UGC NET · Paper 1 — practice MCQs

Free Paper 1 questions for UGC NET, each with the answer and an explanation.

• Agriculture is practiced as an extractive industry and as a result:
• The conversion of land to agricultural purposes indirectly:
• Crop-rotation helps in reducing:
• In some parts of the world, the land is robbed of even cow-dung for:
• What is the destination of eroded soil?
• Arrange the steps in proper sequence to create a mail merge document:
• Arrange the following objectives related to the cognitive domain from lowest to highest level of functioning as proposed…
• Match List I (Scholar) with List II (Institution):
• Basic methods of multiplexing channels include:
• The head of the institution/principal cannot delegate her/his:
• A type of listening which does not mean being negative about what we hear, it means judging or…
• Match List I (Commission/Policy) with List II (Recommendation):
• Arrange the following published works of communication in chronological order on the basis of the year published first:
• The vehicular pollutant 'Lead' can cause
• Which of the following are the examples of group communication?
• While considering the impact of population pressure on India's environment, choose the correct statements from the following:
• Match List I with List II:
• Arrange the following sources of microplastics as found in ocean from their high to low abundance:
• Sequentially arrange the process of research in grounded theory:
• Match List I with List II:
• Which of the following are Hetvabhasas:
• Regulatory functions of forest are:
• Arrange the following events in order of decreasing likelihood of Type-I error:
• Match List I (Concept) with List II (Feature):
• Which of the following are the parts of Nyaya Syllogism:
• Cyber Grooming is aimed at
• Arrange the following in a meaningful order, as in a book:
• Match List I (Stages of Personality Development) with List II (Characteristics):
• Arrange the Eight Limbs (Ashtanga) of yoga correctly:
• Match List I with List II:
• Arrange the following in the increasing order:
• Select the correct statements for the dictum 'Teaching as Science':
• Which frequency bands are defined in RFID?
• A teacher shows a documentary in her class and asks students to critically review it. She is doing
• Match List I (Book) with List II (Author):
• Match List I (Philosophical School) with List II (Pramana, the means of valid knowledge accepted):
• In sociometry, small groups made up of individuals who choose one another are called
• It is the very general or direct meaning of a word. It is the meaning appearing next to…
• If p and q satisfy 3^p + 3^q = 36 and 2 × 3^p + 3 × 3^q…
• Arrange the following items as per their Toxicity Rating for humans from high to low value:
• If a and b are the minimum and maximum of x satisfying 5 + 12/(x + 1/x) =…
• Which part of the proposition denotes the relation between subject and predicate?
• If (2^(x^2) × 8^2) / 8^(2x) = 1/8, then the value of 2^(x^2 - 2x + 1) is…
• Which of the following is/are example(s) of Quasi-Experimental designs?
• The erstwhile Planning Commission is now named as:
• What is the total number of D type books in both the shops?
• In both the shops, the difference in number of books of which type is lowest?
• The number of Type A books in Shop-I is how much percent more than the number of Type…
• Total number of type F books is how much percent of the total number of books in both…
• The average of the numbers of all type of books in the Shop-I is how much percent of…
• Which of the following are the major recommendations of NEP-2020 related to higher education? Choose the correct answer:
• For which purposes is the UGC established? Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
• Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the options given below:
• How many Indian languages have been declared endangered by UNESCO?
• Who chaired the first committee constituted by the Government of India on Women's education after independence?
• Arrange the following in the chronological order of their occurrence and choose the correct answer from the options…
• The country which has the highest number of higher education institutions is:
• NSQF organises qualification according to a series of levels of
• U in AYUSH stands for:
• Based on the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, the UGC has introduced:
• Which one of the following is not an objective of higher education?
• As a result of Wood's Despatch, which of the following universities were established in 1857?
• Which of the following is NOT a parameter for ranking according to NIRF?
• ERIC is a unit in which one of the following organisations?
• Which one of the following is regarded as the 'Magna Carta of English Education' in India?
• As per NEP-2020, the responsibility to develop the Adult Educator Framework has been given to which one of…
• Match the regulatory institutions proposed under NEP-2020 in List I with their responsibilities in List II and select…
• Arrange the following states in the descending order of their Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education.
• As per NEP-2020, a Master's programme can be of which of the following durations?
• From the following, which bodies are NOT statutory in nature?
• A 'Deemed to be University' comes into existence through
• Which was the first education commission constituted in independent India?
• Which one of the following is an apex advisory body that is non-statutory in nature?
• Which of the following new bodies are proposed to be set up under NEP-2020?
• Which of the following ancient seats of learning have been inscribed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites?
• From the list below, which institutions are Central Universities?
• Match the days observed in List I with their correct dates in List II and select the right…
• Match the functions in List I with the corresponding regulatory bodies in List II and select the correct…
• As envisaged in NEP-2020, the new curricular and pedagogical structure for school education is
• In the sphere of higher education, which national body was directed by the Supreme Court to design and…
• Match the organisations in List I with their locations in List II and select the correct code from…
• Two statements are given below, one marked as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). In the…
• In education, the term 'disruptive technologies' essentially refers to
• The abbreviation HEFA stands for
• In order to be eligible for the status of 'Deemed to be University', an institution, among other essential…
• Which of the following sequences correctly reflects the development of teaching support systems in Indian higher education?
• For research in policy-relevant areas, which of the following organizations is entrusted with the initiative 'IMPRESS'?
• In which of the following portals is a list of online courses included?
• In the context of value education, which of the following stages will be considered a relatively advanced stage?
• What are the advantages of the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) introduced by the UGC for higher education…
• Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from…
• Which of the following come under the mandate of the University Grants Commission (UGC)?
• Which of the following form part of the criteria for assessment of higher education institutions as laid down…
• What were the important observations of the Education Commission (Pre-independence) 1882-83?
• In ancient India, the eligibility criterion in respect of age for students seeking admission to Takshashila University was…
• MHRD's scheme 'VIDWAN' is aimed at
• Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from…
• Which committee/commission recommended the choice-based credit system in higher education?
• An Inter-University Centre for Yogic Sciences has been set up by the University Grants Commission in the state…
• Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from…

Previous-year papers

Practise Paper 1 →