UGC NET Past Year Question Paper I with Answer Key (26 June 2011) | UGC NET Past Year Papers PDF Download

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Q1.      A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
Q2.       Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is
categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research       (B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research  (D) Applied Research
Answer: C
 
Q3.       A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled
at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may
be termed as
(A) Seminar                  (B) W orkshop
(C) Conference                                                                  (D) Symposium
Answer: A
 
Q4.      In the process of conducting research ‘Formulation of
Hypothesis” is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives               (B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools      (D) Collection of Data
Answer: B
 
R e
ad the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :
A
ll historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Governmen
t r
ecords or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are
only the necessary means to understanding something other than the texts
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Q1.      A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
Q2.       Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is
categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research       (B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research  (D) Applied Research
Answer: C
 
Q3.       A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled
at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may
be termed as
(A) Seminar                  (B) W orkshop
(C) Conference                                                                  (D) Symposium
Answer: A
 
Q4.      In the process of conducting research ‘Formulation of
Hypothesis” is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives               (B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools      (D) Collection of Data
Answer: B
 
R e
ad the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :
A
ll historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Governmen
t r
ecords or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are
only the necessary means to understanding something other than the texts
themselves, such as a political action or a historical trend, whereas for the
intellectual historian, a full understanding of his chosen texts is itself the aim o
f h
is enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is particularly prone to draw
on the focus of other disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for
p u
rposes of their own, probing the reasoning that ostensibly connects premises
and conclusions. Furthermore, the boundaries with adjacent subdisciplines are
shifting and indistinct : the history of art and the history of science both claim a
certain autonomy, partly just because they require specialised technical skills,
b u
t both can also be seen as part of a wider intellectual history, as is eviden
t w
hen one considers, for example, the common stock of knowledge abou
t c
osmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period.
 
Like all historians, the intellectual historian is a consumer rather than a
p r
oducer of ‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which aspect of the past he
is trying to illuminate, not in having exclusive possession of either a corpus o
f e
vidence or a body of techniques. That being said, it does seem that the label
‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate share of misunderstanding.
 
It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never reall
y m
attered. The long dominance of the historical profession by political
historians bred a kind of philistinism, an unspoken belief that power and its
exercise was ‘what mattered’. The prejudice was reinforced by the assertio
n t
hat political action was never really the outcome of principles or ideas tha
t w
ere ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible in the
tendency to require ideas to have ‘licensed’ the political class before they ca
n
b
e
 deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if there were some reasons wh
y t
he history of art or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow o
f i
nterest and significance than the history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps i
n r
ecent years the mirror-image of this philistinism has been more common in the
claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or sophistication do no
t m
atter, as if they were only held by a minority.
 
Q5.      An intellectual historian aims to fully understand
(A) the chosen texts of his own        (B) political actions
(C) historical trends                                                         (D) his enquiries
Answer: A
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Q1.      A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
Q2.       Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is
categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research       (B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research  (D) Applied Research
Answer: C
 
Q3.       A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled
at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may
be termed as
(A) Seminar                  (B) W orkshop
(C) Conference                                                                  (D) Symposium
Answer: A
 
Q4.      In the process of conducting research ‘Formulation of
Hypothesis” is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives               (B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools      (D) Collection of Data
Answer: B
 
R e
ad the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :
A
ll historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Governmen
t r
ecords or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are
only the necessary means to understanding something other than the texts
themselves, such as a political action or a historical trend, whereas for the
intellectual historian, a full understanding of his chosen texts is itself the aim o
f h
is enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is particularly prone to draw
on the focus of other disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for
p u
rposes of their own, probing the reasoning that ostensibly connects premises
and conclusions. Furthermore, the boundaries with adjacent subdisciplines are
shifting and indistinct : the history of art and the history of science both claim a
certain autonomy, partly just because they require specialised technical skills,
b u
t both can also be seen as part of a wider intellectual history, as is eviden
t w
hen one considers, for example, the common stock of knowledge abou
t c
osmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period.
 
Like all historians, the intellectual historian is a consumer rather than a
p r
oducer of ‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which aspect of the past he
is trying to illuminate, not in having exclusive possession of either a corpus o
f e
vidence or a body of techniques. That being said, it does seem that the label
‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate share of misunderstanding.
 
It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never reall
y m
attered. The long dominance of the historical profession by political
historians bred a kind of philistinism, an unspoken belief that power and its
exercise was ‘what mattered’. The prejudice was reinforced by the assertio
n t
hat political action was never really the outcome of principles or ideas tha
t w
ere ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible in the
tendency to require ideas to have ‘licensed’ the political class before they ca
n
b
e
 deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if there were some reasons wh
y t
he history of art or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow o
f i
nterest and significance than the history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps i
n r
ecent years the mirror-image of this philistinism has been more common in the
claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or sophistication do no
t m
atter, as if they were only held by a minority.
 
Q5.      An intellectual historian aims to fully understand
(A) the chosen texts of his own        (B) political actions
(C) historical trends                                                         (D) his enquiries
Answer: A
 
Q6.       Intellectual historians do not claim exclusive possession of
(A) conclusions           (B) any corpus of evidence
(C) distinctiveness      (D) habitual interpretation
Answer: A
 
Q7.     The misconceptions about intellectual history stem from
(A) a body of techniques 
(B) the common stock of knowledge
(C) the dominance of political historians 
(D) cosmological beliefs
Answer: A
 
Q8.       What is philistinism?
(A) Reinforcement of prejudice 
(B) Fabrication of reasons
(C) The hold of land-owning classes 
(D) Belief that power and its exercise matter
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Knowledge of cosmological beliefs or moral ideas of a period
can be drawn as part of
(A) literary criticism                                (B) history of science
(C) history of philosophy        (D) intellectual history
Answer: D
 
Q10.    The claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression do
not matter , as if they were held by a minority, is
(A) to have a licensed political class            (B) a political action
(C) a philosophy of literature                                                   (D) the mirror-
image of philistinism
Answer: D
 
Q11.       Public communication tends to occur within a more
(A) complex structure              (B) political structure
(C) convenient structure        (D) formal structure
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Q1.      A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
Q2.       Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is
categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research       (B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research  (D) Applied Research
Answer: C
 
Q3.       A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled
at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may
be termed as
(A) Seminar                  (B) W orkshop
(C) Conference                                                                  (D) Symposium
Answer: A
 
Q4.      In the process of conducting research ‘Formulation of
Hypothesis” is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives               (B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools      (D) Collection of Data
Answer: B
 
R e
ad the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :
A
ll historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Governmen
t r
ecords or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are
only the necessary means to understanding something other than the texts
themselves, such as a political action or a historical trend, whereas for the
intellectual historian, a full understanding of his chosen texts is itself the aim o
f h
is enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is particularly prone to draw
on the focus of other disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for
p u
rposes of their own, probing the reasoning that ostensibly connects premises
and conclusions. Furthermore, the boundaries with adjacent subdisciplines are
shifting and indistinct : the history of art and the history of science both claim a
certain autonomy, partly just because they require specialised technical skills,
b u
t both can also be seen as part of a wider intellectual history, as is eviden
t w
hen one considers, for example, the common stock of knowledge abou
t c
osmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period.
 
Like all historians, the intellectual historian is a consumer rather than a
p r
oducer of ‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which aspect of the past he
is trying to illuminate, not in having exclusive possession of either a corpus o
f e
vidence or a body of techniques. That being said, it does seem that the label
‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate share of misunderstanding.
 
It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never reall
y m
attered. The long dominance of the historical profession by political
historians bred a kind of philistinism, an unspoken belief that power and its
exercise was ‘what mattered’. The prejudice was reinforced by the assertio
n t
hat political action was never really the outcome of principles or ideas tha
t w
ere ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible in the
tendency to require ideas to have ‘licensed’ the political class before they ca
n
b
e
 deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if there were some reasons wh
y t
he history of art or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow o
f i
nterest and significance than the history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps i
n r
ecent years the mirror-image of this philistinism has been more common in the
claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or sophistication do no
t m
atter, as if they were only held by a minority.
 
Q5.      An intellectual historian aims to fully understand
(A) the chosen texts of his own        (B) political actions
(C) historical trends                                                         (D) his enquiries
Answer: A
 
Q6.       Intellectual historians do not claim exclusive possession of
(A) conclusions           (B) any corpus of evidence
(C) distinctiveness      (D) habitual interpretation
Answer: A
 
Q7.     The misconceptions about intellectual history stem from
(A) a body of techniques 
(B) the common stock of knowledge
(C) the dominance of political historians 
(D) cosmological beliefs
Answer: A
 
Q8.       What is philistinism?
(A) Reinforcement of prejudice 
(B) Fabrication of reasons
(C) The hold of land-owning classes 
(D) Belief that power and its exercise matter
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Knowledge of cosmological beliefs or moral ideas of a period
can be drawn as part of
(A) literary criticism                                (B) history of science
(C) history of philosophy        (D) intellectual history
Answer: D
 
Q10.    The claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression do
not matter , as if they were held by a minority, is
(A) to have a licensed political class            (B) a political action
(C) a philosophy of literature                                                   (D) the mirror-
image of philistinism
Answer: D
 
Q11.       Public communication tends to occur within a more
(A) complex structure              (B) political structure
(C) convenient structure        (D) formal structure
Answer: D
 
Q12.       Transforming thoughts, ideas and messages into verbal and
non-verbal signs is referred to as
(A) channelization      (B) mediation
(C) encoding                (D) decoding
Answer: C
 
Q13.       Effective communication needs a supportive
(A) economic environment    (B) political environment
(C) social environment           (D) multi-cultural environment
Answer: C
 
Q14.       A major barrier in the transmission of cognitive data in the
process of communication is an individual’s
(A) personality              (B) expectation
(C) social status           (D) coding ability
Answer: D
 
Q15.       When communicated, institutionalised stereotypes become
(A) myths                                                                 (B) reasons
(C) experiences           (D) convictions
Answer: D
 
Q16.       In mass communication, selective perception is dependent on
the receiver’s
(A) competence           (B) pre-disposition
(C) receptivity               (D) ethnicity
Answer: C
 
Q17.       Determine the relationship between the pair of words
NUMERATOR : DENOMINATOR and then select the pair of words
from the following which have a similar relationship:
(A) fraction : decimal               (B) divisor : quotient
(C) top : bottom             (D) dividend : divisor
Answer: C
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Q1.      A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
Q2.       Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is
categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research       (B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research  (D) Applied Research
Answer: C
 
Q3.       A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled
at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may
be termed as
(A) Seminar                  (B) W orkshop
(C) Conference                                                                  (D) Symposium
Answer: A
 
Q4.      In the process of conducting research ‘Formulation of
Hypothesis” is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives               (B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools      (D) Collection of Data
Answer: B
 
R e
ad the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :
A
ll historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Governmen
t r
ecords or parish birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are
only the necessary means to understanding something other than the texts
themselves, such as a political action or a historical trend, whereas for the
intellectual historian, a full understanding of his chosen texts is itself the aim o
f h
is enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is particularly prone to draw
on the focus of other disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for
p u
rposes of their own, probing the reasoning that ostensibly connects premises
and conclusions. Furthermore, the boundaries with adjacent subdisciplines are
shifting and indistinct : the history of art and the history of science both claim a
certain autonomy, partly just because they require specialised technical skills,
b u
t both can also be seen as part of a wider intellectual history, as is eviden
t w
hen one considers, for example, the common stock of knowledge abou
t c
osmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period.
 
Like all historians, the intellectual historian is a consumer rather than a
p r
oducer of ‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which aspect of the past he
is trying to illuminate, not in having exclusive possession of either a corpus o
f e
vidence or a body of techniques. That being said, it does seem that the label
‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate share of misunderstanding.
 
It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never reall
y m
attered. The long dominance of the historical profession by political
historians bred a kind of philistinism, an unspoken belief that power and its
exercise was ‘what mattered’. The prejudice was reinforced by the assertio
n t
hat political action was never really the outcome of principles or ideas tha
t w
ere ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible in the
tendency to require ideas to have ‘licensed’ the political class before they ca
n
b
e
 deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if there were some reasons wh
y t
he history of art or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow o
f i
nterest and significance than the history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps i
n r
ecent years the mirror-image of this philistinism has been more common in the
claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or sophistication do no
t m
atter, as if they were only held by a minority.
 
Q5.      An intellectual historian aims to fully understand
(A) the chosen texts of his own        (B) political actions
(C) historical trends                                                         (D) his enquiries
Answer: A
 
Q6.       Intellectual historians do not claim exclusive possession of
(A) conclusions           (B) any corpus of evidence
(C) distinctiveness      (D) habitual interpretation
Answer: A
 
Q7.     The misconceptions about intellectual history stem from
(A) a body of techniques 
(B) the common stock of knowledge
(C) the dominance of political historians 
(D) cosmological beliefs
Answer: A
 
Q8.       What is philistinism?
(A) Reinforcement of prejudice 
(B) Fabrication of reasons
(C) The hold of land-owning classes 
(D) Belief that power and its exercise matter
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Knowledge of cosmological beliefs or moral ideas of a period
can be drawn as part of
(A) literary criticism                                (B) history of science
(C) history of philosophy        (D) intellectual history
Answer: D
 
Q10.    The claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression do
not matter , as if they were held by a minority, is
(A) to have a licensed political class            (B) a political action
(C) a philosophy of literature                                                   (D) the mirror-
image of philistinism
Answer: D
 
Q11.       Public communication tends to occur within a more
(A) complex structure              (B) political structure
(C) convenient structure        (D) formal structure
Answer: D
 
Q12.       Transforming thoughts, ideas and messages into verbal and
non-verbal signs is referred to as
(A) channelization      (B) mediation
(C) encoding                (D) decoding
Answer: C
 
Q13.       Effective communication needs a supportive
(A) economic environment    (B) political environment
(C) social environment           (D) multi-cultural environment
Answer: C
 
Q14.       A major barrier in the transmission of cognitive data in the
process of communication is an individual’s
(A) personality              (B) expectation
(C) social status           (D) coding ability
Answer: D
 
Q15.       When communicated, institutionalised stereotypes become
(A) myths                                                                 (B) reasons
(C) experiences           (D) convictions
Answer: D
 
Q16.       In mass communication, selective perception is dependent on
the receiver’s
(A) competence           (B) pre-disposition
(C) receptivity               (D) ethnicity
Answer: C
 
Q17.       Determine the relationship between the pair of words
NUMERATOR : DENOMINATOR and then select the pair of words
from the following which have a similar relationship:
(A) fraction : decimal               (B) divisor : quotient
(C) top : bottom             (D) dividend : divisor
Answer: C
 
Q18.       Find the wrong number in the sequence
125, 127, 130, 135, 142, 153, 165
(A) 130               (B) 142
(C) 153             (D) 165
Answer: D
 
Q19.       If HOBBY is coded as IOBY and LOBBY is coded as MOBY ;
then BOBBY is coded as
(A) BOBY          (B) COBY
(C) DOBY         (D) OOBY
Answer: B
 
Q20.    The letters in the first set have certain relationship. On the
basis of this relationship, make the right choice for the second set:
K/T : 11/20 :: J/R : ?
(A) 10/8              (B) 10/18
(C) 11/19           (D) 10/19
Answer: B
 
Q21.       If A = 5, B = 6, C = 7, D = 8 and so on, what do the following
numbers stand for?
17, 19, 20, 9, 8
(A) Plane           (B) Moped
(C) Motor           (D) Tonga
Answer: B
 
Q22.       The price of oil is increased by 25%. If the expenditure is not
allowed to increase, the ratio between the reduction in consumption
and the original consumption is
(A) 1 : 3              (B) 1 : 4
(C) 1 : 5              (D) 1 : 6
Answer: C
 
Q23.       How many 8’s are there in the following sequence which are
preceded by 5 but not immediately followed by 3?