ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD): Dairy Chemistry, Dairy Microbiology, Dairy Technology, Dairy Engineering · India · NTA for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersDesigning, analysing and publishing dairy research, and the ethics, IPR and grant writing that a research career needs.
In the exams: ICAR AICE Part A (general) and all dairy subjects; ASRB NET; required in every Indian PG programme (PGS courses)
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of Research Methods, Experimental Design & Scientific Communication. Difficulty: 5 easy, 86 medium, 9 hard.
| Scientific method and research problem formulation | 10 | |
| Literature search and systematic review | 10 | |
| Completely randomised, block and factorial designs | 10 | |
| Response surface and mixture designs | 10 | |
| Multivariate analysis: PCA and clustering | 10 | |
| Sensory and consumer data analysis | 10 | |
| Writing theses, papers and grant proposals | 10 | |
| Research ethics and data integrity | 10 | |
| Intellectual property: patents and technology transfer | 10 | |
| Laboratory safety and biosafety | 10 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The experimental unit is:
C. The smallest unit receiving a treatment independently
Analysis must be based on experimental units, not subsamples.
Further reading: Mead, Gilmour and Mead, Statistical Principles for the Design of Experiments
How many design points does a {3, 2} simplex lattice have?
C. 6
(q + m − 1)!/(m!(q − 1)!) = 4!/(2!2!) = 6: three pure components and three 50:50 blends.
Further reading: Cornell, Experiments with Mixtures
A permutation test for a PLS-DA model refits the model with:
C. Randomly shuffled class labels
If shuffled models discriminate as well, the original separation is not beyond chance.
Further reading: Chemometrics literature
Check-all-that-apply citation frequencies across products are compared with:
B. Cochran's Q test
Cochran's Q handles binary repeated responses; correspondence analysis maps them.
Further reading: Næs, Brockhoff and Tomic, Statistics for Sensory and Consumer Science
IMRaD stands for:
C. Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion
The standard structure of research papers.
Further reading: Scientific writing guides
In double-blind peer review:
A. Both authors and reviewers are anonymous
Single-blind hides reviewers only; open review reveals identities.
Further reading: Publishing ethics guides
The 3Rs of animal research are:
A. Replacement, reduction, refinement
Russell and Burch, 1959.
Further reading: Russell and Burch, The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique
Informed consent in human research requires that participants:
B. Understand the study and be free to withdraw
Voluntary consent with clear information and the right to withdraw.
Further reading: Declaration of Helsinki
An exclusive licence differs from a non-exclusive licence in that it:
B. Sole rights in a field or territory
Exclusivity may be needed to justify a licensee's investment.
Further reading: Technology transfer practice
Diethyl ether used in fat extraction must be handled away from ignition sources mainly because it is:
D. Highly flammable and volatile
Its vapour forms flammable mixtures; peroxides can form on storage.
Further reading: Laboratory safety guidance
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