Mock Test (PYQ) Paper I- December 2009- UGC-NET Exam

Indira Gandhi National Open University known as IGNOU, is a Central University located at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. (wiki) Gyan Drashan is also available on webcast, thus extending the reach of IGNOU programmes to audiences world over. (ignou)

NCERT, UGC, NAAC, AICTE, NCTE are some of the educational organizations in India. National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is a statutory body of Indian government set up under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established in 1994 as an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore. (wiki)

Micro-teaching is a teacher training and faculty development technique whereby the teacher reviews a recording of a teaching session, in order to get constructive feedback from peers and/or students about what has worked and what improvements can be made to their teaching technique. (wiki)

A null hypothesis is a type of hypothesis used in statistics that proposes that no statistical significance exists in a set of given observations. (investopedia)

Historical research enables you to explore and explain the meanings, phases and characteristics of a phenomenon or process at a particular point of time in the past. (koppa.jyu.fi)

Action research is a process in which participants examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully, using the techniques of research. (brown.edu)

Experimental research is a study that strictly adheres to a scientific research design. It includes a hypothesis, a variable that can be manipulated by the researcher, and variables that can be measured, calculated and compared.(cemast.illinoisstate.edu)

In an experiment, the manipulation of one or more independent variables in order to investigate their effect on a dependent variable. (dictionary.apa)

The Yomiuri Shimbun is the most circulated newspaper in the world. The second most circulated newspaper in the world is also a Japanese publication, the Asahi Shimbun. (worldatlas)

Symbols can be used for both receptive and expressive communication. Words and images are all signs.

Telepathy is the ability to transmit words, emotions, or images to someone else’s mind like Relax your body and mind, visualize the receiver is right in front of you, and focus your thoughts on sending them a simple word or image. (wikihow)

The Osgood-Schramm model of communication is a circular, rather than linear, experience that involves a sender, who encodes a message, and a recipient, who decodes it. (study.com)

Twitter providing a kaleidoscope of what was going on within minutes of the attacks beginning. Twitter meanwhile provided a constant stream of information through its search function, allied to the use of tags – #mumbai being the favourite as the situation developed. (the guardian.com)

A deductive argument is a type of logical argument that begins with a factual premise such that the conclusion you want to reach must be true. It uses deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion. (study.com)

Inductive reasoning is a type of logical thinking that involves forming generalizations based on specific incidents you’ve experienced, observations you’ve made, or facts you know to be true or false. (thebalancecareers)

Analogy compares two completely different things and look for similarities between two things or concepts and it only focuses on that angle. (examples.com)

Primary data is data that is collected by a researcher from first-hand sources, using methods like surveys, interviews, or experiments. It is collected with the research project in mind, directly from primary sources. (statisticshowto.datasciencecentral)

Dispersion is a statistical term that describes the size of the distribution of values expected for a particular variable. Dispersion can be measured by several different statistics, such as range, variance, and standard deviation. (investopedia)

Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. (wikipedia)

Terabyte is more precisely defined as 1,024 gigabytes (GB), while a petabyte consists of 1,024 TB.

A bit (short for binary digit) is the smallest unit of data in a computer. A bit has a single binary value, either 0 or 1. (toppr.com)

In the linear data structure, the data is organized in a linear order in which elements are linked one after the other.Examples of the linear data structure are array, queue, stack, linked list, etc. In contrast, tree and graph are the examples of the non-linear data structure. (techdifferences.com)

Networking devices may include gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. (wikipedia)

A compiler is a tool which is used to converts the text of a programming language (called source code) into machine code. (quora)

A large bird with a horizontal body and long bare legs, giving it an ostrich like appearance, this bird is among the heaviest of the flying birds.(wikipedia)

Sagarmatha National Park is a protected area in the Himalayas of northeast Nepal. It’s dominated by snow-capped mountains including Mount Everest (Sagarmatha), and encompasses glaciers, valleys and trails. It’s home to rare species like the snow leopard, musk deer and red panda. (wikipedia)

Soot is a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, particularly coal. It is emitted by a variety of sources, including burning coal for electricity or industrial fuel, manufacturing, oil refining, and motor vehicles. (gkseries)

Surface Ozone (O3), also called Troposheric Ozone, is a critical atmospheric species that drives much of tropospheric photochemistry. (esrl.noaa.gov)

Natural resources like wind, tides, solar, biomass, etc generate energy which is known as “Non-conventional resources“. These are pollution free and hence we can use these to produce a clean form of energy without any wastage.(toppr.com)

Floods are the most common natural disaster in India. The heavy southwest monsoon rains cause the Brahmaputra and other rivers to distend their banks, often flooding surrounding areas. (researchgate.net)

National Knowledge Commission was an Indian think-tank charged with considering possible policies that might sharpen India’s comparative advantage in the knowledge-intensive service sectors. It was constituted on 13 June 2005, by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. (wikipedia)

Article 120- Provided that the Chairman of the Council of States or Speaker of the House of the People, or person acting as such, as the case may be, may permit any member who cannot adequately express himself in Hindi or in English to address the House in his mother-tongue. (rajbhasha.nic.in)

A discussion group is a group of individuals, typically who share a similar interest, who gather either formally or informally to discuss ideas, solve problems, or make comments. (wikipedia)

Legislature of the Union, which is called Parliament, consists of the President and two Houses, known as Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and House of the People (Lok Sabha). Each House has to meet within six months of its previous sitting. (knowindia.gov.in)

Distance learning helps the students with flexible studying hours which can help you to continue the job of your interest without any hindrance and can contribute towards the nation’s overall development.(thehighereducationreview)