SSC COMBINED GRADUATE LEVEL TIERI EXAM, 26-06-2011 ( 2ND SITTING ) – PREVIOUS YEAR PAPER

1. The reserves held by Commercial Banks over and above the statutory minimum, with the RBI are called

2. Who is authorised to issue coins in India ?

3. Which four countries are called the Asian Tigers ?

4. In the Budget Estimates for 201112, an allocation of 300 crore has been made for promoting output of pulses in 60,000 villages in miffed areas with a view to, attaining self sufficiency in pulses in a period of

5. In the budget for 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister on 28-2-2011, the growth rate for the year 201011 was projected at

6. The ‘breakeven’ point is where

7. The method of Impeachment of the President of India is adopted from

8. In the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which languages were added subsequently?

9. Indian Parliament Means

10. Generally, the soil of the northern plains of India has been formed by

11. Hiuen Tsang visited India during the reign of

12. The Muslim adventurer who destroyed the Nalanda University was

13. Painting reached its highest level of development during the reign of

14. The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in

15. The two states which had nonCongress Ministries in 1937 were

16. Sea breeze is formed during

17. What percentage of world’s freshwater is stored as glacial ice ?

18. Which one of the following rivers of India does not make a delta ?

19. Which one of the following state has the longest coastline ?

20. The pass located in Himachal Pradesh is

21. Match the following and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Crops Producing state
(1) Tea              (1) HimachalPradesh
(2) Sugarcane (2) Assam
(3) Groundnut (3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Apple          (4) Gujarat

22. An example of false fruit is

23. Normal fasting blood sugar level per 100 nil. of blood in man is

24. Rate of interest is determined by

25. The vector of disease sleeping sickness is

26. For how many years have the dinosaurs been extinct ?

27. A geostationary satellite revolves round the earth from

28. Among the following materials sound travels fastest in

29. The rear side of the moon was photographed by

30. Which phenomenon do bats or dolphins use to find prey, predators or obstacles ?

31. What did the first electronic digital computer contain?

32. Microsoft Office’s personal information manager is

33. Hard steel contains

34. Cement is formed by strongly heating a mixture of

35. Glass is a

36. The temperature of oxyacetylene flame is around

37. Which is the most stable ecosystem ?

38. Lambert’s law is related to

39. The coral reefs are the marine counterparts of

40. The Refrigerant ‘FREON’ is

41. In the budget speech on February 28, 2011, the Finance Minister has announced that an international award with prize money of ‘t 1 crore is being instituted in the memory of Rabindranath Tagore for promoting

42. The strong earthquakecumtsunami which has moved Japan’s main island Honshu by a few feet has also caused Earth’s axis to wobble by about

43. WIKILEAKS, a whistleblowers website is an international organisation based in

44. ‘Nomadic Elephant’ was the joint military exercise held some time back in India between India and

45. The maximum limit on poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies has been , raised in February, 2011 to

46. Who received Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Dance in 2009 ?

47. Which of the following folk dances is associated’with Jammu and Kashmir ?

48. Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das ?

49. Who invented the Jet Engine ?

50. SouthSouth dialogue is associated with

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 your answer. If a sentence is free from errors, then your answer is (4) i.e., No error.
1. If you had told me(1) / I would have helped you (2) / solve the problem. (3)/ No error (4)

2. “The Arabian Nights” (1) / are indeed (2) / an interesting book. (3) / No error (4)

3. He (1) / loved her (2) / dispite of himself. (3) / No error (4)

4. Of all the models (1) / Jessica is (2) / the more goodlooking one. (3)/ No error (4)

5. When I went there (1) / Charles is playing (2) / a game of chess.(3) / No error (4)

Directions (6 – 10) : In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate words. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.
6. ________your instructions, we have closed your bank account.

7. __________she is clever, she often makes mistakes.

8. Do you prefer ___________or traditional art forms ?

9. The farmers________ their farms, if they had known that a thunderstorm was approaching.

10. The Paralympics is a competition for the_____.

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. Poignant

12. Querulous

13. Audacious

14. Perilous

15. Reverie

Directions (16 – 20) : In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
16. Autonomous

17. Deceitful

18. Exonerate

19. Exaggerate

20. Controversial

Directions (21 – 25) : In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the meaning of the given Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
21. To strain every nerve

22. To flog a dead horse

23. To show a clean pair of heels

24. To die in harness

25. To feather one’s nest

Directions (26 – 30) : In the following questions, a sentence or bold part thereof is given which may need improvement. Alternatives are given at (1), (2) and (3) below, which may be a better option. In case no im provement is needed, your answer is (4).
26. A taller Sikh rushed forward than any of his comrades.

27. An author in the reign of Queen Anne who was famous lived in a cottage.

28. In the absence of your support, he would have lost the election.

29. My uncle is enough rich to buy a car.

30. Walking along the road, an old man ran over the lorry.

Directions (31 – 35) : 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 (36 – 40) : In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
36. A person who has no money to pay off his debts

37. Words uttered impiously about God

38. Quibble

39. One who compiles a dictionary

40. A test in which cells from dis eased organs are removed and tested

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
A (41) becomes a flowing stream only (42) there is continuity of (43) life in a society. In (44) words, a (45) culture comes into (46)when people (47) a continuous way of life. Such (48) expresses itself (49) in various ways in common traditions and (50) of conduct.
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1. A hemisphere and a cone have equal bases. If their heights are also equal, the ratio of their curved surfaces will be

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3. When 2³³ is divided by 10, the remainder will be

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5. Find the unit digit in the product
(4387)²⁴⁵ × (621)⁷² .

6. If √2 = 1.4142, find the value of

7. If X * Y = X² + Y² – XY then 11 * 13 is

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9. If a^1/3 =11, then the value of a² – 331a is

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11. If a and b are odd numbers, then which of the following is even ?

12. 2¹⁶ - 1 is divisible by

13. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 12 and 924 respectively. Then the number of such pairs is

14. What is the least number which, when divided by 5, 6, 7, 8 gives the remainder 3 but is divisible by 9 ?

15. Three numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The sum of the largest and the smallest equals the sum of the second and 52. The smallest number is

16. If the radius of a circle is increased by 50%, its area is increased by

17. A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 9 and 12 days respectively. If they work for a day alternately with A beginning, the work would be completed in

18. A and B together can do a work in 10 days. B and C together can do the same work in 6 days. A and C together can do the work in 12 days. Then A, B and C together can do the work in

19. A does half as much work as B in threefourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to complete a work, how much time shall B take to do it alone ?

20. If a wire is bent into the shape of a square, then the area of the. square so formed is 81cm2. When the wire is rebent into a semicircular shape, then the area, (in cm2) of the semicircle

21. Marbles of diameter 1.4 cm are dropped into a cylindrical beaker containing some water and are fully submerged. The dia meter of the beaker is 7 cm. Find how many marbles have been dropped in it if the water rises by 5.6 cm.

22. Water is flowing at the rate of 3 km/hr through a circular pipe of 20 cm internal diameter into a circular cistern of diameter 10m and depth 2m. In how much time will the cistern be filled ?

23. A bicycle wheel makes 5000 revolutions in moving 11 km. The diameter of the wheel, in cm, is

24. At each corner of a triangular field of sides 26 m. 28 m and 30 m, a cow is tethered by a rope of, length 7 m. The area (in m ) ungrazed by the cows is

25. A shopkeeper allows 23% commission on his advertised price and stiil makes a profit of 10%. If he gains 56 on one item, his advertised price of the item, in , is

26. The single discount equal to three consecutive discounts of 10%, 12% and 5% is

27. If x : y = 5 : 6, then (3x² – 2y² ) (y² – x² ) is

28. An alloy contains copper, zinc and nickel in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 2. The quantity of nickel in kg that must be added to 100 kg of this alloy to have the new ratio 5 : 3 : 3 is

29. The ratio of the ages of Ram and Rahim 10 years ago was 1 : 3. The ratio of their ages five years hence will be 2 : 3. Then the ratio of their present ages is

30. The incomes of A, Band C are in the ratio 7 : 9 : 12 and their spendings are in the ratio 8 : 9 : 15. If A saves 1/4 th of his income, then the savings of A, B and C are in the ratio of

31. Out of 4 numbers, whose average is 60, the first one is onefourth of the sum of the last three. The first number is

32. The average of 25 observations is 13. It was later found that an observation 73 was wrongly entered as 48. The new average is

33. If the cost price of 10 articles is equal to the selling price of 8 articles, then gain per cent is

34. An article is marked 40% above the cost price and a discount of 30% is allowed. What is the gain or loss percentage ?

35. A man bought oranges at the rate of 8 for 34 and sold them at the rate of 12 for 57. How many oranges should be sold to earn a net profit of 45 ?

36. A man sells two articles for Z 5000 each neither losing nor gaining in the deal. If he sold one of them at a gain of 25%, the other article is sold at a loss of

37. By selling an article for 144, a person gained such that the percentage gain equals the cost price of the article. The cost price of the article is

38. The average age of 11 players of a cricket team is increased by 2 months when two of them aged 18 years and 20 years are replaced by two new players. The average age of the new players is

39. A reduction of 20% in the price of an apple enables a man to buy 10 apples more for 54. The reduced price of apples per dozen is

40. Price of a commodity has increased by 60%. By what per cent must a consumer reduce the consumption of the commodity so as not to increase the expenditure ?

41. The cost of an apple is twice that of a banana and the cost of a banana is 25% less than that of a guava. If the cost of each type of fruit increases by 10%, then the percentage increase in the cost of 4 bananas, 2 apples and 3 guavas is

42. Walking 6/7 th of his usual speed, a man is 12 minutes too late. The usual time taken by him to cover that distance is

43. If I walk at 5 km/hour, I miss a train by 7 minutes. If, however, I walk at 6 km/hour, I reach the station 5 minutes before the departure of the train. The distance (in km) between my house and the station is

44. 800 becomes 956 in 3 years at a certain rate of simple interest. If the rate of interest is increased by 4%, what amount will I’ 800 become in 3 years ?

45. Simple interest on a certain sum is 16/25 of the sum. The rate percent if the rate per cent and time (in years) are equal, is

46. If the difference between S.I. and C.I. for 2 years on a sum of money lent at 5% is 6, then the sum is

Directions (47 – 50) : The following graph shows the production of wheat flour (in 1000 tonnes) by three companies X, Yand Z over the years. Study the graph and answer the questions.
47. What is the difference between the production of company Z in 2004 and company Yin 2000 (in thousand tonnes) ?

48. What is the ratio of the average production of company X in the period 20022004 to the average production of company Yin the same period ?

49. What is the percentage increase in the production of company Y from 2002 to 2003?

50. The average production for five years was maximum for which company s?

Directions (1-9) : In each of the following questions, select the related letter/word/number frnm the given alternatives.
1. Procession : Route : : Earth : ?

2. FERTILIZER : CROPS : : ?

3. LOCKER : KMNPBDJLDFQS : : LEFT : ?

4. YWUS : BDFH : : WUSQ : ?

5. ADCB : KNML : : EHGF : ?

6. BCDF : GHIK : : LMNP : ?

7. IC : 6 :: DP : ?

8. ABCD : WXYZ : EFGH : ?

9. 83 : 25 : : 29 : ?

Directions (10-14) : In each of the following questions, find the odd number / letters / word from the given alternatives.
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15. Find the number that does not belong to the group of numbers for lack of common property.

16. Find out the set of numbers amongst the four sets of numbers given in the alternatives which is most like the set given in the question.
Given Set : (8, 56, 72)

17. In the following question, number of letters are skipped in between by a particular rule. Which of the following series observes the rule?

18. Insert the correct missing number from the choices given below

Directions : Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary.
19. 1. Noble
2. Nobffitary
3. Noblesse
4. Nobility
5. Nobble

20. Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it?
an_nn_anananan_a

Directions (21-24) : In each of the following questions a series is given, with one/two term(s) missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
21. MNOABCPQRDEFST? ?

22. 5 9 ? = 84
8 6 4 = 56
7 3 7 = 70

23. 9, 8, 10, 16, 11, ?, 12, 64

24. 34, 18, 10, ?

25. Find the wrong number in the series. 7, 28, 63. 124, 215, 342

26. Ina class Rajan got the 11th rank and he was 31st from the bottom of the list of boys passed. Three boys did not take the examination and one failed. What is the total strength of the class?

27. In a family, mother’s age is twice that of daughter’s age. Father is 1.0 years older than mother. Brother is 20 years younger than his mother and 5 years older than his sister. What is the age of the father ?

28. Rahul and Robin are brothers. Pramod is Robin’s father. Sheela is Pramod’s sister. Prema is Pramod’s niece. Shubha is Sheela’s granddaughter. How is Rahul related to Shubha?

29. In a survey of a town, it was found that 65% of the people surveyed watch the news on T.V., 40% read a newspaper and 25% read a newspaper and watch the news on T.V. What per cent of the people surveyed neither watch the news on T.V. nor read a newspaper?

30. In the year 1996, the Republic day was celebrated on Friday. On which day was the Independence day celebrated in the year 2000?

31. Mr. and Mrs. Gopal have 3 daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many persons are there in the family?

32. In Ravi’s clock shop, two clocks were brought for repairs. One clock has the cuckoo coming out every sixteen minutes, while the other one has the cuckoo coming out every eighteen minutes. Both cuckoos come out at 12.00 noon. When will they both come out together again?

33. There are three baskets of fruits. First basket has twice the number of fruits in the 2nd basket. Third basket has 4 th of the fruits in the first. The average of the fruits in all the baskets is 30. What is the number of fruits in the first basket ?

34. From my house I walked 5 km towards North. I turned right and walked 3 km. Againt I went one km to the south. How far am I from my house?

35. A and B are standing at a distance of 20 km from each other on a straight EastWest road. A and B start walking simultaneously eastwards and westwards respectively and both cover a distance of 5 km. Then A turns to his left and walks 10 km. B turns to his light and walks 10 km at the same speed. Then both turn to their left and cover a distance of 5 km at the same speed. What will be the distance between them ?

36. From the given alternative words, select the word which ccuuwt be formed using the letters of the given word :
REFORMATION

Directions : From the given alternative words, select the word which can be formed using the letters of the given word.
37. MANUFACTURE

38. If in a certain language, PLAYER is coded as QNDCJX, then how SINGER will be coded in the same language?

39. If in a certain code, 95789 is written as EGKPT and 2436 is written as ALUR, then how will 24539 be written in that code?

40. A statement is given followed by four alternative arguments. Select one which is most appropriate.
Statements: White clothes are worn more often in summer because

Directions (41-42) : In each of the following questions, select the missing number from the given responses.
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43. The number of road accidents in a city is increasing month by month as given below. Find out the number of accidents in the month of June. Month Jan.

44. If ‘x’ means ‘addition, ‘-’ means ‘division’, ‘+’ means `subtraction’ and ‘+’ means ‘multiplication’, then which of the following equations is correct ?

45. A man starts from a point, walks 8 km towards North, turns right and walks 12 km, turns left and walks 7 km, turns and walks 24 km towards South, turns right and walks 12 km. In which direction is he from the starting point?

46. Which diagram correctly represents the relationship between Human beings, Teachers, Graduates?

47. How many triangles are there in the given figure ?

Directions : From the given answer figures, select the one in which the question figure is hidden/embedded.
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Directions : If a mirror is placed on the line MN, then which of the answer figures is the correct image of the given Figure?
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Directions : A piece of paper is folded and cut as shown below in the question figures. From the given answer figures, indicates how it will appear when opened.
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