16 March 2023 – Morning Shift – UGC NET Paper-1

A. Holistic deveopment centres
B. Start-up incubation centres
C. Technology deveopment centres
D. Greater Industry-academic linkages
E. Centres of Performing Arts

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. Gender basis
B. Skill gap analysis
C. Value oriented learning
D. Mapping of local opportunities
E. Visual arts

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Statement I: Teacher centered learning is one of main chracteristics of Non-conventional learning.
Statement II: Prescribed curriculum is one of the main characteristics of conventional learning.

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

Comprehension

Malthus (1766-1834) produced his Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798. He said that the crux of the population problem was 'the existence of a tendency in mankind to increase, if unchecked, beyond the possibility of an adequate supply of food in a limited territory'. Malthus thought that an increased food supply was achieved mainly by bringing more land into arable production.

He maintained that while the supply of food could, at best, only be increased by a constant amount in arithmetic progression the human population tends to increase in geometrical progression the human population tends to increase in geometrical progression multiplying itself by a constant amount each time.

In time, population would outstrip food supply untill a catastrophe occurred in the form of famine, disease or war. War would occur as human groups fought over increasingly scarce resources. These limiting factors maintained a balance between population and resources in the long term. In a later paper, Malthus placed significant emphasis on 'moral restraint' as an important factor in controlling population.

Clearly, Malthus was influenced by events in and before the eighteenth century and could not have foreseen the great advances that were to unfold in the following two centuries that have allowed population to grow at an unprecedented rate, alongside a huge rise in the exploitation and use of resources.

There have been many advances in agriculture since the time of Malthus that have contributed to huge increases in agricultural production. These advances include: the development of artificial fertilisers and pesticides, new irrigation techniques, high yielding varieties of crops, cross-breeding of cattle, greenhouse farming and the reclamation of land from the sea.

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Growth in arithmetical progression is faster than that in geometrical progression.
Statement II: The only paper that Malthus came out was his Essay on the Principle of Population.

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

Assertion (A): Malthus could accurately predict the population growth that has taken place in the last two centuries.
Reason (R): He believed that food supply could be increased by bringing more land into arable production.

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

Statement I: Malthus believed that population grows faster than the food supply.
Statement II: Malthus was greatly influenced by events that occured in the nineteenth century.

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

A. war
B. moral restraint
C. famine
D. disease

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: