2007 Amity School of Distance Learning M.A Amity Common Admission Test – Sample Questions for PG Courses University Question paper

Course: M.A

University: Amity School of Distance Learning

Amity Common Admission Test – Sample Questions for PG Courses
General English
(Compulsory)
PASSAGE–II
Of the many aspects of public administration, the ethical aspects are perhaps the most important but the least
codified. While administrative rules and procedure have been codified in various public documents and manuals, there
is no manual for the ethics of public servants.
While organisational behaviour analyses the factors which influence the behaviour of individuals in an organisation,
ethics refer to those norms and standards which behaviour of the people in an organisation must conform. While
behaviour analysis deals with factual aspects, ethics relate to the normative aspects of administration. The normative
aspects are of the greatest significance. Just as for an individual if character is lost, everying is lost, so also for an
administration if the ethics is lost, everything is lost. Neither efficiency nor loyalty could be substitute for high ethical
standards. In India, though there is no ethical code for public administrators, there are what are called, the
Government Servants’ Conduct Rules. These rules lay down what constitutes misconduct for the public servants. It is
apparently implied that such misconduct, which is not permitted, is also unethical conduct.
1. As per the passage, organisational behaviour is
(1) same as ethics in organisations
(2) different from ethics in organisations
(3) human behaviour in organisations including ethics
(4) None of these
2. Ethics is to an administration, what character is for
(1) an administrator (2) an official
(3) an individual (4) None of these
3. Directions: Choose the word that does NOT belong to the two given words.
Wonderful, Fabulous
(1) Superb (2) Superlative (3) Great (4) Splendid
4. Directions: Choose the appropriate set of words that make the sentence most meaningful.
He was .................... very clever, but he .................... performed excellently.
(1) certainly, obviously (2) never, also
(3) not, always (4) rarely, seldom
5. Directions: Choose the most appropriate preposition to complete the sentence.
The country is ushering .... a new era.
(1) into (2) in (3) of (4) over
General Awareness
(Compulsory)
1. Which of the following banks has decided to open a branch in Israel in the next few months to finance growing
bilateral trade that crossed two billion dollar mark in 2004?
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(1) Punjab National Bank (2) State Bank of India
(3) Canara Bank (4) Bank of Baroda
2. What is the International Date Line ?
(1) the equator (2) zero degrees longitude
(3) 90° longitude (4) 180 degrees longitude
3. In the election of the President (of India) who among the following do not take part ?
(1) Members of Legislative Council (2) Elected Members of Lok Sabha
(3) Elected Members of Rajya Sabha (4) None of the above
4. Name of the Indian actor who has been awarded the Pakistan’s highest civilian medel, Nishan-i-Imtiaz
(1) Dilip Kumar (2) Shabana Azmi
(3) Amitabh Bachchan (4) None of these
5. Wills is a brand of
(1) ITC Ltd. (2) BAT
(3) Godfrey Phillip (4) None of these
Logical and Analytical Reasoning
(Compulsory)
1. Directions: Mehta is planning his sales calls for the next day. He is judged and paid by his company
both on the basis of the number of calls he makes and the amount of sales he generates.
Alembic Co. will take only one hour and will probably result in an order of 5 boxes.
Bell Corp. will take three hours and will result in an order of 20 boxes or nothing.
Champion Shops Inc. will take one hour and yield an order of 10 boxes.
Des Raj Bros. will take from one to three hours and probably result in an order of 10 to 30 boxes.
Under the conditions mentioned above, what is the greatest number of boxes Mehta can reasonably help to sell in a
seven-hour working day?
(1) 65 (2) 60 (3) 45 (4) 35
2. Directions: A statement is given followed by two conclusions I and II. Take the statement to be true
and then decide which of the conclusions logically follows. Mark the answer as
(1) if only conclusion I follows
(2) if only conclusion II follows
(3) if either conclusion I or II follows
(4) if neither I nor II follows.
Statement :
Of the ten fishermen caught in a storm, nine managed to return to the shore. Praveen has not yet returned after
four days.
Conclusions :
I. Praveen got killed in the storm
II. Praveen has survived the storm.
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3. Directions: Seven poles A, B, C, D, E, F and G are put in such a way that the distance between the next
two decreases by 1 meter. The distance between the first two poles A and B is 10 meters. Now
answer the following questions.
If a monkey hops from G to C pole, how much distance did it cover?
(1) 26 m (2) 19 m
(3) 22 m (4) None of these
4. Directions: Find the odd one out.
(1) 5183 (2) 33442 (3) 34424 (4) 25631
5. Directions: Answer the question based on the following paragraph.
Five golfers, C, D, E, F and G, play a series of matches in which the following are always true of the results. Either
C is last and G is first or C is first and G is last. D finishes ahead of E. Every golfer plays in and finishes every
match. There are no ties in any match; that is, no 2 players ever finish in the same position in a match.
If exactly 1 golfer finishes between C and D, which of the following must be true?
(1) C finishes first (2) G finishes first
(3) F finishes third (4) E finishes fourth
Quantitative Aptitude
(Optional)
1. A player holds 13 cards of four suits of which seven are black and six are red. There are twice as many diamonds
as spades and twice as many hearts as diamonds. How many clubs does he hold?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7
2. In a one-day cricket match, Agarkar, Sehwag, Sachin. Dravid and Ganguly scored an average of 39 runs. Dravid
scored 7 more than Ganguly, Ganguly secored 9 fewer than Agarkar, Sehwag scored as many as Dravid and
Ganguly combined; and Sehwag and Sachin scored 110 runs between them. How many runs did Sachin score?
(1) 47 (2) 51
(3) 53 (4) None of the above
3. A father divides his property between his two sons A and B. A invests the amount of compound interest of 8% p.a.
B invests the amount at 10% p.a. simple interest. At the end of 2 years, the interest received by B is Rs. 1336 more
than the interest received by A. Find the share of A in the father’s property of Rs. 25,000.
(1) Rs. 12,000 (2) Rs. 13,000
(3) Rs. 12,500 (4) Rs. 10,000
4. In 1932, I was as old as the number formed by the last two digits of my birth year. When I mentioned this
interesting coincidence to my grandfather, he surprised me by saying that the same applied to him also. The year
of birth of my grandfather is
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(1) 1866 (2) 1886 (3) 1906 (4) 1916
5. If 3/5 of a number is 23, more than 50% of the same number, then what will be 80% of the number?
(1) 92 (2) 184 (3) 180 (4) 186
Life Sciences
(Optional)
1. Red blood corpuscles placed in 0.5% sodium chloride solution will show
(1) Bursting (2) Crenation
(3) Plasmolysis (4) Turgidity
2. Plants do not store carbohydrate as glucose but do so as starch because glucose
(1) is unstable (2) attracts herbivores
(3) will change nucleic acids (4) alters osmotic balance
3. The appendix in man is
(1) Vestigial
(2) Involved in bile storage
(3) Similar to stomach in shape
(4) Involved in digestion of vegetable food
4. Formula of vertebrae column is
(1) C6T13L6S4CD15 (2) C7T13 L7 S4 CD15
(3) C7T12 S4 CD16 (4) C7 T13 L7 S4 CD16
5. 70 yrs old man forgets recent events because
(1) 40% of nerve cells in the brain die (2) 20% of nerve cells in the brain die
(3) 10% of nerve cells in the brain die (4) None of these
IT Awareness
(Optional)
1. The comma operator (,) is primarily used in conjunction with
(1) ‘for’ statement (2) ‘if-else’ statement
(3) ‘do-while’ statement (4) All of the above
2. Coding and testing are done in a
(1) top-down manner (2) bottom-up manner
(3) ad hoc manner (4) cross sectional manner
3. XHTML is a subset of the
(1) Extensible Mark-up language (XML)
(2) WWW
(3) Java
(5) Java script
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4. You were installing an application in Windows 95, and the computer crashes, what do you do ?
(1) press alt + ctrl + delete, twice
(2) press alt + ctrl + delete, and end task
(3) press the reset button on the computer
(4) turn off computer and boot from a floppy disk.
5. Which of the following devices send and receive information from other devices?
(1) Mouse port (2) Serial port
(3) Video port (4) Parallel port
Media Awareness
(Optional)
1. Which is most important department in newspaper?
(1) Editorial (2) Advertising (3) Administrative (4) Press
2. Which of the following is/are called as fourth estate?
(1) Print media (2) Electronic media
(3) Visual media (4) All the above
3. The Press Council of India has
(1) 25 members (2) 28 members
(3) 30 members (4) 35 members
4. ‘Tabloid Journalism’ is also called
(1) Yellow Journalism (2) Red Journalism
(3) White Journalism (4) None of the above
5. Frequency Modulation (FM) Broadcasting was first introduced in 1977 in
(1) Bombay (2) Delhi
(3) Madras (4) Jalandhar
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
(Optional)
1. Energy is not carried through the medium by
(1) transverse progressive waves
(2) Longitudinal progressive waves
(3) stationary waves
(4) electromagnetic waves
2. An ice-skater, weighing 60 kg moving at 10 m/s glides to a stop. If 80% of the heat generated by friction is
absorbed by the ice, the amount of ice melted will be nearly
(1) 30 g (2) 14 g (3) 7.1 g (4) 4.1 g
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3. Eight chairs are numbered 1 to 8. Two women and three men wish to occupy one chair each. First the women
choose the chairs from amongst the chairs marked 1 to 4; and then the men select the chairs from amongst the
remaining. The number of possible arrangements is
(1) 6C3 × 4C2 (2) 4P2 × 4P3
(3) 4C2 × 4P3 (4) None of these
4. A gas can be liquified by pressure alone when its temperature is
(1) higher than its critical temperature (2) Lower than its critical temperature
(3) Equal to its critical temperature (4) None of the above
5. 20 volumes H2O2 solution has strength of about
(1) 3% (2) 6% (3) 10% (4) 30%
Psychology
(Optional)
1. After a night of heavy drinking, alcoholics are unable to remember where they went or what they did. The next
time they drink, they suddenly remember everything. This illustrates the effect of
(1) Functional fixedness (2) State-dependent memory
(3) Korsakoff’s syndrome (4) Retroactive interference
2. We have a will to power and a will to pleasure, and both of them are self-defeating. This is the theoretical view of
(1) W. Sullivan (2) Gordon Allport
(3) Alfred Adler (4) V.E. Frankl
3. Which of the following could lead to psychopathology?
(1) Fear of failure (2) Self-actualisation
(3) Self-confidence (4) Little gap between real and ideal self
4. Which of the following is primarily a verbal test?
(1) WAIS (2) Stanford-Binet (3) WISC (4) Blacky
5. Which of the following is most firmly supported by experimental evidence?
(1) Psychoanalysis (2) Trait theory
(3) Behaviourism (4) Phenomenology

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