| Post Name | HSST ECONOMICS - JUNIOR - SR FOR SC/ST |
|---|---|
| Department | KHSE |
| Question Paper Code | 064/2016/OL |
| Category Code | 691/2014 |
| Date of Test | 1 August 2016 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Name the British missionary who opened an English school at Mattancherry ?
Answer
A. J Dawson
2
Who established 'Samathwa Samajam' in 1836 ?
Answer
B. Vaikunta Swami
3
When was approach roads to Vaikam temple thrown open to all Hindus ?
Answer
C. 1928
4
Who started the newspaper 'Kerala Kaumudi' ?
Answer
D. C. V. Kunhiraman
5
Who was the editor and founder of the magazine 'Shrimati' ?
Answer
B. Anna Chandi
6
From where was Kerala's first newspaper 'Kerala Samacharam' published ?
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C. Tellicherry
7
When was Panchayati Raj Act passed in Kerala ?
Answer
A. 1960
8
Who is known to the world of letters by his title 'Kerala Panini' ?
Answer
D. A. R. Raja Raja Varma
9
Which district introduced 'Kudumasree Scheme' in Kerala ?
Answer
D. Alappuzha
10
Which Chief Minister brought 'Dies non' law of Kerala ?
Answer
C. C. Achyutha Menon
11
Arrange the following teaching process in their order of sequence. i) Presenting subject matter ii) Setting instructional objectives iii) Asking evaluating questions iv) Testing previous knowledge v) Re-teaching the hard spots
Answer
C. ii, iv, i, iii, v
12
Which of the following belong to a projected aid ?
Answer
B. Epidiascope
13
Which of the following is a teacher education technique which allows teachers to apply clearly defined teaching skills ?
Answer
D. Micro teaching
14
The most appropriate purpose of learning is
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B. Positive behaviour adaptation
15
If the test is taken again by the same students under the same circumstances the score average is almost the constant. This quality of a test is
Answer
D. Reliability
16
Which type of Research method places its emphasis on a problem here and now in a local setting ?
Answer
A. Action Research
17
Which of the following determine the type of data to be required and the type of methods of data analysis to be used in research ?
Answer
A. Hypothesis
18
A meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentation
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D. Symposium
19
'Sampling frame' means
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A. Preparing a complete list of units of a finite population for drawing a sample
20
Which of the following characteristic cannot be considered a quality of good hypothesis ?
Answer
C. Modifiability
21
Which of the following determines that the Indian Constitution is federal ?
Answer
D. Distribution of powers between the Centre and the States
22
The term 'cabinet' is mentioned in which of the following articles of the Constitution ?
Answer
C. Art. 352
23
The institution of Lokayukta was created for the first time by the state of
Answer
A. Maharashtra
24
Which of the following writs is not specifically provided in the Constitution of India ?
Answer
B. Injection
25
Consider the following 1. Right to education 2. Right to equal access to public service 3. Right to food Which of the above is/are Human Right/Human Rights under "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
Answer
D. 1, 2 and 3
26
When was India ratified the CEDOW treaty ?
Answer
C. 1994
27
Under which Constitution Article the Indian government enacted the Environment Protection Act of 1986 ?
Answer
A. Article 253
28
Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) was introduced in India on
Answer
B. August 15, 1983
29
The National Food Security Act was passed in the Indian Parliament in
Answer
B. 12 September 2013
30
NGOs receiving over 95% of their infrastructure funds from the government come under the Right to Information Act in the year
Answer
C. 2014
31
The process of deriving economic generalizations on the basis of observations and experiences is called
Answer
B. Inductive method
32
The book 'Value and Capital' has been authored by
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D. J. R. Hicks
33
The revealed preference theory is based on the postulation of
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B. Strong ordering preference
34
In the production process a firm will shut down when the price falls below
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C. The average variable cost
35
When a monopolist is able to sell each separate unit of a product at a different price, a situation of
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A. Price discrimination of first degree exists
36
In the kinked demand curve hypothesis, the segment of demand curve above the prevailing price is
Answer
C. Highly elastic
37
The speculative demand for money is an inverse function of
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D. Rate of interest
38
The constancy of labour share in the national income has been explained by Kalecki on the basis of
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B. The monopoly theory of distribution
39
The marginal conditions to be fulfilled for the attainment of Pareto optimality were given by
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D. Lerner and Hicks
40
Euler's product exhaustion theorem will be applied only in the case of production functions with
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B. Constant returns to scale
41
The fundamental assumption of Absolute Income Hypothesis is
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A. Consumption - Income relationship is reversible
42
In the Fishers equation of exchange MV = PT, the variable 'V' stands for
Answer
B. Velocity of circulation of money
43
The level of unemployment at which a constant rate of inflation may be maintained is called
Answer
D. Natural rate of unemployment
44
Money that has no intrinsic value but established by a government decree is known as
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A. Fiat money
45
Money supply curve in the Keynesian analysis of liquidity preference is
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A. Vertical straight line
46
The LM curve will shift to right when there is an
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C. Increase in the money supply
47
The basic proposition of the psychological law of consumption is that
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C. MPC is positive but less than unity
48
The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change in the wage rate, according to A. W. Phillips is
Answer
A. Inverse and non-linear
49
The expansion and contraction process in the business cycle model of Kaldaor is brought about by the
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C. Stock of capital
50
Monetarism postulates that
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A. Money is a substitute for a wide range of real and financial assets but no single asset is a close substitute for money
51
The theory of vicious circle deals with
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C. Poverty
52
The marginal productivity of labour under the state of disguised unemployment is
Answer
B. Equal to zero
53
The theory of Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour argues for
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D. Shifting of labour with zero marginal productivity from agriculture to industry
54
The technique which provides numerical solution to the problem of making optimum in the context of given constraints
Answer
A. Linear programming
55
The book 'Asian Drama' has been written by
Answer
A. Gunar Myrdal
56
In the model of Golden Age, equilibrium is attained when
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C. Rate of growth of capital is equal to the rate of growth of labour
57
The knife edge equilibrium is attained at the point where
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D. G = Gn = Gw
58
P. C. Mahalanobis was the architect of
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B. Second five year plan
59
The Planning Commission has been replaced in India by
Answer
B. Niti Aayog
60
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was established in the year
Answer
C. 1982
61
The situation where a country simultaneously import and export the same product is called
Answer
D. Intra-industry trade
62
The phenomenon of Dutch Disease has been advanced to explain the existence of
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B. Non traded goods sector in an economy
63
Which of the following theory suggests that labour cost will be the determinant of trade and the country with the lower labour cost will be the exporter of that commodity ?
Answer
C. Theory of comparative advantage
64
The dead weight loss of tariff implies
Answer
A. Production loss and consumption loss due to tariff
65
The concepts of trade creation and trade diversion in the theory of customs union was introduced by
Answer
C. Jacob Viner
66
The first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was held in
Answer
D. Geneva
67
The investment in a foreign country where the investing party does not seek control over the investment is the typical case of
Answer
B. Foreign portfolio investment
68
The current account in the BOP records
Answer
A. Exports and imports of goods and services and unilateral transfers
69
A floating exchange rate will be stable if
Answer
A. An appreication of the domestic currency leads to an excess demand for the foreign currency
70
The factor which enables both exporters and importers to protect against the risk of exchange rate fluctuation is
Answer
C. Hedging
71
In the equation for consumption function C = a + bY, b means
Answer
A. MPC
72
The density of population in India by the 2011 census is
Answer
D. 382
73
The food grains production in India crossed 250 million tones for the first time during the year
Answer
D. 2011-12
74
During the last decade, the highest growth rate was recorded in India in the
Answer
C. Service sector
75
The average annual growth rate of the GDP in India during the post reform period is
Answer
A. 6.5 percent
76
The flagship programme to enhance livelihood security of households by providing guaranteed wage employment for at least one hundred days
Answer
C. MGNREGP
77
Among the following, the excluded item from the currency component of money supply (M₁) in India
Answer
D. Cash held by commercial banks
78
The committee which was appointed in 1991 to examine the structure, organization, function and procedures of the financial system in India
Answer
C. Narasimham Committee
79
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established in the year
Answer
B. 1988
80
The term vertical imbalance in fiscal federalism implies
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A. The financial imbalance between the Centre and the States
81
The new classical theory of business cycle argues that
Answer
C. Economic fluctuations are responses to uncertainty in the rate of technological progress
82
The term 'saltwater' has been used to represent the approaches of
Answer
A. New Keynesians
83
The insider-outsider models seek to explain
Answer
D. Why wage rigidity persists in the face of involuntary unemployment
84
Euro dollar deposit in the Euro currency market means
Answer
B. A time deposit denominated in dollar but made with a bank outside the United States
85
The main objective of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) introduced recently in India is
Answer
A. To direct subsidy to the families of BPL
86
For a square matrix A there exists an inverse only if
Answer
D. A is non singular
87
For the demand function X = 27/P³, the elasticity of demand is
Answer
C. 3
88
For a highly heterogeneous population we use
Answer
A. Stratified sampling
89
The two lines of regression are given as x + 2y — 5 = 0 and 2x + 3y = 8 then the mean values of x and y respectively are
Answer
B. 1, 2
90
In the simultaneous tossing of two perfect dice, the probability of obtaining 4 as the sum of the resultant faces is
Answer
B. 1/12
91
Let θ be an unknown parameter and T₁ be an unbiased estimator of θ. If Var(T₁) < Var(T₂), for T₂ to be any other unbiased estimator, then T₁ is known as
Answer
A. Minimum variance unbiased estimator
92
While testing the significance of the difference of two sample means in case of small samples, we use
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C. T test
93
A market with a single buyer is called
Answer
A. Monopsony
94
The evaluative report of the economy being presented in the Parliament prior to the presentation of union budget by the Finance Minister
Answer
C. Economic survey
95
Substitution effect is positive but income effect is negative for
Answer
D. Inferior goods
96
According to inter temporal substitution model, workers will substitute work for leisure if
Answer
B. The increase in the wage rate is only temporary
97
The stage theory of growth was postulated by
Answer
A. W. W. Rostow
98
Laffer Curve is related to
Answer
B. Supply side economics
99
According to 2015 report, the global position of India in the consumption of oil is
Answer
C. Third
100
The term inside trading applies to
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D. Share market
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