04 Sep 2024- Evening Shift- UGC NET Paper 1

Total Questions: 50

21. Three successive discounts of 15 %, 20 % and 40 % on the marked price of an item are equivalent to a single discount of :

Correct Answer: (3) 59.2 %

22. 15 men working 8 hours per day complete a piece of work in 18 days. To complete the same work in 6 days, working 12 hours a day, the number of men required will be :

Correct Answer: (4) 30 men

23. Find the next term in the series.....

2Z5, 7Y7, 14X9, 23W11, 34V13, (?)

Correct Answer: (3) 47U15

24. In a certain coding language, if the word ‘TREND’ is coded as ‘QUBQA’, then the word ‘STRAY’ will be coded as.

Correct Answer: (3) PWODV

25. A person travels from X to Y at a speed of 30 km/hr and returns from Y to X by increasing his speed by 50%. His average speed during the journey is :

Correct Answer: (3) 36 km/hr

26. Identify the fallacy committed in the statement given below :

“People who lack arrogance are intelligent because intelligent people do not have arrogance”

Correct Answer: (3) Begging the question

27. Which of the following propositions is contrary to the proposition. “All cows are herbivores” ?

Correct Answer: (4) No cows are herbivores.

28. Which of the following statements are logically equivalent ?

(A) All cows are herbivores.
(B) All herbivores are cows.
(C) Some herbivores are cows.
(D) No cows are non-herbivores.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (4) (A) and (D) Only

29. Which of the following propositions cannot both be false, though they can both be true ?

(A) All cows are herbivores.
(B) No cows are herbivores.
(C) Some cows are herbivores.
(D) Some cows are not herbivores.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (2) (C) and (D) Only

30. According to classical Indian Philosophy the source of knowledge based on cognition of an object, similar to another one which is already known to the cognizer is known as :

Correct Answer: (4) Upamāna