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Q1. Among the following what established first the system of a large and well established system of rule in India?
Correct answer : 1
Q2. Pick the correct one relating to the later vedic period:
Correct answer : 3
Q3. In which year the Congress agreed to the Muslim demands for separate electorates and weighted representation in the councils?
Correct answer : 1
Q4. Among the following who collaborated actively in the development of a market economy by the British during the colonial rule?
Correct answer : 2
Q5. In which year, Gandhi - Jinnah talks ended without any result?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. At the Madras session of the INC a resolution was passed without the presence of Gandhiji. About this Gandhiji remarked "hastily conceived and thoughtlessly passed". What was the resolution?
Correct answer : 3
Q7. Who among the following is credited to be the first empire builders of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q8. Punch marked coins are believed to be the first metal coins used in India. They belong to the.......
Correct answer : 1
Q9. From among the following who was the first Greek to invade India?
Correct answer : 2
Q10. Who among the following was not a taxation officer in the pre-Mauryan period?
Correct answer : 3
Q11. In which of the following proposals/plan the partition of India into India and Pakistan was proposed?
Correct answer : 2
Q12. Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order: a)Bengal famine with a huge loss of life b)Despite the death of Haider Ali, Tipu Sultan fights against the British c)Establishment of the Board of Control in London d)Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Correct answer : 2
Q13. Who among the following was not a ruler of Magadha Kingdom?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. Why did the Muslim League decide to go in for direct action on 16th August 1946?
Correct answer : 4
Q15. Who among the following is accused by the scholars for destroying the importance of Delhi as the centre of Chisti order
Correct answer : 3
Q16. Which of the following statements established that the Harappans had trade links with Mesopatamia and Persian Gulf?
Correct answer : 2
Q17. Who founded Agra in advance to be used as a headquarters to capture Gwalior and other Rajput regions?
Correct answer : 4
Q18. Among the following who was not a member of the Select Committee headed by Pt.Motilal Nehru and appointed by the All Parties Conference in 1928, for drafting a Constitutional scheme for India?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Among the following who gave his successors the never before strongest North West Frontier, not even by the Britishers except for a brief during 1800-1801?
Correct answer : 2
Q20. In which year, the British Parliament decided that the East India Company should cease to be a trading company?
Correct answer : 2
Q21. Is buying a stolen property is an offence? If yes, such persons are chargeable under which sections of the IPC?
Correct answer : 2
Q22. "Misappropriation" is a regularly heard term, specially from banks and government sector. Under which sections of IPC such offences are charged?
Correct answer : 3
Q23. "Extortion" - a forcible extraction of money is chargeable under Sec….of IPC.
Correct answer : 1
Q24. Which sections of the IPC deals with cases related to crimes of rape?
Correct answer : 2
Q25. Under which section of the IPC, "Kidnapping" cases are dealt?
Correct answer : 3
Q26. "Wrongful confinement of a person" is chrgeable under Sec…. Of IPC.
Correct answer : 4
Q27. Is abandoning a child, under 12 years of age, by the parents/father or mother an offence under IPC? Yes. Under Sec…… of IPC.
Correct answer : 1
Q28. Attempt to commit suicide is a punishable offence under which section of the Indian Penal Code?
Correct answer : 2
Q29. "Attempt to murder" is a term that is regularly heard or read in news. A person is chargeable under which section of IPC for such an offence?
Correct answer : 2
Q30. What is the period within which the act of dowry harassment or death should have occurred to be recognized as an offence under IPC 304?
Correct answer : 4
Q31. Causing harassment or death of a woman on the grounds of "dowry" is chargeable under…..
Correct answer : 3
Q32. Selling or circulating of obscene books or magazines is chargeable under Sec…… of IPC.
Correct answer : 4
Q33. Rash or negligent driving is chargeable under Sec……… of IPC.
Correct answer : 3
Q34. A person selling adulterated drugs/medicines is chargeable under Sec……. Of the IPC.
Correct answer : 1
Q35. Which section of the IPC deals with the cases of food adulteration?
Correct answer : 4
Q36. A trader or a person committing a fraud and intentions of cheat through weights and measures is charged under Sec…….of IPC.
Correct answer : 3
Q37. Sections 230 to 263A and 489 A to E of IPC deals with …….
Correct answer : 1
Q38. What are the sections of IPC that deals with misdeeds, as part of elections, by a candidate?
Correct answer : 2
Q39. Inducing a person to accept illegal gratification for performing a favourable act, is chargeable under Sec…….of IPC.
Correct answer : 3
Q40. Demanding and accepting illegal gratification for discharging one's assigned lawful duty is chargeable under Sec …… of IPC.
Correct answer : 2
Q41. Which of the following is the largest consumer of gold?
Correct answer : 2
Q42. The state to have the maximum number of branches of public sector commercial banks is ....
Correct answer : 3
Q43. In a capital economy, the prices are determined by.................
Correct answer : 4
Q44. "Joint Sector " means
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Q45. "Mixed Economy" mean...............
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Q46. In an exhibition, I bought 15 T shirts and 20 half pants for Rs.975. Had I reduced the number of half pants by 10, twelve more T shirts would have been available. If so, a T shirt costs.....
Correct answer : 2
Q47. Raju bought four shirts at the rate of Rs.885. He spent Rs.100 on their washing. Now he wants to earn a profit of 25%. At what price he should sell his shirts? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q48. What should be added to 13291 to make it divisible by 11? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q49. A certain amount becomes Rs.2735 in 3 years and Rs.3008.50 in 4 years at compound interest. What is the rate of interest? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 1
Q50. Sanjay secured 15 more marks in Mathematics than that in chemistry. If he secured 125 marks in Chemistry and Geography, then how many marks did he secure in Mathematics? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q51. Bicollateral vascular bundles are most typically seen in.......
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Q52. ..................is not true of Vanda.
Correct answer : 3
Q53. The disc shaped granal lamellae are known as ......
Correct answer : 2
Q54. Chloroplasts measure about........
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Q55. Evolution of oxygen during photosynthesis is linked to.........
Correct answer : 1
Q56. Condition/s necessary for photorespiration is/are............
Correct answer : 4
Q57. ...................postulated "Law of Limiting Factor" in........... .
Correct answer : 3
Q58. Drosera catches insects to get enough .......................
Correct answer : 3
Q59. The plants convert light energy into ..................
Correct answer : 3
Q60. From among the following which is the actual site of photosynthesis?
Correct answer : 2
Q61. The shape of the Chloroplast of higher plants is...........
Correct answer : 1
Q62. The matrix of the chloroplast is known as.........
Correct answer : 2
Q63. Photosynthetic pigments are found concentrated in.........
Correct answer : 1
Q64. What is the universal pigment present in the plants?
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Q65. Among the following which one is generally called primary pigment.
Correct answer : 3
Q66. Carotenoids, xanthophyll and phycobilins are regarded as .......pigments.
Correct answer : 4
Q67. Photosystem PS I and PS II are associated with which of the following?
Correct answer : 1
Q68. In the Chlorophyll, the electrons give away the excess energy as......
Correct answer : 4
Q69. Cytochrome is a group of ........
Correct answer : 3
Q70. Which of the following is a partial parasite?
Correct answer : 3
Q71. Which of the following reacts fastest with Lucas reagent?
Correct answer : 1
Q72. Which compound gives a positive iodoform test?
Correct answer : 3
Q73. The boiling point of ethyl alcohol should be less than that of........
Correct answer : 1
Q74. Of the following which one is soluble in water?
Correct answer : 2
Q75. Which isomerism is possible in butane 2, 3 diol?
Correct answer : 2
Q76. Of the following, which one is optically inactive?
Correct answer : 2
Q77. Of the following, which one is optically active?
Correct answer : 2
Q78. The isomerism exhibited by lactic acid is .......isomerism.
Correct answer : 3
Q79. The criterion of enantiomerism is --------------carbon atom.
Correct answer : 4
Q80. By passing through which of the following medium ordinary light can be converted to plane polarised light?
Correct answer : 2
Q81. Which isomerism is possible in the disubstituted benzene?
Correct answer : 3
Q82. Of the following which one has DPM value as zero?
Correct answer : 3
Q83. Meso form of tartaric acid is a .....
Correct answer : 1
Q84. How many chiral Carbon atoms are there in butane 2, 3 - diol?
Correct answer : 4
Q85. Of the following, who studied the Silicones?
Correct answer : 1
Q86. Of the following, which one is optically inactive amino acid?
Correct answer : 4
Q87. Talk and Kaoline are good examples of
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Q88. Pyroxenes are termed as.........
Correct answer : 1
Q89. From the following pick one example for pyrosilicates?
Correct answer : 4
Q90. Willemite and Phenacite are examples of.......
Correct answer : 3
Q91. How the three dimensional silicates are otherwise named?
Correct answer : 2
Q92. Soro Silicates are also called as.........
Correct answer : 1
Q93. Of the following, which one forms 90% of earth's crust?
Correct answer : 3
Q94. Of the following which one exhibits allotropy?
Correct answer : 1
Q95. Of the following which one does not show catenation?
Correct answer : 2
Q96. Pick the metalloid of group 14 elements?
Correct answer : 3
Q97. Pick the one element that does not belong to the Group 13?
Correct answer : 1
Q98. Which of the following element does not belong to the Group 14?
Correct answer : 2
Q99. The compound that is used to arrest bleeding is........
Correct answer : 4
Q100. Of the following which one is not an ore of phosphorous?
Correct answer : 3
Q101. What is the poisonous form of Phosphorous?
Correct answer : 1
Q102. Why Sulphuric acid has great affinity for water?
Correct answer : 2
Q103. Pick the strongest acid from among the following?
Correct answer : 1
Q104. Xenon reacts best with which of the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q105. Why hydrogen does not form penta halide?
Correct answer : 1
Q106. Of the following which one has dark violet colour?
Correct answer : 2
Q107. Molecular nitrogen is undredactive due to........
Correct answer : 3
Q108. The Atomic radius of Ga is lesser than that of Al because……
Correct answer : 2
Q109. The aqueous solution of potash alum is.......
Correct answer : 4
Q110. Of the following elements which one has the highest melting point?
Correct answer : 4
Q111. What is the wavelength range of visible spectrum?
Correct answer : 2
Q112. What is the wavelength of Xrays?
Correct answer : 2
Q113. What is the wavelength of wave having frequency of 1200 KHz?
Correct answer : 1
Q114. What is the wavelength of Indigo colour?
Correct answer : 1
Q115. What is the wavelength of EM wave produced by Hertz
Correct answer : 3
Q116. What is the voltage required for domestic appliances?
Correct answer : 3
Q117. What is the wavelength of an electron moving with a velocity of 500 km S–1. [me = 9 × 10–31 kg; hz 6.6 × 10–34 js]
Correct answer : 4
Q118. What is the velocity of a - particle?
Correct answer : 3
Q119. What is the value of the force which acts on the liquid surface?
Correct answer : 3
Q120. What is the value of the surface tension of the liquid at the critical temperature.
Correct answer : 1
Q121. What is the value of wave length of electro magnetic wave produced by hertz?
Correct answer : 3
Q122. What is the value of Reynold’s number for the turbulent flow?
Correct answer : 1
Q123. What is the value of refractive index of a medium depends on
Correct answer : 1
Q124. What is the useful energy transfer in a radio?
Correct answer : 1
Q125. What is the use of UV rays?
Correct answer : 3
Q126. What is the use of very high penetrating power of X-ray?
Correct answer : 1
Q127. What is the use of transformer?
Correct answer : 1
Q128. What is the unit of surface tension?
Correct answer : 4
Q129. What is the use of transformer?
Correct answer : 3
Q130. What is the unit of surface tension?
Correct answer : 1
Q131. Through which one of the following groups of countries does the Equator pass?
Correct answer : 2
Q132. Match the following places and industries:(A) Vienna (1)Textiles (B) Havana (2) Steel (C) Chicago(3) Glass(D) Dundee(4) Cigars
Correct answer : 2
Q133. Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan is famous for ......
Correct answer : 4
Q134. What does "Roaring Forties" refer to?
Correct answer : 3
Q135. The soils which have been carried by rivers and streams and deposited on land are called as .........
Correct answer : 1
Q136. The largest lake in the world is ............
Correct answer : 4
Q137. 49th parallel forms part of border between
Correct answer : 3
Q138. Which comet appeared after 76 years in 1986, and is expected to appear again around 2061?
Correct answer : 1
Q139. Which of these planets does not have rings around it?
Correct answer : 2
Q140. North and South Korea is separated by ....................
Correct answer : 1
Q141. "Kalaallit Nunaat" is the name of which of the following islands?
Correct answer : 3
Q142. The biggest irrigation scheme in the world - Lloyds Barrage now known as 'Sukkur Barrage' is located in ......
Correct answer : 3
Q143. During which Five Year Plan, the "Integrated Rural Energy Programme" was initiated?
Correct answer : 2
Q144. Where was the first NAM summit held?
Correct answer : 1
Q145. Who among the following is considered as the father of the revivalist school of Indian painting (popularly known as the Bengal School of Art)?
Correct answer : 3
Q146. "Khordad Sal" is a festival of......
Correct answer : 3
Q147. At which place "Kumbh Mela" is not held?
Correct answer : 4
Q148. At which place "Car Festival" (Rath Yatra) is very famous?
Correct answer : 2
Q149. Next to Hindi, which is the next biggest linguistic unit in India?
Correct answer : 3
Q150. Which article of the Indian Constitution Hindi in Devnagari script is recognised as the official language?
Correct answer : 2
Q151. What is the official language of Jammu & Kashmir?
Correct answer : 1
Q152. By which amendment act, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were added to the 8th Schedule of the constitution?
Correct answer : 3
Q153. Pick the wrong one from among the following:
Correct answer : 2
Q154. In which year Pakistan withdrew from SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization) in
Correct answer : 1
Q155. In which year the "Project Tiger" was launched?
Correct answer : 3
Q156. In which year the "Amnesty International" won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Correct answer : 2
Q157. The first SAARC Summit was held at
Correct answer : 2
Q158. Which of the following countries is not a member of the SAARC?
Correct answer : 1
Q159. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was formed in the year.....
Correct answer : 2
Q160. At which of these places,Biosphere reserve is not set up?
Correct answer : 3
Q161. Pick the wrong one among the following with regard to industry/organisation and their location:
Correct answer : 3
Q162. Who discovered Penicillin?
Correct answer : 2
Q163. Jog Falls is the highest waterfall of India. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 3
Q164. Which is the most literate union territory of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q165. "Jawahar Tunnel" is the largest in India. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 2
Q166. Which is the most densely populated state of India?
Correct answer : 1
Q167. Which is the least populated state of India?
Correct answer : 1
Q168. Which Indian state has the largest Scheduled Tribe population?
Correct answer : 3
Q169. Which of the following is the largest tribal population?
Correct answer : 4
Q170. The largest library of India "National Library" is located in which of these states?
Correct answer : 4
Q171. The largest dome of India "Gol Gumbaz" is located in which of these states?
Correct answer : 3
Q172. Which is the longest dam in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q173. The oldest church of India, St.Thomas Church, is located in which of these states?
Correct answer : 2
Q174. The largest auditorium of India "Shanmukhananda" is located at....
Correct answer : 3
Q175. Which pair of English letters should be the next in the series of pairs of letters of English alphabet given below: BE GK MR TZ BI ??
Correct answer : 1
Q176. Study the following information carefully and answer the given question. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle facing the centre. D is fourth to the right of H and second to the left of B. F is fourth to the right of B. C fourth to the right of E who is not an immediate neighbour of B or D. A is not an immediate neighbour of D. Who is third to the right of A?
Correct answer : 3
Q177. The following question is based on the five three digt numbers given below: 972 526 487 359 251. If the positions of the digits of each of the numbers are interchanged such that the first becomes second, second becomes third and third becomes first, which of the following will be the highest?
Correct answer : 2
Q178. In a certain code GUEST is written as [email protected]$2 and MEAN is written as [email protected]#. How is SAME written in that code?
Correct answer : 2
Q179. In the question below is given four statements followed by three conclusions numbeFF0000 1, 2 and 3. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. STATEMENTS: Some books are files. All files are discs. Some discs are boards. All boards are keys. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some books are keys . (2) No book is key (3) Some discs are keys.
Correct answer : 3
Q180. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). Once an old hermit (1) / saw a cat (2) / pounce upon a rat. (3) / No error. (4).
Correct answer : 3
Q181. In the following question, out of the four options, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence: " Allowance due to a wife from her husband on separation"
Correct answer : 4
Q182. Choose the word similar in meaning to the word: SQUANDER
Correct answer : 2
Q183. In the question, a part of the sentence is highlighted. Replace the highlighted part with the options given which may improve the sentence. "He ordered me to open the window".
Correct answer : 1
Q184. Pick an alternative for the idiom/phrase: ;To turn over a new leaf;
Correct answer : 1
Q185. Encoding is the process by which date like facts, figures etc., is presented in a non-verbal form i.e.tables, graphs etc., Then, under what process by which graphic representations such as tables and graphs are interpreted so that the data is made meaninglful to the readers?
Correct answer : 4
Q186. Given below are six statements of which the first and the last .. (1) and (6) remains constant. The remaining four are given as (P), (Q),{R} and (S), which are not in the proper order. Arrange them in proper order and find out which order of sentences is correct: (1) The life of the honeybee colony centres around the activities of its single queen. (P) Fertilization of these eggs takes place before they are deposited in the cells (Q) when the eggs hatch into larvae, they are looked after and fed by the worker bees (R) During the summer months spends most of her time laying eggs in the wax cells of her honey comb. (S) The honeybee does this by releasing sperm from her storage sacs which were filled at the time of her mating of flights. (6) A new worker bee emerges three weeks after the egg was laid.
Correct answer : 2
Q187. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). We went (1) / with Guptas to a (2) / movie called 'Deewar". (3) / No error. (4).
Correct answer : 2
Q188. In 2016, Where was the UN's Climate Change Summit Conference held?
Correct answer : 1
Q189. Which Indian city has been selected as the "Earth Hour" City for the year 2016?
Correct answer : 3
Q190. Which village of India, has been selected as the cleanest village for the year 2016?
Correct answer : 1
Q191. .......is a collection of web pages and a ......is the very first page that we see on a opening a website.
Correct answer : 2
Q192. A file manager can be used to perform actions such as
Correct answer : 4
Q193. Where can you set the shedding color for a range of cells in Excel?
Correct answer : 4
Q194. You need to configure a switch from a remote subnet. Which of the following must be configured on the switch?
Correct answer : 4
Q195. A collection of related files is called a ...
Correct answer : 1
Q196. Which of the following is the type of software that controls the internal operations in the computer and controls how the computer works with all its parts?
Correct answer : 4
Q197. Which encoding type always has a non-zero average amplitude?
Correct answer : 3
Q198. Hardware devices that are not part of the main computer system and are often added later to the system are.......
Correct answer : 2
Q199. ......is when the more power hungry components such as the monitor and the hard drive, are put to idle.
Correct answer : 3
Q200. Why is it unethical to share copyrighted files with your friends?