TISSNET 2014

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For the following questions answer them individually
TISSNET 2014 - Question 1

What is Archipelago?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 2

What is the main feature of the Dead sea ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 3

Theodolite is a precision instrument used for measuring ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 4

Which of these is a name never used to describe India in the ancient period ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 5

Which of the following dynasties was a Brahmin dynasty ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 6

The grand constructions of Madurai are attributed to which dynasty?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 7

Who was the first Sultan of Delhi?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 8

Meru which is to be considered to be the abode of Lord Vishnu is to be found today in which one of the following countries?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 9

In which year did the Glorious revolution occurred in England ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 10

Who actually wrote the Declaration of Independence of America?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 11

As per the American declaration of Independence the true meaning of freedom of speech is referred to

TISSNET 2014 - Question 12

Adolf Hitler's rule in Germany is referred to as

TISSNET 2014 - Question 13

The head of the Church of England or the Protestant church is

TISSNET 2014 - Question 14

Which of the following as a French Monarchial Dynasty?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 15

Russian revolution of 1917 is called as

TISSNET 2014 - Question 16

Who among the following has been the Brand Ambassador of National Tobacco Control Campaign?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 18

Who among the following is the Chairman of the Government of India’s ‘National Ganga River Basin Authority’?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 19

The world Consumer's Rights day is celebrated across the world on?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 20

Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in the following year

TISSNET 2014 - Question 21

____________ has been on a fast for over a decade to protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 22

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 applies to

TISSNET 2014 - Question 23

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that was in the news for the controversy over issue of alleged Human Rights violations was hosted by?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 24

Recent decision of the Supreme Court to give Indian voters an option for negative voting is called?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 25

The 16th Non-Alignment summit was held in 2012 was hosted by one of these countries?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 26

The Supreme Court of India recently gave a verdict against one of the following companies on patent claims for cancer drugs?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 27

The painting ‘Hamsa Damayanti’ is a masterpiece of ?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 28

“India wins Freedom” is an autobiography written by?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 29

The author of the novel “Walden Two” is?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 30

Which among the following economists is the author of the book ‘Development as Freedom’?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 31

On a certain day when interviews for Master Degree courses were going on, it was found that 35 students attended interviews for MA Education, 47 students attended interviews for MSW and among the 2 groups, 12 students attended both. What is the total number of students who attended either of the interviews?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 32

Among a group of 60 people who like Indian classical music, 38 like Hindustani music & 46 like Carnatic music. How many like both Hindustani & Carnatic?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 33

Riaz distributes 20 copies of The Hindu and 25 copies of Deccan Chronicle in an apartment building that has 40 apartments. If he distributes at least one newspaper to each apartment, the number of apartments that buy only The Hindu is

TISSNET 2014 - Question 34

Among a group of children, 6 children like only chocolate ice cream and 5 children like only butter scotch ice cream and 5 like either of the two. If each child gets an ice cream, how many ice creams should we order?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 35

Of the 850 students who wrote an entrance examination at a center, 550 did very well in the Mathematics and Logical reasoning paper, 600 did very well in English language proficiency and 350 did very well in both. How many students did not do very well in Mathematics and Logical reasoning?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 41

Look at this series: 664, 332, 340, 170, …, 89. 

What number should fill the blank?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 43

Using the digits 6,5,4,3,2,1 without repetition, how many three digit numbers can one make?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 45

MA education students have to choose one pedagogy course from an option of three (Mathematics, Science and Language) and one thematic course from an option of two (Leadership, Social justice) along with the compulsory courses. How many different combinations of optional courses are possible?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 46

If 6 people working 8 hours a day can finish a work in 12 days, how many days will it take for 4 people working 8 hours a day to finish the same work?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 48

If machine A needs 2 hours to finish a work, machine B 3 hours and machine C 6 hours to finish the same work, how long will it take for machines A, B and C to complete the work if they work simultaneously?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 49

A and B working together finish a work in 6 hours. A can finish the work in 10 hours. How long will it take for B to finish the same work alone?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 50

A car takes 25 minutes to travel from one point to another at an average speed of 40 km/hr. What is the approximate distance between the 2 points?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 51

It took Ramya 15 minutes more than the usual time to travel the distance from her home to office today. If her speed today was 2/3rd of her usual speed, what is the usual time it takes for her to travel the same distance?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 52

Rashmi got into a city bus at 12:50 pm and travelled a distance of about 27 kms and reached her destination at 1:35 pm. What is the average speed at which the bus was moving?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 53

In a larger circular pool of 20 feet diameter, two frogs start swimming from east and west ends of the pool (named A & C respectively) towards a worm on the northern edge of the pool at point B. What is the measure of the angle ABC?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 54

If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon measures up to 1440 degrees, how many sides does the polygon have?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 55

A rectangular field has an area of 20 sq. km. If the perimeter of the field is 18 km, what is the length of the longer side of the field?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 57

A certain amount of money is divided amongst three friends, Amar, Akbar and Anthony in the ratio $$2 : 3 : 7$$ respectively. If Anthony gets Rs. 15 more than Amar, how much money does Akbar get?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 58

A metal is made of Copper, Zinc and Lead which were in the ratio of $$13 : 6 : 1$$. The mass of Zinc is 90 kg. What is the mass of copper in the metal?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 59

Ramesh invests Rs. 1400 in an account that earns simple interest. After 9 months, the balance is Rs. 1421. What is the annual interest rate?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 62

If some bags are packets and no packet is a pouch.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 64

What is the missing term in the following series: ELFA, GLHA, ILJA, ….., MLNA

TISSNET 2014 - Question 65

Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 68

MIRROR : REFLECTION

TISSNET 2014 - Question 69

ASHEN : COLOR

TISSNET 2014 - Question 70

AFTER : BEFORE

TISSNET 2014 - Question 71

DESTITUTE : WEALTHY

TISSNET 2014 - Question 72

TACITURN:VOLUBLE

TISSNET 2014 - Question 73

I was certain she had visited this place because it was _________ with her smells.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 74

After several ______ attempts to send the missile into space, the spacecraft was finally launched successfully.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 75

All other issues are __________ to the need to provide food and medical supplies.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 76

Curiously enough instead of inviting _________ their deviousness was regarded by many as being ________.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 77

The decision taken by the board was perceived as being ______ leading to widespread _________ among the workers who were already disillusioned with the management.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 78

The recent steps to _________ the prices of essential commodities has resulted in a _______ atmosphere with regard to the future of the economy.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 79

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to _____ and ______ political power over government.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 80

TRAVESTY: The trial was a travesty of justice leading to widespread disillusionment with the entire process.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 81

Popular culture continues to generate _________ amounts of name-calling and countless wars across the Internet, such as the _________ debates between fans of Star Trek and Star Wars.

Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most inappropriate in the given context:

TISSNET 2014 - Question 82

DEFICIENT: He was not hired for the job since he was found to be deficient in his understanding of the business.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 83

COMPLICIT: The judge handed him a punishment since the evidence showed that he was complicit in the crime that led to the death of the victim.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 84

ESCHEW: My policy has always been to eschew speaking ill of others since it creates unnecessary negativity.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 85

FLUSTERED: He was so flustered when he realized what was going on that he wouldn’t have recognized his own mother.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 86

SPECIOUS: His arguments and specious comparisons are bogus and not worth seriously entertaining, in my humble opinion.

For the following questions answer them individually
TISSNET 2014 - Question 87

A. Their chests were puffed out like those of pouter penguins and they had battle-ready vigour.
B. After about ten minutes the designated soldiers on each side lowered their flags and the sunset showdown was over for the day.
C. Soldiers on each side marched up to their opposite numbers
D. As the bugles sounded loud and clear, the ceremony began.
E. The crowd on both sides erupted into a frenzy of shouting cheering their own country.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 88

A. A tactile though indirect connection bound the giver with the receiver.
B. On the heels of the bread servers came others carrying steel buckets.
C. Instead of using spoons or ladles, the servers simply took out handfuls of the pilaf from their bucket and deposited it on our plates.
D. They ladled out large portions of ‘kali dal’ - legumes that had not been husked.
E. After that, came the rice that was a pilaf-like concoction glistening with ghee.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 89

A.Many an accident has taken place on this route.
B. Today again, driving enthusiasts wait with bated breath for the Rohtang La to open to take a jaunt to Leh.
C. And yet the beauty of the place and the thrill of adventure beckon many a tourist every year.
D. The landscape remains as beguiling and awe-inspiring as ever.
E. Even 10 years ago, this epic Himalayan journey was a risky endeavor.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 90

A. He chewed it and noted its quality and its good taste.
B. There was no stringiness in it and he knew that it would bring the highest price in the market.
C. But there was no way to keep it from going bad.
D. It was firm and juicy, like meat, but it was not red.
E. He leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish.

Reading Comprehension:

The strength of the pharmaceutical industry is evident in the existence of 5,877 manufacturing units in India producing 20,000 formulations under 8,000 branded names. This rosy picture of the pharmaceutical industry however is reflected neither in availability of drugs for important public health problems nor in the affordability of drugs for domestic users. The innumerable formulationsproduced, packaged and sold by pharmaceutical companies do not reflect the seriousness of important public health requirements in India. Take for example, formulations to treat iron deficiency anemia, a highly prevalent public health problem affecting the majority of adolescent girls and pregnant women. If we examine the iron preparations that are in the 300 top selling drugs in India, none of them is the simple iron sulphate and folic acid tablet that the National List of
Essential Medicines (NLEM) recommends. In addition, a course of drugs to treat this ailment could cost a wage laborer up to two months wages.

There are over 20,000 drug formulations in India. Their prices are poorly regulated, if at all. There is wide variation between the minimum and maximum cost of drugs for a range of medicinal classes. Among commonly used drugs in clinical practice, such as antibiotics, anti-hypertensives and diabetic drugs, prices often vary from 2 to 20 times between the minimum and maximum price bands. Drugs for conditions like cancer, rheumatological diseases and erectile dysfunction have a 20-fold price variation across brands. The pharmaceutical sector is the only one in India (and probably in the world) where government tender procurement prices are 1 to 3 per cent of the retail market prices! This if anything indicates the level of overpricing at the retail level. An example: a drug company bids to supply albendazole 400 mg tablets, a medicine for worms, to the Tamil Nadu government at a mere 35 paise per tablet, while brands of this drug sell for Rs.16 in the open market. Thus, while the markets have been profitable for the pharmaceutical industry, they have been disastrous for the end-users who are hit both by the disease and the unaffordable medications that they are made to buy.

We may infer therefore that the cost of branded medications (or branded generics) is several times the cost of the unbranded generics of the same drug. For drug companies, the only criterion seems to be - both logically and internationally - to sell at what the market can take, and this means at the perceived (not the same as real, scientific) value of the drug. Further in India, the same drug is sold at vastly different prices by equally reputed companies and often by the same company.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 91

According to the author what does the availability of drugs with over 20,000 formulations indicate in the present scenario?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 92

In the overall context of the passage, what does the example of iron deficiency illustrate?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 93

What is the clearest indicator of overpricing of drugs?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 94

What is the main argument extended by the author in the passage given above?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 95

How may we understand the author’s use of the phrase “perceived value of the drug”?

Reading Comprehension:

Social psychology is as old as homosapiens on this earth. Throughout the recorded history, social nature of man has intrigued scholars, artists, and social reformers. Their work has significant bearing on understanding how people relate with others and conduct their social life. Scriptures, artifacts, music, poetry, all have contributed to this endeavour. What has intrigued scholars is the evidence of both, universality and uniqueness of social behaviour in different cultures. People have lived together in all cultures as family, community and nation, though they may not have learned to live together in peace. Human nature has essentially remained the same ever since. It seems that many of the questions which ancient social psychology raised are the same which contemporary social psychology is striving to answer. However, rapid social, economic, and political changes sweeping across the oceans and continents have thrown up many new questions for social psychologists. Many new theories and methods are being developed to unravel general principles of social interaction. It is therefore, not surprising that the quests and concerns in discourses of Plato and Aristotle were similar to those of the ancient Indian thinkers, like Manu, Gautam, Yagyavalkya and Kautilya. They were all concerned with the sustenance of social institutions to uphold the social code of conduct, while preserving human freedom. It was always considered important that people get socialized to conform to social authority and internalize family values and traditions. At the same time all societies have experimented with various systems to strike a match between social norms and individual aspirations. Social conflicts, violence, exploitations throughout the ages had kept social thinkers busy to examine geneses and expound solutions. Social psychology has evolved as a discipline to grapple with the issues of understanding social interactional process. The endeavour is to find ways to maintain ideal social conditions in which people can live together in peace and harmony.


However, apart from this common quest to understand and transform human behaviour, there are differences in the world-views; the ways in which the social reality is analyzed, explained and rendered meaningful in western and non-western cultures, like India. The difference is not just in erms of the methods of inquiry but more basic in terms of ontological reality of human existence. The comparison is further complicated by the fact that whereas Indian sages concentrated on the 'ideal' state, the Western scholars focused on observed reality of the interaction between man and society. The purpose of juxtaposing world-views of these different societies here is to examine the progress of western social psychology and its implications for understanding social issues and problems we are facing in India. A critical appraisal would enable us to view the knowledge base of social psychology with particular reference to Indian work.

TISSNET 2014 - Question 96

Scholars of social psychology have been fascinated by

TISSNET 2014 - Question 97

Why is it that many of the questions which ancient social psychology raised (seem to be) the same which contemporary social psychology is striving to answer?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 98

Who was concerned with the sustenance of social institutions?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 99

What is the role of ‘family values and traditions’ in social psychology?

TISSNET 2014 - Question 100

Why do the authors intend to critically analyse western research in social psychology?

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