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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
English Language [ Question No: 2 To 9 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 2 To 2 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone-you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
How are travel and tour not a break from daily stress?
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
The boy
(P) with big blue eyes
(Q)watched him,
(R) and he never said a word
(S) that had an uncanny cold fire in them
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Read the following five sentences and rearrange them to make a coherent and logical paragraph. After deciding the sequence, answer the questions given below.
- In his literacy work he spoke of that province of human life which mere intellect does not speak.
- He has also given innocent joy to many children by his stories like 'Kabuliwalah'
- These songs are sung not only in bengal but all over the country.
- Rabindranath's great works sprang from intensity of vision and feelings.
- He sang of beauty and heroism, nobility and charm.
Which sentence should come fifth in the paragraph?
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence so as to for a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
- After Examining him, the doctor smiled at him mischievously and took out a syringe.
- Thinking that he was really sick, his father summoned the family doctor.
- That day, Mintu wanted to take a day off from school
- Immediately, Mintu jumped up from his bed and swore the he was fine
- Therefor; he pretended to be sick and remained in bed.
Which sentence should come last in the paragraph?
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
In the questions below the sentences have been given in Active/Passive voice. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
I remember my sister taking me to the museum.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
I haven't seen you ...... a week.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
He has something in his _______.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 10 To 19 ] :
What type of plant did Gregor Mendel use for his experiments to identify the Laws of Inheritance?
When is World Maritime Day, recognized by the UN is observed as-
Which of these was not a member of the Constituent Assembly of India?
The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected for a term
Environmental Studies (EVS) [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
You wish that students learn by peer-learning strategies. Which strategy will you adopt to form groups ?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
With \( b \) the still-water speed and \( r \) the stream's,
\[ \text{downstream} = b + r, \qquad \text{upstream} = b - r \]
\[ \text{downstream} = 60 + 20 = 80 \text{ kmph} \]
\[ \text{upstream} = 60 - 20 = 40 \text{ kmph} \]
The two speeds always straddle the still-water speed, one above and one below by the same amount - here 20 kmph either side of 60.
English Language [ Question No: 2 To 9 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 2 To 2 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone-you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
How are travel and tour not a break from daily stress?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Travel and tours are not a break because they are laden with customised experience, packed into a short period of time.
Paragraph 1 says that the trips taken in the name of holidays 'seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time' and that holidays are now 'an intensified search for experience'. A schedule that crowds experiences into a few days is a pursuit, not a rest.
The second option says the opposite, that they are a break from the search. Investment and savings are never discussed. Memories of 'native places' belong to the old holidays of paragraph 2, whereas the trips described here come back armed with 'digital memories and overflowing suitcases'.
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
The boy
(P) with big blue eyes
(Q)watched him,
(R) and he never said a word
(S) that had an uncanny cold fire in them
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: QPSR
The sentence reads:
The boy watched him, with big blue eyes that had an uncanny cold fire in them, and he never said a word.
Q supplies the main verb for the boy. P and S then describe the eyes, and S must follow P because that had… in them is a relative clause needing eyes before it. R joins the second main clause with and.
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Read the following five sentences and rearrange them to make a coherent and logical paragraph. After deciding the sequence, answer the questions given below.
- In his literacy work he spoke of that province of human life which mere intellect does not speak.
- He has also given innocent joy to many children by his stories like 'Kabuliwalah'
- These songs are sung not only in bengal but all over the country.
- Rabindranath's great works sprang from intensity of vision and feelings.
- He sang of beauty and heroism, nobility and charm.
Which sentence should come fifth in the paragraph?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: 3
Fifth in the rearranged paragraph is sentence 3.
The paragraph runs 4 – 1 – 2 – 5 – 3:
- 4 opens with the general claim about Rabindranath's works.
- 1 narrows it to his literary work.
- 2 adds the children's stories with also.
- 5 turns to his songs of beauty and heroism.
- 3 closes on those songs - these songs can only follow 5.
These songs in 3 has no antecedent unless 5 comes immediately before it, which fixes the end of the paragraph.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence so as to for a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
- After Examining him, the doctor smiled at him mischievously and took out a syringe.
- Thinking that he was really sick, his father summoned the family doctor.
- That day, Mintu wanted to take a day off from school
- Immediately, Mintu jumped up from his bed and swore the he was fine
- Therefor; he pretended to be sick and remained in bed.
Which sentence should come last in the paragraph?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: 4
Last in the rearranged paragraph is sentence 4.
The paragraph runs 3 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 4:
- 3 sets up the situation: Mintu wanted a day off from school.
- 5 follows with therefore - he pretended to be sick and stayed in bed.
- 2 is the consequence: his father, believing him, summoned the doctor.
- 1 brings the doctor's examination and the syringe.
- 4 is the punch line - immediately Mintu jumped up and swore he was fine.
Therefore in 5 and immediately in 1 and 4 chain the events, and the joke only works if the syringe comes out before Mintu recovers.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
In the questions below the sentences have been given in Active/Passive voice. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
I remember my sister taking me to the museum.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: I remember being taken to the museum by my sister.
The verb remember takes a gerund, so the passive must also be a gerund: being taken. I remember I was taken replaces the gerund with a clause, and myself being taken adds a reflexive the construction does not need.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
I haven't seen you ...... a week.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: For
A stretch of time takes for; a starting point takes since. A week is a stretch.
Since would need a point such as last Monday, and within and from do not fit a negative perfect of this kind.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
It is introspection.
Introspection is looking inward at one's own mind, from the Latin for looking within. Retrospection looks back at past events, and reflection and meditation are broader kinds of thinking.
He has something in his _______.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It is eye.
The eye is the organ of sight. I is the pronoun, and the two are pronounced alike.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 10 To 19 ] :
What type of plant did Gregor Mendel use for his experiments to identify the Laws of Inheritance?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Mendel used Pisum sativum, the garden pea.
Gregor Mendel worked with the garden pea from 1856 to 1863 because it has clear contrasting characters (tall and dwarf, round and wrinkled seeds, and others), a short life cycle and flowers that normally self-pollinate but can be crossed by hand. His results gave the laws of segregation and independent assortment.
Solanum lycopersicum is the tomato and Triticum aestivum bread wheat. Pisum tuberosum mixes the pea genus with the potato's species name (Solanum tuberosum) and is not a real plant.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Pyrex is the heat-resistant glass. It is a borosilicate: replacing some of the sodium with boron oxide cuts its coefficient of thermal expansion to about a third that of ordinary glass.
Because it expands so little it does not crack when heated or cooled suddenly, which is why laboratory and ovenware glass is made of it.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Hormones are produced by the endocrine glands - the ductless glands that secrete directly into the bloodstream.
The pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas and gonads are all endocrine glands, so naming any one of them alone is incomplete.
When is World Maritime Day, recognized by the UN is observed as-
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
World Maritime Day is observed during the last week of September.
The International Maritime Organization lets each member government choose the exact day. It marks the entry into force of the IMO Convention in 1958; about 90 per cent of world trade goes by sea.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Manik Sarkar became Chief Minister of Tripura after the February 2013 election.
The CPI(M) leader won a fourth consecutive term, having been in office since 1998, and served until 2018.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
All of these are important in Rajasthan.
The state has a large textile and woollen industry at Bhilwara and Bikaner, sugar and cement plants using its limestone, and glass works and zinc smelters drawing on the Zawar and Rampura Agucha ores.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest part of any ocean, reaching about 10,994 m at Challenger Deep.
It is formed where the Pacific plate subducts beneath the smaller Mariana plate. Everest, inverted into it, would still leave over two kilometres of water above its summit.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Neogene period is divided into the Miocene and the Pliocene, so the Pliocene is its uppermost and youngest epoch, running from about 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago.
The Pleistocene belongs to the Quaternary that follows, and the Oligocene to the Palaeogene that precedes.
Which of these was not a member of the Constituent Assembly of India?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was never a member of the Constituent Assembly. He did not stand for election to it and took no part in its proceedings, though his influence on it - on the Directive Principles concerning village panchayats, prohibition and cottage industries in particular - was considerable. He was assassinated in January 1948, while the Assembly was still at work. The Assembly had 389 members initially, reduced to 299 after partition, elected indirectly by the provincial assemblies under the Cabinet Mission Plan. It included fifteen women, among them Sarojini Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Durgabai Deshmukh and Hansa Mehta. Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee, Patel chaired the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights and Minorities, Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution, and Rajendra Prasad presided. Another figure often wrongly assumed to have been a member is Jayaprakash Narayan, who was elected but declined to serve.
The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected for a term
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Rajya Sabha members are elected for six years.
The House is never dissolved: one-third of its members retire every two years, which is why it is called a permanent or continuing chamber.
Environmental Studies (EVS) [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
You wish that students learn by peer-learning strategies. Which strategy will you adopt to form groups ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The strategy is to make a heterogeneous group based on participation and cooperation.
Peer learning works best when group members differ in ability, background and strengths, so that they can explain to and learn from one another, and when the groups are formed with an eye to how well children participate and cooperate.
Groups by roll number are arbitrary, groups by examination scores put weak learners together with no one to help them, and groups of the same gender and socio-economic background reduce the diversity that peer learning draws on.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20