Test Papers / Previous Question Papers of IGNOU PSS01/PCO01 Preparatory Course in Social Sciences/Commerce June 2006

Term-End Examination
Bachelor's Prepartory Programme (B.P.P.)

(For Non 10+2)

PSS-01/PCO-01:Preparatory Course in Social Sciences/
Preparatory Course in Commerce

June, 2006

Time : 120 Minutes

1.All questions are compulsory, each of which carries one mark

Preparatory Course in Social Sciences (PSS-01) Questions 1-50

2. Each question has four alternatives one of which is correct. Write the SI.No. of you correct alternatives/answers below the corresponding question number in the answer sheet and then mark the rectangle for the same number in that column. If you find that none of the given alternatives is correct then write 0 and mark in column 0.

3. Do not waste time in reading the whole question paper. Go on solving questions one by one. Yoy may come back to the left out questions, if you have time at the end.

PSS-01 : Preparatory Course in Social Sciences

1. which of the following statements is correct with regard to power ?

(1) It is the capacity to control others
(2) Power is inherently neither good nor bad
(3) Power is independent of a person
(4) All the above

2. Which among the following is not a source of power ?

(1) Numerical strength
(2) Organisation
(3) Divine blessings
(4) Resources

3. which among the following belongs to the'category of Free Goods ?

(1) Car
(2) Bread
(3) Air
(4) Cycle

4. Subsistence Production is

(1) Production for the market
(2) Production for.self-consumption
(3) Production for both self and the market
(4) None of the above

5. Which of the following is not an economic process ?

(1) Consumption
(2) Capital formation
(3) Acculturation
(4) Growth and Industrialisation

6. which among the folowing is not a factor input (vis-i-vis production) ?

(1) Land
(2) Labour
(3) Capital
(4) Raw materials

7. Which among the following is a producer good ?

(1) Machinery
(2) Fruits
(3) Vegetables
(4) Milk

8. Income received from land/property is

(1) Profrt
(2) Interest
(3) Rent
(4) Wage

9. Which of the following is not considered as a value of modern Indian society ?

(1) Brotherhood of humankind
(2) Loyalty to the nation
(3) Equal opportunity for all
(4) Loyalty to a particular religion

10. Which of the following statements is incorrecf with regard to the distinction between Growth and Development ?

(1) The two mean one and the same thing
(2) Development is wider in meaning and scope
(3) Growth is usually measured in economic terms only
(4) A developed country normally will have a good growth rate

11. Patrilocal residence refers to

(1) A girl staying with her mother's family after marriage
(2) A girl staying with her husband's family after marriage
(3) A girl staying with her father's family after marriage
(4) A girl staying with her friend's family after marriage

12. Which among the following countries did, notjoin the League of Nations ?

(1) Former USSR
(D USA
(3) JaPan
(4) Germany

13. Which among the following is not a constituent of the United Nations ?

(1) WHO
(D IMF
(3) WTO
(4) IBRD

14. Who among the following is not a permanent member of the UN Security council ?

(1) France
(2) USSR
(3) Russia
(4) China

15. The decisions of the UN are

(1) Binding on the member states
(2) Not binding on the member states
(3) Binding at times
(4) Binding only on non-perrnanent members of the security council

16. which among the following is not a feature of the Indian economy ?

(1) Low per capita income
(2) Predominance of the agricultural sector
(3) Equal distribution of income
(4) Abundance of human resource

17. Which among the following is not an economic agent ?

(1) Household
(2) NGO
(3) Enterprise
(4) School

18. Which among the following comes within the primary sector of the economy ?

(1) Construction
(Z) Water supply
(3) Agriculture
(4) Transport

19. Class society is generally divided as follows :

(1) Feudal and Capitalist
(2) Ancient (including slave society) and Feudal
(3) Ancient, Feudal and Capitalist
(4) Ancient and Capitalist

20. The earliest human society is described as

(1) State of savagery and barbarism
(2) Pre-class society
(3) Pre-historicsociety
(4) Atl the abovem

21. The union List contains the following number of items for legislation :

(1) 66
(2) 47
(3) e7
(4) 100

22. The Rajya Sabha can have a maximum strength of

(1) 545
(2) 250
(3) 420
(4) 119

23. which is the community whose members can be nominated to the Lok Sabha by the President ?

(1) Parsi
(2) Gujjar
(3) Anglo-Indian
(4) Dalit

24. which among the following states does not have a Legislative council ?

(1) Rajasthan
Q) West Bengal
(3) Punjab
(4) Tamil Nadu

25. The normal tenure of a State Assembly is

(1) 6 years
(2) 5 years
(3) 4 years
(4) 3 years

26. which among the following is a feature of the presidential form of government ?

(1) Based on separation of powers
(2) Direct election of the president
(3) Presidential tenure not linked to the regislative tenure
(4) All the above

27. At the Central level, the Indian executive comprises

(1) The President and the Vice_president
(2) The President and the prime Minister
(3) The President, the vice-President and the Ministerial council headed by the prime Minister
(4) The Vice-president and the prime Minister

28. who among the following used the term'riny Republics'to describe village India ? governments in

(1) E.M. Forster
(2) M.K. Gandhi
(3) Charles Metcalfe
(4) Rudyard Kipting

29. Which of the following has not been classified by the Ashok Mehta committee on Panchayati Raj as one of its functions?

(1) Promotional
(2) Conventional
(3) Educational
(4) Municipal

30. which among the following is a form of business organisation ?

(1) Sole Proprietorship
(2) Joint Stock Company
(3) Partnership
(4) All the above

31. which of the following statement(s) is/are ineorrect vis-d-vis acculturation ?

(1) Acculturation commences when two cultures come in close and lasting contact
(2) Acculturation involves blending of two cultures
(3) Acculturation results in increased simitarities between two cultures
(4) All the above

32. Which of the following is a negative consequence of rural to urban migration ?

(1) Creation of slums
(2) Environmental pollution
(3) Increase in crime
(4) All the above

33. Which of the following is not a weakness of the parliamentary form of government ?

(1) Heavily dependent on the Prime Minister's personality
(2) Executive's responsibility to the legislature
(3) Partisan spirit within the legislature
(4) Waste of time

34. Habeas Corpus is

(1) An order enforeing duties
(2) An order to produce an arrested person before the court
(3) An order regarding the legality of public offrce
(4) All the above

35. Which of the following steps can improve the inter-relationship between the bureaucracy and the political leadership ?

(1) Creation of mutual understanding instead of suspicion
(2) Non-interference by the politicians in day-to-day administration
(3) Not pressurising the bureaucracy to deviate from declared policies
(4) AII the above

36. Capital formation does nof necessarily. involve the following :

(1) Savings
(D Investments
(3) Democratic governance
(4) Mobilisation of financial resources

37. Industrialisation does zof involve the following :

(1) Division of labour
(2) Non-specialised skills
(3) Mechanicalproduction
(4) Fower driven machinery

38. Industrialisation frrst occurred in

(1) USA
(2) Japan t
(3) Great Britain
(4) Germany

39. The Brahmo Samaj was founded by

(1) Raja Rammohan Roy
(2) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(3) Swami Vivekananda
(4) Madam Blavatskv

40. Who among the following was not associated with the Brahmo Samaj Movement ?

(1) Devendranath Tagore
(2) Shibnath Shastri
(3) Dayanand Saraswati
(4) Keshab Chandra Sen

41. Who among the following was the key frgure behind legislation banning polygamy and child marriage ?

(1) Jyoti Rao Phule
(2) Rammohan Roy
(3) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(4) B.R. Ambedkar

42. Cultural change can be brought about by the following :

(1) Discovery
(2) Invention
(3) Ecological change
(4) All the above

43. Which among the followin g is incorrecf with regard to the educational system in modern societies ?

(1) Provision of formal education
(2) Provision of informal education
(3) Mass education
(4) Diversification

44. The statement 'swaraj is my Birthright'is attributed to

(1) Mahatma Gandhi
Q) Lokmanya Tilak
(3) Subhash Chandra Bose
(4) Rani Laxmi Bai

45. Fundamental Duties were added to the Indian constitution by the

(1) 73'd following AmendmentK
(2) 74th
(3) 42nd
(4) 41st

46. Who among the following is exempted from criminal action during his/her tenure

(1) The President
(2) The State Governor
(3) Both the president and the State Governor
(4) The Prime Minister

47. Democracy can do without

(1) Legislature
(2) Judiciary
(3) Free Press
(4) Organised religion

48. The English East India company was estabrished in

(1) 1600 A.D.
(2) 1757 A.D
. (3) 1764 A.D.
(4) 1857 A.D.

49. The Quit India Movement was launched in

(1) 1940
(2) 1941
(3) 1942
(4) 1943

50. During British rule, the frrst instance of politicar participation by workers was

(1) Opposition to the Simon Commission Report (192g)
(2) Support to the Royal Naval Mutiny (1946)
(3) Strike by Mumbai factory workers (1903)
(4) Workers, strike in Ahmedabad (191g)