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Note: English version of the instructions is printed on the back cover of this Booklet.

SDHY-B-GKN ( 1 -B)
1. Which one of the following is the motto of 4. Under which one of the following Articles of
NCC? the Constitution of India, a statement of
estimated receipts and expenditure of the
(a) Unity and Discipline
Government of India has to be laid before the
(b) Unity and Integrity Parliament in respect of every financial year ?

(c) Unity and Command (a) Article 110

.'

(d) .. Unity and Service (b) Article 111

(c) Article ·112
(d) · Article 113

2. Which one of the -following departments is

not under the Ministry of Home Affairs? 5. The South Asian Association for Regional
(a) Department of Official Languages Cooperation was founded in
(a) Colombo
(b) Department of~order Management
(b) Islamabad ·
(c) Department of Jammu and Kashmir
(c) Kathmandu
Affairs
(d) Dhaka
(d) Department of Legal Affair~

6. Which one of the following countries is not a

founding member of the New Development
3. Which of the following statements is/aie Bank ?
·correct? (a) Brazil
1. India is a signatory to the United (b) Canada
Nations Convention to Combat (c) Russia
Desertification (UNCCD). (d) India
2. Ministry_ of Home Affairs is the nodal
Ministry in the _Government of India for 7, The Public Financial Management System
theUNCCD. (PFMS) is a web-based online software
application designed, developed, owned and
Select the correct answer uaing the code given
implemented by the
below:
. (a) . Department of Financial Services
(a) 1 only
(b) Institute of Government Accounts and
(b) 2 ~nly Finance
(c) Both 1 and 2 (c) Controller General of Accounts
(d) National Institute of Financial
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Management

SDHY-B-GKN ( 3- B)
8. Match List I with List IT and select the correct 10. The Natiimal Dope Testing Laboratory
answer using the code given below the lists : functions under
(a) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
List I List II
anstitute) (Location)
(b) Ministry of Science and Technology
(c) Ministry ofYouth Affairs and Sports
A. National Institute 1. Chennai
ofAyurveda (d) Ministry of Home Affairs

B. National Institute 2. Bengaluru

11. In how many phases was the general ~lection,
ofHomoeopathy 2019 conducted in India ?
C. National Institute 3. Kolkata (a) 6 phases
ofUnani Medicine (b) 7 phases
D. • Institute
National 4, Jaipur (c) 8 phases
ofSiddha (d) 9 phases
Code:
A B c D 12. Which one of the following statements about
(a) 1 2 3 4 the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is
not correct ?
(b) 1 3 2 4
(a) Its permanent Secretariat is located at
(c) 4 3 2 1
Jeddah.
(d) 4 ' 2 3 1
(b) It endeavours to safeguard and protect
interests of the Muslim world in the
spirit of promoting international peace
9. Which of the following statements about and harmony among various people of
'Invest India' is/are correct ? the world.'

1. It is a joint venture (not · for profit) .(c) It is the largest inter-governmental

organization of the world.
company.
(d) Jt has consultative and cooperative
2. It is the National Investment Promotion
relatiOns with the UN.
and Facilitation Agency of India.

Select the correct answer using the code given 13• Who among the following won the Italian
below: Open Women's Tennis Singles Title, 2019 ?
(a) 1 only (a) Karolina Pliskova

(b) 2 only (b) Johanna Konta

(c) Both 1 and 2 (c) Naomi Osaka

(d) Serena Williams
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

SDHY-B-GKN ( 5-B)
14. Which among the following IN ship(s) 17. 'The Sasakawa Award' of United Nations is
participated in the SIMBEX-19? given in recognition of the work done in the
field of
1. INS Kolkata
(a) Disaster Reduction
2. . INS Shakti (b) Peace Keeping

3. INS Vikrant (c) Health Services

Select the correct answer using the code given (d) Poverty Alleviation
below:

(a) 1, 2 and 3 18. Why was India's G.S. Lakshmi in news

recently?
(b) 1 and 2 only
(a) She was the first Indian to play cricket
(c) 2 and 3 only · for an Engliah County Club:

(b) She became the first female ICC match

(d) 1 only
referee.

(c) She was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay

Award for the year 2019.
u;. 'Triples' is a new format of
(d) She was the recipient of the Booker
(a) Boxing Prize in the year 2019.
(b) Judo
19. Who among the following was elected as the
(c) Chess
President of Indonesia for the second term ?
(d) Badminton
(a) Joko Widodo

(b) Prabowo Subianto

16. Who among the following was the Chairman of (c) Sandiaga Uno
the Committee on Deepening Digital (d) JusufKalla
Payments appointed by the RBI ? .

(a) H.R. Khan 20. In India, May 21 is observed as

(b) Nandan Nilekani (a) NRIDay

(b) National Youth Day

(c) N.R. Narayana Murthy
(c) National Technology Day
(d) Sanjay Jain
(d) National Anti-Terrorism Day

SDHY-B-GKN ( 7 -B)
21. · Arrange the following in the chronological 24. Which provision of the Constitution of India
order of their implementation : provides that the President.· shall n.ot be
answerable to any Court in India for the
1. · The Indian Factory Act (First)
exercise of powers of his office ?
2. . The Vernacular Press Act (a) Article 53

3. The Morley-Minto Reforms (b) Article 74

4. The Cornwallis Code (c) Article 361

(d) Article 363
Select the correct answer using the code given
below:
25. Which law prescribes that all proceedings in
(a) 4, 2, 1, 3 the Supreme Court shall be in English
(b) 2, 4, 1, 3 language?
(a) Article 145 of the Constitution oflndia
(c) 3, 4, 1, 2
(b) Article 348 of the Constitution oflndia
(d) 2, 1, 3, 4
(c) The Supreme Court Rules, 1966
(d) An Act passed by the Parliament

22. Article 371 A of the Constitution of India

26. The total number of members in the Union
provides special privileges to
Council of Ministers in India shall n.ot exceed
(a) Nagaland (a) 10% of the total number of members of
the Parliament
(b) Mizoram
(b) 15% of the total number of members of
(c) Sikkim the Parliament

(d) Manipur (c) 10% of the total number of members of

the Lok Sabha
(d) 15% of the total number of members of
the Lok Sabha
23. How many Zonal Councils· were set up vide
Part-III of the States Re-organization
27. Which one of the following is the most
Act, 1956?
noticeable characteristic of the Mediterranean
(a) Eight climate?
(a) Limited geographical extent
(b) Seven
(b) Dry summer
(c) Six
(c) Dry winter
(d) Five (d) Moderate temperature

SDHY-8-GKN (9- B)
 28. Which one of the following rivers takes a 'U' 31. Who was the author of the book 'Plagues and,
turn at Namcha.Barwa and enters India? Peoples'?

(a) Ganga (a) William H. McNeill

(b) Tista (b) W.I. Thomas

(c) Barak (c) Rachel Carson

(d) Brahmaputra (d) David Cannadine

32. Who among the following started the Indian

29. What was the Dutt-Bradley thesis ? Agriculture Service?
(a) The Working Committee of the Indian (a) Lord Curzon
National Congress decided · that
(b) William Bentinck
Congress should play a crucial role in
realising the independence ofindia (c) Lord Minto.

(b) The Socialist party decided to play (d) Lord Rippon

foremost part in anti-imperialist
struggle
33 'Ciw.ndimangala' was composed in which one
(c) Revolutionary socialist Batukeshwar •
of the following languages dl!ring the
Dutt put forth a ten-point plan to work
16th century CE ?
for the success of anti-imperialist front
(a) Sanskrit
'
(d) It was a Communist party document,
i· according to which the National (b) Tamil
Congress could play a great part and a (c) Bengali
foremost part in realising the
(d) Oriya
anti-imperialist people's fro.nt

34. In December 1962, which Soviet leader

30. The khuntkatti tenure was prevalent in which declared that China was responsible for the
one of the following regions of India during the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
British Colonial Rule ?
(a) Khrushchev
(a) Bundelkhand
(b) Bulganin
(b) Kamataka
(c) Suslov
(c) Chota Nagpur (d) Malenkov
(d) Madras Presidency

SDHY-8-GKN (11-B)
35. Which of the following statements with regard 38. Which one of the following is not enumerated,..
to the 'Make in India' initiative is/are col'J'ect ? in the Constitution of India~ a fundamental
duty of citizens of India?
1. It was launched in the year 2018.
(a) To safegu~d public property
2. Its objective is to foster innovation.
(b) To protect and improve the natural
Select the correct answer using the code given
environment
below:
(c) To. develop the scientific .temper and
(a) 1only spirit of inquiry
(b) 2only (d) · To promote international peace and
(c) Both 1and2 security

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

39. Who among the following in his book 'The
Managerial Revolution' argued that a
·managerial class dominated all industrial
36. Which one of the following States does not societies, both capitalist and commUnist, by
have a Legislative Council ? virtue of its technical and scientific knowledge
and its administrative skills?
(a) Karnataka
(a) James Burnham
(b) Telangana
(b) Robert Michels
(c) Jammu and Kashmir
(c) Gaetano Mosca
(d) Arunachal Pradesh .
. (d) Vilfredo Pareto

40•. Which one of the following conditions laid

37. What is SWAYAM?
down in the Constitution of India for the issue
(a) Study Webs of Active-Learning for of a writ of Quo"Warranto is not correct?
Young Aspiring Minds (a) The office·must be public and it must be
(b) Study Weba of Active-Learning for created by a Statute
Youth Aspiring Minds (b) The office must be a substantive one ' ·
(c) Study Webs of Active-Learning for (c) There has been a contravention of the
Young Aspiration Minds Constitution or a Statute in appointing
such person to that office
(d) Study Webs of Active-Learning for
Youth of Aspiration Minds (d) The appointment is in tune with a
statutory provision

SDHY-8-GKN (13-8)
41, Which one of the following equals Personal 45. An echo is heard after 5 seconds of the
Disposable Income ? production of sound which moves with a speed
of 340 m/s. What is the distance of the
(a) Personal Income - Direct taxes paid by
households and miscellaneous fees, mountain from the source of sound which
fines, etc. produced the echo ?
(b) Private Income - Saving of Private (a) 0·085km
Corporate Sectors - Corporation Tax
(b) 0·85 km
(c) Private Income - Taxes
(c) 0·17km
(d) Total expenditure of Households -
Income Tax - Gifts received (d) 1·7 km

42. The working of the price mechanism in a 46. A 100 W electric bulb is used for 10 hours a
free-market economy refers to which one of day. How many units of energy are consumed
the following ? in 30 days?

(a) The interplay of the forces of demand (a) 1

and supply (b) 10
(b) Determination of the inflation rate in (c) 30
the economy·
(d) 300
(c) Determination of the economy's
propensity to consume
47. Which of the following statements relating to
(d) Determination of the economy's full
the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India
employment output
is rwt correct ?
(a) It relates to the special provision for
43. Indexation is a method whose use can be
administration of certain areas in the
associated with which one of the following ?
States other than Assam, Meghalaya,
(a) Controlling inflation Tripura and Mizoram.
(b) . Nominal GDP estimation · (b) Tribal advisory councils are to be
constituted to give advice under the
(c) Measurement of savings rate
Fifth Schedule.
(d) Fixing of wage compensation
(c) The Govemor is not authorized to make
regulations to prohibit or restrict the
44. A car undergoes a uniform circular motion. transfer of land by, or among members
The acceleration of the car is of the Scheduled Tribes.
(a) zero (d) The Governors of the States in which
there are scheduled areas have to
(b) a non-zero constant
submit reports to the President
(c) a non-zero but not a constant regarding the administration of such
(d) None of the above areas.

SDHY-B-GKN ( 15- B)
48. Consider the following statements with regard 50. Which one of the following forms of
to the formation of new States and alteration · Constitution contains the features of both th~
ofbmmdaries of existini States : ,Un,itary and Federal Constitution ?

1. Parliament may increase the area of any (a) Unitary

State. (b) Federal

2. Parliament may diminish the area of (c) Quasi-Federal

any State. (d) Quasi-Unitary

3. Parliament cannot alter the bolindary of

any State. 51. Which one of the following Indian . States has
no international boundary?
4. Parliament cannot alter the name of any
(a) Bihar
State.
(b) Chhattisgarh
Which of the statements given above is/are
(c) Uttarakhand
not correct ?
(d) Meghalaya
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
52. Which one of the following Indian cities is
. (c) 3 and 4 not located on a river bank ?
(d) 4 only (a) Agra
(b) Bhagalpur
(c) Bhopal.
49. Consider the following statements : (d) ·Kanpur
1. The Advocate General of a State in India
is appointed by the President of India 53. Where are Jhumri Telaiya and Mandar Hills
upon the recommendations of the situated ?
Govemor·ofthe concerned State.
(a) Jharkhand
2. As provided in the Code of . Civil (b) Bihar
Procedure, High Courts have original
(c) · Assam
appellate advisory jurisdiction at the
(df West Bengal ·
State level.
Which of the statements given above is/are
54. Which .one of the following is no.t correct
correct?
regarding South India ?
(a) 1 only
(a) Diurnal range of temperature is less
(b) 2 only (b) Annual range of temperature is less
. (c) Both 1 and 2 (c) ~emperature is high throughout the
year
(d) Neither 1 nor2
(d) Extreme climatic conditions are found

SDHY-B-GKN (17-B)
55. Which one of the following statements 59. Match List I with List II and select the correct
regarding sex composition is not correct ? answer using the code given below the lists :
(a) In some countries, sex ratio is expressed
List/ List II
as number of males per thousand ·
females. (Ethnic (Related
Territorial Occupational
(b) In India, sex ratio is expressed as Segment) Pattern)
number of females per thousand males.
A. Maruta Makkal 1. Pastoralists
(c) At world level, sex tatio is about
102 males per 100 females.
B. Kuravan Makkal 2. Fishing people
(d) In Asia, there is high sex ratio.
c. Mullai Makkal 3. Ploughman

58. Who ~ong the following has given the D. Neytal Makkal 4. Hill people
concept of Human Development?
(a) AmartyaSen Code:

(b) Mahbub-ul-Haq A B c D
(c) Sukhamoy Chakravarty (a) 4 2
3 1
(d) G.S. Chaddha
(b) 2 1 4 3•

57. Which one of the following regions is an (c) 3 4 1 2

important supplier of citrus fruits ? . (d) 2 4 1 3
(a) Equatorial region
(b) Mediterranean region
(c) Desert region
60. Who amoug the following Mughal emperors
(d) Sub-humid region
was a follower of the Naqshbandiyya leader,
Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar 1
58. Who were the Nayanars ?
(a) Babur
(a) Those who were immersed in devotion to
Vishnu (b) Humayun
(b) Those who were devotees of Buddha
(c) Akbar
(c) Leaders who were devotees ofShiva
(d) Jahangir
(d) Leaders who were devotees of
Basveshwara

SDHY-B-GKN ( 19-:-B)
61. Which one of the following statements about 64. Which one of the following is not a .
the Government of India Act, 1919 is not geographical requirement for cultivation of
eorrect? cotton?

(a) (a) Temperature reaching 25°C or more in

It extended the practice of communal
summer
representation.
(b) Moderate to light rainfall
(b) It made the Central Executive
(c) Medium loam soil with good drainage
responsible to the Legislature.
(d) A growing period of at least 100 frost
(c). It is also known as the free days
Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.
(d) It paved the way for federalism by 65. Which one of the following statements
clearly separating the respol}sibilitl,es of regarding temperate coniferous forest biome is
the Centre and the ProVinces. not correct ?
(a) They are characterized by very little
undergrowth.

62. The concept of "Four Pillar State", free from (b) They have a growing period .of
50 to 100 days in a year.
' district magistracy for India was suggested
(c) There is low variation· in annual
by
temperature.
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) There is high range in spatial
(b) Ram Manohar Labia distribution of annual precipitation.

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

66. Match List I with List II and select the correct
(d) Subash Chandra Bose answer using the code given below the lists :
List! List II
(Peak) (Name of Hill)
63. Which one among the following is 'not a part of ·
A. Anaimudi 1. Nilgiri
the Fundamental Rights (Part III) of the
B. Doddabetta 2. Satpura
Constitution of India ?
(a) Prohibition of traffic in human beings
C. Dhupgarh 3. Aravali
and forced labour D. Guru Shikhar 4. Annamalai
(b) Prohibition of employment of children in Code:
factories A B c D

(c) Participation of workers in management (a) .3 2 1 4

of industries · (b) 3 1 2 4
(d) Practice any profession, or to carry on (c) 4 1 2 3
any occupation, trade or business (d) 4 2 1 3

SDHY-B-GKN ( 21- B)
67. Coral reefs are not found in which one of the 70. Name the site that gives us valuable
following regions ? information about India's maritime links on
(a) Lakshadweep Islands the Coromandel coast.

(b) GulfofKachchh ·(a) Bharnkachchha

(c) GulfofMannar (b) Karur

(d) GulfofCambay (c) Arikamedu

(d) Anuradhapura

68. In which one of the following States is jute not

significantly cultivated ? .
71. Where are the largest quantity of cichlids
(a) Assam
found in India ?
(b) West Bengal
(a) Backwaters of Kerala
(c) · Odisha
(b) Sunderbans
(d) Andbra Pradesh .
(c) Narmada
(d) Godavari
69. Consider the following statements :
1. According to· Mahavamsa, Ashoka
turned to the Buddha's dhamma when 72. Which Greek philosopher coined the term
his nephew Nigrodha preached the "Geography" in the 3rd century B.C.E. ?
doctrine to him.
(a) Euclid
2. Divyavadana ascribes Ashoka being
(b) . Plato
drawn to the Buddha's teaching
to the influence of Samudra, a (c) Eratosthenes
merchant-turned monk.
(d) Clio
3. Dipavamsa speaks of Samudra, the
12-year-old son of a merchant, as the
key figure in Ashoka's coming under the
influence of the Buddhist dhamma. 73. Who is the author of the 16th century Sanskrit
text, the Vroja Bhakti Vilasa which focuses on
Which of the statements given above isfare
correct? the Braj region in North India ?

(a) 1 only (a) Todar Mal

(b) 2 only (b) Narayana Bhatta

(c) 1 and 2 (c) Chaitanya

(d) 1 and 3 (d) Rupa Goswami

SDHY-B-GKN (23-B)
74. Bose-Einstein Condensate is 78. Which one of the following is active transport ?

· (a) solid state of matter (a) It is the movement of a substance

against a diffusion gradient with the use
(b) fifth state of matter
of energy from respiration.
(c) plasma
(b) It is the movement of a substance
(d) state of condensed matter against a diffusion gradient without the
use of energy.
(c) It is the movement of a substance
75. The rate of evaporation of liquid does not against a diffusion gradient with the use
depend upon of energy from photosynthesis.
(a) temperature (d) It is the movement of a substance along
(b) its surface area exposed to the a diffusion gradient with the use of
atmosphere energy from respiration.

(c) its mass

(d) . humidity 79. Chlorophyll in photosynthetic prokaryotic
bacteria is associated with
(a) plastids
76. Rutherford's alpha particle scattering
(b) membranous vesicles·
experiment on tbin gold foil was responsible
for the discovery of (c) nucleoids

(a) electron (d) chromosomes

(b) proton
(c) atomic nucleus 80. What do you mean by 'Demographic
Dividend'?
(d) neutron
(a) A rise in the rate of economic growth
due to a higher share of working age
77. Food chain is people in a population

(a) relationship between autotrophic (b) A rise in the rate of literacy due to
organisms development of educational institutions
in different parts of the country
(b) exchange of genetic material between
two organisms (c) . A rise in the standard of living of the
people due to the growth of alternative
(c) passage of food (and thus energy) from
livelihood practices
one organism to another
(d) modem entrepreneur establishment . (d) A rise in the gross employment ratio of a
country due to government policies
providing food ?utlets

SDHY-B-GKN ( 25- B)
81. Which one of the following organisms is 86. Which one of the following stiltements with
responsible for sleeping sickness ? regard to economic models is mit correct ?
(a) Leishmania (a) They involve simplification of complex
(b) Trypanosoma processes.
(c) Ascaris (b) They represent the whole.. or a part of a
theory.
(d) Helicobacter
(c) They can be expressed only through
82. Which one of the following .body parts/organs equations.
of the human body does not have smooth (d) They help in gammg im insight into
muscles? cause and effect.
(a) Ureters
(b) Iris of eye 87. The value of the slope of a normal demand
curve is
(c) Bronchi oflungs
(a) positive
(d) Biceps.
(b) negative
83. What is Inter-cropping ? (c) zero
(a) It is the time period between two (d) infinity
cropping seasons.
(b) It is growing of two or. more crops in 88. Which one of the following is an example of a
random mixture.
price floor ?
(c) It is growing of two or more crops in
definite row patterns. (a) Minimum Support Price · (MSP) for
Jowar in India
(d) It is growing of different crops on a piece
ofland in a pre-pll!lliled succession. (b) Subsidy given to farmers to buy
fertilizers
84. Magnification is (c) Price paid by people to buy goods from
ration shops
(a) actual size of specimen I observed size
(d) Maximum Retail Price (MRP) printed on
(b) observed size of specimen I actu81 size the covers/packets of goods sold in India
(c) actual size of specimen - observed size
(d) actual size of specimen x observed size 89. Which one of the following factors is not
considered in determining the Minimum
Support Price (MSP) in India?
85. Which one of the following cell organelles is
known as 'suicide bags' of a cell ? (a) Cost of production
(a) Lysosomes (b) Price trends in international and
domestic markets
(b) Plastids
(c) Cost of living index
(c) Endoplasmic reticulum
(d) Inter-crop price parity
(d) Mitochondria
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 90. Which one of the following is not a dimension 94. If an object is at rest, then the time {X-axis)
of the Human Development Index ? versus distance {Y-axis) graph
(a) A long and healthy life (a) is vertical

(b) Knowledge (b) is horizontal

(c) has 45° positive slope
(c) Access to banking and other financial
provisions (d) has 45° negative slope
(d) · A decent standard ofliving
95. Consider the following. statements about
mixture:
91. Gini Coefficient or Gini Ratio can be 1. A substance can be separated into other
associated with which one of the following kinds of matter by any physical process.
measurements in an economy ? 2. Dissolved sodium chloride can· be
(a) Rate of inflation separated from water by the physical
process of evaporation.
(b) Poverty index
Which of the statements given above is/are
(c) Income inequality correct?
(d) Personal income (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only

92. Consider the following statements :

(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
1. Particles of matter interinix on their
own.
96. Which one of the following statements is not
2. Particles of matter have force acting correct?
between them.
(a) Elements are defined by the number of
Which of the statements given above is/are protons they possess.
correct? (b) Isobars are atoms having the same
(a) 1 only atomic number but different mass
number.
(b) 2 only
(c) The mass number of an atom is equal to
(c) Both 1 and 2 the number of nucleons in its nucleus.

(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) Valency is the combining capacity of an

atom.

93. Rate of evaporation increases with 97. If the speed of a moving magnet inside a coil
increases, the electric current in the coil
(a) an increase of surface area
(a) increases
(b) an increase in humidity
(b) decreases
(c) a decrease in wind speed
(c) reverses
(d) a decrease of temperature (d) remains the same

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98. The frequency (in Hz) of a note that is one 101. The term soil impoverishment relates to which
octave higher than 500 Hz is one of the following ?
(a) 375 (a) Soil erosion
(b) 750 (b) Soil deposition

.1000 (c) Soil getting very deficient in plant

(c)
nutrients
(d) 2000 (d) Soil getting enriched with plant
nutrients

99. Which of the following statements as per the 102. Which one of the following is the cqrrect
Constitution ofindia are 110t correct ? sequential phase in the successional
development of vegetation community in a
1. The. President tenders his resignation to
habitat?
the Chief Justice of India.
(a) Migration, Reaction, .Stabilization and
2. The Vice-President tenders his Nudation
resignation to the President of India. (b) Migration, Stabilization, Reaction and
3. The Comptroller and Auditor General of Nudation
India is removed from his office in the (c) Nudation, Migration, Reaction and
like manner as the President of India. Stabilization
(d) Reaction, Migration, Stabilization and
4. A Judge of the Supreme Court can
Nudation
resign his office by writing Iinde~ his
hand addressed to the Chief Justice of
103• Match List I with List II and select the correct
I n dia.
answer using the code given below the lists :
Select the correct answer using the code given
List! List II
below: (Soil type) (Major
(a) 1 and 2 only characteristic)
A. Oxisols 1. Very rich in organic
(b) 3 and 4 only
matter
(c) · 1, 2 and 3 B. Vertisols 2. Soillacidng
(d) 1, 3 and 4 horizons
c. Histosols 3. Very old and highly
weathered
100. Rajya Sabha has exclusive jurisdiction in D. Entisols 4. Rich in clay content
and highly basic
· (a) creation of new States
Code:
(b) declaring a war A B c D
(a) 3 1 4 2
(c) financial emergency
(b) 3 4 1 2
(d) authorizing Parliament to legislate on a (c) 2 1 4 3
subject in the State List (d) 2 4 1 3

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104. Which one of the following mountains 107. Statement I:
separates Black Sea and Caspian Sea ? The Greek travellers were most impressed by
(a) Urals the fertility of India's. soil and the energy and
(b) Caucasus ability of her cultivators.
(c) ·Carpathians
Statement II :
'(d) Balkan mountains
Ancient India knew the use of manure.
105. Rains caused by thunderstorms dUring the hot
weather season {mid~March to mid-June) in
108. Statement I:
Karnataka are called
Non-cooperation began in Punjab with the
(a) Kalbaisakhi
student movement inspired by Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Mango showers
in January 1921.
(c) Loo
(d) Cherry blossoms Statement II :
The Sikh dominated central Punjab
106. Which one of the following is the largest fresh countryside was stirred by the powerful Akali
water lake in India ?
upsurge.
(a) Chilika
(b) Loktak
109. Statement I:
(c) Dal
The Oudh Kisan Sabha established in 1920
(d) Wular
failed to bring under its wing any Kisan
Sabhas.
Direction : The following 4 (four) items consist of
two statements, Statement I and Statement II :
Statement II. Examine these two
statements carefully and select the The Oudh Kisan Sabha asked the Kisans to
correct answer using the code given refuse to till bedakhli land, not to offer hari
below: andbegar.
Code:
(a) Both the statements are individually 110. Statement I:
true and Statement ·II is the correct
explanation of Statement I. The United Provinces during Non-COOperation
became one of · the strongest bases of the
(b) Both the statements are individually
Congress.
true but Statement II is not the correct
explanation of Statement I.
Statement II :
(c) Statement I is. true but Statement II is
false. The literary outcrop of Non-Cooperation in
Bengal was quite meagre compared to the
(d) Statement I is false' but Statement II is
true. days of the Swadeshi agitation.

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111. Who wereAlvars? 116. Employing Chromatography, one cannot
separate
(a) Those who immersed in devotion to
Vishnu (a) radio-isotopes
(b) Devotees of Shiva · (b) colours from a dye
(c) Those who worshipped abstract form of (c) pigments from a natural colour
God (d) drugs from blood
(d) Devotees of Shakti
117. Consider the following statement :
112. Which one of the following is monatomic ?
"Atomic number of an element is a more
(a) · Hydrogen fundamental property than its atomic mass."
(b) Sulphur Who among the following scientists has made
(c) Phosphorus the above statement ?

(d) Helium (a) Dmitri Mendeleev

(b) Henry Moseley
113. In graphite, each carbon atom is bonded to (c) J~J. Thomson
three other carbon atoms
(d) Ernest Rutherford
(a) forming a three-dimensional structure
(b) in the same plane giving a hexagonal 118. Which one of the following acids is also known
array as Vitamin C ?
(c) in the same plane giving a square array (a) Methanoic acid
(d) in the same plane giving a pentagonal (b) Ascorbic acid
array
(c) Lactic acid
114. Soap solution used for cleaning purpose (d) Tartaric acid
appears cloudy. This is due to the fact that
soap micelles can 119. Which one· of the following is not found in
(a) refract light animal cells ?
(b) scatter light (a) Free ribosomes
(c) diffract light (b) Mitochondria
(d) polarize light (c) Nucleolus
(d) Cell wall
115. People prefer to wear cotton clothes in
summer season. This is due to the fact that 120. Marsilea, Fern and Horse-tail are examples of
cotton clothes are which one of the following plant groups ?
(a) good absorbers of water (a) Pteridophyta
(b) good conveyors of heat (b) Bryophyta
(c) good radiators of heat (c) Gymnosperms
(d) good absorbers of heat (d) Angiosperms

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