Department : Kerala Higher Secondary Education
Category Code : 338/17
Qualification : Master's Degree in the concerned subject
Question Paper : 12/2018
Date of Test : 22-01-2018
- Real world situations and simulation can be effectively brought in to the classroom by
- charts
- models
- multimedia
- graphic aids
- Project method is given more importance in effective learning as it
- develops interest towards learning
- teacher directs students in learning
- make the students learn by doing
- make the students involved in observation
- Bringing teacher to the virtual classroom is through
- internet
- e-learning
- website
- Process aspect of educational technology deals with
- theories
- practicals
- audio-visual aids
- assignments
- One of the psychological principle related to programmed learning is
- motivation
- reinforcement
- feedback
- retention
- Performance assessment in teaching and learning can be done through
- inventories
- achievement tests
- awareness tests
- skill tests
- Among the following which is not included in longitudinal survey?
- case study
- panel study
- trend study
- cohort study
- Reasoning is one of the characteristics of
- activity method
- heuristic method
- historical method
- problem solving method
- Research design which enables the experimenter to evaluate or manipulate two or more variables simultaneously is
- parallel group design
- factorial design
- case study design
- counterbalanced design
- Data represented through portion of a circle is called
- histogram
- pie diagram
- ogive
- frequency polygon
- In India the Planning Commission was set up in the year
- 1948
- 1949
- 1950
- 1951
- The Article of the Indian Constitution deals with Public Interest Litigation
- 226
- 300
- 360
- 370
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- Which of the following taxes in India is collected by Panchayats?
- Land Revenue
- GST
- Sales Tax
- Tax on Local Fairs
- A dispute relating to the election of the Vice-President in India is decided by the
- Parliament
- Supreme Court
- President
- High Court
- The Article of the Indian Constitution deals with Union Public Service Commission
- 280
- 300
- 311
- 315
- Earth Day Observed on
- March 22
- March 28
- April 22
- April 28
- When was the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) Scheme Launched?
- Jan 2000
- May 2000
- July 2000
- Dec 2000
- The book ‘Half Earth: Our Plant's Fight for Life’written by
- Edward O Wilson
- Rachel Carson
- Peter Matthiessen
- Graham Matthews
- Tiger Survey related with the emblem of
- Agmark
- Pugmark
- Claw mark
- FPO mark
- Bill on Protection of Women on Domestic Violence was passed in the year
- 2006
- 2008
- 2010
- 2012
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- Who among the following economists emphasized the role of non-economic factors in explaining growth?
- R.M. Solow
- Dusenberry
- N. Kaldor
- Harrod
- For a linear demand curve, which of the following is true?
- Elasticity of demand is unity at all points.
- Elasticity of demand is constant at all points.
- Elasticity increases as one slides down the demand curve.
- Elasticity declines as one slides down the demand curve.
- Hedging in the foreign exchange market refers to :
- An act of devaluation
- Not covering a risk of foreign exchange in future
- Covering a risk of foreign exchange in future
- None of these
- New Trade Policy 2015-20 has introduced a new scheme which is called
- Merchandise Export from India Scheme
- Export from India Scheme
- Merchandise Trade from India Scheme
- Trade from India Scheme
- Inclusive growth objective was given for the first time in which Plan of India?
- 9th Five Year Plan
- 10th Five Year Plan
- 11th Five Year Plan
- 12th Five Year Plan
- Type-I error is defined as :
- Reject Null-hypothesis when it is false
- Reject Null-hypothesis when it is true
- Accept Null-hypothesis when it is true
- Accept Null-hypothesis when it is false
- Labour market reforms aim at :
- Job security
- Minimum wage
- Labour market flexibility
- Employment insurance
- Which of the following is credited with introduction of LPG model of economic development in India
- Dr. C Rangarajan
- Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
- Dr. Amartya Sen
- Dr. Manmohan Singh
- Philips curve sets up a relation between
- Taxes and inflation
- Inflation and unemployment
- Money Supply and aggregate demand
- Price and cost of production
- If Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) is equal to Average Propensity to consume (APC) for all levels of income, the correct corresponding consumption (c) function will be
- C = a + bY
- C = a + b/Y
- C = bY
- C = bY2
- The relationship between aggregate saving and income is known as
- Saving function
- Demand Function
- Supply function
- Consumption function
- The properties of General Equilibrium state are called
- Efficiency
- Pareto efficiency
- Property efficiency
- Accuracy
- The negative of the slope of the PPC is called
- MRPT
- MRPS
- Negative productivity
- disinvestment
- The new share price Index of Mumbai Share Market is
- DOLEX
- UREX
- FOREX
- SENSEX
- Who developed Kinked Demand Curve Model?
- Samuelson
- Paul Sweezy
- Mahalanobis
- Marshall
- A market in which there is only one seller and only one buyer is called
- Duopoly
- bilateral monopoly
- monopsony
- oligopoly
- A producer cannot cross the iso-cost line because of
- fixed outlay
- entire outlay
- price
- none of these
- Who is the founder of behaviouralistic theories?
- Bain
- Cyert and March
- Modigliani
- Karl Marx
- Gilt edged market means
- bullion market
- market of government securities
- market of guns
- market of pure metals
- A mathematical expression showing the relationship between volume of output and its total cost of production is called
- cost-function
- price-function
- demand function
- supply function
- In the Keynesian Model of aggregate expenditure, real GDP is determined by the
- Level of taxes
- Level of aggregate demand
- Price level
- Level of aggregate supply
- An increase in expected future income
- shifts the saving function upward
- decreases consumption expenditure
- increases saving
- shifts the consumption function upward
- If the marginal propensity to save is 0.6, then the Marginal Propensity to consume Is
- 1.0
- 0.4
- 0.6
- not determinable
- When the consumption function becomes steeper,
- the saving function also become steeper
- the MPC falls
- the MPC rises
- loss of every dollar is consumed
- The only way to increase the output of one good is to reduce the output of another. This allocation of inputs is said to be :
- Consumption efficient
- Production efficient
- Economic efficient
- None of these
- A good for which consumption falls as an individual's income rises
- inferior good
- consumption good
- durable good
- non-durable good
- The increase in consumption brought about by a increase in income, when the prices of goods are held constant
- substitution effect
- income effect
- price effect
- none of these
- A curve that describes the relationship between the quantity of a good consumed and income
- Kinked curve
- Engel curve
- Demand curve
- None of these
- A form of implicit collusion, where one firm in the market sets the price and other firms follow suit
- cartel
- giffen good
- price leadership
- price taker
- A form of intertemporal price discrimination in which peak users pay more than off-peak users because marginal cost is higher during peak periods
- Peak-load pricing
- peak-load effect
- peak-load consumption
- none of these
- Segmented labour markets imply : ........//Which of the following is incorrect?
- labour discrimination
- Labour paid wage less than MRP
- MP theory of wage fails to determine market outcomes
- Equality of wages of different types of labour
- In India those farmers are called 'Marginal Farmers' who hold land upto :
- 1 hectare
- 2 hectares
- 3 hectares
- 4 hectares
- Which of the following is not related to 'empowerment of women'?
- Gender Development Index
- Gender Empowerment Measure
- Gender Budgeting
- Gender discrimination
- The agricultural census is done at which one of the following intervals?
- once in five years
- every year
- once in ten years
- twice
- The maximum amount that a customer is willing to pay for a good
- real price
- reservation price
- marginal price
- absolute price
- Tobin tax is a tax on :
- transactions in the share market
- transactions in the money market
- transactions in the commodity market
- transactions in the foreign exchange market
- The discriminating monopolist will charge a higher price in the market in which the price elasticity of :
- demand is smaller
- supply is smaller
- demand is greater
- supply is greater
- A model of oligopoly in which one firm sets output before the other firms do
- strategic model
- stackelberg model
- suspense model
- duopoly
- An expenditure that has already been made and cannot be recovered
- fixed cost
- sunk cost
- variable cost
- real cost
- Dividing consumers into two or more groups with different demands for a product in order to charge different prices to each group
- first degree price discrimination
- second degree price discrimination
- third degree price discrimination
- none of these
- A market with few producers in the Industry
- Oligopoly
- Monopsony
- Duopoly
- Cartel
- In case of deficit budget, when the deficits are covered through taxes, that budget is called :
- surplus budget
- balanced budget
- unbalanced budget
- none of these
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- The WTO was founded in
- 1995
- 1998
- 2000
- 1996
- Privatisation of the public sector enterprises by selling off part of the equity of PSEs to the public is known as
- disinvestment
- equity share
- profit
- dividend
- Which have been removed to increase the competitive position of Indian goods in the international markets?
- Import duties
- Export duties
- Tariffs
- Quota
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- Which is the term used to refer the relationship between human beings and their physical environment?
- Human physiology
- Human ecology
- Human environment
- None of these
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- The standard of living is often measured by
- Real GDP per capita
- Real GDP
- Real GDP population
- Real GDP plus depreciation
- The Gini Coefficient measures
- Income inequality
- Inflation
- Unemployment
- Economic growth
- The year in which Burgress and Park developed their theory of urban ecology
- 1925
- 1935
- 1915
- none of these
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- The movement of people from central cities to smaller communities in the surrounding areas is known as
- Reverse migration
- Under urbanization
- Suburbanisation
- Over-urbanisation
Question error
- The gendering of World Politics is seen in which areas?
- Prostitution and human trafficking
- Civil wars and refugee flows
- Trade and development
- All the options given are correct
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- The period of the business cycle in which real GDP is increasing is called the :
- expansion
- peak
- recession
- depression
- A type of unemployment in which workers are in between jobs or are searching for new and better jobs is called
- Frictional unemployment
- Cyclical unemployment
- Structural unemployment
- Turnover
- Which of the following is a "loser" from unexpected inflation?
- Workers with COLAs
- people who own treasury Bills
- the middle class
- people who own homes and have fixed rate martgages
- The largest transfer in the federal budget is :
- defense
- education
- Social security
- Welfare
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- The Philips curve describes the relationship between :
- the federal budget deficit and the trade deficit
- savings and investment
- the unemployment rate and the inflation rate
- marginal taxes rates and tax revenues
- According to the monetarists, in the long-run, the Phillips curve is
- vertical
- horizontal
- downward sloping
- upward-sloping
- Who has given the concept of urban fringe?
- M.N. Srinivas
- K.M. Kapadia
- S.C. Dube
- None of these
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- Who introduced the concept of Gesellschalt?
- George Simmel
- Durkheim
- Tonnies
- None of these
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- What is "double burden"?
- It refers to the disproportionate share of housework done by women
- It dates to the 17th century
- It is rooted in gendered conceptions of the distinction between public and private life
- All of these are correct
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- What is the gendered division of labour?
- It is based on gender-structured conceptions of appropriate work
- It has led to an increase in women's consumption worldwide.
- It negates the 'double burden'
- none of the answers given are correct
- What is the impact of globalization?
- It has created new areas of women's advancement
- It has led to new challenges and dangers for women
- It has not changed the fundamental inequality of gender-relationships in the world enough
- all of these are correct
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- Who developed concentric-zone theory of city?
- Louis Wirth
- E. Burgess
- M.N. Srinivas
- M.S.A. Rao
Question error
- Which of the following is a stage within the 'product life cycle'?
- Maturity
- Profitability
- Abandonment
- Regeneration
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- An organisation's equal opportunities policy should be concerned with which of the following?
- Age discrimination
- Opportunity cost
- Globalisation of supply
- the balanced scorecard
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- Which of the following describes an economic market that is controlled by two main suppliers?
- Monopoly
- Price discrimination
- Duopoly
- Perfect competition
- Which of the following explains how a Public sector organization obtains its Funds?
- from direct and indirect taxes
- from money invested by shareholders
- from donations made by the public
- from sales in overseas markets
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- 'Dynamic inefficiency' in the context of a model of economic growth means
- the economy's output per unit labour is below its steady-state value
- the economy's unemployment rate is too high
- the economy's steady state is not at the golden-rule steady-state
- none of the answers are correct
- 'Capital Widening' refers to that part of investment needed to
- increase the capital per unit effective labour ratio
- replace capital that has depreciate
- equip new units of effective workers at the same capital per unit effective labour ratio
- all of these
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- A 'PEST' analysis is conducted on which of the following of an organisation's environments?
- Internal environment
- Market environment
- Historical environment
- Macro environment
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- Which one is not related with swadeshabhimani K Ramakrishnapillai?
- Kerala Pathrika
- Keralan
- Sarada
- Deshabhimani
- Former wrestling star Battulga Khaltmaa has won the Presidential election of _____ .
- Philippines
- Mangolia
- Indonesia
- Thailand
- ________ has been described India's first world heritage city.
- Ahmedabad
- Mysore
- Delhi
- Jaipur
- Which one is the first important programme of "Sahodara Sangam"?
- Misra Vivaham
- Eradication of superstition
- Negation of religion
- Misrabhojanam
- Who started the Malayalam newspaper "Paschima Tharaka"?
- Devji Bheemji
- Benjamin Bailey
- Herman Gundert
- Kandathil Vargeese Mappila
- Which one is the first Malayalam drama?
- Chandra Mukhee Vilasam
- Subadrarjanam
- Keraleeya Bhasha Shakunthalam
- Sadaraama
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- ________ has historically been the gateway for invasions of the Indian subcontinent from the
North West.
- Khyber pass
- Shipkhila pass
- Nathoola pass
- Bara Lacha pass
- ________ has become the first country in the world to prohibit deforestation
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Denmark
- Latvia
- 'Lavani' is the most popular form of dance in the state of __
- Manipur
- Mizoram
- Maharashtra
- Meghalaya
- Thiruvananthapuram Public Library was established during the reign of____
- Marthandavarma
- Gouri Lakshmi Bhai
- Swathi Thirunal
- Dharma Raja
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