UPES Sample Question Paper : BTech UPESEAT

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR B TECH – 2012
Note: These questions are illustrative. The pattern, scope, arrangement, variety, difficulty level, etc in the actual question paper may vary.

English Language Comprehension
Take the words Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Does this sound like an easy recipe for an underdeveloped economy to follow? All that it must do to telescope with a few years the scores of years it took us to develop. Go abroad and copy more efficient methods, put them into effect at home, then sit back and wait for extra products to roll in.

Of course, it doesn’t quite work that way. People in the underdeveloped countries know this from bitter experience. Yet the same illusion keeps cropping up among the so-called advanced countries. Too often, we think we can send a few technical experts to a poor country to solve its problems. Occasionally, in connection with a particular technological process, experts have indeed been able to work wonders in this facile way. But such luck is exceptional.

Experience shows development is truly a hard and slow process but not an impossible one. To hasten its evolution, spontaneous entrepreneurship and innovation must develop among the peoples directly involved. The emphasis is on creative innovation, because it is by no means a cut and dried task to adopt advanced foreign technology to an underdeveloped country’s own use. It may be recalled, that the advanced technology was itself developed to meet the special conditions of the advanced countries. These conditions include high money wage rates, labours scarce in number but replete with industrial skills; plentiful capital inherited from the past, mass production, and so forth.

These conditions do not prevail in less developed lands. This task of creative innovation is of one for undiluted rugged individualism. The government can do much to set up extension services in each region for consulting with farmers on the best seeds, methods of cultivation, and implements. By sponsoring vocational schools, and training courses in machine methods -and book keeping too – the government itself can innovate creativity. Somewhere between laissez-faire and totalitarianism each developing nation has to word out its own destiny.

1 The evolution of a developed country
(1) is the result of its close contact with advanced countries
(2) depends upon its economy and industrial skills
(3) technological processes worked out by experts
(4) trying to put into practice efficient methods from abroad to increase production.

2. An appropriate title for the passage could be
(1) the evolution of a developed country
(2) creative innovation and underdeveloped countries
(3) the taste of creative innovation
(4) entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Direction (Q3): Choose the alternative which is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the sentence.
3. The meeting was called to ruminate on recent events in the subcontinent.
(1) examine (2) ponder
(3) argue (4) discuss

4. Select the lettered pair of words which are related in the same way as the capitalized words are related to each other. COMMUNICATION : MESSAGE : :
(1) humour : amusement (2) expression : words
(3) clarification : doubt (4) radiation : cosmic

Directions (Q5): Choose the alternative which can be substituted for the given word/expressions.
5. That which can be interpreted in any way
(1) Ambivalent (2) Ambient
(3) Amphibious (4) Ambiguous

6. Select the part of the sentence which has an error
(1) Since I was a child
(2) I have never had
(3) even a single opportunity
(4) to visit my aunt.

7. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(1) flamable (2) flamboyance
(3) flavescent (4) flaxen

8. Fill in the blank: He generally………….the faults of his subordinates.
(1) passed over (2) passed through
(3) passed upon (4) passed out

Mathematics
1. A number consists of two digits whose sum is 7. If the digits are reversed, then the number is increased by 27. The number is
(1) 25 (2) 34 (3) 16 (4) 52

2. A student has to secure 15% marks to get through. If he gets 80 marks and fails by 70 marks, find the maximum marks set for the examination.
(1) 900 (2) 1000 (3) 1200 (4) None of these.

3. The average of two numbers is 62. If 2 is added to the smaller number, the ratio between the numbers become 1:2. The smaller number is
(1) 60 (2) 30 (3) 84 (4) 40

4. A jar contains black and white marbles. If there are ten marbles in the jar, then which of the following could not be the ratio of black to white marbles?
(1) 9:1 (2) 7:3 (3) 1:10 (4) 1:4

5. If 7 maids with 7 mops chaned 7 floors in 7 hours, how long would it takes 3 maids to mop 3 floors with 3 mops?
(1) 3 hours (2) 49/3 hours (3) 7 hours (4) 7/3 hours