13 Oct 2022- Evening Shift- UGC NET Paper 1 (English)

Total Questions: 50

21. Three numbers are in the ratio of 2:5:6 and their sum is 683, Find the three numbers:

Correct Answer: (a) 107, 250, 306

22. There are 15 students in a class. The average age of the students and the teacher of the dlass is 15 years. The average age of the teacher and the studerits is 2 years more than that of students, What is the age of the class teacher?

Correct Answer: (b) 50

23. A shopkeeper professes to sell his goods on cost price but uses 750 gm instead of 1 kg, What is his gain in percentage?

Correct Answer: (c) 30.3

24. The simple interest on a sum of money is 4/9 of the principal. What will be the annual rate of interest and time (in years), if both of these are numerically equal?

Correct Answer: (b) 6.8% and 6.8 years

25. Find the wrong term in the series given below:

5,10, 17, 24, 37, 50, 65

Correct Answer: (b) 17

26. Which of the following propesitions is obverse of and logically equivalent to "Some men are honest?

Correct Answer: (c) No men are dishonest,

27. Given below are two statements

Statement I: To obvert a proposition, we change its quality and replace the predicate term with its complement.
Statement II: Obversion is valid for any standard form categorical proposition.

In 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. Which logical informal fallacy is committed in the following argument, "No-one has proved that global warming is actually occuring, so there is no reason to believe thatitis actually occuring."?

Correct Answer: (c) Appeal to ignorance

29. The argumenit, 'Sound is eternal, because it is produced', is fallacious because:

Correct Answer: (b) The middle term is too narrow,

30. Which of the following Pramanas (means of knowledge) is differentiated into Svartha (for oneself) and Parartha (for others) types?

Correct Answer: (c) Upamana (comparison)