MH SET 2026 Paper 1 Question Paper and Answer Key; Download PDF (Oct 25, 2026)

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MH SET 2026 Paper 1 Question Paper and Answer Key PDF

1. Which of the following acts broadly related to the digital field, was passed in India in 2023 ?

(A) Information Technology Act

(B) Digital Personal Data Protection Act

(C) Cyber Security and Fraud Prevention Act

(D) Digital Service Provider and Intermediary (Regulation) Act

Correct Answer:(B)

2. In the context of digital payment system in India what does UPI stand for ?

(A) Unique Payment Instance

(B) Universal Payment Interaction

(C) Unified Payment Interface

(D) Universal Payment Initiative

Correct Answer:(C)

3. Following are two statements in the context of internet.
i. The Domain Name System (DNS) is primarily designed for authenticating user ‘login’ and ‘password’.
ii. The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses.
In light of the above two statements, choose the correct option.

(A) Only i is correct

(B) Only ii is correct

(C) Both i and ii are correct

(D) Both i and ii are incorrect

Correct Answer:(B)

4. Which of the following bodies issue ‘Aadhaar’ number to residents of India ?

(A) EPIC

(B) UDAI

(C) NPCI

(D) UIDAI

Correct Answer:(D)

5. Which of the following is an incorrect pair ?

(A) NIRF – National resource of funds for research

(B) NPTEL – A joint academic venture of IITs and IISc

(C) FOSSEE – Use and promotion of free/libre and open source software

(D) SWAYAM – Four quadrant approach for online courses

Correct Answer:(A)

6. What is the decimal place digit of \(5^{10}\) ?

(A) 5

(B) 7

(C) 2

(D) 0

Correct Answer:(C)

7. If we invest Rs. 2,000 at the rate of interest 10% per annum compounded annually for 3 years, then what will be the interest amount ?

(A) Rs. 662

(B) Rs. 735.262

(C) Rs. 650.262

(D) Rs. 1,000

Correct Answer:(A)

8. A shopkeeper raises the printed price of his goods by 40% more than the purchased price. Then he offers a discount of 20% on the printed price. Further, he gives 10% discount on the discounted price. How much profit he earns ?

(A) 0.8%

(B) 8%

(C) 10%

(D) 12%

Correct Answer:(A)

9. If 12, \(2x\) and 27 are in continued proportion, then the value of \(x\)

(A) 6

(B) 9

(C) 8

(D) 11

Correct Answer:(B)

10. What is the contra positive statement of, ‘If the weather is cold, then there is snowing’ ?

(A) If there is snow, then the weather is cold

(B) If the weather is cold then there is no snow

(C) If the weather is not cold then there is no snow

(D) If there is no snow then the weather is not cold

Correct Answer:(D)

11. i. Teaching – Learning is more than a two-way process.
ii. Teaching is a part of learning.
Out of the following, which one is true for above statements ?

(A) Both i and ii are correct

(B) Both i and ii are wrong

(C) i is correct and ii is wrong

(D) i is wrong and ii is correct

Correct Answer:(A)

12. The teacher uses drill, repetition and extrinsic rewards in ‘________’ to aid the recall and retention of factual information.

(A) Memory level teaching

(B) Understanding level teaching

(C) Identification level teaching

(D) Reflective level teaching

Correct Answer:(A)

13. The ________ classroom is one in which students are actively engaged in inquiry-based projects.

(A) Activity - centered

(B) Teacher - centered

(C) Learner - centered

(D) Project - centered

Correct Answer:(C)

14. Learning process can be monitored using ________ evaluation.

(A) Placement

(B) Formative

(C) Diagnostic

(D) Summative

Correct Answer:(B)

15. If a teacher conducts an activity to detect errors in his/her classroom presentations; ________ will be appropriate for this activity.

(A) Intelligence Test

(B) Speed Test

(C) Diagnostic Test

(D) Teacher made Achievement Test

Correct Answer:(C)

16. Identify an important renewable natural resource which has the following characteristics.
i. enhances the quality of environment
ii. provides raw material to various industries
iii. it varies in different parts of the world

(A) Solar energy resource

(B) Water resource

(C) Forest resource

(D) Fish resource

Correct Answer:(C)

17. Which of the following pollutant is a powerful neurotoxin and can biomagnify in aquatic food chains ?

(A) Ozone (O₃)

(B) Mercury (Hg)

(C) Methane (CH₄)

(D) DDT pesticide

Correct Answer:(B)

18. Match the pairs.

i. Environmental Protection Act of India	a. 2008
ii. Rio Earth Summit	b. 1987
iii. National Action Plan on Climate Change, India	c. 1986
iv. Montreal Protocol	d. 1992

(A) i – c, ii – d, iii – a, iv – b

(B) i – d, ii – b, iii – c, iv – a

(C) i – a, ii – b, iii – c, iv – d

(D) i – b, ii – a, iii – d, iv – c

Correct Answer:(A)

19. Which of the following is not a flood mitigation strategy ?

(A) Drainage improvements

(B) Slope terracing

(C) Early warning systems

(D) Rainwater harvesting

Correct Answer:(C)

20. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide time-bound, measurable global frameworks designed to guide countries towards improved human well-being and sustainable development through international cooperation. Identify all possible correct pairs from the list given below.
1. Time period for SDGs – 2015-2030
2. Time period for MDGs – 2000-2015
3. Number of goals in SDGs – 17
4. Number of goals in MDGs – 8

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 1, 3

(C) 2, 4

(D) 2, 3, 4

Correct Answer:(A)

Answer the questions that follow based on either English passage or Marathi passage.

Biology is the study of living things and their vital processes. The field deals with all the physicochemical aspects of life. The modern tendency toward cross-disciplinary research and the unification of scientific knowledge and investigation from different fields has resulted in significant overlap of field of biology with other scientific disciplines. Modern principles of other fields-chemistry, physics, and medicine, for example-are integrated with those of biology in areas such as biochemistry, biomedicine, and biophysics.

Biology is subdivided into separate branches for convenience of study, though all the subdivisions are interrelated by basic principles. Thus, while it is custom to separate the study of plants (botany) from that of animals (zoology), and the study of the structure of organisms (morphology) from that of function (physiology), all living things share in common certain biological phenomena-for example, various means of reproduction, cell division, and the transmission of genetic material.

Biology is often approached on the basis of levels that deal with fundamental units of life. At the level of molecular biology, life is regarded as a manifestation of chemical and energy transformations that occur among the many chemical constituents that compose an organism. As a result of the development of increasingly powerful and precise laboratory instruments and techniques, it is possible to understand and define with high precision and accuracy not only the ultimate physiochemical organization (ultrastructure) of the molecules in living matter but also the way living matter reproduces at the molecular level. Especially crucial to those advances was the rise of genomics in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

21. Identify the correct statement from the following that best captures the passage’s explanation of why biology increasingly overlaps with disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and medicine.

(A) The traditional branches of biology have become obsolete because other sciences now explain biological phenomena more effectively.

(B) Chemistry, physics, and medicine have become specialized branches within the discipline of biology.

(C) The study of life increasingly requires the integration of physicochemical principles and knowledge from multiple scientific fields.

(D) Biology has abandoned its independent principles in favour of methods developed in other sciences.

Correct Answer:(C)

22. Which development is identified by the passage as especially crucial to the increasing precision with which molecular-level biological phenomena can be understood ?

(A) The rise of genomics during the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries

(B) The separation of botany from zoology

(C) The establishment of morphology and physiology as separate branches

(D) The integration of medicine with biology

Correct Answer:(A)

Answer the questions that follow based on either English passage or Marathi passage.

Biology is the study of living things and their vital processes. The field deals with all the physicochemical aspects of life. The modern tendency toward cross-disciplinary research and the unification of scientific knowledge and investigation from different fields has resulted in significant overlap of field of biology with other scientific disciplines. Modern principles of other fields-chemistry, physics, and medicine, for example-are integrated with those of biology in areas such as biochemistry, biomedicine, and biophysics.

Biology is subdivided into separate branches for convenience of study, though all the subdivisions are interrelated by basic principles. Thus, while it is custom to separate the study of plants (botany) from that of animals (zoology), and the study of the structure of organisms (morphology) from that of function (physiology), all living things share in common certain biological phenomena-for example, various means of reproduction, cell division, and the transmission of genetic material.

Biology is often approached on the basis of levels that deal with fundamental units of life. At the level of molecular biology, life is regarded as a manifestation of chemical and energy transformations that occur among the many chemical constituents that compose an organism. As a result of the development of increasingly powerful and precise laboratory instruments and techniques, it is possible to understand and define with high precision and accuracy not only the ultimate physiochemical organization (ultrastructure) of the molecules in living matter but also the way living matter reproduces at the molecular level. Especially crucial to those advances was the rise of genomics in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

23. Which inference about the passage’s treatment of molecular biology is most logically justified ?

(A) Molecular biology has rendered the study of physiology and morphology unnecessary.

(B) Molecular biology represents a level of biological inquiry at which chemical transformations and energy processes are used to understand living systems.

(C) Molecular biology interprets life primarily through the classification of organisms according to their external structures.

(D) Molecular biology is concerned exclusively with the genetic transmission of material between organisms.

Correct Answer:(B)

24. The distinction between botany and zoology, and between morphology and physiology, is presented in the passage primarily as a means of

(A) Demonstrating that plants and animals possess fundamentally different biological processes.

(B) Replacing the unified study of living organisms with increasingly specialized disciplines.

(C) Establishing fundamentally different principles for different categories of organisms.

(D) Facilitating the study of particular aspects of life despite the underlying interconnectedness of biological phenomena.

Correct Answer:(D)

25. Which of the following most accurately expresses the central conceptual progression of the passage ?

(A) From biology as a unified study of life → to specialized but interconnected branches → to increasingly precise molecular-level investigation enabled by technological and genomic advances.

(B) From molecular biology → to morphology and physiology → to the eventual integration of botany and zoology.

(C) From traditional biological divisions → to the replacement of biology by chemistry and physics → to the emergence of biomedicine.

(D) From the classification of organisms → to the rejection of specialized branches → to the dominance of genomics.

Correct Answer:(A)

The questions that follow are based on the following information.

Following is the frequency distribution of heights of students in 7^th standard of a certain school.

Height in cm	Number of boys	Number of girls
145	2	5
150	3	6
155	5	9
160	15	10
165	5	0
Total	30	30

26. Which of the following statements is true ?

(A) The arithmetic mean of height of boys is greater than that of girls by 4 cm.

(B) The arithmetic mean of height of boys is greater than that of girls by 0.8 cm.

(C) The arithmetic mean of height of boys is smaller than that of girls by 4 cm.

(D) The arithmetic mean of height of boys and that of girls are the same.

Correct Answer:(A)

27. Which of the following statements is true ?

(A) The mode of the height of boys is greater than that of girls by 5 cm.

(B) The mode of the height of boys is greater than that of girls by 0.5 cm.

(C) The mode of the height of boys is smaller than that of girls by 5 cm.

(D) The mode of the height of boys and that of girls are same.

Correct Answer:(D)

28. If the points (X, Y) given in the following table are joined serially on X – Y plane then we get

X	–2	–1	0	1	2
Y	4	1	0	1	4

(A) Straight line

(B) Parabola

(C) Hyperbola

(D) Circle

Correct Answer:(B)

The questions that follow are based on the following information.

Following is the table about the land under cultivation of different crops. We have to draw a Pie diagram to represent the information in the table.

Crop	Angle of the sector (in degrees)
Sugarcane	108
Wheat	63
Rice	72
Vegetables	27
Fruits	x

29. Find the angle in degrees associated with the sector represented by crop ‘Fruits’.

(A) 50°

(B) 70°

(C) 90°

(D) 120°

Correct Answer:(C)

30. Find the percentage of land under the crop sugarcane.

(A) 30%

(B) 40%

(C) 55%

(D) 65%

Correct Answer:(A)

31. A higher education institution includes environmental concerns into engineering, commerce and humanities courses rather than teaching them as a separate subject. This approach is best described as

(A) Disciplinary isolation

(B) Environmental mainstreaming

(C) Curriculum centralization

(D) Academic specialization

Correct Answer:(B)

32. The ancient Indian University that was the coordinator of the Buddhist Viharas was

(A) Takshashila

(B) Nalanda

(C) Mithila

(D) Ujjayini

Correct Answer:(B)

33. The expansion of higher education after independence created a major challenge of

(A) Balancing access with quality

(B) Reducing institutional diversity

(C) Limiting research opportunities

(D) Replacing universities with institutes

Correct Answer:(A)

34. The skill that measures the amount of worker’s expertise, specialization, wages and supervisory capacity is

(A) Soft skills

(B) Social skills

(C) Life skills

(D) Labour skills

Correct Answer:(D)

35. Assertion (A) : Value education is not relevant to higher education as students have already acquired basic moral understanding.
Reason (R) : Higher Education involves preparing learners for professional responsibilities, social participation and ethical decision making.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true

Correct Answer:(D)

36. In a code language SMART is coded as TODVY then what will be the code for CLOSE ?

(A) DNRWJ

(B) EMPVJ

(C) DMQUJ

(D) DNPVJ

Correct Answer:(A)

37. Which of the following conclusion/s is/are valid based on the statements given below ?
Statement I : Some flowers are green.
Statement II : All green things are fruits.
Conclusion 1 : All fruits are flowers.
Conclusion 2 : All flowers are fruits.

(A) 1 Only

(B) 2 Only

(C) 1 and 2 both

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

Correct Answer:(D)

38. Which of the following numbers will complete the given series ?
87, ___, 53, 39, 27.

(A) 69

(B) 79

(C) 77

(D) 75

Correct Answer:(A)

39. Which of the following is/are the example/s of the ‘pratyakshya’ (perception) ?
I. Due to low depression belt in Bay of Bengal it will rain tomorrow in Maharashtra.
II. Compared to today’s rainbow yesterday’s rainbow was more beautiful.

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) Both I and II

(D) Neither I nor II

Correct Answer:(D)

40. Which of the following shows the same relationship as that of ‘animals and horses’ ?

(A) Doors and windows

(B) Children and parents

(C) Rivers and mountains

(D) Fruits and mangoes

Correct Answer:(D)

41. Gautam Buddha’s teaching ‘Atta Deepo Bhava!’ falls under which type of communication ?

(A) Mass communication

(B) Group communication

(C) Inter-personal communication

(D) Intra-personal communication

Correct Answer:(D)

42. There is always a possibility of loss in information and meaning during any communication process. What it is called ?

(A) Entropy

(B) Atrophy

(C) Canopy

(D) Enthalpy

Correct Answer:(A)

43. Which among the following can be considered as a psychological barrier to communication ?

(A) Disturbance in a phone call

(B) Not knowing a language

(C) Heavy rain during a conversation

(D) Fear of getting trolled

Correct Answer:(D)

44. Read the following statements and choose the correct option.
i. The internet has no clear institutional status. Hence it is not considered as a mass medium.
ii. The internet is a medium of both mass and interpersonal communication.

(A) Statement i is true, but statement ii is false

(B) Statement i is false, but statement ii is true

(C) Both the statements are false

(D) Both the statements are true

Correct Answer:(B)

45. Write the full form of ‘NWICO’.

(A) New World Industrial and Commercial Order

(B) New World Industrial Communication Order

(C) New World Information and Commerce Order

(D) New World Information and Communication Order

Correct Answer:(D)

46. A study’s findings which hold true outside of the particular content of the research are called

(A) Internal validity

(B) External validity

(C) Face validity

(D) Content validity

Correct Answer:(B)

47. Which of the following is the random strategy of sampling ?

(A) Snowball

(B) Quota

(C) Multistage cluster

(D) Deviant

Correct Answer:(C)

48. What are the main components of measurement process ?
i. Data processing
ii. Critical study
iii. Systematically observing some feature
iv. Characteristic of the world
v. Recording the observations in the form of a number or category

(A) i, ii and iii

(B) ii, iii and iv

(C) iii, iv and v

(D) iv, v and i

Correct Answer:(C)

49. Which of the following events is well-known for first outlining various principles of ethical conduct in research ?

(A) The Nuremburg Code

(B) The Declaration of Helsinki

(C) The Belment Report

(D) The Berlin Code

Correct Answer:(A)

50. Which of the following softwares is mostly useful for qualitative data analysis in research ?

(A) Stata

(B) SAS

(C) IBM SPSS. Statistics

(D) ATLAS. ti

Correct Answer:(D)

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MH SET 2026 Paper 1 was conducted in offline OMR-based mode and contained 50 multiple-choice questions carrying a total of 100 marks. Each question carried 2 marks, and all questions were compulsory. Candidates were given 60 minutes, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, to complete the paper. There was no negative marking for incorrect answers. The paper tested candidates' teaching aptitude, research aptitude, reasoning ability, comprehension and general awareness. Candidates preparing for upcoming examinations can use MH SET 2026 Paper 1 Question Paper and Answer Key to understand the exam pattern and practise time management.

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