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: (A) Ratan loved Ajay
Correct answer: (A) Because they were close friends
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
By the passage the two were close friends. Both ‘friends’ and ‘close friends’ hold, so more than one option is correct; brothers they were not.
Correct answer: (C) Because of Ratan's behaviour
Correct answer: (A) Mischief
Correct answer: (A) A good statesman
Correct answer: (B) A national feeling
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage says Shivaji ‘was one of India's great heroes’ and that he ‘was not only a warrior but also a good statesman’. Both the valiant warrior and one of the great heroes are borne out by the passage, so more than one option is correct.
यही प्रश्न दूसरे प्रश्नपत्र में विकल्पों के थोड़े बदले शब्दों के साथ आया है और वहाँ उत्तर 'एक से अधिक' है। TRE3 की कोई उत्तर-कुंजी नहीं है, और गद्यांश दोनों बातें कहता है, इसलिए दोनों प्रतियों में उत्तर एक-सा रखा गया है।
Correct answer: (C) Because of his good qualities
The passage says that because of his good qualities everyone respected him. His bravery and his faith are mentioned too, but the respect is tied to the qualities taken together.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (B) Shivaji's life
The passage runs over Shivaji's aim, his valour, his statesmanship, his respect for other faiths, and ends by saying we should take a lesson from his life. National feeling is one sentence of it, not its subject—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’ stands for the whole class and is a common noun.
Correct answer: (A) I
Correct answer: (C) Locative
The case form that shows where or when the action happens is the locative, whose markers are ‘में’ and ‘पर’. In ‘दुकान पर’ the ‘पर’ is that marker.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) महत्व
The correctly spelt word is ‘महत्व’. For ‘निराधी’ the right forms are ‘निरोगी’ or ‘निराधार’, and the correct spelling of ‘प्रमाणिक’ is ‘प्रामाणिक’.
Correct answer: (A) Inferior
‘उत्कृष्ट’ means excellent, and its exact opposite is ‘निकृष्ट’ (inferior)—the pair the dictionary sets together. ‘अधम’ (base) and ‘नीच’ (low) are near it in sense, but they stand against ‘उच्च’.
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) Fair
The single word for ‘a place where people meet’ is ‘मेला’, a fair. A ‘सम्मेलन’ is a gathering called for a particular purpose, and ‘मेल’ means only a meeting.
Correct answer: (C) To encounter an obstacle
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
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. Their difference is 5x − 2x = 3x = 66, so x = 22 and the numbers are 44 and 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
Multiplying powers of the same base adds the indices: (−3)^(m+1) × (−3)⁵ = (−3)^(m+6). The right side is (−3)⁷, so m + 6 = 7 and m = 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
Cutting the wire into 5 equal parts makes each part's resistance R/5. Joining the five in parallel gives an equivalent resistance of (R/5) ÷ 5 = R/25, so R/R′ = 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
Reading the small letters of a dictionary needs a magnifier, which only a convex lens can give—and for greater magnification the focal length must be short. A convex lens of 5 cm focal length is not among the options, so the answer is ‘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
The ovary, the uterus and the fallopian tube are parts of the female reproductive system. The vas deferens is a duct of the male system, along which the sperm travel.
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 comes of too much acid in the stomach, and an antacid, a weak base, neutralises it.
Correct answer: (B) Census Department
Correct answer: (C) Mauritius
India launched UPI in Mauritius in February 2024, letting Indian visitors and local people pay directly. The service began in Sri Lanka at the same time.
Correct answer: (B) Gaganyaan
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 joined in 1998 to make it the G8 but was excluded in 2014 after the Crimea affair.