QUIZ on ICT

Test Your Knowledge on ICT (Question 16 - 20)

Instructions: Click the answer button to see the correct option.

16. Where would you find QWERTY ?
(A) Mouse
(B) Keyboard
(C) Numeric keyboard
(D) Printer

17. What are the individual dots which make up a picture on the monitor screen called ?
(A) Pixels
(B) Colored spots
(C) Pixies
(D) dpi

18. What do you need in an ink jet printer ?
(A) Cartridge
(B) Ribbon
(C) Ink pot
(D) Drum

19. Formatting a disc results in all the data being ?
(A) Copied from the disc
(B) Deleted from the disc
(C) Copied from the disc
(D) Moved from the disc

20. Which generation of computers were developed using intergrated circuits ?
(A) First generation
(B) Second generation
(C) Third generation
(D) Fourth generation

QUIZ on ICT

Test Your Knowledge on ICT (Question 11 - 15)

Instructions: Click the answer button to see the correct option.

11. The service not provided by Internet is -
(A) Blogs
(B) E-mail
(C) Bulletin board
(D) Photocopy

12. FTP stands for ?
(A) File Transmisison Protocol
(B) File Transfer Protocol
(C) Free Transit Protocol
(D) File Transfer Protector

13. Which one is not an example of Operating System ?
(A) Mac
(B) Windows
(C) MS Office
(D) Linux

14. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozila are examples of -
(A) Search Engines
(B) Web Broswers
(C) Operating Systems
(D) Web portals

15. XML stands for -
(A) Extended Mark Label
(B) Extended Mark up Language
(C) External Machine Language
(D) Extreme Margin Level

QUIZ on ICT

Test Your Knowledge on ICT (Question 6 - 10)

Instructions: Click the answer button to see the correct option.

6. Which one of the following is not a network device - (UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) Router
(B) Switch
(C) Hub
(D) CPU

7. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer ?(UGC-NET, June, 2010)
(A) 2
(B) 8
(C) 10
(D) 16

8. Where does a computer add and compare its data ?(UGC-NET, June, 2010)
(A) CPU
(B) Memory
(C) Hard disc
(D) Floppy disc

9. Computers on an internet are identified by -(UGC-NET, June, 2010)
(A) e-mail address
(B) street address
(C) IP address
(D) None of the above

10. 1 GB is equal to -(UGC-NET, December, 2010)
(A) 230 bits
(B) 230 bytes
(C) 220 bits
(D) 220 bytes


Quiz on ICT

Test Your Knowledge on ICT (Question 1 - 5)

Instructions: Click the answer button to see the correct option.

1. The site that played a major role during the terrorist attack on Mumbai (26/11) in 2008 was - (UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) Orkut
(B) Facebook
(C) Amazon.com
(D) Twitter

2. Which of the following is not related to information security on the Internet ?(UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) Data encryption
(B) Water marking
(C) Data hiding
(D) Information retrieval

3. Which is the largest unit of storage among the following ?(UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) Terabyte
(B) Megabyte
(C) Kilobyte
(D) Gigabyte

4. bit stands for -(UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) binary information term
(B) Binary digit
(C) Binary tree
(D) Bivariate theory

5. A compiler is used to convert the following object code which can be executed -(UGC-NET, December, 2009)
(A) High-level language
(B) Low-level language
(C) Assembly language
(D) Natural language



How to Remember Public Libraries Acts in India

Use of Peg system to remember Public Libraries Acts in India

         An accurate and retentive memory is the basis of all success. All our knowledge is based on our memories.  Before going to the steps, I must say that your trained memory will be based almost entirely on mental pictures or images. These mental pictures will be easily recalled if they are made as ridiculous you can possibly make them.
 
        Here’s how to remember Public Libraries Acts in India with its years of enactment. Let’s develop memory codes and personalised memory pictures to remember these. (to know more)
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Peg System of Memory

Understand Your Memory Power

Study reveals that we forget 50% after 1 hour; 60% after 9 hours; 70% after 24 hours; 80% after 30 days. That is why, you need to make revision whatever you study. Revision is known as mother of study. You will have to make periodic revision to store the things in your permanent memory. The period of revision will be as follows: 1st Revision: Within 24 hours, 2nd Revision: Within 7 days, 3rd Revision: Within 1 month, 4th Revision: Within 6 month, 5th Revision: Whenever possible.

(to know peg system or more) 

Quiz - 2






Test your Knowledge in Paper – I (Question 6 – 10)
1. Which one is different from the rest three ?
(A) Crime
(B) Offence
(C) Sanction
(D) Violation

2. Which of the following media can be used effectively in large group communication?
(A) Television
(B) Overhead Projector
(C) Video
(D) Computer

3. The major source of urban pollution in India is -
(A) Industry
(B) Noise
(C) Drainage
(D) Automobiles

4. Which one of the following is an example of Operating system?
(A) Microsoft Word
(B) Microsoft Excel
(C) Microsoft Access
(D) Microsoft Windows

5. Which one of the following is different from other members?
(A) Google
(B) Windows
(C) Linux
(D) Mac



Crossword Puzzle on ICT

DOWN
1. A multimedia software.
3. A social networking site.
4. An input device.

ACROSS

2. An example of non-volatile memory.
4. A component of MSOffice.
5. The computer network which cover small areas.
6. The unit where computer subtracts and compares two operands

Instruction: Click the solution button to see the SOLUTION.

Crossword Puzzle in Library Science

DOWN
1. A symbol used in Colon Classification
2. Library Association for special libraries in India
3. A catalogue code

ACROSS
4. Meaning of 340 according to DDC
5. Store house of books
6. A classification scheme
Instruction: Click the answer button to see the correct answer.

Preparation Leads to Confidence


Preparation means learning from our mistakes. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. We make mistakes. A fool is one who makes the same mistakes twice or repeat the mistake. A person who makes a mistake and does not correct it, commits a bigger mistake.
Pressure comes from being unprepared. There s no substitute for preparation, practice and hard-work. Only preparation will give you the competitive edge. Pressure can paralyze you if you are not prepared. Weak effort gets weak results. 

Preparation is necessary edge to succeed in any field. Preparation is 7Ps. These are :
PURPOSE + PRINCIPLE + PLANNING + PRACTICE + PERSEVERANCE + PATIENCE + PRIDE 


Test Your Competency


Test Your Competency

Are you competent enough to pass National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship or Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) ? You can test your level of competency here -
  1. Do you know what is National Eligibility Test (NET) ?

    2. Yes
    No

  2. Do you have the idea about the pattern / structure of NET ?

    3. Yes
    No

  3. Do you know the sources, where from you can get all the NET related information ?

    4. Yes
    No

  4. Do you know your syllabus prepared by UGC for NET exam ?

    5. Yes
    No

  5. Have you downloaded / collected all the previous years' question papers and done the answers ?

    6. Yes
    No

  6. Do you consult original books to study your subject as per UGC's syllabus ?

    7. Yes
    No

  7. Do you consult guide books / manuals for your respective subjects for preparation ?

    8. Yes
    No

  8. Do you attend coaching classes if you find any centre is offering ?

    9. Yes
    No

  9. Do you know some useful tips to attempt NET and improve your memory power ?

    10. Yes
    No

  10. Are you ready to do the sacrifices (Example: avoiding parties, meeting people) to pass NET exam ?

    11. Yes
    No

Thanks for your participation.

STICK TO YOUR PLAN !

Passing NET Exam for every student, who is doing masters in any discipline has been considered as a big challenge. It is very easy to make a plan but it is very difficult to stick to it. There are hundreds of things which will distract you every moment, every day and you will find yourself not doing your job. You have to take control of your time if you have set a deadline.

Keeping an 'Activity Log Book' for checking yourself  how you spend your time helps you to manage time and perform better. This will also help you to track the changes in your energy, alertness and effectiveness throughout the day.

 Enjoy your preparation. The great thing is going to happen this time. Be prepared.

How to calculate day of a specific date?

To calculate the DAY of a specific DATE, we should know the following;

Ordinary Year:It is a year which is not a leap year i.e., the year should not be divisible by 4. An Ordinary year has 365 days.
Leap year:      If a year is divisible by 4, it is known as leap year, if it is not a century. Every 4th century is a leap year and no other century is a leap year. A leap year has 366 days.
Odd days:       We need to use the concept of ‘Odd Days’ to find the day of a week on a given date. In a given year, the number of days more than the complete weeks are called odd days.
Examples:
*  1 ordinary year = 365 days = 52 weeks + 1 day
Therefore, 1 ordinary year has 1 odd day.
*  1 leap year = 366 days = 52 weeks + 2 days
Therefore, 1 leap year has 2 odd days.

Exercises:
             1.       January 1, 2008 is Tuesday. What day of the week lies on January 1, 2009 ?
(A)    Monday
(B)     Wednesday
(C)     Thursday
(D)    Sunday
Answer: (C)
Explanation: The year 2008 is a leap year and it has 2 odd days. Therefore, 1st day of the year is 2 days beyond Tuesday. Hence, the correct day is ‘Thursday’.

2.        January 1, 2007 is Monday. What day of the week lies on January 1, 2008 ?
(A)    Monday
(B)     Tuesday
(C)     Wednesday
(D)    Sunday
Answer: (C)
Explanation: The year 2007 is not a leap year and it has 1 odd day. Therefore, 1st day of the year is 1 day beyond Monday. Hence, the correct day is ‘Tuesday’.

Keep Climbing

For no matter how much you know or how hard you try, you will always have to face periodic set-backs. So be prepared for them; and taking them in your stride, keep climbing like the snail in the story mentioned below:

"One cold, windy day in the spring, a snail started to climb a cherry tree. Some sparrows laughed at him and teased, 'You sap, don't you see that there are no cherries on this tree? Why are you climbing?' the tiny snail didn't pause, but replied as he kept on climbing. 'But there will be, when I get there! When I will be at the top there will be lots of cherries"

 To succeed at any thing we must keep on climbing, even if we can not see the prize at the top right at this moment.

Similarly, it is applicable to NET aspirants also. Although if you see that there are less vacancies / jobs in the college and universities but you have to keep on trying to qualify NET as if just after you pass the exam there will be lots of vacancies and you will be one of them who tried and deserve to get the desired JOB.

All the Best.

Power of Visualisation

A key part of visioning your dream is the practice of visualization and there are a number of well-known examples of power of visualization. None other than golfing legend Jack Nicklaus is said to have always played a course in his mind before actually beginning a game. In his words: "I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there; its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behaviour on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality."

 Brian Tracy also believes that, "All improvements in our life begins with an improvement in our mental pictures. Our mental pictures act as a guidance mechanism that causes us to act in ways that make our mental pictures come true in our life".

As a candidate, you must also visualize the things that you would like to have in your life. You must know why do  you want to pass the NET, what are the benefits you will get after passing it. Create your  own mental picture, visualize everything. Visualize the preparation, the exam and after passing effects. Use your power of visualization to see the POST/JOB (eg. Assistant Professor in a College or a University) you are likely to get, SALARY (around Rs. 40,000/pm  if you start a job of Assistant Professor and more than Rs. 3,50,000/pm at the end  while retiring as a Professor from the post), STATUS, RECOGNITION, the PEOPLE with whom you are going to work with,  the SUPPORT you are going to give to your family & society, the HOUSE that you are going to build with your own money, the CAR that you are going to drive, the LIFE PARTNER (if unmarried) you are going to have in your married life, the PLACES that you are going to visit and stay in India and abroad, Visualize everything. Accordingly plan and take action. This power of visualization will really act as a guidance mechanism to act in ways that will make your mental pictures come true in your life.

So, use the power of VISUALIZATION. It will work wonder.

Understanding of Passage

The main purpose of setting questions on a passage is to test the student’s knowledge and understanding of a particular text/story/event. Thus, to set some reasonable set of questions in a passage is an essentially so as to achieve the purpose of comprehension. To answer the questions on a comprehension passage, you are required to get a good grasp of the passage so that you may understand the objective queries on the passage which you should try to assess accurately. 

Following are few points for the right procedure to tackle the problem of comprehension:

 1. Have a good glimpse of the passage before attempting to answer the question. There can be 5 to 6 questions on the passage. For this, read the passage carefully. 
2. Have two or three readings of the passage so as to understand the meaning of different words, phrases and expressions. 
3. Proceed to answer the questions, taking the first question first . For this find out exactly that portion which carry the answer to a question. It is better to underline the relevant portion in the passage. 
4. You must find out the most relevant option out of four choices.
5. The opening and concluding sentences of the passage must be read very carefully. 


One must keep this in mind that for a good comprehension, you must have good reading speed. You can not spend more than 9/10 minutes to solve 5/6 problems on a passage.

Specify Time for Preparation and Know the Syllabus


Ideally the preparation for NET/JRF exam should start three months before the exam, but that means you must stick to a particular schedule/routine for preparation. If you are appearing in the month of December, then I would suggest to start in the month of September.

You must study the syllabus for all the papers (I, II and III) from the point of view of the examiners or paper setters. Suppose you were asked to prepare questions based on this syllabus what would you ask. This will get you in the right frame of mind to understand what you should pay more attention to.

Download all the old previous years' question papers from UGC's website i.e., http://www.ugc.ac.in and try to solve all the papers as much as you can. This is one of the best strategies to be well prepared. While trying to solve these you must get in to the details ( theory part) as soon as you come across a question.

If you are very determined for appearing the exam, then try to co-relate the questions (II & III Paper) from the theory part of your masters degree syllabus. Remember, it doesn’t matter how much percentage or position that your university awards you, rather a JRF Certificate or a NET for Lectureship Certificate would really MATTER. So devote as much time as possible to get in to the subjects & concepts.

Knowing the syllabus is very important to identify the sections which are more relevant /suitable for preparing multiple choice questions.

Improve your speed in multiple choice questions by taking mock tests at your home.

You will have to read, read and read. Jot down points of all that you read. Prepare mind-maps for easy revision and clear the ideas.

You need to develop a mature understanding of your subject through serious reading, deeper
level of understanding for securing high score in II and III paper.

Cope-up with Qualifiers


Qualifiers  are words that alter a statement.  Words like always, most,
equal, good, and bad.  In a multiple choice test, qualifiers can make an option on a test question be a correct option or an incorrect option.  

For example, the following 2 statements are nearly identical: 

It often rains in Shillong.  It always rains in Shillong.  The first statement is true, while the word “always” in the second statement makes it false.  Keep careful track of qualifiers by circling one that appears in a test question or in the answer options. To beat qualifiers you need to know the qualifier families:

• All, most, some, none (no)
• Always , usually, sometimes, never
• Great, much, little, no
• More, equal, less
• Good, bad
• Is, is not

Whenever one qualifier from a family is used in an answer option, substitute each of the others for it in turn.  Then you can tell which of the qualifiers fits best.  If the best qualifier is the one in the answer option, then the option is true, if the best qualifier is another one from the family, then the answer option is false. 

Second-guess

Don’t second-guess yourself. If you make a calculated and educated guess the first time around, don’t go back and start changing your answers.

Rule of Elimination


You always find four Answer options with the question. If your answer is not one of the choices, then read all the choices carefully and start to eliminate choices. Then comes the right option to select. This is the Rule of Elimination. Cross out any answers that are obviously wrong or incorrect. You need to narrow your choices to three, two, then one and tally the option with the question to see if it makes the right sense. Sometimes you'll find a hidden clue, like a subject / verb agreement that gives it away.

If you are faced with "all of the above" and "none of the above" options then they tend to take up too much time. If you are not sure about the right option, best strategy is that you leave all of them blank and go back to them afterwards. These questions have an element of logic to them. You may find that they require a little extra concentration, mark these questions so that you can easily come back and try them again.


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