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Question Paper Name: 147 Educational Studies 147 29th May 2019 Shift2 Set1

Subject Name: Educational Studies 147

Creation Date: 2019-05-29 19:31:05

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Duration: 180

Total Marks: 100

Display Marks: Yes

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Group Minimum Duration: 120

Revisit allowed for view?: No

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Break time: 0

Group Marks: 100

Section Id: 12820

Section Number: 1

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Section type: Online

Mandatory or Optional: Mandatory

Number of Questions: 16

Number of Questions to be attempted: 16

Section Marks: 40

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Group All Questions: No

Sub-Section Number: 1

Sub-Section Id: 128206452

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

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Question Number: 1 Question Id: 1282069708 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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'Reflexivity' is a concept that is relevant for

  1. Experimental method
  2. Naturalistic method
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  4. Quantitative method
  5. Qualitative method

Question Number: 2 Question Id: 1282069709 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among following statement is NOT true

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  1. Experimental method examines causal relation between two variables
  2. Qualitative research aims at giving a generalised law
  3. Feminist methodology challenges the notion of 'disinterested researcher'
  4. Social science researchers aim at contributing to a theory

Question Number: 3 Question Id: 1282069710 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Those who deploy the model of natural sciences to study social phenomena follow the assumptions of

  1. Social constructivism
  2. Realism
  3. Naturalism
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  5. Positivism

Question Number: 4 Question Id: 1282069711 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In research, data were collected by conducting interview of research participants and in the analysis only surface meaning of interview has been considered as fact. The researcher has been guided by which of the following framework

  1. Naturalistic
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  3. Interpretive
  4. Qualitative
  5. Positivistic

Question Number: 5 Question Id: 1282069712 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The concept of 'triangulation' will come close to which of the following methods:

  1. Mixed method
  2. Qualitative method
  3. Quantitative method
  4. Observation method
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Question Number: 6 Question Id: 1282069713 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Linguistic turn in social science research is based on the idea that

  1. Words have fixed meanings
  2. Words have fixed meaning but they are not easily available
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  4. Words do not have a fixed meaning
  5. Words represent reality faithfully

Question Number: 7 Question Id: 1282069714 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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During the review of literature if a researcher finds that there are conflicting findings on the theme of his/her research. He/She should

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  1. Not be bothered by this too much
  2. Think that there will be some mistakes in the findings of one of the previous researches
  3. Analyse this issue systematically and build his/her research on the same
  4. Change the theme of his/her research

Question Number: 8 Question Id: 1282069715 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In a class the average score obtained by 4 students is 7. When marks of the 5th student was added to the total marks, then the average becomes 7.2. How much did the 5th student score?

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
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  5. 10

Question Number: 9 Question Id: 1282069716 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Match the following fallacies in reasoning from the first column with the examples in the second column

Fallacies Examples
1 Hasty generalization A. Either Welfare benefits are introduced or income tax is raised - that is the only choice
2 Appeal to authority B. It is difficult for written words to communicate anything
3 False dilemma C. Five people responding to the questionnaire like the new Wagon R model – it will be popular
4 Contradiction in terms D. The world's top economists say that interest rates will fall this season
  1. 1-C; 2-D; 3-A; 4-B
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  3. 1-B; 2-C; 3-A; 4-B
  4. 1-B; 2-D; 3-A; 4-C
  5. 1-C; 2-D; 3-B; 4-C

Question Number: 10 Question Id: 1282069717 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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A necessary and sufficient causal relation is one in which

  1. there is only one cause (c) for an effect (e) (if and iff c then e)
  2. a cause (c) can by itself produce an effect (e) (if c then e)
  3. a particular cause (c) must be present for an effect (e) (if not c then not e)
  4. none of the above
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Question Number: 11 Question Id: 1282069718 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Tree questioning, iterative procedures and random sampling are:

  1. elements of the goals of science,
  2. constitute the objectives of science,
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  4. are the scientific tactics employed by the scientific method,
  5. none of these.

Question Number: 12 Question Id: 1282069719 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Of the following constitute the class of formal sciences:

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  1. physics, chemistry, economics,
  2. biology, history, sociology,
  3. psychology, medicine, botany,
  4. mathematics, logic, linguistics

Question Number: 13 Question Id: 1282069720 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The problem with inductive reasoning is that:

  1. it lacks valid forms of argument unlike deduction
  2. does not reason causally
  3. uses statistical methods
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  5. it generalizes from insufficient data

Question Number: 14 Question Id: 1282069721 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Popper demarcates science from non-science on the grounds that the propositions and theories of the former are:

  1. fallible
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  3. falsifiable
  4. conventional
  5. verifiable

Question Number: 15 Question Id: 1282069722 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Science grows out of common knowledge by proposing:

  1. theories about nature
  2. performing controlled experiments to interrogate its subject matter
  3. building theories about nature
  4. inventing conjectures that go beyond common knowledge
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Sub-Section Number: 2

Sub-Section Id: 128206453

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282069723 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling: Allowed : Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (16 to 20)

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Question Label: Comprehension

Answer Question based on the following table.

The following table shows the faculty-wise enrolment of students in higher education in India between 2012-13 and 2016-17.

Faculty 2012-13 2016-17
Total Enrolment Women Enrolment Total Enrolment Women Enrolment
Arts 8157308 3969715 10343541 5670875
Science 3992007 1775319 4966190 2474474
Commerce/Management 3762003 1504335 4890793 2309905
Education 741905 442656 1187846 763496
Engineering/Technology 3333165 982277 4781913 1364660
Medicine 752277 391057 1182971 717203
Agriculture 103013 27812 241303 68187
Veterinary Science 29325 8073 35312 11573
Law 400815 115296 475463 164293
Others 229336 89863 1321826 611824
Grand Total 21501154 9306403 29427158 14156490

Source: Annual Report 2012-13 & Annual Report 2016-17, University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

Question Number: 16 Question Id: 1282069724 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In which faculty the highest and lowest shares of students are enrolled respectively in 2016-17?

  1. Veterinary Science, Arts
  2. Law, Veterinary Science
  3. Arts, Veterinary Science
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  5. Education, Science

Question Number: 17 Question Id: 1282069725 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Out of the four faculty listed below, in which the increase in women enrolment (in absolute numbers) has been the highest between 2012-13 and 2016-17?

  1. Engineering/Technology
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  3. Arts
  4. Education
  5. Medicine

Question Number: 18 Question Id: 1282069726 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What is the percentage share of women enrolment in medicine to total women enrolment in 2012-13?

  1. 2.4
  2. 4.2
  3. 51.9
  4. None of the above
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Question Number: 19 Question Id: 1282069727 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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If law, the percentage share of female enrolment in total enrolment in law for 2016-2017 is?

  1. 34.5
  2. 35.4
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  4. 28.7
  5. 23.5

Question Number: 20 Question Id: 1282069728 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The total male enrolment in higher education between 2012-13 and 2016-17 has gone up by

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  1. 25.2%
  2. 22.5%
  3. 52.2%
  4. None of the above

Section Id: 128206277

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Section Number: 2

Section type: Online

Mandatory or Optional: Optional

Number of Questions: 30

Number of Questions to be attempted: 30

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Section Marks: 60

Display Number Panel: Yes

Group All Questions: No

Sub-Section Number: 1

Sub-Section Id: 128206454

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Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Number: 21 Question Id: 1282069729 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following is a distributed knowledge is characteristic of

  1. Constructivist theory of science
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  3. Marxist theory
  4. Weberian sociology
  5. Logical positivism

Question Number: 22 Question Id: 1282069730 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In the book The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm proposes the twin revolution thesis and its role in modernization. These twin revolutions are:

  1. The Russian Revolution and the First World War
  2. The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Russian Revolution
  3. The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
  4. The Student Uprising of May 1968 and the Information Revolution
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Question Number: 23 Question Id: 1282069731 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Said's study of Orientalism draws upon three primary concepts:

  1. the concepts of reification, alienation and knowledge as power
  2. the concepts of racial discrimination, colonialism and alienation
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  4. the ideas of colonial domination and cultural Imperialism
  5. discourse, knowledge/power, hegemony

Question Number: 24 Question Id: 1282069732 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences was founded

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  1. in 1868 by Mahendra Lal Sircar on the lines of the British Academy of Advancement of Sciences
  2. in 1888 by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray to establish a school for pure and applied chemistry
  3. in 1860 by Charles Wood for the promotion of European sciences in India
  4. in 1904 as a forerunner to the Indian Academy of Sciences

Question Number: 25 Question Id: 1282069733 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The University Charter Act enacted in 1904 resulted in widespread reforms in the university. The most important of which was:

  1. the permission to establish post-graduate teaching and research programmes
  2. the reinvention of the university as a teaching and examining body
  3. the promotion of vocational education within the university
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  5. the permission to establish denominational and residential universities such as AMU and BHU.

Question Number: 26 Question Id: 1282069734 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following provides an apt definition of drain theory

  1. tax breaks and benefits for industry and the wealthy will percolate down to everyone else
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  3. to train Indians to participate in colonial profit-making, education was to be provided to a small section of society who would then transmit it to the masses
  4. the financial mechanism by which British rule in India was maintained led to the transfer of wealth and income from India to Britain bleeding the Indian economy.
  5. None of the above

Question Number: 27 Question Id: 1282069735 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the molecular scattering of light. His collaborator at the time was

  1. Marie Curie
  2. M.N. Saha
  3. S.N. Bose
  4. K.S. Krishnan
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Question Number: 28 Question Id: 1282069736 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was established by a tripartite agreement between

  1. The Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharaja of Mysore and the Imperial government
  2. The Nizam of Hyderabad, The Maharaja of Mysore and J.N. Tata
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  4. J.N. Tata, the Imperial government and the Nizam of Hyderabad
  5. Maharaja of Mysore, J.N. Tata and the Imperial government

Question Number: 29 Question Id: 1282069737 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In which year was the Indian Independence Day on January 26 celebrated for the first time

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  1. 1925
  2. 1930
  3. 1922
  4. 1928

Question Number: 30 Question Id: 1282069738 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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"Our meaning of revolution is to change the present conditions, which are based on manifest injustice", who said this during our anti-colonial struggle?

  1. Netaji S C Bose
  2. Veer Savarkar
  3. Bhagat Singh
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  5. Jawaharlal Nehru

Question Number: 31 Question Id: 1282069739 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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National Planning Committee was set up by which Congress president and when?

  1. Subhas Chandra Bose in 1938
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  3. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1929
  4. Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1918
  5. Maulana Azad in 1942

Question Number: 32 Question Id: 1282069740 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress?

  1. Sarojini Naidu
  2. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  3. Annie Besant
  4. Sucheta Kriplani
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Question Number: 33 Question Id: 1282069741 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which is the first Gandhileited mass movement?

  1. Non-cooperation movement
  2. Quit India movement
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  4. Civil disobedience movement
  5. Champaran movement

Question Number: 34 Question Id: 1282069742 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The initial goal of the British East India company was

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  1. To capture the spice trade by breaking the Portuguese monopoly in Asia
  2. To compete with the French and Dutch East India Company in Asia
  3. To collect tribute from the Maratha and Nizam's territories
  4. None of the above

Question Number: 35 Question Id: 1282069743 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Historical research begins from the premise that 'all data is suspect unless proven otherwise.'

  1. The statement is incorrect
  2. The statement is correct
  3. The statement does not exist
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  5. Such a statement cannot be made

Question Number: 36 Question Id: 1282069744 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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