SOCIOLOGY - 2007 (A)
(Optional) - Arts
Full Marks – 100 Time – 3 Hours
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Instructions :
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Question Nos. 1 to 14 each question carries 2 marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in not more than 30 words.
(iii) Question Nos. 15 to 26 each question carries 4 marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in not more than 75 words.
(iv) Question Nos. 27 to 29 each question carries 8 marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in not more than 200 words.
(Very Short-Answer type Questions)
2. Explain the percentage of different religious community in India.
3. Explain any one factor of National Integration.
4. What is Demography ?
5. What is Village Community ?
6. What do you mean by ‘Varna’ ?
7. Define ‘Social Class’.
8. Define ‘Tribe’.
9. What do you mean by Marriage ?
10. Define ‘family’.
11. Define ‘Kinship’.
12. What is Religion ? Explain.
13. Define ‘education’.
14. Define ‘Culture’.
(Short-Answer type Questions)
15. Clear the differences between State and Nation.
16. Give the view of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan in regard to Panchayati Raj.
17. What do you mean by Schedule Caste ?
18. Suggest to solve the problems of Schedule Tribes.
19. What is main problem of Muslims in India ?
20. Explain position of Women in modern age.
21. Explain important characteristics of approaches.
22. Explain the characteristics of Urbanism.
23. Explain the process of Westernisation in India.
24. Give introduction of Tenth Five-Year Plan.
25. Legislation is an instrument of Social change. Explain.
26. What is the role of Decentralisation in economic system of any country ?
(Long-Answer type Questions)
Or Explain the elements of Green Revolution.
28. Explain the development of middle caste through modernization.
Or Explain the challenges before liberation.
29. Explain the role of education in bringing social change in India.
Or How mass-communication helped to bring change in the life of people ? Explain.
STATISTICS- 2007 (A)
(Optional) - Arts/Sc./Com.
Full Marks – 100 Time – 3 Hours
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
The candidates are required to write both Group number and Question number with every answer.
Instruction : This question paper consists of three Groups – A, B and C. Group ‘A’ is compulsory. Attempt eight questions from Group – B and five questions from Group – C.
Group – A
Answer all questions 2×8=16
1. (a) Cyclical fluctuations are caused by :
(i) Strikes and lockouts (ii) Floods
(iii) Wars (iv) None of these
(b) Which of the following is used to measure the purchasing power of money ?
(i) Fishers’ Price Index (ii) Consumer’s Price Index
(iii) Paasche’s Price Index (iv) None of these.
(c) If population size N = 5 and sample size n = 2, then the number of samples with replacement is :
(i) 10 (ii) 20
(iii) 25 (iv) 32.
(d) Type II errors is committed if :
(i) H0 is rejected when H0 is true (ii) H0 is rejected when H0 is false
(iii) H0 is accepted when H0 is false (iv) H0 is accepted when H0 is true.
(e) In the study of two attributes, the number of classes is :
(i) 8 (ii) 6
(iii) 9 (iv) 12.
(f) The death rate mostly used to measure decrease in population due to death is :
(i) Crude Death Rate (ii) Specific Death Rate
(iii) Standardised Death Rate (iv) None of these.
(g) Right-hand tail test is applied when the following hypothesis is tested :
(i) H0 : μ ≠ μ0 (ii) H1 : μ > μ0
(iii) H0 : μ = μ0 (iv) H1 : μ < μ0
(h) Which index is used to compute real wages ?
(i) Fisher’s index (ii) Paasche’s index
(iii) Cost of living index (iv) None of these.
Group – B
Answer any eight questions : 3×8=24
3. From the following data calculate price index number for 1980 with 1970 as base year by Laspeyre’s method :
| Commodity | 1970 Price Quantity |
1980 Price Quantity |
| A | 20 8 | 40 6 |
| B | 50 10 | 60 5 |
| C | 40 15 | 50 15 |
| D | 20 20 | 20 25 |
5. Explain the terms Act and State of Nature with an example.
6. What do you understand by standard error ? Explain with an example.
7. Distinguish between sampling error and nonsampling error.
8. With the help of the following ultimate class frequencies, find out frequencies of remaining positive and negative classes and the total number of observations :
(AB) = 250, (αB) = 200, (Aβ) = 50, (αβ) = 40
9. Consider a hypothetical population comprising three values : 2, 5, 8. Draw samples of size 2 with replacement and construct sampling distribution of mean.
10. Discuss the problem of selection of base year in the construction of index number.
Group – C
11. From the following data, construct Fisher’s Ideal Index Number :
| Base year | Current year | |
| Items | Price per Total unit Expenditure (Rs.) (Rs.) |
Price per Total unit Expenditure (Rs.) (Rs.) |
| A | 2 40 | 5 75 |
| B | 4 16 | 8 40 |
| C | 1 10 | 2 40 |
| D | 5 25 | 10 60 |
| Year | 1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 |
| Production in 1000 quintals |
18 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 16 |
| Acts State of Nature |
A1 | A2 | A3 | Probability |
| S1 S2 S3 |
20 35 10 |
30 50 5 |
55 40 -10 |
0.2 0.5 0.3 |
16. Discuss the progress achieved in the sphere of Indian Statistics during the post-independence period.
17. Show from the following data whether the attributes A and B are independent, positively associated, or negatively associated :
(i) N = 1000, (A) 470 (B) = 620, (AB) = 320
(ii) (A) = 490, (AB) = 294, (α) = 470, (αB) =380.
History- 2007 (A)
(Optional) - Arts
Full Marks – 100 Time – 3 Hours
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable. Figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Instructions :
(i). Answer all questions.
(ii). Answers to questions carrying 2 marks should not exceed 30 words each.
(iii). Answers to questions carrying 5 marks should not exceed 100 words each.
(iv). Answers to questions carrying 8 marks should not exceed 250 words each.
(v). Attach the map with the answer book. Please check that this question paper contains two maps.
(vi). Please write down the serial number of the question before attempting it.
Part – A
1. Discuss any two major causes of Nadir Shah’s invasion of India. 2
2. Why did Lord Lyton pass the Vernacular Press Act ? 2
3. Name any four newspapers published in the 2nd half of 19th century. 2
4. Attempt a short note on Gopalkrishna Gokhale or Bal Gangadhar Tilak. 5
5. Why was Bengal partitioned in 1905 ? 5
6. Assess the Indian Reaction against Rowlatt Act or Jalianwala Bagh massacre. 5
7. Discuss the circumstances which led to the Quit India Movement. 5
8. Discuss the main features of ‘‘Subsidiary Alliance’’ or the ‘‘Doctrine of Lapse’’. 5
9. ‘‘Buxer completed the works of Plassey’’– discuss or attempt an essay on the annexation of Oudh. 8
11. Discuss the important principles and success of Brahma Samaj or Theosophical Society. 8
Or
Name and show five places which were famous for protests during Quit India Movement.
Part – B
15. Write any two reasons of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. 2
19. Trace the circumstances leading to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1902 or Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. 5
Or
How did the Policy of Perestroika contribute to the disintegration ? 5
21. Discuss the advances made in the field of Physical or Biological Sciences in Modern Times. 5
22. ‘‘Second World War was a conflict of ideologies.’’ Discuss. 8
Or
Trace the circumstances which led to the outbreak of the Second World War.
23. On the outline map of Europe, mark and label three neutral and two allies of the Central Powers. 5
Or
Mark and label Allied Powers or Axis Powers (any five) on the given outline map of Europe.