GS: Hindi / English · Language questions stay in their original language.
150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (A) There is something here to please everyone
The passage calls Kerala a place of variety because there is something there to suit everyone—hills, backwaters, beaches and food.
Correct answer: (C) To inhale the fragrance of fresh cardamoms
The passage gives the fragrance of fresh cardamoms as the draw of the hill spice gardens—not counting or buying the spices. So the third option is right.
Correct answer: (C) For its spicy hot flavours
The passage identifies Kerala's cuisine by its spicy, hot flavours. ‘Bland’ means the opposite.
Correct answer: (B) Coconut and spices enhanced by tamarind
The passage says the pungency of the seafood comes from coconut and spices, heightened by tamarind. ‘Coconut and spices’ alone leaves out half the answer.
Correct answer: (C) English is spoken and understood everywhere in Kerala
The passage says English is spoken and understood everywhere in Kerala, so foreign visitors out for a bargain meet no difficulty of language.
Correct answer: (C) the
The airport here is a particular one that both speaker and listener know, so the definite article ‘the’ is used.
Correct answer: (C) an
‘Early’ begins with a vowel sound, so it takes ‘an’—‘an early morning walk’. The article follows the pronunciation, not the letter.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
April has 30 days, so 30 April to 10 May is exactly 10 days. Adding 7 days to Tuesday gives Tuesday again, and the remaining 3 give Friday. Friday is not among the options, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (C) एक बार रतन से नाराज़ होकर अजय भाग रहा था
Correct answer: (A) Because they were close friends
The passage says Ratan counselled Ajay because the two were close friends living together in Delhi and he wanted his friend's good.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage describes Ratan as poor yet quick at his studies and sensible, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Friends
The passage says Ratan and Ajay were friends—not brothers, only classmates who studied together.
Correct answer: (C) Because of Ratan's behaviour
The passage says the teachers were pleased with Ratan because of his conduct. His poverty was his circumstance, not the reason for their regard.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
According to the passage Ajay took no particular interest in any of the three—quarrelling, studying or running—so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage says that besides being brave Shivaji was a good politician, a fine thinker and an able ruler, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (B) A sense of nationhood
The passage says Shivaji awakened a sense of nationhood in the people. Bravery was his own quality; what he put into them was a feeling of belonging to one nation.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage presents Shivaji in all three ways—as a valiant warrior, as one of India's great heroes and as a great emperor—so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (C) Because of his good qualities
The passage says people respected Shivaji not for his bravery alone but for his qualities taken together—his justice, generosity and care for his subjects.
Correct answer: (E) उपर्युक्त में से कोई नहीं
Correct answer: (B) Shivaji’s life
This passage introduces Shivaji's birth, his qualities and his deeds, so the fitting title is ‘Shivaji's life’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing. Ganga and Brahmaputra are both names of particular rivers, so both are proper nouns; ‘river’ names the whole class and is a common noun.
Correct answer: (A) I
The first person is the one speaking—‘I’, ‘we’. ‘You’ is the second person, the one spoken to, and ‘he/she’ the third person, the one spoken about.
Correct answer: (C) अधिकरण कारक
क्रिया के होने के स्थान का बोध कराने वाला कारक अधिकरण कहलाता है, जिसके चिह्न 'में' और 'पर' हैं। 'दुकान पर' में 'पर' इसी का चिह्न है।
Correct answer: (B) Flower
A tatsama word comes from Sanskrit unchanged. ‘पुष्प’ (flower) is such a word, while ‘बच्चा’ (child) and ‘चौदह’ (fourteen, from चतुर्दश) changed on the way and are tadbhava.
Correct answer: (C) महत्व
‘महत्व’ is correctly spelled. ‘निराधी’ is not a word—‘निरोगी’ or ‘निराधार’ would be—and ‘प्रमाणिक’ should be ‘प्रामाणिक’.
Correct answer: (A) निकृष्ट
'उत्कृष्ट' का अर्थ है श्रेष्ठ, और उसका ठीक विपरीतार्थक शब्द 'निकृष्ट' है। 'अधम' तथा 'नीच' अर्थ में निकट जरूर हैं, पर 'उत्कृष्ट' का शास्त्रीय विलोम 'निकृष्ट' ही है।
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Water
The synonym of ‘जल’ is ‘पानी’, water. ‘जीवन’ and ‘अमृत’ are used for water in poetry, but the plain synonym is ‘पानी’.
Correct answer: (A) मेला
'जहाँ लोगों का मिलन हो' के लिए एक शब्द 'मेला' है। 'सम्मेलन' किसी विशेष उद्देश्य से बुलाई गई सभा है और 'मेल' का अर्थ केवल मिलाप।
Correct answer: (C) विघ्न आना
'खटाई में पड़ना' का अर्थ है काम का अटक जाना या उसमें विघ्न आ जाना। मुहावरे का अर्थ शब्दों के सीधे अर्थ से नहीं, रूढ़ प्रयोग से निकलता है।
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The identity is (a + b)² = a² + 2ab + b². Putting a = x and b = 1/x gives (x + 1/x)² = x² + 2·x·(1/x) + 1/x² = x² + 1/x² + 2. That is not among the options—the third has 1 where 2 should be—so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) 1% loss
Take the cost price as 100. Marking it up 10% gives 110, and a 10% discount on that gives a selling price of 110 × 0·9 = 99. Goods worth 100 sold for 99, so the loss is 1%.
Correct answer: (A) 3
81 = 3⁴. For a perfect cube the exponent must be a multiple of 3, so one 3 has to go. 81 ÷ 3 = 27 = 3³, which is a perfect cube. The divisor is therefore 3.
Correct answer: (C) 110 and 44
Take the numbers as 2x and 5x for the ratio 2 : 5. Their difference is 5x − 2x = 3x, which is given as 66, so x = 22. The numbers are 2 × 22 = 44 and 5 × 22 = 110.
Correct answer: (C) 60°
Adjacent angles of a parallelogram add up to 180°, so ∠A + ∠B = 180°. With a ratio of 1 : 2 the parts total 3, and one part is 180° ÷ 3 = 60°. So ∠A = 60° and ∠B = 120°.
Correct answer: (A) 15 cm
The total surface area of a cylinder is 2πr(r + h). Substituting: 2 × (22/7) × 7 × (7 + h) = 968, so 44(7 + h) = 968, that is 7 + h = 22 and h = 15 cm.
Correct answer: (C) 1
Correct answer: (B) xy = constant
Two quantities are inversely proportional when one falls in the same measure as the other rises, and then their product stays fixed—xy = constant. A fixed x/y or y/x is the mark of direct proportion.
Correct answer: (C) 25
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The rate at which heat is developed is the power: P = I²R = 15² × 8 = 1800 watt. That figure is not among the options—220, 120 and 210 watt—so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (C) Retina
The eye lens focuses light on the retina, the delicate membrane at the back of the eye, and the real, inverted image forms there. The cornea only refracts, and the iris controls the size of the pupil.
Correct answer: (C) Vas deferens
Correct answer: (C) Pollen grains
The anther is part of the stamen, the male reproductive organ of the flower, and pollen grains carrying the male gametes form inside it. Sepals and ovules belong to other parts—the ovule inside the ovary.
Correct answer: (B) Yeast
In budding a bud swells on the body of the organism, grows into a new one and then separates—yeast is the example. Amoeba reproduces by binary fission and Plasmodium by multiple fission.
Correct answer: (B) Antacid
Indigestion is treated with an antacid, a weak base that neutralises the excess acid in the stomach. Antibiotics are for infection and analgesics for pain.
Correct answer: (B) Census Department
Applications under the Citizenship Amendment Act are examined and processed by the Census Department—the Directorate of Census Operations, under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Correct answer: (C) Mauritius
Correct answer: (B) Gaganyan
ISRO's human spaceflight programme is called Gaganyaan, under which astronauts are to be sent into low Earth orbit.
Correct answer: (A) Russia
The G7 members are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Russia was excluded in 2014 after the Crimea affair.