledge (A) Failure of Monsoon

6. The research is always - (C) it consists of independent and dependent (B) Poverty and Inequality variables (A) verifying the old knowledge (C) Slowdown in Industrial Production (D) it has utility and relevance (B) exploring new knowledge (D) Mention of Clean Technology Answer: (C) (C) filling the gap between knowledge Answer: (D)

(D) all of these Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions 11 to 15: Answer: (D) 12. If the rate of premature death increases it will:

(A) Exert added burden on the crumbling economy

Radically changing monsoon patterns, 7. The research that applies the laws at the time of (B) Have adverse social and economic reduction in the winter rice harvest and a quantum field study to draw more and more clear ideas consequences increase in respiratory diseases all part of the about the problem is: environmental doomsday scenario which is reportedly playing out in South Asia. According to (C) Make positive effect on our effort to control (A) Applied research a United Nations Environment Programme report, population a deadly three-kilometer deep blanket of pollution comprising a fearsome, cocktail of ash, acids, (B) Action research aerosols and other particles has enveloped in this (D) Have less job aspirants in the society region. For India, already struggling to cope with a (C) Experimental research drought, the implication of this are devastating and Answer: (C) further crop failure will amount to a life and death question for many Indians. The increase in (D) None of these premature deaths will have adverse social and economic consequences and a rise in morbidities Answer: (C) will place an unbearable burden on our crumbling 13. According to the passage, the two wheeler health system. And there is no one to blame but industry is not adequately concerned about: ourselves. Both official and corporate India has always been allergic to any mention of clean technology. Most mechanical two wheelers roll of (A) Passenger safety on the roads 8. When a research problem is related to the assembly line without proper pollution control heterogeneous population, the most suitable system. Little effort is made for R&D on simple (B) Life cover insurance of the vehicle owner sampling method is: technologies, which could make a vital difference to people's lives and the environment. (C) Pollution control system in the vehicle (A) Cluster Sampling However, while there is no denying that South Asia must clean up its act, skeptics might (D) Rising cost of the two wheelers (B) Stratified Sampling question the timing of the haze report. The Kyoto meet on climate change is just two weeks away and Answer: (B) (C) Convenient Sampling the stage is set for the usual battle between the developing world and the West, particularly the Unites States of America. President Mr. Bush has (D) Lottery Method adamantly refused to sign any protocol, which would mean a change in American consumption 14. What could be the reason behind timing of the Answer: (B) level. U.N. environment report will likely find a haze report just before the Kyoto meet? place in the U.S. arsenal as it plants an accusing finger towards controls like India and China. Yet the U.S.A. can hardly deny its own dubious role in (A) United Nations is working hand-in-glove with the matter of erasing trading quotas. U.S.A. 9. The process not needed in experimental research is: Richer countries can simply buy up (B) Organizers of the forthcoming meet to teach a excess credits from poorer countries and continue lesson to the U.S.A. (A) Observation to pollute. Rather than try to get the better of developing countries, who undoubtedly have taken (C) Drawing attention of the world towards up environmental shortcuts in their bid to catch up devastating effects of environment degradation. (B) Manipulation and replication with the West, the USA should take a look at the environmental profigacy, which is going on within. (D) U.S.A. wants to use it as a handle against the (C) Controlling From opening up virgin territories for oil exploration to relaxing the standards for drinking developing countries in the forthcoming meet water, Mr. Bush's policies are not exactly (D) Reference collection beneficial, not even to America's interests. We Answer: (D) realize that we are all in this together and that Answer: (A) pollution anywhere should be a global concern otherwise there will only be more tunnels at the end of the tunnel.

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 15. Which of the following is the indication of (C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i) Answer: (A) environmental degradation in South Asia? (D) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii) (A) Social and economic inequality Answer: (A) 23. The letters in the first set have a certain (B) Crumbling health care system relationship. On the basis of this relationship mark the right choice for the second set:

(C) Inadequate pollution control system AST : BRU : : NQV : ? 19. Which is not correct in latest communication (D) Radically changing monsoon pattern award? (A) ORW Answer: (D) (A) Salman Rushdie - Booker's Prize - July 20, 2008 (B) MPU

(B) Dilip Sanghavi - Business Standard CEO (C) MRW Award July 22, 2008 16. Community Radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interest of: (D) OPW (C) Tapan Sinha - Dada Saheb Falke Award, July 21, 2008 (A) Local audience Answer: (D)

(D) Gautam Ghosh - Osians Lifetime (B) Education Achievement Award July 11, 2008

(A) 2,9,16,23,30 Answer: (A) 20. Firewalls are used to protect a communication (B) 3,10,17,24 network system against:

(C) 4,11,18,25 (A) Unauthorized attacks 17. Orkut is a part of: (D) 1,8,15,22,29 (B) Virus attacks (A) Intra personal Communication Answer: (B) (C) Data-driven attacks (B) Mass Communication

(D) Fire-attacks (C) Group Communication 25. Find out the wrong number in the sequence: Answer: (A) (D) Interpersonal Communication 125, 127, 130, 135, 142, 153, 165 21. Insert the missing number in the following: Answer: (D) (A) 130 2/3, 4/7, ? , 11/21, 16/31

(B) 142 (A) 10/8 18. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: (C) 153 (B) 6/10

List-I List - II (D) 165 (C) 5/10

(Artists) (Art) Answer: (D) (D) 7/13

(a) Amrita Shergill (i) Flute Answer: (D)

(b) T. Swaminathan Pillai (ii) Classical Song 26. There are five books A, B, C, D and E. The

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(B) B Codes: (A) IDSCOLSE

(D) C (A) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) (C) IDSCOLES

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(B) g

35. Which of the firms got maximum profit growth (C) f rate in the year 2007? 28. Two propositions with the same subject and predicate terms but different in quality are: (D) e (A) bdf (A) Contradictory Answer: (C) (B) acf (B) Contrary (C) bed (C) Subaltern 32. Clerks who are graduates as well as (D) ace government employees: (D) Identical Answer: (A) (A) e Answer: (C)

(B) f

36. The accounting software 'Tally' was developed (C) g by: 29. The premises of a valid deductive argument:

(D) h (A) HCL (A) Provide some evidence for its conclusion

Answer: (D) (B) TCS (B) Provide no evidence for its conclusion

33. Some graduates are Clerks but not Government (D) Wipro (D) Provide conclusive evidence for its conclusion employees. Answer: (B) Answer: (D) (A) f

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Answer: (A) (B) Epicenter (D) None of these

39. 'Micro Processing'is made for: (D) Swells

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(C) Monsoon region Answer: (D) 40. Information, a combination of graphics, text, sound, video and animation is called: (D) Mediterranean region

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(A) Plastic- 9-12% (c) Corbett National Park (iii) Rajasthan Codes:

(B) Metals- 1-2% (d) Sariska Tiger Reserve (iv) Uttarakhand (a) (b) (c) (d)

(D) Biodegradable- 35-40% (a) (b) (c) (d) (B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Answer: (A) (A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (C) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

(B) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

42. Fresh water achieves its greatest density at: (C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv) Answer: (D)

(A) -4° C (D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) 49. Election of Rural and Urban local bodies are conducted and ultimately supervised by: (B) 0° C Answer: (A)

(A) Election Commission of India (C) 4° C

(B) State Election Commission (D) -2.5° C 46. According to Radhakrishnan Commission, the aim of Higher Education is: (C) District Collector and District Magistrate Answer: (C) (A) To develop the democratic values, peace and harmony (D) Concerned Returning Officer

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(D) Indian Council of Social Science Research is a (B) Action research statutory body related to research in social sciences

5. Which of the following is not a product of (C) Descriptive research Answer: (C) learning?

(D) All the above 2009 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved (A) Attitudes Paper I Answer: (D) (B) Concepts

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(B) Through its reliability Answer: (C)

2. Why do teachers use teaching aid? (C) Through its validity

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(D) Explanation 8. The basis on which assumptions are formulated: In principle, democracy consists of rule by the people; but where direct rule is not possible, Answer: (A) (A) Cultural background of the country it's rule by persons elected by the people. It is natural that there would be some differences of opinion among the elected members as in the rest (B) Universities of the society.

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15. Who became the members of the new (D) Grapevine communication commercial class during that time? Answer: (C) 11. In pre-British period, when India was ruled by (A) British Aristocrats the independent rulers:

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(D) Merchants and artisans (Artists) (Art) (C) Public opinion was inevitable for policy making Answer: (D) (a) Pandit Jasraj (i) Hindustani vocalist (D) Law was equal for one and all

(b) Kishan Maharaj (ii) Sitar Answer: (B) 16. Which one of the following Telephonic Conferencing with a radio link is very popular (c) Ravi Shankar (iii) Tabla throughout the world? (d) Udai Shankar (iv) Dance 12. What is the distinguishing feature of the (A) TPS democracy practiced in Britain? Codes: (B) Telepresence (A) End to the rule of might is right. (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Video conference (B) Rule of the people, by the people and for the people. (A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (D) Video teletext

(C) It has stood the test of time. (B) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) Answer: (C) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) Answer: (Wrong question) (C) Linguistic expression

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(D) SEPTS 27. 'No man are mortal' is contradictory of:

Answer: (C) (A) Some man are mortal

(B) Some man are not mortal

23. The letters in the first set have a certain (C) All men are mortal relationship. On the basis of this relationship mark the right choice for the second set: BDFH : OMKI : 31. If you want to select Hindi and English : GHIK : ? (D) No mortal is man knowing teachers, which of the following is to be selected?

(A) FHJL Answer: (A) (A) g

(B) RPNL (B) b

(D) LJHF (A) premises are false and conclusion true (D) e

Answer: (C) (B) premises are false and conclusion is also false Answer: (C)

24. What was the day of the week on 1st January (D) premises are true and conclusion is true 2001? 32. If you want to select persons, who do not know English and are not teachers, which of the region is Answer: (D) to be selected? (A) Friday (A) e (B) Tuesday 29. Structure of logical argument is based on: (B) g (C) Sunday (A) Formal validity (C) b (D) Wednesday (B) Material truth (D) a www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (B) (B) a web browser Answer: (D)

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(C) socio-economic characteristics of the 37. Which was the first company to launch mobile environment phone services in India? (D) all the above (A) Essar Answer: (D) (B) BPL

33. In which year the quantity of engineering (C) Hutchison goods' exports was maximum? 42. Bog is a wetland that receives water from: (D) Airtel (A) 2005 (A) nearby water bodies Answer: (B) (B) 2006 (B) melting

Answer: (B) (A) Bangalore Answer: (C)

(B) Sri Harikota

34. In which year the value of engineering goods (C) Chennai 43. Which of the following region is in the very decreased by 50 percent compared to the previous high risk zone of earthquakes? year? (D) Ahmedabad (A) Central Indian Highland (A) 2004 Answer: (B) (B) Coastal region (B) 2007

(C) A personal or corporate website in the form of an online journal 44. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct 35. In which year the quantity of exports was 100 answer using the codes given below: percent higher than the quantity of previous year? (D) A personal or corporate Google search List-I List-II (A) 2004 Answer: (C) (Institutes) (Citie (B) 2005 s)

(C) 2006 (a) Central Arid Zone Institute (i) Kolkata 40. Which is not online Indian Matrimonial website? (b) Space Application Centre (ii) New Delhi (D) 2007 (c) Indian Institute of (A) www.jeevansathi.com Public Administration (iii) Ahmedabad Answer: (C) (d) Headquarters of (B) www.bharatmatrimony.com Indian Science Congress (iv) Jodhpur

(A) a connection to internet www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (a) (b) (c) (d) (B) Part II 3. Knowledge of students’ needs

(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (C) Part III 4. Content mastery

(B) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) (D) Part IV (A) 1 & 3

(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (C) 2, 3 & 4

Answer: (A) 49. Which article of the constitution provides (D) 2 & 4 safeguards to Naga Customary and their social practices against any act of Parliament? Answer: (C)

(A) Article 371 A 45. Indian coastal areas experienced Tsunami disaster in the year: (B) Article 371 B 3. Who has signed an MOU for Accreditation of (A) 2005 Teacher Education Institutions in India? (C) Article 371 C (B) 2004 (A) NAAC and UGC (D) Article 263 (C) 2006 (B) NCTE and NAAC Answer: (A) (D) 2007 (C) UGC and NCTE

Answer: (B) (D) NCTE and IGNOU 50. Which one of the following is not the tool of good governance? Answer: (B)

(A) Right to information 46. The Kothari Commission's report was entitled on: (B) Citizens' Charter 4. The primary duty of the teacher is to (A) Education and National Development (C) Social Auditing (A) raise the intellectual standard of the students (B) Learning to be adventure (D) Judicial Activism (B) improve the physical standard of the students (C) Diversification of Education Answer: (D) (C) help all round development of the students

(D) Education and socialization in democracy

2009 December UGC NET Previous Years (D) imbibe value system in the students Answer: (A) Solved Paper I Answer: (C)

1. The University which telecasts interaction 47. Which of the following is not a Dual mode educational programmes through its own channel is University? 5. Micro teaching is more effective (A) Osmania University (A) Delhi University (A) during the preparation for teaching-practice (B) University of Pune (B) Bangalore University (B) during the teaching-practice (C) Annamalai University (C) Madras University (C) after the teaching-practice (D) Indira Gandhi National Open University (D) Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) (D) always

Answer: (D) Answer: (D) Answer: (B)

Dual Mode University : University which offer both, 2. Which of the following skills are needed for 6. What quality the students like the most in a 1. open and distance learning, present day teacher to adjust effectively with the teacher? 2. fulltime and distance study classroom teaching?

(A) Idealist philosophy 48. Which part of the Constitution of India is 1. Knowledge of technology known as "Code of Administrators”? 2. Use of technology in teaching learning (B) Compassion (A) Part I www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Discipline 13. Which heading is more appropriate to assign to the above passage? (D) Entertaining 11. Manipulation is always a part of (A) Wavell’s Journal Answer: (C) (A) Historical research (B) Role of Muslim League (B) Fundamental research (C) I.N.A. Trials 7. A null hypothesis is (C) Descriptive research (D) Red Fort Prisoners (A) when there is no difference between the (D) Experimental research variables Answer: (C) Answer: (C) (B) the same as research hypothesis

(C) subjective in nature 14. The trial of P.K. Sehgal, Shah Nawaz and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon symbolises 12. Which correlation co-efficient best explains the (D) when there is difference between the variables relationship between creativity and intelligence? (A) communal harmony Answer: (A) (A) 1.00 (B) threat to all religious persons (B) 0.6 (C) threat to persons fighting for the freedom 8. The research which is exploring new facts (C) 0.5 through the study of the past is called (D) British reaction against the natives (D) 0.3 (A) Philosophical research Answer: (C) Answer: (A) (B) Historical research

(C) Mythological research 15. I.N.A. stands for Read the following passage and answer (D) Content analysis the Question Nos. 13 to 18: (A) Indian National Assembly

Answer: (B) The decisive shift in British Policy (B) Indian National Association really came about under mass pressure in the autumn and winter of 1945 to 46 – the months (C) Inter-national Association which Perderel Moon while editing Wavell’s Journal has perceptively described as ‘The Edge of 9. Action research is a Volcano’. Very foolishly, the British initially (D) Indian National Army decided to hold public trials of several hundreds of the 20,000 I.N.A. prisoners (as well as dismissing (A) An applied research from service and detaining without trial no less Answer: (D) than 7,000). They compounded the folly by (B) A research carried out to solve immediate holding the first trial in the Red Fort, Delhi in problems November 1945, and putting on the dock together a Hindu, a Muslim and a Sikh (P.K. Sehgal, Shah Nawaz, Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon). Bhulabhai 16. ‘There has seldom been a matter which has (C) A longitudinal research Desai, Tejbahadur Sapru and Nehru appeared for attracted so much Indian Public Interest and, it is the defence (the latter putting on his barrister’s safe to say, sympathy … this particular brand of sympathy cuts across communal barriers.’ (D) Simulative research gown after 25 years), and the Muslim League also joined the countrywide protest. On 20 November, an Intelligence Bureau note admitted that “there Who sympathises to whom and against whom? Answer: (B) has seldom been a matter which has attracted so much Indian public interest and, it is safe to say, (A) Muslims sympathised with Shah Nawaz sympathy … this particular brand of sympathy cuts across communal barriers.’ A journalist (B. Shiva against the British Rao) visiting the Red Fort prisoners on the same 10. The process not needed in Experimental day reported that ‘There is not the slightest feeling (B) Hindus sympathised with P.K. Sehgal against Researches is among them of Hindu and Muslim … A majority the British of the men now awaiting trial in the Red Fort is (A) Observation Muslim. Some of these men are bitter that Mr. Jinnah is keeping alive a controversy about (C) Sikhs sympathised with Gurbaksh Singh Pakistan.’ The British became extremely nervous Dhillon against the British (B) Manipulation about the I.N.A. spirit spreading to the Indian Army, and in January the Punjab Governor (D) Indians sympathised with the persons who (C) Controlling reported that a Lahore reception for released I.N.A. were to be trialled prisoners had been attended by Indian soldiers in uniform. (D) Content Analysis Answer: (D)

Answer: (B) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 17. The majority of people waiting for trial outside (C) Information is power. (D) Saturday the Red Fort and criticising Jinnah were the (D) Telepathy is technological. Answer: (B) (A) Hindus Answer: (D) (B) Muslims 26. When an error of 1% is made in the length and (C) Sikhs breadth of a rectangle, the percentage error (%) in the area of a rectangle will be 22. Communication becomes circular when (D) Hindus and Muslims both (A) 0 (A) the decoder becomes an encoder Answer: (B) (B) 1 (B) the feedback is absent

(C) 2 (C) the source is credible 18. The sympathy of Indian soldiers in uniform with the released I.N.A. prisoners at Lahore (D) 4 (D) the channel is clear indicates Answer: (C) Answer: (A) (A) Feeling of Nationalism and Fraternity

(B) Rebellious nature of Indian soldiers 27. The next number in the series 2, 5, 9, 19, 37, ? 23. The site that played a major role during the (C) Simply to participate in the reception party will be terrorist attack on Mumbai (26/11) in 2008 was

(D) None of the above (A) 74 (A) Orkut

Answer: (A) (B) 75 (B) Facebook

19. The country which has the distinction of having (D) None of the above (D) Twitter the two largest circulated newspapers in the world is Answer: (B) Answer: (D) (A) Great Britain

(B) The United States 28. There are 10 true-false questions in an 24. Assertion (A): For an effective classroom examination. Then these questions can be communication at times it is desirable to use the (C) Japan answered in projection technology.

(D) China (A) 20 ways Reason (R): Using the projection technology facilitates extensive coverage of course contents. Answer: (C) (B) 100 ways (A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation. (C) 240 ways

20. The chronological order of non-verbal (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the (D) 1024 ways communication is correct explanation. Answer: (D) (N number of power of 2) (A) Signs, symbols, codes, colours (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(B) Symbols, codes, signs, colours (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. 29. What will be the next term in the following? (C) Colours, signs, codes, symbols Answer: (B) DCXW, FEVU, HGTS, ? (D) Codes, colours, symbols, signs (A) AKPO Answer: (A) 25. January 1, 1995 was a Sunday. What day of the week lies on January 1, 1996? (B) ABYZ 21. Which of the following statements is not connected with communication? (A) Sunday (C) JIRQ

(A) Medium is the message. (B) Monday (D) LMRS

(B) The world is an electronic cocoon. (C) Wednesday Answer: (C) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (B) God is great

30. Three individuals X, Y, Z hired a car on a (C) Gandhiji is the Father of the Nation sharing basis and paid Rs. 1,040. They used it for 7, 8, 11 hours, respectively. What are the charges (D) Man is a rational being. paid by Y?

Answer: (A) (A) Rs. 290

(B) Rs. 320

Questions from 35 - 36 are based on the (C) Rs. 360 following diagram in which there are three intersecting circles. H representing The Hindu, I (D) Rs. 440 representing Indian Express and T representing The Times of India. A total of 50 persons were surveyed and the number in the Venn diagram (A) 1 Answer: (B) indicates the number of persons reading the newspapers. (B) 2

35. How many persons would be reading at least Study the following graph and answer the (D) repeated observation two newspapers? questions 38 to 40:

Answer: (C) (A) 23

(B) 25

32. Inductive reasoning is based on or presupposes (C) 27

(A) uniformity of nature (D) 29

(B) God created the world Answer: (C)

(C) unity of nature 38. In which year total number of patients registered in hospital X and hospital Y was the maximum? (D) laws of nature 36. How many persons would be reading almost two newspapers? (A) 2003 Answer: (A)

(A) 23 (B) 2004

(D) 48 Answer: (C) (B) socially relevant

Answer: (A) (C) individually satisfying

39. What is the maximum dispersion in the (D) analytical registration of patients in the two hospitals in a 37. Which of the following graphs does not year? Answer: (B) represent regular (periodic) behaviour of the variable f(t)? (A) 8000

(B) 6000 34. Which of the following is an analogous statement? (C) 4000

(A) Man is like God (D) 2000 www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (A) (A) Terabyte Answer: (A)

(B) Megabyte

40. In which year there was maximum decrease in (C) Kilobyte 49. The great Indian Bustard bird is found in registration of patients in hospital X? (D) Gigabyte (A) Thar Desert of Rajasthan (A) 2003 Answer: (A) (B) Coastal regions of India (B) 2004 (C) Malabar Coast (C) 2005 45. bit stands for (D) Delta regions (D) 2006 (A) binary information term Answer: (A) Answer: (D)

(B) binary digit

(C) binary tree 50. The Sagarmanthan National Park has been 41. Which of the following sources of data is not established to preserve the eco-system of which based on primary data collection? mountain peak? (D) Bivariate Theory (A) Census of India (A) Kanchenjunga Answer: (B) (B) National Sample Survey (B) Mount Everest

(C) Statistical Abstracts of India (C) Annapurna 46. Which one of the following is not a linear data structure? (D) National Family Health Survey (D) Dhaulavira (A) Array Answer: (C) Answer: (B) (B) Binary Tree

(C) Queue 42. Which of the four data sets have more 51. Maximum soot is released from dispersion? (D) Stack (A) Petrol vehicles (A) 88 91 90 92 89 91 Answer: (B) (B) CNG vehicles (B) 0 1 1 0 –1 –2

(C) Diesel vehicles (C) 3 5 2 4 1 5 47. Which one of the following is not a network device? (D) Thermal Power Plants (D) 0 5 8 10 –2 –8

(A) Router Answer: (D) Answer: (D)

(B) Switch

(C) Hub 52. Surface Ozone is produced from 43. Which of the following is not related to information security on the Internet? (D) CPU (A) Transport sector (A) Data Encryption Answer: (D) (B) Cement plants (B) Water marking (C) Textile industry (C) Data Hiding 48. A compiler is used to convert the following to (D) Chemical industry object code which can be executed (D) Information Retrieval Answer: (A) (A) High-level language Answer: (D)

(B) Low-level language

53. Which one of the following non-conventional (C) Assembly language energy sources can be exploited most 44. Which is the largest unit of storage among the economically? following? (D) Natural language www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (A) Solar (B) Workshop (A) Punctuality and sincerity

(B) Wind (C) Lecture (B) Content mastery

(D) Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Answer: (D) (D) Content mastery and sociable

Answer: (A) Answer: (B)

58. The Parliament in India is composed of

54. The most recurring natural hazard in India is (A) Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha 2. The primary responsibility for the teacher’s adjustment lies with (A) Earthquakes (B) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha & Vice President (A) The children (B) Floods (C) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha & President (B) The principal (C) Landslides (D) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha with their Secretariats (C) The teacher himself (D) Volcanoes Answer: (C) (D) The community Answer: (B) Answer: (C) 59. The enrolment in higher education in India is contributed both by Formal System of Education and by System of Distance Education. Distance 55. The recommendation of National Knowledge education contributes Commission for the establishment of 1500 3. As per the NCTE norms, what should be the Universities is to staff strength for a unit of 100 students at (A) 50% of formal system B.Ed. level? (A) create more teaching jobs (B) 25% of formal system (A) 1 + 7 (B) ensure increase in student enrolment in higher education (C) 10% of the formal system (B) 1 + 9

(C) replace or substitute the privately managed (D) Distance education system’s contribution is not (C) 1 + 10 higher education institutions by public institutions taken into account while considering the figures of enrolment in higher education (D) 1 + 5 (D) enable increased movement of students from rural areas to urban areas Answer: (B) Answer: (A)

Answer: (B)

60. Assertion (A): The U.G.C. Academic Staff 4. Research has shown that the most frequent Colleges came into existence to improve the symptom of nervous instability among quality of teachers. 56. According to Article 120 of the Constitution of teachers is India, the business in Parliament shall be transacted in Reason (R): University and college teachers have (A) Digestive upsets to undergo both orientation and refresher courses. (A) English only (B) Explosive behaviour (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation. (B) Hindi only (C) Fatigue (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the (C) English and Hindi both correct explanation of (A). (D) Worry

(D) All the languages included in Eighth Schedule (C) (A) is correct and (R) is false. Answer: (D) of the Constitution

(D) (A) is false and (R) is correct. Answer: (C)

Answer: (A) 5. Which one of the following statements is

correct?

57. Which of the following is more interactive and 2010 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved (A) Syllabus is an annexure to the curriculum. student centric? Paper I

(B) Curriculum is the same in all educational (A) Seminar institutions. 1. Which one of the following is the most important quality of a good teacher ? www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Curriculum includes both formal, and Concepts determine what the 11. In the passage, the earth is taken as informal education. observer perceives, yet concepts are derived from the generalizations of previous percepts. (A) The Globe What happens is that the educated observer is (D) Curriculum does not include methods of taught evaluation. to accept a set of concepts and then shar (B) The Human Habitat pens or changes these concepts during a Answer: (C) professional career. In any one field of scholarship, professional opinion at one time (C) A Celestial Body determines what concepts and procedures are

acceptable, and these form a kind of model of (D) A Planet scholarly behaviour. 6. A successful teacher is one who is Answer: (C)

(A) Compassionate and disciplinarian

7. The problem raised in the passage reflects (B) Quite and reactive on 12. Percept means

(D) Passive and active (B) human behaviour (B) A conceived idea

Answer: (A) (C) cultural perceptions (C) Ends of a spectrum

(D) professional opinion (D) An abstract image

Read the following passage carefully and Answer: (C) Answer: (B) answer the questions 7 to 12.

The phrase “What is it like?” stands for a fundamental thought process. How does 8. According to the passage, human beings one go about observing and reporting on have mostly in mind 13. Action research means things and events that occupy segments of earth space? Of all the infinite variety of phenomena on the face of the earth, how (A) Observation of things (A) A longitudinal research does one decide what phenomena to observe? There is no such thing as a (B) Preparation of mental images (B) An applied research complete description of the earth or any part of it, for every microscopic point on the earth’s surface differs from every other such (C) Expression through language (C) A research initiated to solve an immediate point. Experience shows that the things problem observed are already familiar, because they (D) To gain knowledge are like phenomena that occur at home or (D) A research with socioeconomic objective because they resemble the abstract images and models developed in the human mind. Answer: (B) Answer: (C)

How are abstract images formed? Humans alone among the animals possess language; their words symbolize not 9. Concept means only specific things but also mental images of 14. Research is classes of things. People can remember what they have seen or experienced because they (A) A mental image attach a word symbol to them. (A) Searching again and again (B) A reality During the long record of our efforts (B) Finding solution to any problem to gain more and more knowledge about the (C) An idea expressed in language form face of the earth as the human habitat, there (C) Working in a scientific way to search for has been a continuing interplay between truth of any problem things and events. The direct observation (D) All the above through the senses is described as a percept; the mental image is described as a (D) None of the above concept. Percepts are what some people Answer: (C) describe as reality, in contrast to mental Answer: (C) images, which are theoretical, implying that they are not real.

10. The relation of Percept to Concept is The relation of Percept to Concept is not as simple as the definition implies. It is 15. A common test in research demands much now quite clear that people of different (A) Positive (B) Negative priority on cultures or even individuals in the same culture develop different mental images of (C) Reflective (D) Absolute (A) Reliability reality and what they perceive is a reflection of these preconceptions. The direct observation of things and events on the face of the earth is Answer: (C) (B) Usability so clearly a function of the mental images of the mind of the observer that the whole idea of (C) Objectivity reality must be reconsidered. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (D) All of the above 20. Post-modernism is associated with (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). Answer: (D) (A) newspapers (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (B) magazines (D) Both (A) and (R) are false. 16. Which of the following is the first step in (C) radio starting the research process? Answer: (C) (D) television (A) Searching sources of information to locate problem. Answer: (D) 25. When an error of 1% is made in the length (B) Survey of related literature of a square, the percentage error in the area

of a square will be (C) Identification of problem 21. Didactic communication is (A) 0 (D) Searching for solutions to the problem (A) intra-personal (B) 1/2 Answer: (C) (B) inter-personal (C) 1

(C) organisational (D) 2 17. If a researcher conducts a research on (D) relational finding out which administrative style Answer: (d) contributes more to institutional effectiveness ? This will be an example of Answer: (B)

(A) Basic Research 26. On January 12, 1980, it was a Saturday. The day of the week on January (B) Action Research 22. In communication, the language is 12, 1979 was

(D) None of the above (B) the verbal code (B) Friday

Answer: (C) (C) the symbolic code (C) Saturday

(D) the iconic code (D) Sunday

18. Normal Probability Curve should be Answer: (B) Answer: (B)

(A) Positively skewed

(B) Negatively skewed 23. Identify the correct sequence of the 27. If water is called food, food is called tree, following: tree is called earth, earth is called world, which of the following grows a fruit? (C) Leptokurtic skewed (A) Source, channel, message, receiver (A) Water (D) Zero skewed (B) Source, receiver, channel, message (B) Tree Answer: (D) (C) Source, message, receiver, channel (C) World

(D) Source, message, channel, receiver (D) Earth 19. In communication, a major barrier to reception of messages is Answer: (D) Answer: (D) (A) audience attitude

(B) audience knowledge 24. Assertion (A): Mass media promote a culture of violence in the society. 28. E is the son of A, D is the son of B, E is married to C, C is the daughter of B. How is D (C) audience education related to E? Reason (R): Because violence sells in the market as people themselves are violent in (D) audience income character. (A) Brother

Answer: (A) (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (B) Uncle correct explanation of (A).

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Father-in-law (D) he is rational 35. The region which represents non Indian scientists who are politicians. (D) Brother-in-law Answer: (D) / (A) (A) f Answer: (D) (B) d 33. Two statements I and II given below are followed by two conclusions (a) and (b). (C) a Supposing the statements are true, which of 29. If INSURANCE is coded as ECNARUSNI, the following conclusions can logically follow? how HINDRANCE will be coded? (D) c

I. Some religious people are morally good. (A) CADNIHWCE Answer: (A)

II. Some religious people are rational. (B) HANODEINR

Conclusions: (C) AENIRHDCN 36. The region which represents politicians who are Indians as well as scientists. (a) Rationally religious people are good (D) ECNARDNIH morally. (A) b Answer: (D) (b) Non-rational religious persons are not (B) c morally good.

2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, ? Answer: (C) (C) Both (a) and (b) follow.

(A) 63 (D) Neither (a) nor (b) follows.

(B) 65 37. The population of a city is plotted as a Answer: (C) function of time (years) in graphic form below: (C) 67

(D) 69 34. Certainty is

Answer: (B) (A) an objective fact

(B) emotionally satisfying

31. Which of the following is an example of (C) logical circular argument?

(D) ontological (A) God created man in his image and man created God in his own image. Answer: (B) Which of the following inference can be drawn (B) God is the source of a scripture and the from above plot? scripture is the source of our knowledge of God. (A) The population increases exponentially. Questions from 35 to 36 are based (C) Some of the Indians are great because on the following diagram in which there (B) The population increases in parabolic India is great. are three intersecting circles I, fashion. S and P where circle I stands for Indians, circle S stands for scientists and circle P for (D) Rama is great because he is Rama. politicians. Different regions of the figure are (C) The population initially increases in a lettered from a to g. linear fashion and then stabilizes. Answer: (B) (D) The population initially increases exponentially and then stabilizes.

32. Lakshmana is a morally good person Answer: (D) because In the following chart, the price of logs is (A) he is religious shown in per cubic metre and that of Plywood and Saw Timber in per tones. Study the chart and answer the following questions 38, 39 and (B) he is educated 40.

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (A) 46. Which one of the following is different from other members?

(A) Google 42. In a large random data set following normal distribution, the ratio (%) of (B) Windows number of data points which are in the range of (mean ± standard deviation) to (C) Linux the total number of data points, is

(D) Mac (A) ~ 50%

38. Which product shows the maximum Answer: (A) (B) ~ 67% percentage increase in price over the period?

Answer: (B) (C) Log (A) CPU

(D) None of the above (B) Memory

43. Which number system is usually followed Answer: (A) (C) Hard disk in a typical 32-bit computer?

(D) Floppy disk (A) 2

39. What is the maximum percentage increase Answer: (A) (B) 8 in price per cubic metre of log ?

(C) 10 (A) 6 48. Computers on an internet are identified by (D) 16 (B) 12 (A) e-mail address Answer: (B) (C) 18 (B) street address

(D) 20 (C) IP address 44. Which one of the following is an example Answer: (D) of Operating System? (D) None of the above

(A) Microsoft Word Answer: (C) 40. In which year the prices of two (B) Microsoft Excel products increased and that of the third increased ? (C) Microsoft Access 49. The Right to Information Act, 2005 makes (A) 2000 the provision of (D) Microsoft Windows (B) 2002 (A) Dissemination of all types of information by Answer: (D) all Public authorities to any person. (C) 2003

(B) Establishment of Central, State and District (D) 2006 Level Information Commissions as an 45. Which one of the following represents the appellate body. binary equivalent of the decimal number 23? Answer: (B) (C) Transparency and accountability in Public (A) 01011 authorities.

(B) 10111 (D) All of the above 41. Which one of the following is the oldest Archival source of data in India ? (C) 10011 Answer: (D/A) (A) National Sample Surveys (D) None of the above (B) Agricultural Statistics Answer: (D) 50. Which type of natural hazards cause maximum damage to property and lives? (C) Census

(A) Hydrological (D) Vital Statistics www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (B) Hydro-meteorological (D) (A) is false, but (R) is correct. (D) India had implemented the right to Free and Compulsory Primary Education in 2002 through 86th Constitutional Amendment. (C) Geological Answer: (B)

Answer: (C) – Confirm answer (D) Geo-chemical

Answer: (B/A) 55. Climate change has implications for

58. Which statement is not correct about the 1. soil moisture “National Education Day” of India?

51. Dioxins are produced from 2. forest fires th (A) It is celebrated on 5 September every year. (A) Wastelands 3. biodiversity (B) It is celebrated on 11th November every (B) Power plants 4. ground water year.

(C) Sugar factories Identify the correct combination according to (C) It is celebrated in the memory of India’s the code: first Union Minister of Education, Dr. Abul Kalam Azad. (D) Combustion of plastics Codes : (D) It is being celebrated since 2008 Answer: (D) (A) 1 and 3 Answer: (A)

(B) 1, 2 and 3

52. The slogan “A tree for each child” was coined for (C) 1, 3 and 4 59. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (A) Social forestry programme (D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

List – I List – II (B) Clean Air programme Answer: (B/D)

(a) Article 280 (i) Administrative Tribunals (C) Soil conservation programme

(b) Article 324 (ii) Election Commission of (D) Environmental protection programme 56. The accreditation process by National India Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) differs from that of National Board Answer: (D) of Accreditation (NBA) in terms of (c) Article 323 (iii) Finance Commission at Union level

(A) Disciplines covered by both being the (d) Article 315 (iv) Union Public Service same, there is duplication of efforts. Commission 53. The main constituents of biogas are

(B) One has institutional grading approach and Codes : (A) Methane and Carbon di-oxide the other has programme grading approach.

(a) (b) (c) (d) (B) Methane and Nitric oxide (C) Once get accredited by NBA or NAAC, the institution is free from renewal of grading, which is not a progressive decision. (A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (C) Methane, Hydrogen and Nitric oxide

(D) This accreditation amounts to approval of (B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv) (D) Methane and Sulphur di-oxide minimum standards in the quality of education in the institution concerned. (C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) Answer: (A) Answer: (B) (D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

Answer: (A) 54. Assertion (A): In the world as a whole, the environment has degraded during past several 57. Which option is not correct? decades.

(A) Most of the educational institutions of 60. Deemed Universities declared by UGC Reason (R): The population of the world has National repute in scientific and technical been growing significantly. th under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956, are not sphere fall Under 64 entry of Union list. permitted to

(A) (A) is correct, (R) is correct and (R) is the (B) Education, in general, is the subject of correct explanation of (A). (A) Offer programmes in higher education and concurrent list since 42nd Constitutional issue degrees. Amendment Act 1976. (B) (A) is correct, (R) is correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). (B) give affiliation to any institute of higher (C) Central Advisory Board on Education education. (CABE) was first established in 1920. (C) (A) is correct, but (R) is false. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) open off-campus and off-shore (B) Professional Competence campus anywhere in the country and overseas respectively without the permission (C) Human Relations 5. Which one of the following is true of the given of the UGC. passage? (D) Achievement Motivation (D) offer distance education (A) The passage is a critique of Gandhi’s role in programmes without the Indian movement for independence. approval of the Distance Education Council Answer: (C)

(B) The passage hails the role of Gandhi in India’s Answer: (C) freedom movement.

Read the following passage carefully (C) The author is neutral on Gandhi’s role in and answer questions from 5 to 10: India’s freedom movement.

It should be remembered that the (D) It is an account of Indian National Congress’s nationalist movement in India, like all nationalist 2010 December UGC NET Previous Years support to the working-class movement. Solved Paper I movements, was essentially a bourgeois movement. It represented the natural historical stage of development, and to consider it or to Answer: (B) criticise it as a working-class movement is wrong. 1. Which of the following variables cannot be Gandhi represented that movement and the Indian expressed in quantitative terms? masses in relation to that movement to a supreme degree, and he became the voice of Indian people to that extent. The main contribution of Gandhi to 6. The change that the Gandhian movement (A) Socio-economic Status India and the Indian masses has been through the brought among the Indian masses was powerful movements which he launched through (B) Marital Status the National Congress. Through nation-wide action he sought to mould the millions, and largely (A) Physical succeeded in doing so, and changing them from a (C) Numerical Aptitude demoralised, timid and hopeless mass, bullied and (B) Cultural crushed by every dominant interest, and incapable (D) Professional Attitude of resistance, into a people with self-respect and self-reliance, resisting tyranny, and capable of (C) Technological united action and sacrifice for a larger cause. Answer: (D) (D) Psychological Gandhi made people think of political

and economic issues and every village and every Answer: (D) bazaar hummed with argument and debate on the 2. A doctor studies the relative effectiveness of new ideas and hopes that filled the people. That two drugs of dengue fever. His research would be was an amazing psychological change. The time classified as was ripe for it, of course, and circumstances and world conditions worked for this change. But a 7. To consider the nationalist movement or to great leader is necessary to take advantage of criticise it as a working-class movement was (A) Descriptive Survey circumstances and conditions. Gandhi was that wrong because it was a leader, and he released many of the bonds that (B) Experimental Research imprisoned and disabled our minds, and none of us who experienced it can ever forget that great (A) historical movement feeling of release and exhilaration that came over (C) Case Study the Indian people. (B) voice of the Indian people

(D) Ethnography Gandhi has played a revolutionary role (C) bourgeois movement in India of the greatest importance because he Answer: (B) knew how to make the most of the objective conditions and could reach the heart of the masses, (D) movement represented by Gandhi while groups with a more advanced ideology

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(C) the class consciousness of the people (C) 43 14. In communication, connotative words are (D) the differences among masses (D) 48 (A) explicit Answer: (A) Answer: (B) (B) abstract

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22. In an examination, 35% of the total students (D) intermittently : casually failed in Hindi, 45% failed in English and 20% in 13. An example of asynchronous medium is both. The percentage of those who passed in both subjects is Answer: (A) (A) Radio (A) 10

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(a) Some flowers are neither red nor blue.

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(B) The Supreme Court of India has the power of (A) Solar power (C) (A) is correct, but (R) is false. judicial review.

(B) Waste to energy conversion (D) (A) is false, but (R) is correct. (C) There is a division of powers between the Centre and the States. (C) Afforestation Answer: (A) (D) There is a Council of Ministers to aid and (D) Nuclear energy 40. Volcanic eruptions affect advise the President.

Answer: (D) (A) atmosphere and hydrosphere Answer: (B)

(B) hydrosphere and biosphere

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(B) 7 : 6

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(B) 2007 (C) frequent teacher-student dialogue

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(A) Systematic Activity (C) Concern for students’ welfare

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(B) Intelligence (C) Selection of Research Tools (A) the chosen texts of his own

(D) Attitude Answer: (D) (C) historical trends

Answer: (B) (D) his enquiries

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All historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Government records 6. Intellectual historians do not claim exclusive 1. A research paper is a brief report of or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds possession of research work based on of historians, these are only the necessary means to understanding something other than (A) Primary Data only the texts themselves, such as a political action (A) conclusions or a historical trend, whereas for the intellectual historian, a full understanding of (B) Secondary Data only his chosen texts is itself the aim of his (B) any corpus of evidence enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is (C) Both Primary and Secondary Data particularly prone to draw on the focus of other (C) distinctiveness disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for purposes of their own, probing the (D) None of the above reasoning that ostensibly connects premises (D) habitual interpretation and conclusions. Furthermore, the boundaries Answer: (C) with adjacent subdisciplines are shifting and Answer: (D) indistinct: the history of art and the history of science both claim a certain autonomy, partly just because they require specialised technical skills, but both can also be seen as part of a 2. Newton gave three basic laws of motion. wider intellectual history, as is evident when 7. The misconceptions about intellectual This research is categorized as one considers, for example, the common stock history stem from of knowledge about cosmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period. (A) Descriptive Research (A) a body of techniques

Like all historians, the intellectual (B) Sample Survey historian is a consumer rather than a producer (B) the common stock of knowledge of ‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which (C) Fundamental Research aspect of the past he is trying to illuminate, not (C) the dominance of political historians in having exclusive possession of either a corpus of evidence or a body of techniques. (D) Applied Research That being said, it does seem that the label (D) cosmological beliefs ‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate Answer: (C) share of misunderstanding. Answer: (D)

It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never really mattered. The long dominance of the historical 3. A group of experts in a specific area of profession by political historians bred a kind of 8. What is philistinism? knowledge assembled at a place and philistinism, an unspoken belief that power prepared a syllabus for a new course. The and its exercise was ‘what mattered’. The (A) Reinforcement of prejudice process may be termed as prejudice was reinforced by the assertion that political action was never really the outcome of (B) Fabrication of reasons (A) Seminar principles or ideas that were ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible in the tendency to require ideas to have (C) The hold of land-owning classes (B) Workshop ‘licensed’ the political class before they can be deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if (D) Belief that power and its exercise matter (C) Conference there were some reasons why the history of art or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow of interest and significance than the Answer: (D) (D) Symposium history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps in recent years the mirror-image of this

Answer: (B) philistinism has been more common in the claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or sophistication do not matter, as 9. Knowledge of cosmological beliefs or moral

if they were only held by a minority. ideas of a period can be drawn as part of

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(B) history of science Answer: (C) 18. Find the wrong number in the sequence

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(A) personality (C) 153

(B) expectation 10. The claim that ideas of any one is of (D) 165 systematic expression do not matter, as if they were held by a minority, is (C) social status Answer: (D)

(A) to have a licensed political class (D) coding ability

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(B) reasons (D) OOBY 11. Public communication tends to occur within a more (C) experiences Answer: (B)

(A) complex structure (D) convictions

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(B) 1 : 4 (B) Normative (B) 11101101

(D) 1 : 6 (D) Quantitative (D) None of these

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31. DNS in internet technology stands for

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(A) 69 Answer: (B)

(B) 68

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Answer: (A) (A) 66 Answer: (B)

(B) 65

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Choose the correct answer from below: (C) lexical 2. A sound argument may be invalid.

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(B) Since today is Tuesday, tomorrow will be (C) 4 alone Answer: (C) Wednesday. (D) 3 and 4

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(A) non-symmetrical Answer: (D) 19. If the side of the square increases by 40%, then (B) symmetrical the area of the square increases by

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(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) Answer: (A) Answer: (D)

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49. A hypothesis is a (D) Diagram 56. The ‘de facto’ values in the passage means (A) law Answer: (C) (A) What is (B) canon

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(D) Co-existence of quantity and quality in nature (B) 64 3. All India Radio (A.I.R.) for broadcasting was Answer: (A) named in the year (C) 72

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(A) universe is material (D) SECAM

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(B) Proper names (C) 1, 3 and 4 (B) definite conclusion

(D) Indefinite description Answer: (B) (D) surety

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14. Determine the nature of the following definition : 11. In the expression ‘Nothing is larger than 18. Which of the following statements are false itself’ the relation ‘is larger than’ is “Abortion” means the ruthless murdering of ? Choose from the code given below : innocent beings. (A) antisymmetric 1. Inductive arguments always proceed from (A) Lexical the particular to the general. (B) asymmetrical (B) Persuasive 2. A cogent argument must be inductively (C) intransitive strong. (C) Stipulative (D) irreflexive 3. A valid argument may have a false premise and a false conclusion. (D) Theoretical Answer: (D) 4. An argument may legitimately be spoken of Answer: (B) as ‘true’ or ‘false’.

Code : 12. Assertion (A) : There are more laws on the books today than ever before, and more 15. Which one of the following is not an crimes being committed than ever before. (A) 2, 3 and 4 argument ?

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(A) 11 AM (C) Internet Answer: (C)

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(B) (c) (b) (a) (d) Answer: (B) 33. Which of the following is not a renewable natural resource ? (C) (d) (c) (a) (b)

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48. Dynamic approach to teaching means (A) Multiple target groups

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(D) Fundamental Research Answer: (A) (D) Slide projector

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54. Research ethics do not include

50. When two or more successive footnotes (A) Honesty 46. For a teacher, which of the following refer to the same work which one of the methods would be correct for writing on the following expressions is used ? blackboard ? (B) Subjectivity

(A) ibid (A) Writing fast and as clearly as possible. (C) Integrity

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by (X), C means divided by (/) and D means plus (+). The value of 90 D 9 a 29 C 10 b 2 is (C) sometimes true sometimes false 8. A group of 7 members having a majority of boys is to be formed out of 6 boys and 4 girls. (A) 8 (D) neither true nor false The number of ways the group can be formed is (B) 10 Answer: (D) (A) 80 (C) 12 (B) 100 (D) 14 16. Choose the appropriate alternative given in the codes to replace the question mark. (C) 90 Answer: (D) Examiner – Examinee, Pleader – Client, (D) 110 Preceptor –?

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Sl. Items 2007 2008 2009 2010 (D) 2010-11 No. -08 -09 -10 -11 17. If the statement ‘most of the students are Social 11.0 12.9 13.0 14.0 Answer: (B) obedient’ is taken to be true, which one of the Services 6 4 6 2 following pair of statements can be claimed to (a) Educati 4.02 4.04 3.96 4.46 be true? on, sports & youth 21. Which of the following activities remains I. All obedient persons are students. affairs almost stagnant in terms of share of (b) Health & 2.05 1.91 1.90 2.03 expenditures? II. All students are obedient. family welfare (A) North-eastern areas (c) Water 2.02 2.31 2.20 2.27 III. Some students are obedient. supply, housing, (B) Welfare to SC/ST & OBC IV. Some students are not disobedient. etc. (d) Informat 0.22 0.22 0.20 0.22 (C) Information & broadcasting ion & Codes : broadca sting (D) Social welfare and nutrition (A) I & II (e) Welfare 0.36 0.35 0.41 0.63 to Answer: (C) (B) II & III SC/ST & OBC (f) Labour 0.27 0.27 0.22 0.25 (C) III & IV and employ 22. Which of the following item’s expenditure (D) II & IV ment share is almost equal to the remaining three (g) Social 0.82 0.72 0.79 1.06 items in the given years? welfare Answer: (C) & nutrition (A) Information & broadcasting (h) North- 0.00 1.56 1.50 1.75 eastern (B) Welfare to SC/ST and OBC areas 18. Choose the right code: (i) Other 1.29 1.55 1.87 1.34 social (C) Labour and employment A deductive argument claims that: services Total 100. 100. 100. 100. (D) Social welfare & nutrition Govern 00 00 00 00 I. The conclusion does not claim something ment more than that which is contained in the Answer: (D) expendit premises. ure

II. The conclusion is supported by the premise/premises conclusively. 23. Which of the following items of social services has registered the highest rate of III. If the conclusion is false, then 19. How many activities in the social services increase in expenditures during 2007-08 to premise/premises may be either true or false. are there where the expenditure has been less 2010-11? than

IV. If premise/combination of premises is true, (A) Education, sports & youth affairs then conclusion must be true. 5 percent of the total expenditures incurred on the social services in 2008-09? (B) Welfare to SC/ST & OBC Codes: (A) One (C) Social welfare & nutrition (A) I and II (B) Three (D) Overall social services (B) I and III (C) Five Answer: (B) (C) II and III (D) All the above

(D) All the above Answer: (D) 24. Which of the following items has registered Answer: (A) the highest rate of decline in terms of expenditure during 2007-08 to 2009-10?

20. In which year, the expenditures on the (A) Labour and employment social services have increased at the highest On the basis of the data given in the following rate? table, give answers to questions from 19 to 24 (B) Health & family welfare : (A) 2007-08 www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Social welfare & nutrition 29. The file extension of MS-Word document (D) biomass in Office 2007 is ______. (D) Education, sports & youth affairs Answer: (A) (A) .pdf Answer: (A) (B) .doc 34. Nagoya Protocol is related to (C) .docx 25. ALU stands for (A) Climate change (D) .txt (A) American Logic Unit (B) Ozone depletion Answer: (C) (B) Alternate Local Unit (C) Hazardous waste

(C) Alternating Logic Unit (D) Biodiversity 30. ______is a protocol used by e-mail clients to download e-mails to your computer. (D) Arithmetic Logic Unit Answer: (D)

(A) TCP Answer: (D)

(B) FTP 35. The second most important source after fossil fuels contributing to India’s energy (C) SMTP needs is 26. A Personal Computer uses a number of chips mounted on a circuit board called (D) POP (A) Solar energy (A) Microprocessor Answer: (D) (B) Nuclear energy (B) System Board (C) Hydropower (C) Daughter Board 31. Which of the following is a source of (D) Wind energy methane? (D) Mother Board Answer: (C) (A) Wetlands Answer: (D)

(B) Foam Industry

36. In case of earthquakes, an increase of (C) Thermal Power Plants magnitude 1 on Richter Scale implies 27. Computer Virus is a

(D) Cement Industry (A) a ten-fold increase in the amplitude of (A) Hardware seismic waves. Answer: (A) (B) Bacteria (B) a ten-fold increase in the energy of the seismic waves.

(C) Software (C) two-fold increase in the amplitude of 32. ‘Minamata disaster’ in Japan was caused (D) None of these seismic waves. by pollution due to

Answer: (C) (D) two-fold increase in the energy of seismic (A) Lead waves.

(B) Mercury Answer: (A) 28. Which one of the following is correct? (C) Cadmium

(A) (17) = (17) 10 16 (D) Zinc 37. Which of the following is not a measure of Human Development Index? (B) (17) = (17) 10 8 Answer: (B) (A) Literacy Rate (C) (17) = (10111) 10 2 33. Bio-magnification means increase in the (B) Gross Enrolment (D) (17) = (10001) 10 2 (A) concentration of pollutants in living organisms (C) Sex Ratio Answer: (D) (B) number of species (D) Life Expectancy

38. India has the highest number of students (D) 1, 2 and 3 43. For an efficient and durable learning, in colleges after learner should have Answer: (C) (A) the U.K. (A) ability to learn only

(B) the U.S.A. (B) requisite level of motivation only 41. Which of the following can be done under (C) Australia conditions of financial emergency? (C) opportunities to learn only

(D) Canada 1. State Legislative Assemblies can be (D) desired level of ability and motivation abolished. Answer: (B) Answer: (D) 2. Central Government can acquire control over the budget and expenditure of States.

3. Salaries of the Judges of the High Courts 39. Which of the following statement(s) is/are 44. Classroom communication must be and the Supreme Court can be reduced. not correct about the Attorney General of India? (A) Teacher centric 4. Right to Constitutional Remedies can be suspended. 1. The President appoints a person, who is (B) Student centric qualified to be a Judge of a High Court, to be the Attorney General of India. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (C) General centric 2. He has the right of audience in all the Courts of the country. Codes: (D) Textbook centric

3. He has the right to take part in the (A) 1, 2 and 3 Answer: (B) proceedings of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. (B) 2, 3 and 4

4. He has a fixed tenure. (C) 1 and 2 45. The best method of teaching is to

Select the correct answer from the codes (D) 2 and 3 given below : (A) impart information

Answer: (D) Codes : (B) ask students to read books

42. Match List – I with List – II and select the (B) 2, 3 and 4 (D) initiate a discussion and participate in it correct answer from the codes given below: Answer: (D) (C) 3 and 4 List – I List – II

(D) 3 only (a) Poverty Reduction Programme (i) Mid-day Meals

Answer: (A) 46. Interaction inside the classroom should (b) Human Development Scheme (ii) Indira Awas generate Yojana (IAY)

(A) Argument (c) Social Assistance Scheme (iii) National Old Age Pension (NOAP) 40. Which of the following prefix President Pranab Mukherjee desires to be discontinued (B) Information while interacting with Indian dignitaries as well (d) Minimum Need Scheme (iv) MNREGA as in official notings ? (C) Ideas Codes : 1. His Excellency 2. Mahamahim (D) Controversy (a) (b) (c) (d) 3. Hon’ble 4. Shri/Smt. Answer: (C) (A) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii) Select the correct answer from the codes given below : (B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) 47. “Spare the rod and spoil the child”, gives Codes : (C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) the message that

(A) 1 and 3 (D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (A) punishment in the class should be banned.

(B) 2 and 3 Answer: (A) (B) corporal punishment is not acceptable. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) undesirable behaviour must be punished. (D) Stratified sampling (D) Scientific hypothesis is a scientific theory.

(D) children should be beaten with rods. Answer: (D) Answer: (D)

Answer: (C)

52. Which one of the following references is Read the following passage carefully and written according to American Psychological answer the questions (55 to 60): Association (APA) format? 48. The type of communication that the teacher has in the classroom, is termed as The popular view of towns and cities in (A) Sharma, V. (2010). Fundamentals of developing countries and of urbanization Computer Science. New Delhi : Tata McGraw process is that despite the benefits and (A) Interpersonal Hill comforts it brings, the emergence of such cities connotes environmental degradation, (B) Mass communication generation of slums and squatters, urban (B) Sharma, V. 2010. Fundamentals of poverty, unemployment, crimes, lawlessness, Computer Science. New Delhi : Tata McGraw traffic chaos etc. But what is the reality? Given Hill (C) Group communication the unprecedental increase in urban population over the last 50 years from 300 (D) Face-to-face communication (C) Sharma.V. 2010. Fundamentals of million in 1950 to 2 billion in 2000 in Computer Science, New Delhi : Tata McGraw developing countries, the wonder really is how Hill well the world has coped, and not how badly. Answer: (C)

(D) Sharma, V. (2010), Fundamentals of In general, the urban quality of life Computer Science, New Delhi : Tata McGraw has improved in terms of availability of water Hill and sanitation, power, health and education, 49. Which one of the following is an indication communication and transport. By way of illustration, a large number of urban residents of the quality of a research journal? Answer: (A) have been provided with improved water in urban areas in Asia’s largest countries such as (A) Impact factor China, India, Indonesia and Philippines. Despite that, the access to improved water in (B) h-index terms of percentage of total urban population 53. Arrange the following steps of research in seems to have declined during the last decade correct sequence : of 20th century, though in absolute numbers, (C) g-index millions of additional urbanites, have been 1. Identification of research problem provided improved services. These countries (D) i10-index have made significant progress in the provision of sanitation services too, together, 2. Listing of research objectives providing for an additional population of more Answer: (A) than 293 million citizens within a decade 3. Collection of data (1990-2000). These improvements must be viewed against the backdrop of rapidly increasing urban population, fiscal crunch and 4. Methodology strained human resources and efficient and 50. Good ‘research ethics’ means quality-oriented public management. 5. Data analysis (A) Not disclosing the holdings of shares/stocks in a company that sponsors 6. Results and discussion your research. 55. The popular view about the process of (A) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 urbanization in developing countries is (B) Assigning a particular research problem to one Ph.D./research student only. (B) 1 – 2 – 4 – 3 – 5 – 6 (A) Positive (C) Discussing with your colleagues confidential data from a research paper that (C) 2 – 1 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 (B) Negative you are reviewing for an academic journal. (D) 2 – 1 – 4 – 3 – 5 – 6 (C) Neutral (D) Submitting the same research manuscript for publishing in more than one journal. Answer: (B) (D) Unspecified

Answer: (B) Answer: (B)

54. Identify the incorrect statement:

51. Which of the following sampling methods (A) A hypothesis is made on the basis of 56. The average annual increase in the is based on probability? limited evidence as a starting point for further number of urbanites in developing countries, investigations. from 1950 to 2000 A.D. was close to (A) Convenience sampling (B) A hypothesis is a basis for reasoning (A) 30 million (B) Quota sampling without any assumption of its truth. (B) 40 million (C) Judgement sampling (C) Hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. (C) 50 million www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (D) 60 million (iv) In Venn diagram method the three overlapping circles are drawn for testing a categorical syllogism. Answer: (A) 2013 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I Codes:

1. Choose the proper alternative given in the (A) (i), (ii) & (iii) 57. The reality of urbanization is reflected in codes to replace the question mark (B) (i), (ii) & (iv) (A) How well the situation has been managed. Bee-Honey, Cow-Milk, Teacher-? (C) (ii), (iii) & (iv) (B) How badly the situation has gone out of (A) Intelligence control. (D) (i), (iii) & (iv) (B) Marks (C) How fast has been the tempo of urbanization. Answer: (B) (C) Lessons (D) How fast the environment has degraded. (D) Wisdom Answer: (A) 5. Inductive reasoning presupposes Answer: (D) (A) Unity in human nature.

58. Which one of the following is not (B) Integrity in human nature. considered as an indicator of urban quality of 2. P is the father of R and S is the son of Q life? and T is the brother of P. If R is the sister of S, (C) Uniformity in human nature. how is Q related to T (A) Tempo of urbanization (D) Harmony in human nature. (A) Wife (B) Provision of basic services Answer: (C) (B) Sister-in-law (C) Access to social amenities

(C) Brother-in-law (D) All the above Read the table below and based on this table (D) Daughter-in-law answer questions from 6 to 11: Answer: (A) Answer: (B)

Area under Major Horticulture Crops (in lakh 59. The author in this passage has tried to hectares) focus on 3. A definition put forward to resolve a dispute by influencing attitudes or stirring emotions is called Year Fruit Veget Flowe Total (A) Extension of Knowledge s ables rs Horticultu re Area (A) Lexical (B) Generation of Environmental 2005-06 53 72 1 187 Consciousness 2006-07 56 75 1 194 (B) Persuasive 2007-08 58 78 2 202 2008-09 61 79 2 207 (C) Analytical Reasoning (C) Stipulative 2009-10 63 79 2 209 (D) Descriptive Statement (D) Precisions Answer: (C) Answer: (B) 6. Which of the following two years have recorded the highest rate of increase in area under the total horticulture?

60. In the above passage, the author intends (A) 2005-06 & 2006-07 to state 4. Which of the codes given below contains only the correct statements? (B) 2006-07 & 2008-09 (A) The hazards of the urban life Statements: (C) 2007-08 & 2008-09 (B) The sufferings of the urban life (i) Venn diagram is a clear method of notation. (D) 2006-07 & 2007-08 (C) The awareness of human progress (ii) Venn diagram is the most direct method of testing the validity of categorical syllogisms. Answer: (D) (D) the limits to growth

(iii) In Venn diagram method the premises and Answer: (D) the conclusion of a categorical syllogism is diagrammed. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 7. Shares of the area under flowers, (A) 2006-07 Answer: (A) vegetables and fruits in the area under total horticulture are respectively: (B) 2007-08

(B) 30, 38 and 1 perctent (D) 2009-10 (A) characters to bits

(D) 35, 36 and 2 percent (C) machine language to high level language

Answer: (A) 12. ‘www’ stands for (D) words to bits

(A) work with web Answer: (B)

8. Which of the following has recorded the (B) word wide web highest rate of increase in area during 2005- 06 to 2009-10? (C) world wide web 17. Virtual memory is (A) Fruits (D) worth while web (A) an extremely large main memory. (B) Vegetables Answer: (C) (B) an extremely large secondary memory. (C) Flowers (C) an illusion of extremely large main memory. (D) Total horticulture 13. A hard disk is divided into tracks which is further subdivided into (D) a type of memory used in super Answer: (C) computers. (A) Clusters

Answer: (C) (B) Sectors 9. Find out the horticultural crops that have recorded an increase of area by around 10 percent from 2005-06 to 2009-10. (C) Vectors 18. The phrase “tragedy of commons” is in the context of (A) Fruits (D) Heads

(A) tragic even related to damage caused by (B)Vegetables Answer: (B) release of poisonous gases.

(D)Total horticulture 14. A computer program that translates a (C) degradation of renewable free access program statement by statement into machine resources. languages is called a/an Answer: (B) (D) climate change. (A) Compiler

Answer: (C) (B) Simulator 10. What has been the share of area under fruits, vegetables and flowers in the area 19. Kyoto Protocol is related to under total horticulture in 2007-08? (C) Translator

(A) Ozone depletion (A) 53 percent (D) Interpreter

(B) Hazardous waste (B) 68 percent Answer: (D)

(D) Nuclear energy (D) 100 percent 15. A Gigabyte is equal to

Answer: (C) Answer: (B) (A) 1024 Megabytes

(B) 1024 Kilobytes

20. Which of the following is a source of 11. In which year, area under fruits has (C) 1024 Terabytes emissions leading to the eventual formation of recorded the highest rate of increase? surface ozone as a pollutant? (D) 1024 Bytes www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (A) Transport sector (B) SC students (A) Only argument (I) is strong.

(B) Refrigeration and Air-conditioning (C) ST students (B) Only argument (II) is strong.

(D) Fertilizers Answer: (A) (D) Neither of the arguments is strong.

Answer: (A) Answer: (A)

25. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the University Grants Commission (UGC)? 28. Which of the following statement(s) is/are 21. The smog in cities in Indian mainly correct about a Judge of the Supreme Court of consists of (A) It was established in 1956 by an Act of India? Parliament. (A) Oxides of sulphur 1) A Judge of the Supreme Court is appointed (B) It is tasked with promoting and by the President of India. coordinating higher education. (B) Oxides of nitrogen and unburnt hydrocarbons 2) He holds office during the pleasure of the (C) It receives Plan and Non-Plan funds from President. the Central Government. (C) Carbon monoxide and SPM 3) He can be suspended, pending an inquiry. (D) It receives funds from State Governments (D) Oxides of sulphur and ozone in respect of State Universities. 4) He can be removed for proven misbehaviors or incapacity. Answer: (B) Answer: (D) Select the correct answer from the codes

given below:

22. Which of the following types of natural 26. Consider the statement which is followed Codes: hazards have the highest potential to cause by two arguments (I) and (II): damage to humans? (A) 1,2 and 3 Statement: Should India switch over to a two (A) Earthquakes party system? (B) 1,3 and 4 (B) Forest fires Arguments (C) 1 and 3 (C) Volcanic eruptions (I) Yes, it will lead to stability of Government. (D) 1 and 4 (D) Droughts and Floods (II) No, it will limit the choice of voters. Answer: (D) Answer: (D) (A) Only argument (I) is strong.

(B) Only argument (II) is strong. 29. In the warrant of precedence, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha comes next only to 23. The percentage share of renewable (C) Both the arguments are strong. energy sources in the power production in India is around (A) The President (D) Neither of the arguments is strong. (A) 2-3% (B) The Vice-President Answer: (C) (B) 22-25% (C) The Prime Minister

(C) 10-12% (D) The Cabinet Ministers 27. Consider the statement which is followed by two arguments (I) and (II): (D) < 1% Answer: (C)

Statement: Should persons with criminal Answer: (C) background be banned from contesting elections? 30. The black-board can be utilized best by a teacher for Arguments: 24. In which of the following categories the enrolment of students in higher education in (A) Putting the matter of teaching in black and (I) Yes, it will decriminalize politics. 2010-11 was beyond the percentage of seats white reserved? (II) No, it will encourage the ruling party to file (B) Making the students attentive frivolous cases against their political (A) OBC students opponents. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Writing the important and notable points Answer: (C)

(D) Highlighting the teacher himself. 35. “A diagram speaks more than 1000 words.” The statement means that the teacher should Answer: (C) 39. Which one of the following references is written as per Modern Language Association (A) use diagrams in teaching. (MLA) format?

(B) speak more and more in the class. (A) Hall, Donald. Fundamentals of Electronics, 31. Nowadays the most effective mode of New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India, 2005 learning is (C) use teaching aids in the class. (B) Hall, Donald. Fundamentals of Electronics, (A) Self study New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India, 2005 (D) not speak too much in the class. (B) Face-to-face learning (C) Hall, Donald. Fundamentals of Electronics, Answer: (C) New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India, 2005 (C) e-learning

(D) Hall, Donald. Fundamentals of Electronics, (D) Blended learning New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India, 2005 36. A research paper Answer: (C) and (D) Both Answer: (D) (A) is a compilation of information on a topic.

(B) contains original research as deemed by the author. 32. At the primary school stage, most of the 40. A workshop is teachers should be women because they (C) contains peer-reviewed original research (A) a conference for discussion on a topic. or evaluation of research conducted by others. (A) can teach children better than men. (B) a meeting for discussion on a topic. (D) can be published in more than one journal. (B) know basic content better than men. (C) a class at a college or a university in which Answer: (C) (C) are available on lower salaries. a teacher and the students discuss a topic.

(D) can deal with children with love and (D) a brief intensive course for a small group affection. emphasizing the development of a skill or 37. Which one of the following belongs to the technique for solving a specific problem. category of good ‘research ethics’? Answer: (D) Answer: (D) (A) Publishing the same paper in two research

journals without telling the editors. 41. A working hypothesis is 33. Which one is the highest order of learning? (B) Conducting a review of the literature that acknowledges the contributions of other (A) a proven hypothesis for an argument. (A) Chain learning people in the relevant field or relevant prior work. (B) not required to be tested. (B) Problem-solving learning (C) Trimming outliers from a data set without discussing your reasons in a research paper. (C) a provisionally accepted hypothesis for (C) Stimulus-response learning further research. (D) Including a colleague as an author on a (D) Conditioned-reflex learning research paper in return for a favor even (D) a scientific theory. though the colleague did not make a serious Answer: (D) contribution to the paper. Answer: (C)

Answer: (B)

34. A person can enjoy teaching as a Read the following passage carefully and profession when he answer the questions (42 to 47): 38. Which of the following sampling methods is not based on probability? (A) has control over students. The Taj Mahal has become one of the world’s best known monuments. This domed white (B) commands respect from students. (A) Simple Random Sampling marble structure is situated on a high plinth at the southern end of four-quartered garden, evoking the gardens of paradise, enclosed (B) Stratified Sampling (C) is more qualified than his colleagues. within walls measuring 305 by 549 meters. Outside the walls, in an area known as (D) is very close to higher authorities. (C) Quota Sampling Mumtazabad, were living quarters for attendants, market, serials and other structures built by local merchants and nobles. Answer: (B) (D) Cluster Sampling The tomb complex and the other imperial structures of Mumtazabad were maintained by www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com the income of thirty villages given specifically Answer: (D) for the tomb’s support. The name Taj Mahal is unknown in Mughal chronicles, but it is used 48. In the process of communication, which by contemporary Europeans in India, one of the following is in the chronological suggesting that this was the tomb’s popular order? name. in contemporary texis, it is generally 44. Point out the true statement from the called simply the illuminated Tomb (Rauza-i- following: Munavvara). (A) Communicator, Medium, Receiver, Effect, Message (A) Marble was not used for the construction Mumtaz Mahal died shortly after delivering her of the Taj Mahal. fourteenth child in 1631. The Mughal court (B) Medium, Communicator, Message, was then residing in Buhanpur. Her remains Receiver, Effect (B) Red sand stone is non-visible in the Taj were temporarily buried by the grief stricken emperor in a spacious garden known as Mahal complex. Zainabad on the bank of the river Tapti. Six (C) Communicator, Message, Medium, Receiver, Effect. months later her body was transported to (C) The Taj Mahal is surrounded by a four- Agra, where it was interred in land chosen for quatered garden known as Chahr Bagh. the mausoleum. This land, situated south of (D) Message, Communicator, Medium, the Mughal city on the bank of the Jamuna, Receiver, Effect. had belonged to the Kachwaha rajas since the (D) The Taj Mahal was constructed to time of Raja Man Singh and was purchased celebrate the “Urs ceremony for Mumtaz from the then current raja, Jai Singh. Although Mahal”. Answer: (C) contemporary chronicles indicate Jai Singh’s willing cooperation in this exchange, Answer: (C) extantfarmans (imperial commands) indicate that the final price was not settled until almost two years after the mausoleum’s 49. Bengal Gazette, the first Newspaper in commencement. Jai Singh’s further India was started in 1780 by cooperation was insured by imperial orders 45. In the contemporary texts the Taj Mahal is issued between 1632 and 1637 demanding known (A) Dr. Annie Besant that the provide stone masons and carts to transport marble from the mines at Makrana, within his “ancestral domain”, to Agra where (A) Mumtazabad (B) James Augustus Hicky both the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan’s additions to the Agra fort were constructed (B) Mumtaz Mahal (C) Lord Cripson concurrently. (C) Zainabad (D) A.O. Hume Work on the mausoleum was commenced early in 1632. Inscriptional evidence indicates much of the tomb was completed by 1636. By (D) Rauza-i-Munavvara Answer: (B) 1643, when Shah Jahan most lavishly celebrated the ‘Urs ceremony for Mumtaz Answer: (D) Mahal’, the entire complex was virtually complete. 50. Press censorship in India was imposed during the tenure of the Prime Minister

46. The Construction of the Taj Mahal was completed between the period (A) Rajeev Gandhi 42. Marble stone used for the construction of te Taj Mahal was brought from te ancestral domain of Raja Jai Singh. The name of the (A) 1632-1636 A.D. (B) Narasimha Rao place where mines of marble is (B) 1630-1643 A.D. (C) Indira Gandhi (A) Burhanpur (C) 1632-1643 A.D. (D) Deve Gowda (B) Makrana (D) 1636-1643 A.D. Answer: (C) (C) Amber Answer: (C) (D) Jaipur 51. Communication via New media such as Answer: (B) computers, teleshopping, internet and mobile telephony is termed as 47. The documents indicating the ownership of land, where the Taj Mahal was built, known as (A) Entertainment 43. The popular name Taj Mahal was given by (A) Farman (B) Interactive communication (A) Shah Jahan (B) Sale Deed (C) Developmental communication (B) Tourists (C) Sale-Purchase Deed (D) Communication (C) Public (D) None of the above Answer: (B)

(D) European travellers Answer: (A)

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 52. Classroom communication of a teacher (B) 270 (iii) Some men are not honest. rests on the principle of (C) 105 (iv) All men are dishonest. (A) Infotainment (D) 210 Codes: (B) Edutainment Answer: (B) (A) (i), (ii) and (iii) (C) Entertainment (B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) (D) Enlightenment 57. The odd numbers from 1 to 45 which are (C) (i), (iii) and (iv) Answer: (B) exactly divisible by 3 are arranged in an ascending order. The number at 6th position is (D) (ii), (i) and (iv)

(A) 18 Answer: (B) 53. ______is important when a teacher communicates with his/her student. (B) 24 2013 September UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I (A) Sympathy (C) 33 1. The world population growth rate at a (B) Empathy (D) 36 certain reference year was 3.5%. Assuming exponential growth of population, after how many years, the population of the world would (C) Apathy Answer: (C) have increased by a factor 16 ?

(D) Antipathy (A) ~ 80 years

Answer: (B) 58. The mean of four numbers a,b,c,d is 100. (B) ~ 40 years IF c = 70, then the mean of the remaining numbers is (C) ~ 160 years

(A) 30 54. In a certain code GALIB is represented by (D) ~ 320 years HBMJC. TIGER will be represented by (B) 85/2 Answer: (A) (A) UJHFS (C) 170/3 2. Telephone is an example of (B) UHJSE (D) 110 (A) linear communication (C) JHUSF Answer: (D) (B) non-linear communication (D) HUJSE

(C) circular Answer: (A) 59. If the radius of a circle is increased by 50%, the perimeter of the circle will increased (D) mechanised

by Answer: (A) 55. In a certain cricket tournament 45 matches (A) 20% were played. Each team played once against each of the other teams. The number of teams participated in the tournament is (B) 30% 3. Means of grapevine communication are (A) 8 (C) 40% (A) formal (B) 10 (D) 50% (B) informal (C) 12 Answer: (D) (C) critical (D) 210 (D) corporate Answer: (B) 60. If the statement ‘some men are honest’ is false, which among the following statements Answer: (B) will be true. Choose the correct code given

below:

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(A) Women’s International Year’s Committee Answer: (B) (A) Circular

(B) Steering Committee of Women’s International Year (B) Reciprocal

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(ii) Representatives from the leftist parties. (A) Role of media (C) Diagnostic evaluation

(iii) Representatives from the women’s (B) Economic justice organizations. (D) Summative (C) Reaffirmation of values in public affairs Answer: (B) (iv) None of the above. (D) All the above

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(C) predictor variable (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). (D) control variable

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

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(A) China (C) Participatory experience (A) Realist

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(A) Methane (C) Original Jurisdiction

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(A) The Centre for the Study of Developing (D) CNG Societies (CSDS)

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(A) Distance Education Council (DEC) 3. One Union Territory has a High Court. Answer: (A)

(B) National Council for Teacher Education 4. One Union Territory is the capital of two States.

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(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (D) None of these 14. Which of the following statements are correct Answer: (D) about the National Assessment and Accreditation Answer: (B) Council? www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (A) provision pays. On the other hand, India, which is no less endowed in terms of cultural capital, has a long way to go. Surveys indicate that in addition to 20. A person has to buy both apples and mangoes. the 6,600 protected monuments, there are over The cost of one apple is Rs 7/- whereas that of 60,000 equally valuable heritage structures that mango is Rs 5/- 24. Anil is twice as old as Sunita. Three years ago, await attention. Besides the small group in the he was three times as old as Sunita. The present service of Archaeological Survey of India, there If the person has Rs. 38, the number of apples he age of Anil is are only about 150 trained conservation can buy is professionals. In order to overcome this severe shortage the emphasis has been on setting up (A) 6 years dedicated labs and training institutions. It would (A) 1 make much better sense for conservation to be (B) 8 years made part of mainstream research and engineering (B) 2 Institutes, as has been done in Europe. (C) 12 years (C) 3 Increasing funding and building institutions are the relatively easy part. The real (D) 16 years challenge is to redefine international approaches to (D) 4 address local contexts. Conservation cannot limit Answer: (C) itself to enhancing the art-historical value of the Answer: (D) heritage structures which international charters perhaps over emphasize. The effort has to be broad-based. It must also serve as a means to improving the quality of life in the area where the

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Answer: (D) (D) after ASI’s measures to protect the (B) 5 monuments.

Instructions: Read the following passage carefully (D) 8 and answer questions 27 to 32

Answer: (C) Heritage conservation practices improved 28. The inter-government organization was worldwide after the International Centre for the appreciated because of 23. The mean marks obtained by a class of 40 Study of the Preservation and Restoration of students is 65; The mean marks of half of the Cultural Property. (ICCROM) was established with (A) increasing number of members to 126. students is found to be 45. The mean marks of the UNESCO's assistance in 1959. The inter- remaining students is governmental organisation with 126 member states has done a commendable job by training more than (B) imparting training to professionals and sharing 4,000 professionals, providing practice standards, technical expertise. (A) 85 and sharing technical expertise. In this golden jubilee year, as we acknowledge its key role in (C) consistent investment in conservation. (B) 60 global conservation, an assessment of international practices would be meaningful to the Indian conservation movement. Consistent investment, (D) its proactive role in renovation and restoration (C) 70 rigorous attention, and dedicated research and dissemination are some of the positive lessons to Answer: (B) (D) 65 imbibe. Countries such as Italy have demonstrated that prioritizing heritage with significant budget www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com 32. INTACH is known for its contribution for (ii) Evaluation conservation of our cultural heritage. The full form of INTACH is 29. Indian conservation movement will be (iii) Reteaching successful if there would be (A) International Trust for Art and Cultural (iv) Formulating instructional objectives Heritage. (A) Financial support from the Government of India. (v) Presentation of instructional materials (B) Intra-national Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. (B) Non-governmental organisations role and (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) participation in the conservation movement. (C) Integrated Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. (B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv), (v) (C) consistent investment, rigorous attention, and dedicated research and dissemination of awareness (D) Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural for conservation Heritage. (C) (v), (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)

(D) Archaeological Survey of India's meaningful Answer: (D) (D) (iv), (i), (v), (ii), (iii) assistance. Answer: (D) Answer: (C) 33. While delivering lecture if there is some disturbance in the class, a teacher should 37. CIET stands for 30. As per the surveys of historical monuments in (A) keep quiet for a while and then continue. India, there is very small number of protected (A) Centre for Integrated Education and monuments. As per given the total number of (B) punish those causing disturbance monuments and enlisted number of protected Technology monuments percentage comes to (C) motivate to teach those causing disturbance (B) Central Institute for Engineering and (A) 10 percent Technology (D) not bother of what is happening in the class (C) Central Institute for Education Technology (B) 11 percent Answer: (C) (C) 12 percent (D) Centre for Integrated Evaluation Techniques.

(D) 13 percent Answer: (C) 34. Effective teaching is a function of

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(ii) Establish dedicated labs and training Answer: (C) (D) help students to solve their problems. institutions. Answer: (B) (iii) Force the government to provide sufficient funds. 35. The most appropriate meaning of learning is

(iv) Conservation should be made part of mainstream research and engineering institutes. (A) Acquisition of skills 39. The Verstehen School of Understanding was popularised by

Choose the correct statement (B) Modification of behaviour (A) German Social scientists (C) Personal adjustment (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (B) American philosophers

(B) (i), (ii), (iv) (D) Inculcation of knowledge (C) British Academicians

(D) (i), (iii), (iv) Answer: (A)

Answer: (B) 36. Arrange the following teaching process in order:

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42. Which is the main objective of research? (D) Discourse (A) Contradictory

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(B) To summarize what is already known (C) Sub-contrary

(D) To discover new facts or to make fresh (A) Productions Answer: (A) interpretation of known facts (B) Perceptions

Answer: (D) (C) Consumptions 52. Ananaya and Krishna can speak and follow

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(A) Archana (B) increase in sample size

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(D) Neither true nor false Following table provides details about the Foreign 60. Identify the region that has shown hyper Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India from different growth rate of foreign tourist arrivals than the regions of the’ world in different years. Study the growth rate of the total FTAs in India in 2008. Answer: (D) table carefully and answer questions from 57 to 60 based on this table. (A) Western Europe

Region Number of Foreign Tourist Arrival (B) North America 54. When the conclusion of an 2007 2008 2009 argument follows from its premise/premises Western 1686083 1799525 1610086 conclusively, the argument is called Europe (C) South Asia North 1007276 1027297 1024469 (A) Circular argument America (D) East Asia South Asia 982428 1051846 982633 South East 303475 332925 348495 (B) Inductive argument Answer: (C) Asia East Asia 352037 355230 318292 (C) Deductive argument West Asia 171661 215542 201110 Total FTAs 5081504 5282603 5108579 (D) Analogical argument in India 2014 June UGC NET Previous Years Solved Paper I

Answer: (C) 1. Break-down in verbal communication is 57. Find out the region that contributed around 20 described as percent of the total foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2009. 55. Saturn and Mars are planets like the earth. (A) Short Circuit They borrow light from the Sun and moves around the sun as the Earth does. So those planets are (A) Western Europe inhabited by various orders of creatures as the earth (B) Contradiction is (B) North America (C) Unevenness What type of argument is contained in the above (C) South Asia passage? (D) Entropy

(D) South East Asia (A) Deductive Answer: (D)

Answer: (B) (B) Astrological

(C) Analogical 2. The Telephone Model of Communication was first developed in the area of 58. Which of the following regions has recorded (D) Mathematical the highest negative growth rate of foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2009? (A) Technological theory Answer: (C) (A) Western Europe (B) Dispersion theory

(B) North America (C) Minimal effects theory 56. Given below are two premises. Four conclusions are drawn from those two premises in (C) South Asia (D) Information theory four codes. Select the code that states the conclusion validly drawn. (D) West Asia Answer: (D) Premises: Answer: (D) (i) All saints are religious. (major) 3. The Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2013 has been conferred on (ii) Some honest persons are saints. (minor) 59. Find out the region that has been showing declining trend in terms of share of foreign tourist (A) Karan Johar Codes arrivals in India in 2008 and 2009. (B) Amir Khan (A) All saints are honest (A) Western Europe (C) Asha Bhonsle (B) Some saints are honest. (B) South East Asia (D) Gulzar (C) Some honest persons are religious. (C) East Asia www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (D) 8. In certain coding method, the word QUESTION (A) 32 is encoded as DOMESTIC. In this coding, what is the code word for the word RESPONSE? (B) 36

(A) OMESUCEM 4. Photographs are not easy to (C) 40

(B) OMESICSM (A) Publish (D) 38

(D) OMESISCM (C) Decode

Answer: (C) (D) Change 13. "lf a large diamond is cut up into little bits it will lose its value just as an army is divided up into small units of soldiers. It loses its strength." The Answer: (C) argument put above may be called as 9. lf the series 4,5,8,13,14,17,22,...... is continued

in the same pattern, which one of the following is (A) Analogical not a term of this series? 5. The grains that appear on a television set when (B) Deductive operated are also referred to as (A) 31 (C) Statistical (A) Sparks (B) 32 (D) Casual (B) Green Dots (C) 33 Answer: (A) (C) Snow (D) 35

(D) Rain Drops Answer: (C) 14. Given below are some characteristics of logical Answer: (C) argument. Select the code which expresses a characteristic which is not of inductive in character. 10. Complete the series BB, FE, II, ML, PP: ..:...... by choosing one of the following option 6. In circular communication, the encoder becomes given : (A) The conclusion is claimed to follow from its a decoder when there is premises. (A) TS (A) Noise (B) The conclusion is based on causal relation. (B) ST (B) Audience (C) The conclusion conclusively follows from its premises. (C) RS (C) Criticality (D) The conclusion is based on observation and (D) SR experiment (D) Feedback Answer: (A) Answer: (C) Answer: (D) 11. A man started walking frorn his house towards

south. After walking 6 km, he turned to his left walked 5 Km after. Then he walked further 3 km after turning left. He then turned to his left and 15. If two propositions having the same subject and 7. In a post-office, stamps of three different continued his walk for 9 km. How far is he away predicate terms can both be true but cannot both be denominations of Rs 7, Rs 8, Rs 10 are available. from his house? false, the relation between those two propositions The exact amount for which one cannot buy stamps is called is (A) 3 km (A) contradictory (A) 19 (B) 4 km (B) contrary (B) 20 (C) 5 km (C) subcontrary (C) 23 (D) 6 km (D) subaltern (D) 29 Answer: (C) Answer: (C) Answer: (A)

12. One writes all numbers from 50 to 99 without the digits 2 and 7. How many numbers have been 16. Given below are two premises and four written? conclusions drawn from those premises. Select the www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com code that expresses conclusion drawn validly from (A) Government Canals the premises (separately or jointly). Year Gover Privat Tank Tube Other Total nment e s wells sourc (B) Private Canals Canal Canal and es Premises: s s other wells (C) Tube Wells and other wells (a) All dogs are mammals. 1997-98 17117 211 2593 32090 3102 55173 1998-99 17093 212 2792 33988 3326 57411 (D) Other sources (b) No cats are dogs. 1999-00 16842 194 2535 34623 2915 57109 2000-01 15748 203 2449 33796 2880 55076 Answer: (A) Conclusions: 2001-02 15031 209 2179 34906 4347 56672 2002-03 13863 206 1802 34250 3657 53778

(i) No cats are mammals 2003-04 14444 206 1908 35779 4281 56618 2004-05 14696 206 1727 34785 7453 58867 2005-06 15268 207 2034 35372 7314 60196 22. In which of the following years, share of the (ii) Some cats are mammals. tube wells and other wells in the total net irrigated

area was the highest? (iii) No Dogs are cats 18. Which of the following sources of Irrigation (A) 1998-99 has registered the largest percentage of decline in (iv) No dogs are non-mammals. Net area under irrigation during 1997-98 and 2005- 06 ? (B) 2000-01 Codes: (A) Government Canals (C) 2002-03 (A) (i) only (B) Private Canals (D) 2004-05 (B) (i) and (ii) (C) Tanks Answer: (C) (C) (iii) and (iv) (D) Other Sources (D) (ii) and (iii) Answer: (C) 23. The acronym FTP stands for Answer: (C) (A) File Transfer Protocol

19. Find out the source of irrigation that has (B) Fast Transfer Protocol registered the maximum improvement in terms of 17. Given below is a diagram of three circles A, B percentage of Net irrigated area during 2002-03 & C inter-related with each of Indians. The circle B (C) File Tracking Protocol and 2003-04. represents the class of scientists and circle C represents the class of politicians. p,q,r,s... (D) File Transfer Procedure represent different regions. Select the code (A) Government Canals containing the region that indicates the class of Indian scientists who are not politicians. Answer: (A) (B) Tanks

24. Which one of the following is not a/an (D) Other Sources image/graphic file format?

Answer: (D) (A) PNG

(B) GIF

20. In which of the following years, Net irrigation (C) BMP by tanks increased at the highest rate?

(D) GUI (A) 1998-99 (A) q and s only Answer: (D) (B) 2000-01 (B) s only

recorded the maximum incidence of negative growth in terms of Net irrigated area during the (C) World Wide Web Read the following table and answer question no years given in the table. 18-22 based on table (D) Firefox www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (C) 30. Which of the following cities has been worst (B) Water Resources affected by urban smog in recent times? (C) Home Affairs (A) Paris 26. When a computer is booting, BIOS is loaded to (D) Defence the memory by (B) London Answer: (C) (A) RAM (C) Los Angeles

(B) ROM (D) Beijing 35. Match List - I and List - II and select the (C) CD-ROM Answer: (D) correct answer from the codes given below:

(D) TCP List – I List - II

Answer: (B) 31. The primary source of organic pollution in (a) Flood (1) Lack of rainfall of sufficient fresh water bodies is Duration

(b) Drought (2) Tremors produced by the (A) run-off urban areas passage of vibratory waves through the 27. Which one of the following is not the same as rocks of the earth the other three? (B) run-off from agricultural forms (c) Earthquake (3) A vent through which molted (A) MAC address (C) sewage effluents substances come out

(B) Hardware address (D) industrial effluents (d) Valcano (4) Excess rain and uneven distribution of water

(D) IP address (a) (b) (c) (d)

Answer: (D) 32. 'Lahar' is a natural disaster involving (A) 4 1 2 3

(A) eruption of large amount of material (B) 2 3 4 1

28. Identify the IP address from the following (B) strong winds (C) 3 4 2 1

(A) 300 .215.317.3 (C) strong water waves (D) 4 3 1 2

(B) [email protected] (D) strong wind and water waves Answer: (A)

(D) 202-50-20-148 36. Which one of the following green house gases has the shortest residence time in the atmosphere? Answer: (C) 33. In order to avoid catastrophic consequences of climate change, there is general agreement among the countries of the world to limit the rise in (A) Chlorofluorocarbon

average surface temperature of earth compared to that of pre-industrial times by (B) Carbon dioxide 29. The population of India is about 1.2 billion. Take the average consumption of energy per (A) 1.5 oC to 2 oC person per year in India as 30 Mega Joules. If this (C) Methane consumption is met by carbon based fuels and the rate of carbon emissions per kilojoule is l5 x I06 (B) 2.0 oC to 3.5 oC (D) Nitrous oxide kgs, the total carbon emissions per year from India will be (C) 0.5 oC to 1.0 oC Answer: (C)

(A) 54 million metric tons (D) 0.25 oC to 0.5 oC

(B) 540 million metric tons Answer: (A) 37. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the code given below: (C) 5400 million metric tons

(i) Rajasthan receives the highest solar radiation in (D) 2400 million metric tons 34. The National Disaster Management Authority the country. functions under the Union Ministry of Answer: (Wrong Question) / B (ii) India has the fifth largest installed wind power (A) Environment in the world.

www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (iii) The maximum amount of wind power is (D) 1, 2 and 4 (A) 1, 2 and 4 contributed by Tamil Nadu. Answer: (A) (B) 1, 3 and 4 (iv) The primary source of uranium in India is Jaduguda. (C) 1, 2 and 3

(A) (i) and (ii) 41. Consider the statement which ls followed by (D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 two arguments (i) and (ii). (B) (i), (ii) and (iii) Answer: (C) Statement: India should have a very strong and (C) (ii) and (iii) powerful Lokpal.

(D) (i) and (iv) Arguments: (i) Yes, it will go a long in eliminating 44. Which one of the following is considered a sign corruption in bureaucracy. of motivated teaching? Answer: (D) (ii) No; it will discourage honest officers from (A) Students asking questions making quick decisions.

(B) Maximum attendance of the students Codes: 38. Who among the following is the defacto executive head of the planning Commission? (C) Pin drop silence in the classroom (A) Only argument (i) is strong. (A) Chairman (D) Students taking notes (B) Only argument (ii) is strong. (B) Deputy Chairman Answer: (A) (C) Both the arguments are strong. (C) Minister of State of Planning

(D) Neither of the arguments is strong. (D) Member Secretary 45. Which one of the following is the best method Answer: (A) of teaching? Answer: (B)

(A) Lecture

42. Which of the following universities has (B) Discussion adopted the meta university concept? 39. Education as a subject of legislation figures in the (C) Demonstration (A) Assam University (A) Union List (D) Narration (B) Delhi University (B) State List Answer: (C) (C) Hyderabad University (C) Concurrent List

(D) Pondicherry University (D) Residuary Powers 46. Dyslexia is associated with Answer: (B) Answer: (C) (A) mental disorder

(B) behavioural disorder 43. Which of the following statements are correct about a Central University? 40. Which of the following are Central (C) reading disorder Universities? 1. Central University is established under an Act of Parliament. (D) writing disorder 1. Pondicherry University

2. The President of India acts as the visitor of the Answer: (C) 2. Vishwa Bharati University.

3. H.N.B. Garhwal University 3. President has the power to nominate some members to the Executive Committee or the Board 47. The e-content generation for undergraduate 4. Kurukshetra University of Management of the University. courses has been assigned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to Select the correct answer from the code given 4. The President occasionally presides over the below: meetings of the Executive Committee or Court. (A) INFLIBNET

(A) 1, 2 and 3 Select the correct answer from the code given below: (B) Consortium for Educational Communication (B) 1, 3 and 4 Codes: (C) National Knowledge Commission (C) 2, 3 and 4 www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (D) Indira Gandhi National Open University 52. The research approach of Max Weber to from that of the geographically delimited understand how people create meanings in natural agglomeration of peoples or groups enjoying a settings is identified as common system of leadership which we call the Answer: (B) 'State'. The Indian 'State's' special feature is the peaceful, or perhaps mostly peaceful, co-existence (A) positive paradigm of social groups of various historical provenances which manually adhere in a geographical, (B) critical paradigm economic and political sense, without ever 48. Classroom communication is normally assimilating to each other in social terms, in ways considered as of thinking, or even in language. Modern Indian (C) natural paradigm law will determine certain rules, especially in (A) effective relation to the regime of the family, upon the basis (D) interpretative paradigm of hwo the loin-cloth is tied, or how the turban is worn, for this may identify the litigants as (B) cognitive members of a regional group, and therefore as Answer: (D) participants in it traditional law, though their (C) affective ancestors left the region three or four centuries earlier. The use of the word 'State' above must not mislead us. There was no such thing as a conflict (D) selective between the individual and the State, at least before 53. Which one of the following is a non probability foreign governments became established, just as sampling? Answer: (C) there was no concept of state 'sovereignty' or of any church-and-state dichotomy. (A) Simple Random

Modem Indian 'secularism' has an (B) Purposive admittedly peculiar feature: It requires the state to 49. Who among the following propounded the make a fair distribution of attention amongst all concept of paradigm? religions. These blessed aspects of India's famed (C) Systematic tolerance (Indian kings to rarely persecuted (A) Peter Haggett religious groups that the exceptions prove the rule) (D) Stratified at once struck Portuguese and other European visitors to the West Coast of India in the sixteenth (B) Von Thunen century, and the impression made upon them in Answer: (B) this and other ways gave rise, at one remove, to the (C) Thomas Kuhn basic constitution of Thomas More's Utopia. There is little about modern India that strikes one at once as Utopian but the insistence upon the inculcation (D) John K. Wright of norms, and the absense of bigotry 54. Identify the category of evaluation that assesses and institutionalized exploitation of human or the learning progress to provide continuous Answer: (C) natural resources, are two very different features feedback to the students during instruction. which link the realities of India and her tradition with the essence of all Utopians.

(A) Placement

50. In a thesis, figures and tables are included in (B) Diagnostic 56. Which of the following is a special feature of (A) The appendix (C) Formative the Indian state?

(B) A separate chapter (D) Summative (A) peaceful co-existence of people under a common system of leadership (C) The concluding chapter Answer: (C) (B) peaceful co-existence of social groups of (D) The text itself different historical provenances attached to each other in a geographical, economical and political sense Answer: (D) 55. The research stream of immediate application is (C) Social integration of all groups

(A) Conceptual research (D) Cultural assimilation of all social groups 51. A thesis statement is (B) Action research Answer: (B) (A) an observation (C) Fundamental research (B) a fact (D) Empirical research 57. The author uses the word 'State' to highlight (C) an assertion Answer: (B) (A) Antagonistic relationship between the state and (D) a discussion the individual throughout the period of history.

Answer: (C) (B) Absence of conflict between the state and the Instructions: Read the following passage carefully individuals upto a point in time. and answer questions 56 to 60: (C) The concept of state sovereignty Traditional Indian Values must be viewed both from the angle of the individual and (D) Dependence of religion www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com Answer: (B) 2. MOOC stands for (D) Bing

(A) Media Online Open Course Answer: (B)

58. Which one is the peculiar feature of modern (B) Massachusetts Open Online Course Indian 'secularism'?

(C) Massive Open Online Course 7. In terms of total CO2 emissions from a country, (A) No discrimination on religious considerations identity the correct sequence: (D) Myrind Open Online Course (B) Total indifference to religion (A) U.S.A. > China > India > Russia Answer: (C) (C) No space for social identity (B) China > U.S.A. > India > Russia

(D) Disregard for social law (C) China > U.S.A. > Russia > India 3. Binary equivalent of decimal number 35 is Answer: (A) (D) U.S.A. > China > Russia > India (A) 100011 Answer: (B) (B) 110001 59. The basic construction of Thomas More's Utopia was inspired by (C) 110101 8. Match List – I and List – II and identify the (A) Indian tradition of religious tolerance correct code: (D) 101011

(B) Persecution of religious groups by Indian rulers a. World Health Day i.16th September Answer: (A)

st (C) Social inequality in India b. World Population Day ii. 1 December

th (D) European perception of Indian State c. World Ozone Day iii. 11 July 4. gif, jpg, bmp, png are used as extensions for files which store d. World AIDS Day iv. 7th April Answer: (A) (A) Audio data Codes:

(B) Image data a b c d 60. What is the striking feature of modern India? (C) Video data (A) i ii iii iv (A) A replica of Utopian State (D) Text data (B) iv iii i ii (B) Uniform Laws Answer: (B) (C) ii iii iv i (C) Adherance to traditional values

(D) iii iv ii i (D) Absense of Bigotry 5. Symbols A-F are used in which one of the Answer: (B) Answer: (D) following?

(A) Binary number system

9. Which of the anthropogenic activity accounts for (B) Decimal number system 2014 December UGC NET Previous Years more than 2/3rd of global water consumption? Solved Paper I (C) Hexadecimal number system (A) Agriculture

1. CSS stands for (D) Octal number system (B) Hydropower generation

(A) Cascading Style Sheets Answer: (C) (C) Industry

(B) Collecting Style Sheets (D) Domestic and Municipal usage

(C) Comparative Style Sheets 6. Which one of the following is not a search Answer: (A) engine? (D) Comprehensive Style Sheets

(A) Google Answer: (A) 10. One of the anthropogenic sources of gaseous (B) Chrome pollutants chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in air is

(D) Pesticide industry (C) 1 and 4

Answer: (C) (D) 1, 2, 3, and 4 18. Which of the following powers, the President has in relation to Lok Sabha? 11. The maximum number of fake institutions / Answer: (D) universities as identified by the UGC in the year 1. Summoning 2014 are in the State / Union territory of

2 Adjournment- sine die (A) Bihar 14. The cyclone “Hudhud” hit the coast of which State? 3. Prorogation (B) Uttar Pradesh (A) Andhra Pradesh 4. Dissolution (C) Tamil Nadu (B) Karnataka Select the correct answer from the codes given (D) Delhi below: (C) Kerala Answer: (B) (A) 1 and 4 (D) Gujarat (B) 1, 2 and 3 Answer: (A) 12. Which of the following institutions are (C) 1, 3 and 4 empowered to confer or grant degrees under the

UGC Act, 1956? (D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 15. Which of the following is not a renewable 1. A university established by an Act of natural resource? Answer: (B) Parliament.

(A) Clean air 2. A university established by an Act of Legislature. (B) Fresh water 19. The interval between two sessions of parliament must not exceed 3. A university / institution established by a linguistic minority. (C) Fertile soil (A) 3 months 4. An institution which is a deemed to be (D) Salt university. (B) 6 months Answer: (D) Select the correct answers from the codes given (C) 4 months below:

(D) 100 days (A) 1 and 2 16. Right to privacy as a Fundamental Right is implied in Answer: (B) (B) 1, 2 and 3 (A) Right to Freedom (C) 1, 2 and 4 (B) Right to Life and Personal Liberty 20. Maximum participation of students during (D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 teaching is possible through (C) Right to Equality Answer: (C) (A) Lecture method (D) Right against Exploitation (B) Demonstration method Answer: (B) 13. Which of the following are the tools of good (C) Inductive method governance?

(D) Textbook method 1. Social Audit 17. Which of the following organizations deals with “capacity building programe” on Educational Answer: (C) 2. Separation of Powers Planning? 21. Diagnostic evaluation ascertains 3. Citizen’s Charter (A) NCERT (A) Students performance at the beginning of 4. Right to Information (B) UGC instructions.

Select the correct answer from the codes given (C) NAAC (B) Learning progress and failures during below: instructions. www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (C) Degree of achievements of instructions at the end. 26. The core elements of dissertation are 30. When planning to do a social research, it is (D) Causes and remedies of persistent learning better to problems during instructions. (A) Introduction; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Conclusions and Recommendations (A) Approach the topic with an open mind Answer: (D) (B) Executive Summary; Literature review; Data (B) Do a pilot study before getting stuck into it gathered; Conclusions; Bibliography (C) Be familiar with literature on the topic 22. Instructional aides are used by the teacher to (C) Research Plan; Research Data; Analysis; References (D) Forget about theory because this is a very (A) Glorify the class practical (D) Introduction; Literature Review; Research Methodology; Results; Discussion and Conclusion (B) Attract the students Answer: (A)

Answer: (D) (C) Clarify the concepts

(D) Ensure discipline 31. When academicians are called to deliver lecture or presentations to an audience on certain topics or 27. What is a Research Design? a set of topics of educational nature, it is called Answer: (C)

(A) A way of conducting research that is not (A) Training Program

grounded in theory. (B) Seminar 23. Attitude of the teacher that affects teaching (B) The choice between using qualitative or pertains to quantitative methods. (C) Workshop (A) Affective domain (C) The style in which you present your research (D) Symposium findings e.g. a graph. (B) Cognitive domain Answer: (B) (D) A framework for every stage of the collection (C) Connative domain and analysis of data.

(D) Psychomotor domain Answer: (D) 32. Media is known as Answer: (A) (A) First Estate 28. “Sampling Cases” means (B) Second Estate 24. “Education is the manifestation of perfection (A) Sampling using a sampling frame already in man” was stated by (C) Third Estate (B) Identifying people who are suitable for (A) M. K. Gandhi research (D) Fourth Estate

(B) R. N. Tagore (C) Literally the researcher’s brief case Answer: (D)

(C) Swami Vivekanand (D) Sampling of people, newspapers, television programmes etc. (D) Sri Aurobindo 33. The mode of communication that involves a Answer: (D) single source transmitting information to a large number of receivers simultaneously, is called Answer: (C)

(A) Group Communication

29. The frequency distribution of a research data which is symmetrical in shape similar to a normal (B) Mass Communication 25. Which of the following is not a prescribed level distribution but center peak is much higher, is of teaching? (C) Intrapersonal Communication (A) Skewed (A) Memory (D) Interpersonal Communication (B) Mesokurtic (B) Understanding Answer: (B) (C) Leptokurtic (C) Reflective

(D) Platykurtic (D) Differentiation 34. A smart classroom is a teaching space which Answer: (C) has Answer: (D) www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com (i) Smart portion with a touch panel control (i) Universal digit literacy system. 38. If STREAMERS is coded as UVTGALDQR, (ii) Universal access to all digital resources (ii) PC/Laptop connection and DVD/VCR player. then KNOWLEDGE will be coded as (iii) Collaborative digital platform for participative (iii) Document camera and specialized software (A) MQPYLCDFD governance.

(iv) Projector and screen (B) MPQYLDCFD (iv) Probability of all entitlements for individuals through cloud. Select the correct answer from the codes given (C) PMYQLDFCD below: Choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (D) YMQPLDDFC (A) (i) and (ii) only (A) (i) and (ii) only Answer: (B) (B) (ii) and (iv) only (B) (ii) and (iii) only

(C) (i), (ii) and (iii) only (C) (i), (ii) and (iii) only 39. A is brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the (D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) husband of D. E is the father of A. D is related to E as (D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) Answer: (D) (A) Daughter Answer: (D)

(B) Daughter-in-law 35. The term “Yellow Journalism” refers to (C) Sister-in-law 43. The next term in the series: 2, 7, 28, 63, 126, --- is (A) Sensational news about terrorism and violence (D) Sister (A) 215 (B) Sensationalism and exaggeration to attract readers / viewers. Answer: (B) (B) 245 (C) Sensational news about arts and culture. (C) 276 (D) Sensational news prints in yellow paper. 40. Two numbers are in the ration 3:5. If 9 is subtracted from the numbers, the ratio becomes (D) 296 12:23. The numbers are Answer: (B) Answer: (A) (A) 30, 50

(B) 36, 60 36. In the classroom, the teacher sends the message either as words or images. The students are really Read the following passage carefully and answer (C) 33, 55 questions 44 to 48: (A) Encoders (D) 42, 70 The literary distaste for politics, however, seems to be focused not so much on the (B) Decoders largely murky practice of politics in itself as a Answer: (C) subject of literary representation but rather more on (C) Agitators how it is often depicted in literature, i.e., on the very politics of such representation. A political novel often turns out to be not merely a novel (D) Propagators about politics but a novel with a politics of its own, 41. The mean of the ages of father and his son is 27 for it seeks not merely to show us how things are years. After 18 years, father will be twice as old as Answer: (B) but has fairly definite ideas about how things his son. Their present ages are should be, and precisely what one should think and do in order to make things move in that desired

(A) 42, 12 direction. In short, it seeks to convert and enlist the reader to a particular cause or ideology; it often is 37. The next term in the series: AB, ED, IH, NM, - (in an only too familiar phrase) not literature but (B) 40, 14 -- is propaganda. This is said to violate the very spirit of literature which is to broaden our understanding of (C) 30, 24 the world and the range of our sympathies rather (A) TS than to narrow them down through partisan commitment. As John Keats said, ‘We hate poetry (D) 36, 18 (B) ST that has a palpable design upon us’.

Answer: (A) (C) TU Another reason why politics does not seem amenable to the highest kind of literary representation seems to arise from the fact that (D) SU politics by its very nature is constituted of ideas and ideologies. If political situations do not lend 42. Digital Empowerment means Answer: (A) themselves to happy literary treatment, political ideas present perhaps an even greater problem in www.ugcnetcommerceclub.com this regard. Literature, it is argued, is about human (A) Literary distaste for politics (D) s experiences rather than about intellectual abstractions; it deals in what is called the ‘felt (B) Literary representation of politics Answer: (D) reality’ of human flesh and blood, and in sap and savour. (rasa) rather than in and lifeless ideas. In an extensive discussion of the matter in her book (C) Novels with its own politics Ideas and the Novel, the American novelist Mary McCarthy observed that ‘ideas are still today felt to be unsightly in the novel’ though that was not so in (D) Depiction of murky practice of politics 51. “A man ought no more to value himself for being wiser than a woman if he owes his advantage ‘former days’, i.e., in the 18th and 19th centuries. to a better education, than he ought to boast of his Her formulation of the precise nature of the Answer: (C) incompatibility between ideas on the one hand and courage for beating a man when his hands were tied.” The above passage is an instance of the novel on the other betrays perhaps a divided conscience in the matter and a sense of dilemma shared by many writers and readers: ‘An idea (A) Deductive argument cannot have loose ends, but a novel, I almost think, 48. A political novel reveals needs them. Nevertheless, there is enough in common for the novelists to feel… the attraction of (B) Hypothetical argument ideas while taking up arms against them — most (A) Reality of the tings often with weapons of mockery.’ (C) Analogical argument (B) Writer’s perception (D) Factual argument (C) Particular ideology of the readers 44. The constructs of politics by its nature is Answer: (C) (D) The spirit of literature (A) Prevalent political situation Answer: (B) (B) Ideas and Ideologies 52. By which of the following proposition, the proposition “wise men are hardly afraid of death” (C) Political propaganda is contradicted? 49. Warrior is related to sword, carpenter is related (D) Understanding of human nature to saw, farmer is related to plough. In the same (A) Some wise men are afraid of death. way, the author is related to

Answer: (C) (B) All wise men are afraid of death. (A) Book

45. Literature deals with (D) Some wise men are not afraid of death. (C) Reader

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(A) Unseen felt ideas of today in the novel Answer: (A)

(B) Dichotomy of conscience on political ideas and novels

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Vir Sanghvi – India Today Students becomes serious

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computer is an electronic machine 21.The Lok-Sabha can be dissolved before the Communicator should have fine senses expiry of its normal five years term by Communicator should have tolerance power computer cannot think at its own Communicator should be soft spoken The Prime Minister Communicator should have good personality computer processes information error free The Speaker of Lok Sabha ANSWER : : Communicator should have fine computer can hold data for any length of time senses The President on the recommendation of the ANSWER : : computer is an electronic machine Prime Minister

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mechanical clarity innovative companies employ electronic thinking At the request of two or more States methods media synchronization idea-generation software prompts questions ANSWER : : At the request of two or more States

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individuals acquire a neutral attitude towards the 9.The science of the study of feedback systems in software humans, animals and machines is known as 42.Which of the following methods of teaching encourages the use of maximum senses? ANSWER : : idea-generation software prompts cybernetics questions Problem-solving method reverse communication

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The Indian peninsula south of the Satpura ranges Both (A) and (B) is titled towards east 23.The first Indian chronicler of Indian history was None of the above

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Uttari Gangotri Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct 24.Which is the smallest North-east State in India? explanation of (A) None of these Tripura (A) is true, but (R) is false

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125 ANSWER : : Tripura

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Selecting a problem Searching a problem Finding a problem Indentifying a problem 7.How many Mondays are there in a particular 44.Which one of the following Articles of the month of a particular year, if the month ends on ANSWER : : Indentifying a problem constitution of India safeguards the rights of Wednesday? Minorities to establish and run educational institutions of their own liking? 5

33.”Because you deserve to known” is the Article 19 4 punchline used by 3 The Times of India Article 29

The Hindu None of the above Article 30 Indian Express ANSWER : : None of the above Hindustan Times Article 31

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L.B.S National Academy of Administration growth of phyto plankton ANSWER : : 4:3

Central for Advanced Studies rise in sea level

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three seasons excluding monsoon 17.Which of the following methods will you choose to prepare choropleth map of India any three season showing urban density of population the worst season Quartiles

Quintiles ANSWER : : the whole year

Mean and SD 38.Press Council of India is located at

Break-point Chennai

Kolkata ANSWER : : Quintiles Mumbai

Delhi 21.The spiralling corruption can be only be contained by promoting ANSWER : : Delhi Private profit

Anti-corruption campaign 41.Fundamental research reflects the ability to Good governance Synthesize new ideals Pay-offs and kick backs Expound new principles

ANSWER : : Good governance Evaluating the existing material concerning research

Study the existing literature regarding various 30.Which of the natural hazards have big effect on topics Indian people each year? ANSWER : : Expound new principles Cyclones

Floods 45.Transfer of data from one application to Earthquakes another line is known as

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Dogmatic Data Exchange

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known and unknown 46.Bibliography given in a research report

Major premise and minor premise shows vast knowledge of the researcher

helps those interested in further research