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Social Science

Meaning, scope and relevance of Social Science

Examines what Social Science studies, the scope of its inquiry and its relevance to understanding society, the environment, the economy and governance in everyday life.

Hard · Level 1 · 25 questions

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  1. Accepting whichever explanation was proposed first
  2. Assuming that only one factor can ever influence attendance
  3. Selecting the explanation preferred by the library manager
  4. Examining attendance trends, opening hours and readers' reported reasons
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  1. Other differences, such as prior achievement and access to learning resources, may also influence marks
  2. Average marks cannot be calculated for students
  3. Tuition must have no possible relationship with learning
  4. Higher marks always prove that the comparison groups were identical
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  1. Ward X has a higher complaint rate because its total complaints are greater
  2. Both wards have the same complaint rate
  3. Ward Y has a higher rate, with 15 complaints per 1,000 residents compared with 10 in Ward X
  4. Complaint rates cannot be compared when populations differ
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  1. The median is ₹30,000 because all incomes must be added
  2. The median is ₹14,000, while the unusually high income raises the mean to ₹30,000
  3. The mean and median must always be equal for five households
  4. The median is ₹98,000 because the highest income determines it
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  1. Positive responses are always false
  2. Every resident necessarily uses the municipal website
  3. A voluntary response automatically includes every social group equally
  4. People without internet access or motivation to respond may be underrepresented
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  1. Applying today's expectations without examining past conditions
  2. Assuming that workers in every century faced identical circumstances
  3. Considering differences in wages, prices, working conditions and available evidence
  4. Using a single worker's experience as proof of conditions everywhere
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  1. Population distribution, travel distances and transport availability
  2. Only the total number of centres in the district
  3. Only the names of the doctors working in the urban area
  4. Only the year in which the first centre was built
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  1. Official reports must always be completely accurate
  2. Who prepared the report, for what purpose, and whether other evidence supports it
  3. All official reports should be discarded without examination
  4. The report's length alone determines its reliability
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  1. Its purchasing power must increase by 15%
  2. Its purchasing power remains unchanged because income increased
  3. Its purchasing power doubles because both income and prices increased
  4. Its purchasing power decreases because prices rise faster than income
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  1. Educational institutions function without any connection to economic or family life
  2. Changes in education necessarily produce identical outcomes in every community
  3. Social institutions are interconnected, and changes in one may influence others
  4. Only economic institutions can influence human behaviour
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  1. Development should be assessed using several economic and social indicators
  2. Average income alone establishes superiority in every aspect of development
  3. Literacy and drinking water have no relationship with human well-being
  4. A region with better literacy must necessarily have higher income
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  1. It proves that observation can never produce useful information
  2. Observed behaviour may differ from ordinary behaviour because people know they are being watched
  3. It establishes that workplace rules are unnecessary
  4. It guarantees that all recorded behaviour represents everyday practice
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  1. Measuring only the heights of newly constructed buildings
  2. Recording only the names of construction companies
  3. Assuming that land conversion has no effect on previous land users
  4. Examining changes in land use alongside farmers' livelihoods, housing demand and local services
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  1. Using only production figures to describe every worker's experience
  2. Ignoring workers because official records are incomplete
  3. Examining oral testimonies and personal accounts while checking them against other evidence
  4. Treating every remembered event as automatically accurate
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  1. The value of the community hall benefits given up by choosing drainage
  2. Only the money already spent on the drainage project
  3. The total value of every possible project in the district
  4. The assumption that public resources have no alternative uses
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  1. A district literacy rate must always be 100%
  2. A population-level percentage does not establish the characteristic of every individual
  3. Literacy cannot be expressed as a percentage
  4. A 90% literacy rate means exactly 90 people are literate regardless of population size
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  1. Providing identical resources regardless of different learning needs
  2. Removing support services from both schools to maintain uniformity
  3. Providing resources according to assessed needs so students have meaningful learning opportunities
  4. Assuming students with different needs will always achieve identical results
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  1. Everyone absent necessarily disagrees with the attendees
  2. Retired residents cannot provide useful information about safety
  3. The number of attendees alone proves complete representation
  4. Meeting timing may exclude working residents, whose experiences should also be considered
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  1. Legal availability and practical accessibility are not necessarily the same
  2. Distance cannot influence access to public services
  3. Legal eligibility automatically removes every practical barrier
  4. Low use always proves that residents do not need the service
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  1. Rainfall proves that the messages had no effect
  2. Rainfall may independently affect water use, making it difficult to isolate the messages' effect
  3. Any reduction in water consumption must result from a single cause
  4. A comparison over time never requires information about surrounding conditions
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  1. Using digital platforms necessarily destroys every traditional practice
  2. A tradition remains unchanged whenever its name remains the same
  3. Digital sharing proves that community gatherings have permanently ended
  4. Cultural practices can adapt to new technologies while retaining elements of their earlier meaning
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  1. A high state average guarantees equally good conditions in every village
  2. Village-level information is unnecessary when state data exist
  3. Broad regional averages may hide important local inequalities
  4. Drinking water access cannot be compared across geographical areas
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  1. Motivation is the only factor that can affect educational participation
  2. Individual motivation matters, but access to institutions can shape available opportunities
  3. Distance from school determines academic success with complete certainty
  4. Students' choices and social conditions cannot be studied together
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  1. Household income can never provide useful information
  2. The neighbourhood with the lowest income must automatically be the best
  3. Any ranking becomes accurate if it uses numerical information
  4. Quality of life includes several dimensions that average income alone does not measure
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  1. Combining population records, groundwater trends, occupational data and residents' experiences
  2. Examining only present groundwater levels while ignoring earlier conditions
  3. Studying only the settlement's oldest building
  4. Assuming all observed changes have one cause without investigating alternatives

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