UPSC Prelims Questions

Q.1477Miscellaneous2024Easy

How is strong pressure gradient represented on a weather map ?

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Q.1478Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The (cantankerous) men of the town roar around the marketplace.

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Q.1479Miscellaneous2024Easy

As per India State of Forest Report 2021, which one of the following states is not among the top three with reference to maximum area under forest ?

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Q.1480Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. There is still (some) water in the bottle.

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Q.1481Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. India is revered as the (fountainhead) of democracy in the world today.

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Q.1482Miscellaneous2024Easy

Enzymes catalyzing the same reaction but with different amino acid compositions are:

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Q.1483Miscellaneous2024Easy

Which of the following states is/are part of the Ganga Basin ? 1. Chhattisgarh 2. Himachal Pradesh 3. Rajasthan Select the answer using the code given below :

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Q.1484Miscellaneous2024Easy

Which one of the following taxes is not included in the Central Pool to be shared with the States according to the recommendations of Finance Commission of India ?

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Q.1485Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In this section, you have two short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author, and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question : When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labours under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there I will still be one more sound : that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe man will not merely endure : he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice. The tragedy of our times is

Q.1486Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts, labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine 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). She forced (a)/ herself (b)/ to eat. (c)/ No error (d)

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Q.1487Miscellaneous2024Easy

Consider the following statements : 1. A rupee Vostro account is an account that an Indian bank holds for a foreign bank in the domestic currency (rupee) to enable domestic banks to provide international banking services. 2. Insurance density, i.e., average insurance premium per capita does not fully capture the financing gap in the event of a premature death because most of the insurance products sold in India are savings-linked with a small component of protection. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

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Q.1488Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In this section, you have two short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author, and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question : When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labours under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there I will still be one more sound : that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe man will not merely endure : he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice. What must writers learn again?

Q.1489Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts, labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine 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). It was one (a)/ of most eloquent speeches (b)/ delivered by Swami Vivekananda. (c)/ No error (d)

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Q.1490Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. (Hurray!) We have won the match.

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Q.1491Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. What made you choose the (one) rather than the other?

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Q.1492Miscellaneous2024Easy

Which kind of mass wasting processes are commonly associated with creep ?

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Q.1493Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts, labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine 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). These equipments (a)/ must have (b)/ cost a fortune. (c)/ No error (d)

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Q.1494Miscellaneous2024Easy

Consider the following statements : 1. An additional spending by the Government of ₹ X is likely to have less impact on income than an additional transfer of ₹ X to households. 2. An additional spending by the Government of ₹ X is likely to have less impact on income if it is not accompanied by an expansion in money supply. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

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UPSC Prelims Questions

How is strong pressure gradient represented on a weather map ?

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The (cantankerous) men of the town roar around the marketplace.

As per India State of Forest Report 2021, which one of the following states is not among the top three with reference to maximum area under forest ?

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. There is still (some) water in the bottle.

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. India is revered as the (fountainhead) of democracy in the world today.

Enzymes catalyzing the same reaction but with different amino acid compositions are:

Which of the following states is/are part of the Ganga Basin ? 1. Chhattisgarh 2. Himachal Pradesh 3. Rajasthan Select the answer using the code given below :

Which one of the following taxes is not included in the Central Pool to be shared with the States according to the recommendations of Finance Commission of India ?

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an uderlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. (Hurray!) We have won the match.

Directions: Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. What made you choose the (one) rather than the other?

Which kind of mass wasting processes are commonly associated with creep ?

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