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APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
THIRD/FOURTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, JULY 2017

Course Code: HS210
Course Name: LIFE SKILLS

Max. Marks: 50 Duration: 2 Hours
PARTA
Answer ALL Questions
1 a) Write a letter to the chief editor of a leading newspaper to report news coverage of (6)

a technical fest in your campus. Assume that you are the convener of the event.

2 8) Problem solving requires critical thinking. Write the important steps to critical (3)

thinking.
0) Is creativity and Innovation are one and the same? Substantiate your answer. (3)
3 a) Differentiate between Debate and Group Discussion. (3)

b) Suresh was unable to perform well in a group discussion in the campus placement (3)
and he approached you to suggest some tips to ensure success in group discussion.
What are your suggestions?
4 a) Engineers have a significant role in moulding the future of the world. Enumerate (6)

the models of professional roles.

5 98) Differentiate between Transactional leader and Transformational Leader. (6)
PART ‏تا‎
‎6 Read the following article and answer the questions.

Last December at the previous Conference, known as COP 21, 196 Parties to the
UNFCCC adopted the Paris Agreement, so-named after the French capital. It aims
to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the
global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-
industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The
Agreement entered into force on 4 November 2016, in time for COP 22, which has

been under way since 7 November.

“This momentum is irreversible — it is being driven not only by governments, but
by science, business and global action of all types at all levels,’ adds the

Proclamation. “Our task now is to rapidly build on that momentum, together,

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