Burdwan University LLB Entrance Question Paper 2018 - 19

 

University of Burdwan

LLB Entrance Test, 2018-19

Time : 2 Hours                                                                        Full Marks :100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Part – A

(Proficiency in English)

Marks : 60

1. Write a short essay on any one of the following topics :          10 Marks

  (a) Women Empowerment

  (b) Money

  (c) Moral Degradation of Politics in India

  (d) Advancement of communication Technology

2. Choose the correct meaning of the following expression from the option given :

                                                                                                      1x10=10

 (i) Ad interim

    (a) Additional Internship              

    (B) Advertisement for internship

    (c) Meanwhile                             

    (d) Additional Allowance

 (ii) De jure

    (a) In fact                                   

    (b) Injured

    (c) The Juvenile                            

    (d) By Law

 (iii) Honoris Causa

    (a) As a mark of respect               

    (b) The cause of Honour

    (c) The cause of dishonor              

    (d) Work for Honour

 (iv) In camera

    (a) In a judges Chamber               

    (b) Within a camera

    (c) Under cctv surveillance             

    (d) Video recording

 (v) Locus Standi

    (a) Accused of standing in the Court  

    (b) Right to appear in the Court

    (c) Witness standing before the Court

    (d) Witness box

 (vi) Status quo

    (a) Aristocratic Status                    

    (b) Status Symbol

    (c) The state in which things are     

    (d) One’s status in the Court

 (vii) Ex post facto

    (a) Retroactive                              

    (b) Prospective

    (c) Before the fact is exposed         

    (d) Contemporary

 (viii) Ex Parte

    (a) Part hearing of a case               

    (b) For one party only

    (c) External Politics                        

    (d) A former political party

 (ix) Fugitive

    (a) A convicted person                    

    (b) Figure of an accused

    (c) A person who escapes                

    (d) A nomad

  (x) Extradition

      (a) Extraremuration

      (b) Surrender of an accused by one state to another state

      (c) Out of tradition

      (d) Conforming to a tradition

3. Each of the following sentences has two meanings. Write the meanings.                                                                                                            2x5=10

  (a) The dog in the car that needs some water is old.

  (b) Flying planes can be dangerous.

  (c) The cat chased the rat until it stumbled and fell.

  (d) We saw her duck.

4. Correct the following sentences, where necessary: 2x5=10

  (a) He went to work despite of his illness.

  (b) I wanted to ask Raju that why he had gone there.

  (c) I had never encountered such an unique situation.

  (d) She has returned home yesterday.

  (e) He is intelligent but he lacks of experience.

5. Make a precis of the following passage in not more than 90 words: 10 Marks

  The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various. But all have something in common. The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of ‘pleasure’. That is to say he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. The narcissist and the megalomaniac believe that happiness is possible, though they may adopt mistaken means of achieving it; but the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion. In his case, the first thing to be done is to persuade him that happiness is desirable. Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Perhaps their pride is like that of the fox who had lost his tail; if so, the way to cure it is to point out to them how they can grow a new tail. Very few men, I believe, will deliberately choose unhappiness if they see a way of being happy.

6. Write a Letter to the Editor of a newspaper complaining about and thereby drawing the attention of the Government to the poor condition of roads in your locality.                                                                                      10 Marks

Part – B

(Current Affairs, General Knowledge, Enviornment)

7. Pick out the correct answer from the option given:                     1x40=40

 (i) When is the Constitution day observed ?

    (a) 26^th January

    (b) 26^th November

    (c) 26^th October

    (d) 15^th August

 (ii) When is the National Law Day observed in India ?

    (a) 26^th November

    (b) 3^rd December

    (c) 2^nd October

    (d) 26^th January

 (iii) When is the International Human Rights day celebrated ?

    (a) 10^th December

    (b) 5^th March

    (c) 1^st July

    (d) 25^th November

 (iv) Where is the International Criminal Court situated ?

    (a) Geneva

    (b) New York

    (c) Hague

    (d) London

 (v) Who is the Attorney General of India ?

    (a) K K Venugopal

    (b) Tushar Mehta

    (c) Kapil Sibbal

    (d) Kishor Dutta

 (vi) Who is the present Chief Justice of India ?

    (a) Justice Ranjan Gogoi

    (b) Justice K M Joseph

    (c) Justice Deepak Mishra

    (d) Justice M V Lokur

 (vii) Who is the chairman of State Human Rights Commission in West Bengal ?

    (a) Justice Ashok Ganguly

    (b) Justice Chittatosh Mukherjee

    (c) Justice Girish Gupta

    (d) Justice H L Datta

 (viii) Who is the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha ?

    (a) Shri Venkayya Naidu

    (b) Shri Arun Jaitley

    (c) Smt. Smriti Irani

    (d) Shri P.J. Kurein

 (ix) Who is the speaker of Loksabha ?

    (a) Mrs. Suitra Mahajan

    (b) Mrs. Sushma Swaraj

    (c) Shri Rambilash Paswan

    (d) Shri Nitin Gadkari

 (x) Who is the Union Law Minister ?

    (a) Shri Rajnath Singh

    (b) Shri Piyush Goyal

    (c) Mr. M J Akbar

    (d) Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

 (xi) Who is the first Law Minister of Independent India ?

    (a) Shri B R Ambedkar

    (b) Shri J L Nehru

    (c) Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel

    (d) Ravi Shankar Prasad

 (xii) Who is the Education Minister of West Bengal ?

    (a) Dr. Partha Chattopaday

    (b) Dr. Amit Mitra

    (c) Dr. Bratya Basu

    (d) Shri Mukul Roy

 (xiii) Who is the speaker of West Bengal Bidhan Sabha ?

    (a) Shri Biman Bandopadhay

    (b) Shri Subrata Mukherjee

    (c) Shri Madan Ghosh

    (d) Janab Haider Aziz Safwi

 (xiv) Who is the Mayor of Kolkata ?

    (a) Shri Shovan Chatterjee

    (b) Janab Firadh Hakim

    (c) Janab Javed Khan

    (d) Janab Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque

 (xv) In a recent pronouncement Supreme Court decriminalized the ofence ‘Adultery’. In which IPC section is it laid down ?

    (a) Section 437

    (b) Section 457

    (c) Section 477

    (d) Section 497

 (xvi) “Unnatural Offence” has been partially decriminalized by the Apex Court. In which section of IPC is it defined ?

    (a) S 437

    (B) S 367

    (C) S 377

    (D) S 397

 (Xvii) According to the Apex Court of the Country, to which category of right does the ‘Right to Privacy belong’ ?

    (a) Legal Right

    (b) Fundamental Right

    (c) Constitutional Right

    (d) Statutory Right

 (xviii) Who is the Chief Election Commissioner of India ?

    (a) Shri Sunil Arora

    (b) Shri O P Rawat

    (c) Shri A K Jyoti

    (d) Janab Nasim Jaidi

 (xix) Who is the Author of “Midnight’s Children” ?

    (a) Salman Rushdie

    (b) Amitabh Ghosh

    (c) Arvind Adiga

    (d) Jhumpa Lahiri

 (xx) Which Indian Armed Force has recently conducted “EX clean Sea 2018” at the sea off Port Blair ?

    (a) Indian Navy

    (b) Indian Air Force

    (c) Indian Army

    (d) Indian Coast Guard

 (xxi) Which former Indian diplomat has been elected to an Asia Pacific Seat of the UN’s Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ?

    (a) Nirupama Rao

    (b) Preeti Saran

    (c)  Meera Shankar

    (d) Lalit Mansingh

 (xxii) Which state Government has launched ‘SMART’ initiative for agribusiness and rural transformation ?

    (a) Kerala

    (b) Tamil Nadu

    (c) Maharashastra

    (d) Assam

 (xxiii) Which short story writer has bagged 2018 Sahitya Academy Award for the Kashmiri Language ?

    (a) Rehman Rahi

    (b) Mushtaq Ahmad Tantray

    (c) Nayantara Sahagal

    (d) Rahman Abbas

 (xxiv) Over which of the following rivers has India’s longest rail-road bridge been built ?

    (a) Ganga

    (b) Godavari

    (c) Yamuna

    (d) Brahmaputra

 (xxv) Which of the following Banks offers the app called “Yono” ?

    (a) BOI

    (b) SBI

    (c) PNB

    (d) BOB

 (xxvi) Who is the Author of the book ‘ Blue Waters Ahoy ! ‘ ?

    (a) Anup Singh

    (b) Sunil Lanba

    (c) Robin K Dhowan

    (d) Devendra Kumar Joshi

 (xxvii) Which of the following cities is the venue of the UN Climate Summit (COP24) ?

    (a) Ottawa

    (b) Brasilia

    (c) Katowice

    (d) Santiago

 (xxviii) Which of the following countries has become the world’s first nation to recognize “Orphanage trafficking” as a form of modern slavery ?

    (a) Indonesia

    (b) Spain

    (c) Belgium

    (d) Australia

 (xxix) Which of the following word’s has been declared people’s word of 2018 by Cambridge Dictionary ?

    (a) Ecocide

    (b) No-platforming

    (c) Nomophobia

    (d) Glocal

 (xxx) In 2019 which city will be the venue of India’s first Indigenous Film Festival ?

    (a) New Delhi

    (b) Patna

    (c) Kolkata

    (d) Bhubaneswar

 (xxxi) Who has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Central Government for 2017-18 ?

    (a) Nageswara Rao

    (b) Punyasloke Bhaduri

    (c) Sumit Bhattacharjee

    (d) A Prasanna Kumar

 (xxxii) Which is the commom indicator organism causing water pollution ?

    (a) Lemna paucicostata

    (b) Eichhornia coli

    (c) Escherichia coli

    (d) Entamoeba histolytica