Thu. Jan 9th, 2025

UGC NET December 2013 Paper III

  1. In 1919, Mackinder renamed his ‘Pivot Area’ as ‘Heartland’ in famous book

    Options:
    1. Foreign Affairs
    2. The Round World and the Winning of the Peace
    3. The Democratic Ideals and Reality
    4. World War and Geography

    Option: C

  2. The objectives behind building the planned city of Chandigarh were

    1. To build a city of modern India’s dreams
    2. To settle down refugees coming to India after the partition
    3. To develop an attractive tourist centre in Northwestern India
    4. To provide capital city to Truncated Punjab
    Options:
    1. 2 and 4 are correct.
    2. 2, 3 and 4 are correct.
    3. 1, 2 and 4 are correct.
    4. only 4 is correct.

    Option: C

  3. Which of the following sentences is not a correct one ?

    Options:
    1. Utilitarian planning is a functional planning and it strives to achieve a supreme single specific goal.
    2. Sectoral planning is a coordinated planning with planning in various sectors in an integrated manner.
    3. Comprehensive planning has also been used with implicit connotation of integrated planning of all elements of a single activity.
    4. Town planning is an expression of spatial planning of an urban system.

    Option: B

  4. Several planned cities have been developed in India after Independence. Which one of the following is not a post-independence planned city ?

    Options:
    1. Gandhinagar
    2. Chandigarh
    3. Jaipur
    4. Bhubaneshwar

    Option: C

  5. Which one of the following is not a measure of Central tendency ?

    Options:
    1. Arithmetic mean
    2. Mean deviation
    3. Median
    4. Mode

    Option: B

  6. Which one of the following Indian Remote Sensing Satellites, IRS-P4 is also known as

    Options:
    1. Resourcesat
    2. Edusat
    3. Remotesat
    4. Oceansat

    Option: D

  7. Which one of the following States has recorded the lowest human development index ?

    Options:
    1. Bihar
    2. Himachal Pradesh
    3. Punjab
    4. Haryana

    Option: A

  8. Which one of the following group of States, which includes catchment area of Cauvery river basin is correct ?

    Options:
    1. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh
    2. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry
    3. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala
    4. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Pondicherry

    Option: D

  9. Which one of the following is a centrographic measure ?

    Options:
    1. Geometric mean
    2. Arithmetic mean
    3. Mean centre
    4. Standard deviation

    Option: C

  10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

    List-I List-II
    a. Block Mountains i. Aravallies
    b. Volcanic Mountains ii. Pennives
    c. Relict Mountains iii. Viindhyachal
    d. Fold Mountains iv. Mount Popa
    Options:
    1. i ii iii iv
    2. ii i iv iii
    3. iv iii ii i
    4. iii iv i ii

    Option: D

  11. Which one of the following map scales is a large scale ?

    Options:
    1. 1 : 250,000
    2. 1 : 25,000
    3. 1 : 500,000
    4. 1 : 50,000

    Option: B

  12. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the codes given below :

    Assertion (A) : The Raster format data structure provides a greater computational efficiency.

    Reason (R) :  The Raster format data is simple.

    Options:
    1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) explains (A).
    2. Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) does not explain (A).
    3. (A) is correct, but (R) is false.
    4. (A) is false, but (R) is correct.

    Option: C

  13. An original map has the RF1/50,000 and R.F. of the new map will be 1/250,000. What is the correct proportion of enlargement/reductionas given below ?

    Options:
    1. Reduction 1/5
    2. Enlargement (5 times)
    3. Reduction 1/10
    4. Enlargement (10 times)

    Option: A

  14. Which one of the following values of correlation coefficient (r) is not correctly matched degree of relationship ?

    Options:
    1. + 0.99 High
    2. + 0.50 Moderate
    3. 0.01 Very low
    4. 0.99 Nil

    Option: D

  15. In which of the following year, IRS-1A was launched

    Options:
    1. 1982
    2. 1987
    3. 1988
    4. 1990

    Option: C