IAS MOCK TEST —- 1, PRICE MANGALORE

1. One of the areas given below was not the agenda of the recent held Indo – U.S Bilateral Meet.
2. a) Counter – Terrorism
3. b) Trade and Intellectual Property Rights
4. c) Clean Energy and Cyber Security.
5. d) Rural Infrastructure Planning

 

2. Mr. X has run short of money to continue with his manufacturing sector due to high cost of the product . He is unable to avail the benefit of subsidy from the state and is not in the position to let his firm being nationalised although he fulfills all the stipulated eligibility criteria. Which of the following types of economy does the above said situation is basically associated with?
3. a) Capitalist economy
4. b) State economy

            c)State – Capitalist economy

1. d) Communist economy

 

3. Statements:

            Some men are grand father

            No men are children

               Conclusions

i.)Some grandfather are not children

1. ii) No children are grandfather

iii) No grandfather are children

1. iv) Some grandfather are not men

a)I and IV

b)II and III

1. c) III and IV
2. d) all the above
3. In a school, the strength in 7^th , 8^th, 9^th and 10^th standards are 12, 15, 10 and 60 respectively. Find the least number of sweets required to distribute equally among the students.

            a)60   b) 480            c) 360            d) none of these

5. A rectangular hall is 18 m and 72 cms long and 13m 20 cm broad. It is to be paved with square tiles of the same size. Find the least number of such tiles.
6. a) 4290 b) 24              c) 3192                      c) none of these
7. A rectangular hall is 42 m long and 72 m broad. Find the length of the longest rod used to measure the length and breadth of the field exactly.
8. a) 6m b) 42m                        c)12m                          d) 16m
9. If the 3^rd day of a month is Monday, which one of the following will be the fifth day from 21^st of this month?
10. a) Monday b) Tuesday   c) Wednesday                    d) Friday
11. Which of the following pairs are correctly matching

            i)Kalhana                   Kavirajamarga

            ii)Harisena                 Bruhath Katha Kosha

            iii) KrishnaDevaraya     Amuktha Moulyada

            a)all   i,   ii, iii

1. b) only I and iii

            c)only ii and iii

1. d) only ii
2. Which of the following are correct about Pala ruler Dharmapala?
3. i) Founded Nalanda University
4. ii) Founder of Pala Dynasty
5. a) only i, b) only ii,            c) both I & ii              d) Neither I & ii
6. Which of the following statements are correct about Chola King Raja-Raja-I

            i)Founder of Chola dynasty

1. ii) He Built city “Gangaikonda Chola Puram”

a)only i,                    b) only ii       c) both i & ii            d) neither i & ii

11. Temple architecture style in which Chola ruler’s built temple is                 _________________

            a)Nagara      b) Gandhara            c) Dravida    d) none of these

12. Which of the following is not correctly matched
13. a) Hinduism           ———       Ellora
14. b) Buddhism         — ——       Ajanta
15. c) Jainism    ———-       Ellora

            d)All are correctly matched.

13. In a certain code
14. a) ‘Pet dar na’ ‘ means ‘ thou is good ‘
15. b) ‘dar tok pa’ means ‘good and bad’
16. c) ‘tin na tok’ means he is bad
17. In what code which of the following word is used for ‘he’?
18. a) na b) tok             c) tin              d)pet             e) none
19. To answer the above question which statement superfluous?
20. a) only a b) only b      c) a or b         d) b or c        e) none

 

14. Some boys are girls

            Some girls are boys

            All men are children

            Some girls are men

1. I) Some children are men
2. II) Some men are girls

            III) Some children are girls

1. IV) Some men are children
2. a) I & IV
3. b) II and III
4. c) I and III
5. d) I and III
6. Can the Preamble of Indian Constitution be amended?
7. a) Yes b) No             c) only once in life time              d) can’t say
8. In a class 40% of the students are members of Eco club, and 25% are the members of Mathematics club and there can be members of only one club. Find the percentage of students who are not the members of either of the club
9. a) 15    b) 35                     c) 65                   d) Cannot be determined
10. If 31^st January 1764 falls on Sunday, on which day 2^nd March 1764 will fall?
11. a) Wednesday b) Thursday             c) Tuesday   d) Sunday

 

18. If 28^th February 2000 falls on Monday, on which day 15^th January 2000 will fall?
19. a) Sunday b) Wednesday                    d) Saturday           e)Friday
20. If 27^th February 1997 falls on Sunday on which day 27^th February 2000 will fall?
21. a) Tuesday b) Wednesday                    c) Friday       d) Sunday
22. If day after tomorrow is Saturday, what day was 3 days before yesterday?
23. a) Sunday b) Monday   c) Thursday  d) Saturday
24. which of these words given below was added in to the constitution by 42^nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976?
25. a) Socialist
26. b) Secular
27. c) Both A and B
28. d) None
29. If Karnataka Govt. wishes to sell its appropriate shares to the private share holders and thus decreases its current share in the public sector enterprises, then such policy is refered to as:-
30. a) Nationalisation
31. b) Disinvestment
32. c) Investment
33. d) Marketing

 

 

23. In a recent days, one of the article of the Indian Constitution was in news for having invoked by the Central Govt. as a substitute to overcome the problem of delay in getting certain bills passed in the Parliament . Mention respectively the article and the maximum duration by which the parliament must respond to such alternative action
24. a) article 105 & 6 weeks
25. b) article 124 & 6 months
26. c) article 121 & 6 weeks
27. d) none
28. Which of the following welfare programme is implemented by Karnataka Govt. for women empowerment .

            a)Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

1. b) Ksheera Bhagya
2. c) Ksheeradhare
3. d) 15 points women programme

 

25. Some of the information given below are the characteristics of NITI Aayog, a new Initiative started by the Central govt.
26. I) NITI refers to the National Institute for transforming India.
27. II) Total Transparency in Governance.

            III) Poverty Alleviation

            Iv) Poverty Elimination

           Which of these truly characterize ‘NITI’ Aayog

1. a) I, II and III
2. b) I, III and IV
3. c) I, II, and IV
4. d) I, II, III and IV
5. To respect India’s National Flag, we have abided by which of the following article of the Indian Constitution.
6. a) Article 36
7. b) Article 51

            c)Article 51 A

1. d) Article 36 A
2. Person working at paint manufacturing industry, at a scrap dealers store by breaking open used up batteries & electronic goods have a high chance of suffering from Painter’s Colic/ Plumbism/Devon colic. This is due to high exposure of
3. a) Cadmium (Cd)   b) lead (Ld)   c) Magnesium (Mg)   d) Mercury (Hg)
4. In 2005 a new planet was discovered. It is called presently called in   common terms as the Dwarf planet. It is named as

            a)Dysnomia     b) Eris     c) Pluto     d) Zennith

 

 

 

29. The captain of a ship in the midst of the ocean to find out his position. If the GMT is 8:00 am & it is now in the local region. This means he must be East of the Prime meridian. Approximately around which place would he be among the given options?

            a)Galapagos Islands         b)Mauritius             c)Figi              d) Hawaii

30. A modern aircraft leaving Wellington at 5:00 Pm on Friday reaches Hawaii, 4100 miles away at 2:00 Pm, the same Friday. The same aircraft on its return journey from Hawaii leaves at 6:00 Pm on Friday. On which day will it arrive in Wellington?
31. a) Friday b) Saturday     c)Sunday     d)Thursday                                
32. In this place, the sun never sets for six months & for the next six months, the sun never rises. This phenomenon happens due to, the position of the Sun, & the earth at certain duration of time. This place on the earth must be,
33. a) Lesotho b) San Jose   c) Emerald   d) Juneau
34. In 2009 Venkataraman Ramakrishnan along with Thomas A.Steitz & Ada E. Yonath was the Noble Prize in Chemistry for,
35. a) Studies on structure of ribosome
36. b) Studies on function of ribosome
37. c) Studies on structure of Lysosome
38. d) Studies on function of Lysosome
39. “Humans & Apes shares a common ancestry”. This was the conclusion made by using paleontology & comparative anatomy by,
40. a) Jean-Baptiste Lammarck b) Alfred Russel Wallace                     
41. c) Thomas Henry Huxley d) Charles Darwin
42. On 5 November 2014, ISRO launched Mass Orbiter Mission (MOM). It is currently being monitored from
43. a) Sriharikota b) Byalulu    c)         Bangalore    d) Delhi
44. Flying over the height of 27,200 meters & above, this species belonging to the Avian family, flies over the Himalayas & crosses it in a stretch of 8 hours continuous. This bird is
45. a) Bar-headed goose b) White headed Eagle    c) Cape Barren Goose     
46. d) Blue-winged goose
47. The minimum distance between the Sun & the earth occurs on, January 3. Then the maximum distance at which the sun is away from the earth is on
48. a) July 4 b) January 30          c) September 22    d) December 22
49. In 1839, M. Shleidon & T. Schwann put forward the theory stating that all organisms are made up of cells & cell is the basic unit of structure & function of all organisms. This theory was called
50. a) Cellular theory     b) Schleidon & Schwann theory     c) Cell theory
51. d) Theory of origin of life
52. In 2014, Eric Betzig, Stefan.W.Hell, William .A. Moener, was awarded the Nobel prize for “breaking the Abbe’s Limit”. They were awarded under which category?
53. a) Biology b) Phisiology & medicine           c) chemistry           d) physics

 

39. In higher organisms, chromosome number in a species is maintained by which of the following factors?
40. a) Meiosis b)Mitosis     c) both a&b             d)neither a nor b  

 

40. Which of the statements does not prove the spherical shape of the earth.
41. a) If the earth were flat one would come across shape of the earth
42. b) The sunrise is not visible from all places at the same time.
43. c) The shadow of the earth at the time of solar eclipse is circular.
44. d) The altitude from the stars from various points on the earth’s surface varies.

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