Preamble and Salient Features Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Only Conclusion II follows. The Constituent Assembly was formed in 1946, under the Cabinet Mission Plan, before independence on 15 August 1947, so Conclusion II is true and is consistent with Statement II, which says it was formed before independence.

Conclusion I does not follow from either statement and is not correct: the Indian Parliament does not need the approval of members of the British Parliament to legislate on foreign affairs, since India is a sovereign nation, as Statement I says, and the Commonwealth is a voluntary association. So the answer is the option saying only Conclusion II follows.

Answer: B

Only Conclusion II follows. Statement II says there are 12 schedules, so the Twelfth Schedule is the last and newest schedule in the list, which is Conclusion II. The Twelfth Schedule was added by the 74th Amendment in 1992.

Conclusion I, that the articles cannot be amended, does not follow from the statements, which only give the number of articles, and it is also incorrect, as Article 368 allows amendment. The options saying that I follows, or both follow, or neither follows are wrong.

Answer: A

The Assertion is false but the Reason is true, so the answer is A is false, but R is true. The Eighth Schedule contains 22 languages, not 29, as at August 2023, after Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added by the 92nd Amendment in 2003.

Maithili is one of the scheduled languages, so the Reason is correct. The options that treat the Assertion as true are therefore wrong, whichever way they rate the Reason.