05 December 2021- Morning Shift- UGC NET Paper 1

Total Questions: 50

21. Consider the following statements regarding clocks:

A. In 60 minutes. the minute hand gains 55 minutes on the hour hand
B. In every hour, both the hands coincide once
C. When the two hands are at right angles. they are 15 minutes spaces apart.
Choose the correct statements from above:

Correct Answer: (D) A, B and C

22. By selling 24 pens, a vendor lost the selling price of 6 pens. Find the loss percent

Correct Answer: (C) 20%

23. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: If two trains of length x km and y km are moving in the same direction at u kmph and v kmph respectively, where u >v, then time taken by faster train to cross the slower train is equal to (x+y/u+v) hrs.
Statement II: If two trains are moving in opposite directions at u kmph and v kmph, Then, their relative speed is equal to (u + v) kmph.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false

24. The value of a mobile phone depreciates at the rate of 10% every year. It was purchased 3 years ago. If its present value is 6561/-, its purchase price was.

Correct Answer: (B) 9000/-

25. The least number by which 72 must be multiplied in order to produce a multiple of 112 is

Correct Answer: (C) 14

26. "Wherever there is smoke, fire is also present". Which of the following statements is true with reference to the above statement according to Nyāya philosophy?

A. Smoke cannot exist without fire also being present there
B. Fire causes smoke
C. Universal fireness causes universal smokeness
D. It asserts that there is a relation of concomitance between smoke and fire
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (A) Only A and D are correct

27. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The terms 'Valid' and "invalid' apply to arguments.
Statement II: The terms 'Cogent' and 'Non-cogent' apply to statements.
In the light of the above statements. choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

28. Consider the series -"animal, mammal. feline, tiger". Which of the following statement/s is/are true with reference to this series

A. It is in order of increasing intension
B. It is in order of increasing extension
C. It is in order of decreasing intension
D. It is in order of decreasing extension
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (C) Only A and D are correct

29. "All people who live in Varanasi are people who drink tea, and all people who drink tea are people who like it. We may conclude, then, that all people who live in Varanasi are people who like it. What is wrong with this argument?

A. There is equivocation on the term "People who like it."
B. It commits existential fallacy
C. It commits fallacy of exclusive premises.
D. It commits fallacy of four terms.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (D) Only A and D are correct

30. In which of the five steps of inference (anumāna) in the Nyãya syllogism all the three terms stand synthesized?

Correct Answer: (A) Upanaya