hss.iitb.ac.in M.Phil Entrance Test Paper I Model Question : Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Organization : Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Department : Humanities and Social Sciences
Exam : M.Phil Entrance Test
Subject : Paper – I
Document Type : Previous Year Question Paper
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Paper I – Section – A
Paper I – Section – B

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Instructions

Please read the following very carefully.
1. This exam has 2 papers. Paper I has 2 sections (A and B) with objective type questions and is for 40 minutes (40 marks). Paper II has descriptive questions and is for 140 minutes (60 marks).

2. At the start of the examination, you will be given a question paper-cum-answer booklet for Paper I. The invigilators will collect Paper I at the end of 40 minutes, and thereafter hand out the question paper-cum-answer booklet for Paper II.

3. Fill your MET 2014 REGISTRATION NUMBER and put your signature only where asked for and nowhere else. Entering your Name, Registration Number, or any other identifier in places other than those specified is strictly forbidden.

4. All rough work must be done on the question paper-cum-answer booklet itself and must be marked as “rough”.
5. Mobile phones and programmable calculators are not allowed in the examination halls.
6. Violation of the above-mentioned instructions or adoption of any unfair means during the examination will lead to the disqualification of the candidate.

Instructions For Paper-I

1. Paper I consists of TWO Sections, A and B.
2. The second page of this booklet is the answer sheet for the both sections in this paper.
3. All questions in Section A are compulsory.
4. In Section B, answer ANY 20 questions out of the given 40.
5. Ambiguous answers will be marked wrong.

Paper I Section – A

This section contains 20 questions in six groups (G-I to G-VI). All questions are compulsory.Each question carries 1 mark. For each incorrect answer there will be negative marking of 0.25 marks. Each question is provided with four options of which only one is correct. Tick (? ) the correct alternative on the answer sheet provided on page 2.
Group-I :
1. A father is 30 years older than his son. He will be three times as old as his son after 5 years. What is the father’s present age?
A. 35
B. 45
C. 40
D. 30

2. In a certain code language STARK is written as LBFMG and MOBILE is written as TNRSPJ. In the same way, the word BLAME would be coded as:
A. TSFRJ
B. RPFTJ
C. NJFTP
D. TSFGJ

3. Choose the set of numbers out of the following options that follows the pattern implicit in the set (1, 25, 81):
A. (1, 5, 9)
B. (9, 49, 121)
C. (25, 36, 49)
D. (4, 64, 49)

4. Match the following tribe (from the Scheduled Tribes list) with the geographical location:
i. Shom Pen A. Madhya Pradesh
ii. Kolam B. Jammu and Kashmir
iii. Jatapu C. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
iv. Sippi D. Odissha
A. i-B, ii-C, iii-A, iv-D
B. i-D, ii-B, iii-C, iv-A
C. i-A, ii-D, iii-B, iv-C
D. i-C, ii-A, iii-D, iv-B

5. In the following map where several roads intersect, three points D, N and S are marked. In how many ways can you get from D to N without touching any point more than once?
A. 8
B. 6
C. 7
D. 9

Group II:
6. Choose the option that best completes the following sentence: There is great unevenness in Shakespeare’s later plays; there are moments of the greatest _______ in the midst of great ______.
A. enlightenment – rhetoric
B. obscurity – triteness
C. insight – banality
D. levity – regularity

7. Identify the grammatically correct clause to use in the underlined part of the sentence below:
If the gardener would plant the saplings in the greenhouse rather than the garden, he might see more profuse flowering in non-seasonal times.
A. If the gardener planted the saplings in the greenhouse rather than the garden
B. If the gardener would plant the saplings in the greenhouse rather than in the garden
C. If the gardener were to plant the saplings in the greenhouse rather than in the garden
D. If the gardener would plant the saplings in the greenhouse instead of the garden

8. Which part of the sentence, if any, is incorrect? Scientific advances over the last five decades have led (i) to a revolution in the fields of health, agriculture and communication, and (ii) generally enhancing (iii) socio-economic development and the quality of our lives. No error (iv).
A. i
B. iii
C. ii
D. iv

Group III :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow, by identifying the closest correct option from those provided:
Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
(From: Politics and the English Language, George Orwell)

9. Which one of the following ideas in the paragraph does the author illustrate through the analogy of a man who takes to drink?
A. foolish thoughts
B. the slovenliness of language
C. an effect becoming a cause
D. bad influences

10. Which one of the following statements follows from the paragraph?
A. imprecise use of language is likely to make precise thought more difficult
B. the English language is ugly and inaccurate for political reasons
C. failure generally leads to more failure in a downward spiral
D. individual writers can never have a bad influence on the English language

11. Slovenliness (as used in the passage) is closest in meaning to:
A. foolish
B. disorderliness
C. untidy
D. carelessness

Group IV :
Study the following bar diagram and answer the questions that follow The graph given below, shows enrolment in primary classes in India. Study the graph and answer the following questions.
12. How many girls were enrolled in primary education in India in year 2005?
A. 50.3 lakhs
B. 61.1 lakhs
C. 69.7 million
D. 61.1 million

13. Percentage increase in enrolment of girls in primary education from 2002 to 2005 was
A. Lower than that for boys
B. Higher than that for boys but lower than that for the total
C. Higher than that for the boys and higher than that for the total
D. Lower than that for boys but higher than that for total

14. Percentage increase in total enrolment in primary education from 2002 to 2005 was
A. 14.8
B. 17
C. 16.9
D. 15

Group V: Study the Table below and answer the questions that follow.
(Twelfth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission)
15. The difference between average monsoon rainfall for 1991/92 – 1996/97 and 2007/08 2011/12 is:
A. 10 mm
B. 3.4 cm
C. 9.3 mm
D. 9.3 cm

16. Average annual rainfall is the highest in the period:
A. 1981/82 – 1990/91
B. 2007/08 – 2011/12
C. 1951/52 – 1967/68
D. 1997/98 – 2001/02

17. What is the trend that you observe in the average temperature anomaly across the entire period?
A. Initially decreasing and then increasing
B. Increasing throughout
C. Initially constant and then increasing
D. Initially increasing and then decreasing

Group VI: Study the following pie chart and answer the questions that follow:
18. Percentage of total electricity consumption for non-residential purposes is
A. 69
B. 85
C. 79
D. 65

19. Percentage of electricity consumed by the hospitality industry is:
A. Less than 2 percent
B. More than 2 percent
C. Between 2 and 4 percent
D. Between 0 and 4 percent

20. As an economy grows over time, how would expect this distribution to change?
A. Proportion of agricultural consumption would be greater
B. Proportion of non-agricultural consumption would be greater
C. Proportion of industrial consumption would be half of that of the residential consumption
D. All of the above

Paper I Section – B

There are 40 questions in this section. Answer ANY 20. Each question carries 1 mark. For each incorrect answer there will be negative marking of 0.25 marks. Each question is provided with four options of which only one is correct. Tick (?) the correct alternative on the answer
sheet provided on page 2.
1. In an open economy model, GDP is the sum of:
A. Consumption, gross investment, government spending and net exports.
B. Consumption, net investment, government spending and net exports.
C. Consumption, gross investment, government spending and gross exports.
D. None of the above

2. When output exceeds spending:
A. There is unsold output, and the level of output will rise.
B. There is unsold output, and the level of output will rise.
C. There is unsold output, and the level of output will fall.
D. There is no unsold output since the level of spending will rise.

3. What do we call the situation where capital grows faster than the labour force?
A. Economic growth
B. Technological change
C. Productivity growth
D. Capital deepening

4. Nandini puts money into a piggy bank so she can spend it later. What function of money does this illustrate?
A. medium of exchange
B. store of value
C. unit of account
D. None of the above is correct.

5. A good is a called as a public good if:
i) The good is provided by the government free of cost to public.
ii) One person’s consumption/use of the good does not reduces availability of the same
to another person(s).
iii) It is not possible to exclude people from using that good.
A. i) and ii)
B. i) & iii)
C. ii) & iii)
D. None of the above

6. When unit costs of production are lowered by producing two or more products together, a firm experiences
A. Diminishing returns to scale
B. Economies of scope
C. Increasing returns to scale
D. Economies of scale

7. It is possible for an economy to increase production of mobiles and computers simultaneously, if:
A. the economy moves along production possibilities frontier (PPF)
B. PPF shifts outwards
C. Demand for mobiles and computers increases though supply side remains unchanged.
D. A and C

8. The Trait Theory of Personality owes its origin to the:
A. Psychometric tradition
B. Clinical tradition
C. Experimental tradition
D.Gestalt tradition

9. The ability to integrate the days’ events is a function of the:
A. Thalamus –cortex reverberatory circuit
B. Hippocampal complex
C. Amygdala
D. Reticular activation system

10. Referent power is based on the subordinate’s perception that the leader has a right to exercise influence because of the because of the leader’s _______________.
A.Ability to punish or reward
B. Role or position in the organization
C. Expertise and knowledge
D. Personal charisma