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QUESTION ID:1

Good absorbers are good emitters. This statement refers to which of the following laws?

QUESTION ID:2

A sample of air has a relative humidity of 60%. Given that the Saturated Vapour Pressure of water is 2260 Pa, calculate the vapour pressure of the air at 20°C.

QUESTION ID:3

Which among the following is short-lived species in the atmosphere?

QUESTION ID:4

The chemical composition of CFC-113 is

QUESTION ID:5

Soil humic acids are

QUESTION ID:6

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are of great concern because

QUESTION ID:7

Hyperthermophilic microorganisms prefer temperatures in excess of.

QUESTION ID:8

The most toxic form of mercury in water is

QUESTION ID:9

One Dobson unit, represents the ozone layer of thickness

QUESTION ID:10

The transitional zone (ecotone) between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems is known as

QUESTION ID:11

Beside steam,next gas in order of abundance emitted from a volcanic eruption is

QUESTION ID:12

Heteromorphic rocks have

QUESTION ID:13

A rock composed entirely of crystals is said to be

QUESTION ID:14

A Si-solar cell has the minority carrier saturation current = 60 nAm² and solar radiation- induced current = 600 Am^2. If the ambient temperature is 27°C, what is the open-circuit voltage of the solar cell?

QUESTION ID:15

Which one among the following Solar Collectors has the highest Concentration Ratio or CR value (a measure of the efficiency of the Solar Collectors)

QUESTION ID:16

The fast neutrons produced in the process of nuclear fission of 235U, have an average energy of about

QUESTION ID:17

A small hydropower station based on the conversion of the kinetic energy of a river water generates power. If the flow of water is 10 m³s ¹and the speed of water is 3 ms¹, what is the maximum power the station can generate? (Assume efficiency of the power station to be 0.6)

QUESTION ID:18

The maximum cross-section for the fusion reaction 2H + 3H is reached at energies of nuclei at

QUESTION ID:19

According to National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the annual limits for PM10 and PM2.5 in ecologically sensitive areas (in µg/m³) are

QUESTION ID:20

At 1 atm pressure and 25°C temperature, NO2 concentration of 80 ppb is equivalent to

QUESTION ID:21

What is the sound pressure level (in dB) associated with a root mean square pressure of 100 Pa?

QUESTION ID:22

In the 'A' weighting network used in noise measurements, sounds of which of the following frequencies would require the least correction?

QUESTION ID:23

A N-fixing actinomycete associated with higher plants is:

QUESTION ID:24

Basel convention (1989) was designed to:

QUESTION ID:25

Which of the following is NOT an epigeic earthworm species?

QUESTION ID:26

Which among the following is the major product of slow pyrolysis of biomass?

QUESTION ID:27

Which of the following are the dominant products of anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste?

QUESTION ID:28

The Environmental Relief fund was created under:

QUESTION ID:29

Which one of the categories of development projects does NOT require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report?

QUESTION ID:30

According to Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, a landfill site should be at a distance of how many meters away from a pond?

QUESTION ID:31

In an objective type examination, hundred questions are given. One mark is given for each correct answer while 0.2 marks are deducted for each incorrect answer. The number of marks scored by students appearing in the examination is an example of:

QUESTION ID:32

If the mean of two groups of 'm' and 'n' observations are 40 and 60 respectively, and the combined mean of two groups is 48, the ratio m:n is

QUESTION ID:33

Which of the following is a correct statement regarding range as a measure of dispersion?

QUESTION ID:34

If Σx = 230,Σx²=6500 and the numbers of observations N=10, the value of standard deviation is

QUESTION ID:35

Which of the following does NOT fall under the major goals of the National Mission for Green India?

QUESTION ID:36

Under the GRIHA Rating Norms, a building securing 57 points on a 100 point scale, will be assigned which of the following star ratings?

QUESTION ID:37

The Brundtland Commission Report was entitled

QUESTION ID:38

Following are the examples of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
A. Dioxin
B. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
C. Poly Chlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs)
C. Furans
E. Organochlorine pesticides
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

QUESTION ID:39

Consider the following statements regarding the solubility of gases in water
A. The concentration of a dissolved gas in water is proportional to its partial pressure in the air
B. The solubility of a gas in water remains unaffected as other dissolved material in it increases
C. The solubility of a gas increases as temperature increases
D. The solubility of gases in water is governed by Henry's law
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QUESTION ID:40

Consider the following statement regarding ex-situ bioremediation of contaminated soil:
A. Bioremediation techniques can be applied at or very near the site of contamination.
B. Biopiles and windrow composting are the most dominant ex-situ bioremediation techniques for treating contaminated soils.
C. Biopiles can be formed with larger volumes of soil than windrows.
D. Both biopiles and windrow composting are anaerobic processes.
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QUESTION ID:41

Diesel Exhaust Particles (DEP), known to manifest asthma-like features, are responsible for
A. Chronic airway inflammation
B. Mucus hypersecretion
C. Airway expansion
D. Marked infiltration of eosinophils
E. Airway hyperresponsiveness
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QUESTION ID:42

Consider the following statements regarding the phytoremediation of metal contaminated sites:
A. Natural abilities of certain plant species are utilized to remove or stabilize toxic metals.
B. Certain species termed hyperaccumulators can adsorb 50-100 times larger amounts of metals compared to most ordinary plants.
C. The best candidates for removal by phytoremediation are arsenic and cadmium
D. The harvested hyperaccumulating plants can be recycled in agriculture
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QUESTION ID:43

Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Many bacteria carry plasmids, which are much smaller pieces of DNA, also circular, and self- replicating.
Statement II: Plasmids are vitally important in the context of the environmental biotechnology in that they frequently carry the genes for degradative pathways.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below : 

QUESTION ID:44

In case all the girls in the department 'A' donated blood, then the number of boys in the department 'A' who did not participate in the blood donation camp is

QUESTION ID:45

The number of students who donated blood in the department 'C' is

QUESTION ID:46

If 45 boys from the department 'B' did not donate blood, then the total number of students in the department 'B' is

QUESTION ID:47

What is the ratio of the number of blood donors in the department 'A' compared to the number of blood donors in 'B'?

QUESTION ID:48

If your students are identified as 'Unable but willing' in terms of their performance readiness level, which of the following methods of teaching will be considered appropriate to deal with them?

QUESTION ID:49

Identify from the following list of competencies of teaching, those which are related to personality and attitude
Managing
Monitoring
Locus of control
Planning
Self-efficacy
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QUESTION ID:50

QUESTION ID:51

Given below are two statements
Statement I: ICT based 'teaching support system' has the potential to optimize learning
outcomes
Statement II: Recent research have reported that factors relating to social competence contribute more to learning than mere cognitive intelligence does
In light of the above statements,choose the most appropriate answer from the options given
below

QUESTION ID:52

A university teacher proposes a research project on 'why parents are apathetic to the university programmes'. Which of the following research methods will be most appropriate for the project?

QUESTION ID:53

In which level of teaching there is optimum scope for cognitive interchange requiring analysis and synthesis?

QUESTION ID:54

Given below are two statements
Statement I: Reliability is a necessary but insufficient condition for validity aspect of a research
tool
Statement II: Validity is threatened when a test measures only the construct it is designed to measure in a research
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given
below

QUESTION ID:55

Identify the features of scientific method from the following list
Clearly defined variables and procedures
Empirically verifiable hypotheses
Little or no scope for self correction
Linguistic justification of conclusions
Ability to rule out rival hypotheses
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QUESTION ID:56

From the point of view of research ethics which of the following is least vulnerable in research?

QUESTION ID:57

Which of the following sampling methods in research are non-probability based?
Cluster sampling method
Dimensional sampling method
Random sampling method
judgement sampling method
Snowball sampling method
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QUESTION ID:58

Communication stimuli used to convey the message are known as

QUESTION ID:59

Communication activities of learners fall into domains consisting of
Perception
Groupism
Inter-personal skills
Regressive behavior
Inter- personal relations 
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QUESTION ID:60

Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as
Reason R
Assertion A: New media enhance the opportunities to expand the learning environment unheard of before
Reason R: Learners can design their own learning process
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:61

The sequence of elements in linear model of communication is
Message
Decoder
Encoder
Medium
Noise
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QUESTION ID:62

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QUESTION ID:63

A train is travelling at a speed of 96 kilometres per hour. It takes 3 seconds to enter a tunnel and 30 seconds more to pass through it completely. Which of the following statements are correct?
Length of the tunnel is 100 meters
Tunnel is longer than train
Train is longer than tunnel
Length of the train is 80 meters
Length of the tunnel in 800 meters
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QUESTION ID:64

The difference between the ages of two men is 10 years. 15 years ago, the elder one was twice as old as the younger one. The present age of the elder man is

QUESTION ID:65

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QUESTION ID:66

Given below are two statements
Statement I: A number is divisible by 25, if the number formed by its last two digits is either (00) or divisible by (25)
Statement II: A number is divisible by 16, if the number formed by its last 4 digits is divisible
by 16
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:67

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QUESTION ID:68

All flowers are toys. Some toys are trees. Some butterflies are trees, then
No butterfly is flower
Some butterflies are toys
Some toys are flowers
Some trees are flowers
Some trees are butterflies
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QUESTION ID:69

"Wherever there is smoke, there is fire.
There is smoke in Mr Verma's chamber.
There must be fire in Mr Verma's chamber."
In accordance with Indian logic, this is an example of

QUESTION ID:70

In order to authenticate the environmental values as advocated by our ancestors, a scholar cites examples from Vedas. The means of knowledge used by him/her in terms of Indian logic will be called

QUESTION ID:71

In the series B, D, H, J, N, P, ... What will come after P?

QUESTION ID:72

If LIGHT is written as GILTH and FIGHT is written as GIFTH, then SIGHT will be written as

QUESTION ID:73

GUI stands for

QUESTION ID:74

Given below are two statements
Statement I: Operating systems are hardware
Statement II: Algorithm is a step by step procedure to solve a problem
In light of the above statements,choose the correct answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:75

Given below are two statements
Statement I: Compilers are software
Statement II: Touch screen monitors are input/output devices
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:76

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QUESTION ID:77

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QUESTION ID:78

Identify the correct sequence of countries contributing to global CO2 emission in decreasing order from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacturing and gas flaring in the year 2014
USA
EU-28
China
Russia
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QUESTION ID:79

Which among the following are used as semiconductor materials to fabricate solar cells
Silicon (Si)
Tin oxide (SnO)
Cadmium Sulphide (CDS)
Gallium Arsenide (GaAs)
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QUESTION ID:80

Which of the following is not a Sustainable Development Goal?

QUESTION ID:81

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QUESTION ID:82

Which among the following are emitted from a coal-based thermal power plant?
Carbon monoxide
Ozone
Sulphur dioxide
Methane
Particulate matter
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QUESTION ID:83

Given below are two statements
Statement I: The three greatest challenges facing higher education in India, described by FICCI (2012) are expansion, equity and excellence
Statement II: While all three issues indicated in Statement I are inter-linked, equity to a large extent is dependent on expansion and access
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:84

Which of the following are regulatory bodies within the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the Central Government?
NUEPA
UGC
AICTE
DEC
ICSSR
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QUESTION ID:85

Identify from the following, features which describe most appropriately the Indian values
Emphasis on individual ambition
Emphasis on collectivism
Emphasis on social progress
Emphasis on social stability
Emphasis on unity in diversity
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QUESTION ID:86

Given below are two statements
Statement I: The UGC in India has statutory responsibility for maintenance of quality and coordination of institutions of higher education
Statement II: The NCTE being a regulatory body for teacher education in India comes under the control of UGC
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

QUESTION ID:87

In university governance, who is the executive head?

QUESTION ID:88

Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
At the turn of the century, a dominant conception of the child as learner was that he was cognitively an "empty organism" responding more or less randomly to stimulation, and characteristically learning when specific responses were connected with specific stimuli through the meditation of pleasure or pain. The organism itself, it was believed, would do nothing to learn or think if it were not impelled to such activity by primary drives like hunger or thirst or by externally applied motives like reward and punishment. Experimenters in the laboratory were connecting correct responses of animals to puzzle boxes by giving or withholding food and teachers in the classroom were connecting correct responses of children to problem cards by giving or withholding approval.
In pointing to this aspect of the turn-of-the-century view of the learner, I do not mean to derogate the historic achievement of the connectionist formulation of learning. But the essential point remains, a conception of the learner as an ideationally empty organism associating discrete stimuli and responses through the operation of rewards and punishments under the control of the teacher. Both the stimulus - what was supposed to be learned - and the response - what was actually learned - were believed to be determined by the teacher.
It was no accident that the materials and methods of instruction and the form of the classroom were teacher-centred. The teacher was necessarily placed in front of the classroom - sometimes on a dais or platform - and the pupils in chairs rigidly fastened to the floor in straight rows facing forward so they would not turn away from the only source of the learning experience: the teacher. Given this contemporary vision of the learner, what could be a more eminently practical and sensible image of the ideal learning environment? Indeed, there is a letter by John Dewey dating from this period in which he complains that when he was trying to equip his new school according to his different conception of child as learner, he was unable to find any other kind of classroom furniture.
The early child was thought of as

QUESTION ID:89

The basic idea behind laboratory experiment was related to

QUESTION ID:90

What was expected of pupils during those early days?