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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (A) It spreads its beauty to all
The passage says the flower is equal—it has no preferences, and everyone can enjoy its beauty and perfume without rivalry. That is the sense in which it is open to all: it spreads its beauty to everyone.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The passage speaks of the qualities of a flower but never names one—neither lily nor lotus nor rose. So the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) With human beings
The passage ends by saying ‘Happy is the person who can exchange his qualities with the real qualities of flowers’—so the flower is compared with human beings.
Correct answer: (C) Naturally created influence
‘Spontaneous’ means happening of itself, without effort—that is, an influence created naturally.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage lists the flower's qualities as open, frank, equal, generous and kind. Of the options, both ‘frankness and honesty’ and ‘generosity and kindness’ name those qualities, so more than one is correct. Fragrance and beauty are what the flower gives away, not qualities of character.
Correct answer: (B) an
‘Elephant’ begins with a vowel sound, so it takes ‘an’.
Correct answer: (C) A
‘Good’ begins with a consonant sound and the sense here is general, so ‘a good education’ is right.
Correct answer: (A) Sunday
21 March is a Wednesday, so 22 is Thursday, 23 Friday, 24 Saturday and 25 March a Sunday.
Correct answer: (A) By seeing the ideal person's efficiency
The passage says it directly—people are astonished at the ideal person's efficiency.
Correct answer: (A) For idleness
The passage says idleness has no place in his life; for rest and recreation he does keep a fixed time.
Correct answer: (B) Good conduct
The passage says in its first line that the ideal person has faith in good deeds, and that same faith shows in his good conduct.
Correct answer: (A) An Ideal Person
The whole passage describes the qualities of an ideal person, so the fitting title is ‘An Ideal Person’.
Correct answer: (C) He removes difficulties with patience
The passage's closing line says he removes all his difficulties with patience—that is the sense in which his character is praiseworthy.
Correct answer: (C) Moral defect
The passage says a flaw of character is what brings a person down—not excessive strength or wealth.
Correct answer: (B) Protection of character
According to the passage, freeing body and mind of various corruptions is exactly what protecting one's character means.
Correct answer: (B) Self-restraint
The passage says the healthy person is the one whose character holds self-restraint.
Correct answer: (A) Self-restraint
The passage calls self-restraint the ladder of character, and it is by that ladder that a person rises step by step.
Correct answer: (A) Exercise
The passage calls exercise the brother of health, because it is what keeps body and mind clean and free of disease.
Correct answer: (B) विमुख
‘सम्मुख’ means facing, so its opposite is ‘विमुख’—turned away.
Correct answer: (A) प्रकृति
‘प्रकृति’ came from Sanskrit in its original form, so it is tatsama. ‘मुल्क’ and ‘दवा’ came from Arabic and Persian.
Correct answer: (A) To deceive at the right time
‘अंगूठा दिखाना’ means to abandon someone at the decisive moment—to deceive just when it matters.
Correct answer: (A) Send any man
‘वह किताब लाया।’ is the correct one. In ‘वह ने ही कहा है।’ the form with ‘ने’ should be ‘उसने’, and in ‘ताजा गाय का दूध’ the word order is wrong—it should be ‘गाय का ताजा दूध’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘बुढ़ापा’ and ‘यौवन’ both name a state, so both are abstract nouns and more than one option is correct. ‘अरविंद’ is a name for the lotus.
Correct answer: (B) अनाधिकार
The prefix ‘अन्’ joined to ‘अधिकार’ gives the form taken as correct, meaning without authority. The other two spellings are corrupted.
Correct answer: (B) कर्मधारय
‘श्यामसुंदर’ expands to ‘श्याम जो सुंदर है’—the first member describes the second, which makes it a karmadharaya compound.
Correct answer: (B) श्यक
‘आवश्यक’ is taken to be formed from ‘अवश्य’ with the suffix ‘श्यक’, not by adding ‘क’ to a stem ‘आवश्य’. So the suffix is ‘श्यक’.
Correct answer: (C) शशिशेखर
‘शशिशेखर’ means the one with the moon on his head, that is, Shiva. ‘कंदर्प’ is a name for Kamadeva and ‘निर्झर’ means a waterfall.
Correct answer: (B) जीवंत
‘जीवंत’ is an adjective, naming the quality of being alive. ‘जीवनी’ and ‘जीवंतता’ are nouns.
Correct answer: (C) अनु
‘अनुराग’ is ‘अनु’ + ‘राग’, where ‘अनु’ is the prefix.
Correct answer: (C) स्वर संधि
‘अत्यधिक’ is ‘अति’ + ‘अधिक’. An ‘इ’ meets an ‘अ’ here, so it is a vowel sandhi (यण् संधि).
Correct answer: (B) Sir William Jones
The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in 1784 by Sir William Jones.
Correct answer: (B) CaO
CaO dissolves in water to give calcium hydroxide, which is why it is called lime. FeO and ZnO are insoluble in water.
Correct answer: (B) ₹425
Take Subramaniam's amount as S, so Naidu's is S + 125. From S + (S + 125) = 975, 2S = 850, that is S = ₹425.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Subhash Chandra Bose was President of the Congress in both 1938 (Haripura) and 1939 (Tripuri), so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) Kali
The Kali river makes the boundary between India and Nepal; in Uttarakhand it is also called the Sharda.
Correct answer: (A) 23 August—National Space Day
The ‘Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar’ ceremony will be held every year on 23 August, National Space Day—the date Chandrayaan-3 landed on the Moon.
Correct answer: (C) Energy is released and stored as ATP
The energy released in respiration is stored as ATP, which the cell spends as it needs.
Correct answer: (A) 31/36 < 17/18 < 43/45 < 59/60
As decimals, 31/36 ≈ 0·861, 17/18 ≈ 0·944, 43/45 ≈ 0·956 and 59/60 ≈ 0·983—they rise in that order.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Dr Sadanand Date was made Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in March 2024—not of the CRPF, the BSF or the ED. So none of the options is correct.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Manganese is used in making batteries, in the matchbox industry and in photography alike, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (B) Batukeshwar Dutt
In 1929 Batukeshwar Dutt, with Bhagat Singh, threw harmless bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly—meant not to kill but to draw attention.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The balance of the body is kept by the cerebellum and the inner part of the ear together, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) 4
0·03125 = 1/32 = 2⁻⁵, so (2⁻⁵)^(−2/5) = 2² = 4.
Correct answer: (C) Liver
After the mosquito's bite the malarial parasite first reaches the liver and multiplies there, which is why the liver is called its store house.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The four airmen chosen for Gaganyaan are Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan, Angad Pratap and Shubhanshu Shukla. All three names given are from that list, so ‘None of the above’ is right.
Correct answer: (A) 133rd
By per capita water availability a year, India stands 133rd in the world.
Correct answer: (B) Rajiv Ranjan Sinha
Under the Government of India Act 1935 the first elected Chairman of the Bihar Legislative Council was Rajiv Ranjan Sinha.
इस प्रति में विकल्पों का क्रम बदला हुआ है और उत्तर-क्रमांक पुराना ही रह गया, जिससे वह 'राय बहादुर सतीश चंद्र' पर जा रहा था। सुधार कर दिया गया है।
Correct answer: (C) Waheeda Rehman
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2023 was given to Waheeda Rehman for her lifetime contribution to cinema.
Correct answer: (C) 0.25
0·008 = 1/125 = (1/5)³, so 3x = 3 and x = 1. Then (0·25)¹ = 0·25.
Correct answer: (A) 336
The ratio is 14 : 25, so the difference is 11 parts: 11 parts = 264, that is one part = 24. The smaller number = 14 × 24 = 336.