1. Philosophy is the study of:

How people with different beliefs or backgrounds disagree with one another.

What beliefs mean and whether people with different beliefs are justified in having them.

The reasons why philosophic questions never have better or worse answers

Questions that can be answered better by appealing to scientific experiments.


2. Who is an agnostic?

One who is not sure about God's existence.

One who believes in God's existence.

One who worships God.

One who proves the existence of God



3. Which branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning values?

Aesthetics

Axiology

Epistemology

Logic


4. Who among the following is the twenty third theerthankara of Jaina religion?

Parsvanatha

Rsabhadeva

Mahavira

Shitalnatha

5. The President ofIndia can be removed from his office by the ...

Prime Minister

Loksabha

Chief Justice ofIndia

Rajyasabha


6. Who is the highest Law Officer of the state?

Attorney General

Advocate General

Solicitor General

Secretary General

7. Who is an altruist?

One who is a lover of beauty

One who hates mankind

One who is a lover of mankind

One who always talks about truth

8. What does the branch of philosophy called Metaphysics study ...

Knowledge

Beauty

Being

Reasoning

9. In philosophy, what is an argument?

A factual disagreement between people

Giving reasons for a belief

Verbal attempt to persuade

A shouting verbal exchange

10. Who is an amateur?

One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession

One who is mature enough to understand happiness

One who remains sad always

One who is not having experience

11.
Who is an ascetic? One who is in confusion. One who makes paintings. One who leads an austere life. One who is a lover of beauty.

12. Who is a chauvinist?

A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.

A person showing disappointment.

A person feeling low.

A person feeling very excited.

13. Who is a cynic?

One who sneers at the beliefs of others.

one who appreciates.

One who is confused.

One who is dejected

14. "Jataka" stories are associated with ....

Hinduism

Jainism

Buddhism

Judaism


15. Study of the Universe is known as?

Sociology

Cosmology

Universology

Petology


16. Big Bang theory explains?

Origin of the Universe

Origin of Sun

Laws in jurisprudence

Collusion of planets


17. Where do Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha attained Parinirvana after his death?

Lumbini

Sarnath

Kusinagar

Bodh Gaya


18. Who is known as the "Father of Indian Renaissance"?

Lala Lajpat Rai

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Bhaghat Singh

B. G. Tilak

19. What is not true ofHinduism?

It has no known founder

It has no single religious body to interpret orthodoxy

It has no scriptures

It has no unified set of doctrines

20. Vedanta stands for which of the following?

The Brahmanas

The Samhitas

The Upanisads

The yogasutras


21. Which of the given passages can be taken as an example of a logical argument?

Whenever children are exposed to sunlight, they get sunburn, Therefore exposure to sunlight is the cause of sunburn in the case of children.

If there is thunder, then there is lightning as well. There is thunder. Therefore there is lightning.

Johny insisted that logic as a discipline is a gift from the Greek to the world. Ramu however objected saying that everyone is born with logical intuition. Therefore logic is not a gift from Greek.

If you take advantage on me, then I will tell everyone that you are a liar

22.First basket of coconuts has 1/4 more coconuts than the second basket. If the second basket has 3 coconuts less than the first basket then the number of coconuts in the first basket is ...

9

10

12

15

23. University Philosophy Department needs to appoint a new chairperson which will be based on seniority. Prof. Shetty has less seniority than Prof. Murthy, but more than Prof. Gupta. Prof. Naidu has more seniority than Prof.Shetty, but less than Prof. Murthy. Prof. Murthy refuses to take the position. Who will be the new chairperson?

Prof. Naidu

Prof. Murthy

Prof. Shetty

Prof. Gupta

24. Solipsism means

I alone exit

The world does not exist

I and God exist

Nothing exists


25. Choose the statement that is best supported by the information given in the question passage.

Close-up images ofMars by the Mariner 9 probe indicated networks of valleys that looked like the stream beds on Earth. These images also implied that Mars once had an atmosphere that was thick enough to trap the sun's heat. If this were true, something happened to Mars billions of years ago that stripped away the planet's atmosphere. This paragraph best supports the statement that

Mars now has little or no atmosphere.

Mars once had a thicker atmosphere than Earth does.

Mars is closer to the sun than Earth is.

Mars is more mountainous than Earth is.

26. Choose the picture that would go in the empty box so that the two bottom pictures are related in the same way as the top two are related.



1

2

3

4

Each question given below consists of a statement, followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the arguments is a 'strong' argument and which is a argument.

27. Statement: Should the educated unemployed youth be paid "unemployment allowance" by the Government?
Arguments:
I. Yes. It will provide them some monetary help to either seek employment or to kick-start some 'self-employment' venture.

II. No. It will dampen their urge to do something to earn their livelihood and thus promote idleness among the unemployed youth.

Only argument I is strong

Only argument II is strong

Both I and II are strong

Neither I nor II is strong

28. Statement: Should all the colleges in India be allowed to devise their own curriculum and syllabus for the vocational courses promoting self-employment?

Arguments:



I. Yes. This is an important step to generate employment opportunities.

II. No.This will affect the quality of education due to lack of uniformity in syllabus.

Only argument I is strong

Only argument II is strong

Both I and II are strong

Neither I nor II is strong.

29. Statement: Should there be students union in college/university?
Arguments:
I. No. This will create a political atmosphere in the campus.

II. Yes, it is very necessary Students are future political leaders

Only argument I is strong

Only argument II is strong

Neither I nor II is strong

Both I and II are strong

30. Statement: Should there be reservation in Government jobs for candidates from single child family?
Arguments:
I. No. This is not advisable as the jobs should be offered to only deserving candidates without any reservation for a particular group.

II. Yes. This will help reduce the growing population in India as the parents will be encouraged to adopt single child norm.

Only argument I is strong

Only argument II is strong

Neither I nor II is strong

Both I and II are strong

31. Statement: Should education be made compulsory for all children up to the age of 14?
Arguments:
I. Yes. This will help to eradicate the system of forced employment of these children.

II. Yes. This is an effective way to make the entire population educated.

III. No. We do not have adequate infrastructure to educate the entire population.

IV. Yes. This would increase the standard of living.

All are strong

Only II and III are strong

Only II and IV are strong

Only II is strong

32. Look carefully at the sequence of symbols to find the pattern. Select the correct pattern.

1

2

3

4

33. Look carefully at the sequence of symbols to find the pattern. Select the correct pattern.


1

2

3

4


34. QAR, RAS, SAT, TAU,

UAV

UAT

TAS

TAT

35. DEF, DEF2, D2E2F3

DEF3

D3EF3

D2EJF

D2E2F2


36. ZAs, Y4B, XC6, W3D,

E7V

V2E

VEs

VE7


37. BCB, DED, FGF, HIH,

JKJ

HJH

IJI

JHJ


38. CMM, EOO, KUU

GRR

GSS

ISS

ITT


Change of voice questions:

39. She wants that she should be respected.

She wanted to respected.

She wants to respected.

She wanted to be respected.

She wants to be respected.


40. He found the student guilty.

The student was found to be guilty by him.

The student was found guilty by him.

The student was found to guilty by him.

The student found to be guilty by him.

41. I asked Susheela why she was sad.

Susheela was asked by me that why she was sad.

Susheela was asked by me why she was sad.

Susheela was asked that why she was sad.

Susheela was asked why she was sad.

42. Who taught you English?

By who were you taught English?

By which were you taught English.

By whom you were taught English?

By whom were you taught English?

Given a list of three "nonsense" words and their English word meanings. The question(s) that follow will ask you to reverse the process and translate an English word into the artificial language

43. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. gorblflur means fan belt pixngorbl means ceiling fan arthtusl means tile roof Which word could mean "ceiling tile"?

Gorbltusl

Flurgorbl

Arthflur

Pixnarth


44. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. hapllesh means cloudburst srenchoch means pinball resbosrench means ninepin Which word could mean "cloud nine"?

Leshsrench

Ochhapl

Haploch

Haplresbo

45. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. agnoscrenia means poisonous spider delanocrenia means poisonous snake agnosdeery means brown spider Which word could mean "brown snake"?

Deeryclostagnos

Agnosdelano

deerydelano

Trymuttiagnos


46. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. lelibroon means yellow hat plekafroti means flower garden frotimix means garden salad Which word could mean "yellow flower"?

Lelifroti

Lelipleka

Plekabroon

Frotibroon


47. Here are some words translated from an artificial language. granamelke means big tree pinimelke means little tree melkehoon means tree house
Which word could mean "big house"?

Granahoon

Pinishur

Pinihoon

Melkegrana

48. Look at this series: 5.2,4.8,4.4,4, .., What number should come next?

3

3.3

3.5

3.6

49. Look at this series: 31, 29, 24, 22, 17, .. What number should come next?

15

14


13

12

50. Look at this series: 14, 28, 20,40, 32, 64, ... What number should come next?
52

56

96

128

51. Look at this series: F2, D8, C16,B32, What number should fill the blank?

A16

G4

E4

E3

52. Look at this series: 0.15,0.3, What number should fill the blank?

4.8

0.06

0.6

0.9

53. Embarrassed is to Humiliated as frightened is to ...

Terrified

Agitated

Courageous

Reckless

54. Elated is to despondent as enlightened is to .,.

Aware

Ignorant

Miserable

Tolerant


55. Candle lamp floodlight

Hut cottage Fill in the blank with appropriate word.

Tent

City

Dwelling

House

56. Apples fruit Supermarket
Novel Book in the blank with appropriate word.

Bookstore

Magazine

Paperback

Hardbound


57. Tadpole frog amphibian

Lamb sheep Fill in the blank with appropriate word.

Animal

Wool

Farm

Mammal

58. You should avoid to make such stupid mistakes.

avoid to make

avoid make

avoid making

avoid to have

59. I am tired as I am working since 7 clock in the morning.

I was working

I have been working

I had been working

I will be working

60. When it was morning they decided to put at an inn.

put out in

put off at

put at

put up at

61. Sheela told her teacher to explain the chapter once again.

ordered her teacher

invited her teacher

asked her teacher

said to her teacher

62. Hardly had he finished his lunch than the phone rang.

when

while

then

since


63. What is meant by allegory?

A story told by elders to younger ones

A story told by younger ones to elders

A story that express ideas thorough language

A story that expresses ideas through symbols

64. What is meant by axiom?

A statement that requires proof to get it established

A statement or proposition that is regarded as established

A statement which is not relevant

A statement which is relevant to current situation

65. What is meant by blasphemy?

An act of speaking for ruler

An act of speaking against ruler

An act of speaking for religion

An act of speaking against religion


66. What is meant by chronology?

The arrangement of events on the basis of even odd

The arrangement of events in some algorithmic way

The arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence

The arrangement of events in random order

67. What is meant by ephemeral?

Lasting for a very short time

Everlasting

Lasting till we wish

Lasting till certain event

68. What is meant by nostalgia?

a sort of joyful moment

a sort of problem in the nose

a sentimental longing for the past

excitement for the coming future

69. What is meant by pantheism?

The belief that God is not one

The belief that God is one

The belief that there are many Gods

The belief that God pervades nature

70. What is meant by Platonic?

A love meant to be a physical desire

A love free from physical desire

A love which is deceptive

A love which is short lived

71. In which of the following sentences the word good occurs in the ethical sense?

The knife is good

The weather is good

Charity is good

The food is good

72. If the sentence 'some men are philosophers' is true then which of the following can be validly inferred?

'All men are philosophers' is true

'Some men are not philosophers' is true

'Some men are not philosophers' is false

none of the above

73. Solipsism means ...

I alone exit

The world does not exist

I and God exist

Nothing exists

74. Geetha and Zeenat together have 120 marbles. Geetha has 20 marbles more than Zeenat. How many marbles does Geetha have?

70

60

50

80

75. Haritha bought a huge circular shaped cake for her birthday and wants to share it equally among friends and herself. She cuts the cake along the diameter and gets 2 pieces. She cuts the cake along the other diameter and gets 4 pieces. How many such cuts she has to make so that everyone gets an equal sized piece.

18

24

36

insufficient information

76. A man is twenty years old plus half his present age. How old is he?

25 years

30 years


40 years

50 years

77. Objects like pens and sheets of paper are of ...

no value

instrumental value

intrinsic value

emotional value

78.A certain number of horses and an equal number of men are going some where. Half of the owners are on their horses back while the remaining men are walking along leading their horses. If the number of legs walking on the ground is 70, how many horses are there?

16

14

12

10

79. A man spent Y!J of his life as a teenager. How old was he when he died?

48

56

64

65


80. Pointing to a Photograph, a man said "I have no brother or sister but that man's father is my father's son". Whose photograph was it?

His own

His son's

His father's

His grandfather's

Instruction:
Please read the passage carefully and and answer the following questions. The answer to some of the questions may require simple reasoning and ability to draw inference from the text. Choose the best answer to the question.

Indian scientific publications are steadily increasing in number and the country is now producing more papers per person than the world average, says a newly released report. The International Comparative Research Base (2009-14) for India by Elsevier, released in February, shows a marked increase in the country's performance between 2009 and 2013. In this period, the number of scholarly outputs, including research publications, increased by 68 per cent from 62,955 to 106,065 with India's active researchers publishing an average of 14 papers per head against the world average of five.

Researchers attribute this surge in research impact to increased monetary support for science. "In the last decade, several world class institutions have been set up with state-of-the-art technologies. This was possible through liberal funding, says Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, associate professor at the Indian Institute ofTechnology-Kanpur Bandyopadhyay's Skeletal Development Laboratory was set up in the department of biological sciences and bioengineering at IIT-K with generous grants grants. IIT-K was identified in the report as the institution with the highest number of citations per paper in the subject category of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.

Similarly, the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, has been able, with the new funding, to build facilities for spectroscopy and analytical testing, electron microscopy and X-ray diffractometry. "Increased investment between 2000-2010 resulted in rapid increase of facilities, quality personnel, infrastructure and space which resulted in better research performance," says P. K. Das, professor at the department of inorganic and physical chemistry at the IISe.

Aurnub Ghose, assistant professor at Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) at Pune, says: "It is in this period that India's S&T research funding touched one per cent ofGDP. This funding boost along with introduction of flexibilities in our funding agencies and representation of younger voices in funding decisions has gone a long way in improving performance." The IISERs, of which there are five, now rank fourth among top scientific institutions listed by Nature Index, which tracks the affiliation of high-quality journal articles and presents research outputs by institution and country. The lISERs figure among the top 50 such institutes in the Asia Pacific region.

According to the report, India's growth in scientific excellence is particularly aggressive at the top end of the scale. "India's share in top cited papers has also increased 12.4 per cent for the top 25 per cent cited papers, 12.7 per cent for the top 10 per cent cited papers, 15.4 per cent for the top 5 per cent cited papers, and 20.8 per cent for the top one percent cited papers," the report says.

Arun Shukla, associate professor at lIT-K, attributes this quality boost to improved infrastructure, making complex experiments possible. Shukla also believes that the return to India over the last decade of a large number Indian researchers from top international laboratories has also made the difference possible.
The report analysed Elsevier's abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature between 2009-2013, to show that India's contribution is not limited to basic research but also extends to application oriented research. India's research focus has been on chemistry and pharmacology while the country's patent citations are concentrated on materials science, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics. The report also showed that the country's scientists are increasingly collaborating across borders and producing international quality publications through exchange of knowledge and expertise. (This piece was produced by SciDev.Net's South Asia desk.)

81. The study by Elsevier on Indian scholarly output focused during the period between

2009-14

2000-10

2000-15

Since Independence

82. The Elsevier study on Indian scholarly output showed for the period 2009

A marked increase in scientific publication

A similarly marked increase in publication in all other areas of intellectual activities

A marked increase in all areas of intellectual activities

None of the above


83. The study shows that during the period 2009 the scholarly ouput, including research publications,

Was 62, 955 in 2009

Was 106,065 in 2013

Both and

None of the above

84. The study also shows that during 2009 -2013, the number of scientists engaged in
research publications is ...

About 60,000

Less than 8,000

Indeterminable given the information

Between 60,000 and 1,00,000

85. If we assume that the number of active scientists engaged in research during 2009 -13 had remained the same, the number of publications per scientist in 2009 would be ...

Less than the world average of 2013

More than the world average of2013 but less than the Indian average of2013

Indeterminable given the information.

None of the above

86. During the period of study, the average number of papers published per scientist

Will be expected to increase from 2009 to 2013 by any arbitrary percentage

May remain stagnant from 2009 to 2013

Will be expected to increase from 2009 to 2013 by approximately 68 percent

All of the above

87. The increase in research publications, according to several scientists, is due to

global decline in standards

global decline in investment in research

increase in investment in research in India

none of the above

88. The increase in investment in research happened

through targeted institution already existing

through establishing new institutions

through establishing state-of-the-art infrastructure

all of the above


89. The report also mentions about the quality of publications from the targeted institutions by

referring to specific laboratories or research areas funded

referring to citation received by the papers published from those laboratories of
research

referring to the already esteemed positions these institutions occupy

referring to the actual quantum of money spent on these research areas

90. The institutions like I.I.T Kanpur or I.I.Sc. Bangalore continued to do well in research in part because they

kept getting more funding

could hire first rate personnel

could have better infrastructure

All of the above


91. The report also places Indian Institute of Science Education and Research among the

top four research institutions in India

above the 1.1.T system

above the 1.I.M system

None of the above

92. The report also suggests that the citations of Indian publications reflect excellence since

the Indian share of top twenty five percent cited papers has increased by 12.4 percent

the Indian share of top ten percent cited papers has increased by 12.7 percent

the Indian share of top five percent cited papers has increased by 15.4 percent

All of the above

93. From the report one can deduce that

the percentage of papers published in India among the top one percent cited papers is more than than the percentage of papers published in India among the top five percent cited papers.

the percentage of papers published in India among the top twenty five percent cited papers is less than the percentage of papers published in India among the top ten percent cited papers.

the percentage of papers published in India among the top five percent cited papers is more than the percentage of papers published in India among the top ten percent cited papers.

None of the above

94. The report also suggests that

the number of papers published among the top 1 percent cited papers is more than the number of papers published among the top 5 percent cited papers

the number of papers published among the top 5 percent cited papers is more than the number of papers published among the top 10 percent cited papers

the number of papers published among the top 10 percent cited papers is more than the number of papers published among the top twenty five percent cited papers

None of the above

95. One of the contributing factors to Indian science looking up has been

the retirement of old scientists

the influx of young scientists from International laboratories

Both and

None of the above


96. Another indicator that signals India's excellence in research is

the number of scholarly books that have been published

the swanky looking laboratory buildings that have come up

the patent citations in several areas have increased significantly

All of the above


97. From the report one can surmise that

the Indian Universities have contributed significantly to the publications of top quality papers

the CSIR Laboratories have contributed significantly to the publications of top quality papers

the Indian Private sector research establishments also have published top quality papers in significant numbers.

The information provided does not allow any of the above conclusions

98. The increase in top 1 percent cited papers by 2004 percent during 2009 -13 means

Indian share in top I percent cited papers before 2009 was less than 20.4 percent

Indian share in top I percent cited papers around 2013 was at least 20.4 percent

the actual Indian share in top I percent cited papers whether in 2009 or in 2013 cannot be determined given the information

None of the above

99. The report brings out the fact that

the patronage of the Government was a must for high quality research

the patronage of the Industry seemed to be largely missing

Both and

None of the above


100. The focus of Indian science during the period 2009 -13 has been primarily

towards the chemical sciences

towards indigenous technologies

towards all branches of sciences

None of the above