A group of students performed well in a module when they were taught by a professor. In the next semester, their performance plummeted drastically when the tutor was changed. The tutor in this case is a:

• Mediator variable

• Moderator variable

• Predictor variable

• Dependent variable

Cite Scores are slightly different from Impact factors in the sense that:

• Cite scores take the citation counts of succeeding three years

• Cite scores are non-indexed journal based scores

• Impact factors take the citation counts of succeeding three years

• Cite scores take the citation counts of preceding three years

Patients administered with a placebo in medical research is a:

• Control variable

• Outcome variable

• Independent variable

• Mediator variable

You are conducting a research on "Academic performance assessment of students in Bhutan" for your final semester 60 credit research. Your supervisor tells you that it is not a good research topic because:

• It is not timely

• The variables are immeasurable

• It is ambiguous

• the objectives are unclear

The null hypothesis for your research is:

Looks matter when you find your significant other. If it is proved, your disproved alternate hypothesis is:

• Looks matter when you find your significant other

• Looks don't matter when you find your significant other

• The hypothesis is ambiguous

The H index of an author with the citation counts 15, 14, 13, 9, 8, 6, 5 is:

• 5

• 7

• 6

• 8

Sonam submits an article in an unnamed, non-predatory journal. If she does not know the reviewer but the reviewer knows her, it is a:

• Double blind review

• Single blind Review

• Peer review

Which of the following is not included in the methods?

• Statistical design

• Sampling design

• Research design

• Data collection procedures

The results are different from discussion in the following sense:

• Interprets findings

• Frames speculations

• Cites related studies

• Presents the data

The correct order in the entire research process is:

• Proposal > Thesis > Article > Publication > Manuscript

• Proposal > Article >Thesis > Manuscript

• Manuscript > Article > Thesis > Proposal

• Publication < Manuscript < Article < Thesis < Proposal