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ECONOMICS SAMPLE PAPER SETI

Time : 3 Hours General Instructions : i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) All questions in both the sections are compulsory. Marks for questions are indicated against each. Question No. 15 and 1620 are very short answer questions carrying 1markseach.Theyarerequiredtobeansweredinonesentenceeach. Questions No. 69 and 2125 are short answer question carrying 3 marks each to be answered maximum 60 words each. Question No. 1013 and 2628 line also short answer question carrying 4 marks each to be answered in maximum 80 words. Question No. 1415 and 2931 are long answer questions carrying 6 marks each to be answered in maximum 120 words. PART:A Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 Q.4 Q.5 Q.6 Q.7 Q.8 Q.9 Define ogive curve : Write the name of statistical method which is less expensive and time saving. What is the sum of deviations taken from mean in a series? What is line of equal distribution? When is rank correlation method used? Write three importances of statistics in economics. Calculate mean deviation from median and its coefficient from the following data : 100, 150, 80, 90, 150, 200, 140 Explain three precautions in the use of secondary data. Give three advantages of tabulation. OR Define mean, median and mode. Maximum Marks : 95

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Calculate the median and third quartile (Q ) 3 Class : Frequency : 010 5 1020 12 2030 8 3040 10 4050 5

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What is standard deviation? How does it differ from mean deviation? From the following compute median and mode. Income : No. of : employees 010 1020 2030 3040 4050 5060 6070 7080 5 7 15 25 20 15 8 5

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What are the problems in the construction of index numbers? OR What is scatter diagram? What are its demerits.

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Calculatethekarlpearsonscoefficientofcorrelationfromthefollowing data. Age of Husband: Age of wife : 18 19 20 17 17 18 21 22 23 24 18 18 19 19 25 26 27 20 21 21

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Find out quartite deviation, Interquartile range and coefficient of quartile deviation of the following series: Height in inches : 58 No. of Plants: 2 59 3 60 6 OR What do you understand by dispersion? Describe the various methods of computing dispertion? PART : B 61 15 62 10 63 15 64 4 65 3 66 1

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Which industries were adversly affected due to partition? What are fiscal reforms? Define poverty line? What is agricultural marketing? What type of economic system is followed in China? 138 XIEconomics

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Identity six factors contributing to land degradation in India? What do you mean by primary and secondary sources of energy. Explain demand pull Infation. OR What are the supply factor which cause inflation?

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Define privatisation? State the measures adopted for privatisation. What were the limitations of green revolution? How migration promotes human capital formation? What is the difference between labour force and work force?

Q. 28 State three approaches adopted by the Indian Government to combat poverty. OR Why has rural banking not able to give adequate credit to formers? Q.29 Describe the similarities between the economic development of India and Pakistan. OR Explain the various factors that led to the rapid growth in economic development of China. Q.30 Q.31 What are the main problems of human capital formation in India? Explain the meaning of New Economic Policy. What was its need?

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