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WB SET Exam 2019: 22nd SET, Paper II, Commerce

  • Paper code: 06
  • Series: X
  • Language: English
  • 16 pages
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                                                        PAPER–II             Question Booklet No.
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                                                     COMMERCE
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X–3                                                   06–II

                                                  COMMERCE
                                                       PAPER II
    1. Internal environment of a business includes all of             5. Possible impact of WTO on various aspects of the
the following except                                               Indian economy:
       (A) Company culture                                                (i) Quantitative restriction will be allowed
        (B) Customers                                                     (ii) Second hand cars will be imported
        (C) Patents and trade secrets                                     (iii) There will be dumping of Chinese goods
       (D) Company image                                                  (iv) Increase in population
                                                                           (v) Child labour exploitation
                                                                          (vi) Unemployment will increase
                                                                         Which combination is appropriate?
   2. Balance of payment includes components:                            (A) (i), (ii) and (iii)
      (A) Current Account, Capital Account, Unilateral                   (B) (iii), (iv) and (v)
          Payments Account, Official Settlement                          (C) (ii), (iii) and (vi)
          Accounts                                                       (D) (iv), (v) and (vi)
      (B) Revenue Account, P&L A/c, Capital
          Account, Official Account
      (C) Trade Account, Activity Account, Revenue
          Account and Currency Account
      (D) Forex Account, Trade Account, Funds                         6. Which of the following factors is an obstacle to
          Accounts                                                 globalisation?
                                                                          (A) Government policy and regulation
                                                                          (B) Niche markets
                                                                          (C) Human Resources
   3. Which one is the main objective of fiscal policy in                 (D) Competition
India?
       (A) To increase liquidity in the economy
       (B) To promote price stability
       (C) To minimise the inequalities of income and
           wealth                                                     7. Balance of payment can be made favourable if
       (D) To promote employment opportunities                           (A) Exports are increased.
                                                                         (B) Imports are increased.
                                                                         (C) Devaluation of money.
                                                                         (D) Both (A) and (C)
   4. Statement (A) : In the context of globalisation, the
                      most important challange facing
                      India is to boost exports.
      Reason (R) : It may increase the country’s
                      growth rate.
      (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the                    8. Which Indian city has been chosen by the World
           correct explanation of (A)                              Bank for setting up its back office operations?
      (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the                       (A) Bangalore
           incorrect explanation of (A)                                  (B) Kolkata
      (C) (A) is true but (R) is false                                   (C) Chennai
      (D) (A) is false but (R) is true                                   (D) New Delhi
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06–II                                                      X–4
    9. The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) of the                13. Amalgamate Adjustment Account is opened in
WTO says that farm subsidies cannot be more than 10              the books of transferee company to incorporate _______
per cent of the                                                  in case of merger.
       (A) Gross Domestic Product of a country.                         (A) The assets of the transferor company
       (B) Value of agricultural production.                            (B) The statutory reserves of the transferor
       (C) National Income of a country.                                     company
       (D) Value of agricultural exports.                               (C) The liabilities of the transferor company
                                                                        (D) The non-statutory reserves of the transferor
                                                                             company




  10. South-South Cooperation means
      (A) Increasing diplomatic relation among
          emerging economies.
      (B) The flow of resources from one developing
          country to another.                                      14. In case of other enterprises (other than financial
      (C) Increasing investment between developing               enterprises) cash flow arising from interest paid should
          countries.                                             be classified as cash flow from _______ while dividends
      (D) Rising trade between the countries.                    and interest received should be stated as cash flow from
                                                                 _______.
                                                                        (A) Operating activities, Financing activities
                                                                        (B) Financing activities, Investing activities
                                                                        (C) Financing activities, Financing activities
  11. In reference to the accounting standards, choose                  (D) Investing activities, Operating activities
the correct statement:
        (A) Accounting standards codify the generally
            accepted accounting principles.
        (B) They lay down the norms of accounting
            policies and practices by way of codes or
            guidelines.
        (C) The main purpose of accounting standards is
            to provide information to the user as to the          15. Which of the following are the assumptions of
            basis on which the accounts have been                marginal costing?
            prepared.                                                  (a) All the elements of cost can be divided into
        (D) All of the above                                                fixed and variable components.
                                                                       (b) Total fixed cost remains constant at all levels
                                                                            of output.
                                                                       (c) Total variable cost varies in proportion to the
                                                                            volume of output.
                                                                       (d) Per unit selling price remains unchanged at
  12. Triple bottom line accounting is also called                          all levels of operating activity.
      (A) Incremental Costing.                                          (A) (a) and (b)
      (B) Management Accounting.                                        (B) (b) and (c)
      (C) Full Cost Accounting.                                         (C) (a) and (d)
      (D) Historical Cost Accounting.                                   (D) All of (a), (b), (c) and (d)
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  16. XYZ Ltd. has a Debt-Equity ratio of 1·6 compared                20. Which sampling method is used when the
to the industry average of 1·4. This means that the                likelihood of finding evidence by an auditor is low?
company                                                                   (A) Random
       (A) Will be viewed as having creditworthiness.                     (B) Systematic
       (B) Has greater than average financial risk when                   (C) Cluster
           compared to other firms in the industry.
                                                                          (D) Discovery
       (C) Has less liquidity than other firms in the
           industry.
       (D) Will not experience any difficulty with its
           creditors.




                                                                     21. The concept of cardinal utility in economics was
   17. In September, 2019, actual materials used                   introduced by
amounted to 5650 kg., budgeted output was 1000 units and                  (A) A. Marshall
standard materials usage was 5 kg. per unit. Actual                       (B) J. Hicks
output was 1075 units. If the standard material cost of                   (C) P. A. Samuelson
each product is ` 25, the material usage variance will be
                                                                          (D) J. M. Keynes
       (A) ` 1,375 Favourable
       (B) ` 3,250 Favourable
       (C) ` 6,875 Adverse
       (D) ` 1,375 Adverse



                                                                     22. A consumer will attain equilibrium in terms of the
                                                                   indifference curve analysis when
  18. The auditor has noticed existence of recurring
losses on sale of fixed assets. This indicates that                       (A) The budget line is tangent to the indifference
                                                                              curve.
       (A) depreciation charges are insufficient.
                                                                          (B) The indifference curve has a positive slope.
       (B) policy of sale or disposal of fixed assets
            needs to be reviewed.                                         (C) The indifference curve has a negative slope.
       (C) the sale of assets have not been properly                      (D) The budget line is tangent to the indifference
            authorised.                                                       curve and the indifference curve is convex to
                                                                              the origin.
       (D) there are accounting errors.




   19. While verifying intangible assets, an auditor would
recompute amortisation charges and determine whether
amortisation period is reasonable. The auditor actually              23. Price _______ when there is excess market demand
tries to establish _______ by doing it.                            over market supply.
        (A) Disclosure                                                   (A) tends to increase
        (B) Existence                                                    (B) tends to decrease
        (C) Valuation                                                    (C) remains constant
        (D) Possession                                                   (D) can not be determined
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  24. If price elasticity of supply is zero, the supply              29. The kinked demand curve model of oligopoly was
curve will be                                                      introduced by
      (A) A horizontal straight line.                                     (A) Samuelson
      (B) A vertical straight line.                                       (B) Chamberlin
      (C) A downward falling straight line.                               (C) Joan Robinson
      (D) An upward rising straight line.                                 (D) Sweezy

                                                                     30. Marginal revenue will be zero when
                                                                          (A) ep 1
  25. The relation between average cost and marginal                      (B) ep  1
cost is that
                                                                          (C) ep  0
        (A) they are parallel to each other.
        (B) they are perpendicular to each other.                         (D) ep  1
        (C) they have a common point.
        (D) they are tangent to each other.                          31. Match the items of List-I with those of List-II and
                                                                   indicate the correct code:
                                                                         List-I                       List-II
                                                                    (a) Acid Test Ratio        (i) Profitability analysis
                                                                    (b) Return on Investment (ii) Activity analysis
  26. A firm enjoys abnormal profit when
                                                                    (c) Debt Equity Ratio    (iii) Liquidity analysis
      (A) average cost equals price.
                                                                    (d) Inventory Turnover (iv) Long-term solvency
      (B) average cost is greater than price.
                                                                        Ratio                      analysis
      (C) average cost is less than price.
      (D) average cost is equal to marginal cost.                       Codes:
                                                                                    (a)     (b)       (c)     (d)
                                                                         (A)       (ii)      (i)     (iii)    (iv)
                                                                         (B)       (ii)     (iii)    (iv)      (i)
                                                                         (C)       (iii)    (iv)      (i)     (ii)
  27. The concept of “dead-weight loss” is relevant
only under                                                               (D)       (iii)     (i)     (iv)     (ii)
      (A) Monopolistically competitive market.
      (B) Perfectly competitive market.                              32. Assertion (A) : The primary motive of a company
                                                                                         in using financial leverage is to
      (C) Oligopoly market.
                                                                                         magnify shareholders’ return
      (D) Monopoly market.                                                               under favourable economic
                                                                                         conditions.
                                                                          Reason      (R) : To magnify shareholders’ return
                                                                                            fixed charged funds can be
                                                                                            obtained at a cost higher than the
  28. Suppose the total cost function of a firm is given
                                                                                            firm’s rate of return on net assets.
by C  15q  6q 2  q 3 . The level of output at which the                Codes:
average cost is minimum is                                                (A) (R) is correct but (A) is wrong
      (A) 2                                                               (B) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
      (B) 3                                                               (C) (A) is correct and (R) is the correct explanation
      (C) 4                                                                   of (A)
      (D) 5                                                               (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong
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X–7                                                      06–II
  33. Debt financing is a cheaper source of finance                 37. Match the items of List-I with those of List-II and
because of                                                       indicate the correct code:
      (A) Time value of money.                                           List-I                         List-II
      (B) Rate of interest.                                        (a) Net Income Approach (i) Working Capital
      (C) Tax deductibility of interest.                                                            Management
      (D) Dividends are not payable to lenders.                    (b) Profitability Index     (ii) Over-Capitalization
                                                                   (c) Concentration          (iii) Capital Structure
                                                                       Banking                      Planning
                                                                   (d) Lower Rate of Return (iv) Capital Budgeting
                                                                                                    Decision
                                                                      Codes:
                                                                                 (a)    (b)       (c)     (d)
  34. Lease which includes a third party (a lender) is                  (A)     (iii)   (iv)      (i)     (ii)
known as                                                                (B)     (iii)   (iv)     (ii)      (i)
      (A) Operating Lease                                               (C)     (iv)    (ii)     (iii)     (i)
      (B) Sale and Lease-back                                           (D)     (ii)    (iii)     (i)     (iv)
      (C) Leveraged Lease
      (D) Cross-border Lease
                                                                   38. To maintain international liquidity the Smithsonian
                                                                 Agreement was inked on December 18, 1971 by a group
                                                                 of countries known as
                                                                       (A) Group of Eight.
                                                                       (B) Group of Twenty.
                                                                       (C) Group of Ten.
  35. Which one of the following equals the present
value of cash outflows and the present value of expected               (D) Group of Forty-four.
cash inflow from a project?
       (A) Net Present Value
       (B) Internal Rate of Return
       (C) Pay Back Period                                         39. Which one of the following is not a method of
       (D) Accounting Rate of Return                             calculating cost of equity capital?
                                                                        (A) Dividend-Growth Model
                                                                        (B) Capital Asset Pricing Model
                                                                        (C) Yield to Maturity Method
                                                                        (D) Earning Price Approach



   36. Operating leverage and Financial leverage of a
firm are 3 and 2 respectively. If sales increase by 5%,            40. In Covered interest arbitrage
then earnings before tax will rise by                                  (A) Foreign exchange risk is covered.
       (A) 15%                                                         (B) Interest fluctuation is covered.
       (B) 10%                                                         (C) Cross country fluctuation in capital
       (C) 30%                                                             movement is covered.
       (D) 25%                                                         (D) Interest differential is eleminated.
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  41. The arithmetic mean is called the best measure of               46. Report of the World Bank is a source of
central tendency because                                                  (A) Primary data
       (A) its value depends on all observations.                         (B) Secondary data
       (B) it has some algebraic properties.                              (C) Observation data
       (C) sampling fluctuation for such a measure is                     (D) Schedule data
            the least.
       (D) it is unambiguously defined.



                                                                      47. If we throw a dice once the probability of getting
                                                                    an odd number is
  42. For comparing the variability of two or more
distributions we generally use                                                  1
                                                                          (A)
       (A) Range                                                                6
       (B) Mean absolute deviation                                              1
                                                                          (B)
       (C) Coefficient of variation                                             4
       (D) Standard Deviation                                                   5
                                                                          (C)
                                                                                6
                                                                                1
                                                                          (D)
                                                                                2
   43. In the equation y = a + bx, the variable x is called
a (an) ________ variable
       (A) Dependent
       (B) Independent
       (C) Dummy                                                      48. Total area under the standard normal curve is
       (D) Exogenous                                                      (A) 0
                                                                          (B) –1
                                                                          (C) +1
                                                                          (D) +0·5
   44. If the correlation coefficient between two variables
is –1, we have
       (A) one regression line with positive slope.
       (B) one regression line with negative slope.
                                                                      49. Non-sampling error is present
       (C) two regression lines each with positive slope.
                                                                          (A) only in sampling.
       (D) two regression lines each with negative slope.                 (B) only in population.
                                                                          (C) in both sampling and population.
                                                                          (D) neither in sampling nor in population.


  45. The regression coefficient of x on y is 3·1 and that
of y on x is 0·9.
        (A) This is a correct statement.
                                                                      50. _______ is an example of probabilistic sampling.
        (B) This is an incorrect statement.                               (A) Convenience sampling
        (C) Nothing can be inferred from such a                           (B) Purposive sampling
            statement.                                                    (C) Simple random sampling
        (D) More information is necessary.                                (D) Quota sampling
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   51. Communication barriers arising from the                        56. The control technique ‘PERT’ is an acronym for
inappropriate choice of ‘words’ or ‘phrases’ are known                    (A) Project Evaluation and Review Technique.
as                                                                        (B) Performance Evaluation and Review
       (A) Personal barriers                                                  Technique.
                                                                          (C) Personnel Evaluation and Review Technique.
       (B) Organisational barriers
                                                                          (D) Programme Evaluation and Review
       (C) Semantic barriers
                                                                              Technique.
       (D) Psychological barriers



                                                                      57. The total number of relationships that a manager
  52. Which of the following is not among Henri Fayols’
                                                                    can have with ‘n’ number of subordinates can be obtained
Fourteen Principles of Management?
                                                                    from the formula given by V. A. Graicunas, which is:
      (A) Order
                                                                                  2n    
      (B) Balance                                                          (A) n   n  1
      (C) Discipline                                                               2     
      (D) Equity
                                                                                  2n    
                                                                           (B) n   n  1
                                                                                   2     

                                                                                  2n 
   53. Which of the following terms refers to a summary                    (C) n   n 
                                                                                   2  
of the required qualifications, experience and other human
qualities to be possessed by a candidate for being eligible
                                                                                  2n 
to apply for a job?                                                        (D) n   1
        (A) Job Description                                                        2  
        (B) Job Evaluation
        (C) Job Specification
        (D) Job Design
                                                                      58. The ongoing process of systematically
                                                                    indentifying, assessing and developing organisational
                                                                    leadership is known as
  54. Which of the following is not a perspective of the                   (A) Mentoring
Balance Scorecard developed by Kaplan and Norton?                          (B) Organisational Development
      (A) Human Resources                                                  (C) Succession Planning
      (B) Financial Resources                                              (D) Career Management
      (C) Customers
      (D) Materials


                                                                      59. In which of the following performance appraisal
                                                                    technique does the superior keep a log of the positive and
  55. According to the BCG Matrix, if an SBU of a firm              negative examples of a subordinate’s work related
has a low market-share in a high growth market it would             behaviour?
be classified as a
                                                                           (A) Forced Distribution Method
        (A) Question Mark
        (B) Star                                                           (B) Critical Incident Method
        (C) Cash Cow                                                       (C) Confidential Reports
        (D) Dog                                                            (D) Paired Comparison Method
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   60. Which of the following is not an ‘on-the-job’            64. Match the items of List-I with the items of
training method?                                             List-II and select the correct answer using the codes
       (A) Apprenticeship                                    given below the lists:
       (B) Job Rotation                                              List-I                        List-II
       (C) Programmed Instruction                              (a) Debit Card               (i) Several Storage
                                                               (b) Credit Card             (ii) Online recovery of
       (D) Job Instruction
                                                                                                amount
                                                               (c) Electronic Purse       (iii) Image Processing
                                                                                                use
                                                               (d) Cheque function        (iv) Revolving Credit
  61. During the depression, it is advisable to                    Codes:
      (A) increase ‘Bank Rate’ and Purchase Securities                         (a)    (b)          (c)      (d)
          in the open market.                                       (A)       (iii)    (i)        (iv)      (ii)
      (B) lower ‘Bank Rate’ and Purchase Securities                 (B)        (i)    (ii)        (iii)     (iv)
          in the market.                                            (C)       (iv)    (iii)        (i)      (ii)
      (C) decrease ‘Bank Rate’ and sell Securities in               (D)       (iv)    (iii)       (ii)       (i)
          the open market.
      (D) increase ‘Bank Rate’ and sell Securities in
          the open market.
                                                               65. Match between types of mutual funds in List-I and
                                                             their respective features in List-II and select the correct
                                                             answer using the codes given below the lists:
                                                                     List-I                               List-II
  62. Read the following statements and give the correct
                                                                (a) Open-ended Fund            (i) Maximises short-term
answer using the codes given below:
                                                                                                   return to investment.
      (a) The Banker’s lien is an implied pledge.
                                                                (b) Income Fund               (ii) Can sell unlimited
      (b) Right of lien and right of set-off can be
           exercised simultaneously at the same time.                                              number of units
      (c) One of the essential requirements of a pledge         (c) Close-ended Fund          (iii) The units are not
           is the actual or constructive delivery of goods                                          redeemable at their
           pledged by the pawner to the pawnee.                                                     NAV
      (d) Limitation period for filing a suit for sale of       (d) Growth Fund               (iv) Maximises long-term
           mortgaged property is thirty years from the                                             return to investors
           date of mortgaged debt becoming due.
                                                                   Codes:
     Codes:
                                                                              (a)     (b)         (c)       (d)
               (a)     (b)      (c)      (d)
        (A)   True    False    False    True                        (A)       (iii)   (iv)        (ii)       (i)
        (B)   True    False    True     False                       (B)       (iii)   (iv)        (i)       (ii)
        (C)   True    True     False    False                       (C)       (ii)    (i)         (iv)      (iii)
        (D)   False   False    True     True
                                                                    (D)       (ii)    (i)         (iii)     (iv)



                                                               66. The rate at which Bank parks its short-term
  63. Contango charge is paid by a:                          excess liquidity with RBI is called
      (A) Bull Speculator to Bear Speculator                       (A) Bank Rate
      (B) Bear Speculator to Bull Speculator                       (B) Reverse Bank Rate
      (C) Stag Speculator to Bull Speculator                       (C) Repo Rate
      (D) Lame Duck to Bear                                        (D) Reverse Repo Rate
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  67. Which bank is called the ‘Bank of Issue’?               70. Which of the following are the instruments of
      (A) IFCI                                               Money Market?
      (B) RBI                                                     (a) Call Money Market
      (C) IDBI                                                    (b) Commercial Bill Market
      (D) ICICI                                                   (c) Industrial Securities Market
                                                                  (d) Short-term Loan Market
                                                                   (e) Treasury Bill Market
                                                                   Codes:
                                                                    (A) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
                                                                    (B) (a), (b), (d) and (e)
  68. Match between List-I (Names of Bank)
and List-II (year of establishment) in order to find the            (C) (a), (b), (c) and (e)
correct match using the codes given below the lists:                (D) (a), (c), (d) and (e)
        List-I                       List-II
 (a) SBI                         (i) 1990
 (b) SIDBI                      (ii) 1955                      71. Which of the following examples is not a
 (c) NABARD                    (iii) 1981                    demographic variable?
 (d) Exim-Bank                 (iv) 1982                           (A) Age
     Codes:                                                        (B) Gender
               (a)      (b)      (c)     (d)                       (C) Income
      (A)      (ii)     (i)     (iii)   (iv)                       (D) Lifestyle
      (B)      (i)     (ii)     (iv)    (iii)
      (C)      (ii)    (iii)    (iv)     (i)
      (D)      (ii)     (i)     (iv)    (iii)
                                                                72. Skimming price relates to
                                                                    (A) charging competitive price
                                                                    (B) charging initially high price
                                                                    (C) charging initially low price
                                                                    (D) marginal cost pricing
  69. For the following statements of Assertion (A) and
      Reason (R) select the correct code:
      Assertion (A) : Banks globally are facing more
                      challenges now, and macro
                                                               73. Which of the following is not a tool of sales
                      sustainability is a necessity but
                                                             promotion?
                      not sufficient for sustainable
                      economic growth.                             (A) Sales contests
                                                                   (B) Free gifts
      Reason     (R) : Putting regulation in place is only
                       one part and their implementation           (C) Point of purchase display
                       is equally important for achieving          (D) Public relations
                       growth and sustainability.
      Codes:
      (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
          correct explanation of (A)                            74. Producers of convenience goods typically prefer:
      (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the              (A) Exclusive distribution
          correct explanation of (A)                                (B) Intensive distribution
      (C) (A) is true and (R) is false                              (C) Selective distribution
      (D) (A) is false and (R) is true                              (D) Intermittent distribution
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  75. The attempt to build and / or maintain a good          80. The additional P’s of ‘Service Maketing Mix’ are:
“corporate image” is referred to as                              (A) People, Physical evidence, Packaging.
      (A) Advertising                                            (B) People, Process, Packaging.
      (B) Publicity                                              (C) People, Physical evidence, Process.
      (C) Public Relations                                       (D) Physical evidence, Process, Packaging.
      (D) Sales Promotion




  76. The promotional tool which is useful during the       81. X entered into contract with Y to deliver certain
decline stage of product life cycle is                    goods to Y. X offered the goods to Y at proper time and
       (A) Sales promotion                                place, but Y refused to accept the goods. In this case
       (B) Personal selling                                      (A) X does not have any right against Y.
       (C) Publicity                                             (B) X can sue Y for breach of contract, but not
                                                                      discharged from his liability.
       (D) Advertising
                                                                 (C) X is discharged from his liability and can also
                                                                      sue Y for breach of contract.
                                                                 (D) Y is not liable for breach of contract.


 77. Which one of the following elements is not in the
Marketing Mix of tangible product?
     (A) Price
     (B) Product
                                                            82. Problem: M agrees to sell 50 refrigerators to N, at
     (C) Promotion
                                                          a price to be determined by Z. 30 of 50 refrigerators are
     (D) Package                                          delivered to N.
                                                          N agreed to the above agreement, without asking the
                                                          dealer whether the refrigerators are fit to make ice and
                                                          paid the determined consideration. The refrigerators
                                                          failed to make ice.
 78. Which one of the following is NOT an element of              (A) M must refund the price, because refrigerators
micro-environment of marketing management?                            are meant to make ice.
      (A) Public                                                  (B) M will refund the price, only if the buyer
      (B) Suppliers                                                   would have disclosed the particular purpose.
      (C) Technological                                           (C) M will refund the price at this option.
      (D) Competitors                                             (D) M need not refund the price.




  79. Which of the following is not a characteristic of
“Service”?                                                   83. Sec. 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 deals with
      (A) Intangible                                             (A) Depreciation
      (B) Homogeneous                                            (B) Impairment of assets
      (C) Perishable                                             (C) Liability
      (D) Inseparable                                            (D) CSR
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   84. The Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill              89. Goods displayed in a shop with a price label is
2017 inserted a provision allowing a court trying an                (A) an offer
offence related to cheque bouncing, to direct the drawer
                                                                    (B) a counter offer
(the person who writes the cheque) to pay interim
compensation to the complainant. The interim                        (C) an invitation to offer
compensation will not exceed ________ per cent of the               (D) a contra offer
cheque amount.
       (A) 15
       (B) 25
       (C) 33
       (D) 20

                                                                90. The term ‘Goods’ in the Sale of Goods Act means
                                                                    (A) specific goods only
  85. Which of the following will not come under the                (B) ascertained goods only
definition of ‘information’ under RTI Act?                          (C) ownership
       (A) Log books                                                (D) subject matter
       (B) File notings
       (C) Data material held in eletronic form
       (D) Circulars




  86. Which of the following is not a cyber crime?             91. Amitava is an Indian citizen left India for the
      (A) Data theft                                         purpose of employment to USA on 01.08.2018. For the
                                                             previous year 2018-19 his residential status is:
      (B) Forgery
                                                                   (A) Resident and ordinarily resident
      (C) Damage to data and system
                                                                   (B) Resident but not ordinarily resident
      (D) Installing antivirus for protection
                                                                   (C) Non-resident
                                                                   (D) Foreigner

  87. In India, the literary work is protected until
      (A) life time of author.
      (B) 25 years after the death of author.
      (C) 40 years after the death of author.
      (D) 60 years after the death of author.                  92. Mr. Samanta joined ITC Ltd. as Finance Manager
                                                             on 01.04.2018. During the year he purchased two
                                                             residential flats in the same building taking loan from
                                                             SBI. His annual interest accrued for each flat is ` 2,50,000.
  88. Competition Commission of India shall not initiate     One of the flats is used for self-occupation and the other
an inquiry into a combination after the expiry of ________   one has been let out to a tenant who uses the flat for
year(s) from the date on which the combination has taken     residential purpose. Mr. Samanta’s total deduction for
effect.                                                      interest on housing loan is
        (A) one                                                     (A) ` 2,00,000
        (B) two                                                     (B) ` 5,00,000
        (C) three                                                   (C) ` 2,80,000
        (D) five                                                    (D) ` 4,50,000
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  93. Mr. Dalmia has one let out property in Kolkata          97. Deduction for eligible start-up is available under
whose Gross Municipal Value is ` 4,00,000, Fair Rent is     section
` 4,80,000 and Standard Rent is ` 4,50,000. Rent received          (A) 80IAB
for 9 month is ` 4,14,000 and vacancy period is 3
                                                                   (B) 80IAC
months. The Gross Annual Value for the Assessment
Year 2019-20 is                                                    (C) 80IB
       (A) ` 4,14,000                                              (D) 80IBA
       (B) ` 4,80,000
       (C) ` 5,52,000
       (D) ` 3,42,000


                                                              98. Maximum time period to carry forward losses for
                                                            the activity of owning and maintaining race horses is
                                                                   (A) 4 years
  94. Business loss of current year cannot be set off
against                                                            (B) 8 years
       (A) House Property Income                                   (C) no time limit
       (B) Salary Income                                           (D) cannot carry forward
       (C) Capital Gains
       (D) Interest Income



                                                              99. Share of Agricultural Income and Business Income
  95. Which of the following income is not an exempted      from growing and manufacturing Tea in India is
income U/S 10?                                                    (A) 100% Business Income.
      (A) Agricultural income in India                            (B) 100% Agricultural Income.
      (B) Profit from partnership business                        (C) 40% Business Income and 60% Agricultural
      (C) Interest from National Savings Certificate                  Income.
          (NSC)                                                   (D) 60% Business Income and 40% Agricultural
      (D) Interest from Public Provident Fund (PPF)                   Income.




   96. Dividend income received during the Previous
Year 2018-19 by Mrs. M. Chatterjee is ` 12,00,000. Tax         100. Which of the following is not a Capital Asset?
liability on dividend is                                            (A) Self-occupied property in the city of
        (A) Nil                                                         Durgapur
        (B) ` 1,00,000                                              (B) Shares of Indian Company
        (C) ` 20,000                                                (C) Jewellery
        (D) ` 1,20,000                                              (D) Personal Car
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Source: West Bengal College Service Commission. Question paper published by West Bengal College Service Commission.