SSC Test Paper
80 Questions 60
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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 15th 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 ;
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
( 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
