First Paper of UGC NET

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UGC NET Examination Paper I

1. A research paper is a brief report of research work based on
(A) Primary Data only
(B) Secondary Data only
(C) Both Primary and Secondary Data
(D) None of the above

2. Newton gave three basic laws of motion. This research is categorized as
(A) Descriptive Research
(B) Sample Survey
(C) Fundamental Research
(D) Applied Research

3. A group of experts in a specific area of knowledge assembled at a place and prepared a syllabus for a new course. The process may be termed as
(A) Seminar
(B) Workshop
(C) Conference
(D) Symposium

4. In the process of conducting research Formulation of Hypothesis is followed by
(A) Statement of Objectives
(B) Analysis of Data
(C) Selection of Research Tools
(D) Collection of Data

Read the following passage carefully and answer questions 5 to 10 :

All historians are interpreters of text if they be private letters, Government records or parish
birthlists or whatever. For most kinds of historians, these are only the necessary means to
understanding something other than the texts themselves, such as a political action or a
historical trend, whereas for the intellectual historian, a full understanding of his chosen texts
is itself the aim of his enquiries. Of course, the intellectual history is particularly prone to
draw on the focus of other disciplines that are habitually interpreting texts for purposes of
their own, probing the reasoning that ostensibly connects premises and conclusions.
Furthermore, the boundaries with adjacent subdisciplines are shifting and indistinct : the
history of art and the history of science both claim a certain autonomy, partly just because
they require specialised technical skills, but both can also be seen as part of a wider
intellectual history, as is evident when one considers, for example, the common stock of
knowledge about cosmological beliefs or moral ideals of a period.
Like all historians, the intellectual historian is a consumer rather than a producer of
‘methods’. His distinctiveness lies in which aspect of the past he is trying to illuminate, not in
having exclusive possession of either a corpus of evidence or a body of techniques. That
being said, it does seem that the label ‘intellectual history’ attracts a disproportionate share of
misunderstanding.
It is alleged that intellectual history is the history of something that never really mattered.
The long dominance of the historical profession by political historians bred a kind of
philistinism, an unspoken belief that power and its exercise was ‘what mattered’. The
prejudice was reinforced by the assertion that political action was never really the outcome of
principles or ideas that were ‘more flapdoodle’. The legacy of this precept is still discernible
in the tendency to require ideas to have ‘licensed’ the political class before they can be
deemed worthy of intellectual attention, as if there were some reasons why the history of art
or science, of philosophy or literature, were somehow of interest and significance than the
history of Parties or Parliaments. Perhaps in recent years the mirror-image of this philistinism
has been more common in the claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression or
sophistication do not matter, as if they were only held by a minority.
Answer the following questions :

5. An intellectual historian aims to fully understand
(A) the chosen texts of his own (B) political actions
(C) historical trends (D) his enquiries

6. Intellectual historians do not claim exclusive possession of
(A) conclusions (B) any corpus of evidence
(C) distinctiveness (D) habitual interpretation

7. The misconceptions about intellectual history stem from
(A) a body of techniques (B) the common stock of knowledge
(C) the dominance of political historians (D) cosmological beliefs

8. What is philistinism ?
(A) Reinforcement of prejudice (B) Fabrication of reasons
(C) The hold of land-owning classes (D) Belief that power and its exercise matter

9. Knowledge of cosmological beliefs or moral ideas of a period can be drawn as part of
(A) literary criticism (B) history of science
(C) history of philosophy (D) intellectual history

10. The claim that ideas of any one is of systematic expression do not matter, as if they were held by a minority, is
(A) to have a licensed political class (B) a political action
(C) a philosophy of literature (D) the mirror-image of philistinism

UGC NET Exam Paper I