TISS MA in Social Entrepreneurship Question Papers with answers 2016

TISS MA in Social Entrepreneurship Question Papers with answers 2016.

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INSTRUCTIONS
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booklet, please confirm that all the pages are intact and printed correctly.
2. This paper contains 60 questions.
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12. There is no negative mark for wrong answers.

2. The American India Foundation is devoted to accelerating
(A) Social and Political change in India
(B) Social and economic Change in India
(C) Economic and Political Change in India
(D) Development in India

3. The Aga Khan Development Network’s rural development efforts started in the
(A) early 1960s
(B) early 1970s
(C) early 1980s
(D) early 1990s

4. Social innovation needs
(A) a conducive physical environment
(B) a conducive social environment
(C) a conducive political environment
(D) a conducive chemical environment

5. Hemendra Kothari Foundation is in
(A) Nasik
(B) Pune
(C) Mumbai
(D) Kolkata

6. Centre for Development Finance is a
(A) Private Company
(B) Public company
(C) Non Profit Organisation
(D) Development Organisation

7. Centre for Development Finance is at
(A) IFMR, Chennai
(B) MIDS, Chennai
(C) MSE, Chennai
(D) IIPM, Chennai

8. Nonprofit organisation exists because it enables the realization of
(A) Values of Public
(B) Social Values
(C) Economic Values
(D) Environmental Values

9. Mission-oriented nonprofits are the most appropriate organisations to pursue
(A) Private purposes with public funds
(B) Household purposes with private funds
(C) Public purposes with private funds
(D) Public purposes with household-funds

10. Poor people in India need more insurance services for
(A) Health
(B) Crop
(C) Life
(D) Accident

11. The outreach of micro insurance in India is between
(A) 10 to 20 million
(B) 20 to 30 million
(C) 5 to 10 million
(D) 1 to 5 million

12. Out of 42 Life Insurance Products in India, ————- are pure risk products.
(A) 25
(B) 23
(C) 24
(D) 22

13. Watershed Rehabilitation aims to increase
(A) the productivity of agricultural and common pool resources
(B) the sources of water
(C) the irrigated land
(D) the productivity of land

14. Which State in India has a long history of dependency by people on relief
interventions from government?
(A) Bihar
(B) Gujarat
(C) West Bengal
(D) Orissa

15. The roots of poverty are tied up in
(A) economic relations, a lack of entitlement and access to natural capital
(B) power relation and a lack of entitlement and access to natural capital
(C) Social relations, a lack of entitlement and access to natural capital
(D) Socio-economic relations, a lack of entitlement and access to natural capital

16. Which of the following State government has decided to request the Central
Government to provide 33.3% reservation for the backward classes in State
Assemblies and in the Lok Sabha?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Bihar
(D) Tamil Nadu

17. Which of the following States has decided to modernize Godavari Delta by investing
a huge sum of Rs. 3,361 crores?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Kerala
(D) Andhra Pradesh

18. Which of the following schemes launched by the Govt. of India provides a
guaranteed 100 days employment to rural employment seekers in India?
(A) Bharat Nirman
(B) Swarnjayanti Grameen Rozgar Yojana
(C) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(D) National Food for Work Programme

19. Gold Mines in India are located mainly in
(A) Kolar
(B) Raniganj
(C) Jadugoda
(D) Veeranam

20. Baba Amte is famous as a
(A) Painter
(B) Singer
(C) Politician
(D) Social Worker

21. Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian State?
(A) Sushila Nayar
(B) Sucheta Kriplani
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Sulochan Modi

22. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna?
(A) Martin Luther King
(B) Zubin Mehta
(C) Mother Teresa
(D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

23. Who among the following formed a party named as ‘Forward Bloc’?
(A) Subhash Chandra Bose
(B) Sardar Bhagat Singh
(C) Chandrashekhar Azad
(D) J.L. Nehru

24. Where is the Dilwara Temple located?
(A) Shravana Belgola
(B) Parasnath Hills
(C) Indore
(D) Mt. Abu

25. Who was the first Indian lady to preside over the Congress?
(A) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(B) Annie Besant
(C) Vijaylakshmi Pandit
(D) Amrita Shergill

26. In India, there are three crop seasons. Two of them are Kharif and Rabi, name the
third one?
(A) Barsati
(B) Grama
(C) Zaid
(D) Kharif

27. The most discussed Tehri Dam Project is located in which of the following States?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Haryana
(D) Uttarakhand

28. The World Environment Day is celebrated on which of the following days?
(A) 5th October
(B) 5th August
(C) 5th July
(D) 5th June

29. Who amongst the following is included in the list of “Biggest Brains in Business”?
(A) L. N. Mittal
(B) Anil Ambani
(C) Kumar Mangalam Birla
(D) Mukesh Ambani

30. Which of the following cannot be called as a value Added service offered by a
Bank?
(A) Special accounts for poor sections of the society
(B) Accident insurance cover
(C) Instant Credits of Outstation Cheques
(D) Free cheque book

31. In a grouped frequency distribution, the intervals should be
(A) Mutually exclusive
(B) Collectively exhaustive
(C) Both mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive
(D) Neither mutually exclusive nor collective exhaustive

32. The mode has all of the following disadvantages except
(A) A data set may have no modal value
(B) Every value in a data set may be a mode
(C) A multimodal data set is difficult to analyze
(D) The mode is unduly affected by extreme values

33. What is the major assumption we make when computing a mean from grouped data?
(A) All values are discrete
(B) Every value in a class is equal to the midpoint
(C) No value occurs more than once
(D) Each class contains exactly the same number of values

34. Disadvantages of using the range as a measure of dispersion include all of the
following except
(A) It is heavily influenced by extreme values
(B) It can change drastically from one sample to the next
(C) It is difficult to calculate
(D) It is determined by only two points in the data set

35. Why is it necessary to square the differences from the mean when computing the
population variance?
(A) So that extreme values will not affect the calculation
(B) Because it is possible that N could be very small
(C) Some of the differences will be positive and some will be negative
(D) None of the above

36. What is the probability that a value chosen at random from a particular population is
larger than the median of the population?
(A) 0.25
(B) 0.50
(C) 1.00
(D) 0.67
37. The Median for the series of numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15,
16 is…
(A) 5
(B) 6
(C) 6.5
(D) 7

38. If one event is unaffected by the outcome of another event, the two events are said to
be
(A) Dependent
(B) Interdependent
(C) Mutually exclusive
(D) Complementary

39. Last year a small company paid each of its five engineers Rs. 22,000 per month, two
managers Rs. 50,000 per month, and the general manager Rs. 270,000 per month.
The number of employees earning less than the mean salary is….
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 7

40. The following table represents the average number of accidents per day in the city of
Mumbai

Number of accidents per day 0 1 2 3 4
Percentage of days 55% 20% 10% 15% 0%

Which of the following statements is true?
(A) The median and the mean number of accidents is equal
(B) The median and the modal number of accidents is equal
(C) The mean and the modal number of accidents is equal
(D) The mean and the median number of accidents are equal

41. If most of the measurements of a large data set are of approximately the same
magnitude except for a few measurements that are quite a bit larger, how would the
mean and the median of the data set compare and what shape would the a histogram
of the data set have?
(A) The mean would be smaller than the median and the histogram would be
skewed with a long left tail
(B) The mean would be larger than the median and the histogram would be skewed
with a long right tail
(C) The mean would be larger than the median and the histogram would be skewed
with a long left tail
(D) The mean would be smaller than the median and the histogram would be
skewed with a long left tail

42. The median would be preferred over the mean as a measure of central tendency for a
skewed distribution because:
(A) The mean may be too heavily influenced by the larger observations which
would give too high an estimate of the center
(B) The mean measures the spread in the data
(C) The median is larger than the mean and larger numbers are preferred to smaller
numbers
(D) The median is the most frequent number while the mean is most likely

43. The frequency distribution of the amount of rainfall in a particular region for a
period of 30 years is given below:

The class mark of the third class is:
(A) 10.0
(B) 12.5
(C) 15.0
(D) 7.50

45. The test scores of 11 students enrolled in a class are as follows:
3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10
After calculating the mean, median, and mode, an error is discovered: one of the “8”
is actually an “9.” The measures which will change are:
(A) The mean only
(B) The mode only
(C) The median only
(D) The mean, median and the mode

46. ALTVISTA is a ______________________
(A) Spreadsheet
(B) Statistical Package
(C) Search Engine
(D) Word Composer

47. The size of unorganized labour force is estimated from ________________.
(A) National Sample Survey
(B) Annual Survey of Industries
(C) National Family Health Survey
(D) Census

48. __________________ is the index of National Stock Exchange.
(A) Sensex
(B) NIFTY
(C) NASDAQ
(D) None of the above

49. “Economy of Permanence” is authored by _____________________.
(A) J. C. Kumarappa
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(C) M. K. Gandhi
(D) Bertrand Russel

50. BancoSol is associated with
(A) International trade
(B) Micro finance
(C) Carbon Trading
(D) Stock Exchange

51. ___________________ integrates students in India with voluntary social service.
(A) IRDP
(B) IAY
(C) NREGA
(D) NSS

52. ____________________ is the founder of scout movement.
(A) Robert Baden-Powell
(B) Dr. Annie Besant
(C) Nelson Mandela
(D) None of the above

53. Mau Mau uprising happened in ____________.
(A) North Korea
(B) Chile
(C) Kenya
(D) China

54. Which of the following is one of the core themes of Chipko movement:
(A) Afforestation
(B) Human Rights
(C) Right to Information
(D) None of the above

55. ____________ played leading role in innovating Ralegan Siddhi model of rural
development.
(A) Y.B. Chavan
(B) Narasimha Rao
(C) Anna Hazare
(D) None of the above.

56. The objective of SIDBI is to empower
(A) Social entrepreneurs
(B) ITES sector
(C) Farmers
(D) Micro, small and medium enterprises

57. Islamic Banking is consistent with
(A) Torah
(B) Sharia
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of the above

58. Kudumbashree is a _________________
(A) NGO
(B) Voluntary Organization
(C) State Eradication Poverty Mission
(D) None of the above

59. Yashpal Committee Report deals with
(A) School Education
(B) Employment
(C) Higher Education
(D) Health

60. According to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the ratio of
wage costs to material costs should be no less than the minimum norm of ________
(A) 60:40
(B) 70:30
(C) 80: 20
(D) 90:10

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