UGC NET Paper 1 Practice Test - 5 - UGC NET MCQ

A sampling error is a deviation in sampled value versus the true population value due to the fact the sample is not representative of the population or biased in some way. The relationship between margin of error and sample size is inverse i.e when sample size increases, the sampling error decreases. This is because the more information you have, the more accurate the results would be.

Fly ash can be used in:

• Construction of the Roman structure.
• Manufacturing of building bricks.
• Manufacture of cement.
• Used as fertilizers.
• In a dam and water holding structures.
• As a replacement of white cement.
• Used in road construction.

A research paper is a piece of academic writing that provides analysis, interpretation, and argument based on in-depth independent research. A research paper contains peer-reviewed original research or evaluation of research conducted by others.

System software is the set of programs that enables your computer’s hardware devices and application software to work together.

A good teacher must be resourceful and participative. Teachers provide environments that foster resourcefulness when they encourage students to plan, strategize, prioritize, set goals, seek resources, and monitor their progress. For making classroom environment participative, a teacher must use constructivist approach rather than objectivist in teaching.

Information Communication Technologies refers to all communication technologies like wireless networks, software, middleware, cell phone, internet, social networking and other media applications. It provides access to information through telecommunication. It provides subject materials to teacher and student, It provides materials of all languages. It is also used in telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling and link system.

When some students are deliberately attempting to disturb the discipline of the class, the teacher should give them an opportunity for introspection and improve their behaviour. Students need to be taught that they are responsible for their own behavior. Teachers recognise negative behaviour instantly. Instead of calling it out immediately, teachers must try diverting the student, ignoring the behaviour and redirecting them to the task at hand.

Stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange." ASCII is a character encoding that uses numeric codes to represent characters. These include upper and lowercase English letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols.

The opaque projector, epidioscope, epidiascope or episcope is a device which displays opaque materials by shining a bright lamp onto the object from above. A system of mirrors, prisms and/or imaging lenses is used to focus an image of the material onto a viewing screen. It is a projected aid.

Research indicates that in addition to the personal qualities that encourage effective teaching, there are three other teacher characteristics namely: knowledge, organisation and clarity, and cordiality and enthusiasm that influence teaching.
Emotional Intelligence (E.I.):

• E.I. You have the ability to understand your own feelings and those of the people around you.
• The concept of emotional intelligence means that you must have a self-awareness that enables you to recognize emotions and manage your emotions.
• It became popular after the immense success of Daniel Goleman's book, Emotional Intelligence, Why It Can Matter More Than IQ in 1995.
• Developing emotional intelligence is an intentional, active, and engaging process.
• When focusing on learning emotional intelligence skills, teachers and students are creating human development behaviors that are intimately related to positive outcomes of achievement, goal achievement, and personal well-being.
• Emotionally intelligent teachers are proactive in their orientation of students to work and life. They encourage and inspire students beyond the walls of the classroom.

Nothing about 'other development aspects' has been said in the passage. Neither is their relation to the developed or developing countries cited. So, option 2 is the correct answer.
Option 1 can be inferred from the line, 'These countries have made significant progress in the provision of sanitation services too...quality-oriented public management'.
Option 3 can be inferred from the line, 'By way of illustration, a large number of urban residents have been … Philippines'.

"Tempo of urbanisation" has not been mentioned in the passage. So, option 1 is the correct answer.

A teacher who is not proficient in the local language or dialect will face semantic barrier in communication. Semantic barriers to communication are often caused by the use of different languages. Low proficiency in the local language will cause semantic barriers to communication in the classroom.
Semantic barriers, then, are obstacles in communication that distort the meaning of a message being sent. Miscommunications can arise due to different situations that form the semantic barrier between the sender and the receiver. These situations, to name a few, may be language, education, or cultural differences.

Video conference with a radio link is very popular throughout the world. Video conferencing is a technology that allows users in different locations to hold face-to-face meetings without having to move to a single location together. Video conferencing can also be used as a medium for conducting training, with the instructor teaching a remote class from almost anywhere.

A - IV, B - III, C - I, D - II

Physical barrier: 

1. A physical barrier is an environmental and natural condition that acts as a barrier in communication in sending a message from sender to receiver. 
2. Noise, an overload of information, an overabundance of information, distance, time, invisibility, ill-health, etc.
3. When messages are sent by the sender, physical barriers like doors, walls, distance, etc. do not let the communication become effective. The barriers are less if the proximity of the sender and the receiver is high and fewer technologies are required.

Language barrier:

1. A language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to refer to linguistic barriers to communication, i.e. the difficulties in communication experienced by people or groups originally speaking different languages, or even dialects in some cases. 
2. Dialect, language disability, verbalism.
3. Verbalism means concentration on forms of expression rather than content.

Technical barrier: 

• Technology has helped reduce and even overcome distance, allowing people to share information without needing to meet in real life.
• But, there's more to physical barriers than distance.
• Physical barriers to digital communication include other environmental conditions like time, place, and medium.

Psychological barrier:

• The Psychological or Emotional Barriers refer to the psychological state i.e. Opinions, attitudes, status consciousness, emotions, Pre-disposed notions, etc. of a person that deeply affects the ability to communicate.

Social and Cultural barrier: 

• Socio-cultural barriers are man-made constructs originating from social norms and cultural values.
• They have mainly an adverse impact on information seeking by restricting access to information sources and giving rise to negative emotions.
• Social stereotypes may be defined as beliefs that various traits or acts are characteristic of particular social groups.

Therefore the correct option is A-IV, B - III, C - I, D - II

'Asynchronous' means 'not existing or occurring at the same time'. Newspaper is asynchronous because it is printed first and later read.

Connotative words are words that signify or suggest an association or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

Higher Education in India has certain goals to achieve:

• Access – Education is the right to every individual. So, higher education institutes have the duty to ensure education access to every learner.
• Equity, Quality and Excellence – The first and the foremost motive of every higher education institute is to ensure quality and proper infrastructure to the students.
• Relevance and value-based education – The higher education institutes must provide value through education.

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A motivated teacher is crucial to a successful classroom. They will look at teaching through a different lens, and, in doing so, motivate their students in their learning too. Motivation also helps to drive creativity and curiosity, sparking the desire needed for students to want to learn more.
Characteristics of Motivated teaching:

• A desire to share the love of the subject with students
• An ability to make the material being taught stimulating and interesting
• A facility for engaging with students at their level of understanding
• A capacity to explain the material plainly
• A commitment to making it absolutely clear what has to be understood at what level and why
• Showing concern and respect for students

Let the money she deposited with bank B be Rs. X.
Here, R₁ = 5%, T₁ = 4 years, R₂ = 4%, T₂ = 10 years
Then according to the question:

x = Rs. 560
Total money = 560 + 1120 = Rs. 1680.

Communication is the act of conveying messages that contain certain meanings or actions and effective communication means that the sender and receiver both regard the same meaning to a particular message.

The given statement is an opinion as it is not based on any facts. It presents a suggestion. So, option 3 is the correct answer.

The Professional courses are such that give professional degrees to the students enabling them to practice that profession as a career. These are Medicines, Law etc.
The Academic courses are of the like arts and commerce.
Courses pursued in the Engineering stream like B tech and B.E are classified as technical courses and the courses that impart skill-based training which is more job oriented are the Skill-based courses. Carpentering and Sewing are examples of the same.

Sound is permanent because it is product like a Jar. This is Contradictory Reason because sound and Jar are unlike entities. Also, Jar is not of Permanent Nature (self-contradictory premise). The middle term and the major term contradict each other. So, this argument is fallacy of contradictory reason.

The terms in the logic are, 'if we see smoke on a hill, we conclude that there must be fire in that hill.'
minor term pakSa : hill
major term sAdhya : fire
middle term li.nga : smoke
vyApti : smoke is invariably associated with fire
From the presence of smoke on the hill as qualified by the knowledge that wherever there is smoke there is fire, we proceed to infer the presence of fire in the hill.
In other words, when one sees smoke on distant hill, one remembers one's experience of the universal concomitance (Vyapti) between smoke and fire and concludes that there is fire on the distant hill.

Synchronous media takes place in real-time and the audience is present when media is broadcasted or performed. This media helps to share the information at the same time i.e. information broadcasting and the audience is present at the same time to receive the information.

10% of the total employees are in marketing and 7% in finance.
So, the number of employees in marketing and finance departments
= (10 + 7)% of 1800
= 306