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UPSC Prelims Questions

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Q.5293·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word(s) followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Emboldened by its success, the leader now plans to go ahead with the plan and implementation.

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Q.5294·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

Which one of the following alternatives has the correct spelling?

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Q.5295·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

In this question there is six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1 : Things are often not what they seem. S6 : This happened without you even knowing it. So imagine the changes that occur to this earth and humanity. P : But you are really not, because the Milky Way galaxy, of which you are a part, is moving through space at 2.1 million kilometre an hour. Q : So in roughly twenty second that it would have taken you to read this paragraph, you have already moved thousands of kilometre. R : And that is without taking into account the effects of earth’s rotation on its own axis, its orbiting around the sun and sun’s journey around the Milky Way. S : As you read this sentence, perhaps sitting in a comfortable chair in your study, you would probably consider yourself at rest.

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Q.5296·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

In this question there is six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1 : On increasing the temperature of solids, the kinetic energy of the particles increases. S6 : The temperature at which a solid melts to become a liquid at the atmospheric pressure is called its melting point. P : A stage is reached when the solid melts and is converted to a liquid. Q : Due to the increase in kinetic energy, the particles start vibrating with greater speed. R : The particles leave their fixed positions and start moving more freely. S : The energy supplied by heat overcomes the forces of attraction between the particles.

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Q.5297·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

In this question there is six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1 : Regular exercise makes many of the organ systems become more efficient. S6 : Different activities require different levels of fitness. P : It can improve your strength; make your body more flexible and less likely to suffer from sprain. Q : It can also improve your endurance. R : It also uses up energy and helps to prevent large amounts of fat building up in the body. S : Exercise can increase your fitness in three ways.

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Q.5298·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

In this question there is six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1 : Politics is exciting because people disagree. S6 : It is not solitary people who make politics and a good society; it is the people together which make good politics and society. P : For Aristotle politics is an attempt to create a good society because politics is, above all, a social activity. Q : They also disagree about how such matters should be resolved, how collective decision should be made and who should have a say. R : They disagree about how they should live. S : Who should get what? How should power and other resource be distributed? Should society be based on cooperation or conflict? And so on.

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Q.5299·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

If the sum of all interior angles of a regular polygon is twice the sum of all its exterior angles, then the polygon is

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Q.5300·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.5301·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

A train of length 110 m is moving at a uniform speed of 132 km/hr. The time required to cross a bridge of length 165 m is

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Q.5302·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

The simple interest on a certain sum is one-fourth of the sum. If the number of years and the rate of annual interest are numerically equal, then the number of years is

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Q.5303·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

A 60-page book has n lines per page. If the number of lines were reduced by 3 in each page, the number of pages would have to be increased by 10 to give the same writing space. What is the value of n ?

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Q.5304·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

If x men working x hours per day can do x units of work in x days, then y men working y hours per day in y days would be able to do k units of work. What is the value of k ?

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Q.5305·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

Let d(n) denote the number of positive divisors of a positive integer n. Which of the following are correct ? 1. d(5) = d(11) 2. d(5)·d(11) = d(55) 3. d(5) + d(11) = d(16) Select the correct answer using the code given below :

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Q.5306·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

A shopkeeper sells his articles at their cost price but uses a faulty balance which reads 1000 gm for 800 gm. What is the actual profit percentage ?

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Q.5307·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

Read the passage and answer the item based on passage . You are required to select your answer based on the content of the passage and opinion of the author only. Post colonial cultural analysis has been concerned with the elaboration of theoretical structures that contest the previous dominant western ways of seeing things. A simple analogy would be with feminism, which has involved a comparable kind of project: there was a time when any book you might read, any speech you might hear, any film that you saw, was always told from the point of view of male. The woman was there, but she was always an object, never a subject. From what you would read, or the films you would see, the woman was always the one who was looked at. She was never the observing eye. For centuries it was assumed that women were less intelligent than men and that they did not merit the same degree of education. They were not allowed a vote in the political system. By the same token, any kind of knowledge developed by women was regarded as non-serious, trivial, gossip or alternatively as knowledge that had been discredited by science, such as superstition or traditional practices of childbirth or healing. All these attitudes were part of a larger system in which women were dominated, exploited, and physically abused by men. Slowly, but increasingly, from the end of 18th century, feminists began to contest this situation. The more they contested it, the more it became increasingly obvious that these attitudes extended into the whole of the culture; social relations, politics, law, medicine, the arts, popular and academic knowledge. Post colonialism is :

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Q.5308·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

A river 3 m deep and 40 m wide is flowing at the rate of 2 km/hr and falls into the sea. What is the amount of water in litres that will fall into the sea from this river in a minute ?

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Q.5309·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

By increasing the speed of his car by 15 km/hr, a person covers a distance of 300 km by taking an hour less than before. What was the original speed of the car ?

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Q.5310·Miscellaneous·2020·Easy

Three persons start a business with capitals in the ratio 1/3 : 1/4 : 1/5. The first person withdraws half his capital after 4 months. What is his share of profit if the business fetches an annual profit of ₹ 96,800 ?

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