UPHESC Assistant Professor Agricultural Statistics PYQs

Concept: In Feb 2020 they were renamed Sushma Swaraj Bhawan and Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service.

1. It honoured former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (died Aug 2019) on her birth anniversary.
2. Both bodies work under the Ministry of External Affairs, which she headed 2014–19.

Short trick: Foreign service + diaspora → former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Concept: UP Government’s Deepotsav is held every Diwali eve on the Saryu ghats of Ayodhya (since 2017).

1. Deepotsav 2019 lit about 4.1 lakh lamps – a Guinness world record.
2. Kashi hosts Dev Deepawali; Prayagraj hosts Kumbh/Magh Mela.

Short trick: Ram’s return → Ayodhya → Deepotsav.

Concept: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria, became WTO Director-General on 1 March 2021.

1. She is the first woman and the first African to head the WTO.
2. She succeeded Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil.

Short trick: Ngozi = Nigerian name; Brazil was her predecessor’s country.

Concept: Karnataka issued the order (Aug 2021) to implement NEP 2020 in higher education from 2021-22 – the first state to do so.

1. It introduced the four-year multidisciplinary UG programme with multiple entry/exit.
2. Kerala, Maharashtra and Gujarat followed later or differently.

Short trick: Karnataka = first to “Kar” NEP.

Concept: QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) has four members: India, USA, Japan, Australia.

1. It began after the 2004 tsunami and was revived in 2017 for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
2. South Korea is not a member.

Short trick: QUAD = 4 = JAIU (Japan, Australia, India, USA).

Concept: Flanders’ Interaction Analysis Category System (FIACS) records classroom verbal behaviour objectively.

1. An observer codes every 3 seconds into 10 categories (7 teacher talk, 2 pupil talk, 1 silence/confusion).
2. A matrix gives indices like I/D ratio – free of the observer’s opinion.
3. Rating scales involve subjective judgement.

Short trick: FIACS – 10 categories, every 3 seconds → objective.

Concept: A pictograph shows data with pictures/symbols, each symbol standing for a fixed number of units.

1. Bar graph – bars of proportional length.
2. Pie chart – sectors of a circle.
3. Line graph – points joined by lines.

Short trick: Picto = picture → symbols.

Concept: The World Conference on Education for All was held at Jomtien, Thailand, in March 1990 (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank).

1. It adopted the World Declaration on EFA.
2. Follow-up: World Education Forum, Dakar (Senegal), 2000.

Short trick: EFA: Jomtien 1990 → Dakar 2000.

Concept: UGC decentralised its work by opening six regional offices in 1994-95.

1. Offices: Pune (WRO), Hyderabad (SERO), Kolkata (ERO), Bhopal (CRO), Guwahati (NERO), Bengaluru (SWRO).
2. A Northern Regional College Bureau works from Delhi itself.

Short trick: Six regional offices – mid-nineties, 1994-95.

Concept: Purposive (judgement) sampling is a non-probability method – the researcher deliberately picks units.

1. Stratified – random selection within each stratum.
2. Multi-stage – random selection at successive stages.
3. Systematic – random start, then every k-th unit.

Short trick: Purposive = by purpose/judgement, not by chance.

Concept: Bit (binary digit, 0 or 1) is the smallest unit of data.

1. 8 bits = 1 byte, usually one character.
2. A word is a group of bytes (16/32/64 bits) handled together by the CPU.

Short trick: Bit < Nibble (4) < Byte (8) < Word.

Concept: IP = Internet Protocol – the rule set for addressing and routing data packets.

1. Each device has an IP address (IPv4 32-bit, IPv6 128-bit).
2. TCP/IP together form the base of the internet.
3. A service provider is ISP, not IP.

Short trick: TCP/IP – P is always Protocol.

Concept: Blu-ray is a removable optical disc – a secondary, external storage medium (25 GB single layer).

1. It is not internal memory like RAM/ROM or a built-in hard disk.
2. It is read by a blue-violet laser (405 nm), hence the name.

Short trick: CD, DVD, Blu-ray, pen drive = removable external storage.

Concept: A scanner converts a printed image/document into digital form – an input device.

1. Printer and plotter give hard-copy output.
2. VDU (visual display unit/monitor) gives soft-copy output.

Short trick: Scanner scans IN; printer prints OUT.

Concept: Memory units rise in steps of 1024 (2¹⁰).

1. 8 bits = 1 byte; 1024 bytes = 1 KB.
2. 1024 KB = 1 MB; 1024 MB = 1 GB.
3. So 1 MB = 1024 KB (= 1024 × 1024 bytes).

Short trick: Bit → Byte → KB → MB → GB → TB, each step ×1024 (except bit→byte ×8).

Concept: Pollution is any undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological character of air, water, land or the surroundings.

1. Water and air pollution are classic forms.
2. Noise (unwanted sound above ~65–80 dB) is also listed as pollution; the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 was amended in 1987 to include noise.
3. Hence all three are forms of environmental pollution.

Short trick: Air, water, soil, noise, thermal, radioactive, light – all are pollution.

Concept: The UN observes the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May.

1. 22 May 1992 – text of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was adopted at Nairobi.
2. 22 April is Earth Day; 5 June is World Environment Day.
3. 22 June / 22 September are not biodiversity days.

Short trick: CBD adopted in May 1992 → Biodiversity Day 22 May.

Concept: ‘Fourth World’ denotes the poorest, least developed countries (LDCs), below the ‘Third World’.

1. First World – developed capitalist nations; Second World – former socialist bloc.
2. Third World – developing countries.
3. Fourth World – least developed countries with very low income and human development.

Short trick: 1st rich → 3rd developing → 4th least developed.

Concept: Mistral is a cold, dry northerly wind that funnels down the Rhone valley of France to the Mediterranean.

1. Chinook – warm dry wind on the eastern slopes of the Rockies (snow-eater).
2. Bora – cold wind on the Adriatic coast (Croatia).
3. Blizzard – snow-laden cold storm of polar regions/North America.

Short trick: Mistral = Marseille / Rhone (both in France).

Concept: The Western Ghats (with Sri Lanka) is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

1. High rainfall and varied altitude give very high endemism of plants, amphibians, reptiles.
2. Eastern Ghats are older, drier and discontinuous – less rich.
3. Thar desert has sparse life; Bay of Bengal is a marine area, not a listed hotspot.

Short trick: India’s hotspots: Western Ghats, Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Sundaland (Nicobar).