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Teaching and Research Aptitude

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Who appears on behalf of the Government of India in all cases in the Supreme Court in which the Government of India is concerned?

  1. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

  2. The Chief Justice of India

  3. The Solicitor General of India

  4. The Attorney General

  5. Chairman of Rajya Sabha


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Attorney General appears on behalf of Government of India in all cases (including suits, appeals and other proceedings) in the Supreme Court in which Government of India is concerned.

Which of these words mean a type of wisdom or intelligence'?

  1. Dianoia

  2. Commūnicāre

  3. Phronesis

  4. Ontology

  5. Theory


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Phronesis is a Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence, which is a common topic of discussion in philosophy.

What is the process of converting analogue materials into a digital format called?

  1. CD-ROM

  2. Electronic media

  3. Born-digital

  4. Digital reformatting

  5. Electronic book


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Digital reformatting is the process of converting analogue materials into a digital format as a surrogate of the original. The digital surrogates perform a preservation function by reducing or eliminating the use of the original. Digital reformatting is guided by established best practices to ensure that materials are being converted at the highest quality.

Which of these are environmental pollutants and persistent organic pollutants?

  1. Persistent free radicals

  2. Nitrogen oxides

  3. Particulates

  4. Dioxins

  5. Toxic metals


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are by-products of various industrial processes, and are commonly regarded as highly toxic compounds that are environmental pollutants and persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Which of these is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it?

  1. Dispersed knowledge

  2. Explicit knowledge

  3. Descriptive knowledge

  4. Tacit knowledge

  5. Concept map


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Tacit knowledge is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. For example - the ability to speak a language, use algebra, or design or use complex equipment requires all sorts of knowledge that is not always known explicitly, even by expert practitioners, and is difficult or impossible to explicitly transfer to other users.

Which of these is not a type of 'grey literature'?

  1. Technical report

  2. Zine

  3. White papers

  4. Preprint

  5. Patent


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A zine is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via a photocopier.

Which of these organisations is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India and is involved in India’s external cultural relations?

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India’s external cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people.

  1. ISRO

  2. ICCR

  3. DAAD

  4. IBPS

  5. ICAR


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India’s external cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people.

Which of these air pollutants has a characteristic pungent odour?

  1. Ammonia

  2. Chlorofluorocarbons

  3. Carbon monoxide

  4. Smog

  5. Methane


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ammonia (NH3) - emitted from agricultural processes. Ammonia is a compound with the formula NH3. It is normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odour. Ammonia contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to foodstuffs and fertilizers. Ammonia, either directly or indirectly, is also a building block for the synthesis of many pharmaceuticals. Although in wide use, ammonia is both caustic and hazardous.

Which of these is used as a denaturant for drinking alcohol?

  1. Butanol

  2. Methanol

  3. Biomass

  4. Benzene

  5. Mercury


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). At room temperature, it is a polar liquid, and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol.

Which of these is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases?

  1. Working Environment

  2. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

  3. World People's Conference on Climate Change

  4. Montreal Protocol

  5. Kyoto Protocol


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Which of these refers to a thermochemical decomposition method of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen?

  1. Fluidized bed combustion

  2. Fischer–Tropsch process

  3. Fermentation

  4. Anaerobic digestion

  5. Pyrolysis


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Pyrolysis is a thermochemical decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen (or any halogen).

Which of these is an organic water pollutant?

  1. Ammonia

  2. Fertilizers

  3. Detergents

  4. Acidity caused by industrial discharges

  5. Silt


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Detergents are organic water pollutants.

What happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates?

  1. Agreement

  2. Stemming

  3. Information retrieval

  4. Derivation

  5. Nominalization


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Agreement or concord happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

Which of these is the process of grouping together the different inflected forms of a word so they can be analysed as a single item?

  1. Morphology

  2. Conflation

  3. Lemmatisation

  4. Inflection

  5. Text mining


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Lemmatisation (or lemmatization) in linguistics, is the process of grouping together the different inflected forms of a word so they can be analysed as a single item.

Which of these refers to the question of how language acquisition gets started?

  1. Generative grammar

  2. Optimality Theory

  3. Cognitive linguistics

  4. Acquaintance

  5. Bootstrapping


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

In psycholinguistics, bootstrapping refers to the question of how language acquisition gets started. A child gradually acquires a great deal of interlocking knowledge about the structure and vocabulary of his or her language. It has sometimes been proposed that some specific type of linguistic knowledge can be acquired early, and that this enables the child to analyze words or sentences well enough to acquire further knowledge from them. Metaphorically, this early knowledge would serve as bootstraps by which the child pulls himself or herself up.

Which of these best describes 'Asian brown cloud'?

  1. An indian artificial satellite

  2. A xenobiotic

  3. Ozone hole

  4. A computing paradigm

  5. A layer of air pollution


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The Indian Ocean brown cloud or Asian brown cloud is a layer of air pollution that recurrently covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan.

Mark the odd one.

  1. Pedagogue

  2. Preceptor

  3. Instructor

  4. Supervisor

  5. Novice


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A novice is a person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation.

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