COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling
Question Numbers: (1 to 5)

The following table shows the number of players who participated in three sports events E1, E2 and E3 along with the ratio of Male (M) to Female (F) participants among them from six different countries, namely, India, US, China, Russia, England and Germany.
Based on the data in the table, answer the questions that follow :

1.What is the total number of female participants in sports events El and E3 together?

2.What is the ratio of the number of female participants from US in the event E2 to the number of female participants from China in the event E3?

3.What is the difference between the number of male participants and the number of female participants in the event E2 from all the six countries together?

4.The number of female participants from India in event El is______% less than the number of female participants from Germany in event E3.

5.The number of participants from China in event E2 is _____ % more than the number of female participants from US in event E3.

6.Which of the following are not the examples of Positive – Transfer of Learning?
(A) Learning of Piano makes it more difficult to learn the violin
(B) Mastering Algebra helps in understanding Calculus
(C) Knowing how to drive a car makes it harder to learn how to ride a bicycle
(D) Learning to speak French hinders learning Spanish
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7.A web-based e-learning application allowing users to select a video and customize it by editing, cropping, recording their own audio and adding quiz questions directly to the video stream is known as:

8.The process mostly completed within several hours, but which can last for years, which fixes information in long-term memory is known as:

9.In an online course, a teacher wants to organize weekly readings, quizzes and discussion forums for students. Which of the following platforms would be most suitable for managing these activities?
(A) Schoology
(B) Blackboard learn
(C) Zoom
(D) Canvas
(E) Moodle
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10.Match List I with List – II.

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11.According to UGC Regulations 2018 on Plagiarism, Which of the following percentages of similarity in a research article would result in denial of one annual increment to a university teacher?
(NPA ANSWER 1,3)

12.Which of the following types of sampling is likely to have maximum bias?

13.Identify the threats to internal validity associated with participants in a study.
(A) Testing threat
(B) Selection threat
(C) History threat
(D) Attrition threat
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14.Arrange the data sets with following means (x) and standard deviations (σ) in increasing order of their coefficients of variation:
(Α) σ= 3.7, x = 20
(Β) σ= 4.3, x = 25
(C) σ= 5.2, x = 35
(D) σ= 6.1, x = 40
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15.Match List – I with List – II.

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16.The interactive technologies are responsible for the appearance of:

17.The interactive society is based on integration of:

18.The post-modern mass media have the characteristics of :
(A) Immobility
(B) Mobility
(C) Globalisation
(D) Simulation
(E) Linearity
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19.Identify the chronological sequence of the following communication devices:
(A) Audio cassettes
(B) Long playing record
(C) Magnetic tape
(D) Compact discs
(E) MP3
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20.Match List I with List – II.

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21.Match List – I with List – II.

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22.Find the number that can be inserted at the place of question mark (?) in the series given below:
6, 7/2, 8/3, 9/4, ? ,11/ 6

23.Which of the following statements are true ?
(A) A single discount, equivalent to a series of discounts of 20%, 10% and 5%, is 35%.
(B) If after two successive discounts of 12% and 5%, an article was sold for ₹ 209, then the original price of the article is₹ 250.
(C) If a shopkeeper allows two successive discounts of 5% each on the marked price of 80, the selling price of the article is ₹ 75.
(D) If the difference between a single discount of 35% and two successive discounts of 20% on a certain bill is ₹ 22, then the total amount of the bill is ₹2200.
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24.In a certain coded language:
“Indian cuisines are good” is coded as: “MI CI FI GI”
“They like Indian cuisines” is coded as: “AI LI MI CI”
“People like Indian Chinese” is coded as: “PI LI MI HI”
“They and people are best” is coded as: “AI DI PI FI BI”
How the words ‘good’ ‘Chinese’ and ‘cuisines’ are coded in this language ?

25.The average age of a group of workers is 42 yrs. If eight (8) new workers of average age of 36 yrs. join the group, the average age of the group becomes 40 yrs. Find the number of workers initially present in the group:

26.”According to some newspapers today the Crime rate in New York has slightly increased in the recent past. New Yorkers are nothing but a bunch of criminals”. Which fallacy is committed in the above statement?

27.Which of the following statements are true ?
(A) An argument is sound when it is valid and has only true premises
(B) In an argument truth of its conclusion determines its validity by itself.
(C) Some valid arguments have false premises and a true conclusion
(D) Some invalid arguments have false premises and a true conclusion
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28.Arrange the following in order of decreasing extension.
(A) Sonnet
(B) Poem
(C) Verse
(D) Literature
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29.Match List I with List – II.

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30.According to Nyāya logic, which of the following statements is fallacious because it involves a non-
inferentially contradicted middle term?

31.With reference to computer networking, which of the following statements is true of an Intranet.

32.Which of the following pair of acronym and its expansion is incorrectly matched ?

33.Identify the sequence of words A-E that correctly fills the blanks in the following paragraph:

An operating system that uses windows, icons, menus and pointers for human computer interaction, is known as ________ Post-WIMP inter-faces found on devices like iPads, iPods and mobile phone make use of_______ technology that allows us to use our fingers to select icons and menus. Post-WIMP interfaces allow us to use _________rotating and swiping techniques. The technology that allows users to store documents, programs and data on Internet is known as_________.Documents created using Google Docs are stored_________ on the Internet and can be accessed anywhere and at any time.
(A) Touch Screen
(B) Cloud Computing
(C) GUI
(D) Remotely
(E) Pinching
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34.Which of the following devices are computer input devices only ?
(A) DVD-R
(B) Joystick
(C) Plotter
(D) Touch Pad
(E) Microphone
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35.Match List I with List – II.

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36.Pure rain water is naturally:

37.Presence of Lead in drinking water can adversely affect the human health. The three vital systems
in the human body that are most sensitive to Lead are:
(A) Nervous system
(B) Cardio-vascular system
(C) Renal system
(D) Respiratory system
(E) Blood forming system
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38.Which of the following represent the nutrient contents of a water body at different levels ?
(A) Phototropic
(B) Eutrophic
(C) Mesotrophic
(D) Chemotrophic
(E) Oligotrophic
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39.Which of the following are true about sound?
(A) 10 decibel (dB) increase in sound is equal to 10 fold increase in sound intensity
(B) 20 dB increase in sound is equal to 20 fold increase in sound intensity
(C) Loudness is the human perception of sound intensity
(D) The audible sound range is between 20 Hz to 20 kHz
(E) Sound below 20 Hz is called ultrasound while above 20 kHz is called infrasound
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40.Which of the following green house gases trapped in large quantity in permafrost and hydrates will likely be released in atmosphere due to global warming?

41.The Council of Education (in India) sought the establishment of a university in:

42.According to the New Education Policy, 2020, who among the following must be at the centre of fundamental reforms in the education system?

43.Which of the following Anglican Missionary Societies were most involved in teaching in high schools and colleges across North India in later part of Ninetieth country?
(A) The Church Missionary Society
(B) The London Missionary Society
(C) Society for the propagation of the Gospel
(D) The Cambridge Mission to Delhi
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44.Find out the chronological order of the following agencies of educational administration in British India.
(A) University Board
(B) Board of Governors
(C) Committee of Native Education
(D) Council of Education
(E) Department of Public Instruction
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45.Match List – I with List – II.

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COMPREHENSION Sub Question
Question Numbers: (46 to 50)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Adolescence is the most important period of human life. Poets have described it as the spring of life of human being and an important era in the total life span. The word adolescence comes from a Greek word ‘adolescere’ which means ‘to grow to maturity’. A number of definitions have been given by Psychologists from time to time. Some Psychologists define it as the transitional period of life. The child experiences a number of changes in this transitional period. The period runs between childhood and adulthood and is some times called the period of teenage.
According to A. T. Jersild “Adolescence is that span of years during which boys and girls move from childhood to adulthood, mentally, emotionally, socially and physically”.
Chronologically adolescence comes roughly in between the years from 12 to the early 20’s. The onset of adolescence varies from culture to culture depending on the socio-economic conditions of the country. In this period, great changes occur in all developmental dimensions of the individual.

46.The term ‘adolescence’ means:

47.The origin of the world ‘adolescence’ has come from the following language:

48.A.T. Jersild’s definition regarding adolescence highlights the following:

49.Poets have compared adolescence to the following phase of life :

50.Which of the following statements about adolescence is true ?