ugcnetonline.in NET Political Science Model Question Paper : University Grants Commission

Name of the Organization : University Grants Commission
Type of the Exam : UGC National Eligibility Test NET
Subject : Political Science
Year : 2014
Document Type : Model Question Paper
Website : http://www.ugcnetonline.in/question_papers_june2014.php
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UGC NET Political Science Model Question Paper

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Instructions for the Candidates

1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.

3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of this cover page. Do not accept a booklet without sticker-seal and do not accept an open booklet.

(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in the booklet with the information printed on the cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be given.

(iii) After this verification is over, the OMR Sheet Number should be entered on this Test Booklet.

4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). You have to darken the circle as indicated below on the correct response against each item. Example : where (C) is the correct response.

5. Your responses to the items are to be indicated in the OMR Sheet given inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at any place other than in the circle in the OMR Sheet, it will not be evaluated.
6. Read instructions given inside carefully.

7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.

8. If you write your Name, Roll Number, Phone Number or put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, or use abusive language or employ any other unfair means such as change of response by scratching or using white fluid, you will render yourself liable to disqualification.

9. You have to return the test question booklet and Original OMR Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. You are, however, allowed to carry original question booklet and duplicate copy of OMR Sheet on conclusion of examination.

10. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
12. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
13. In case of any discrepancy in the English and Hindi versions, English version will be taken as final.

Note :
This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.

Model Questions

1. To Kautilya, the concept “rupadarshaka” means :
(A) Beautician
(B) Magistrate
(C) Inspector of coins
(D) Zamindar

2. Plato appropriated the ideas of
(A) Heraclitus
(B) Parmenides
(C) Socrates
(D) All the above

3. For whom “All existence is simply a matter in motion.” ?
(A) Plato
(B) Hobbes
(C) T.H. Green
(D) Rousseau

4. Rousseau won the prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Academy of Dijon in 1749 on the subject
(A) “Has the progress of the sciences and the Arts contributed to corrupt or purify morals ?”
(B) “Has the progress of the sciences contributed to corrupt morals ?”
(C) “Has the development of the sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals ?”
(D) None of the above

5. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A) : For Plato, knowledge is neither perception nor opinion.
Reason (R) : Right opinion is knowledge.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

6. The laws of the dialectic of Marx does not include
(A) The law of transformation of quantity into quality and viceversa.
(B) The law of the unity of opposites.
(C) The law of the negation of the negation.
(D) Dialectic is confined to its operation to the understanding of the past only.

7. Who said “Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution” ?
(A) Marx
(B) Lenin
(C) Stalin
(D) Mao

8. Identify the correct sequence of the tenets of Behaviouralism as advocated by David Easton.
(i) Regularities
(ii) Techniques
(iii) Quantification
(iv) Verification
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
(C) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(D) (i), (ii), (iv), (iii)

9. In which place of South Africa did Gandhiji for the first time organize mass protest ?
(A) Cape Town
(B) Johannesburg
(C) Soweto
(D) Pretoria

10. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below :
List-I List-II
a. Charles. E. Merriam i. The Governmental process
b. Heinz Eulan ii. What is political philosophy and other studies
c. Leo Strauss iii. New aspects of politics
d. D. Truman iv. The behavioural persuasion in politics
Codes :
a b c d
(A) iii iv ii i
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) iv i iii ii

11. Who among the following political thinkers are generally regarded as founders of philosophical approach ?
(A) Plato and Aristotle
(B) Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
(C) Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill
(D) Kant, Hegel

12. Which of the following are the characteristics of Weber’s ideal bureaucracy ?
1. Staff and line
2. Impersonality
3. Hierarchy
4. Informal organization
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 1 and 4

13. Which of the following does not figure in Almond and Verba’s classification of political cultures ?
(A) Cognitive orientation
(B) Affective orientation
(C) Evaluative orientation
(D) Empirical orientation

14. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A) : Dependency is a relationship between the groups of economies those, who condition others and those, who are conditioned by others.
Reason (R) : Dependency is dependent on the core periphery relationship of the international political economy.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

15. Who said “A state is human activity that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” ?
(A) David Easton
(B) G.A. Almond
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Max Weber