SSC CPO (SI, ASI & INTELLIGENCE OFFICER) EXAM, 28-08-2011 ( PAPER – I ) – PREVIOUS YEAR PAPER

1. The threetier Panchayat Raj system in India was proposed by the –

2. Under which Article of the Constitution is the President’s Rule introduced in a State due to the failure of the constitutional machinery ?

3. Through which principle/device did Mahatma Gandhi strive to bridge economic inequalities?

4. Who said that “Oh! Disrespectable democracy ! I love you!” ?

5. The adoption of High Yielding Variety Programme in Indian Agriculture started in –

6. ‘Brown Revolution’ is

7. The total value of goods and services produced in a country during a given period is –

8. Mechanization of Indian agriculture on a considerable scale is not possible due to –

9. Which one of the following is not a function of the central bank in an economy ?

10. Which one of the following was the first English ship that came to India ?

11. The member states of the U.N.O. have delegated the primary responsibility for maintaining world peace and security to the –

12. Which one of the following was the last Buddhist text produced In India ?

13. Arthasastra was written by

14. Who translated Ramayana into Persian ?

15. Which one of the following is a major port on the East Coast of India ?

16. The approximate circumference of the Earth is

17. When did India join the International Tsunami Warning System?

18. ‘Cod’ is a variety of

19. The All India Muslim League was founded by

20. Golden Revolution refers to –

21. A balloon filled with helium rises in air because

22. One can distinguish a telescope from a microscope by observing

23. The sound produced by a bat is –

24. When a bar magnet is cut into two equal halves, the pole strength of each piece –

25. Cooking oil is converted into vegetable ghee by the process of –

26. A large number of identical plants can be obtained in a short span of time through –

27. The smallest flowering plant is :

28. Leukaemia or blood cancer is characterised by abnormal in crease of the –

29. The total number of bones in our body is :

30. The poison of honey bee is :

31. Birds which swim in water have –

32. A new technology which provides the ability to create an artificial world and have people interact with it is called :

33. A parallel port is most often used by a –

34. Kuchipudi is a dancedrama associated with the State of –

35. Xrays were discovered by

36. Who among the following is not a recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award ?

37. Rusting of iron requires –

38. Glass is a –

39. Uranium eventually decays into a stable isotope of

40. Which of the toxic heavy metals is found in modern tannery industries ?

41. Which of the following contains high content of lead?

42. Electrostatic precipitator is used to control –

43. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute is located at –

44. The government set up a committee headed by the Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes some time back to go into – (1) codification of tax laws

45. Who got the ‘Purple Cap’ for taking maximum number of wickets in IPL4 series ?

46. At which place did the Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee lay the foundation stone for a new banknote paper mill some time back ?

47. The book ‘Great Soul : Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India’ was in news some time back and was banned in some Indian States including Gujarat. The author of the book is –

48. The secret operation carried out successfully by the US Navy Seals, in which Osama Bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist was killed, was codenamed as –

49. As per the latest ‘Sample Registration Survey Report’ released some time back by the Census Office at New Delhi, there has been a significant improvement in the ‘Infant Mortality Rate’ per 1000 live births in India during the period 1999 – 2009. What has been the percentage change during this period?

50. Premlata Agarwal has become the oldest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest at the age of 45. She belongs to the State of

Directions (1 – 5) : In the following questions some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from errors, then your answer is (4) i.e. No error.
1. The way to increase the production of the food (1)/ is to bring more land (2)/ under cultivation. (3)/ No error. (4)

2. The girls watched intently (1)/ as the model applied her makeup (2)/ with a practiced hand. (3)/ No error. (4)

3. If he is a millionaire (1)/ he would help (2)/ the millennium project. (3)/ No error. (4)

4. The Prime Minister along with his Cabinet colleagues (1)/ have been welcomed by the Chief Minister (2)/ at a formal ceremony. (3)/ No error. (4)

5. The political candidate talked (1)/ as if she has already been elected (2)/ to the presidency. (3)/ No error. (4)

Directions (6 – 10) : In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.
6. She made her stepson her ____to her large fortune.

7. The stewardess showed the passenger _____

8. Many people reported ____a noise in the night.

9. I am exhausted, let’s_____ a day.

10. The worker used____ to patch up the hole in the wall.

Directions (11-15) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
11. Flaunt

12. Subjugate

13. Behaviour

14. Stringent

15. Deliberately

Directions (16-20) : In the following questions, choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
16. Brittle

17. Callous

18. Dishevelled

19. Impede

20. Perilous

Directions (21— 25) : In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom / Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given Idiom/ Phrase.
21. The teacher’s announcement to conduct a snap test came as a bolt from the blue to many students.

22. He and his friend are sailing in the same boat.

23. To be successful in today’s world, we require the gift of the gab.

24. Winter was so bad that the nomadic tribesmen found it difficult to keep the wolf from the door.

25. There is no soft option to the crisis now.

Directions (26-30) : In the following questions. a sentence is given, the bold part of which may need improvement. Alternatives are given at (1), (2) and (3) below which may be a better option. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).
26. With these extra people you can work easily with this job.

27. I visited my aunt just before a week.

28. Foreigners often come across with serious difficulties in studying English.

29. He wotk hard will succeed.

30. It is high time you started revising your lessons.

Directions (31-35) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words / sentence.
31. Speed of an object in one direction

32. The place where public, government or historical records are kept

33. Theft of another person’s writings or ideas and passing them off as one’s own

34. The study of insects

35. List of issues to be discussed at a meeting

Directions (36-40) : In the following questions, groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
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Directions (41-50): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out.First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
PASSAGE
(Questions No. 4150)
Martin Luther King, Jr., was born Michael Luther King, Jr., (41) his grandfather had his name (42) to Martin. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia (43) from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B.A. degree in 1948 (44) Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grand father had graduated. After three years of (45) study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a (46) white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. (47) a fellowship won at Ebenezer he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence (48) the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he (49) and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of (50) intellectual and artistic attainments.
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1. Rani’s weight is 25% that of Meena’s and 40% that of Tara’s. What percentage of Tara’s weight is equal to Meena’s weight?

2. If (2000)¹⁰ = 1.024 × 10^k , then the value of k is

3. If (10.15)² = 103.0225, then the value of

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6. When a number is divided by 36, the remainder is 19. What will be the remainder when the number is divided by 12 ?

7. By selling 60 articles a vendor gains the selling price of 15 articles. Find his gain percentage.

8. A shopkeeper marks an article at 60 and sells it at a discount of 15%. He also gives a gift worth 3. If he still makes 20% profit, the cost price, in rupees, is

9. On a certain sum of money lent out at 16% p.a. the difference between the compound interest for 1 year, payable half yearly, and the simple interest for 1 year is 56. The sum is

10. Out of 2500 people, only 60% have the saving habit. If 30% save with bank, 32% with post office and the rest with shares, the number of shareholders are

11. A person bought 50 pens for ‘ 50 each. He sold 40 of them at a loss of 5%. He wants to gain 10% on the whole. Then his gain percent on the remaining pens should be

12. The average of the three numbers x, y and z is 45. x is greater than the average of y and z by 9. The average of y and z is greater than y by 2. Then the difference of x and z is

13. If x : y = 3 : 4, then 4x+ 5y : 5x - 2y =

14. The incomes of A and B are in the ratio 2 : 3 and their expenditures are in the ratio 1 : 2. If each saves 24,000, find A’s income.

15. In a mixture of 25 litres, the ratio of acid to water is 4 : 1. Another 3 litres of water is added to the mixture. The ratio of acid to water in the new mixture is

16. A and B working together; can do a piece of work in 4.5 hours. B and C working together can do it in 3 hours. C and A working together can do it in 2.25 hours. All of them begin the work at the same time. Find how much time they will take to finish the piece of work.

17. On a certain sum, the simple interest at the end of 6.25 years becomes 3/8 of the sum. The rate of interest is

18. A shopkeeper lists the price of an article as 500. But he gives a certain discount which allows the buyer to pay 500 for the article including 10% sales tax. The rate of discount is

19. After allowing a discount of 16%, there was still a gain of 5%. Then the percentage of marked price over the cost price is

20. Mean of 10 numbers is 30. Later on it was observed that numbers 15, 23 are wrongly taken as 51, 32. The correct mean is

21. Of the three numbers, the first number is twice of the second and the second is thrice of the third number. If the average of these 3 numbers is 20, then the sum of the largest and smallest numbers is

22. A and B together can do 11/19 of a work. In the same time B and C together can do of 14/19 the same work. The ratio of work done by A, B and C is

23. The speed of the current is 5 km/hour. A motorboat goes 10 km upstream and back again to the starting point in 50 minutes. The speed, in km/ hour, of the motorboat in still water is

24. A man has to be at a certain place at a certain time. He finds that he shall be 20 minutes late if he walks at 3 km/ hour speed and 10 minutes earlier if he walks at a speed of km/hour. The distance he has to walk is

25. Pipes P and g can fill a tank in 10 and 12 hours respectively and C can empty it in 6 hours. If all the three are opened at 7 a.m., at what time will onefourth of the tank be filled ?

26. The radius of the incircle of a triangle is 2 cm. If the area of the triangle is 6 cm2, then its perimeter is

27. The total surface area of a solid righ circular cylinder is twice that of a solid sphere. If they have the same radii, the ratio of the volume of the cylinder to that of , sphere is given by

28. The base of a solid right prism is a triangle whose sides are 9 cm, 12 cm, and 15 cm. The height of the prism is 5 cm. Then, the total surface area of the prism is

29. If the sum of three dimensions and the total surface area of a rectangular box are 12 cm and 94 cm2 respectively, then the maximum length of a stick that can be placed inside the box is

30. Each interior angle of a regular polygon is 18° more than eight times an exterior angle. The number of sides of the polygon is

31. The length of each side of an equilateral triangle is 14,5 cm. The area of the incircle, in cm2, is

32. Three circles of diameter .10 cm each, are bound together by a rubber band, as shown in the figure. The length of the rubber band, in cm, if it is stretched as shown, is

33. The ratio of the areas of two isosceles triangles having the same vertical angle (i.e. angle between equal sides) is 1 : 4. The ratio of their heights is

34. If a chord of length 16 cm is at a distance of 15 cm from the centre of the circle, then the length of the chord of the same circle which is at a distance of 8 cm from the centre is equal to

35. The minimum value of 2sin²θ+ 3cos²θ is

36. If the sum of a/b and its reciprocal is 1 and a ≠ 0, b ≠ 0, then the value of a³ + b³ is

37. the value of x2+ y2 is

38. If x² = y + z, y² = z + x, z² = x + y,then the value of

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40. If a² + b² =2 and c² + d2 = 1, then the value of (ad – bc)² + (ac + bd)² is

41. Two medians AD and BE of AABC intersect at G at right angles. If AD = 9 cm and BE = 6 cm, then the length of BD, in cm, is

42. If cosec 39° = x, the value of

43. The value of tan 4°.tan 43°.tan 47°.tan 86° is

44. (0 ≤ θ ≤ 90° ), then the value of sin θ is

45. If the angle of elevation of the Sun changes from 30° to 45°, the length of the shadow of a pillar decreases by 20 metres. The height of the pillar is

Directions (46-50) : The histogram shows the marks obtained by 45 students of a class. Look at the histogram and answer the questions.
46. How many students have obtained marks 50 and above ?

47. If the pass mark be 30, what is the number of failures ?

48. If the pass mark be 30, what is the percentage of successful students ?

49. How many students have obtained marks less than 10 ?

50. How many students have obtained 30 or more marks but less than 40 ?

Directions (1 – 4) : In each of the following questions, select the / related letters / number / figure from the given alternatives,
1. RIDE: LNBE : : HELP: ?

2. 1 : 6 : : 8 ?

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4. N × M : 14 × 13 :: X × Z : ?

Directions (5 – 9) : In each of the following questions, find the odd word / letters /number pair from the given alternatives:
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Directions : In the following question, which one of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following ?
10. 1. Birth
2. Death
3. Childhood
4. Infancy
5. Adolescence
6. Adulthood
7. Old age

11. Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it ?
_ b _baaabb _ a _ _ bb _ a _

Directions (12 14) : In each of the following questions, a series is given, with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series
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13. WORLD, XPSME. ?, ZRUOG

14. 100, 50, 52, 26, 28, ?, 16, 8

15. In a family Mr. Prakash has his wife and his two married brothers of whom one has two children and another has no issue. How many members are there in the family ?

16. In a group of equal number of cows and herdsmen the number of legs was 28 less than four times the number of heads. The number of herdsmen was

17. If P is the husband of Q and R is the mother of S and Q, what is R to P ?

18. The average age of 19 boys in a class is 21 years. If the teacher’s age is included, the average increases to 22 years. What is the teacher’s age?

19. Hari remembers that his father’s birthday is between 13th and 16th of June, whereas his sister remembers that their father’s birthday is between 14th and 18th of June. On which day is their father’s birthday, which both agree?

20. If CAT is coded as 3120, what code number can be given to NAVIN ?

21. If α β γ ℘ £ is decoded as ARGUE and a σ Φ λ π £ ℘ £ SOLVE. what is π α γ ℘ £ λ ?

22. In a code language, the following alphabets are coded in a particular way :

23. From the given alternative words, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word :
‘DETERMINATION’

24. Some letters are given with numbers from 1 to 7. Select the sequence of numbers which arranges the letters into a meaningful word.
S O U B R C E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

25. Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the Dictionary and locate the last word.

26. If ‘MERCURY’ is written as ‘FGIECAB’ in a code, how can ‘CURE’ be written in that code?

Directions (27 — 32) : In each of the following questions, select the missing number / letters from the given responses.
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33. If 16 ÷ 4 = 74
21 ÷ 7 = 33
81 ÷ 9 = 99
then 55 ÷ 5 = ?

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36. Four children, Akram, Bopsi, ,Priya and Tulsi are on a ladder. Akram is further up the ladder than Bopsi. Bopsi is in between Akram and Priya. If Tulsi is still further than Akram, who is the second person from the bottom?

37. Jaya started from house with son Rakesh and moved to North. Before signal point, Rakesh’s school bus took him to the right side. Jaya continued in the same line and got petrol filled in the scooter. Then she turned to her left and entered a supermarket. In which direction is the supermarket located from the petrol pump ?

38. Rama left home and walked 5 km southwards, turned right and walked 2 km and turned right and walked 5 km and turned left and walked 5 km. How many kilometres will she have to walk to reach her home straight?

39. Which one of the following Venn diagrams represents the best relationship between Snake, Lizard, Reptiles ?

40. In the following figure, which number represents the Women Doctors who are not Employed?

41. Daily in the morning the shadow of Gol Gumbaz falls on Bara Kaman and in the evening the shadow of Bara Kaman falls on Gol Gumbaz exactly. So in which direction is Gol Gumbaz to Bara Kaman ?

42. Among the four answer figures, which one can be formed from the cut out pieces given below in the question figure?

43. How many squares are there in the given figure?

44. From the given answer figures, select the one in which the question figure is hidden/ embedded.

45. There are two statements followed by two conclusions I and II. Assuming the statements are true, decide which one of the conclusions logically follows, disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements :
1. All poets are intelligent.
2. All singers are intelligent.
Conclusions :
I. All singers are poets.
II. Some intelligent persons are not singers.

46. Three statements are given followed by four conclusions I, II, III and N. You have to consider the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.
Statements :
Some books are novels.
All novels are magazines. Some magazines are journals.
Conclusions :
I. Some novels are journals.
II. Some books are magazines.
III. All books are magazines. N. No novel is a journal.

47. Which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question figure?

48. The following small letters are coded by capital letters in a certain way :
s u m l a d
R A P M S 0
Now, which small letters can be decoded from the letters given below :
MAPSRO

49. A piece of paper is folded and punched cut as shown below in the question figures. From the given answer figures indicate how it will appear when opened.

Directions : In the following question, there is an address which has been reproduced against (I), (2), (3) and (4), three of which have some mistake or the other. The one without any mistake is your answer
50. Meenakshi Sundaram MIG 17, Housing Board Colony Near Airport, Amrutsar – 252793