GOVERNMENT COLLEGE, CHITTUR

NET-MOCK TEST (PAPER I)

December-20, 2009
Answer any 50 (two marks each) the following. First 50 will be valued.
Negative marks 0.5for one wrong answer

SECTION-1 Teaching Aptitude

1. The discovery method of learning is best exemplified by

(a) programmed instruction (b) experimentation in a science laboratory
(c) team teaching (d) mainstreaming
2. Team teaching is chartered by all of the following except
(a) the use of master teacher
(b) the use of large group lectures
(c) group planning
(d) inflexible groupings
3. All of the following are applicable in good motivation except that it
(a) Should be brief
(b) Should be relevant to the pupils
(c) Should be related to the lesson that follows
(d) Should always come from the teacher
4. To be successful with an overactive child, the teacher should
(a) Give the child extra written work so he/she will have a reason for remaining in his/her seat
(b) Allow the child to leave his/her seat whenever he/she becomes restless
(c) Provide the child with purposeful activities that legitimize the need for movement
(d) Isolate the child from the class
5. All of the following are descriptive of good teaching except that
(a) Creative methods can used to achieve traditional goals
(b) Teachers may fail to achieve satisfactory adjustment of some children despite use of optimum
procedures
(c) When given, a punishment should immediately follow the misbehaviour
(d) Teachers should refer all children with emotional problems to the guidance counselor
6.All of the following are examples of intrinsic motivation except
(a) encouraging pupils to help develop the aim of a lesson
(b) permitting pupils to evaluate each other’s answers
(c) utilizing pupils backgrounds and experiences
(d) giving short quizzes at the beginning of a lesson

SECTION-2 Research Aptitude

1. Who is regarded as the father of scientific social surveys?
a)Darwin B)Best c) Hatte d)Gooday
2. Among the following formulation of Hypothesis may not be necessary in
a) Experemental studies b) survey studies c)historical studies d) normative studies
3. Applied research is called
a) fundamental research b)experimental research c)field research d)None of these
4. Council of scientific and industrial research was constituted as an autonomous society in
a)1940 b)1942 c)1952 d)1950
5. The standard of research is judged by
a)depth of research b)experience of researchers c)methodology followed in conducting research
d)relevance of research
6. The research carried out by aperson who has some prejudices in relation to some problem is called
a)polluted research b)inadequate research c)prejudiced research d)value oriented research
SECTION-3 Reading Comprehension
Directions—(Q. 1–6) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering-some-of-the-
questions.

John Maynard Keynes, the trendiest dead economist of this apocalyptic moment, was the godfather of
government stimulus. Keynes had the radical idea that throwing money at recessions through aggressive
deficit spending would resuscitate flatlined economies- and he wasn’t too particular about where the
money was thrown. In the depths of the Depression, he suggested that the Treasury could “fill old bottles
with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines” then sit back and watch a money-
mining boom create jobs and prosperity. “It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like,
“he wrote, but “the above would be better than nothing.”

As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to throw money at the current downturn-a stimulus package
starting at about $800 billion, plus the second $350 billion chunk of the financial bailout-we all really do
seem to be Keynesians now. Just about every expert agrees that pumping $1 trillion into a moribund
economy will rev up the ethereal goods-and-services engine that Keynes called “aggregate demand” and
stimulate at least some shortterm activity, even if it is all wasted on money pits. But Keynes was also right
that there would be more sensible ways to spend it. There would also be less sensible ways to spend it. A
trillion dollars’ worth of bad ideas-sprawl-inducing highways and bridges to nowhere, ethanol plants and
pipelines that accelerate global warming, tax breaks for overleveraged McMansion builders and
burdensome new long-term federal entitlements-would be worse than mere waste. It would be smarter to
buy every American an iPod, a set of Ginsu knives and 600 Subway foot-longs.

It would be smarter still to throw all that money at things we need to do anyway, which is the goal of
Obama’s upcoming American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. It will include a mix of tax cuts, aid to
beleaguered state and local governments; and spending to address needs ranging from food stamps to
computerized health records to bridge repairs to broadband network to energy-efficiency retrofits, all
designed to save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Obama has said speed is his top
priority because the faster Washington injects cash into the financial bloodstream, the better it stands to
help avert a multiyear slump with double-digit unemployment and deflation. But he also wants to use the
stimulus to advance his long-term priorities : reducing energy use and carbon emissions, cutting middle-
class taxes, upgrading neglected infrastructure, reining in health-care costs and eventually reducing the
budget deficits that exploded under George W. Bush. Obama’s goal is to exploit this crisis in the best sense
of the word to start pursuing his vision of a greener, father, more competitive, more sustainable-economy.

Unfortunately, while 21st century Washington has demonstrated an impressive ability to spend money
quickly, it has yet to prove that it can spend money wisely. And the chum of a 1 with 12 zeros is already
creating a feeding frenzy for the ages. Lobbyists for shoe companies, zoos, catfish farmers, mall owners,
airlines, public broadcasters, car dealers and everyone else who can afford their retainers are lining up for a
piece of the stimulus. States that embarked on raucous spending and tax cuttng sprees when they were
flush are begging for bailouts now that they’re broke. And politicians are dusting off their unfunded
mobster museums, waterslides and other pet projects for rebranding as shovel-ready infrastructure
investments. As Obama’s aides scramble to assemble something effective and transformative as well as
politically achievable, they acknowledge the tension between his desires for speed and reform.

1. Obama’s upcoming American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan focuses on which of the following ?
(1) Recovery of all debts from the debtors in a phased manner.
(2) Pumping money very liberally in projects that are mandatory.
(3) Investing money recklessly in any project regardless of its utility.
(A) (1) only (B) (2) only (C) (3) only (D) (2) and (3) only
2. John M. Keynes was advocate of which of the following suggestions ?
(A) Spending money recklessly during recessions is suicidal
(B) Exorbitant spending during recessions is likely to boost economy
(C) Aggressive deficit spending is likely to be fatal for economic meltdown
(D) Government stimulus to economy may not help because of red-tapism
3. Obama desires to accelerate the process of pumping money with utmost rapidity as he believes that it
would—
(1) Help create reasonably high employment opportunities
(2) Avoid deflation
(3) Inject cash into the already troubled economy
(A) (1) and (2) only (B) (2) and (3) only (C) (1) and (3) only (D) All (1) (2) and (3)
4. Which of the following is TRUE about Keynes’ philosophy ?
(A) Actual spending money during meltdown is more important than where and on what it is spent
(B) Government should be selective in approach for spending money during recession
(C) Filling old bottles with banknotes and burying them is an atrocious proposal
(D) Creating jobs and prosperity during recessions is almost an impracticable proposal
5. What, according to Keynes, is the “aggregate demand” ?
(A) Goods and Services Sector (B) Stimulation of a short-term activity
(C) Attempting to rev up the sluggish economy (D) Pumping one trillion dollars into economy
6. According to the author of the passage, food stamps, bridge repairs, etc. are the projects that—
(A) Do not warrant urgent spending as they have a lower utility value
(B) Need the least investment and priority as compared to building houses for the needy
(C) May not have any favourable impact on attempts to counter recession
(D) None of these

SECTION-4 Communication
1. What is the title of the original BBC TV series on which the Hindi TV series, Kamzor Kadi Kaun,
based?
(A) Who wants to be a millionaire? (B) Treasure mine (C) Mastermind
(D) The weakest link
2. Upward and downward flow of message constitute
a)vertical communication b)horizontal communication c)diagonal communication d)informal
communication
3. Lack of interest in a topic is a……..oriented barrier
a)sender b) receiver c)message d)any of the above
4. Biased listening is a result of
a)prejudices b)semantic problems c)arguments d)discussions
5. The most important task ahead of the interviewer is
a)listen carefully b)formulate effective questions c)make the interview more comfortable d) make the
interviewed intelligent person
6. Visual aids help in
a)break monotony b)can be added up at any stage c)should be used prudently d)all aforesaid

SECTION-5 Reasoning (Including Mathematical)

1. Which of the following should come next in the given sequence of numbers ?
243243124312243123243123
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
(E) None of these
2.The present ages of three persons are in proportions 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago, the sum of their ages was
56. Find their present ages (in years)—
(A) 20, 35, 45 (B) 8, 20, 28 (C) 16, 28, 36 (D) 20, 36, 46
3.A vendor loses the selling price of 4 oranges on selling 36 oranges. Her loss per cent is—
(A) 10% (B) 11 1/9 % (C) 12 ½ % (D) None of the above
4.What should come in the place of question mark in the following series ?
3, 8, 6, 14, ?, 20
(A) 11 (B) 10 (C) 8 (D) 9
5.How many 8’s are there in the following sequence which are immediately preceded by 6 but not
immediately followed by 5 ?
6857854368198546829681368536
(A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four
6. Mohan is 18th from either end of a row of boys ? How many boys are there in that row ?
(A) 26 (B) 32 (C) 24 (D) 35

SECTION-6 Logical Reasoning

1.In a certain code DESPAIR is written as TFEQSJB. How is NUMERAL written in that code ?
(A) OVNFMBS (B) NVOFSBN (C) NVOMFBS (D) NVOFMBS
(E) None of these
2.Statements : Some doctors are lawyers. All teachers are lawyers. Some engineers are lawyers. All
engineers are businessmen.
Conclusions :
I. Some teachers are doctors.
II. Some businessmen are lawyers.
III. Some businessmen are teachers.
IV. Some lawyers are teachers.
(A) None follows (B) Only II follows (C) Only III follows (D) Only II and IV follow
(E) None of these
3.Statements : All sands are beaches. All shores are beaches. Some beaches are trees. All trees are hotels.
Conclusions :
I. Some shores are hotels.
II. All beaches are shores.
III. Some beaches are hotels.
IV. Some sands are trees.
(A) None follows (B) Only II follows (C) Only either I or III follows (D) Only IV follows
(E) None of these
4.If first half of the following series is written in the reverse order the which will be 7th letter to the left of
10th letter from your right?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
(A) E (B) D (C) A (D) B
(E) None of these
5.If KEDGY is coded as EKDYG then how will LIGHT be coded ?
(A) ILHTG (B) ILGHT (C) ILGTH (D) THGIL (E) None of these

6.All chairs are tables. All tables are cushions. Some cushions are trolleys. All trolleys are lamps.
Conclusions :
I. Some lamps are tables.
II. Some trolleys are chairs.
III. Some cushions are lamps.
IV. All chairs are cushions.
(A) Only I follows (B) Only III and IV follow (C) Only either I or II follows (D) All follow
(E) None of these

SECTION-7 Data Interpretation

The following table shows the number of new employees added to different categories of employees in a
company and also the number of employees left the company every year since its inception
Year Managers Technicians Operators Accountants Peons
New Left New Left New Left New Left New Left
199 760 - 1200 - 880 - 1160 - 820 -
5
199 280 120 272 120 256 104 200 100 184 96
6
199 179 92 240 128 240 120 224 104 152 88
7
199 148 88 236 96 208 100 248 96 196 80
8
199 160 72 256 100 192 112 272 88 224 120
9
200 193 96 288 112 248 144 260 92 200 104
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1. During the period between 1995 and 2000 the total number of operators who left the company is what %
of the total number of operators who joined the company?
a)19% b)21% c)27% d)29%
2. For which of the following categories the % increase in the number of employees working in the
company from 1995 to 2000 was the maximum?
a)managers b) technicians c)operators d)accountants
3.) What is the difference between the total number of technicians added to the company and the total
number of accountants added to the company during the year 1996 to 2000?
a)128 b)112 c)96 d)88
4) What was the totral number of peons working in the company in the year 1999?
a)1312 b)1192 c)1088 d)968
5) What is the pooled average of the total number of employees of all category in the year 1997?
a)1325 b)1285 c)1265 d)1195
6) In which category of employees there had more left outs than addition between 1997 to 1999?
a)managers b) technicians c)operators d)Peons

SECTION-8 Information and Communication Technology

1.Which of the following is lowest in memory hierarchy?
(A) Cache memory (B) Secondary memory (C) Registers (D) RAM
2.Which of the following is a GUI device :
(A) Keyboard (B) Mouse (C) OMR (D) All of these
3.LCD stands for :
(A) Liquid Crystal Display (B) Laser Crystal Display (C) Light Crystal Display (D) All of these
4.ASCII stands for :
(A) American Standard Code for Institute Interchange
(B) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(C) American Standard Code for Information Institute
(D) All of these
5.Which of the following is a type of optical media?
(A) FDD (B) HDD (C) CD (D) Magnetic Tape
6. Which of the following requires refreshing during retaining the data?
(A) DRAM (B) SRAM (C) Virtual Memory (D) FDD

SECTION-9 People and Environment

1.Earth quake waves travel fastest in—
(A) Soil (B) Molten rock (C) Water (D) Flexible rock
2.Which antibiotic can cure Anthrax, if detected at an early stage?
(A) Amoxycillin (B) Erythromycin (C) Cephalospirin (D) Ciprofloxacin
3.Which of the following chemicals has been recently allowed by the Government of India to be mixed
with petrol?
(A) Methanol (B) Ethanol (C) Kerosene (D) Butanol
4.‘Anti Tobacco Day’ is observed in India on which one of the following days ?
(A) 11th April (B) 11th May (C) 11th June (D) 31st May
5.Which one of the following states has the largest area under Forest cover among all the states given in the
list ?
(A) Andhra Pradesh (B) Assam (C) Himachal Pradesh (D) Mizoram
6.which of the following is an air pollutant?
a)Nitrogen b)carbon monoxide c)carbon dioxide d)oxygen

SECTION-10 Higher Education System-Governance-Polity

and Administration
1. The Govt. of India recently issued a notification altering constituencies in 24 States and Union territories.
This is done as per the provision of which of the following Acts?
(A) Delimitation Act (B) Census Act (C) Parliament Act (D) State Reorganization Act
2. Delhi university is a
a) central university b)sate university c)deemed university d)open university
3. The attorney general of india is appointed by
a) the chief justice of india b)the prime minister c)the president of india d)the UPSC
4. What does the article 352 of the constitution contain?
a)declaration of emergency b) powers of high court c)division of power between centre and state d)powers
of prime minister
5.IGNOU was established in
a)1958 b)1985 c)1965 d)1956
6. A university campus titled “ golden threshold” is related to university of
a) kerala b)delhi c)Bangalore d)hyderabad

Lakshmanan MP,Lecturer,Govt College Chittur,Palakkad, mpl_lak@yahoo.com