SSC Test Paper

                                    SSC Test Paper

80 Questions                                                                        60 Mins

For each correct question, 1 mark is given and for each wrong question ¼ mark will be deducted.

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General Studies

1  . What is the name given to the smallest  unit of data space available in a spreadsheet software application ?             1)Row   2)Block          3 ) Cell        4) Pixel

2. The iron and steel plant in Chattisgharh is at .

 1)Burnpur       2)Salem     3)Bhilai      4)Bokaro

3 . Who was the Chairman of the constituent assembly ?

( 1)Dr B . R . Ambedkar          (2) Dr . Rajendra Prasad   (3 ) Jawahar Lal Nehru        ( 4) Vallabh Bhai Patel

4 . Fundamental duties were added  to the constitution by

 1) 24th  Amendment   2)39th Amendment      (3 )42nd Amendment ( 4) 44th Amendment

5 . Guwahati is situated on the bank of the river

( 1)Teesta         (2) Brahmaputra           (3 )Hooghly     ( 4) Sone

6 . Kanchenjunga is situated in

( 1)Nepal         (2) Sikkim         (3 ) West Bengal          ( 4) Himachal Pradesh

7. District Judges in a  State are appointed by the

( 1) Advocate – General of the State                              (2)Council of Ministers of the  State                                                (3 ) Governor                ( 4) Chief Justice of High Court

8 . Arrange the following Presidents  in chronological order as to who came first and who came later :

( a) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

(b )Zakir Hussain

 ( c)  Justice Hidayatullah

(d ) A. P .J . Abdul Kalam

( 1) c . b . a . d                                     (2) b . c . a . d                                    (3)  c. d . b . a                            ( 4) b . c . d . a

9. Under which article of the constitution is the President’s Rule  introduced in a state due to the failure of the constitutional machinery ?

( 1) 352                                 (2 ) 356

( 3)360                                  ( 4) 350

10. What can the President do if a State fails to comply with the Directives of the Central Government ?

( 1) He can  dissolve State legislature and order fresh election

( 2)  He can declare the breakdown of constitutional machinery in the State  and assume  responsibility for the governance of the State

( 3) He can send paramilitary forces to the State to secure  compliance

( 4) any of the above

11 . Why was the Simon Commission boycotted by the Indians ?

( 1) It did not include any Indian as a member

 ( 2)  It did not have any woman member

(3 )  It was appointed before the stipulated time

(4 ) It refused to meet prominent Indian  leaders

12. The constitution of India describes India as

( 1) A Union of States     ( 2)Quasi – fedral

 (3 ) A federation of state and union territories (4 )A Unitary State

13. How many languages are contained in the VIIIth schedule of the Indian  constitution

( 1) 18    ( 2) 22    (3 ) 16    (4 ) 12

14. Which was the 15^th language in constitution?

( 1)Santhali          ( 2)Bodo    (3 ) Nepali    (4 ) None of these

15. Citizenship is borrowed from which country?

1. Britain 2. USA  3. Germany  4. None of these

English

Directions ( 1 –5 ):  In the following questions , sentences have been given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate and suitable word . Four alternatives have been suggested for each question . Choose the correct alternative out of the four .

1. When Indians from the south move  north , they find certain aspects  of life quite ------------ from their own  .

(1 ) strange        (2 ) separate    ( 3)  different  (4 )divergent

2.  Population increase ------------ with depletion of foreign reserves has led to great daily hardships.

(1 ) joined         (2 )mixed         ( 3)  added      (4 )coupled

3 . The National anthem is ------------ at every official  function .

(1 )uttered         (2 ) sung         ( 3) whispered (4 ) chanted

4.  The doctor took out his ------------ to examine the patient .

1) horoscope    2 ) microscope      3) telescope            4) stethoscope

5. Last year our company made a ------------ of several lakhs of rupees .

1) profit           2 ) gain                        3) rise                      4 )raise

Directions ( 6 – 10 ) :  In following questions , a part of the sentence is underlined . Below are given alternatives  to the underlined part at 1 , 2and 3  . which may improve  the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed , your answer is ‘4’ , Blacken the  appropriate rectangle in Answer sheet .

6 . After the letter reached me , I shall know the result . 

(1 )  After the letter reaches     (2 ) After the letter will reach  ( 3) After the letter has reached   (4 ) no improvement

7. I have returned   library books yesterday .

(1 ) had  returned         (2 ) have hard  returned                             ( 3)  returned          (4 ) no improvement

8. The officer  asked his secretary to remember him about the meeting .

1. recall             (2 )  remind     ( 3) recollect    (4 ) no improvement

9 .  To learn a language well , one must have patience and readiness to work hard

(1 ) readiness to working          (2 )  be ready to working        ( 3) ready to working      (4 ) no improvement

10. You can’t imagine that she is rude and arrogant .

(1 ) that she is rudely and arrogant        (2 )  how rude and arrogant she is       ( 3) what rudeness and arrogance she has             (4 ) no improvement

Directions ( 11 – 13 ) : In the following questions , choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word .

11 .  Meagre

( 1) Numerous             ( 2) Large          ( 3) Plentiful   (4) Enormous

12 . Professional

( 1) Amateur    ( 2) Tradesman             ( 3) Labour     (4) Customer

13 . Scarcity

( 1) Scanty       ( 2) Prosperity  ( 3) Majority   (4) Plenty

Synonyms(14-15):

14 .  Gaffe

( 1) Fresh         ( 2) Old         ( 3) Steal             (4)  blunder

15 . Nadir

( 1)Evacuate    ( 2) Bottom       ( 3) Occupy    (4) Empty

Cloze Test : 10 marks

What Indian politicians and bureaucrats share with their scientist , engineer and carpenter counterparts is their acceptance of mediocrity and lack of skill . The greatest moral failure of  Indian  institutions is the tolerance of incompetence …(1 )… criminality or corruption . The tolerance of incompetence in …(2 )… is a result of a low cultural value attached to the creation and  … (3 )… of institutions  building is a hard work ; it requires a combination of vision , commitment and performance . Any institution involves a contract between those who  …( 4) …to the institution  and  those who support it / The support can take the form of money or votes but that support must be  …( 5)… continuously . In a properly  functioning institutional system , the institutional contract  …( 6) … the institution members and their supporters takes the form : you give me support and I will give you results . Competence is the channel that sustains the flow of trust from supporters to institutions and back . If doctors don’t  cure will they not lose our trust ? While blaming individual politicians and babus for their corrupt ways , Let us also examine the system that  accepts  mediocrity and even lets it   …( 7)…  What we are seeing in India is a case of contract failure : The contractor who bribes  an official and then builds a leaky stadium  is not just being …(8 )…  He is sustaining a collusive system that subverts rules regulating mutual co – operation between government institutions , market players  and society as a whole . In the case of endemic contract failure everyone  …(9 )…  , including the contractor , for one the public loses its trust in institution is even businessmen will  …(10 )… out on opportunities to make money . The moral status of institution  is central to continues development and prosperity .

1.       ( 1)as     (2 )to     (3 )never             ( 4)not                 (5 ) for

2.       ( 1) turn                (2 )individual      (3 ) world        ( 4)party                (5 ) importance

3.       ( 1) destruction (2 ) justification (3 ) sustenance  ( 4) excess          (5 ) marginalization

4.       ( 1) belong          (2 ) work              (3 ) help                            ( 4)employed         (5 ) trust

5.       ( 1) returned      (2 )earned           (3 ) needed                    ( 4) discouraged (5 )asked

6.       ( 1) suggests       (2 ) akin                (3 ) twosome                 ( 4) centred            (5 ) between

7.       ( 1) question      (2 ) bolder           (3 ) thrive                    ( 4) out                           (5 ) kill

8.       ( 1) variant          (2 ) trivial             (3 ) immature   ( 4) corrupt           (5 ) generous

9.       ( 1) succeeds      (2 ) suffers          (3 ) proliferates ( 4) responsible                 (5 ) encompasses

10.   ( 1) storm            (2 ) venture        (3 ) lose  ( 4) get                                 (5 ) walk

Math

1. A trader marks his goods at 40%  above the cost price but allows a discount of 20%  on the marked price . His profit per cent is :

(1)20 %           ( 2)10 %                   (3) 8%              (4) 12 %

2 . Two numbers are respectively  20 % and 50 %  more than a third number.  These two numbers are in the ratio :

(1 )2 : 5             ( 2)4 : 5            (3 ) 6 : 7          (4) 3 : 5

3. Annual income of A and B  are in the ratio 4 : 3 and their annual expenses are in the ratio 3 : 2. If each of them saves Rs. 600 at the end of the year, what is the annual income of A ?

(1 )1200           2)2400                       3 )4800                   4) 1800

4. A cone of height 15 cm and base diameter 30 cm is carved out of a wooden sphere of radius 15 cm . The percentage of wasted wood is :

1 )75%                   2) 50 %       3 )40 %           4)25 5%

5.  The average age of 30 boys in a class is 15 years . One boy , aged 20 years , left the class , but two new boys came in h is place whose ages differ by 5 years . If the average  age of all the boys  now in the class becomes 15 years , the age of the younger new comer is :

1) 20 years    2) 15 years      3) 10 years            4) 8 years

6. The base radii of two cylinders are in the ratio 2 : 3  and their heights are in the ratio 5 : 3 . The ratio of their volumes is

( 1)  27 : 20      ( 2) 20 : 27        ( 3) 9 : 4          (4) 4 : 9

7. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours ; B and C can do it in 3 hours . A and C can do it in 2 hours .  How long will  B  alone take to do it ?

 1)10 hours      2)  12 hours    3)  8 hours      4) 24  hours

8. A does    of a piece of work in 20 days ;  he then calls in B and they finish the remaining work in 3 days . How long B alone will take to do whole work ?

( 1) 37   days              ( 2) 37 days      ( 3)40 days         (4) 23 days

Q.9 The heights of two poles  are 80 m  and 62 .5 m . If  the line joining their tops makes an angle of 45⁰  with the horizontal , then the distance between the poles,  is :

( A) 17 . 5 m                ( B)  56 .4 m    ( C)12. 33 m  ( D) 44 m

10 If tan θ  =  then  is equal to ;

( 1)         ( 2)         ( 3)      (4)  

11.  If cost price is Rs 80 , over – head is Rs 20 and selling price is Rs 120 , then the profit percent is :

 1) 20 %            2) 50 %      3) 40%       4) 30 %

12 . My grandfather was 8 times older than me 16 years ago . He would be 3 times  of my age , 8 years from now eight years ago , what was the ratio of my age to that of my grandfather ?

( 1) 3 : 8           ( 2) 1 : 5           ( 3) 1 : 2                              4) None of these

13. The difference between simple and compound interest ( compounded annually )  on a sum of money for 2 years at 10 %  per annum is Rs 65  . The sum is .

( 1) Rs 65650   ( 2) Rs 65065   ( 3) Rs 6565    (4) Rs 6500

14. The next number of the  sequence , 2. 6 .12.  20 . 30 . 42.  56 --------is

(1 ) 60              (2 ) 64              ( 3)70               (4 ) 72

15 .   is equal to

(1 ) sec x + tan x          (2 ) sec² x + tan² x       ( 3) sec² x – tan² x       (4 ) sec x . tan x

16 . If x = 3 + , then  x² +   is equal to .

(1 )38                (2 ) 36             ( 3)34               (4 ) 30

17.  The ratio  of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 :2 . if 20% of the boys and 30 % of the girls are scholarship holders , then the percentage of students , who do not get scholarship ,is .

(1 ) 50              (2 )72               ( 3)75              (4 )  76

18 . What will be the value of :     ?

( a) cosecA      (b)  sinA          ( c) cosA          (d ) tanA

19.  Three solid metallic balls of radii 3 cm , 4 cm and 5 cm are melted and moulded into a single solid ball . The radius of the new ball is :

( 1) 2cm           ( 2) 3 cm           ( 3) 4 cm         (4) 6 cm

Q20) If 30% of A is added to 40% of B, the answer is 80% of B. What percentage of A is B?

a)30                b)40                  c)70            d)75

Reasoning

Directions(1-2): Select the related letters /word/number /figure from the given alternatives .

1.  83: 25 : : 29 : ?

(1 )44               ( 2)49              (3 ) 40             (4)63

2.  Flow :  River ::  Stagnant : ?

1) pool 2)  rain            3)  stream        4) canal

3.  48 : 122 : :  168  : ?

1) 292              2)290               3 )225             4)215

Directions(4-6)Select  the one which is different  from the other three responses

4. 1)Sweet        2) Bitter     3 )Salty         4)  Insipid               5. 1) Lion        2)Goat       3) Tortoise      4) Centaur  6. 1)Square     2)Circle     3)Rectangle      4)Triangle

Directions ( 7- 9 ) : Find the missing number / letters in the series .                                                                7.  DHL , PTX , BFJ , ?                                                    1. NRV     2 RVZ     3. CGK           4. KOS

8. 22, 24, 28 ? 52, 84 .                                                                        (1 )46               ( 2)36              (3 )38              (4)42

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

(1 )28               ( 2)36              (3 ) 25             (4)32

10.  Find the wrong number in the series .  7 , 26 , 63 , 124 , 215 ,342

1)28                 2)63                 3) 124              4)342

11. In a certain code language  ‘ORAL’ is written as  ‘3196’. How will ‘ WRITTEN’  be written in that code  ?                                                                              (a ) 5529295    ( b) 5522959    ( c) 5992255    ( d) 5522995

12 Sohan  started  from point   X  and travelled forward 8 km up to point Y , then turned towards right and travelled 5 km up to point Z then turned right and travelled 7 km up to point A and then turned towards right and travelled 5 km up to B . What I s the  distance  between  point B and  X ?

1)1Km             2)2Km             3)3Km         4) 4Km

13. In a particular way of coding, the word  CENTRAL is coded as ABCDEFG  and PLANETARIUM  as  HGFCBDFEIJK .  with the same coding how can we express the word  LANTERN?                                                                      1) GFCDFEG 2) GFCDBEC                3) GFCDEFG         4) FCDBEB

14. In a family, mother’s age is twice that of daughter ‘s  age . Father is 10 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 ?

(1 ) 62 years    ( 2) 60 years    (3 ) 58 years     (4) 55 years

15. Which one will replace the question mark ?

(1 )2                 ( 2) 6               (3 )8                 (4)9

16. In a year 1996 , the republic day was celebrated on Friday . On which day was the independence day celebrated in the year 2000 ?

(1 ) Tuesday     ( 2)Monday     (3 ) Friday      (4) Saturday

17. A is the sister of B .B  is the brother of C , C is the son of D . How is D related to A ?

1)Mother          2)  Daughter   3) Son      4) Uncle

18 . In a certain code language ‘SAME’ is written as ‘HZNV’. How will ‘ LOVE ‘ be written in that code  ?

(a )  AJUC       ( b) MOPL      ( c) KNEV      ( d) OLEV

Q .19

                                5

 

( 1)0                       ( 2) 125                ( 3)100                 ( 4)144

20. A and B are standing at a distance of 20 km from each other on a straight East – West   road . A and B s tart walking simultaneously east wards 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 right 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 ?

(1 )10 km          ( 2) 30 km        (3 ) 20 km       (4)25 km