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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage shows Raveena's father as a strict man and a believer in severe discipline—both hold of him, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
By the passage Raveena put on weight because she felt more appetite and because she found comfort in food—both causes went together, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) she was often body shamed
By the passage Raveena avoided going to school because she was often taunted about her body—body shamed.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The passage gives both bad company and loneliness as the reasons for her becoming a drug addict, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The moral is that children should be treated properly and that parenting is an important matter—more than one of the statements carries that sense.
Correct answer: (B) Saturday
14 June is a Friday, so 21 June is a Friday too—exactly a week later. The next day, 22 June, is therefore a Saturday.
Correct answer: (B) an
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Full of creative compassion
Correct answer: (A) Her personal life experiences
By the passage her poetry cannot be separated from the experience of her own life—what she lived is what came into her writing.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Depiction of nature
The mark of Mahadevi Verma's poetry is its fine painting of nature, in which nature becomes the companion of her feeling.
Correct answer: (A) Those who did not spend their time earning money
By the passage the world honours those who did not spend their time in making money but in the good of others.
Correct answer: (B) The value of money
The passage says the worth of what selfless people do is far greater than the worth of money—it cannot be priced in rupees.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
By the passage those who only gather money get neither honour nor worship nor a memorial—so none of the options is correct.
Correct answer: (B) It does not know how to worship selfishness
The passage says human society does not know how to worship selfishness—it holds up those who work for others.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) अति
Correct answer: (A) वाला
In ‘गानेवाला’ the suffix ‘वाला’ is added to the root ‘गाना’ and marks the doer—as in लिखनेवाला or बेचनेवाला.
Correct answer: (C) अतिरंजित
The adjective from ‘अतिरंजन’ is ‘अतिरंजित’, that is, exaggerated. ‘अतिरंजक’ would be the doer's form.
Correct answer: (A) चमक
The noun from the verb ‘चमकना’ is ‘चमक’. ‘चमकीला’ is an adjective.
Correct answer: (B) Karmadharaya tatpurusha
‘महावीर’ unfolds as ‘महान् है जो वीर’, where the relation is of adjective to noun—so it is a karmadharaya compound.
Correct answer: (C) To establish one’s influence
‘तूती बोलना’ means that someone's influence or sway is established—as in ‘in that field his तूती बोलती है’.
Correct answer: (A) Not knowing how to do something and making excuses
‘नाच न जाने आँगन टेढ़ा’ means not knowing the work and making excuses, putting the blame on others.
Correct answer: (B) Masculine
‘तालाब’ is a masculine word—one says ‘तालाब गहरा है’, not ‘गहरी’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Eleven
Hindi is counted as having eleven vowels—अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ and औ.
Correct answer: (A) निः + पाप
‘निष्पाप’ breaks up as ‘निः + पाप’. Before प the visarga turns into ष्.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
A common noun stands for a whole class. ‘पुस्तक’ and ‘कलम’ are both of that kind, so the answer is ‘more than one’. ‘भूकंप’ is the name of an event.
Correct answer: (B) 2π
From an area of 36π, πr² = 36π, so r = 6. The circumference = 2πr = 12π, and dividing it into six equal parts gives each arc = 12π ÷ 6 = 2π.
Correct answer: (C) 1
x/y + y/x = 2 means x² + y² = 2xy, that is (x − y)² = 0 and x = y. Then (x² + y²)/(xy + y²) = 2x²/2x² = 1.
Correct answer: (A) 7 : 3
Correct answer: (B) ₹500
Giving 10% instead of 5% means letting go 5% more of the marked price, and the profit falls by ₹25. So 5% of the marked price = ₹25, that is the marked price = ₹500.
Correct answer: (B) 16
Take the number right as c; then the wrong were 2c and the total 3c = 48, so c = 16.
Correct answer: (A) 5, 4
Correct answer: (C) 75
A 50% fall in the circumference means the radius is halved. The area goes as the square of the radius, so it falls to a quarter—a decrease of 75%.
Correct answer: (A) 73/77
Correct answer: (A) Proteins and nucleic acid
A virus is made chiefly of a coat of protein with nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) shut inside it. That is why it is called the link between the living and the non-living.
Correct answer: (C) Low resistance in parallel
To turn a galvanometer into an ammeter a low resistance (a shunt) is joined in parallel with it, so that most of the current passes through the shunt and the galvanometer is safe.
Correct answer: (B) Large distance of stars and fluctuations in air density
The stars are so far away that they appear as points, and as the density of the layers of air varies their light is bent by changing amounts—which is why they seem to twinkle.
Correct answer: (B) NH₄Cl
Correct answer: (C) Steel
Sound travels fastest in a solid, where the particles are close together and strongly bound—so its speed is greatest in steel.
Correct answer: (C) Petrol
Of the fuels given, petrol has the highest calorific value, about 45 kJ/g; diesel and kerosene are a little below it.
Correct answer: (B) Increase in frequency of X-rays
Correct answer: (C) Both deviated and dispersed
In a prism the light is both bent and split, its colours turning through different angles. So the sun's rays are deviated and dispersed alike.
Correct answer: (A) Vietnam
Correct answer: (C) Egypt
Correct answer: (B) Mauritius
In February 2024 Mauritius became the first country to adopt India's Jan Aushadhi scheme, opening outlets for cheap generic medicines.
Correct answer: (B) Iran and Pakistan