1. Which of the following is the best measure of variability?

(a) Range

(b) Standard Deviation

(c) Mean Deviation

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(d) None of the above.

2. ‘Turtle pulse ratio’ test is used to measure

(a) Motor educability

(b) Physical fitness

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(c) Mental fitness

(d) Motor fitness

3. ‘Warners’ skill test is for which of the following games?

(a) Basketball (b) Hockey (c) Football (d) Volleyball.

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4 Who amongst the following devised the test for hockey?

(a) Warner (b) Schmithel

(c) Petry (d) French.

‘French’ short service test is for the game of

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(a) Volleyball (b) tennis

(c) Badminton (d) table-tennis.

Who amongst the following devised the test for the game of basketball?

(a) Broer-Miller (b) Schmithal (c) Petry (d) Johnson.

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Which of the following instruments is used to measure posture?

(a) Alignometer

(b) Scoliometer

(c) Both a and b

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(d) None of the above.

8. The principle of randomization is one in which a sample includes

(a) Total population

(b) Part of the population which the researcher wishes to approach

(c) Smaller portion of population repre­senting the total population in a syste­matic way

(d) A population other than the one for which investigations have been planned.

9. The implications of experimental research are

(a) What Was?

(b) What Is?

(c) What will be?

(d) None of the above.

10. Who amongst the following devised a test for motor ability?

(a) French (b) Smithel

(c) Warner (d) Barrow.

11. Which of the following is not a criterion for selection of a research problem?

(a) Will the problem make a significant contribution?

(b) Is the problem of interest to the resea­rcher?

(c) Consultation with faculty members

(d) Is the cost involved feasible?

12. Which of the following experimental designs involve single group?

(a) Repeated measures design

(b) Random group design

(c) Post test only random group design

(d) Factorial design

13. The experimental factors to be controlled in respect of the subjects are

(a) Randomization and physical ability

(b) Age and sex

(c) Motivation and interest

(d) All the above.

14. Who amongst the following devised the test for ‘volleyball’?

(a) Petry (b) Johnson

(c) Broer-Miller (d) Warner.

15. Broer-Miller devised the test for which of the following events?

(a) Table-tennis (b) Volleyball (c) Basketball (d) Tennis.

16. Who amongst the following gave the test for volleyball?

(a) Johnson (b) Russel Lange

(c) Schmithel (d) Broer-Miller.

17. ‘Alignometer’ is used to measure (a) size (b) strength (c) posture (d) weight.

18. Which of the following is used to measure static strength?

(a) Stadiometer (b) Ammeter (c) Galvanometer (d) Dynamometer.

19. Harvard step test was constructed by

(a) Harvard

(b) Thomas Cureton

(c) Lucien Brouha

(d) Sergent.

20. Sergent Jump measures

(a) Explosive leg strength

(b) aglity

(c) Explosive arm strength

(d) Flexibility.

21. Goniometer measures

(a) Strength (b) power

(c) Endurance (d) flexibility.

22. ‘Ergograph’ measures

(a) Muscular strength

(b) Muscular endurance

(c) Muscle length

(d) Muscle size.

23. Which of the following instruments is used to measure lean body weight?

(a) Galvanometer (b) Densitometer (c) Anemometer (d) Goniometer.

24. Which of the following is not a component of AAHPER youth fitness test?

(a) Pull ups

(b) Sit ups

(c) Standing broad jump

(d) German drill.

25. Standard deviation represents

(a) Central tendency of the data

(b) Correlation of the data

(c) Dispersion of the data

(d) Probability.

26. Value of which of the following cannot be determined graphically?

(a) Mode

(b) Mean

(c) Median

(d) Standard deviation.

27. Which measure of central tendency can be found only after arranging it properly?

(a) Mode

(b) Mean

(c) Median

(d) None of the above.

28. Which of the following is measured by ‘Spring Scale Rig’?

(a) Strength (b) Endurance

(c) Flexibility (d) Mobility.

29. Which of the following instruments mea­sure ‘height’?

(a) Spring scale rig (b) Dynamometer (c) Stadiometer (d) Scoliometer.

30. “Quadrant jump” is a measure of

(a) strength (b) agility (c) skill (d) flexibility.

31. Which of the following instruments measure lung capacity?

(a) Anemometer

(b) Wet speedometer

(c) Galvanometer

(d) Sphygmomanometer.

32. Which of the following instruments measures the wind speed?

(a) Stadiometer (b) Galvanometer (c) Anemometer (d) Ammeter.

33. ‘Sit and reach test’ measures

(a) Abdominal strength

(b) Shoulder flexibility

(c) Hamstring and back flexibility

(d) Hyperextension of the back.

34. The scope in research is indicated by

(a) Limitations of the study

(b) Delimitations of the study

(c) Definition and explanation of terms

(d) Interpretation of research results.

35. Hypothesis is also called

(a) Hunch of scholar

(b) Tentative conclusion

(c) Guess of the scholar

(d) All the above.

36. Research proposal is also called

(a) abstract (b) summary (c) synopsis (d) methodology.

37. Quartile deviation is calculated using the formula

In observational research there are no

(a) Variables

(b) Standardized tests

(c) Experimental tests

(d) Statistical tests.

38. What is the independent variable in experimental research?

(a) A variable which no body controls or changes

(b) The variable which is manipulated in an experiment

(c) The variable which is measured, to see results of an experiment

(d) A variable which is held steady.

39. F-ratio is used to compare

(a) More than two standard deviations

(b) Less than two means

(c) More than two means

(d) None of the above.

41. Which of the following indicates consis­tency in performance?

Validity

Reliability

Both (a) and (b)

None of the above.

42. Which measure of central tendency is capable of central tendency is capable of algebraic manipulations?

(a) Median (b) Mode

(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) Mean.

43. The most unreliable and unstable average is

  1. Mode
  2. Mean
  3. Median
  4. None of the above.

44. Which of the following instruments comes under the preview of Anthropometry?

(a) Ultrasound (b) Treadmill (c) Dynamometer (d) Skin fold caliper.

45. The term which indicates ‘relationship existing between parts of measures’ is

  1. Standard deviation
  2. Correlation
  3. Degree of freedom
  4. Range.

46. Product moment coefficient of correlation measures which particular type of relationship between two variables?

(a) Linear (b) Curvilinear

(c) Parabolic (d) Circular.

47. The number of elements in the obtained sample is called

(a) Sampling frame (b) sampling unit (c) sample design (d) sample size.

48. Sampling in which elements are grouped together because they share certain characteristics is

Cluster sampling

Systematic sampling

Stratified sampling

Sample random sampling.

49. Which of the following is probability sampling?

  1. Purposive sampling
  2. Snowball sampling
  3. Cluster sampling
  4. Dimensional sampling.

50. Which of the following is a non-probability sampling?

  1. Snowball sampling
  2. Stratified sampling
  3. Cluster sampling
  4. Simple random sampling.

Answers

1. (b)

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(b)

3.

(c)

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(b)

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(c)

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7.(c)

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(c)

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(d)

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(c)

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(a)

13. (d)

14. (a)

15. (d)

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(b)

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(c)

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(d)

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(a)

20. (a)

21. (d)

22. (b)

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(b)

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(d)

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(c)

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(b)

27. (c)

28. (a)

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(b)

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(b)

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(c)

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(c)

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35. (d)

36. (c)

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(d)

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(b)

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(c)

41. (b)

42. (d)

43. (a)

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(d)

48. (c)

49. (c)

50. (a)