Q.10027·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyIn a question paper there are five questions to be attempted and answer to each question has two choices – True (T) or False (F). It is given that no two candidates have given the answers to the five questions in an identical sequence. For this to happen the maximum number of candidates is:View question
Q.10028·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyBy killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity and economic growth. Crony capitalism, where rich and the influential are alleged to have received land and natural resources and various licences in return for payoffs to venal politicians, is now a major issue to be tackled. One of the greatest dangers to growth of developing economies like India is the middle-income trap where crony capitalism creates oligarchies that slow down the growth. Which among the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?View question
Q.10029·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyClimate adaptation may be rendered ineffective if policies are not designed in the context of other development concerns. For instance, a comprehensive strategy that seeks to improve food security in the context of climate change may include a set of coordinated measures related to agricultural extension, crop diversification, integrated water and pest management and agricultural information services. Some of these measures may have to do with climate changes and others with economic development. What is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?View question
Q.10030·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyUnderstanding of the role of biodiversity in the hydrological cycle enables better policy-making. The term biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals, microorganisms, and the ecosystems in which they occur. Water and biodiversity are interdependent. In reality, the hydrological cycle decides how biodiversity functions. In turn, vegetation and soil drive the movement of water. Every glass of water we drink has, at least in part, passed through fish, trees, bacteria, soil and other organisms. Passing through these ecosystems, it is cleansed and made fit for consumption. The supply of water is a critical service that the environment provides. Which among the following is the most critical inference that can be made from the above passage?View question
Q.10031·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyIn the last decade, the banking sector has been restructured with a high degree of automation and products that mainly serve middle-class and upper middle-class society. Today there is a need for a new agenda for the banking and non-banking financial services that does not exclude the common man. Which one of the following is the message that is essentially implied in the above passage?View question
Q.10032·Miscellaneous·2016·EasySafe and sustainable sanitation in slums has immeasurable benefits to women and girls in terms of their health, safety, privacy and dignity. However, women do not feature in most of the schemes and policies on urban sanitation. The fact that even now the manual scavenging exists, only goes to show that not enough has been done to promote pour-flush toilets and discontinue the use of dry latrines. A more sustained and rigorous campaign needs to be launched towards the right to sanitation on a very large scale. This should primarily focus on the abolition of manual scavenging. With reference to the above passage, consider the following statements: Urban sanitation problems can be fully solved by the abolition of manual scavenging only There is a need to promote greater awareness on safe sanitation practices in urban areas Which of the statements given above is/are correct?View question
Q.10033·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyTo understand the nature and quantity of Government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants; and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?View question
Q.10034·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThe nature of the legal imperatives in any given state corresponds to the effective demands that state encounters, and that these, in their turn, depend, in a general way, upon the manner in which economic power is distributed in the society which the state controls. The statement refers to:View question
Q.10035·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyAbout 15 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural practices. This includes nitrous oxide from fertilizers; methane from livestock, rice production, and manure storage; and carbon dioxide (CO₂) from burning biomass, but this excludes CO₂ emissions from soil management practices, savannah burning and deforestation. Forestry, land use, and land-use change account for another 17 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions each year, three quarters of which come from tropical deforestation. The remainder is largely from draining and burning tropical peatland. About the same amount of carbon is stored in the world's peatlands as is stored in the Amazon rainforest. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?View question
Q.10036·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyA person climbs a hill in a straight path from point ‘O’ on the ground in the direction of north-east and reaches a point ‘A’ after travelling a distance of 5 km. Then, from the point ‘A’ he moves to point ‘B’ in the direction of north-west. Let the distance AB be 12 km. Now, how far is the person away from the starting point ‘O’?View question
Q.10037·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThe sum of the ages of 5 members comprising a family, 3 years ago was 80 years. The average age of the family today is the same as it was 3 years ago, because of an addition of a baby during the intervening period. How old is the baby?View question
Q.10038·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThe total emoluments of two persons are the same, but one gets allowance to the extent of 65% of his basic pay and the other gets allowance to the extent of 80% of his basic pay. The ratio of the basic pay of the former to the basic pay of the latter is:View question
Q.10039·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyConsider the following statement: “We shall go either for a picnic or for trekking”. Which of the following, if true, would falsify this claim?View question
Q.10040·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThere were 50 faculty members comprising 30 males and the rest females. No male faculty member knew music, but half the female faculty members did. The Head of the institution invited six faculty members to a tea party by draw of lots. At the party it was discovered that no member knew music. The conclusion is that:View question
Q.10041·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyFive people A, B, C, D and E are seated about a round(i) C is seated next to A (ii) A is seated two seats from D (iii) B is not seated next to A On the basis of the above information, which of the following must be true? 1.D is seated next to B 2.E is seated next to A 3.D and C are separated by two seats Select the correct answer using the code given below: table. Every chair is spaced equidistant from adjacent chairs.View question
Q.10042·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThere are five hobby clubs in a college — photography, yachting, chess, electronics and gardening. The gardening group meets every second day, the electronics group meets every third day, the chess group meets every fourth day, the yachting group meets every fifth day and the photography group meets every sixth day. How many times do all the five groups meet on the same day within 180 days?View question
Q.10043·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThere are some nectar-filled flowers on a tree and some bees are hovering on it. If one bee lands on each flower, one bee will be left out. If two bees land on each flower, one flower will be left out. The number of flowers and bees respectively are:View question
Q.10044·Miscellaneous·2016·EasyThere are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor. Who is the doctor?View question