Q.-1861    Assertion (A): In social research, a high proportion of refusals to answer a research always occurs solely due to inadequate interview instructions or poor interview training.

Reason (R): Within the questionnaire or interview, even a substantive number of questions often remain unanswered making difficult for the researcher to state an exact figure and forcing him to restudy the questions carefully as fault might lie upon a poor transition.

Code:

(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1862    Assertion (A): In recent times, it is easier to copy, and paste the contents from a digital documents for which people knowingly avoid to credit the sources. Increased access to digital documents has provided a means for increase of plagiarism.

Reason (R): Software assisted detection tools like ithenticate, turnitin etc. now allow vast collection of online documents to be compared to each other making successful detection of plagiarism.

Code:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.

(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(C) (R) is true, but (A) is false.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.

Answer Key is: (D)

Q.-1863    Assertion (A): F.W. Lancaster’s cocksure prediction of a paperless society by the end of 20th century holds no good.

Reason (R): Transition from print dominance to paperless ascendancy, change from scroll to codex and introduction of movable type were not only the few historical shifts, but were also hugely significant innovations. Inspite of rapid technological changes, the future libraries will still accommodate a very large print collection. However, the propelling vision of an informationdriven paperless society, though seems inevitable to avoid space, staff, and cost crunch, may buy more time to become a reality.

Code:

(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1864    Assertion (A): The curriculum of LIS education in India is mostly unsteady as local LIS requirements vary.

Reason (R): Adoption of UGC model syllabus is not mandatory for the LIS schools in India.

Code:

(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer Key is: (C)

Q.-1865    In the agentic socio-cognitive view, “human action” is the product of:

(A) A dynamic interplay of personal and situational influences

(B) Personal determinants and mechanisms of human functioning

(C) Social bespoke and practices

(D) Schematic processing of experiences and memory representation

Answer Key is: (A)

Q.-1866    Why the second approach to the ‘self system’ is construed by the author as “mechanically reactive agency” ?

(A) An external system through which internal influences operate mechanically.

(B) An internal system through which external influences operate mechanically on action having no directive influence exerted by the individuals on process.

(C) An external system through which external influences operate mechanically on action.

(D) An external system through which external influences operate in which individuals exert direct influence on the process.

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1867    According to the agentic view of “Personality”, what does the ‘self system’ meant to the author ?

(A) A Repository for implanted structures and a conduit for internal influences.

(B) A Repository for implanted structures and a conduit for external influences.

(C) An archive for preserving unusual human instincts.

(D) A Pen-stock to restrict the flow of unusual and instant human behaviour.

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1868    What does ‘consciousness’ conceptually meant to the author ?

(A) A demonstration of physical condition based on situation

(B) The very substance of phenomenal and functional mental life

(C) The rigid state of mental condition.

(D) A Spiritual state of mind

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1869    How does the author differentiate between “passive undergoing” and “agentic doing” ?

(A) Conscious of the experiences one is undergoing and consciously producing given experiences.

(B) Conscious of the experiences one is undergoing, but fail to use the given experiences.

(C) Conscious of the past experience and their wrongful use irrelevant to need.

(D) Unconscious of the experience and their non-intentional use.

Answer Key is: (A)

Q.-1870    The next term in the series 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37,?  is:

(A) 50

(B) 57

(C) 62

(D) 72

Answer Key is: (A)

Q.-1871    A group of 210 students appeared in some test. The mean of 1/3 rd of students is found to be 60. The mean of the remaining students is found to be 78. The mean of the whole group will be:

(A) 80

(B) 76

(C) 74

(D) 72

Answer Key is: (D)

Q.-1872    Anil after travelling 6 km towards East from his house realized that he has travelled in a wrong direction. He turned and travelled 12 km towards West, turned right and travelled 8 km to reach his office. The straight distance of the office from his house is:

(A) 20 km

(B) 14 km

(C) 12 km

(D) 10 km

Answer Key is: (D)

Q.-1873    The next term in the series: B2E, D5H, F12K, H27N,?  is:

(A) J56I

(B) I62Q

(C) Q62J

(D) J58Q

Answer Key is: (D)

Q.-1874    A party was held in which a grandmother, father, mother, four sons, their wives and one son and two daughters to each of the sons were present. The number of females present in the party is:

(A) 12

(B) 14

(C) 18

(D) 24

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1875    P and Q are brothers. R and S are sisters. The son of P is brother of S. Q is related to R as:

(A) Son

(B) Brother

(C) Uncle

(D) Father

Answer Key is: (C)

Q.-1876    Consider the argument given below:

'Pre - employment testing of teachers is quite fair because doctors, architects and engineers who are now employed had to face such a testing.'

What type of argument it is?

(A) Deductive

(B) Analogical

(C) Psychological

(D) Biological

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1877    Among the following propositions two are related in such a way that they can both be true although they cannot both be false. Which are those propositions? Select the correct code.

Propositions:

(a) Some priests are cunning.

(b) No priest is cunning.

(c) All priests are cunning.

(d) Some priests are not cunning.

Codes:

(A) (a) and (b)

(B) (c) and (d)

(C) (a) and (c)

(D) (a) and (d)

Answer Key is: (D)

Q.-1878    A Cluster of propositions with a structure that exhibits some inference is called:

(A) An inference

(B) An argument

(C) An explanation

(D) A valid argument

Answer Key is: (B)

Q.-1879    Consider the following assertion (A) and reason (R) and select the correct code given below:

(A): No man is perfect.

(R): Some men are not perfect.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not provide sufficient reason for (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) provides sufficient reason for (A).

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

Answer Key is: (A)

Q.-1880    A definition that has a meaning that is deliberately assigned to some symbol is called:

(A) Lexical

(B) Precising

(C) Stipulative

(D) Persuasive

Answer Key is: (C)