13 June 2023 – Morning Shift – UGC NET Paper-1

Total Questions: 50

21. What number would replace question mark (?) in the series given below? 3, 8, 17, 32, 57, 2, 177

Correct Answer: (1) 100

22. If in a certain code 'Generalization' is written as 52627134819406, how the word 'Oreganos' be written in that code?

Correct Answer: (2) 07251608

23. Salary of a person decreases by 10% every year and his bonus increases by 24% every year. If his salary and bonuses at the end of 2020 were ₹ 8000 and ₹ 2500 respectively, find the difference between his total earnings in March, 2020 and March 2022.

Correct Answer: (4) ₹ 176, decrease

24. The population of a village is 11000. If the number of children increase by 11% and the number of adults increase by 20%, the population becomes 12660. Find the population of children and adults separately in the village.

Correct Answer: (3) 6000, 5000

25. There are fifteen successive percentage discounts given in a series of 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% _____ on an item. After how many such percentage discounts in succession will the effective discount be higher than 50%?

Correct Answer: (3) 8th

26. In the light of 'Causation' which of the following is incorrect?

A. Qualities of cause are accidental antecedents
B. The cause of the cause is not the cause.
C. The co-effects of a cause are themselves causally related
D. Eternal substance like space are not unconditional antecedents.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (3) C only

27. Identify the fallacy committed in the following argument:

"There must be intelligent life on other planets. No one has proven that there isn't".

Correct Answer: (1) Appeal to ignorance

28. Match List I with List II

List-I (Fallacies)List-II (Description)
A. Bandwagon ArgumentI. Arguer misrepresents an opponent's position.
B. Strawman ArgumentII. Arguer assumes the point to be proven.
C. Red herring ArgumentIII. Arguer appeals to reader's or listener's desire to be accepted or valued
D. Begging the questionIV. Arguer tries to distract the attention of the audience by raising irrelevant issue
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Code:ABCD
(1)IIIVIIII
(2)IVIIIIII
(3)IIIIIVII
(4)IIIIIIIV
Correct Answer: (3)

29. When inference is based not on Causation but on Uniformity of co-existence as in the case of inferring cloven hoofs of an animal by it's horns; it is called

Correct Answer: (3) Sāmānyatodąşta

30. 'Sound is eternal because it is produced' refers to which of the following Hetvabhasa?

Correct Answer: (2) Virruddha