CBSE/UGC JRF/NET 22 JANUARY 2017 PAPER-I ANSWER KEY

Q1) The principal of a school conducts an interview session of teachers and students with a view to explore the possibility of their enhanced participation in school programmers. This endeavor may be related to which type of research?

    Evaluation Research

    Fundamental Research

    Action Research

    Applied Research

Q2) In doing action research what is the usual sequence of steps?

    Reflect, observe, plan, act

    Plan, act, observe, reflect

    Plan, reflect, observe, act

    Act, observe, plan, reflect

Q3) Which sequence of research steps is logical in the list given below?

    Problem formulation, Analysis, Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Collection of data, Arriving at generalizations and conclusions.

    Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Problem formulation, Data analysis, Arriving at conclusions and data collection.

    Problem formulation, Hypothesis making, Development of a Research design, Collection of a Data; Data analysis and formulation of generalizations and conclusions.

    Problem formulation, Deciding about the sample and data collection tools Formulation of hypothesis, Collection and interpretation of research evidence

Q4) Below are given two seat – research methods (Set-I) and data collection tools (Set-II). Match the two sets and indicate your answer by selecting the correct code:

Set-I    Set-II

A         Experimental method i           Using primary secondary sources

B         Ex post-facto method             ii          Questionnaire

C         Descriptive survey method     iii         Standardized tests

D         Historical method       iv         Typical characteristics tests

Codes:

    A  B  C  D

    ii  i  iii  iv

    iii  iv  ii  i

    ii  iii  i  iv

    ii  iv  iii   i

Q5) The issue of ‘Research ethics’ may be considered pertinent at which stage of research?

    At the stage of problem formulation and its definition

    At the stage of defining the population of research

    At the stage of data collection and interpretation

    At the stage of reporting the findings.

Q6) In which of the following, reporting format is formally prescribed?

    Doctoral level thesis

    Conference of researchers

    Workshops and seminars

    Symposia

Passage:

The last Great War, which nearly shook the foundations of the modern world had little impact on Indian Literature beyond aggravating the popular revulsions against violence and adding to growing disillusionment with the ‘humane pretensions’ of the Western World. This was eloquently voiced in Tagore’s poems and his last testament, “Crisis in Civilization”. The Indian intelligentsia was in a state of moral dilemma. On the one hand, it could not help but sympathize with the England’s dogged courage in the hour of peril, with the Russians fighting with their backs on the wall against ruthless Nazi hordes, and with the China groaning under the heel of Japanese militarism; on the other hand their own country was practically under the military occupation of their own soil and the Indian army under Subhas Bose was trying from the opposite camp to liberate their country. No creative impulse could issue from such confusion of loyalties. One would imagine that the achievement of Indian independence in 1947, which came in the wake of the Allies victory and was followed by collapse of colonialism in the neighboring countries of South East Asia, would have released an upsurge of the creative energy. No doubt it did, but it was soon submerged in the great agony of partition with the inhuman slaughter of innocents and the uprooting of the millions of the people from their homeland followed by the martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi. These tragedies along with Pakistan’s Invasion of Kashmir and its later atrocities in Bangladesh, did indeed provoke a pregnant writing, particularly in the languages of the regions most affected Bengali, Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu. Both poignant or passionate writing does not by itself make great literature. What reserves of enthusiasm and confidence served these disasters have been mainly absorbed in the task of national reconstruction and economic development. Great literature has always emerged out of chains of convulsions. Indian literature is richer today in terms of volume, range and variety than it ever was in past.

Q7) What was the impact of the last great war on Indian literature?

    It had no impact

    It aggravated popular revulsion against violence

    It shook the foundations of literature

    It offered eloquent support to the Western World

Q8) What did Tagore articulate in his last testament?

    Offered support to Subhas Bose

    Exposed the humane pretensions of the Western World

    Expressed loyalty to England

    Encouraged the liberation of countries

Q9) What was the stance of Indian intelligentsia during the period of great war?

    Indifference to Russia’s plight

    They favored Japanese militarism

    They prompted creativity out of confused loyalties

    They expressed sympathy for England’s dogged courage.

Q10) Identify the factor responsible for the submergence creative energy in India literature.

    Military occupation of one’s own soil

    Resistance to colonial occupation

    Great agony of partition

    Victory of Allies

Q11) What was the aftermath that survived tragedies in Kashmir and Bangladesh?

    Suspicion of other countries

    Continuance of rivalry

    Menace of war

    National reconstruction

Q12) The passage has the message that

    Disasters are inevitable

    Great literature emerges out of chains of convulsions

    Indian literature does not have a marked landscape

    Literature has no relation with war and independence.

Q13) Effective communication pre-supposes

    Non-alignment

    Domination

    Passivity

    Understanding

Q14) When verbal and non-verbal messages are contradictory, it is that most people believe in

    Indeterminate messages

    Verbal messages

    Non-verbal messages

    Aggressive messages

Q15) The typical feature of information-rich classroom lecture is in the nature of being

    Sedentary

    Staggered

    Factual

    Sectoral

Q16) Expressive communication is driven by

    Passive aggression

    Encoder’s personality characteristics

    External clues

    Encoder-decoder contract

Q17) Positive classroom communication leads to

    Coercion

    Submission

    Confrontation

    Persuasion

Q18) Classroom communication is the basis of

    Social identity

    External inanities

    Biased passivity

    Group aggression

Q19) The missing term in the series 1, 4, 27, 16, ?, 36, 243,… is

    30

    49

    125

    81

Q20) The next term in the following series

YEB, WFD, UHG, SKI, _?_ will be

    TLO

    QOL

    QLO

    GQP

Q21) If A is coded as C, M as I, N as P, S as O, I as A, P as N, E as M, O as E, and C as S, then the code of COMPANIES will be

    SPEINMOAC

    NCPSEIOMA

    SMOPIEACN

    SEINCPAMO

Q22) Among the following, identify the continuous type of data:

    Number of languages a person speaks

    Number of children in a household

    Population of cities

    Weight of students in a class

Q23) Ali buys a glass, a pencil box and a cup and pays rs 21 to to the shopkeeper. Rakesh buys a cup, two pencil boxes and a glass and pays rs 28 to the shopkeeper. Preeti buys two glass, a cup and two pencil boxes and pays rs 35 to the shopkeeper. the cost of 10 cups will be

    40

    60

    80

    70

Q24) Out of four cities given below three are alike in some manner while the fourth one is different. Identify the odd one

    Lucknow

    Rishikesh

    Allahabad

    Patna

Q25) Given below are some characteristics of reasoning. Select the code that states a characteristic which is not a deductive reasoning

    The conclusion must be based on observation and experiment

    The conclusion should be supported by the premise/premises

    The conclusion must follow from the premise/premises necessarily

    The argument may be valid or invalid

Q26) If two standard form categorical propositions with the same subject and predicate are related in such a manner that is one is undermined the other must be undetermined, what is their relation?

    Contrary

    Subcontrary

    Contradictory

    Sub-altern

Q27) Men and women may have different reproductive strategies but neither can be considered inferior or superior to the other. any more than a bird’s winds can be considered superior or inferior to a fish’s fins. Select the code that states those two propositions

    Biological

    Physiological

    Analogical

    Hypothetical

Q28) Among the following propositions two are related in such a way that they cannot both be true but can be false. Select the code states those two propositions

Propositions:

    (a) Every student is attentive

    (b) Some students are attentive

    (c) Students are never attentive

    (d) Some students are not attentive

Codes:

    (a) and (b)

    (a) and (c)

    (b) and (c)

    (c) and (d)

Q29) Given below are two premised (a) and (b). from those two premises four conclusions i, ii, iii, iv are drawn. Select the code that states the conclusions validly drawn from the premises (taking singly or jointly)

Premises:

    (a) Untouchability is a curse

    (b) All hot pans are untouchable

Conclusions:

    (i) All hot pans are curse

    (ii) some untouchable things as hot pans

    (iii) All courses are untoucability

    (iv) Some courses are untoucability

Codes:

    (i) and (ii)

    (ii) and (iii)

    (iii) and (iv)

    (ii) and (iv)

Q30) If the statement ‘None but the brave wins the race’ is false, which of the following statements can be claimed to be true?

    All brave persons win the race

    Some persons who win the race are not brave

    Some persons who win the race are brave

    No person who wins the race is brave

The table below embodies data on the sales revenue (rs in lakh) genrated by a publishing hourse during the years 2012-15 while selling books, magazines and journals as three categories of items. Answer questions 31-33 based in the data contained in the table

Items               2012    2013    2014    2015

Journals           46        47        45        44

Magazines       31        39        46        51

Books 73        77        78        78

Total                                       

Q31) In 2015, approximately what percent of total revenue come from books?

    45%

    55%

    35%

    25%

Q32) The number of years in which there was an increase in revenue from at least two categories of items, is

    0

    1

    2

    3

Q33) If the year 2016 were to show the same growth in terms of total sales revenue as the year 2015 over the year 2014, then the revenue in the year 2016 must be approximately:

    rs 194 lakh

    rs 187 lakh

    rs 172 lakh

    rs 177 lakh

A University professor maintains data on MCA students tabulated by performance and gender of the students. The data is kept on a computer had disk, but accidentally some of it lost because of a computer virus. Only the following could be recovered:

Gender            Average           Good   Excellent         Total

Male                            10       

Female                                                 32

Total                30                   

Panic buttons were pressed but to no avail. An expert committee was formed, which decided that the following facts were self evident:

    (a) Half the students were either excellent or good.

    (b) 40% of the students were females

    (c) One-third of the male students were average

Answer questions 34-36 based on the data given above

Q34) How many female students are excellent?

    0

    8

    16

    32

Q35) What proportion of female students are good?

    0

    0.25

    0.50

    0.75

Q36) Approximately, what proportion of good students are male?

    0

    0.73

    0.43

    0.27

Q37) Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE?

    S1: The decimal number 11 is larger than the hexadecimal number 11

    S2: In the binary number 1110.101, the fractional part has the decimal value as 0.625

    S1 Only

    S2 Only

    Both S1 and S2

    Neither S1 nor S2

Q38) Read the following two statements:

    I: Information and communication Technology (ICT) is considered a subset of Information Technology(IT)

    II: The ‘right to use’ a piece of software is termed as copyright

Which of the above statement(s) is/are CORRECT?

    Both I and II

    Neither I not II

    II Only

    I Only

Q39) Which of the following correctly lists computer memory types from highest to lowest speed?

    i) Secondary Storage

    ii) Main Memory (RAM)

    iii) Cache Memory

    iv) CPU Registers

Code:

    i, ii, iii, iv

    iv, iii, i, ii

    iv, iii, ii, i

    iii, iv, ii, i

Q40) Which of the following is a characteristic of Web2.0 applications?

    Multiple users schedule their time to use Web2.0 applications one by one.

    Web2.0 applications are focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online.

    Web2.0 applications provide users with content rather than facilitating users to create it.

    Web2.0 applications use only static pages.

Q41) With regard to a word processing software, the process of combining static information in a publication together with variable information in a data source to create one merged publication is called

    Electronic mail

    Data sourcing

    Mail merge

    Spam mail

Q42). DVD technology uses an optical media to store the digital data DVD is an acronym for

    Digital Vector Disc

    Digital Volume Disc

    Digital Versatile Disc

    Digital Visualization Disc

Q43) Assertion (A): Sustainable development critical to well being of human society.

Reason (R): Environmentally sound policies do not harm the environment or deplete the natural resources.

Choose the correct code:

    Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

    Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

    (A) is true and (R) is true

    (A) is false and (R) is true

Q44) The dominant source of pollution due to oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in urban areas is

    Road transport

    Commercial Sector

    Energy use in industry

    Power plants

Q45) Which of the following is not a water-borne disease?

    Typhoid

    Hepatitis

    Cholera

    Dengue

Q46) India government’s target for power production from small hydro projects by the year 2022 is

    1 Giga-Watt

    5 Giga-Watt

    10 Giga-Watt

    15 Giga-Watt

Q47) In which country, the recent international agreement on phasing out Hydro Fluoro Carbons (HFCs) was signed?

    Rwanda

    Morocco

    South Africa

    Algeria

Q48) Which of the following natural hazards is not hydro-meteorological?

    Snow avalanche

    Sea erosion

    Tropical cyclone

    Tsunami

Q49) Which of the following are the demerits of globalization of higher education?

    (a) Exposure to global curriculum

    (b) Promotion of elitism in education

    (c) Commodification of higher education

    (d) Increase in the cost of education

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

    (a) and (d)

    (a), (c) and (d)

    (b), (c) and (d)

    (a), (b), (c) and (d)

Q50) Which of the following statements are correct about deemed universities?

    (a) The Governor of the State is the chancellor of deemed universities.

    (b) They can design their own syllabus and course work.

    (c) They can frame their own guidelines regarding admission and fees.

    (d) They can grant degrees.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Code:

    (A), (B) and (C)

    (B), (C) and (D)

    (A), (C) and (D)

    (A), (B), (C) and (D)

Q51) The purpose of value education is best served by focusing on

    Cultural practices prevailing in the society.

    Norms of conduct laid down by a social group

    Concern for human values

    Religious and moral practices and instructions.

Q52) Which of the following statements are correct?

    (a) Rajya Sabha is a permanent House which can be dissolved only during national emergency.

    (b) Rajya Sabha does not represent the local interests of the States.

    (c) Members of the Rajya Sabha are not bound to vote at the dictates of the states they represent.

    (d) No Union territory has a representative in the Rajya Sabha.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Code:

    (a) and (d)

    (b) and (c)

    (b), (c) and (d)

    (a), (b), (c) and (d)

Q53) Which of the following are not necessarily the immediate consequences of the proclamation of the President’s Rule in a State?

    (a) Dissolution of the State of Ministers in the State

    (b) Removal of the Council of Ministers in the State.

    (c) Takeover of the State administration by the Union Government

    (d) Appointment of a new Chief Secretary

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

    (a) and (d)

    (a), (b) and (c)

    (a), (b), (c) and (d)

    (b) and (c)

Q54) Instead of holding the office during the pleasure of the President who among the following hold (s) office during good behavior?

    (a) Governor of a state

    (b) Attorney General of India

    (c) Judges of the High Court

    (d) Administrator of a Union Territory

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

    (a) only

    (c) Only

    (a) and (c)

    (a), (b), (c) and (d)

Q55) Which of the following set of statements represents acceptable propositions in respect of teaching-learning relationships? Choose the correct code to indicate your answer.

    (i) When students fail in a test, it is the teacher who fails.

    (ii) Every teaching must aim at ensuring learning.

    (iii) There can be teaching without learning taking place

    (iv) There can be no learning without teaching.

    (v) A teacher teaches but learns also

    (vi) Real learning implies rote learning

Codes:

    (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)

    (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)

    (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi)

    (i), (ii), (v) and (vi)

Q56) Assertion (A): Learning is a life long process.

Reason (R): Learning to be useful must be linked with life processes.

Choose the correct answer from the following code:

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

    Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

    (A) is true, but (R) is false

    (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Q57) Effectiveness of teaching has to be judged in terms of

    Course coverage

    Students’ interest

    Learning outcomes of students

    Use of teaching aids in the classroom

Q58) In which teaching method learner’s participation is made optimal and proactive?

    Discussion method

    Buzz session method

    Brainstorming session method

    Project method

Q59) One of the most powerful factors affection teaching effectiveness is related to the

    Social system of the country

    Economic status of the society

    Prevailing political system

    Educational system

Q60) Assertion (A): Formative evaluation tends to accelerate the pace of learning.

Reason (R): As against summative evaluation, formative evaluation is highly reliable.

Choose the correct answer from the following code:

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

    Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

    (A) is true, but (R) is false.

    (A) is false, but (R) is true