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
Here ‘Airport’ means a particular airport, known to both speaker and listener, so it takes the definite article ‘the’.
Correct answer: (C) an
‘Early’ begins with a vowel sound, so ‘an early morning walk’ is right.
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) Once Ajay ran away after Ratna became angry with him
Correct answer: (A) Because they were 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 shows Ratna as poor and yet quick at her studies and intelligent, so more than one option is correct.
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: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Fighting
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (B) A sense of nationhood
By the passage Shivaji filled the people with a sense of nationhood. Bravery was his own quality, but the feeling he instilled in the people was that of nationality.
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’.
इस प्रश्नपत्र की प्रति में उत्तर 'शिवाजी की राष्ट्रीय चेतना' दर्ज था, जबकि वही गद्यांश और वही प्रश्न दूसरे प्रश्नपत्रों में 'शिवाजी का जीवन' उत्तर देता है। TRE3 की कोई उत्तर-कुंजी नहीं है, इसलिए सभी प्रतियों में एक ही उत्तर रखा गया है।
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
The first person is the one speaking—‘I’, ‘we’. ‘You’ is the second person, the one spoken to, and ‘he’ or ‘she’ the third person, the one spoken about.
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: (B) पुष्प
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) निकृष्ट
‘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: (E) None of the above
The single word for ‘a place where people meet’ is ‘मेला’, a fair, which is not among the options as the paper set them, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (A) To fall into a difficulty
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
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
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: (A) A convex lens of 50 cm
Reading the small letters of a dictionary needs a magnifier, which only a convex lens can give—a concave lens makes the image smaller. Of the options only one is convex, so the convex lens of 50 cm is chosen.
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 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
India launched UPI service in Mauritius in February 2024, so that Indian visitors and local people there can pay directly.
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 joined in 1998 to make it the G8 but was excluded in 2014 after the Crimea affair.