UGC NET Past Year Question Paper I with Answer Key (30 December 2007) | UGC NET Past Year Papers PDF Download

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Q1.       Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of:
(A) Aptitudes    (B) Skills
(C) Attitudes     (D) Relationship
Answer: B
A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a
given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain
general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some
general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-
motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only
for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and
situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
 
Q2.       Which is the most important aspect of the teacher’s role in
learning?
(A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance
(B) The development of insight into what constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to
b e
 avoided
(C) The provision of encouragement and moral support
(D) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help
Answer: C
 
Q3.       The most appropriate purpose of learning is:
(A) personal adjustment                                                 (B) modification of
b e
haviour
(C) social and political awareness   (D) preparing oneself for
employment
Answer: B
 
Q4.       The students who keep on asking questions in the class
should be:
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Q1.       Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of:
(A) Aptitudes    (B) Skills
(C) Attitudes     (D) Relationship
Answer: B
A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a
given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain
general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some
general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-
motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only
for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and
situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
 
Q2.       Which is the most important aspect of the teacher’s role in
learning?
(A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance
(B) The development of insight into what constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to
b e
 avoided
(C) The provision of encouragement and moral support
(D) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help
Answer: C
 
Q3.       The most appropriate purpose of learning is:
(A) personal adjustment                                                 (B) modification of
b e
haviour
(C) social and political awareness   (D) preparing oneself for
employment
Answer: B
 
Q4.       The students who keep on asking questions in the class
should be:
(A) encouraged to find answer independently
(B) advised to meet the teacher after the class
(C) encouraged to continue questioning
(D) advised not to disturb during the lecture
Answer: B
 
Q5.       Maximum participation of students is possible in teaching
through:
(A) discussion method           (B) lecture method
(C) audio-visual aids              (D) text book method
Answer: A
Discussion methods are a variety of forums for open-ended, collaborative
exchange of ideas among a teacher and students or among students for the
p u
rpose of furthering students thinking, learning, problem solving,
understanding, or literary appreciation. Participants present multiple points of
view, respond to the ideas of others, and reflect on their own ideas in an effort
to build their knowledge, understanding, or interpretation of the matter at hand.
Discussions may occur among members of a dyad, small group, or whole class
and be teacher-led or student-led. They frequently involve discussion of a
written text, though discussion can also focus on a problem, issue, or topic that
has its basis in a “text” in the larger sense of the term
 
Q6.       Generalised conclusion on the basis of a sample is
technically known as:
(A) Data analysis and interpretation
(B) Parameter inference
(C) Statistical inference
(D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q7.       The experimental study is based on:
(A) The manipulation of variables    (B) Conceptual parameters
(C) Replication of research               (D) Survey of literature
Answer: A
 
Q8.       The main characteristic of scientific research is:
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Q1.       Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of:
(A) Aptitudes    (B) Skills
(C) Attitudes     (D) Relationship
Answer: B
A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a
given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain
general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some
general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-
motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only
for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and
situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
 
Q2.       Which is the most important aspect of the teacher’s role in
learning?
(A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance
(B) The development of insight into what constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to
b e
 avoided
(C) The provision of encouragement and moral support
(D) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help
Answer: C
 
Q3.       The most appropriate purpose of learning is:
(A) personal adjustment                                                 (B) modification of
b e
haviour
(C) social and political awareness   (D) preparing oneself for
employment
Answer: B
 
Q4.       The students who keep on asking questions in the class
should be:
(A) encouraged to find answer independently
(B) advised to meet the teacher after the class
(C) encouraged to continue questioning
(D) advised not to disturb during the lecture
Answer: B
 
Q5.       Maximum participation of students is possible in teaching
through:
(A) discussion method           (B) lecture method
(C) audio-visual aids              (D) text book method
Answer: A
Discussion methods are a variety of forums for open-ended, collaborative
exchange of ideas among a teacher and students or among students for the
p u
rpose of furthering students thinking, learning, problem solving,
understanding, or literary appreciation. Participants present multiple points of
view, respond to the ideas of others, and reflect on their own ideas in an effort
to build their knowledge, understanding, or interpretation of the matter at hand.
Discussions may occur among members of a dyad, small group, or whole class
and be teacher-led or student-led. They frequently involve discussion of a
written text, though discussion can also focus on a problem, issue, or topic that
has its basis in a “text” in the larger sense of the term
 
Q6.       Generalised conclusion on the basis of a sample is
technically known as:
(A) Data analysis and interpretation
(B) Parameter inference
(C) Statistical inference
(D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q7.       The experimental study is based on:
(A) The manipulation of variables    (B) Conceptual parameters
(C) Replication of research               (D) Survey of literature
Answer: A
 
Q8.       The main characteristic of scientific research is:
(A) empirical                 (B) theoretical
(C) experimental          (D) all of the above
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Authenticity of a research finding is its:
(A) Originality   (B) V alidity
(C) Objectivity   (D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q10.    Which technique is generally followed when the population is
finite?
(A) Area Sampling Technique                                                  (B) Purposive
Sampling Technique
(C) Systematic Sampling Technique           (D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
R e
ad the following passage and answer the questions 11 to 15 :
G
andhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is based on what huma
n
b
e
ings need rather than what they want. His early introduction to the teachings
of Jains, Theosophists, Christian sermons, Ruskin and Tolstoy, and mos
t s
ignificantly the Bhagavad Gita, were to have profound impact on the
development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and their
ecological interrelation. His deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor an
d r
ural population created an ambience for an alternative social thinking that was
at once far-sighted, local and immediate. For Gandhi was acutely aware tha
t t
he demands generated by the need to feed and sustain human life, compounde
d
b
y
 the growing industrialization of India, far outstripped the finite resources o
f n
ature. This might nowadays appear naïve or commonplace, but suc
h
p
r
onouncements were as rare as they were heretical a century ago. Gandhi was
also concerned about the destruction, under colonial and modernist designs, o
f t
he existing infrastructures which had more potential for keeping a communit
y f
lourishing within ecologically-sensitive traditional patterns of subsistence,
especially in the rural areas, than did the incoming W estern alternatives base
d o
n nature-blind technology and the enslavement of human spirit and energies.
Perhaps the moral principle for which Gandhi is best known is that of active
non-violence, derived from the traditional moral restraint of not injurin
g
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Q1.       Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of:
(A) Aptitudes    (B) Skills
(C) Attitudes     (D) Relationship
Answer: B
A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a
given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain
general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some
general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-
motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only
for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and
situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
 
Q2.       Which is the most important aspect of the teacher’s role in
learning?
(A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance
(B) The development of insight into what constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to
b e
 avoided
(C) The provision of encouragement and moral support
(D) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help
Answer: C
 
Q3.       The most appropriate purpose of learning is:
(A) personal adjustment                                                 (B) modification of
b e
haviour
(C) social and political awareness   (D) preparing oneself for
employment
Answer: B
 
Q4.       The students who keep on asking questions in the class
should be:
(A) encouraged to find answer independently
(B) advised to meet the teacher after the class
(C) encouraged to continue questioning
(D) advised not to disturb during the lecture
Answer: B
 
Q5.       Maximum participation of students is possible in teaching
through:
(A) discussion method           (B) lecture method
(C) audio-visual aids              (D) text book method
Answer: A
Discussion methods are a variety of forums for open-ended, collaborative
exchange of ideas among a teacher and students or among students for the
p u
rpose of furthering students thinking, learning, problem solving,
understanding, or literary appreciation. Participants present multiple points of
view, respond to the ideas of others, and reflect on their own ideas in an effort
to build their knowledge, understanding, or interpretation of the matter at hand.
Discussions may occur among members of a dyad, small group, or whole class
and be teacher-led or student-led. They frequently involve discussion of a
written text, though discussion can also focus on a problem, issue, or topic that
has its basis in a “text” in the larger sense of the term
 
Q6.       Generalised conclusion on the basis of a sample is
technically known as:
(A) Data analysis and interpretation
(B) Parameter inference
(C) Statistical inference
(D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q7.       The experimental study is based on:
(A) The manipulation of variables    (B) Conceptual parameters
(C) Replication of research               (D) Survey of literature
Answer: A
 
Q8.       The main characteristic of scientific research is:
(A) empirical                 (B) theoretical
(C) experimental          (D) all of the above
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Authenticity of a research finding is its:
(A) Originality   (B) V alidity
(C) Objectivity   (D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q10.    Which technique is generally followed when the population is
finite?
(A) Area Sampling Technique                                                  (B) Purposive
Sampling Technique
(C) Systematic Sampling Technique           (D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
R e
ad the following passage and answer the questions 11 to 15 :
G
andhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is based on what huma
n
b
e
ings need rather than what they want. His early introduction to the teachings
of Jains, Theosophists, Christian sermons, Ruskin and Tolstoy, and mos
t s
ignificantly the Bhagavad Gita, were to have profound impact on the
development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and their
ecological interrelation. His deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor an
d r
ural population created an ambience for an alternative social thinking that was
at once far-sighted, local and immediate. For Gandhi was acutely aware tha
t t
he demands generated by the need to feed and sustain human life, compounde
d
b
y
 the growing industrialization of India, far outstripped the finite resources o
f n
ature. This might nowadays appear naïve or commonplace, but suc
h
p
r
onouncements were as rare as they were heretical a century ago. Gandhi was
also concerned about the destruction, under colonial and modernist designs, o
f t
he existing infrastructures which had more potential for keeping a communit
y f
lourishing within ecologically-sensitive traditional patterns of subsistence,
especially in the rural areas, than did the incoming W estern alternatives base
d o
n nature-blind technology and the enslavement of human spirit and energies.
Perhaps the moral principle for which Gandhi is best known is that of active
non-violence, derived from the traditional moral restraint of not injurin
g
another being. The most refined expression of this value is in the great epic o
f t
he Mahabharata, (c. 100 BCE to 200 CE), where moral developmen
t
p
r
oceeds through placing constraints on the liberties, desires an
d a
cquisitiveness endemic to human life. One’s action is judged in terms o
f c
onsequences and the impact it is likely to have on another. Jainas ha
d g
eneralized this principle to include all sentient creatures and biocommunities
alike. Advanced Jaina monks and nuns will sweep their path to avoid harmin
g i
nsects and even bacteria. Non-injury is a non-negotiable universal
p r
escription.
 
Q11.       Which one of the following have a profound impact on the
development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and
their ecological interrelations ?
(A) Jain teachings       (B) Christian sermons
(C) Bhagavad Gita      (D) Ruskin and Tolstoy
Answer: C
 
Q12.       Gandhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is
based on human beings’ :
(A) need                                                                  (B) desire
(C) wealth         (D) welfare
Answer: D
 
Q13.       Gandhiji’s deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor and
rural population created
an ambience for an alternative:
(A) rural policy              (B) social thinking
(C) urban policy           (D) economic thinking
Answer: B
 
Q14.       Colonial policy and modernization led to the destruction of:
(A) major industrial infrastructure     (B) irrigation infrastructure
(C) urban infrastructure                                                 (D) rural infrastructure
Answer: D
 
Q15.       Gandhi’s active non-violence is derived from:
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Q1.       Verbal guidance is least effective in the learning of:
(A) Aptitudes    (B) Skills
(C) Attitudes     (D) Relationship
Answer: B
A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a
given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain
general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some
general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-
motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only
for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and
situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
 
Q2.       Which is the most important aspect of the teacher’s role in
learning?
(A) The development of insight into what constitutes an adequate performance
(B) The development of insight into what constitutes the pitfalls and dangers to
b e
 avoided
(C) The provision of encouragement and moral support
(D) The provision of continuous diagnostic and remedial help
Answer: C
 
Q3.       The most appropriate purpose of learning is:
(A) personal adjustment                                                 (B) modification of
b e
haviour
(C) social and political awareness   (D) preparing oneself for
employment
Answer: B
 
Q4.       The students who keep on asking questions in the class
should be:
(A) encouraged to find answer independently
(B) advised to meet the teacher after the class
(C) encouraged to continue questioning
(D) advised not to disturb during the lecture
Answer: B
 
Q5.       Maximum participation of students is possible in teaching
through:
(A) discussion method           (B) lecture method
(C) audio-visual aids              (D) text book method
Answer: A
Discussion methods are a variety of forums for open-ended, collaborative
exchange of ideas among a teacher and students or among students for the
p u
rpose of furthering students thinking, learning, problem solving,
understanding, or literary appreciation. Participants present multiple points of
view, respond to the ideas of others, and reflect on their own ideas in an effort
to build their knowledge, understanding, or interpretation of the matter at hand.
Discussions may occur among members of a dyad, small group, or whole class
and be teacher-led or student-led. They frequently involve discussion of a
written text, though discussion can also focus on a problem, issue, or topic that
has its basis in a “text” in the larger sense of the term
 
Q6.       Generalised conclusion on the basis of a sample is
technically known as:
(A) Data analysis and interpretation
(B) Parameter inference
(C) Statistical inference
(D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q7.       The experimental study is based on:
(A) The manipulation of variables    (B) Conceptual parameters
(C) Replication of research               (D) Survey of literature
Answer: A
 
Q8.       The main characteristic of scientific research is:
(A) empirical                 (B) theoretical
(C) experimental          (D) all of the above
Answer: D
 
Q9.       Authenticity of a research finding is its:
(A) Originality   (B) V alidity
(C) Objectivity   (D) All of the above
Answer: C
 
Q10.    Which technique is generally followed when the population is
finite?
(A) Area Sampling Technique                                                  (B) Purposive
Sampling Technique
(C) Systematic Sampling Technique           (D) None of the above
Answer: C
 
R e
ad the following passage and answer the questions 11 to 15 :
G
andhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is based on what huma
n
b
e
ings need rather than what they want. His early introduction to the teachings
of Jains, Theosophists, Christian sermons, Ruskin and Tolstoy, and mos
t s
ignificantly the Bhagavad Gita, were to have profound impact on the
development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and their
ecological interrelation. His deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor an
d r
ural population created an ambience for an alternative social thinking that was
at once far-sighted, local and immediate. For Gandhi was acutely aware tha
t t
he demands generated by the need to feed and sustain human life, compounde
d
b
y
 the growing industrialization of India, far outstripped the finite resources o
f n
ature. This might nowadays appear naïve or commonplace, but suc
h
p
r
onouncements were as rare as they were heretical a century ago. Gandhi was
also concerned about the destruction, under colonial and modernist designs, o
f t
he existing infrastructures which had more potential for keeping a communit
y f
lourishing within ecologically-sensitive traditional patterns of subsistence,
especially in the rural areas, than did the incoming W estern alternatives base
d o
n nature-blind technology and the enslavement of human spirit and energies.
Perhaps the moral principle for which Gandhi is best known is that of active
non-violence, derived from the traditional moral restraint of not injurin
g
another being. The most refined expression of this value is in the great epic o
f t
he Mahabharata, (c. 100 BCE to 200 CE), where moral developmen
t
p
r
oceeds through placing constraints on the liberties, desires an
d a
cquisitiveness endemic to human life. One’s action is judged in terms o
f c
onsequences and the impact it is likely to have on another. Jainas ha
d g
eneralized this principle to include all sentient creatures and biocommunities
alike. Advanced Jaina monks and nuns will sweep their path to avoid harmin
g i
nsects and even bacteria. Non-injury is a non-negotiable universal
p r
escription.
 
Q11.       Which one of the following have a profound impact on the
development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and
their ecological interrelations ?
(A) Jain teachings       (B) Christian sermons
(C) Bhagavad Gita      (D) Ruskin and Tolstoy
Answer: C
 
Q12.       Gandhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is
based on human beings’ :
(A) need                                                                  (B) desire
(C) wealth         (D) welfare
Answer: D
 
Q13.       Gandhiji’s deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor and
rural population created
an ambience for an alternative:
(A) rural policy              (B) social thinking
(C) urban policy           (D) economic thinking
Answer: B
 
Q14.       Colonial policy and modernization led to the destruction of:
(A) major industrial infrastructure     (B) irrigation infrastructure
(C) urban infrastructure                                                 (D) rural infrastructure
Answer: D
 
Q15.       Gandhi’s active non-violence is derived from:
(A) Moral restraint of not injuring another being
(B) Having liberties, desires and acquisitiveness
(C) Freedom of action
(D) Nature-blind technology and enslavement of human spirit and energies
Answer: A
 
Q16.       DTH service was started in the year:
(A) 2000                                                                  (B) 2002
(C) 2004                                                                  (D) 2006
Answer: C
DTH service was launched back in 2004 by launching of Dish TV by Essel
Group's Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Dish TV is on the same satellite where
DD Direct+ was, DD Direct+ shifted to Insat 4B which is adjacent to NSS-6.
Dish TV was only DTH operator in India to carry the two Turner channels
Turner Classic Movies and Boomerang. Both the channels were removed from
the platform due to unknown reasons in March 2009. In October 2010 Dish tv
added the long awaited Neo Sports and Neo Cricket on its platform
 
Q17.       National Press day is celebrated on:
(A) 16
th
 November       (B) 19
th
 November
(C) 21
st
 November       (D) 30
th
 November
Answer: A
1) National Press Day --> The 16th of November ? is symbolic of a free and
responsible press in India. 2) International Men's Day (IMD) is an annual
international event celebrated on 19 November.
 
Q18.       The total number of members in the Press Council of India
are:
(A) 28     (B) 14
(C) 17    (D) 20
Answer: A
The Press Council is headed by a Chairman: usually, a retired judge of the
Supreme Court of India. It consists of a Chairman and 28 other members. Of
the 28 members, 13 represent the working journalists. Of whom 6 are to be
editors of newspapers and remaining 7 are to be working journalists other than
editors. 6 are to be from among persons who own or carry on the business of