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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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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: (C) Fragrance and beauty
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: (C) Naturally created influence
‘Spontaneous’ means happening of itself, without effort—that is, an influence created naturally.
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: (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) A
‘Good’ begins with a consonant sound and the sense here is general, so ‘a good education’ is right.
Correct answer: (B) an
‘Elephant’ begins with a vowel sound, so it takes ‘an’.
Correct answer: (A) Sunday
21 March is a Wednesday, so 22 is Thursday, 23 Friday, 24 Saturday and 25 March a Sunday.
Correct answer: (C) सत्कर्म में
गद्यांश की पहली पंक्ति ही कहती है कि आदर्श व्यक्ति सत्कर्मों में आस्था रखता है।
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: (A) आदर्श व्यक्ति
पूरा गद्यांश आदर्श व्यक्ति के गुणों का वर्णन करता है, इसलिए सबसे उपयुक्त शीर्षक ‘आदर्श व्यक्ति’ है।
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: (A) आत्मसंयम
गद्यांश में आत्मसंयम को चरित्र की सीढ़ी कहा गया है, और उसी सीढ़ी से व्यक्ति उत्तरोत्तर विकास करता है।
Correct answer: (B) Self-restraint
The passage says the healthy person is the one whose character holds self-restraint.
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: (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: (C) चारित्रिक दोष
गद्यांश कहता है कि चारित्रिक दूषण ही व्यक्ति के पतन का कारण होता है।
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: (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: (C) स्वर संधि
‘अत्यधिक’ is ‘अति’ + ‘अधिक’. An ‘इ’ meets an ‘अ’ here, so it is a vowel sandhi (यण् संधि).
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
‘अन्’ उपसर्ग ‘अधिकार’ से जुड़कर बना रूप ही शुद्ध माना गया है, जिसका अर्थ है बिना अधिकार। ‘अनधीकार’ में वर्तनी बिगड़ी हुई है।
Correct answer: (C) अनु
‘अनुराग’ is ‘अनु’ + ‘राग’, where ‘अनु’ is the prefix.
Correct answer: (B) विमुख
‘सम्मुख’ means facing, so its opposite is ‘विमुख’—turned away.
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) जीवंत
‘जीवंत’ is an adjective, naming the quality of being alive. ‘जीवनी’ and ‘जीवंतता’ are nouns.
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) 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: (C) Parallel
Street lamps are wired in parallel, so that the rest stay lit when one fails and each gets the full voltage.
Correct answer: (A) 23rd 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: (B) ₹425
Let Subramaniam's share be S, so Naidu's is S + 125. From S + (S + 125) = 975 we get 2S = 850, that is, S = ₹425.
Correct answer: (C) Morena (M.P.)
The Gharial Breeding Centre was set up at Morena in Madhya Pradesh, on the bank of the Chambal.
Correct answer: (A) Khambhat bay
Tidal and wave energy need a high tidal range, and the highest tides in India occur in the Gulf of Khambhat.
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: (C) Energy is released and stored in the form of ATP
The energy released in respiration is stored as ATP, which the cell spends as it needs it.
Correct answer: (A) 1934
The Congress Socialist Party was formed at Patna in 1934; Jayaprakash Narayan and Acharya Narendra Dev were among its founders.
Correct answer: (C) Torch Bulb
A torch bulb's resistance changes as it heats, so current and voltage no longer keep to a straight line—that is non-ohmic resistance.
Correct answer: (C) Cricket ‘Bat’
A ruling of the Peshawar High Court in January 2024 restored to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf its election symbol, the cricket bat.
Correct answer: (A) 1968
The African Convention for the Conservation of Natural Resources was held in 1968.
Correct answer: (C) 10√2 meters
The longest pole equals the room's diagonal: √(8² + 6² + 10²) = √200 = 10√2 metres.
Correct answer: (D) 133rd
India stands 133rd in the world by per capita water availability per year.
Correct answer: (C) Diffusion of auxins towards shady side of shoot
In light the auxin diffuses towards the shady side of the shoot, where the cells then grow longer, and the stem appears to bend towards the light.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Manganese is used in the matchbox industry, in photography and in making batteries, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Dr Sadanand Date was appointed Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in March 2024—not of the ED, the CRPF or the BSF—so none of the options is correct.
Correct answer: (B) 12.5 years
Under simple interest, doubling means the interest equals the principal—that is 100% interest. At 8% a year it takes 100 ÷ 8 = 12.5 years.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Subhash Chandra Bose was Congress President in both 1938 (Haripura) and 1939 (Tripuri), so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Pokhara
The Government of Nepal has declared Pokhara the tourism capital of the country.
Correct answer: (C) 4
0.03125 = 1/32 = 2⁻⁵, so (2⁻⁵)^(−2/5) = 2² = 4.