04 March 2023 – Morning Shift – UGC NET Paper-1

Statement-I: The Governor of the State is the Chancellor of deemed universities.
Statement-II: Deemed universities can design their own syllabus and course work.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. Preparation of training material
B. Assessment of training needs
C. Development of appropriate curriculum/Modules
D. Assessment of the impact and outcome of the training.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

A. Medical colleges should admit a maximum number of hundred students.
B. History of medicine with special reference to Indian systems should be taught in the first degree course in medicine.
C. More importance should be attached to Public health, Engineering and Nursing.
D. There should be provision of ten beds per student admitted in the medical college.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Comprehension

It was in this atmosphere of intense antagonism and hostility that Gokhale introduced his Elementary Education Bill in 1910. He called it 'a small humble attempt to suggest the first steps of a journey, which is bound to prove long and tedious, but which must be performed, if the mass of our people are to emerge from their present condition'. Gokhale argued :

Free and compulsory education is the first remedy of all the remedies to be applied...without compulsion the educational developments in the last 60 years have been hopelessly slow. The only way that the world has discovered to secure universal education in a country has been by making it compulsory and free. Compulsion would operate harshly on the poorer classes of the community if it is not made free.

He suggested that only those students whose family income was 25 rupees and above per month should pay fees; for the rest, education was to be free. Out of the total expenditure required for it, two-thirds should be borne by the state and one-third by the local bodies. He suggested imposing an additional 8-anna tax on salt on the grounds that 'my countrymen should eat less salt than that their children should continue to grow up in ignorance and darkness'.

According to Gokhale, what percentage of the total expenditure on education should be borne by the state?

Statement-I: Gokhale believed that education was necessary for the Indian masses to be liberated from their miserable condition.
Statement-II: Gokhale faced little resistance in the introduction of his bill on elementary education.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

A. The growth of education in India was very slow prior to 1910.
B. There was a need to make education compulsory for all according to Gokhale.
C. Gokhale believed that achieving education for all Indians was a distant dream.
D. Gokhale suggested that majority of expenditure for education should be met by local bodies.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Statement-I: Gokhale believed that education should be made free for the poor people.
Statement-II: Gokhale suggested that an additional tax of 8-anna should be imposed on salt.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Assertion A: Gokhale was not in favour of free education for the poor.
Reason R: He suggested that those students whose family income was Rs. 25 per month or more, should pay the education fees.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: