Q.1: University Grants Commission (UGC) (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations were implemented in which year?
a) 2015 b) 2016 c) 2017 d) 2018
Ans: d) 2018
Q.2: As per the UGC regulations 2018, the intellectual honesty in proposing, performing and reporting any activity, which leads to the creation of intellectual property is known as__________?
a) Academic Integrity b) Social Integrity c) Official Integrity d) Epistemological Integrity
Ans: a) Academic Integrity
Q. 3: Read the following statements regarding UGC regulations 2018 carefully.
i) “Author” includes a student or a faculty or a researcher or staff of Higher Educational Institution (HEI) who claims to be the creator of the work under consideration.
ii) “Common Knowledge” means a well known fact, quote, figure or information that is known to most of the people.
a) Both (i) and (ii) are true b) Both (i) and (ii) are false
c) (i) is false and (ii) is true d) (i) is true and (ii) is false
Ans: a) Both (i) and (ii) are true
Q.4: UGC Regulations 2018 says:
i) Plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them as one’s own.
ii) Higher Educational Institution (HEI) means a university recognized under section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956 or an institution deemed to be university under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 or an affiliating college / institution or a constituent unit of a university.
a) Both (i) and (ii) are true b) Both (i) and (ii) are false
c) (i) is false and (ii) is true d) (i) is true and (ii) is false
Ans: a) Both (i) and (ii) are true
Q.5: According to UGC Regulations 2018, which one is not the part of “information?”
a) Data, message, text and images
b) Sound, voice, software, codes computer programmes
c) Microfiche
d) Dyad
Ans: d) Dyad
Q.6: What are objectives of University Grants Commission (UGC) (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations 2018?
a) To create awareness about responsible conduct of research, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity. To establish institutional mechanism through education and training to facilitate responsible conduct of research, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity and deterrence from plagiarism.
b) Prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing among student, faculty, researcher and staff.
c) To develop systems to detect plagiarism and to set up mechanisms to prevent plagiarism and punish a student, faculty, researcher or staff of HEI committing the act of plagiarism.
d) All of the above
Ans: d) All of the above