Q.9757·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyWhich of the following statement(s) are true with respect to the concept of 'EFFICIENCY' as used in mainstream economics? 1.Efficiency occurs when no possible reorganisation of production can make anyone better off without making someone else worse off 2.An economy is clearly inefficient if it is inside the Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) 3.At a minimum, an efficient economy is on its Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) 4.The terms such as 'Pareto Efficiency', 'Pareto Optimality' and 'Allocative Efficiency' are all essentially one and the same which denote 'efficiency in resource allocation' Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.9758·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThis passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: In our youth we are apt to think that applause and publicity constitute success. S6: So let us be initiated into the mysteries of maturity and be taught how to resist and spurn the lure of hollow shows. P: The man who values the applause more than his own effort has not outgrown his youth. Q: It is our achievement or work which wins lasting rewards. R: But these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions. S: One should concentrate on one’s work knowing that applause will come unsought. The proper sequence should beView question
Q.9759·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThis passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: My office sent an urgent email asking me to return. S6: It was evening before I could sit and write to my parents that I would be joining them soon. P: I immediately replied requesting a few days of grace as I had to book the return passage, pack and attend sundry matters before winding up my establishment here. Q: On the way, I went to the laundry and made sure I would get my clothes in time. R: Then I rushed to the bank, collected all my money and made reservations for my return journey. S: From the shop next to it, I bought a couple of trunks to dump my books and other odd articles so that I could send them away in advance. The proper sequence should beView question
Q.9760·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThis passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: Wordsworth knew the behaviour of owls in the night better than most of us know the ways of black birds in day time. S6: His great poetry owes much to the night. P: Out of school there were no restrictions on the hours he kept. Q: No poet ever had happier school-days. R: He would skate by the light of the stars, snare woodcocks at dead of night, watch the sunrise after a long ramble. S: Throughout life he was an inveterate walker by night. The proper sequence should beView question
Q.9761·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThis passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: Science has already conferred an immense boon on mankind by the growth of medicine. S6: The general death rate in 1948 (10.8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date. P: It has continued ever since and is still continuing. Q: In the eighteenth century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown up. R: In 1920 the infant mortality rate in England and Wales was 80 per thousand; in 1948 it was 34 per thousand. S: Improvement began at the start of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination. The proper sequence should beView question
Q.9762·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThe first summit of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) was held in:View question
Q.9763·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyWhich one of the following island nations went for Parliamentary elections in the month of August 2015?View question
Q.9764·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThis passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1: The young traveller gazed out into the dismal country with a face of mingled repulsion and interest. S6: He quickly restored it to his secret pocket. P: At intervals he drew from his pocket a bulky letter to which he referred, and on the margins of which he scribbled some notes. Q: It was a navy revolver of the largest size. R: From the back of his waist he produced something which one would hardly have expected to find in the possession of so mild-mannered a man. S: As he turned it slantwise to the light, the glint upon the rims of the copper shells within the drum showed that it was fully loaded. The proper sequence should beView question
Q.9766·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyConsider the following statements: 1.The President of India shall have the power to appoint and remove the Speaker of Lok Sabha 2.The Speaker has to discharge the functions of his office himself throughout his term and cannot delegate his functions to the Deputy Speaker during his absence from the station or during his illness Which of the statements given above is / are correct?View question
Q.9767·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThe Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2005) was concerned with:View question
Q.9768·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyAs per the Constitution of India, the Writ of Prohibition relates to an order: 1.issued against judicial and quasi-judicial authority 2.to prohibit an inferior Court from proceeding in a particular case where it has no jurisdiction to try 3.to restrain a person from holding a public office to which he is not entitled Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.9769·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyWhich one among the following was not an attribute of Samudragupta described in Prayag Prashasti?View question
Q.9772·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyWhich one of the following nations has faced severe economic crisis in the year 2015 resulting in default in repayment of IMF loan?View question
Q.9774·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyWhich of the following statements regarding Rajya Sabha is / are correct? 1.The maximum permissible strength of Rajya Sabha is 250 2.In Rajya Sabha, 238 members are elected indirectly from the States and Union Territories 3.It shares legislative powers equally with Lok Sabha in matters such as creation of All India Services Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question