1. Comprehension Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions 12 to 17 : James Madison said, “A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power that knowledge gives.” In India, the Official Secrets Act, 1923 was a convenient smokescreen to deny members of the public access to information. Public functioning has traditionally been shrouded in secrecy. But in a democracy in which people govern themselves, it is necessary to have more openness. In the maturing of our democracy, right to information is a major step forward; it enables citizens to participate fully in the decisionmaking process that affects their lives so profoundly. It is in this context that the address of the Prime Minister in the Lok Sabha is significant. He said, “I would only like to see that everyone, particularly our civil servants, should see the Bill in a positive spirit; not as a draconian law for paralyzing Government, but as an instrument for improving Government-Citizen interface resulting in a friendly, caring and effective Government functioning for the good of our People.” He further said, “This is an innovative Bill, where there will be scope to review its functioning as we gain experience. Therefore, this is a piece of legislation, whose working will be kept under constant reviews.” The Commission, in its Report, has dealt with the application of the Right to Information in Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. The judiciary could be a pioneer in implementing the Act in letter and spirit because much of the work that the Judiciary does is open to public scrutiny, Government of India has sanctioned an e-governance project in the Judiciary for about ` 700 crores which would bring about systematic classification, standardization and categorization of records. This would help the judiciary to fulfil its mandate under the Act. Similar capacity building would be required in all other public authorities. The transformation from nontransparency to transparency and public accountability is the responsibility of all three organs of State.
12. A person gets power

2. Suppose the concentration of Carbondioxide, a greenhouse gas responsible for climate change, is 400 ppm. What is its concentration in air in percentage terms?

3. In experimental research based studies the observations derived from which of the following variables are considered for statistical analysis?

4. Biomass fuels have the potential to form a sustainable carbon-neutral energy source because they :

5. Two propositions are contradictory when,

6. Research ethics do not include

7. In which type of qualitative research designs, individual stories to describe the lives of people are explored?

8. Which of the following rights was considered the “Heart and Soul” of the Indian Constitution by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar?

9. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
34. ERIC, MEDLINE and ABI/INFORM are instance of

10. You need to use automatic calculations in preparing a budget. Which software application should be used?

11. The compound interest on a certain sum of money of 3 years at the rate of 10% per annum is Rs. 96.00. The simple interest on the same sum at the rate of 8% per annum for 4 year would be equal to which of the following?

12. The first multi-lingual news agency of India was

13. Which among the following bases can be counted to judge the effectiveness of teaching?
1. Mark subtained by students in overall subjects
2. Level of realization of instructional objectives
3. Time taken by the students to learn
4. Resources used by the teacher in teaching
5. Regularity of students in class Select your answer from the options given below:

14. Some of the barriers to effective communication are
(A) Polysemy
(B) Simple language
(C) Use of Cliche’s
(D) Easy construction of sentences Choose the correct answer fromt the codes given below:

15. Which one of the following conferences / summit is also known as UN Conference on Sustainble Development (UNCSD)?

16. A person can enjoy teaching as a profession when he

17. Which statement is true about Random Access Memory (RAM) in a computer system?

18. International Computer Security Day is observed on :

19. Which stage in research creates a working thesis for the research paper by specifying and organizing the category of information?

20. The main purpose of using ICT for classroom teaching is to :

21. Which of the following is a source of emissions leading to the eventual formation of surface ozone as a pollutant ?

22. P is the father of R and S is the son of Q and T is the brother of P. If R is the sister of S, how is Q related to T?

23. Which of the following research types has a potential for enhancing teaching competencies?

24. In grounded theory, researches collect data using theoretical sampling until theoretical saturation is achieved. This process can be summarized in the following sequence.

25. Noise levels at a traffic site recorded for one hour at a sampling interval of 1 second and percentile indices of nose L1, L10, L50, L90 are computed from the data. The indices are then arranged in increasing order in terms of their values starting from minimum to maximum. Which of the following options represents their correct order?