UPHESC Assistant Professor B.Ed PYQs

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.