TISS Sample Paper - MA in Social Entrepreneurship Part 2

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SIGNATURE OF THE CANDIDATE SIGNATURE OF THE INVIGILATOR

To be filled in by the Candidate

Registration No

Centre Name.......................................................................................................................................

PART-II

M.A. IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Duration: 1 Hour Marks: 60

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read the following carefully before making an attempt to take the Test.

1. This booklet contains 12 pages including the blank ones. As soon as you open the booklet, please confirm that all the pages are intact and printed correctly.

2. This paper contains 60 questions.

3. K eep only the Admit Card, pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT keep with

you books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watch

calculators), pagers, cellular phones, or any other device.

4. Fill up all the details, as indicated on top of the TEST BOOKLET and OMR Sheet.

5. Enter correctly your Registration No. both on the TEST BOOKLET and OMR Sheet.

6. Shade the appropriate oval against each question in the OMR sheet. Shade the ovalcompletely and do not shade more than one oval, in that case the answer will be

treated null and void.

7. Use HB Pencils only to shade the oval.

8. Do all rough work on the test booklet only and NOT on the OMR sheet. No extra sheetto be used for the rough work.

9. Follow the instructions of the Invigilator. Candidates refusing to comply with the

instructions will be expelled from the test.

10. Ensure that you have signed against your name on the attendance sheet circulated bythe Invigilator.

11. At the end of the test, remain seated. Do not head off from the hall till the Invigilator

announces, “You may leave now”. The invigilator will make the announcement only

after collecting the test booklets and OMR sheets from everyone in the room.

12. There is no negative mark for wrong answers.

ANY CANDIDATE PROVIDING / SEEKING / RECEIVING ASSISTANCE ORFOUND COPYING WILL BE INSTANTLY DEBARRED FROM THE TEST.

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1. In case you are not able to solve a problem, what do you next?

a) Switch over the next problem

b) Continue to find new ways to solve the same problem

c) Go to a new problem and then come back to the old problem

d) I do not have any clear approach towards this issue.

2. Given a choice, how would you select a problem?

a) I will first understand the problem and then think if I should solve it.

b) I will first find out if the problem provides any opportunity to do something which

I have never done before

c) I will first ensure whether I have resources to solve the problem.

d) I will first evaluate whether I would be benefitted out of this episode of problem solving.

3. How do you undertake a new task?

a) I make a detailed plan and then see if I can manage it.

b) I find out whether I know people who can support me in the accomplishing the task.

c) Generally I do not venture into new tasks.

d) I undertake tasks only when I have no choice but to do it.

4. When you fail to accomplish a task, how do you feel?

a) I feel sad and think what could I do next?

b) I feel sad and take a long time to overcome the feeling of sadness.

c) I never feel sad and try to share the experience to overcome the emotions.

d) I feel I have done my part and there is no need to feel sad about the outcome of the task.

5. Given a choice, do you feel you should first make yourself visible to others?

a) Yes, everyone should know about my work.

b) No, I should first take the first step forward; others may or may not follow me.

c) No, I should first create a big team so that I can take up bigger tasks.

d) Yes, I need to first convince others so that they can appreciate my work.

6. Read the statements about entrepreneur, as below,

A. Entrepreneurs are experts in analyzing various aspects of a problem.

B. Entrepreneurs apply the known solutions differently while solving problem.

C. Entrepreneurs wait for the right opportunity to act.

D. Entrepreneurs create new opportunity if not available otherwise.

a) Statement A and B are correct.

b) Statement C and D are correct.

c) Statement A and C are correct.

d) Statement B and D are correct.

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7. Do you feel challenged by your own desire to excel, all the time?

a) Yes, always.

b) Yes, sometimes.

c) No, never.

d) No idea.

8. Do you imagine the situation before taking up a task?

a) Yes, I always imagine and try to be ready to face the situations.

b) Yes, sometimes.

c) No, never.

d) No I do not like day dreaming.

9. Do you think seeking help is one way of solving problem?

a) Yes, we develop good friendship out of this effort.

b) Yes, sometimes.

c) No, I believe in winning solo.

d) Yes, seeking help strengthens relationship, provide network and brings resources

10. How did you make your career choice so far?

a) I took my own decision and consulted others in family and friends as and when I

felt the need.

b) I do not find the need to consult any one, hence took my own decision.

c) I always take directives from my parents and elder and never disobey them.

d) I do not think making choice about career is important, hence I take decisions

depending on the situation.

11. Have you ever come across a situation when you had a different point of view about an

issue against the elders of your family?

a) I took my own decision and consulted others in family and friends as and when I

felt the need

b) I do not find the need to consult any one, hence took my own decision.

c) I always take directives from my parents and elder and never disobey them.

d) I do not think making choice about career is important, hence I take decisions

depending on the situation.

12. How do you feel about experimentation with your idea?

a) I will consult every one so that my experiment is succeeds.

b) I will conduct experiments on my own idea and will not consult any one

c) I will generate enough data and carry out systematic analysis so that I can avoid

experimentation.

d) I do not think experimentation leads to any kind learning and hence will not waste

my resources.

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13. How do you feel happy about your unique accomplishment?

a) Yes, I want to retire with happy note after I have achieved something impossible.

b) No, I have the humility to acknowledge that I have not achieved anything

impossible.

c) Yes, I feel happy about it but I also feel challenged to do something better the next

time.

d) I never get any excited about my achievements.

14. Do you desire,

a) You should be ahead of others all the time in all situations.

b) Only mediocre people compete with others.

c) It is not good get into completion unnecessarily.

d) Do your work well without looking at competition.

15. Do you believe in providing help to others?

a) Yes, we must help others and hence bring strength to each-other.

b) No it creates competition.

c) No, it does not affect my performance.

d) Yes, We should help the poor and needy.

16. Social Enterprises are referred to

a) First sector

b) Second sector

c) Third Sector

d) None of the above.

17. Not-for-profit organization means an organisation

a) can earn profit and invest into the organization

b) can not earn profit

c) can earn profit and distribute among the beneficiaries


18. Sustainable development in the social entrepreneurship means

a) production and promotion of economic capital

b) production and promotion of social capital

c) production and promotion of human capital

d) production and promotion of financial capital

19. Vision of a social enterprise serves as

a) commitment to transformational socioeconomic change

b) commitment to transformational economic change

c) commitment to transformational political change

d) commitment to transformational social change

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20. Jeroo Billimoria is linked to

a) CRY

b) Childline

c) Care International

d) SEWA

21. Who wrote ‘How to change the world’?

a) David Robinson

b) David Robertson

c) David Backham

d) David Bronstein

22. Innovative Organisations design

a) social solutions for society

b) real solutions for real people

c) real solutions for the societyd) real solutions for the real society

23. The headquarter of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is at

a) New York

b) Geneva

c) Washington DC

d) Chicago

24. Bhoodan Movement initiated in

a) 1950

b) 1951

c) 1952

d) 1953

25. Corporations are interested in Social Entrepreneurship (SE) because SE

a) helps to gain the goodwill

b) helps to bring innovation in the corporations

c) helps to play active role in resolving social problems

d) helps to tap the untapped market

26. _____________ was the largest trade centre for Chindi, which are scrap strips of

fabric two to eight inches in length __________ by products of textile manufacturing

process

a) Bombay

b) Ahmedabad

c) Madras

d) Bishnupur

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27. Corporate Social Responsibility is

a) the debt that corporate owes to the company

b) the debt that corporate owes to the community

c) the debt that corporate owes to the share holders

d) all of the above.

28. The success of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Porgramme of a corporation

depends on

a) its accountability

b) its transparency

c) integration between CSR and corporate policy

d) all of the above

29. Social Entrepreneurship can be viewed as a ___________ model of Socio-economic

Development.a) bottom-up

b) top-down

c) trickle-down

d) self-employment

30. For access to Clean Water, Advanced Reverse Osmosis Membrane Technologies are

leveraged by

a) Piramal Foundation

b) SEWA

c) Naandi Foundation

d) Kalpabriksh

31. The most common method of representing statistical data is

a) Bar Diagram

b) Line Diagram

c) Pictogram

d) Pie Chart

32. Range is ______________________ measure of dispersion.

a) relative

b) absolute

c) absolute and relative

d) none of the above

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33. In statistics data means

a) quantitative value

b) information about specific phenomenon

c) qualitative attribute

d) none of the above.

34. If Ramesh has scored 55th percentile on a particular competitive exam. What does it

mean?

a) 54% of the students have got lower marks than Ramesh

b) 55 students have got higher marks than Ramesh

c) 55% of students have got higher marks than Ramesh

d) 55% of the students have got lower marks than Ramesh

35. A large room contains approximately 10 lakh apples. In order to ascertain the average

weight of all the apples, three friends, Amar, Akbar, and Anthony adopt differentmethods. Amar randomly selects 5 apples and calculates their average weight; Akbar

randomly selects 50 apples and calculates their average weight; and Anthony selects

500 apples and calculates their average weight. Which of the three estimates is likely to

be the most accurate?

a) Amar

b) Akbar

c) Anthony

d) Cannot say

36. Rajat has a business of buying and selling widgets. He buys 25 widgets at Rs. 5 per

piece, 35 widgets at Rs. 6 per piece, and 60 widgets at Rs. 4 per piece. Assuming that

all the widgets are identical, what is the average cost of all the widgets purchased by

Rajat?

a) Rs. 4.79p per piece

b) Rs. 5.00p per piece

c) Rs. 5.25p per piece

d) Rs. 5.75p per piece

37. Which of the following is not a measure of dispersion?

a) Coefficient of determination

b) Range

c) Standard deviation

d) Variance

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38. Which of the following divides a group into ten subgroups?

a) Quartiles

b) Percentiles

c) Median

d) Deciles

39. If the standard deviation of a population is 4, the population variance is:

a) 2

b) 8

c) 16

d) Can’t say

40. If a group of 101 numbers are arranged in ascending order of magnitude, the middle

value of this group of numbers is called:

a) Average

b) Mean

c) Median

d) Mode

41. When each member of a population has an equally likely chance of being selected, the

sampling method is called:

a) Convenience sampling

b) Quota sampling

c) Random sampling

d) Snowball sampling

42. Normal distribution is a _______________ distribution

a) Bell shaped

b) Inverted U shaped

c) Inverted V shaped

d) V shaped

43. Central Limit Theory is linked to

a) Chi-Square Distribution

b) T-distribution

c) F- distribution

d) Z-Distribution

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44. Skewness is the measure of

a) Dispersion

b) Symmetry

c) Central tendency

d) Association between two variables

45. Kurtosis means

a) Peakedness

b) Forecasting

c) Regression

d) Dispersion

46. UIDAI stands for

a) United Identification Authority of India

b) Unique Identification Authority of India

c) United Insurance Authority of India

d) United Insurance Agency of India

47. Identify the correct statement

a) RTI Act addresses for Right To Information of common citizen

b) Aravind Kejriwal has been associated with RTI

c) CIC is the chief administrative authority deal with Right To Information

d) All of above

48. CSR activities includes

a) Improving quality of life of locals

b) Addressing Triple Bottom Line i.e. social, economic and environmental needs

c) None of the above

d) (a) and (b) both

49. NC Saxena Committee was appointed to report

a) Empowerment of rural poor

b) Vendata’s mining activities in Orissa

c) Both of the above

d) None of the above

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50. Government of India’s approach to address the shortage of power through

hydro-electric power generation does not include

a) Constructing large dams on major rivers flowing across the country

b) Setting up hydro-electric power generation system in neighbouring country

Bhutan

c) Setting up micro and mini hydel power plants at various locations

d) None of the above

51. What does Section 49 of Companies Act deals with?

a) Corporate Tax for Not for Profit Companies

b) Tax for NGOs

c) Appointment of Independent Directors in a Public Company

d) Financial Audit in Public Company.

52. V. G. Siddhartha is associated with,a) Infosys

b) Wipro

c) Café Coffee Day

d) Pizza Hut

53. Vikram Akula is associated with,

a) SKS Microfinance

b) NABARD

c) Tam for India

d) CNBC TV-18

54. SHG stands for,

a) Social Health Group

b) Social Help Group

c) Self Help Group

d) Self Health Group

55. The Disability Act provides for ___% quota reserved for the disabled in all

government and government-aided educational institutions.

a) 5%

b) 7%

c) 3%

d) No such reservation exists.

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56. Akshyapatra is related to

a) Mid-day meal scheme implementation agency managed by ISKON

b) Foundation which collects donations to fund mid-day meal programme

c) None of the above

d) (a) and (b)

57. Since the beginning of the current decade Supreme Court of India has directed the

states

a) to provide free afternoon meal to children in schools

b) to provide free food grains to poor people

c) to provide pension to poor people under NREGA

d) (a) and (b) above

58. Lijjat Papad and Fabindia are

a) examples of income generation by needy people and market linkage

b) popular Top 20 brands

c) supported by the corporate as their CSR related activities


59. Who can file PIL in Supreme Court of India?

a) State Governments

b) NGOs

c) Any Indiand) Lawyers

60. Mark the best combination (closest approximation) of figures about Indian GDP,

a) Agriculture:70%, Manufacturing: 20%, Services: 10%

b) Agriculture:55%, Manufacturing: 25%, Services: 20%

c) Agriculture:35%, Manufacturing: 35%, Services: 30%

d) Agriculture:25%, Manufacturing: 25%, Services: 50%

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