Unit-10: Higher Education System

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Higher Education System Set 1

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1. Which of the following is the regulator of higher education?

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2. The idea of Four Pillars of Education was suggested by

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3. The report of central advisory board of education on post war educational development in India is also termed as

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4. Which section of the UGC Act provides for the promotion and coordination of university education and for the maintenance of standards of teaching, examination,and research?

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5. Which of the following pairs of authorities are at the top of hierarchy in the case of a Central University?

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6. The state with most universities is

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7.Which of the following days is celebrated as National Education Day?

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8. The purpose of National Education Policy is

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9. The name of pilot project to provide education through massive satellite connectivity up to grass-root level is

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10. Which of the following universities has been assigned the status of central university in 2013?

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Higher Education System Set 2

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1. CHEER stands for

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2. Educational TV was first introduced in India in the year

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3. Which of the following is known as Calcutta University Commission?

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4. Which of the following is regarded as the first policy measure regarding higher education in India?

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5. Commonwealth of learning (CoL) is the only official Commonwealth agency located outside Britain. It is located in

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6. As envisaged in 12th Five Year Plan, under the concept of College Cluster Universities, a minimum number of colleges in the vicinity of a city or district can establish a university. What is the minimum number of such colleges?

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7. Which of the following institutes is/are funded by central government?

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8. The first Committee to be constituted after independence by the Government of India on Women’s Education was

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9. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

List-I

1. National Council of Rural

Institutes

1. Indian Council of Historical

Research

1. Indian Council of

Philosophical Research

1. Indian Institute of Advanced

Study

 

List-II

1. New Delhi

1. Hyderabad

III. Shimla

1v. Bangalore

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10. Which of the following project(s) is/are funded by external agencies?

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Higher Education System Set 3

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1. The main governing body at the tertiary level of education in India is

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2. The Government established the University Grants Commission by an act of Parliament in the year

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3. The tertiary education includes

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4. Which of the following is the regulator of higher education?

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5. The idea of Four Pillars of Education was suggested by

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6. The name of the plan to increase enrolment in the higher education institutions is

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7. Which of the following agency put forward the concept of proactive university?

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8. ‘Destiny of India is being shaped in her classroom’. This is stated in

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9. CHEER stands for

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10. Educational TV was first introduced in India in the year

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Higher Education System Set 4

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1. Which of the following agencies or organizations was constitutionally assigned the task of coordination and determination of standards of institutions in higher education?

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2. Which of the following documents is termed as the Magna Carta of English education in India?

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3. In which of the following years, Presidency Universities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were set up following the recommendations of Woods’ dispatch?

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4. The University of Allahabad was founded in the year

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5. Which of the following institution was set up in 1945 to look after the functioning of three Central Universities of  Aligarh, Banaras and Delhi?

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6. The report of central advisory board of education on post war educational development in India is also termed as

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7. Which section of the UGC Act provides for the promotion and coordination of university education and for the maintenance of standards of teaching, examination, and research?

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8. It is said that the present higher education system has its origin in Mountstuart Elphinstone’s minutes, which stressed upon the need for establishing schools for teaching English and European sciences. This reported was presented in the year

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9. Inter University Board was set up in 1925 to promote university activities, by sharing information and cooperation in the field of education, culture, sports and allied areas. Now, it is known as

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10. Which of the following is known as Calcutta University Commission?

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Higher Education System Set 5

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1. Which of the following is regarded as the first policy measure regarding higher education in India?

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2. Which of the following is a precursor to 10 + 2 + 3?

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3. Which of the following commissions recommended setting up UGC and is also known as the University Education Commission?

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4. Which of the following commission’s report is titled as education and national development report?

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5. National committee on 10 + 2 + 3 education structure  set up in 1972 was headed by

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6. The following commissions were set up by the government or its agencies after independence. Arrange the following in a chronological order (in terms of their occurrence).

I University Education Commission

II Secondary Education Commission

III Education Commission

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7. Which of the following committees recommended the

spending of `500 crores to be spent on research in basic

sciences every year by UGC every year?

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8. The committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development which recommended autonomy of IITs was headed by

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9. National knowledge commission (NKC) was headed by

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10. A committee was set up in 1990 to review NPE (1986). Its report titled as ‘Towards an Enlightened and Humane  Society’ stated that system of higher education encourages memorization of facts and regurgitation rather than creativity. The head of the committee was

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Higher Education System Set 6

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1. Which of the following committees recommended the setting up of National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) for prescribed standards of academic quality and defining policies for advancement of  knowledge in higher educational institutions?

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2. Chairman of UGC committee appointed in 1969 for the purpose of administrative legislation of the universities was

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3. Which of the following personalities headed the committee recommended setting up of 1500 universities so as to achieve the target gross enrolment of 30%?

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4. Which of the following percentage figures was recommended by both Kothari Commission and National Policy that should be spent on education (1986)?

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5. Which of the following states has the maximum number of central universities?

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6. Which of the following institution or organization publishes Universities Handbook?

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7. In which year was the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) originally set up?

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8. Which of the following authorities is not empowered to bring a university into existence?

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9. How many universities were set up under Central Universities Act, 2009?

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10. Which among the following constitute the majority of institutions within the university system?

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Higher Education System Set 7

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1. Which among the following constitute the majority of enrolments within the university system?

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2. Universities having central campus for imparting education are called

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3. Which of the following agencies provide funding to Indira Gandhi National Open University?

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4. The university that telecasts interactive educational programmes through its own channel is

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5. Which of the following pairs of authorities are at the top of hierarchy in the case of a Central University?

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6. The state with most universities is

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7. The state with most deemed universities is

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8. According to Times Higher Education’s research findings to rank the world’s higher educational institutions, which of the following educational has top rank in India?

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9. Institute of National Importance is an institution in higher education which serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country or state. This status can be conferred upon them by

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10. Commonwealth of learning (CoL) is the only official Commonwealth agency located outside Britain. It is located in

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Higher Education System Set 8

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1. As envisaged in 12th Five Year Plan, under the concept of College Cluster Universities, a minimum number of colleges in the vicinity of a city or district can establish a university. What is the minimum number of such colleges?

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2. EHEI stands for

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3. API stands for

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4. National literacy mission was established in

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5. The main aim of National Council for Teacher Education is

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6. National Council of Educational Research and Training was established in

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7. Which of the following organizations set up the National Assessment and Accreditation Council?

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8. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is headquartered in

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9. NUEPA is mainly concerned with

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10. The title of Yashpal Committee Report (1993) is

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Higher Education System Set 9

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1. The number of representatives of Central Government in UGC is

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2. Which of the following agencies or institutions set up the Accreditation Board (AB)?

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3. The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) was set up in the year 1987 by

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4. In which of the following years ‘The National Policy of Education’ was revised and a ‘Programme of Action’ was also attached to it?

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5. Which of the following days is celebrated as National Education Day?

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6. The purpose of National Education Policy is

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7. According to Vision Paper of 12th Five Year Plan, the targeted staff strength (in terms of teacher–student ratio) envisaged for science and technology in higher education is

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8. According to Vision Paper of 12th Five Year Plan, the targeted staff strength (in terms of teacher–student ratio) envisaged for social sciences, humanities, management  and arts subjects in higher education courses is

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9. In order to achieve the 12th Five Year Plan’s Inclusive and Qualitative Expansion of Higher Education, the number of proposed women universities is

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10. Apart from few short-term programmes, academic staff colleges set up for teachers’ training basically offer

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Higher Education System Set 10

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1. Which of the following institutes is/are funded by central government?

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2. The first Committee to be constituted after independence by the Government of India on Women’s Education was

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3. Which article of the constitution provides for the rights  of minorities to establish and administer the institutions  of their choice?

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4. In which of the following year National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMI) was set up

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5. Which of the following is a specialized agency of UN to deal with copyright and other intellectual property rights?

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6. The name of pilot project to provide education through massive satellite connectivity up to grass-root level is

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7. Which of the following universities has been assigned the status of central university in 2013?

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8. The number of Central Universities in India is

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9. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha is located in

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10. Which of the following languages was assigned the status of classical language in 2013?

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Higher Education System Set 11

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1. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

List-I

  1. National Council of Rural Institutes
  2. Indian Council of Historical Research
  3. Indian Council of Philosophical Research
  4. Indian Institute of Advanced Study

List-II

  1. New Delhi
  2. Hyderabad

III. Shimla

IV. Bangalore

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2. Which of the following project(s) is/are funded by external agencies?

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3. The South Asian University is located at

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4. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre is located at

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5. Which one of the following Councils has been disbanded in 2013?

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6. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology is located in

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7. Which of the following days is celebrated as National Education Day?

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8. Which of the following regulatory bodies does not enjoy a statutory status as a professional body?

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9. Under which of the following constitutional amendments, education was transferred to the concurrent list?

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10. UGC gets its funding from

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Higher Education System Set 12

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1. Which of the following universities in India has Prime Minister as its chancellor?

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2. Faculty Improvement Programme of UGC aims at

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3. Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya is located at

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4. CABE was set up in the year

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5. IGNOU was set up in the year

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6. The apex body for open and distance learning (ODL) system in the country is

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7. The ex-officio chairperson of Distance Education Council (DEC) is

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8. The Ministry of Human Resource Development was created in the year

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9. Government has set a target to increase the gross enrolment ratio in higher education to 30% by the year

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10. Which of the following personalities was the first chairman of UGC?

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Higher Education System Set 13

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1. The first open university in India was

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2. The first university in India to start correspondence course was

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3. The rank of India in terms of enrolment in higher education institutions is

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4. The National Knowledge Commission, a high level advisory body to Prime Minister of India, with the objective of transforming India into a knowledge society was set up in the year

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5. The concept of a countrywide network for higher education that would allow students the flexibility to design their own curriculum and combine subjects of their choice is basically of

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6. The concept of Meta University was first propounded by

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7. The universities with NAAC ‘A’ Grade and 10 years of standing can get financial support from UGC for innovative teaching or educational programmes; these universities are known as

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8. In which of the following countries, the Humboldtian Concept of University Education originated?

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9. The major concept underlying distance education is

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10. The course content of professional degree emphasizes on

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Higher Education System Set 14

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1. The number of universities at the time of independence was

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2. Networking of libraries through electronic media is called

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3. The first virtual university of India came up in

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4. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

List-I  (Institutions)

  1. Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre
  2. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
  3. Indian Space Research Organization
  4. The Energy and Resources Institute

 

List-II  (Locations)

I. Thiruvananthapuram

II.Hyderabad

III. Bengaluru

IV. New Delhi

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5. In which year was the NBA set up?

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6. Aligarh Muslim University was set up in the year

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7. Who among the following was the first Education Minister of independent India?

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8. There is a proposal to establish innovation universities aiming at world class standards. The proposed number of such institutions is

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9. Which of the following satellite channel was launched on 26 January, 2003 for the spread of technical growth and development of distance education in India?

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10. Which of the following institutions have been set up by the MHRD?

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Higher Education System Set 15

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1. SITE means

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2. Name of the research station on Antarctic set up by India is

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3.The foundation training of selected IAS officers is conducted at

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4. The main objective of ‘National Mission on Teachers and Training’ is to improve

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5. PACER is the acronym for

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6. Mahila Samakhya was born out of the New Education Policy of 1986 which stressed the need for an intervention to create gender equality through women’s education. It was launched in the year

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7. Who was the chairman of University Education Commission set up in 1948?

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8. University Education Commission recommended the setting up of UGC on the lines of University Grants Commission of

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9. Which of the following agency or institution proposed introduction of India Education Index (IEI) for ranking institutes based on academic, research, performance, and other parameters?

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10. The largest university in the world in terms of student enrolment is

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Higher Education System Set 16

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1. The first inter university centre which was established by UGC in 1984 is

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2. Distance Education Council set up the Arjun Singh Centre for Distance and Open Learning in the year 2002 in

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3. Which of the following was the first private institution to be granted the status of a deemed university in 1976?

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4. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

List-I

  1. Chinmaya International Foundation
  2. The Oriental Institute
  3. Academy of Sanskrit Research (Karnataka)
  4. Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan

 

List-II

I. Delhi

II. Baroda

III. Melkote

IV. Ernakulum

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5. Through which of the following constitutional amendments Article 21A was inserted in the constitution to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of age group between 6 and 14 years as a fundamental right?

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6. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

List-I (Institutions)

  1. National Law Institute
  2. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
  3. National Judicial Academy
  4. National Savings Institute

 

List-II  (Locations)

I. Shimla

II. Bhopal

III. Hyderabad

IV. Nagpur

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7. Indian Institute of Mass Communication is located in

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8. Indian National Defence University (INDU), India’s first defence university, was inaugurated on May 2013 is proposed to be located at

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9. The modern state is described as

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10. The chief source of political power in India is

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Higher Education System Set 17

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1. Which of the following is not an essential element of the state?

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2. Which of the following factors is/are responsible for increase of the role of government in developing countries?

I Economic planning

II Rising expectation of people

III Privatization

IV Emergence of concept of welfare state

Select the most appropriate answer from the code given below.

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3. The Preamble to the constitution states ‘We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic...’By which of the following amendments were the words socialist and secular were added to it?

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4. In a federal state

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5. A federal system

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6. The Constituent Assembly (which framed our constitution) was set up in the year

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7. When was the Indian constitution passed by the Constituent Assembly?

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8. Which of the following personalities was the chairperson of the Drafting Committee of Indian constitution?

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9. The time taken by the constituent assembly to frame the constitution for the country was

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10. India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states. The states and the territories, thereof, shall be as specified in the

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Higher Education System Set 18

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1. In India, with several characteristics of a federal government, the supremacy lies in the

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2. An interpretation of Indian Constitution is based on the spirit of

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3. The Constitution of India is divided into

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4. Which of the following has the most profound impact on our constitution?

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5. The Indian Constitution closely follows the constitutional system of

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6. The secular character of the Constitution of India denotes that

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7. Directive Principles of State Policy included in the Constitution of India have been inspired by the constitution of

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8. Which of the following depicts the true nature of Indian Constitution?

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9. Fundamental duties were incorporated in the Indian Constitution by the

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10. What does the phrase equality before the law used in Article 14 mean?

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Higher Education System Set 19

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1. Who headed the committee appointed the constitution assembly to finalize the fundamental rights of Indian citizens

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2. What is the number of fundamentals rights as enshrined in our constitution?

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3. Which of the following articles provides for the Fundamental Rights in our constitution?

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4. Which of the following articles guarantees Right to freedom of religion?

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5. Which among the following is not guaranteed by the Constitution of India?

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6. According to Supreme Court verdict, Right to Property is a

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7. The idea of democratic decentralization in India was popularized by

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8. Which of the following is not a Fundamental Right?

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9. Which of the following Fundamental Rights have been deleted from our constitution through an amendment?

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10. The authority to issue writs for the enforcement of fundamental rights rests with

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Higher Education System Set 20

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1. How can Fundamental Rights be protected by a citizen?

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2. Which Fundamental Right is concerned with the abolition of social distinctions?

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3. Fundamental rights can be suspended during

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4. To uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India, a provision has been made in the

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5. How do Directive Principles of State Policy differ from Fundamental Rights?

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6. Which of the following instruments may be used by the Supreme Court for the enforcement of fundamental rights?

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7. Which of the following writs may be issued to enforce a fundamental right?

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8. Right to free education within certain limits is

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9. Which of the following article deals with the amendment to our constitution?

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10. Distributive justice is the common aim of

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