NID-DAT 2018 Mdes Answer Key with explanation

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1) A


2) A

Majoli is a river island in the Brahmaputra River, Assam and in 2016 became the first island to be made a district in India. While it is often claimed to be the world's largest river island, Ilha do Bananal and many other river islands around the world are significantly larger.

3) C
China

4) C
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

5) A
The first color wheel dates to mid-1600s were invented by Sir Isaac Newton. He split white sunlight into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue beams; then he joined the two ends of the color spectrum together to show the natural progression of colors. Newton associated each color with a note of a musical scale.

6) C

Kalamkari is not a needlework but a hand painting.

Chikan is a traditional embroidery style from Lucknow, India. Literally translated, the word means embroidery. Believed to have been introduced by Nur Jehan, the wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir,[1] it is one of Lucknow's best-known textile decoration styles.

Phulkari (embroidery technique from the Punjab region (divided between India and Pakistan) and Haryana literally means flower work, which was at one time used as the word for embroidery, but in time the word “Phulkari” became restricted to embroidered shawls and head scarfs.

Kalamkari or Kalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in Iran and India.

Kasidakari is the Punjabi and Hindi name for a type of needlework. In Persian, it is called Kashidakari.

The following links will help you with Embroidery study

wikipedia

Craftsvilla


7) A

Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.

Charles Correa famous works -

Laurie Baker famous works

Raj Rewal details -

B.V.Doshi works

Louis Kahn works

Le Corbusier works


8) D

Obvious. Explaining further, the circles of different diameter are not linked and so they together should NOT represent 'Continuation'. The circles increase in dia, which represents 'Rhythm'. Group of such circles circling are often used for Hypnotising people. And, finally, they represent 'Spiral' too.

9) D

Source - Sciencing blog

12 lunar months make up a lunar year. A lunar month can also be defined as the time the moon takes to pass through each of its phases (new moon, half moon and full moon) and return back to its original position. A lunar month takes 29.5 days, although this varies slightly around this average. The difference between a solar and a lunar year is 11 days. (Lunar - 354 days and solar - 365 days)

In every three years, an additional month (13th month) will be inserted into the calendar.

10) A

Bharatanatyam is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. Bharatanatyam may be the oldest classical dance tradition of India. Bharatanatyam has been a solo dance that was performed exclusively by women, and it expressed South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of Shaivism, but also of Vaishnavism and Shaktism.

Kuchipudi is one of the eight major Indian classical dances. It originated in a village named Kuchipudi in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of Natya Shastra. It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like all major classical dances of India.

Odissi is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temples of Odisha. Odissi, in its history, was performed predominantly by women and expressed religious stories and spiritual ideas, particularly of Vaishnavism (Vishnu as Jagannath). Odissi performances have also expressed ideas of other traditions such as those related to Hindu gods Shiva and Surya, as well as Hindu goddesses (Shaktism).

Kathakali, one of the major forms of classical Indian dance.[1] It is a "story play" genre of art, but one distinguished by the elaborately colorful make-up, costumes and facemasks that the traditionally male actor-dancers wear. The traditional themes of the Kathakali are folk mythologies, religious legends and spiritual ideas from the Hindu epics and the Puranas. Kathakali differs in that it also incorporates movements from ancient Indian martial arts and athletic traditions of South India.

11) A

The below Wikipedia link will help you spot all the sites with their geographical presence in India.
List of sites declared as UNESCO World Heritage site in India

12) D

Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937, at his home on Rue des Grands Augustins, in Paris.

13) C

In a landmark decision that will affect the lives of all Indians, the Supreme Court declared that "individual privacy" is a guaranteed fundamental right. The verdict by a nine-judge Constitution bench could now test the validity of Aadhaar, the controversial biometric identification project the government had pushed.


14) B

The Good Design Award is a movement aimed at enriching the lives and society through design. Founded in 1957, it has been commonly known together with the "G Mark", the symbol of winning the award. Good Design Award has recognized various objects surrounding us, including industrial goods, architecture, software, systems, services and so on. No matter tangible or intangible, Good Design Award will take it as design, evaluate and honor its quality, as long as it is created to fulfill certain ideas or purposes.

In Good Design Award, five fundamental themes have been chosen to be the guiding ideals -
Humanity, Honesty. Innovation, Esthetics, Ethics

source - g-mark website 


15) D

A pH higher than 7 is considered basic or alkaline, and pH level of below 7 is acidic. A pH of 0 indicates a high level of acidity. A pH of 7 is neutral. A pH of 14 is the most basic or Alkaline.

Now, Accidity level of
Lemon juice - pH around 2.0 to 3.0
Human blood - 7.35 to 7.45
vinegar - around 2.4
Most soaps tend to fall in the pH range of 9-10.

So, the order in increasing order is
Soap, Blood, vinegar, Lemon juice

16) B

On December 22, 2010, building on the International Year of Biodiversity (2010) and the goal of significantly reducing biodiversity loss, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2011-2020 the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (Resolution 65/161).

Following the recommendation in the Rome Declaration, the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) was declared by the UN General Assembly in April 2016.

The International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015–2024, was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in a Resolution (68/237) adopted on 23 December 2013.

UNESCO leads the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) under the slogan of “Literacy as Freedom” (2003 - 2012). Launched at UN Headquarters (New York) in 2003, the Decade aims to increase literacy levels and to empower all people everywhere.

17) D

This link will help you with GST

Detailed item wise list of exempted items -

18) C 

Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States,

And ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term date):

Bolivia (2018)
Cote d’Ivoire (2019)
Equatorial Guinea (2019)
Ethiopia (2018)
Kazakhstan (2018)
Kuwait (2019)
Netherlands (2018)
Peru (2019)
Poland (2019)
Sweden (2018)

19) B

The below images will help you.

20) B

Usually, 3 to 3.5 meter is the standard floor height, which when converted to feet would be 3.5*3 (assuming 3 feet = 1 mtr) = 10.5
so, the total no. of floors ( and hence windows) = 100/10.5 ~ 9 (approax)

21) B

Diagonal elements adds up to 12
like:
11 + 1 = 12
9 + 3 = 12
7 + 5 = 12
? + 2 = 12
so ? = 10

22) D

The shown instrument is vernier calipers and with the two bottom  projections, we can measure length, with the top two sharp projections, we can measure the diameter and with the help of the small needle kind at the right end, we can measure the depth.

23) B

24) C

The first person takes hand shake with the rest 11 people,
the second person shakes with the 10 members but not with the first person (coz he already shook his hand). Like this if we count
11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 66

25) C

26) A

27) A

28) d

29) B

30) D

Basically, the options represents the skin texture of elephant from different ages. I guess so. So, the animal on the top of the chain of evolution is nothing but the oldest animal (the anscestor)

31) C

A is the correct version of C. According to the shape of the figure, the building (say) has a top landing with side walls. So, the strip should be as shown in A rather than being continuous on the top as shown in C.
B and D are correct.

32) D

Observe each column. From top to bottom in each column, the no. of sides of the polygon (geometry shape) increases by one and all the shapes has the same color. Say in the first column, triangle = 3 sides, square = 4 sides, pentagon = 5 sides
second column, the no of sides from top to bottm are: 5, 6,7
So, in the third column also, the no. of sides of the shapes should be
4,5,6
So, D is the answer considering the color too.

33) 1
No. of black color pentagons  = 11
No. of white color pentagon  = 1

34) C

35) C

Fish eye view appear in a circle and looks like being in a convex mirror.

36) B
Clearly, the given three images represents objects/products used indoor. In the given options, other thn bulb, all other objects like tree, men with tennis, bicycle are meant to be used outdoor.

37) D

The following figures shows that only (1) and (4) lines/edges coincide in the side view.

38) D

Rotating W first by 180 degrees about the Y axis will result again into 'W'
Rotating the newly formed W about X axis will result into 'M'
And rotating 'M' about the Z axis will neither result into W, M or E, though it will have E structure.

39) C

40) C, D

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space when he orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961. About a month later Alan Shepard, Jr. became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, when he was launched aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.

So, it is not possible that someone would've made the speech before 1961

41) D
The author is feeling kind of homesickness, which is indicated by Nostalgia.

42) B

43) A

44) B

45) A

Count the no. of alphabets in the given word, for example, sabarmati has 9 letters and hence 92, Hoogly has 6 letters and hence 62, you can check the rest too. Similarly, Narmada has 7 letters and hence it should start with 7. Again, regarding the second numeric of the number, it represents the no. of vowels in the given word, Sabarmati has 3 A's and 1 I, so 4 vowels and hence 94, Beas has two vowels and hence 42. Similarly, Narmada has 3 vowels and hence 73

46) A

JST is 3.30 hrs ahead of IST. It means if IST is say 12 JST will be 3.30.
Since Namit started by 12.20 pm from Delhi and the total travel time (adding 2 hr 15 min of layover) would be 12.20 + 9.45 + 2.15 = 24.20pm which is 00.20 AM in the next day morning in the standard IST. Adding 3.30 hrs, we have 00.20+3.30 = 3.50AM

47) A

Trying to solve it mathematically, the following explanation would work. Say the area is 144

circle area is PI*R^2 = 144, which says R = 6.7
Circle perimeter = 2 *PI*R = 2*3.14*6.7 = 42.1

Square area is A^2 = 144, which means A = 12
It's perimeter is 4A = 4*12 = 48

Equilateral triangle of side A is Sqrt(3)*A^2/8 = 144
A = 25.8
It's perimeter is 3A = 77.37

So,  circle < sqaure <perimeter.

48) A

see the below picture for more explanation.

49) D

The combination of red and blue gives Magenta.
Red + Green = Brown
Red + Yellow = Orange

50) 
Unable to get a clue. Any ideas are welcome.

51) D

Example, a circle swept in 3D would result into a sphere. I assume you can imagine the rest solids. Stability of the solid can be determined by keeping the solid on say a flat surface and by giving a slight disturbance to it.
A sphere is the most unstable solid for even a small disturbance would be enough to dispel its static position, next comes the egg shape (from ellipse), the cone is the most stable solid considering that the flat circular surface of it is on ground. So, the order should be (increasing order)

circle, ellipse, star, triangle

52) A

53) C

Note the number of sides of the shape including the number of partitions, for example, the first image has 5 sides and 2 partitions and hence 5*2 = 10
the second shape has 4 sides and 2 partitions and hence 4*2 = 8
the third has 6 sides and 4 partitions, hence 6*4 = 24
Finally, the fourth image has 6 sides and  3 partitions and hence 6*3 = 18

54) A

All the given views are eligible to have the same front and top view.

55) D

The given set of four patterns has the following common features
dark solid rectangles = 2
empty rectangles = 2
straight lines = 4

Based on the above observation, we can say that B is the correct choice

56) C

Clearly, S3 is 3 and S2 is 1

57) C
I guess so.

58) C

The below image should help you.

How did I do?
Quickly draw 8X8 square. consider the base row of the table just created. Choose one cell (other than the corners) and strike out the cells which gets affected because of the queens presence in that cell, like this keep choosing in each progressing from below. You would then be able to identify the required cells where the queens need to be placed.

59) A