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UGC NET 07th Jan 2026 Shift 2 — Solved Previous Year Questions

UGC NET · Paper 1 — 50 previous year questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

The present ages of three persons are in the proportion 4 : 5 : 7. Seven years ago, the sum of their ages was 59 years. The present age of youngest of them is · Ans: B
In which of the water treatment processes additional BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) is provided to remove the biological material? · Ans: B
In a certain coding language, if the word 'DRIVE' is coded as 'GOLSH', then the word 'COINS' will be coded as: · Ans: C
The Simla conference of 1901 was described by Lord Curzon as: · Ans: C
"Just look around yourself, everything around us is so intelligently organized. Obviously this world must have been created by an intelligent God." Which of the following fallacy is committed in the above argument? · Ans: B
Which of the following ancient university was situated on the banks of the river Krishna in Vidarbha? · Ans: A
If the statement 'No fishes are mammals' is given as false, then which of the following proposition can be immediately inferred to be true? · Ans: A
Which of the following universities were considered as Institutions of National Importance at the commencement of constitution? · Ans: A
Which of the following statements are logically equivalent? · Ans: A
Environmental education must include topics of: · Ans: B
Which of the following statements are true? · Ans: C
Match List I (Commission/Committee) with List II (Chairman). · Ans: D
Which of the following arguments is fallacious because the middle term is present in both positive and negative instances and violates the rule that it should not be present in the negative instances? · Ans: B
Which of the following societies was involved in teaching in high schools and colleges of North India? · Ans: C
An exciting new evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) providing machine-readable and machine-comprehensible information far beyond the current capabilities is called: · Ans: C
'Educational missionaries' initially find western learning as: · Ans: D
What is Bluetooth technology? · Ans: C
When did Christian missionaries start their activities in the Indian subcontinent? · Ans: B
Match List I (Cell Reference) with List II (Definition and Features) in the context of MS Excel. · Ans: A
Which of the following was not an active Anglican missionary society? · Ans: D
Which of the following statements are true with reference to the evolution of WWW? · Ans: D
Which of the following predominantly worked with the lower caste communities in India? · Ans: B
Which of the following can be categorized under electronically-based communication? · Ans: A
If (L) base M represents a number L in base M number system, then identify the correct ascending order of the following numbers A to D, when converted to decimal number system. · Ans: B
Match List I (Term) with List II (Description). · Ans: A
When did India become party to Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)? · Ans: C
For aiming a target a person gets one rupee each time when he hits it and loses one rupee when he misses it. If he gets Rs 40 after aiming at the target one hundred times, then how… · Ans: A
Which of the following is a kind of wave generated during an earthquake? · Ans: C
Three successive discounts of 10%, 25% and 35% on the marked price of an item are equivalent to a single discount of: · Ans: A
Geothermal power plants are much like fossil and nuclear plants with exception of no requirements of: · Ans: B
A car travels from city A to city B with a constant speed. If the speed of the car is increased by 20 km/h it will reach destination 1 hour earlier. On the other hand, if its speed… · Ans: B
What is the correct increasing order of Global Warming Potential (GWP) of the following Green House Gases (GHGs)? · Ans: B
The SWAYAMPRABHA channel : 05 with the theme of 'Information, Communication and Management Studies' is named as: · Ans: C
Which of the following are the prominent features of Self-directed learning? · Ans: C
During a live online math tutorial, a teacher wants to demonstrate problem-solving techniques and equations visually. Which software/tool would best support this instructional method? · Ans: C
Identify the correct statements. · Ans: A
In a research study, a group that experiences the manipulated independent variables is generally known as: · Ans: D
Identify the discrete variables. · Ans: A
Arrange the following statistical measures in increasing order of their values for a given dataset. · Ans: B
Student's t-test is useful for testing the · Ans: D
In mediated communication audience attention is considered as a: · Ans: B
What is the overall respective percentages of marks scored by student A and student B, in all the subjects together? · Ans: D
Which of the following is labelled as the second self? · Ans: D
What is the average marks scored by all the students in the subjects S5 and subject S6, respectively? · Ans: C
The 'interactive society' is characterized by the following: · Ans: B
What is the ratio of the total marks scored by student B in all the subjects to the total marks scored by student E in all subjects? · Ans: B
If for getting first division, a student needs to score minimum 65% marks in aggregate, then the number of students getting first division is: · Ans: D
The marks scored by student B and student C together in subjects S1 is approximately ___% more than the marks scored by student A, student D and student E together in the same subject. · Ans: A
Which of the following are the core social and emotional skills and competencies of self-regulation that are listed under Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)? · Ans: B
An overestimated prediction about the probability of an event based on frequency of the event's past occurrences is known as: · Ans: B

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