GATE 2021 XH5 – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2021 XH5 with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Consider: (i) After his surgery, Raja hardly could walk. (ii) After his surgery, Raja could barely walk. (iii) After his surgery, Raja barely could…
- Question 2 – Ms X exits through the front door of a building. With the building behind her, her shadow from the morning sun falls to her right. Which direction…
- Question 3 – O is the centre of the circle and M and N lie on it. Right triangle MON has area50 cm². Find the circle’s area in cm².
- Question 4 – Here ⊕ means subtraction, ⊗ division, Δ addition and ∇ multiplication. Evaluate Δ2 ⊕3 Δ((4⊗2)∇4).
- Question 5 – “The increased consumption of leafy vegetables in recent months clearly indicates that people in the state have begun leading a healthy lifestyle.”…
- Question 6 – Oxpeckers warn rhinos of approaching poachers and feed on parasitic ticks found on rhinos. What are the primary benefits to oxpeckers and rhinos,…
- Question 7 – The two-piece jigsaw must form a rectangle. The given piece may be matched by moving, rotating or flipping a candidate. Select the missing piece.
- Question 8 – Farm P has65 hens,91 ducks and169 goats. Farm Q has416 animals in the ratio hens:ducks:goats=5:14:13. All Q’s animals move to P. What is P’s new…
- Question 9 – There are10,000 executives. The pie chart gives company shares. Ratios of executives with a management degree to those without one are C1 3:2, C2 1:4,…
- Question 10 – Five people P,Q,R,S,T sit in a row. Exactly one person separates Q and R, and S cannot sit adjacent to Q. How many distinct arrangements satisfy both…
- Question 11 – A medical-journal article argues that daily curcumin consumption lowers COVID-19 risk: participants consuming at least a teaspoon of extract daily…
- Question 12 – Froot Inc advertised CocoLoco online. A subsequent survey found higher sales than competing TenderJoos. The agency concluded that internet advertising…
- Question 13 – An online store’s promotion requires a minimum spend of₹500. Buying2 kg of fresh fruit earns a hand mixer; buying2 kg of fresh vegetables earns a…
- Question 14 – Detective fiction often pairs a brilliant investigator with an incompetent detective. They pursue different accounts: the latter is misled by the…
- Question 15 – Reorder the middle parts between P1 and P6. P1: Studies of several Sahitya Akademi award winners show that L: or encounter professional M: and…
- Question 16 – Gerrymandering redraws constituencies to favour a party in a system electing one winner per constituency. Districts1–6 favour P and7–9 favour Q.…
- Question 17 – X-rays of a possible Michelangelo self-portrait reveal an earlier painting of a woman’s face. Either Michelangelo or someone else painted over that…
- Question 18 – Complete: “This season tourists visited Ladakh than last season; however, to be the biggest tourist destination in India. The tourism department…
- Question 19 – Arrange these sentences coherently. (1) Some languages have only one living native speaker; that person’s death will leave nobody able to speak or…
- Question 20 – Arrange the middle parts between the given beginning and ending. P1: For a little while L: it was a common belief M: right after the treaty of…
- Question 21 – Read this account adapted from García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. After seeing his beloved, Florentino Ariza loses his appetite and voice…
- Question 22 – In Politics and the English Language, Orwell argues that language decline ultimately has political and economic causes rather than merely individual…
- Question 23 – Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste distinguishes division of labour from caste’s ranked, rigid division of labourers. Caste assigns work by birth…
- Question 24 – In the Monty Hall game, one of three doors hides a car and two hide goats. After a contestant chooses, an informed host always opens another door…
- Question 25 – A Mint opinion piece argues that, despite the recent success of carmakers P and Q, protected Indian vehicle production remains inefficient,…
- Question 26 – In path–goal leadership theory, which style involves consulting subordinates and involving them in decisions?
- Question 27 – A reliability procedure creates a large bank of items and divides it into different versions, or creates two tests whose items have similar…
- Question 28 – In schizophrenia, a delusion of reference means that a person
- Question 29 – A student prepared inadequately for an examination but attributes a failing grade to an unfair test, cheating by other students or poor teaching.…
- Question 30 – Which emotion theory proposes that an environmental situation triggers the felt emotion and bodily reaction simultaneously, with the two responses…
- Question 31 – Perceived fairness in the distribution of resources and rewards is called
- Question 32 – According to Bandura’s personality theory, which is the most important person variable among these?
- Question 33 – Match events P–S to stress categories(i)–(iv). P: A child loses a water bottle on the school bus. Q: A person who escaped the Taj hotel on26…
- Question 34 – Which colour-vision deficiency concerns blue–yellow discrimination?
- Question 35 – Which property of sound is analogous to the hue of light?
- Question 36 – A person or animal receives reinforcement after varying amounts of time under which schedule?
- Question 37 – Loss of memory for events that occurred before a trauma is called
- Question 38 – In the classification used by this2021 question, phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder belong to
- Question 39 – What is the smallest unit of speech/language that carries meaning?
- Question 40 – With the development of formal operations during adolescence, which development becomes possible?
- Question 41 – Which technique integrates statistical results from multiple independent studies addressing the same research question?
- Question 42 – Which framework emphasises culture and scaffolding in cognitive development?
- Question 43 – Why do people often underweight situational factors when judging another person’s behaviour?
- Question 44 – In archival analysis, scientists describe a culture by
- Question 45 – Which are components of Gardner’s multiple-intelligences theory? Select all that apply.
- Question 46 – Match neurotransmitters P acetylcholine, Q norepinephrine, R serotonin and S GABA to effects: (i) alertness/wakefulness; (ii) mood,eating,sleep and…
- Question 47 – Match depth cues P aerial perspective, Q motion parallax, R convergence, S linear perspective to descriptions: (i) inward turning of the eyes toward a…
- Question 48 – Match P transience, Q misattribution, R absentmindedness, S persistence to: (i) confusion about a memory’s source; (ii) inability to forget unwanted…
- Question 49 – A classical-conditioning experiment plots acquisition of conditioned eye-blink responses across trials. Which statements describe the usual…
- Question 50 – A teenager dislikes studying science but fears telling the parents because of their reaction. Which conflict classification and possible response fit?
- Question 51 – Which statements characterise high need for achievement?
- Question 52 – Which are basic assumptions in Allport’s view of human nature?
- Question 53 – Which are characteristics of group structure in an organisational context?
- Question 54 – Which needs or motives were proposed by Abraham Maslow?
- Question 55 – A researcher studies two independent variables. Which ANOVA designs can represent this?
- Question 56 – Which statements about personal space are true?
- Question 57 – A test score is75 and higher relative scores are more favourable. Which reference distributions give the most favourable standardised interpretation?
- Question 58 – A man’s wife needs a life-saving drug. He can pay₹20,000, but the pharmacist demands₹50,000 and refuses credit or a lower price. Which responses…
- Question 59 – Erikson’s fifth developmental stage is identity versus role confusion. Which of these may arise in relation to an identity crisis?
- Question 60 – Which are proposed biological explanations of ageing?
- Question 61 – Which changes accompany sympathetic nervous-system activation?
- Question 62 – Which methods can test genetic accounts of psychopathology?
- Question 63 – Students who initially support water purification compose and recite a videotaped speech opposing water purifiers. Some receive large incentives and…
- Question 64 – In which attachment pattern do children show clinging but then reject the caregiver’s attempts to interact?
- Question 65 – A study plots mean advertisement effectiveness against soft, medium and loud volume. The solid line represents males and the dashed line females.…