WorksheetsB.Ed-107
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The Indian Education Commission (1964-1966), was also popularly known as:
National Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
Literacy Commission
Daulat Singh Kothari, at the time of his appointment as the Chairman of Kothari Commission was the Chairman of:
Planning Commission of India
University Grants Commission
Central Bureau of Investigation
Central Board of Direct Taxes
Which of the following Commissions recommended the offering of facilities for the teaching of Sanskrit at the school and university stages?
Kothari Commission
Mudaliar Commission
National Commission of Education
Ranganathan Commission
The Secondary Education Commission was set-up under the Chairmanship of:
Daulat Singh Kothari
Dr Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
Justice PN Bhagwati
Somashekharan
The Secondary Education Commission was set-up in the year:
1948
1952
1976
2011
Mudaliar Commission was constituted on:
23 September 1952
22 July 1952
21 September 1951
23 August 1952
Three-Language Formula was suggested by:
Radhakrishnan Commission
NPE 1986
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
Mudaliar Commission proposed optional school subjects in:
5 Groups
6 Groups
7 Groups
8 Groups
What is the name of Kothari Commission Report?
Education and Development
Education and Values
Education and National Development
Education and Society
"One of the important social objectives of education is to equalize opportunity, enabling the backward or under-privileged classes and individuals to use education as a tool for improvement of their social and economic condition." Which Commission observed so?
Planning Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
Literacy Commission
"The development of Indian languages and literature is very essential for educational and cultural development. If this is not done, standards of education will not improve, and knowledge will not spread to the people." Which Commission recommended as such?
Law Commission
University Grants Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
In view of Kothari Commission, the duration of the first degree course should not be:
Less than three years
Less than two years
Less than four years
Less than five years
"Post-graduate courses in education should be flexible and planned to promote an academic and scientific study of education and to prepare personnel for special fields of education, requiring special knowledge." Which Commission recommended as such?
Planning Commission of India
Kothari Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Which Commission recommended the establishment in non-Hindi States, of colleges and other institutions of higher education, which use Hindi as the medium of education, should be encouraged?
Planning Commission of India
Knowledge Commission
Union Public Service Commission
Kothari Commission
The formation of which association was recommended by Kothari Commission to stimulate experimentation and upgrading of curricula:
Subject Teachers Associations
Students’ Associations
Sports Associations
Debating Society Associations
There should be the introduction of vocational subjects for meeting the increasing needs of technical personnel in:
Industrial sector
Agricultural sector
Trading sector
All of the above
"The Government of India should lay down minimum scales of pay for teachers and assist the States and Union Territories to adopt equivalent or higher scales to suit their conditions." Which Commission recommended so?
Planning Commission of India
Kothari Commission
Union Public Service Commission
Ranganathan Commission
"Language is a factor for social and national integration; hence, suitable provisions should be made for teaching mother tongue, Hindi, and other modern Indian languages in schools." Which Commission recommended so?
Kothari Commission
Mudaliar Commission
National Commission of Education
Ranganathan Commission
In whose view, "the educational system has been training young persons so far mostly for government services and the so-called white-collar professions?"
Kothari Commission
National Commission for Backward Classes
National Commission of Education
Ranganathan Commission
Who recommended the appointment of the Secondary Education Commission in 1952?
Central Board of Secondary Education
NCERT
University Grants Commission
Central Advisory Board of Education
Which Commission recommended that "all the States should provide special facilities for agricultural education in rural schools and such courses should include horticulture, animal husbandry, and cottage industry?"
Planning Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
Literacy Commission
"Apprenticeship training being important, suitable legislation should be passed making it obligatory for the industry to afford facilities to students for practical training." Which Commission recommended so?
Mudaliar Commission
Justice Varma Commission
Justice Shah Commission
University Grants Commission
Which cess was recommended to be levied by the Mudaliar Commission, the proceeds of which could be used for the furtherance of technical education?
Technology Advancement Cess
Industrial Education Cess
Industrial Advancement Cess
Industrial Revolution Cess
Which Commission recommended the provision of special facilities for the study of Home Science in all girls’ schools and in co-educational or mixed schools?
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
Union Public Service Commission
Ranganathan Commission
According to Mudaliar Commission, the secondary education should be freed from purely theoretical education system and there should be stress on:
Agricultural education
Technical education
Commercial education
All of the above
"The secondary school should aim at training students who will be able to assume responsibility in social, political, industrial, and cultural fields." Which Commission viewed as such?
Radhakrishnan Commission
Union Public Service Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
"The teachers should endeavour to create in the students a genuine attachment to work and a desire to do it as efficiently, honestly, and thoroughly as possible." Which Commission viewed as such?
Planning Commission of India
Kothari Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
Mudaliar Commission
"The emphasis in teaching should shift from verbalism and memorization to learning through purposeful, concrete, and realistic situations." Which body said so?
University Grants Commission
Kothari Commission
Mudaliar Commission
NCERT
"Teaching methods should aim less at imparting the maximum quantum of knowledge possible and more on training students in the techniques of study and methods of acquiring knowledge through personal efforts and initiative." Which Commission recommended as such?
Law Commission
University Grants Commission
Mudaliar Commission
Kothari Commission
According to National Policy on Education 2020, which language will be mainstreamed as one of the language options in the three-language formula as well as in higher education?
Sanskrit
Marathi
Urdu
Tamil
In June 2017, a Committee for the Draft National Education Policy was constituted under the Chairmanship of:
Dr Ranganathan
Bimal Jalan
Dr Kasturiranga
Bhure Lal
Which education policy aims at multidisciplinary and a holistic education across the sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, and sports for a multidisciplinary world in order to ensure the unity and integrity of all knowledge?
National Policy on Education 1968
National Policy on Education 1986
National Policy on Education 2020
Revised Policy on Education
In view of which policy, "The ability to read and write, and perform basic operations with numbers, is a necessary foundation and an indispensable prerequisite for all future schooling and lifelong learning."
National Policy on Education 1968
National Policy on Education 1986
National Policy on Education 2020
Revised Policy on Education
According to National Policy on Education 2020, the key overall thrust of curriculum and pedagogy reform across all stages will be to move the education system towards real understanding and away from the culture of:
Mental growth
Rote learning
All-round development
Imbibing values
According to National Policy on Education 2020, the teaching of all languages will be enhanced through:
Experiential methods
Rote learning
Teacher-centred method
Memorization
The key goals enunciated by the National Education Policy 2020 include:
Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary learning
Holistic curriculum and skill enhancement
Research and adoption of appropriate pedagogies
All of the above
A quality higher education must enable:
Personal accomplishment and enlightenment
Constructive public engagement
Productive contribution to the society
All of the above
Which education policy aims to establish Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) to digitally store the academic credits earned from various recognized higher education institutes?
National Policy on Education 1968
National Policy on Education 1986
National Policy on Education 2020
Revised Policy on Education of 1992
Which vocational knowledge developed in India will be made accessible to students through integration into vocational education courses?
Lok Vidya
Lok Pal
Lok Hitam
Samanvay
Which ministry will constitute a National Committee for the Integration of Vocational Education (NCIVE), consisting of experts in vocational education and representatives from across Ministries, in collaboration with industry?
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Ministry of Human Resource and Development
Ministry of Mines
Stand-alone agricultural universities, legal universities, health science universities, technical universities, and stand-alone institutions in other fields, shall aim to become multidisciplinary institutions offering:
Holistic education
Multidisciplinary education
Both 'a' and 'b' above
Neither 'a' nor 'b'
In view of National Policy on Education 2020, the capacity and quality of agriculture and allied disciplines must be improved in order to increase agricultural productivity through:
Skilled graduates and technicians
Innovative research
Market-based extension linked to technologies and practices
All of the above
What is the other name of Content Theories?
Needs Theory
Want Theory
Desire Theory
Demand Theory
Which of the following needs includes the needs such as food and water?
Ego and esteem needs
Safety needs
Physiological needs
Social needs
Which of the following needs include a desire for security, stability, dependency, protection, freedom from fear and anxiety, and a need for structure, order, and law?
Safety needs
Physiological needs
Social needs
Ego and esteem needs
Which of the following needs include the need for belongingness and love?
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Ego and esteem needs
Social needs
Which of the following needs include the desire for self-respect, self-esteem, and the esteem of others?
Esteem needs
Physiological needs
Social needs
Safety needs
What of the following refers to the needs that sustain life such as food and water, as well as such work-related needs as pay, fringe benefits, and working conditions?
Relatedness
Existence
Growth
Demand
How many parts is the National Education Policy Work Plan divided into?
14 parts
24 parts
22 parts
12 parts
10+2+3 Education Structure Formula was proposed by:
Secondary Education Commission
National Education Policy, 1986
Kothari Commission
Indian Education Commission
Pace Setting Schools of National Policy on Education, 1986 later became known as:
Navodaya Schools
Kasturba Gandhi Schools
Ashram Schools
Model Schools
Which Article of the Constitution provides for Education for All?
Article 29
Article 45
Articles 14 and 15
Article 46
New Hygiene Theory in 1966 was developed by:
Fredric Herzberg
Huge
Ross
Nelson
Which theory attempts to explain those specific things, which actually motivate the individual at work?
Content Theory
Want Theory
Desire Theory
Demand Theory
Who introduced his theory based on personal judgement, which was generally known as the need hierarchy theory?
Edward Sapir
Gollnick & Chinn
Abraham Maslow
B Bloch
"If people grew in an environment in which their needs are not met, they are unlikely to function as healthy individuals or well-adjusted individuals." Who said so?
Charles Spearman
Frans Johansson
Abraham Maslow
Terman and Oden
The desire for reputation, prestige, status, fame, glory, dominance, recognition, attention, importance, and appreciation are the examples of:
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Ego and esteem needs
Social needs
The need for self-realization, continuous self-development, and the process of becoming all that a person is capable of becoming come under:
Self-actualization needs
Physiological needs
Social needs
Safety needs
Which need refers to the notion of getting ahead and succeeding?
Self-actualization needs
Need for achievement
Social needs
Need for affiliation
In whose view, "individuals who have high needs for achievement will tend to engage in competitive activities in order to fulfill this desire?"
John Brubacher
Crow and Crow
David McClelland
Kohler
The desire to be around people and be well received socially; the desire for being a member in a group and conformity refers to:
Self-actualization needs
Need for achievement
Social needs
Need for affiliation
The desire for control over others and over oneself refers to:
Self-actualization needs
Need for achievement
Need for power
Need for affiliation
The lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program and the courses offered by a school are termed as:
Curriculum
Subject
Academic discipline
Teaching
"Curriculum comprises all the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually inside or outside of the school." Whose observation is this?
Wolfgang Kohler
Kerr
Chris Argyris
Spearman
"Curriculum is the totality of experiences that pupils receive through the manifold activities that go in the school, in the classroom, library, laboratory, workshop, playground, and in the numerous informal contacts between the teachers and pupils." Which body said so?
Education Commission (1964-66)
Secondary Education Commission
University Grants Commission
Kothari Commission
"Curriculum is a tool in the hands of the artist (teacher), to mould his/her materials (students), according to his/her ideals (objectives) in his/her studio (college/school)." Who said so?
Cunningham
Herman & Dixon
Dr Howard Gardner
Longfellow
26. Curriculum should be based on the needs, interests, abilities, aptitude, and the age level of:
Teachers
Parents
Students
Administrators
According to which principle of curriculum construction, child's individual as well as the social development deserves equal attention?
Principle of utility
Principle of child centeredness
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, children should be the central figure in any scheme of curriculum construction?
Principle of utility
Principle of child centeredness
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, curriculum should not only include subjects, but they must also have practical utility for students; there should be some provision for technical and vocational education in the curriculum?
Principle of utility
Principle of child centeredness
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, the curriculum should change with the changing times and it should reveal the most recent trends in the field of education and psychology?
Principle of utility
Principle of child centeredness
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, authorities responsible for construction of curriculum should make a discreet selection of cultural elements, keeping in view their educational value and the developmental stage of pupils?
Principle of utility
Principle of conservation
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, curriculum should centre round the diverse activities of pupils and it should offer suitable activities according to the general interests and developmental stages of children?
Principle of activity centeredness
Principle of conservation
Principle of flexibility
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, curriculum should be of such nature as to accommodate the needs of different categories of pupils and it should enable them to engage in subjects and participate in activities according to their capacities and interests?
Principle of activity centeredness
Principle of conservation
Principle of variety
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, there should be provision in the curriculum to develop the creative powers of the child so that he becomes a contributing member of society?
Principle of activity centeredness
Principle of conservation
Principle of variety
Principle of creativity
According to which principle, the curriculum should not merely cater to the present needs of the child? The needs of his future life should also be taken into account:
Principle of activity centeredness
Principle of conservation
Principle of forward looking
Principle of community centeredness
According to which principle, curriculum must maintain a balance between subjects and activities, between direct and indirect experiences, between academic and vocational education, between compulsory and optional subjects, between formal and informal education, between individual and social aims of education, etc.?
Principle of balance
Principle of conservation
Principle of forward looking
Principle of community centeredness
At the primary stage while teaching science, the students should be engaged in exploratory and practical activities to acquire basic cognitive and psychomotor skills through:
Observation
Classification
Inference
All of the above
Science and social science at the primary stage in our country have been integrated as:
Environmental Studies
Business Studies
Social Studies
Environmental Laws
An approach to teaching dealing with values and creating a learning environment that enhances academic achievement and develops students’ social and relationship skills, is termed as:
Teacher-centred education
Values-based education
Learner-centred education
Vocational education
The values incorporated in a value-based curriculum may include:
Cooperation, responsibility, happiness
Simplicity, unity, peace, respect, love
Tolerance, honesty, humility, and freedom
All of the above
"The expanding knowledge and growing power must, therefore, be combined with the strengthening and deepening of the sense of social responsibility and a keener appreciation of moral and spiritual values." Which body said so?
University Grants Commission
Kothari Commission
UNESCO
NCERT
Value-based education is a process of overall personality development of a student including:
Character development
Citizenship development
Spiritual development
All of the above
"Value based education promotes a secure physical, emotional, and political locus within society; a sense of responsibility in relation to social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors, an appreciation of the importance of learning." Whose statement is this?
John Brubacher
Crow & Crow
Taylor
An educational programme which studies the population situation in the family, in the community, in the nation, and in the world, is termed as:
Population education
Values-based education
Census
Vocational education
Which kind of education enables students to be aware of the process and consequences of population growth on the quality of our lives and their environment?
Vocational education
Values-based education
Business education
Population education
"Population education is an educational programme which provides for a study of the population phenomenon so as to enable the students to make rational decisions towards problems arising out of rapid population growth." Who said so?
Edward Sapir
G Trager
B Bloch
Gopal Rao
"The concept of a National System of Education implies that, up to a given level, all students, irrespective of caste, creed, location, or sex, have access to education of a comparable quality." Which policy held this view?
National Policy on Education 1968
National Policy on Education 1986
National Policy on Education 2020
Revised Policy on Education
Which policy of education launched Operation Blackboard?
National Policy on Education 1968
National Policy on Education 1986
National Policy on Education 2020
Revised Policy on Education
"Achievers have a compelling need for personal achievement in doing the job or task, rather than for the rewards associated with it." Whose observation is this?
Wolfgang Kohler
McClelland
Chris Argyris
Spearman
Which body recommended a curriculum framework that facilitated schools and teachers to make decisions about choice of content, pedagogy, teaching-learning material, evaluation, etc. at the school level?
Mudaliar Commission
Justice Varma Commission
Justice Shah Commission
National Focus Group (NFG)
STEM education signifies the curriculum based on the four disciplines, namely:
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Science, Technology, History, and Mathematics
Science, Technology, Economics, and Mathematics
Science, Technology, English, and Mathematics
Who related job satisfaction to five factors, namely, achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility, and advancement?
Fredric Herzberg
Jean Piaget
P Murdock
Robert Smith
"The understanding of nature which science provides, and the deep harmony it unfolds, are deeply satisfying to the human mind; the power of science to transform society is immense, perhaps more than of any other activity." Whose view is this?
Dr Daulat Singh Kothari
Dr Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
CV Raman
Vikram Sarabhai
Our system of education should emphasize the development of:
Social values
Moral values
Spiritual values
All of the above
"As the political, social, and economic conditions change and new problems arise, it becomes necessary to re-examine carefully and re-state clearly the objectives which education at definite stage should keep in view." Which body stated so?
University Grants Commission
Kothari Commission
Secondary Education Commission (1952)
NCERT
In which approach of curriculum framing for social sciences, selected topics of study suitable for the age, ability, and interest of children are included in the curriculum and each topic is dealt with completely in the class where it is first introduced?
Topical approach
Concentric approach
Spiral approach
Direct approach
Which approach of curriculum framing is based upon the strategy that fosters continuous unbroken learning of the subject matter of social science through the various stages of education?
Topical approach
Concentric approach
Spiral approach
Direct approach
In which approach of curriculum framing for social sciences, the whole curriculum is spread over a number of years; a general treatment of almost all the topics is attempted at the beginning and it is developed in successive years according to the mental development of the pupil?
Topical approach
Concentric approach
Spiral approach
Direct approach
Who of the following was of the view that "humanity was born with the knowledge of everything in a natural manner?"
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Plato
Socrates
Who said, "Any knowledge gained through observation and experiment was filtered by the senses?"
Plato
Andrew Russell
Graeme Smith
Macaulay
Who of the following was of the view that "gathering knowledge was a process of gaining experience, developing upon what is already known to be true?"
Aristotle
Socrates
Macaulay
Skinner
The study of pre-historic society and the artifacts is called:
History
Economics
Geography
Archaeology
Who laid down the steps of the scientific process and attempted to unite the induction of predictions and generalizations with the deduction of experiments?
Malthus
Ibn al-Haytham
Francis Bacon
Charles Lamb
Who criticized Aristotle on the ground that deduction from first principles was impossible in reality?
Ibn Khaldun
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Socrates
Francis Bacon
Which century has the roots of most of the academic disciplines?
19
17
15
13
Discipline of Social Science aims at the development of:
Society
Living standard
Environment
All of the above
In whose view, "humanity was born with the knowledge of everything in a natural manner. Learning was a process of unlocking the memories?"
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Bovee & Thill
Who was of the view that "any knowledge gained through observation and experiment was filtered by the senses?"
Leland Brown
McFarland
Plato
Louis Allen
"Experimental knowledge was mere opinion and that pure knowledge could be advanced by deduction alone." Whose view is this?
Lion Gardiner
Earnest W. Burgess
Dobbs & Arnold
Plato
Who believed that "knowledge could only be gained by comparing it with what was already known and perceived?"
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Bottomore
"Gathering knowledge was a process of gaining experience, developing upon what is already known to be true." Who said so?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Aristotle
David Cameroon
Dr SS Mathur
Who believed that "Science required a strong hypothesis predicting certain results, derived at through observation"?
Descartes
Aristotle
Hempel
Al-Baruni
Who believed that "pure empiricists gathered important information; however, they had little idea of how to use their knowledge or advance science"?
Robert Morris
Francis Bacon
Huba and Freed
Longfellow
Who developed mathematical formulas and models to explain the unknown areas of quantum physics and cosmology?
Einstein
Hawking
Feynman
All of the above
Who attempted to explain the cosmos and epistemology by deduction?
Charles Darwin
Molly Prather
La Greca
Descartes
Who emphasized the need for both empiricism and rationalist thinking and supported carefully designed experiments?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Galileo
David Cameron
Robert Morris
Who argued, "Science was not questioning religious beliefs, such as the existence of God or the immortality of the soul?"
Arthur Fox
John Herschel
Lord Stanley
Herbert Morrison
Who viewed that "rather than attempting to doubt the existence of God, science should be used as a tool to undermine the growing trend of atheism?"
Joe Fraser
Lord Stanley
Lundberg
John Herschel
Who believed that "scientific philosophers should develop philosophical ideas, and look back at how science had developed?"
Lord Stanley
Whewell
William Wilberforce
Harrington
"The philosophers needed to take a historical view, looking at the processes that scientists already used rather than merely attempting to tell them what they should do." Who said so?
Whewell
Justice Marshall
Duncan Mitchell
Herbert Morrison
Who believed that "inductive processes could lead to absolute proof and that science could generate firm truth?"
Felisa Hilbert
Whewell
Duncan Mitchell
Herbert Morrison
Who was the first scholar to divide physics from the other field; believing that physics was very different from the other sciences?
Robert E. Park
Rokeach
Earnest W. Burgess
Pierre Duhem
Who questioned the very nature of scientific hypotheses and brought the idea of convention to the history of the philosophy of science?
Glover and Ronning
Poincare
Duncan Mitchell
Herbert Morrison
Who tried to define the boundary between science and non-science and argued that metaphysics was non-observational, and therefore could not be science?
Charles Spearman
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Fred N Kerlinger
Karl Popper
Who supported the idea of falsification, where a hypothesis must be disprovable for it to be regarded as scientific?
Karl Popper
Crow and Crow
Barbara Rosewood
Pascarella et al.
Who believed that theological, epistemological, and metaphysical questions were not falsifiable, and therefore not scientific?
Charles Spearman
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Karl Popper
Woodworth
Who is popular for his criticism of the inductive method, known as the Raven Paradox?
Cyril Burt
Hutton
Barbara Rosewood
Hempel
Who held that "any scientific finding relying upon induction could only give a probability of an answer being correct, not a black or white yes or no?"
Charles Spearman
Dabrowski
Juan Vives
Hempel
Who developed the idea that "the philosophy of science had to look at the history and evolution of science?"
Lion Gardiner
Earnest W. Burgess
Thomas Kuhn
Edwin Boring
Whose greatest contribution to the philosophy of science was the idea of paradigms and paradigm shifts?
Herman & Dixon
Dr. Howard Gardner
Thomas Kuhn
Who believed that "the scientific method was an artificial construct, and it restricted the free thought of ideas?"
Feyerabend
Woodworth and Marquis
Barbara Rosewood
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
Who, in his book Summa Theologiae, developed ideas about man and society?
Robert Morris
Robert J. Sternberg
Thomas Aquinas
Longfellow
Who attempted to explain various social phenomena and advanced the concept on human nature and behaviour?
Aristotle
Robert J. Sternberg
Socrates
Plato
Who explained that "man behaves in the same way as his society teaches him to behave; man's behaviour is the product of his society in and by which he has been trained?"
Plato
Robert J. Sternberg
Huba and Freed
MJ Levin
Who wrote the book Ethics and Politics?
Aristotle
Robert J. Sternberg
Socrates
Plato
Who was the first to relate the scientific method to the social world and coined the term sociology to explain the scientific study of human society?
Gardener
Auguste Comte
P. Murdock
Robert Smith
Auguste Comte described human society as having developed through three stages, the third of which he called:
Positive stage
Negative stage
Socialist stage
Communal stage
Who used the term politika to describe the various activities of the 'Polis' or the city-states in which they lived?
The French
The Greeks
The British
The Aryans
The first efforts in the direction of systematically studying politics was initiated by:
Robert Morris
Francis Bacon
Huba and Freed
Plato and Aristotle
In 1880, the school of political science was established at Columbia University due to the initiative of:
Leland Brown
McFarland
John W. Burgess
Louis Allen
In which year was the Johns Hopkins Historical and Political Science Association established?
1877
1866
1855
1888
In which year was the American Political Science Association established?
1909
1966
1903
1888
What ideology shifted the focus of political science from the study of political institutions to the study of day-to-day behaviour of individuals in a political society?
Liberalism
Behaviouralism
Existentialism
Marxism
Which of the following political thinkers contributed significantly through their writings and research towards the growth of the behavioural revolution in political science?
David Easton
Charles E. Merriam
Arthur Bentley
All of the above
After the Second World War and in the early fifties of the twentieth century, political science was highly influenced by sociologists like:
Tocqueville and Mosca
Max Weber
Talcott Parsons
All of the above
Which scholar first used the word 'geography' in the third century BC?
Aristotle
Eratosthenes
Socrates
Plato
Who described geography as a science dealing with areal differentiation?
Hartshorne
McFarland
John W. Burgess
Louis Allen
After World War I, English became so popular as an intellectual pursuit, due largely to the efforts of:
FR Leavis and later QD Leavis
Auguste Comte
P. Murdock
Robert Smith
"In the early 1920s, it was desperately unclear why English was worth studying at all; by the early 1930s it had become a question of why it was worth wasting your time on anything else." Who said so?
Louis Allen
Terry Eagleton
Duncan Mitchell
Herbert Morrison
Who wanted to make the people "Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste and opinion?"
Lord Macaulay
Woodworth and Marquis
Barbara Rosewood
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
In 1958, the Central Institute of English was started in:
Bhopal
Jaipur
Hyderabad
Chandigarh
Which treatise written by Sage Ved Vyas describes mathematics in the context of Triskandh Jyotish?
Baudhayana Sulv Sutra
Vedanga Jyotish
Surya Pragyapti
Narad Vishnu Puran
Baudhayana, Aapastamb, Pratyayan, Manav, Matrayan, Varah, and Bandhul, belonging to the later Vedic Age, were renowned:
Physicians
Mathematicians
Surgeons
Astrologers
In which of the following treatises did Baudhayana discuss the method of making a square equal to the difference of two squares?
Baudhayana Sulv Sutra
Vedanga Jyotish
Surya Pragyapti
Narad Vishnu Puran
Surya Pragyapti and Chandra Pragyapti are two famous Jain scriptures describing the use of:
Geography
Mathematics
Astrology
Psychology
In accordance with which of the following categories did the ancient Buddhist literature describe mathematical numbers:
Sankheya (countable)
Asankheya (uncountable)
Anant (infinite)
All of the above
Sathanang Sutra, Bhagvati Sutra, Anoyogdwar Sutra, Tatvarthaadigyam Sutra Bhashya, Omaswati, and Tiloyapannati of Aacharya (Guru) Yativirsham are famous books on:
History
Geography
Mathematics
Anthropology
Vaychali Ganit (300 BC) discusses in detail the basic calculations of mathematics, including:
Numbers based on 10, fraction, square, cube
Rule of false position and interest methods
Questions on purchase and sale
All of the above
Which treatise has mentioned five types of infinite and Anoyogdwar Sutra; four types of Pramaan (Measure) as well as permutations and combinations, which are termed as Bhang and Vikalp?
Sathanang Sutra
Vedanga Jyotish
Surya Pragyapti
Narad Vishnu Puran
The roots of Modern Algebra are contained in the book:
Vaychali Ganit
Vedanga Jyotish
Surya Pragyapti
Narad Vishnu Puran
Which book describes Isht Karma (Rule of False) as the origin and expansion of Algebra?
Sathanang Sutra
Vedanga Jyotish
Vaychali Ganit
Narad Vishnu Puran
In which year was the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIBF) established?
1918
1928
1938
1948
In which year was the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India established?
1938
1929
1949
1923
In which year was the Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) set up in Calcutta?
1953
1939
1933
1938
In the treatise titled Republic, who discusses a vision of education in which different groups of students would receive different sorts of education, depending on their abilities, interests, and stations in life?
Aristotle
Socrates
Vivekananda
Plato
Who was the first to teach logic as a formal discipline in order to be able to reason about physical events and aspects?
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who observes that "like any other social phenomena, academic disciplines do have a history?"
David Easton
Charles E. Merriam
Arthur Bentley
Kenneth Grieb
Individuals associated with academic disciplines are referred to as:
Professors
Experts or specialists
Teachers
Learners
In the 1980s, there was an explosion of academic disciplines such as:
Media studies, journalism, women’s studies, gender studies
Black studies, pollution, oceanic pollution
Hospitality management, hotel management
All of the above
"Social sciences were set up and prospered because of the political need of getting more information on the population, which could be used for more effective government and which helped to stabilize emerging political and societal structures." Who said so?
Edward Sapir
Roger
Huck and Kuhn
Gollnick & Chinn
In whose view, "Historians of science can look at the specific historical conditions that led to the foundation of an academic discipline and at how it changed over time, or in other words, its evolution?"
Kenneth Grieb
Peter Trudgill
Garry Moore
Jean Piaget
Which auxiliary discipline has focused on the poetic meters, including those based on a fixed number of syllables per verse, and those based on a fixed number of morae per verse?
Vyakarna
Chandas
Kalpa
Nirukta
Which auxiliary discipline has focused on the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, accent, quantity, stress, melody, and rules of euphonic combination of words during a Vedic recitation?
Vyakarna
Chandas
Shiksha
Nirukta
Which auxiliary discipline has focused on the rules of grammar and linguistic analysis to establish the exact form of words and sentences to properly express ideas?
Vyakarna
Chandas
Shiksha
Nirukta
Which auxiliary discipline has focused on linguistic analysis to help establish the proper meaning of the words, given the context they are used in?
Vyakarna
Chandas
Shiksha
Nirukta
Which auxiliary discipline has focused on standardizing procedures for Vedic rituals, rites of passage rituals associated with major life events such as birth, wedding, and death in family, as well as discussing the personal conduct and proper duties of an individual in different stages of his life?
Kalpa
Chandas
Shiksha
Nirukta
What are the four components of Sanskrit grammar?
Vyakarna
Chandas
Shiksha
Nirukta
