Mock Test (PYQ) Paper I- June 2015- UGC-NET Exam

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI).

1. Anthropogenic activities have led to increased pollution of soil all over the world. These pollutants can be either organic (e.g., PCBs, PAHs, fertilizers, pesticides) or inorganic pollutants including various heavy metals (e.g., Cd, Cu, As, Zn, Hg, Pb).

Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification, mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse.

An easy method of converting decimal to binary number equivalents is to write down the decimal number and to continually divide-by-2 (two) to give a result and a remainder of either a “1” or a “0” until the final result equals zero. So for example. Convert the decimal number 29410 into its binary number equivalent.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 28th December, 1953 and became a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for the coordination,determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.

Article 85(1) of the Constitution empowers the President to summon each House of Parliament to meet at such time and place as he thinks fit, but six months shall not intervene between its last sitting in one Session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next Session.

Global carbon (C) emissions from fossil fuel use were 9.795 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2014 (or 35.9 GtCO2 of carbon dioxide). Fossil fuel emissions were 0.6% above emissions in 2013 and 60% above emissions in 1990 (the reference year in the Kyoto Protocol).

China, India, the United States and Brazil used the most, and they’re the first, second, third and fifth-most populous countries. The amount of water used per person in each country, though, varies significantly. Per capita, the United States used the most water at 2,842 cubic meters per annum.

Encryption is a process that encodes a message or file so that it can be only be read by certain people. Encryption uses an algorithm to scramble, or encrypt, data and then uses a key for the receiving party to unscramble, or decrypt, the information.

The Civil Service Day is celebrated on 21 April every year. The purpose for this day is to rededicate and recommit themselves to the cause of the people. This day gives civil servants the opportunity for introspection and thinking about future strategies to deal with the challenges being posed by the changing times.

South Asian University is an International University sponsored by the eight Member States of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The eight countries are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Google Talk, also known as Google Chat, was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users.

Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher education in India is calculated for 18-23 years of age group. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) or Gross Enrolment Index (GEI) is a statistical measure used in the education sector, and formerly by the UN in its Education Index, to determine the number of students enrolled in school at several different grade levels (like elementary, middle school and high school), and use it to show the ratio of the number of students who live in that country to those who qualify for the particular grade level.

The Richter magnitude scale is a scale of numbers used to tell the power (or magnitude) of earthquakes. Charles Richter developed the Richter Scale in 1935. His scale worked like a seismogram, measured by a particular type of seismometer at a distance of 100 kilometers (62 mi) from the earthquake.

An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment which converts information into human-readable form. It can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, and video. Some of the output devices are Visual Display Units (VDU) i.e. a Monitor, Printer, Graphic Output devices, Plotters, Speakers etc.

Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance. “Source code” is the part of software that most computer users don’t ever see; it’s the code computer programmers can manipulate to change how a piece of software—a “program” or “application”—works.  Prime examples of open-source products are the Apache HTTP Server, the e-commerce platform osCommerce, internet browsers Mozilla Firefox and Chromium.

The National Air Quality Index (AQI) in India was launched on 17 September 2014 in New Delhi under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by the Environment Minister Shri PrakashJavadekar. The air quality index is composed of 8 pollutants ((PM10, PM2. 5, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, NH3, and Pb).

There are as many as 49 Central Universities established in India, of which Allahabad University isthe oldest of all, being established in 1887.

The five major renewable energy resources are solar, wind, water (hydro), biomass, and geothermal. Since the dawn of humanity people have used renewable sources of energy to survive — wood for cooking and heating, wind and water for milling grain, and solar for lighting fires.

A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Questionnaires can be thought of as a kind of written interview. They can be carried out face to face, by telephone, computer or post.

Cognitive ability is defined as a general mental capability involving reasoning, problem solving, planning, abstract thinking, complex idea comprehension, and learning from experience (Gottfredson, 1997). (sciencedirect.com) Cognition mainly refers to things like memory, the ability to learn new information, speech, understanding of written material.

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.

A thesis statement is one sentence that expresses the main idea of a research paper or essay, such as an expository essay or argumentative essay. It makes a claim, directly answering a question.

Research is a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using the scientific method.

In his theory of Cognitive development, Jean Piaget proposed that humans progress through four developmental stages: the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational period.

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

Seven C’s of Effective Communication: Courtesy, Clarity, Conciseness, Completeness, Correctness, Concreteness and Credibility. Communication is perceived to be effective only if the receiver receives the message in the same form and context as it is sent by the sender.

A verbal codes is a set of rules about the use of words in the creation of messages. Words can obviously be either spoken or written. Verbal codes, then, include both oral (spoken) language and non-oral (written) language.

Lexical meaning is defined as the meaning of a base or root word without considering any prefix or suffix which may be attached. An example of lexical meaning is the meaning of the word “port” in the words import or portable.

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.

Features of Communication- (i) Communication is a two-way traffic. (ii) It is a continuous and unending process. (iii) It is a short-lived process and lasts till the other person understands the message. (iv) The main purpose of communication is to make the message understandable to others.

A Venn diagram is an illustration of the relationships between and among sets, groups of objects that share something in common. Usually, Venn diagrams are used to depict set intersections (denoted by an upside-down letter U).

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.

Inductive and deductive reasoning both strive to construct a valid argument. … Therefore, inductive reasoning moves from specific instances into a generalized conclusion, while deductive reasoning moves from generalized principles that are known to be true to a true and specific conclusion.

The “grapevine” is a term used to describe an unofficial and informal network of individuals who share information outside of the normal and /or official channels of communication.

Formal communication formal communication refers to the communication taking place through official channels in an organization designed by the management. This communication flows deliberately created along officially recognized positions to ensure a smooth, orderly, accurate and timely flow of information.