27 Aug 2024- Evening Shift- UGC NET Paper 1

Total Questions: 50

21. In an examination a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer. A student attempted all the 200 questions and scores 400 marks. The number of questions he answered correctly was:

Correct Answer: (3) 120

22. If the selling price of Rs 235 results in a discount of 6% on the marked price of an item, at what price should the item be sold to offer a discount of 15%?

Correct Answer: (3) Rs 212.5

23. One term in the number series is wrong. Find out the wrong term? 325, 259, 202, 160, 127, 105, 94

Correct Answer: (3) 202

24. Ina certain coding language, if the word ‘FLOUT is coded as ‘IIRRW", then the word ‘CLING’ will be coded as:

Correct Answer: (4) FILKJ

25. 6 Pumps, working 12 hours a day, can empty a tank in 15 days. How many hours a day must 8 pumps operate to empty the tank in, days.

Correct Answer: (e) *

26. "No one has ever been able to prove that psychic powers do not exists. Therefore it is proved that psychic powers do exist. Identify the fallacy in the above arguments.

Correct Answer: (1) Appeal to ignorance

27. Two propositions are contradictory if

A. They cannot both be true
B. Of the pair, exactly one is true and exactly one is false
C. They can both be false
D. They cannot both be false

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (4) A, B and D only

28. Which of the following statements are logically equivalent?

A. Some non-intelligent animals are non-apes
B. Some apes are not intelligent animals
C. Some apes are non - intelligent animals
D. Some non - intelligent animals are not non-apes

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (4) B, C and D only

29. Which of the following is arranged in the order of decreasing extension?

Correct Answer: (1) Mathematics, arithmetic, numbers, prime numbers

30. Which of the arguments is fallacious because the middle term is pervaded by the absence of the major term instead of its presence:

Correct Answer: (2) Sound is eternal because it is produced