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Sample Questions :
M.A English :
1. Read the passage below and tick the correct option in the questions that follow.
Adapted from Don DeLillo’s White Noise
The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus. In single file they eased around the orange I-beam sculpture and moved toward the dormitories. The roofs of the station wagons were loaded down with carefully secured suitcases full of light and heavy clothing; with boxes of blankets, boots and shoes, stationery and books, sheets, pillows, quilts; with rolled-up rugs and sleeping bags; with bicycles, skis, rucksacks, English and Western saddles, inflated rafts. As cars slowed to a crawl and stopped. students sprang out and raced to the rear doors to begin removing the objects inside; the stereo sets, radios, personal computers; small refrigerators and table ranges; the cartons of phonograph records and cassettes; the hair dryers and styling irons; the tennis rackets, soccer balls, hockey and lacrosse sticks, bows and arrows, the controlled substances, the birth control pills and devices; the junk food still in shopping bags-onion-and-garlic chips, nacho thins, peanut creme patties. Waffelos and Kabooms, fruit chews and toffee popcorn; the Dum-Dum pops, the Mystic mints.
i. The speaker of the passage is most likely a:
A. student
B. parent of a student
C. law enforcement officer
D. resident of a college town
ii. In the first paragraph, the speaker characterizes the students primarily by describing their:
A. attitudes
B. possessions
C. physical appearance
D. interactions with each other
2. Many people find this law to be discriminatory because it seems to give an unfair advantage to the upper classes in trade and commerce. The government is in favor of amending the law to make it more appealing to medium and small-scale businesspeople.
The above passage discusses:
A. trade and commerce
B. government sponsorship to medium and small businesses
C. a law that’s unfair to the majority
D. tax benefits to rich people
3. We were not alone in the room. He sat ________ me. There were others there _______ us.
Fill in the blanks with the correct pair of prepositions from the ones given below.
A. beside, besides
B. besides, beside
C. next, between
D. by, besides
4. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow: Egrets by Judith Wright Once as I travelled through a quiet evening, I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still. Beyond, the slender paperbarks stood crowding; each on its own white image looked its fill, and nothing moved but thirty egrets wading – 5 thirty egrets in a quiet evening. Once in a lifetime, lovely past believing, your lucky eyes may light on such a pool. As though for many years I had been waiting, I watched in silence, till my heart was full of clear dark water, and white trees unmoving, and, whiter yet, those thirty egrets wading.
i. Egret is:
A. a bird
B. an insect
C. a fish
D. an animal
ii. When the speaker says the pool was “mirror-still” (line 2) she means that the water in the pool was:
A. muddy and flowing
B. full of ice
C. clear and unmoving
D. full of waves
5. William Wordsworth is a well-known British _______.
A. novelist
B. playwright
C. poet
D. actor
6. A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work is called an:
A. epic
B. epigraph
C. euphemism
D. epithet
M.A. in Politics and International Relations (08) :
Q1. Which doctrine is considered key to maintaining the balance of power among institutions of government?
A. Separation of Powers
B. Habeas Corpus
C. Natural Law
D. Constitutional Morality
Q2. Which among the following news services is based out of West Asia and reports primarily on issues related to the Global South?
A. BBC
B. CNN
C. Al Jazeera
D. RT
MA in Sociology :
Q1. According to Marx, which of the following is a part of the “Infrastructure”?
A. Technology
B. Religion
C. Norms
D. Values
Q2. According to the caste system, which of the following determines the individual?
A. Population
B. Property
C. Birth
D. Achievement
MA in Sociology :
1. The first five year plan started in:
A. 1951
B. 1952
C. 1950
D. 1954
2. Who started the policy of globalization, liberalization and privatization?
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Manmohan Singh
C. Mahalnobis
D. Ahuluwaliya
3. Who is the author of Bottom of Pyramid?
A. Partho Das Gupta.
B. Lord. Meghana Desai
C. YashwantSinha
D. C.K. Prahlad
M.A. in Economics :
1. The first five year plan started in:
A. 1951
B. 1952
C. 1950
D. 1954
2. Who started the policy of globalization, liberalization and privatization?
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Manmohan Singh
C. Mahalnobis
D. Ahuluwaliya
3. Who is the author of Bottom of Pyramid?
A. Partho Das Gupta.
B. Lord. Meghana Desai
C. YashwantSinha
D. C.K. Prahlad
M.Sc. in Environment Sciences :
1. Organisms that generate energy using light are:
a) Oligotrophs
b) Chaemorganotrophs
c) Chemolithotrophs
d) Photoautotrophs
2. The rate of biogenetic nutrients between the abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem is often referred to as
a) Turnover rate
b) Standing rate
c) Production rate
d) Cycling rate
M.Sc. in Life Sciences :
1. The final change in a cell’s activity as a result of binding a signal molecule is called
A. cellular output response
B. signal transduction
C. allosteric regulation
D. phosphorylation cascade
2. Because most receptors are membrane proteins, which of the following statement is true?
A. they lead to changes in intracellular ion concentration
B. they open and close channels in response to protein signals
C. they are only attached to one membrane surface: exterior or interior
D. they preferentially bind with lipid or glycolipid signal molecules