Amity University 2007 M.A Amity Common Admission Test – for PG - Question Paper

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 identical 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 latest 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 subsequent devices send and receive info 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 subsequent is/are called as 4th 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 1st 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. 8 chairs are numbered one to 8. 2 women and 3 men wish to occupy 1 chair every. 1st the women
select the chairs from amongst the chairs marked one to 4; and then the men choose 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 quantities 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 every thing. 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 subsequent could lead to psychopathology?
(1) Fear of failure (2) Self-actualisation
(3) Self-confidence (4) Little gap ranging from real and ideal self
4. Which of the subsequent is primarily a verbal test?
(1) WAIS (2) Stanford-Binet (3) Wisc (4) Blacky
5. Which of the subsequent is most firmly supported by experimental evidence?
(1) Psychoanalysis (2) Trait theory
(3) Behaviourism (4) Phenomenology

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