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
By the passage Ratna advised Ajay because the two were 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: (A) A good statesman
Correct answer: (B) 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 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 thus borne out by the passage, 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) None of the above
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) Locative
The case showing where or when the action happens is the locative, marked by ‘में’ and ‘पर’. In ‘दुकान पर’ the ‘पर’ is that marker.
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) 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 gather is ‘fair’ (मेला). A conference is called for a particular purpose, and a meeting is simply coming together.
Correct answer: (C) An obstacle to arise
The idiom ‘खटाई में पड़ना’ means that a matter has stalled or run into an obstacle. An idiom's sense comes from settled usage, not from the plain meaning of its words.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The formula 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 it should have 2—so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) 1% loss
Correct answer: (A) 3
81 = 3⁴. For a perfect cube the index must be a multiple of 3, so one 3 has to go: 81 ÷ 3 = 27 = 3³, a perfect cube. The divisor is 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°
In a parallelogram adjacent angles add to 180°, so ∠A + ∠B = 180°. With the ratio 1 : 2 the parts add to 3, and one part = 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). Putting the values in: 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
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Apply P = I²R: 15² × 8 = 1800 watt. 1800 is not among the options, 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 the light on the retina, the soft membrane at the back of the eye, and there a real and inverted image of the object is formed. 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.
Correct answer: (C) Pollen grains
The anther is part of the stamen, the male reproductive organ of a flower. The pollen grains, which hold the male gametes, are formed inside it. Sepals and ovules belong to other parts—the ovules inside the ovary.
Correct answer: (B) Yeast
In budding a bud grows out of the body of the organism, develops into a new individual 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
The checking and processing of applications under the Citizenship Amendment Act was given to the Census Department—the Directorate of Census Operations, under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Correct answer: (C) Mauritius
India launched UPI service in Mauritius in February 2024, so that Indian visitors and local people there can pay directly. The same facility 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.