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Showing posts with label STATE PSC EXAMS. Show all posts

MODEL NOTES FOR JUDICIAL EXAM - 95

 1. Which of the following acts cannot be ratified?
      A. lawful or unlawful acts capable of being done by the agent
      B. where knowledge of facts to the ratifying person is defective

2. What is the punishment for "Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means" under Sec. 324 IPC?
    Ans: 
Imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both

3. Consider the following statements:
    I. The President nominates twelve members of the Rajya Sabha on the advice of the Council of Ministers.
    II. The President has absolute power to appoint and remove the Chairman and members of statutory bodies at his discretion.
   Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
   A. Only I
   B. Only II

4. What is the punishment for "Voluntarily causing hurt on grave and sudden provocation" under Sec. 334 IPC?
   Ans: Imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both

5. When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing any thing with a view to obtaining the assent of that other person to such act or abstinence he is said to make a
    A. Proposal
    B. Promise

6. Appropriate legislature is empowered to frame service rules under _ of Constitution of India
    A. Art. 309
    B. Art. 307

 7. A is accused of fraudulently delivering to another person a counterfeit coin which, at the time when he delivered it, he knew to be counterfeit. Which of the following is correct?
    A. The fact that, at the time of its delivery, A was possessed of a number of other pieces of counterfeit coin is relevant.
    B. The fact that A had been previously convicted of delivering to another person as genuine a counterfeit coin knowing it to be counterfeit is not relevant

8. A is accused of defaming B by publishing an imputation intended to harm the reputation of B. Which of the following is correct?
   A. The fact of previous publications by A respecting B, showing ill-will on the part of A towards B, is relevant, as proving A's intention to harm B's reputation by the particular publication in question.
  B. The facts that there was no previous quarrel between A and B, and that A repeated the matter complained of as he heard it, are relevant, as showing that A did not intend to harm the reputation of B.
   C. Both

9. A is charged with shooting at B with intent to kill him. In order to show A's intent the fact of A's having previously shot at B may be proved. True/False
    Ans: True

10. The question is whether A's death was caused by poison. Statements made by A during his illness as to his symptoms are relevant facts. True/False
       Ans: True
    

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 162

1. The platform of a station 400 m long starts exactly where the last span of a bridge 1.2 km long ends. How long will a train 200 m long and travelling at the speed of 72 km/h take to cover the distance between the starting point of the span of the bridge and the far end of the platform ?
      A. 1.6 min
      B. 1.5 min

2. How many molecules of ATP are obtained by the respiration of one molecule of glucose?
     A. 4
     B. 2

3. Ethiopia is related to Africa in the same way as Brazil is related to 
     A. South America
     B. North America

4. The first Lokpal of India 
     Ans: Pinaki Chandra Ghose

5. With reference to Remote Sensing Technology, what does LIDAR stand for ?
      A. Light Detection and Ranging
      B. Light Direction and Revolving

6. India and Asia's first Dolphin Research Centre will be set up in
     Ans: Patna

7. Which type of thermometer records the lowest temperature?
     A. Alcohol thermometer
     B. Mercurial thermometer

8. Which scientist wrote a book called “A Brief History of Time”?
     Ans: Stephen Hawking

9. Which day is observed as Sports Day of the year?
      Ans: 29 August

10. ‘Action’ is related to ‘Reaction’ in the same way as ‘Stimulus’ is related to ‘________’
        A. Reception
        B. Vision
        C. Response

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 161

1. Who assumed the charge of new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)?
     Ans: Soma Roy Burman


2. Tea worth of Rs. 135/kg & Rs. 126/kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1: 1 : 2. If the mixture is worth Rs. 153 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg will be____?
     A. Rs. 169.50
     B. Rs.1700
     C. Rs. 175.50

3. If the diagonal of a rectangle is 17cm long and its perimeter is 46 cm. Find the area of the rectangle.
    A. 110
    B. 120
    C. 130

4. A certain sum of money is interested at the rate of 5% per annum compound interest, the interests of third year and first year is Rs 102.50. Find the sum.
    A. Rs.952.38
    B. Rs.962.48

5. A man walks 5 km toward south and then turns to the right. After walking 3 km he turns to the left and walks 5 km. Now in which direction is he from the starting place?
    A. West
    B. South
    C. North-East
    D. South-West

6. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 hours will be the true time when the clock indicates 1 p.m. on the following day?
     Ans:  48 min. past 12.

7. Who holds chair during joint parliament session?
     Ans: Lok Sabha Speaker

8. Who established the first railway line in India?
      Ans: Lord Dalhousie

9. In a nuclear reactor, which one is used as fuel?
      A. Coal
      B. Uranium

10. Select the option that is related to the third letter-pair in the same way as the second letter pair is related to the first letter-pair
       CH : FP : : GK : ?
       A. JS
       B. MP

MODEL NOTES FOR JUDICIAL EXAM - 70

1. Rule against accumulation is given under which section of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882?
    A. Section 31
    B. Section 17

2. In case of transfer of property under the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, if the ulterior disposition is not valid then 
   A. the prior disposition is affected by it
  B. the prior disposition is not affected by it

3. A transfer Rs. 500 to his niece C if she will desert her husband. The transfer is 
    Ans: void

4. In the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, sections 33 to 37 apply to both immovable and movable property whereas sections 38 to 53 apply to
     A. movable property only
     B. immovable property

5. The law incorporated in section 41 of the Transfer of Property Act is based on the rules laid down by the Privy Council in the leading case of  
    Ans: Ramcoomar Koondoo v. Macqueen

6. Within the meaning of section 48 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, the transfer cannot prejudice the rights of the transferee by any subsequent dealing with the property. This self-evident proposition is expressed in
   A. equitable maxim qui prior est tempore potiorest jure
    B. quid pro co

7. Which of the following is a leading case of lis pendens in India
   A. Ram Das v. Debu
   B. Sundarlal v. Gursaranlal
   C. Faiyaz Hussain Khan v. Prag Narain

8. Nuisance is an unlawful interference with a
     A. person's use or enjoyment of land
     B. Possession

9. Ex turpi causa oritur non actio means
     A. No action arises if the act is unlawful
     B. action arises if the act is unlawful

10. The words 'Socialist' and Secular' were inserted in the Preamble by
       A. 42nd Amendment of the Constitution
       B. 15th Amendment of the Constitution

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 157

1. ___________ crosses the Himalayas and brings dry and stable weather in winter in India.
   A. Easterly Jet streams
   B. Westerly Jet streams

2. Introduction of Joint Forest Management was an important objective of ____________.
      A. National Forest Policy, 1988
      B. Man and Biosphere Programme

3. Copper is found in large quantities at _____
     A. Durgapur
     B. Ghatshila 

4. Kannada belong to ____________ language group.
     A. Austric 
     B. Aryan
     C. Sino Tibetan
     D. Dravidian

5. The National Fire Service College is located at
     A. Ahmedabad
     B. Chennai
     C. Nagpur

6. Sal tree is found in _______ forest.
     A. Moist tropical
     B. Alpine

7. The Marwar plain is found in ________.
     A. Rajasthan
     B. Gujarat

8. A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B alone can do it in 10 days. B works at it for 5 days and then leaves. A alone can finish the remaining work in
    A. 5 days
    B. 6 days
    C. 7.5 days

9. Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do a job. How long should it take both A and B, working together to do same job.
     A. 4/9
     B. 2 4/9

10. Which of the following is the brightest planet?
       A. Mercury
       B. Venus


COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 155

1. If Ocean: Waves, then Desert : ——————
     A. Water 
    B. Sand dunes

2. The telephone . . . . . . . . several times before I answered it.
     A. would ring
     B. had rung

3. He lives near a lonely . . . . . . . . of countryside.
     A. piece
     B. length
     C. stretch

4. I don't . . . . . . . . I shall be . . . . . . . . to go.
     A. know , wanting
     B. consider , desirous
     C. think, able

5. The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is
     A. 03:05
    B. 02:03

6. Brass gets discoloured in air because of the presence of which of the following gases in air?
      A. Oxygen
     B. Hydrogen Sulphide

7. A and B can do a piece of work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in 12 days and A and C complete it in 8 days. In how many days A, B and C can complete the whole work,working together?
    A. 4
    B. 6

8. Three solid of cubes of sides 1cm, 6cm and 8 cm are melted to form a new cube. Find the total surface area of the cube so formed.
    A. 128 cm2
    B. 346 cm2
    C. 486 cm2

9. The least number, by which 1944 must be multiplied so as to make the result a perfect cube, is
   A. 2
   B. 3

10. The underlying cause of bio diversity loss is
       A. poverty and unsustainable development projects
       B. macroeconomic policies
       C. international trade factors
      D. All of the above

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 154

1. The sum of two numbers is 22 and their difference is 14. What is the product of numbers?
    A. 72
    B. 82

2. Which of the following is the national sport of Bangladesh?
    A. Kabaddi
    B. Kho Kho

3. What is true about methanol based economy?
     A. Future economy in which dimethyl ether replace fossil fuels as a means of energy storage
  B. It offers an alternative to the proposed hydrogen economy or ethanol economy
     C. China is the world largest producer of methanol
     D. All of the above

4. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is:
     A. 1 : 3
     B. 3 : 2

5. Who rendered the English version of our National Anthem?
     Ans: Rabindra Nath Tagore

6. Horse latitudes lie within the atmospheric pressure belts of 
    A. Equatorial low
    B. Sub-polar low
    C. Polar high
    D. Sub-tropical high

7. Which river in India flows in a rift-valley?
     A. Cauvery
     B. Tapti
     C. Narmada

8. 10 cylindrical pillars of a building have to be painted. The diameter of each pillar is 70 cm and the height is 4 m. What is the cost of painting at the rate of Rs.5 per square metre?
    A. Rs.400
    B. Rs.440

9. If Black is related to absence then white is related to
     A. Presence
     B. Red

10. Pointing to a photograph, a lady tells Pramod, "I am the only daughter of this lady and her son is your maternal uncle." How is the speaker related to Pramod`s father ?
    A. Sister-in-law
    B. Wife

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 153

1. Kunal walks 10 km towards North.  From there he walks 6 km towards South.  Then, he walks 3 km towards East.  How far and in which direction is he with reference to his starting point?
     Ans: 5 km north-east

2. A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction in which the train is going, at the rate of 2 kmph and 4 kmph and passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. The length of the train is:
    A. 45 m
    B. 50 m

3. If the sum of a number and its reciprocal be 2, then the number is
     A. 0
     B. 1

4. Ten years ago, P was half of Q's age. If the ratio of their present ages is  3:4, what will be the total of their present ages?
    A. 45
    B. 30
    C. 35

5. MS Office is a ________ software.
    A. System Software
    B. Application Software

6. What sum will amount to Rs 6,600 in 4 years at 8% per annum at simple interest?
      A. Rs. 6,000
      B. Rs. 5,000

7. Who wrote Mudrarakshasa?
     A. Vishakhadatta
     B. Panini

8. Who is the Chief Information Commissioner of India?
     Ans: Bimal Julka

9. All men are chairs. John Doe is a man. In logical language, therefore:
      A. John Doe is a chair
      B. John Doe is a human being and therefore he cannot be a chair
      C. A man cannot be a chair in any case
      D. Chairs can be men

10. Main statement: Only if the teaching standard is destroyed, will examination result be poor.
       I. Examination result is poor.
       II. Teaching standard is not destroyed.
       III. Examination result is not poor.
       IV. Teaching standard is destroyed.
The ordered pair of statements is:
A. II, III
B. II, IV
C. I, III
D. I, II

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 151

1. Where was 107th Indian Science Congress held?
     Ans: Bengaluru

2. The price of 2 jeans and 4 caps is Rs 1600. With the same money one can buy 1 Jeans and 6 caps. If one wants to buy 12 caps, how much shall one have to pay?
     A. Rs 2,400
     B. Rs 4,800

3. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
    A. Sunday
    B. Saturday
    C. Friday

4. Who was the sultan of Delhi when Timur invaded the city?
     Ans: Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq

5. Which Sikh Guru introduced the Gurmukhi Script?
      A. Guru Angad
      B. Guru Gobind Singh

6. What was the strength of Indus economy?
     A. Agriculture
     B. Business

7. In the afternoon, a student read 100 pages at the rate of 60 pages per hour. In the evening, when she was tired, she read 100 more pages at the rate of 40 pages per hour. What was her average rate of reading, in pages per hour?
    A. 60
    B. 70
    C. 48

8. A man covered a distance of 12 km in 90 min by cycle. How much distance will he cover in 3 h, if he rides the cycle at a uniform speed?
    A. 36 km
    B. 24 km

9. The average height of the basketball team A is 5 ft 11 inches and that of B is 6 ft 2 inches. There are 20 players in team A and 18 players in team B.The overall average height is
    A. 72.42 inches
    B. 72 inches

10. Average weight of 19 men is 74 kg and the average weight of 38 women is 63 kg. What is the average weight(rounded off to the nearest integer) of all the men and the women together?
     A. 59 kg
     B. 65 kg
     C. 69 kg
     D. 67 kg

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 150

1. Who discovered benzene?
    Ans: Michael Faraday


2. To cover a distance of 144 km in 3.2 hours what should be the average speed of the car in meters/second?
     A. 12.5
     B. 10

3. A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
   A. 220 km
   B. 224 km

4. Three numbers are in the ratio 5 : 7 : 12. If the sum of the first and the third is greater than the second by 50. The sum of the three numbers is ?
    A. 125
   B. 120

5. A man is facing west. He turns 45 degree in the clockwise direction and then another 180 degree in the same direction and then 270 degree in the anticlockwise direction. Find which direction is he facing now?
     A. South-west 
     B. West

6. The sum of two positive integers is 52 and their LCM is 168. What is the ratio between the numbers?
     A. 2 : 3
     B. 5 : 4
     C. 7 : 6

7. The new managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
     Ans: Kristalina Georgieva

8. _________ is an example of intrusive igneous rock.
    A. Conglomerate
    B. Shale
    C. Granite

9. Which gland in the human body acts both as an endocrine gland as well as an exocrine gland?
     Ans: Pancreas

10. An accurate clock shows 8 o'clock in the morning. Through how may degrees will the hour hand rotate when the clock shows 2 o'clock in the afternoon?
     A. 144°
     B. 150°
     C. 168°
     D. 180°

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 149

1. A sum of Rs. 12,500 amounts to Rs. 15,500 in 4 years at the rate of simple interest. What is the rate of interest?
     A. 3%
    B. 4%
    C. 5%
    D. 6%

2. A can do a piece of work in 12 days, and B in 15 days. They work together for 5 days and then B left. The days taken A to finish the remaining work is :
     A. 3 days
     B. 5 days

3. How many men need to be employed to complete a job in 5 days. If 15 men can complete 1/3 of the job in 7 days?
    A. 20 days
    B.63 days

4. A, B and C individually can do a work in 10 days, 12 days and 15 days respectively. If they start working together, then the number of days required to finish the work is
    A. 2 days
    B. 4 days

5. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 72 days, B and C together can complete it in 120 days, and A and C together in 90 days. In what time can A alone complete the work?
      A. 150 days
     B.120 days

6. A can do a work in 6 days and B in 9 days. How many days will both take together to complete the work?
    A. 5.4 days
    B. 7.5 days
    C. 3.6 days

7. The age of Rakhi is twelve times that of her daughter Anubha. If age of Anubha is 3 years now, then what was the age of Rakhi, 2 years earlier?
    A. 20 years
    B. 34 years

8. Deepak said to Nitin, " That boy playing football is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father wife." How is the boy playing football related to Deepak?
     A. Son
     B. Brother

9. In how many different ways can letters of the word “BELIEVE” be arranged ?
      A. 840
      B. 1680

10. Find the missing term in the series: 8, 15, 28, 53, ?
       A. 106
      B. 100
      C. 102

ARITHMETIC ABILITY

1. If A and B together can complete a piece of work in 15 days and B alone in 20 days, in how many days can A alone complete the work?
    A. 60
    B. 45

2. In what time will a train 100 meters long cross an electric pole, if its speed is 144 km/hr?
     A. 5 seconds
     B. 2.5 seconds

3. What will be the 40% of a number whose 200 per cent is 90?
    A. 18
    B. 45
    C. 16

4. If 10 people can do a job in 20 days, then 20 people with twice the efficiency can do the same job in
     A. 5 days
    B. 10 days

5. The average age of Ram and his two children is 17 years and the average age of Ram's wife and the same children is 16 years. If the age of Ram is 33 years, the age of his wife is (in years)
    A. 31
    D. 30

6. How long does the Earth take to turn 1° Longitude during its rotation?
     Ans: 4 minutes

7. The average height of 30 boys out of a class of 50 is 160 cm. If the average height of the remaining boys is 165 cm, the average height of the whole class (in cm) is:
      A. 161
      B. 162

8. Find the greatest number that will divide 43, 91 and 183 so as to leave the same remainder in each case.
     A. 4
     B. 7

9. Find the largest number of four digits such that on dividing by 15, 18, 21 and 24 the remainders are 11, 14, 17 and 20 respectively.
    A. 6557
    B. 7556

10. If the product of three consecutive numbers is 210, then the sum of the smaller numbers is: 
       A. 3
       B. 4
       C. 5
       D. 11

11. A man borrows Rs. 21000 at 10% compound interest. How much he has to pay equally at the end of each year, to settle his loan in two years ?
     A. Rs. 12000
     B. Rs. 12100

12. The ratio of ages of a father and son is 17:7 respectively. 6 years ago the ratio of their ages was 3:1 respectively. What is the father's present age?
    A. 64
    B. 51



MODEL NOTES FOR JUDICIAL EXAM - 55

1. If the 7th day of a month is 3 days earlier than Friday, then what day will be on the 19th day of the month?
    A Sunday
    B Monday

2. In the number series, what number should come next?

     7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12,_______
    A. 11
    B. 10

3. If the radius of a right circular cylinder is decreased by 30% while its height is increased by 50% then what is the percentage change in its volume?

     A. 15.5% decrease
     B. 16.5 decrease

4. What is the missing number. 2, 7, 10, 22, 18, 37, 26, ?

     A. 42
     B. 52

5. P,Q and R together earn Rs.1620 in 9 days. P and R can earn Rs.600 in 5 days. Q and R in 7 days can earn Rs.910. How much amount does R can earn per day?

     A. Rs.40
     B. Rs.70

6. A hostel had provisions for 250 men for 40 days. If 50 men left the hostel, how long will the food last at the same rate?

    A. 48 days
    B. 50 days

7. 9 engines consume 24 metric tonnes of coal, when each is working 8 hours day. How much coal is required for 8 engines, each running 13 hours a day, if 3 engines of former type consume as much as 4 engines of latter type?

    A. 20 metric tonnes
    B. 22 metric tonnes
    C. 24 metric tonnes
    D. 26 metric tonnes

8. A certain number of persons can finish a piece of work in 100 days. If there were 10 persons less, it would take 10 more days finish the work. How many persons were there originally?

     A. 90
     B. 100
     C. 110

9. A rope can make 70 rounds of the circumference of a cylinder whose radius of the base is 14cm. How many times can it go round a cylinder having radius 20 cm?

    A. 49 rounds 
    B. 54 rounds

10. Which country was the first to implement Goods and Services Tax (GST)?

       A. France
       B. Germany

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 146

1. The flash of the torch ____ a cobra.
     A. exposed
     B. revealed

2. A person with a long experience of any occupation.
      Ans: veteran

3. Words written on the tomb
      Ans: epitaph

4. Something no longer in use
     Ans: obsolete

5. Under a cloud means
      Ans: under suspicion

6. What is the meaning of the idiom "Flogging a dead horse"?
      Ans: wasting time in useless effort

7. What is the synonym for repertoire?
      A. reserve
      B. debt

8. The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is
     A. 3:5
     B. 2:3

9. A person who enters without any invitation.
     A. Burglar
     B. Intruder

10. A piece of cloth costs Rs.75. If the piece were 4 meters longer and each meter costs Rs.5 less, the total cost would remain unchanged. How long is the piece?
       A. 6 meters
       B. 7 meters


COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 145

1. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, How many of them may be greater than zero, at the most?
    A. 1
    B. 20
    C. 0
    D. 19

2. The average monthly income of A and B is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of B and C is Rs. 6250 and the average monthly income of A and C is Rs. 5200. What is the monthly income of A?
     A. 2000
     B. 3000
     C. 4000

3. The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is 45.15 kg. Find the average weights of all the boys in the class.
     A. 48.55
     B. 42.25

4. If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, what is the average marks of all the students?
      A. 53.23
      B. 54.68

5. The average weight of 8 person's increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 65 kg. What is the weight of the new person?
     A. 75 Kg
     B. 50 Kg
     C. 85 Kg

6. A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his averages by 3. What is his average after 17th inning?
     A. 39
     B. 35

7. A obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out in 100) in English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics. What is his average mark?
     A. 53
     B. 54
     C. 72
     D. 75

8. The average age of 36 students in a group is 14 years. When teacher's age is included to it, the average increases by one. Find out the teacher's age in years?
       A. 51 years
       B. 49 years

9. The average age of four brothers is 12 years. If the age of their mother is also included, the average is increased by 5 years. The age of the mother is :
     A. 37 years
     B. 43 years

10. The ratio between the parents ages of A and B is 5 : 3 respectively. The ratio between A's age 4 years ago and B's 4 years hence is 1 : 1. What is the ratio between A's age 4 years hence and B's age 4 years ago ?
      A. 1 : 3
      B. 3 : 1

MODEL NOTES FOR JUDICIAL EXAM - 103

1. A Judicial Magistrate dismissed a private complaint u/s 203 CrPC. The aggrieved complainant approached the Chief Judicial Magistrate for ...