CUET (UG) entrance exam Question Bank Solutions

During Cold War Era there had been many important events. Arrange these events in the correct sequence.

1. Korean War resulted in the division of Korea
2. The signing of the Baghdad Pact
3. American Intervention in Vietnam
4. Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Formation of SEATO

Which one of the following statements about the Berlin Wall is incorrect?

The objectives of establishing regional organizations are ______

The geographical proximity influences the formation of regional organizations because ______

Name the party that dominates the political affairs of Maldives.

Which of the following statements is/are correct in the context of the dominance of the Congress Party in the first three general elections?

1. The Congress party had inherited the legacy of the national movement. It had a great leader Jawaharlal Nehru who led the Congress campaign and toured throughout the country.
2. Congress party won 364 of the 489 seats in the first Lok Sabha and finished way ahead of any other challenger. Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister after the first general election.
3. The state elections were held with the Lok Sabha elections. Congress scored a big victory in those elections as well. The party ruled all over the country at the national and the state level.
4. In the second and the third general elections, held in 1957 and 1962 respectively, the Congress maintained the same position in the Lok Sabha by winning three-fourths of the seats. 

The feature of one-party dominance in the Indian party system was temporarily set aside by the ______

The Planning Commission was established in the year

Which of these statements about the Bombay Plan is incorrect? 

Which of the following ideas did not form part of the early phase of India's development policy? 

The idea of planning in India was drawn from

1. The Bombay plan
2. Experiences of the Soviet bloc countries
3. Gandhian vision of society
4. Demand by peasant organisations  

Planning Commission was scrapped on

Following are a few points given on the approach towards development at the time of Independence. Which of them is correct?

1. The common perception of Development was becoming modernized which involved the breakdown of traditional social structure
2. After independence India had two models of development one was Europe's and US's liberal capital model and the other USSR's socialist model.
3. Many including the Communist Party of India and leaders like Nehru. were impressed by the Soviet model and very few favored the American models.

Which of the following is not a feature of Indian economic planning?

"GRAND INNOVATION CHALLENGE" was launched by

Read the following passage and answer the question.

"In the early years of Independence, two contradictory tendencies were already well advanced inside the Congress Party. On the one hand, the national party executive endorsed socialist principles of state ownership, regulation, and control over key sectors of the economy in order to improve productivity and at the same time curb economic concentration. On the other hand, the national Congress ·government pursued liberal economic policies and incentives to private investment that was justified in terms of the sold criterion of achieving a maximum increase in production". - Francine Frankel

What is the contradiction that the author is talking about? What would be the political implications of a contradiction like this? 

Which of the following option is correct?  

What is the meaning and importance of economic planning in the Indian context?  

Which of the following option is true in the context of the "Kerala Model"?   

What is Plan Holiday?