10 Oct 2022- Morning Shift- UGC NET Paper 1 (English)

Total Questions: 50

21. If A is 20% of C and B is 25% of C. then what percent is A of B?

Correct Answer: (a) 60%

22. Three numbers are in the ratio of 3:5:7 and the sum of these numbers is 975. Find the three numbers

Correct Answer: (d) 195, 325, 455

23. Find out the wrong number in the series given below

6. 18, 90, 630. 6930, 83160

Correct Answer: (a) 83160

24. Five years ago. the average age of A and B was 23 years. If today. average age of A. Band C is 27 years. what will be the age of C after 5 years?

Correct Answer: (a) 30

25. A man walks 15 metres in the front and then 15 metres to his right. Then every time turning to his left. the man walks 5 metres. 20 metres and 20 metres respectively. How far is the man from the starting point?

Correct Answer: (b) 5 metres

26. Which of the following propositions are logically equivalent to ‘No women are dishonest ‘human beings':

(A) No dishonest human beings are women
(B) All women are non-dishonest human beings
(C) No women are non-dishonest human beings
(D) All non-women are non-dishonest

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (a) (A) and (B) only

27. “Human beings are animals because as homo sapiens we all evolved thousands of years ago''. Which informal fallacy is committed in the above argument?

Correct Answer: (a) Fallacy of composition and division

28. Given below are two statements :

Statement I: If a deductive argument is valid and its premises are true, we say that the argument is sound.
Statement I1: If an inductive argument is strong and its premises are true, we say that it is cogent

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

Correct Answer: (a) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

29. Which of the following steps of inference as per classical Indian school of logic involve application of the universal concomitance to the particular present case

(A Socrates is mortal
(B) Because he is a man
(C) Whoever is a man is a mortal e.g. Pythagoras
(D) Socrates is a man who is invariably a mortal
(E) Therefore Socrates is mortal

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (d) (D) only

30. Given below are two statements :

Statement I : Verbal form is an integral part of the inference according to classical Indian school of logic.
Statement II: Classical Indian school of logic distinguishes between induction and deduction as separate inferential processes.

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

Correct Answer: (b) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect