UPSSSC PET 2021 24 August Shift 1 Question Paper and Answer Key

Iltutmish ruled 1211–1236, Ala-ud-din Khilji 1296–1316, Sher Shah Suri 1540–1545 and Akbar 1556–1605. So the order is IV, III, I, II.

Sant Tukaram (1608–1650) lived in Maharashtra at the same time as Shivaji (1630–1680). Chaitanya (16th century), Namdev (13th–14th century) and Shankaracharya (8th century) lived much earlier.

Under the Regulating Act of 1773, Warren Hastings became the first Governor-General of Bengal (1773). Lord Clive was the first Governor of Bengal.

Charaka Samhita, written by Charaka, is a classic text of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine.

Aurangzeb died in 1707, not 1709. The other pairs are correct: the Kalinga War was fought in 261 BC, the Saka Era began in AD 78 and the Hijri (Muslim) era began in AD 622.

Dadabhai Naoroji, three-time President of the Indian National Congress and author of the 'Drain Theory', is called the Grand Old Man of India.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak started his Home Rule League in April 1916 at Belgaum and Annie Besant started hers in September 1916 at Madras.

Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy (3), Ramakrishna Mission by Swami Vivekananda (1), Arya Samaj by Dayanand Saraswati (2) and Satyashodhak Samaj by Jyotirao Phule (5). So a-3, b-1, c-2, d-5.

Mahatma Gandhi gave the slogan 'Do or Die' in his Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank, Bombay, on 8 August 1942.

Bose defeated Pattabhi Sitaramayya in the 1939 Tripuri election but resigned in April 1939 after differences with Gandhi; Dr. Rajendra Prasad was then made Congress President.

The Salal hydro-electric project is on the Chenab river in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.

On the vernal (spring) equinox, around 21 March, the Sun is overhead at the Equator and day and night are equal. The autumnal equinox falls around 23 September.

Khetri in Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan, is known for its copper mines; Hindustan Copper Limited runs the Khetri Copper Complex there.

Kaziranga National Park, in Assam, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for the one-horned rhinoceros.

The Ganga and the Brahmaputra rise in the Himalayas. The Kaveri and the Godavari are Peninsular rivers.

Bank rate is the official rate at which the central bank (RBI) lends long-term funds to commercial banks, without collateral.

A lower cash reserve ratio means banks keep less money with the RBI, so more is free for lending and credit creation increases.

In a capitalist economy the means of production are privately owned and production is driven by profit. In a socialist economy the state owns them.

All currency notes of Rs. 2 and above are issued by the RBI and signed by the RBI Governor. Only the one-rupee note is signed by the Finance Secretary.

FEMA is the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, which replaced FERA and governs foreign exchange transactions in India.

Public health and sanitation, hospitals and dispensaries are Entry 6 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule.

Article 40, a Directive Principle of State Policy, asks the State to organise village panchayats. The 73rd Amendment (1992) later gave them constitutional status.

Article 21A, added by the 86th Amendment (2002), gives free and compulsory education to children aged 6 to 14 years as a fundamental right.

Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution on 13 December 1946; it was adopted on 22 January 1947 and became the basis of the Preamble.

Article 29 protects the interests of minorities (their language, script and culture); Article 30 gives them the right to set up educational institutions.

In metals (solid conductors) electric current is carried by free electrons; protons and neutrons stay fixed in the nucleus.

A light year is a unit of distance: the distance light travels in vacuum in one year, about $9.46\times {10}^{12}$ km. (Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.)

Bleaching powder is calcium oxychloride, CaOCl₂. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda and sodium chloride is common salt.

Pure gold is 24 carat, so 18-carat gold is 18 parts gold out of 24: $\frac{18}{24}\times 100=75\%$ pure gold, the rest being other metals such as copper or silver.

Citrus fruits such as orange, lemon and amla are rich in vitamin C (ascorbic acid); its deficiency causes scurvy.

चरण 1: व्यंजक $\frac{a^3+b^3}{a^2+b^2-ab}$ है, जहाँ $a=885$, $b=115$ ।

चरण 2: $a^3+b^3=(a+b)(a^2-ab+b^2)$, अतः मान $a+b$ है।

चरण 3: $885+115=1000$ ।

‘एकल’ का अर्थ है अकेला या एक; इसका विलोम ‘बहुल’ (अनेक) है। ‘अकेला’ तो इसका पर्यायवाची है।

‘दर्प’ का अर्थ है घमंड। इसके पर्यायवाची हैं— अहंकार, गर्व, अभिमान, मद। ‘स्वाभिमान’ आत्मसम्मान है, घमंड नहीं।

मन को हरने वाला = मनोहर (मन + हर)। ‘मर्मान्तक’ का अर्थ है मर्म को चोट पहुँचाने वाला।

‘गागर में सागर भरना’ का अर्थ है थोड़े शब्दों में बहुत अधिक बात कह देना, जैसे बिहारी के दोहों में।

शुद्ध रूप ‘महत्त्वाकांक्षा’ है: महत्त्व (महत् + त्व) + आकांक्षा। ‘महत्त्व’ में दो ‘त’ आते हैं और संधि से ‘त्वा’ बनता है।

The passage explains Nehru's many-sided personality through his many interests: books, fighting social evils, resisting tyranny, science and nature. So it means a person having varied interests.

The passage says he enjoyed reading and writing books as much as fighting political and social evils or resisting tyranny, and also loved nature and children. So all these and more.

The passage says that in him the scientist and the humanist were held in perfect balance, so he gave equal importance to science and humanism.

Famous means known to many people. Popular (liked or known by many) is the closest synonym; awful, poor and steady mean something different.

Transparent means letting light pass through. Opaque means not letting light through, its opposite. Limpid and clear are synonyms.

An ornithologist is a scientist who studies birds. In the same way, an anthropologist is a scientist who studies human beings, so the answer is mankind.

Curd, butter and cheese are all made from milk; oil is not a milk product.

On 1 January 2021 the PM laid the foundation of Light House Projects in six cities: Indore, Rajkot, Chennai, Ranchi, Agartala and Lucknow. Patna was not one of them.

In Brand Finance's Global 500 report (January 2021), Reliance Jio was ranked the world's fifth strongest brand.

KVIC launched Project BOLD in July 2021 at village Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan, planting special bamboo species to green arid land.

Ghana became the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility, on 24 February 2021.

Sirisha Bandla, born in Andhra Pradesh, flew to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 flight on 11 July 2021, becoming the second India-born woman in space after Kalpana Chawla.

In 2021 United World Wrestling banned heavyweight wrestler Sumit Malik for two years after he failed a dope test at the Olympic qualifiers in Sofia.

Himachal Pradesh held its first paperless e-Cabinet meeting on 5 February 2021, becoming the first state to make cabinet processing end-to-end paperless.

UDISE+ (Unified District Information System for Education Plus) is the school education database of the Ministry of Education, which released the 2019-20 report in 2021.

In April 2021 Vivo appointed Virat Kohli as its brand ambassador to reach younger buyers.

SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Courts Efficiency) was launched by the Supreme Court in April 2021 to help judges with legal research.

Five states border Nepal: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim. Uttar Pradesh has the longest border with Nepal.

San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica in Central America. Beijing is the capital of China and Dhaka of Bangladesh.

Malayalam is the official language of Lakshadweep; Jeseri and Mahl (on Minicoy) are also spoken.

Article 81 allows up to 530 members from the states and up to 20 from the union territories, so the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha is 550. (Earlier, Article 331 allowed 2 more nominated Anglo-Indian members, making 552; the 104th Amendment ended these nominations from January 2020.)

Hindi Diwas is celebrated on 14 September, the day in 1949 when the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of the Union.

SAARC has eight members: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Afghanistan. Myanmar is not a member.

The Ajanta and Ellora caves, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites, are in Aurangabad district (now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra.

Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala, celebrating the homecoming of King Mahabali; boat races and pookalam (flower rangoli) are part of it.

Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun (and the smallest). The Moon is a satellite, not a planet.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, the first Asian to win a Nobel. C.V. Raman won for Physics in 1930.

गद्यांश में कहा गया है— ‘शान्ति के अभाव में मानव जाति का विकास सम्भव नहीं।’ अतः शांति मानव जाति के विकास के लिए आवश्यक है।

गद्यांश के अनुसार ‘बिना प्रेम और अहिंसा के विश्व में शान्ति स्थापित नहीं हो सकती।’

गाँधीजी कहते थे कि प्रेम और अहिंसा के द्वारा कठोर से कठोर हृदय को भी कोमल बनाया जा सकता है; विकल्पों में अहिंसा ही दिया है।

गद्यांश के अनुसार स्वर्णिम-युग वही है जब पूर्ण शांति और सुख हो तथा उत्तमोत्तम रचनात्मक कार्य किए जाते हों।

‘नितान्त’ का अर्थ है पूर्णतः या बिलकुल; ‘वे नितान्त सफल सिद्ध हुए’ अर्थात् बिलकुल सफल हुए।

गद्यांश कहता है— ‘इसके बल से मनुष्य प्रकृति और प्राणिजगत का शिरोमणि बन सका है।’ शिरोमणि = सिरमौर।

गद्यांश के अनुसार इससे मनुष्य के मन को अन्धविश्वासों, भ्रमपूर्ण और दकियानूसी विचारों से मुक्ति मिली है, अर्थात् भ्रमपूर्ण रूढ़िवादी विचारणा से।

‘यातायात एवं संचार के साधनों के विकास से समय और स्थान की दूरियाँ बहुत कम हो गई हैं और समूचा विश्व एक परिवार-सा लगने लगा है।’

हस्तामलक = हाथ में रखा आँवला, जो बिलकुल साफ़ दिखाई देता है; अर्थात् पूर्णतः स्पष्ट और अनायास बोधगम्य।

गद्यांश के अनुसार वैज्ञानिक चिन्तन-पद्धति से मनुष्य ‘स्वस्थ एवं संतुलित ढंग से सोच-विचार’ कर सकता है।

History > Geography when the ratio is more than 1. That is true for students 4 (1.25), 5 (1.4) and 7 (1.55): 3 students.

History < Geography when the ratio is less than 1: students 1 (0.65), 2 (0.85), 3 (0.35) and 6 (0.95).

The graph gives only the ratio of History to Geography marks, not the actual Geography marks of any student, so the increase cannot be found: the data is insufficient.

Maximum ratio = 1.55 (student 7), minimum = 0.35 (student 3). Difference $=1.55-0.35=1.20$.

For student 4, History : Geography = 1.25, so History marks $=1.25\times 60=75$.

Year-on-year rises: 2015-16 +2, 2016-17 +12, 2017-18 +11, 2019-20 +10, 2020-21 +5. The largest rise (+12 MT, from 53 to 65) was in 2016-17.

Total for eight years $=225+275=500$ MT, so the average $=\frac{500}{8}=62.5$ MT.

Production fell only twice: 2014-15 (56 to 51, about 8.9%) and 2018-19 (76 to 58, $\frac{18}{76}\times 100\approx 23.7\%$). The larger fall was in 2018-19.

Production in 2014-15 was 51 MT and in 2019-20 was 68 MT.

C's yearly increases: 2016 +1,600 (26,200 to 27,800), 2017 +400, 2018 +900, 2019 +300, 2020 +600. The highest is in 2016.

B's 2018 commission is 28,000 and the 2018 total is 1,46,960, so the share $=\frac{28000}{146960}\times 100\approx 19.05\%$.

Increase from 2015 to 2018: A +2,450, B +1,150, C +2,900, D +2,210, E +1,360. The highest is C (option D).

Highest minus lowest: 2017: 29,800 − 25,200 = 4,600; 2018: 30,060 − 28,000 = 2,060; 2019: 29,800 − 24,600 = 5,200; 2020: 32,000 − 27,000 = 5,000. The maximum is in 2019.

In 2019, D = 29,800 and A = 24,600. $\frac{29800}{24600}\times 100\approx 121\%$, which is not among the options, so the answer is 'None of these'. (21 would be how much MORE D earned than A, not what percent.)

Monthly totals (the same 4 brokers, so the highest total has the highest average): May 112, June 133, July 162, August 180, September 200. September is the highest.

June total = 28 + 18 + 45 + 42 = 133; August total = 65 + 30 + 35 + 50 = 180. Increase $=\frac{180-133}{133}\times 100\approx 35.3\%$ more.

Angel = 25 + 28 + 35 + 65 + 55 = 208; Zerodha = 30 + 45 + 50 + 35 + 40 = 200. Ratio $=\frac{208}{200}=1.04$.

Five-month totals: Angel 208, Sharekhan 147, Zerodha 200, Tradebull 232. Tradebull has the highest total, so the highest average.

Over the same five months the averages compare like the totals: Tradebull 232, Sharekhan 147. $\frac{232-147}{147}\times 100\approx 57.82\%$ more.