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UPSC Prelims Questions

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Q.6499·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. However, if it must decide, then it should do so on the narrowest ground possible.

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Q.6500·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. This is akin to a contractual relationship that places obligations on the entities entrusted with data.

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Q.6501·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. Many communication problems can be attributed directly to misunderstandings and inaccuracies.

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Q.6502·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. The exemptions granted to State institutions for acquiring informed consent from processing personal data in many cases appear to be too blanket.

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Q.6503·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question, 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 item 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: Gandhiji reached Newcastle and took charge of the agitation. S6: The treatment that was meted out to these brave men and women in jail included starvation and whipping, and being forced to work in the mines by mounted military police. P: During the course of the march, Gandhiji was arrested twice, released, arrested a third time and sent to jail. Q: The employers retaliated by cutting off water and electricity to the workers’ quarters, thus forcing them to leave their homes. R: Gandhiji decided to march this army of over two thousand men, women and children over the border and thus see them lodged in Transvaal jails. S: The morale of the workers, however, was very high and they continued to march till they were prosecuted and sent to jail. Correct sequence:

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Q.6504·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question, 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 item 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 : Each organism is adapted to its environment. S6 : What can be taken in and broken down depends on the body design and functioning. P : There is a range of strategies by which the food is taken in and used by the organism. Q : For example, whether the food source is stationary (such as grass) or mobile (such as deer), would allow for differences in how the food is accessed and what is nutritive apparatus used by a cow or a lion. R : The form of nutrition differs depending on the type and availability of food material as well as how it is obtained by an organism. S : Some organisms break down the food material outside the body and then absorb it and others take in the whole material and break it down inside their bodies. The correct sequence should be

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Q.6505·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question, 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 item 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 : “When I was alive and had a human heart,” answered the statue, “I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the Palace of Sans-Souci where sorrow is not allowed to enter. S6 : And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.” P : So I lived, and so I died. Q : Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful. R : My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. S : In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall. The correct sequence should be

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Q.6506·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question, 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 item 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 : One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.” S6 : “Does she live far off?” said the wolf. P : He asked her where she was going. Q : The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, “I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.” R : As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. S : She set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village. The correct sequence should be

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Q.6507·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there are few sentences. Identify the part of speech of the underlined words. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate expression. The children were walking through the forest.

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Q.6508·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there are few sentences. Identify the part of speech of the underlined words. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate expression. The Presiding Officer walked slowly to the dais.

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Q.6509·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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Q.6510·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. Reading details about suicide cases can push vulnerable people taking the extreme step.

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Q.6511·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. Standing before a judge in a courtroom can be daunting for anyone.

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Q.6512·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly. He has been facing a kind of intimidation by his friends for last two years.

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Q.6513·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

The sum of length, breadth and height of a cuboid is 22 cm and the length of its diagonal is 14 cm. What is the surface area of the cuboid?

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Q.6514·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

A cube is inscribed in a sphere. A right circular cylinder is within the cube touching all the vertical faces. A right circular cone is inside the cylinder. Their heights are same and the diameter of the cone is equal to that of the cylinder. What is the ratio of the volume of the sphere to that of the cone?

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Q.6515·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). 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.6516·Miscellaneous·2019·Easy

A cube is inscribed in a sphere. A right circular cylinder is within the cube touching all the vertical faces. A right circular cone is inside the cylinder. Their heights are same and the diameter of the cone is equal to that of the cylinder. What is the ratio of the volume of the cube to that of the cylinder?

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