MH SET 2026 Paper 1 Answer Key: 50 Questions with Provisional Answers

The MH SET 2026 examination was held on 25 October 2026. This page presents a provisional answer key for all 50 Paper 1 questions to help candidates review their responses.

This reconstructed answer key is not the official SPPU key. As of 26 October 2026, the official answer-key page does not yet list the 25 October examination. Paper 1 is issued in Booklets A, B, C and D, so compare each question by its wording as well as its number.

Examination at a glance

• Exam date: 25 October 2026

• Paper 1: 50 compulsory multiple-choice questions

• Maximum score: 100 marks

• Duration: 60 minutes

• Marking: 2 marks for each correct answer; no negative marking

MH SET 2026 Paper 1: provisional answer key

The question wording below is paraphrased for identification and revision; it is not reproduced verbatim from the examination paper.

Questions 1–10

Q1. Which Indian law enacted in 2023 concerns digital personal data?

Answer: Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

Q2. What is the expansion of UPI?

Answer: Unified Payments Interface.

Q3. In the statements about DNS and domain-to-IP translation, which statement is correct?

Answer: Only statement ii is correct.

Q4. Which authority issues Aadhaar?

Answer: UIDAI.

Q5. Which acronym and expansion are incorrectly paired?

Answer: NIRF — “National resource of funds for research”.

Q6. What is the units digit of 5¹⁰?

Answer: 5.

Q7. What is the compound interest on ₹2,000 at 10% for three years?

Answer: ₹662.

Q8. What is the result after a 40% markup followed by discounts of 20% and 10%?

Answer: 0.8% profit.

Q9. Find x if 12, 2x and 27 are in continued proportion.

Answer: x = 9.

Q10. What is the contrapositive of “If the weather is cold, then it is snowing”?

Answer: If there is no snow, then the weather is not cold.

Questions 11–20

Q11. Which statements about the teaching–learning process are correct?

Answer: Both statements i and ii are correct.

Q12. Which level of teaching emphasizes drills, repetition and recall?

Answer: Memory-level teaching.

Q13. What type of classroom is illustrated by inquiry-based project work?

Answer: A learner-centred classroom.

Q14. Which evaluation monitors learning while instruction is in progress?

Answer: Formative evaluation.

Q15. Which test is used to identify learning errors and difficulties?

Answer: A diagnostic test.

Q16. Which renewable resource supports environmental quality and supplies industrial raw material?

Answer: Forest resource.

Q17. Which neurotoxin can biomagnify through aquatic food chains?

Answer: Mercury (Hg).

Q18. Match the environmental agreements and policies with their descriptions.

Answer: i–c, ii–d, iii–a, iv–b.

Q19. Which option is not treated as a flood-mitigation strategy?

Answer: Slope terracing.

Q20. Which statements about SDG/MDG dates and the number of goals are correct?

Answer: Statements 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Questions 21–30

Q21. Why does biology overlap with chemistry, physics and medicine?

Answer: Modern life science draws on physicochemical principles and knowledge from several scientific fields.

Q22. Which development enabled precise study of biology at the molecular level?

Answer: The rise of genomics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Q23. What does molecular biology study in living systems?

Answer: Chemical transformations and energy processes.

Q24. Why are areas such as botany, zoology, morphology and physiology studied separately?

Answer: To make particular aspects of life easier to study while recognising that they remain interconnected.

Q25. Which sequence best captures the passage’s account of biology’s development?

Answer: Unified study of life → specialised, interconnected branches → precise molecular-level investigation.

Q26. Based on the frequency table, how do the mean heights of boys and girls compare?

Answer: The boys’ mean height is greater by 0.8 cm.

Q27. According to the height table, which group has the higher mode?

Answer: The boys’ mode is greater by 5 cm.

Q28. What curve passes through the points (−2, 4), (−1, 1), (0, 0), (1, 1) and (2, 4)?

Answer: A parabola.

Q29. What angle represents fruits in the pie chart?

Answer: 90°.

Q30. What percentage is represented by a 108° sugarcane sector?

Answer: 30%.

Questions 31–40

Q31. What is the term for integrating environmental concerns into core courses and processes?

Answer: Environmental mainstreaming.

Q32. Which ancient university was associated with the coordination of Buddhist viharas?

Answer: Nalanda.

Q33. What major challenge accompanied the expansion of higher education after Independence?

Answer: Balancing access with quality.

Q34. Which skill category is associated with expertise, wages and supervisory capacity?

Answer: Labour skills.

Q35. In the value-education assertion–reason item, what is the correct relationship?

Answer: The Assertion is false, but the Reason is true.

Q36. Using SMART → TODVY as the pattern, how is CLOSE coded when successive letters shift by 1 to 5 places?

Answer: DNRWJ.

Q37. In the syllogism about flowers, green objects and fruits, which conclusions follow?

Answer: Provisional answer: Neither conclusion 1 nor conclusion 2 follows.

Q38. Complete the series: 87, ?, 53, 39, 27.

Answer: 69.

Q39. Which statement is an example of pratyakshya (perception)?

Answer: Provisional answer: Statement II only.

Q40. Which set pair has the same relationship as animals and horses?

Answer: Fruits and mangoes.

Questions 41–50

Q41. What type of communication is illustrated by “Atta Deepo Bhava”?

Answer: Intrapersonal communication.

Q42. What is the loss of information or meaning during communication called?

Answer: Entropy.

Q43. Which option represents a psychological barrier to communication?

Answer: Fear of getting trolled.

Q44. Which statements about the Internet as a mass and interpersonal medium are correct?

Answer: Statement i is false; statement ii is true.

Q45. What does NWICO stand for?

Answer: New World Information and Communication Order.

Q46. Which type of validity concerns whether findings generalise beyond a specific context?

Answer: External validity.

Q47. Which option is a random or probability-sampling strategy?

Answer: Multistage cluster sampling.

Q48. Which statements identify the main components of measurement?

Answer: iii, iv and v.

Q49. Which early code established ethical conduct for human research?

Answer: The Nuremberg Code.

Q50. Which software is used to analyse qualitative data?

Answer: ATLAS.ti.

How to estimate your score

Multiply the number of correct answers by 2. There is no deduction for an incorrect answer.

Checking the official key

When SPPU releases its official key, select your booklet code (A, B, C or D) and match answers using the question wording. Questions 37 and 39 are marked provisional here and should be checked again against the official key.

Official references

SPPU Answer Keys | Examination Scheme

Use the official SPPU answer key for final scoring. This NeoAI Tech article is a revision aid, not an official university publication.

Related update

See the combined MH SET 2026 update for the exam overview and Computer Science Paper 2 status: MH SET Answer Key 2026: Paper 1 Questions and Computer Science Paper 2 Update