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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: (C) Ajay was running away after getting angry with Ratna
The passage says Ajay had taken offence at Ratna and was running off, which is why Ratna ran after him to stop him and talk to him.
Correct answer: (A) Because they were friends
The passage says Ratna counselled 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 Ratna as poor yet quick at his studies and wise, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Friends
The passage says Ratna and Ajay were friends; there was no family tie between them.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage mentions both Ratna's hard work and his good conduct, so more than one option is correct.
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: (D) More than one of the above
The passage says that besides being brave Shivaji was a good politician, a fine thinker and an able ruler, so more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (B) A sense of 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 presents Shivaji in all three ways—as a valiant warrior, as one of India's great heroes and as a great emperor—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) उपर्युक्त में से कोई नहीं
'राजनीतिज्ञ' का अर्थ है राजनीति जानने वाला व्यक्ति। दिए गए तीनों विकल्प किसी नीति का वर्णन करते हैं, व्यक्ति का नहीं, इसलिए उत्तर 'इनमें से कोई नहीं' है।
Correct answer: (A) Shivaji's national consciousness
The whole passage turns on Shivaji having awakened a sense of nation in the people, so the fitting title is ‘Shivaji's national consciousness’.
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) अधिकरण कारक
क्रिया के होने के स्थान का बोध कराने वाला कारक अधिकरण कहलाता है, जिसके चिह्न 'में' और 'पर' हैं। 'दुकान पर' में 'पर' इसी का चिह्न है।
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 arises
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 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
Take the numbers as 2x and 5x for the ratio 2 : 5. Their difference is 5x − 2x = 3x, which is given as 66, so x = 22. The numbers are 2 × 22 = 44 and 5 × 22 = 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 exponents: (−3)^(m+1) × (−3)⁵ = (−3)^(m+6). The right-hand 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
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 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
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 was excluded in 2014 after the Crimea affair.