Q.2251·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyA person on the top of a vertical tower observes a car moving at a uniform speed coming directly towards it. If it takes 6 minutes for the angle of depression to change from 30° to 45°, and further t minutes to reach the tower, which one of the following is correct?View question
Q.2252·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyThe ‘law’ is an enterprise that seeks to rule us all from cradle to the grave, whether as constitution conferring citizen, or as citizen confronting constitution, or the wider linked role of law within society, such as of how the ‘law’ seeks to eradicate wrongs made endemic, such as caste-based oppression as well as human rights failures or institutional evils like female foeticide. At the same time, the failure of legal institutions to fulfill their constitutional objectives is pointed to as the need to engage law’s multiple failures. ‘Law’ is not fully constructed and defined, nor equally hoped to be obeyed as that we may be willing to trust all citizens or ourselves equally with such laws given, and to obey them. It is in this area of ambiguity, especially when the failure of legal institutions is deeply political, that the citizen may take recourse to a politics of reinterpretation or civil disobedience. Hence, citizens and citizens’ education in a plural society need to be premised on understanding law not as rule-following, nor as rule-breaking, nor as inevitable submission to rules. Citizens should be able to see law as a terrain of contestation, where ideas of justice, ethics, and care are shaped constantly. A good citizen is one who constantly seeks to engage with law, not just obey it. The notion that law and justice must always mean the same thing is an important learning outcome for any understanding of multiple sources of law in India, both statutory law as well as customary law. It is this literacy, and awareness, that is much more empowering than rote learning of legal terms. Legal literacy now needs to encompass not just how to file an FIR or read laws, but genuinely evoke what sources of justice all of us can refer and care for or reject. Which among the following is closest in meaning to the word “resistance”?View question
Q.2253·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyThe ‘law’ is an enterprise that seeks to rule us all from cradle to the grave, whether as constitution conferring citizen, or as citizen confronting constitution, or the wider linked role of law within society, such as of how the ‘law’ seeks to eradicate wrongs made endemic, such as caste-based oppression as well as human rights failures or institutional evils like female foeticide. At the same time, the failure of legal institutions to fulfill their constitutional objectives is pointed to as the need to engage law’s multiple failures. ‘Law’ is not fully constructed and defined, nor equally hoped to be obeyed as that we may be willing to trust all citizens or ourselves equally with such laws given, and to obey them. It is in this area of ambiguity, especially when the failure of legal institutions is deeply political, that the citizen may take recourse to a politics of reinterpretation or civil disobedience. Hence, citizens and citizens’ education in a plural society need to be premised on understanding law not as rule-following, nor as rule-breaking, nor as inevitable submission to rules. Citizens should be able to see law as a terrain of contestation, where ideas of justice, ethics, and care are shaped constantly. A good citizen is one who constantly seeks to engage with law, not just obey it. The notion that law and justice must always mean the same thing is an important learning outcome for any understanding of multiple sources of law in India, both statutory law as well as customary law. It is this literacy, and awareness, that is much more empowering than rote learning of legal terms. Legal literacy now needs to encompass not just how to file an FIR or read laws, but genuinely evoke what sources of justice all of us can refer and care for or reject. As a citizen one is supposed toView question
Q.2254·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhat is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon man’s thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchants; but for the lie’s sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men’s minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? What would happen if truths were not mixed with lies?View question
Q.2255·Polity·2023·EasyThe ‘law’ is an enterprise that seeks to rule us all from cradle to the grave, whether as constitution conferring citizen, or as citizen confronting constitution, or the wider linked role of law within society, such as of how the ‘law’ seeks to eradicate wrongs made endemic, such as caste-based oppression as well as human rights failures or institutional evils like female foeticide. At the same time, the failure of legal institutions to fulfill their constitutional objectives is pointed to as the need to engage law’s multiple failures. ‘Law’ is not fully constructed and defined, nor equally hoped to be obeyed as that we may be willing to trust all citizens or ourselves equally with such laws given, and to obey them. It is in this area of ambiguity, especially when the failure of legal institutions is deeply political, that the citizen may take recourse to a politics of reinterpretation or civil disobedience. Hence, citizens and citizens’ education in a plural society need to be premised on understanding law not as rule-following, nor as rule-breaking, nor as inevitable submission to rules. Citizens should be able to see law as a terrain of contestation, where ideas of justice, ethics, and care are shaped constantly. A good citizen is one who constantly seeks to engage with law, not just obey it. The notion that law and justice must always mean the same thing is an important learning outcome for any understanding of multiple sources of law in India, both statutory law as well as customary law. It is this literacy, and awareness, that is much more empowering than rote learning of legal terms. Legal literacy now needs to encompass not just how to file an FIR or read laws, but genuinely evoke what sources of justice all of us can refer and care for or reject. According to the author, legal literacy needs toView question
Q.2256·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhat is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon man’s thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchants; but for the lie’s sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men’s minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? What literary device does the author use when he says, “truth is naked”?View question
Q.2257·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhat is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon man’s thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchants; but for the lie’s sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men’s minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? What is the writer's idea of 'truth' in the paragraph?View question
Q.2258·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section each item consists of 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 on the answer sheet. S1: The period branded as the era of the Industrial Revolution was essentially a period of transformation. S6: This wage was however, not enough to keep the worker properly clothed or fed and thus, the Industrial Revolution could not solve the problem of distribution. Arrange the following sentences between S1 and S6: P: A definite polarisation of industrial society between two main classes – capitalists and workers – was visible. Q: It marked the beginning of the final phase of the broader transformation from feudalism to capitalism and capitalism made its presence felt all over the Europe. R: Actual production in the factories was done by the workers but the workers had very little and so for survival, they were required to continuously sell their labour power for wages. S: In the capitalist mode of production the factories and heavy machineries were owned and controlled by the capitalist class.View question
Q.2259·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word 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. The business floundered during the pandemic.View question
Q.2260·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word 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. He first convulsed and then collapsed on the floor.View question
Q.2261·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section each item consists of 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: The social group wider than the family is the most universal of the social community is the clan. S6: The clan being patrilineal—a man remains in the clan name to his children. P: It is only the male who assumes membership in the patri clan—the status of a woman being dependent on that of her husband. Q: The clan among the Gonds is a consanguine group, whose members believe in their descent from a common ancestor. R: The members of the clan believed that they have been descended from a common ancestor. S: The Gonds use the term ‘Pera’ to denote the clan.View question
Q.2262·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of sentences with an underlined word followed by four words or groups of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response. The writer obfuscated the real issue with small details.View question
Q.2263·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section each item consists of 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: Traditional songs and music form the soul of the tribal culture. S6: The tribal area of Chhattisgarh is spread mainly over the northern and southern part of the state. P: The tribal areas of Chhattisgarh abound in cultural wealth like songs and dances. Q: They reflect ‘tribals’ natural spirits, imagination and deep feeling. R: In addition, the tribal areas in the north and south are also rich in traditional folk performances. S: These traditional songs, one can hear, being played before the hunting expedition, inspired the warriors to the battlefield or before they set out to the fields.View question
Q.2264·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section each item consists of 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: Mutations are random changes to the base sequence of genes. S6: Several mutations must occur in the same cell for it to become a tumour cell. P: This is why mutations in them can result in uncontrolled cell division and therefore tumour formation. Q: The few genes that can become cancer-causing after mutating are known as oncogenes. R: Most genes do not cause cancer if they mutate. S: In a normal cell oncogenes are involved in the control of cell cycle and cell division.View question
Q.2265·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word 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. They successfully defused the situation.View question
Q.2266·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word 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. His speeches were models of brevity .View question
Q.2267·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word 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. He was too obtuse to understand the merits of the case.View question
Q.2268·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section each item consists of 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: For most people, writing is an everyday occurrence. S6: Nearly all the document types that we use in our daily lives can be created in a word processor. P: A word processing software provides a general set of tools for entering, editing and formatting text. Q: Many application programs have been developed to make writing easier and smooth operation. R: One such most popular program is Word Processor. S: When computers have affected our life styles and work patterns, this activity is also not left out.View question