DUPGET 2019 - ENGLISH Exam Instructions and Notes

Examination Instructions and Guidelines

This document outlines crucial instructions for candidates appearing for the Post Graduate Entrance Test (DUPGET) 2019.

General Instructions

Permitted Writing Tool: Use only black or blue ballpoint pens.
Admit Card: A valid admit card is mandatory for entry into the examination hall. It must be presented to the invigilator upon request.
Leaving the Examination Hall: Candidates are permitted to leave the hall one hour after the exam commences, provided they leave the Question Booklet and OMR Answer-Sheet with the invigilator.
Prohibited Items: Books, mobile phones, calculators, papers, electronic gadgets, and any objectionable items are strictly prohibited inside the examination hall.
Personal Belongings: Candidates are responsible for the safety of their belongings left outside the examination hall.

OMR Answer-Sheet Guidelines

Filling the OMR Sheet: Candidates must accurately fill in both sides of the OMR Answer-Sheet, following the instructions provided on Side-1.
Multiple Choice Questions: The test comprises 100 multiple-choice questions, each carrying 1 mark.
Negative Marking: Incorrect answers will incur a deduction of 0.25 marks each.
Answering Questions: Each question presents four answer choices (A, B, C, and D), only one of which is correct. Mark the correct option by darkening the corresponding circle on the OMR Answer-Sheet.
Prohibited Actions: Marking multiple answers, altering answers with erasers (solid or liquid), and making any indicative marks on the OMR Answer-Sheet will be considered incorrect.
Sheet Integrity: Do not damage or deface any part of the Question Booklet or the OMR Answer-Sheet.
Submission: The OMR Answer-Sheet must be returned to the invigilator before leaving the examination hall.
Invigilator's Signature: Ensure the OMR Answer-Sheet is signed by the invigilator.
Question Booklet Check: Upon opening the Question Booklet, verify the total number of questions (100) and report any discrepancies to the invigilator.
Unfair Means: Any form of unfair means or violation of instructions will lead to cancellation of candidature.
OMR Sheet Errors: The examination authority will not be responsible for any consequences resulting from incorrect entries made by the candidate on the OMR Answer-Sheet.

Reading Comprehension: Progress in Life

Progress in life is highly dependent on overcoming challenges, symbolized as "crossing thresholds." The text illustrates this with the example of a child learning to write his name; initially difficult, it becomes easy, but then new challenges emerge. Avoiding these challenges leads to stagnation. The passage emphasizes that continuous learning and facing new difficulties enrich lives, even into old age.

People enrich their lives by continuously overcoming thresholds.
An example of progress is venturing into new businesses later in life.
Psychologists confirm lifelong learning is possible.
It's better to try and fail than not to try at all.
Face new difficulties instead of complaining.
Strive to move towards greater aspirations.

Key Concepts:

Threshold: A difficulty or challenge that must be overcome to progress.
Progress: Continuous overcoming of difficulties and seeking new challenges.
Stagnation: Result of avoiding challenges and remaining in one's comfort zone.

Examples Mentioned:

A child learning to write his name.
A man starting a new, successful business in middle age.
De Morgan starting to write novels past sixty.
A Swiss mountaineer who "died climbing."

Practical Implications:

Embrace challenges rather than avoid them.
Never stop learning and seeking new experiences.
View difficulties as opportunities for growth.

Questions and Answers based on the passage:

What obstructs real progress in life?
- (A) Remaining in one and the same state
What does progress in life depend upon?
- (C) Overcoming one difficulty after another
What does "He died climbing" signify?
- (C) He strove hard till the last moment of his life
What does "to pass from dream to grander dream" signify?
- (A) To always have greater and greater aspiration in life
What did the man entering a new business when he is past mid-life do to his business?
- (D) He achieved good success in it
How can you accomplish the most difficult of the tasks?
- (D) By doing it bit-by-bit and persisting in the effort
What does De Morgan's life teach?
- (C) That it is never too late to learn
How do middle-aged and brilliant people add brilliance to their lives?
- (A) By overcoming one difficulty after another
What should we do when a new difficulty obstructs our path?
- (B) Be bold and face it
When did Morgan start to write novels?
- (A) When he was sixty years old

Vocabulary

INDICT: (C) Accuse
GERMANE: (D) Relevant
METICULOUS: (D) Slovenly
VANITY: (B) Humility

Literary Devices and Knowledge

Figure of Speech: The passage "I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice. I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise" contains (B) Anti-thesis.
Pidgin: (D) Pidgin is a contact language, a mixture of elements from different natural languages.
Gothic Novelist: (B) Virginia Woolf is not a Gothic novelist.
Samuel Pepys: (C) A diarist.
Ode Components: (A) Pindaric Ode is composed of strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
Line Origin: (B) Shelley wrote "I fall upon the thorns of life!"
Desire Under the Elms: (C) Eugene O'Neill wrote this play.
Matching Writers with Works:
- (d) Michael Ondaatje (iv) The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
A. C. Bradley: (C) Shakespearean Tragedy.
Mother: (B) Maxim Gorky wrote Mother.
Not by a Russian Writer: (D) The Admirable Crichton.
Khaled Hosseini: (C) Istanbul is not written by Khaled Hosseini.
Partition Novel: (D) In Custody is not about the Partition.
Diaspora: (A) Jews.
Correctly Matched Pair: (B) Anita Desai: The Inheritance of Loss.
Darwin and Evolution: (A) Alfred Russell Wallace.
Cubism: (C) Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
Renaissance Origin: (C) Italy.
Not by Charles Dickens: (A) Under the Greenwood Tree.
Wrongly Paired Book and Author: (A) War and Peace: Maxim Gorky.
Saleem Sinai: (B) Midnight's Children.
(B) Transcendentalism is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New
England that focused on the primacy of
the individual conscience and rejected
materialism in favour of closer
communion with nature.
Tagore's Nobel Prize: (B) 1913.
Tennyson's Elegy: (B) Arthur Hallam.
Harold Bloom divided poets into
'strong' and 'weak' and popularized the practice of misreading.
(C) A Room of One's Own sets a course for academic literary feminism
(C) William Shakespeare whom Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’
(A) Stephen Hero The preliminary version of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called
(A) The Rivals In which of the following works does Mrs.
Malaprop appear?
(B) Songs of Experience In which William Blake’s famous poems such as
London, The Sick Rose and The Tyger
appear?
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense What is a neologism?
(B) Nahum Tate Who among the following gave a happy
ending to King Lear?
(B) Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose
pronunciation imitates the sound the
word describes.
(C) Jean-Paul Sartre Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched
of the Earth was written by
(B) A Literature of their Own The concept of 'Gynocriticism' is believed
to be pioneered by which of the following
works?
(B) William Caxton The printer helped begin the
standardization of English in the 1400s
by publishing books in English.
(A) Rene Descartes Which French philosopher
mathematician's famous quote is "Cogito
ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am")?
(C) Gothic Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Romance.
(A) Jacques Lacan Who proposed that