2018 (November)
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
COMMERCE
(General Course: 302)
Full
Marks: 80
Pass
Marks: 32/24
The
figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
SECTION
– A
(Business Communication)
1. Write a letter of complaint to Messrs Gupta & Co., Naya
Sarak, New Delhi 1100012, cancelling an earlier order of 12 stationery items
that do not conform to the sample shown in the catalogue. 8
Or
Write a letter to Macmillan, India, Kolkata, to place an order
for some reference books on banking system.
2. Write an essay on any one of the following: 10
a) Population
and economic growth.
b) The
importance of sports and games.
c) The
importance of consumer protection.
d) Demonetization
and Indian economy.
e) Natural
disaster and its management.
3. Prepare a report on your college NSS adopting a small
village school and the service that is to be provided by the students as a part
of extension work. 8
Or
Write a report on the sales pattern of insecticides and
organic farm manure in your district.
4. Read the table below showing some of India’s agricultural
production between 1966 and 1970:
|
(in million tonnes)
|
1966 - 67
|
1967 – 68
|
1968 – 69
|
1969 – 70
|
|
Rice
|
40.44
|
47.61
|
49.76
|
50.43
|
|
Wheat
|
21.39
|
26.54
|
28.65
|
30.09
|
|
Oilseeds
|
8.43
|
10.30
|
8.93
|
9.61
|
|
Sugarcane
|
10.50
|
11.50
|
12.00
|
13.44
|
Write a paragraph by making comparative analysis using the
statistics given in the table. 6
5. (a) Write a memo to the office workers to submit the
progress report of the project. 4
(b) What is a memo? Mention its uses. 4
SECTION
– B
(Prose)
6. Answer any four of the following: 1x4=4
a) What
does Sri Aurobindo emphasize in the essay, On Original Thinking?
b) What
is Playgrounds about?
c) When
V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Novel Prize for literature?
d) Who
was Mya Than Tint?
e) What
is the meaning of ‘inertia’?
f) What
is education according to Krishnamurti?
g) Which
awarded did Satyajit Ray receive in 1992?
7. Answer any four of the following: 2x4=8
a) “Nothing
is our own, nothing native to our intelligence, all is derived.” Explain what
did Sri Aurobindo mean by the above statement?
b) What
is the function of education according to Krishnamurti?
c) What
important lesson did Satyajit Ray learn while shooting?
d) How
were the books valued in the house of Amitav Ghosh’s grandfather?
e) “Cricket
is not a game. It is the truth of life.” What does J. M. Coetzee mean by the
above statement?
f) Explain
the meaning of ‘Samskara’.
8. Answer any two of the following: 7x2=14
a)
Why is independent thinking not encouraged? How
should we assimilate European ideas?
b)
Why does Krishnamurti say that it is important
to grow up in an environment without fear?
c)
“Cinema is the highest form of commercial act.”
Explain.
d)
What roles did bookcases play in Calcutta’s
middle-class homes?
9. Answer any two of the following: 7x2=14
a) Give
an account of the house at Chagunas. Why does the author say he neither liked
nor disliked living there?
b) How
does J. M. Coetzee describe the boy’s feelings and experiences when he first
plays on a proper cricket field?
c) How,
according to Sri Aurobindo, can the youth of India save the country?
d) What
was Satyajit Ray’s view on film-making?
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