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UPSC Prelims Questions

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Q.7507·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

Mr. Rowland Hill, when a young man, was walking through the Lake district, when he one day saw the postman deliver a letter to a woman at a cottage door. The woman turned it over and examined it, and then returned it, saying she could not pay the postage, which was a shilling. Hearing that the letter was from her brother, Mr. Hill paid the postage, in spite of the manifest unwillingness of the woman. As soon as the postman was out of sight, she showed Mr. Hill how his money had been wasted, as far as she was concerned. The sheet was blank. There was an agreement between her brother and herself that as long as all went well with him, he should send a blank sheet in this way once a quarter, and she thus had tidings of him without expense of postage. The envelope contained

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Q.7508·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

What is the ratio of number of students who passed in both Physics and Chemistry to number of students who passed in both Biology and Physics but not Chemistry?

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Q.7509·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

If the number of students is 360, then how many passed in at least two subjects?

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Q.7510·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

What percentage of students passed in exactly one subject?

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Q.7511·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7512·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7513·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7514·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7515·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7516·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7517·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7518·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7519·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7520·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

In this question there has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (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), (b), (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.7521·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

We live in a curious age. We are offered glimpses of a world civilization slowly emerging, for example, the U.N. special agencies dedicated to health and education. But along with these are sights and sounds that suggest that the whole civilization is rapidly being destroyed. Two official policies clash, and instantly embassies are attacked by howling mobs of students, at once defying law, custom and usage. And that this may not be merely so many hot-headed lads escaping all control, may itself be part of the policy of the political parties, that is, mob attacks and additional propaganda to deceive world opinion, makes the situation even worse. Parties have always been dishonest, but now it seems as if power-mania is ready to destroy those civilities that make international relations possible. There is something even new in what inspires these students to turn cars and books is not their political enthusiasm but a frenzied delight in destruction, an urge towards violent demolition. In the passage the word ‘demolition’ has the meaning as the word

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Q.7522·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

We live in a curious age. We are offered glimpses of a world civilization slowly emerging, for example, the U.N. special agencies dedicated to health and education. But along with these are sights and sounds that suggest that the whole civilization is rapidly being destroyed. Two official policies clash, and instantly embassies are attacked by howling mobs of students, at once defying law, custom and usage. And that this may not be merely so many hot-headed lads escaping all control, may itself be part of the policy of the political parties, that is, mob attacks and additional propaganda to deceive world opinion, makes the situation even worse. Parties have always been dishonest, but now it seems as if power-mania is ready to destroy those civilities that make international relations possible. There is something even new in what inspires these students to turn cars and books is not their political enthusiasm but a frenzied delight in destruction, an urge towards violent demolition. One aspect of the mob indulging in violence and arson is that they

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Q.7523·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

If the ratio of the circumference of the base of a right circular cone of radius r to its height is 3 : 1, then what is the area of the curved surface of the cone?

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Q.7524·Miscellaneous·2018·Easy

A water tank has been fitted with two taps P and Q and a drain pipe R. Taps P and Q fill at the rate of 12 litres per minute and 10 litres per minute respectively. Consider the following statements S1, S2 and S3 : S1 : Pipe R drains out at the rate of 6 litres per minute. S2 : If both the taps and the drain pipe are opened simultaneously, then the tank is filled in 5 hours 45 minutes. S3 : Pipe R drains out (fully) the filled tank in 15 hours 20 minutes. To know what is the capacity of the tank, which one of the following is correct?

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