UPSSSC PET 2021 24 August Shift 2 Question Paper and Answer Key

Fa-hien came during Chandragupta II around 399-411 CE, Hiuen-Tsang during Harshavardhana around 630-645 CE and Thomas Roe to Jahangir's court in 1615, so the order is II, III, I.

Siraj-ud-daula, Nawab of Bengal, lost to Robert Clive at Plassey on 23 June 1757. Buxar (1764) was fought against Mir Qasim and Wandiwash (1760) was an Anglo-French battle.

Governor-General Lord Dalhousie (1848-56) used the Doctrine of Lapse to annex states such as Satara, Jhansi and Nagpur. Wellesley is linked with the Subsidiary Alliance, not with this doctrine.

Dhanvantari was a famous physician counted among the nine gems (navaratna) of the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Kalidasa and Varahamihira are also counted among these gems.

Megasthenes, the Greek envoy of Seleucus, came to Chandragupta Maurya's court at Pataliputra and wrote the Indica. Fa-hien and Hiuen-Tsang were later Chinese pilgrims.

The Simon Commission was set up in 1927 and reached Bombay on 3 February 1928. It had no Indian member, so it was opposed with the slogan ‘Simon Go Back’.

The Poorna Swaraj resolution was passed at the Lahore session of December 1929 presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru. Karachi (1931) is known for the Fundamental Rights resolution.

The Indian National Army was led by Subhash Chandra Bose, the Ghadar Party by Lala Hardayal, Mitra Mela was founded by V.D. Savarkar and the Home Rule League by Annie Besant, so a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah opposed mixing religion with politics and left the Congress in 1920 over the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat policy. Abul Kalam Azad was a leading supporter of the Khilafat movement.

Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan and Rajendra Lahiri, who looted the government treasure train near Kakori on 9 August 1925, were members of the Hindustan Republican Association.

The Nagarjunasagar Dam stands on the Krishna river on the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh border. Dams such as Polavaram are on the Godavari and Mettur is on the Cauvery.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. The British expedition was led by John Hunt.

Bharatpur in Rajasthan has the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for migratory birds such as the Siberian crane. Ghatprabha Sanctuary is in Karnataka.

The Dalli-Rajhara mines in Balod district of Chhattisgarh supply iron ore to the Bhilai Steel Plant. Korba is known for coal and thermal power.

Bara Lacha La and Shipki La are in Himachal Pradesh, not Uttar Pradesh, and Thaga La, Niti and Lipulekh are in Uttarakhand, so pairs 2 and 3 are wrong.

Zojila and Burzil are passes of the former Jammu and Kashmir state, and Nathu La and Jelep La are in Sikkim.

Investors invest more when the expected yield on new capital (marginal efficiency of capital) rises. A higher interest rate or higher personal tax raises the cost of investing and reduces investment.

National income in India has been estimated by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO), which merged with NSSO in 2019 to form the National Statistical Office (NSO). The RBI handles monetary policy.

Services such as banking, transport, education and trade form the tertiary sector. Agriculture belongs to the primary sector and manufacturing to the secondary sector.

Dr. Verghese Kurian raised milk production through Operation Flood and Amul, so he is called the father of the White Revolution. M.S. Swaminathan is linked with the Green Revolution.

P.V. Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister during the 1991 liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation reforms. Dr. Manmohan Singh was then the Finance Minister, not the Prime Minister.

In the Seventh Schedule, police, public order and prisons are in the State List, while criminal procedure is in the Concurrent List (entry 2). So the Criminal Procedure Code is not in the State List.

The Indian Constitution provides an independent and impartial judiciary, not a judiciary committed to any government. A quasi-federal structure, distribution of powers and a written supreme Constitution are its features.

Through provisions such as equal pay for equal work, fair distribution of resources and means of livelihood, the Directive Principles aim at economic justice. Fundamental Rights mainly secure political and social justice.

Article 40 of the Directive Principles directs the State to organise village panchayats. Article 44 deals with a uniform civil code and Article 46 with the interests of weaker sections.

In 1957 the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee recommended a three-tier Panchayati Raj at village, block and district levels. The Ashok Mehta Committee (1977) suggested a two-tier system.

Current flows only when the circuit is complete, that is, when the switch is closed. An open switch breaks the circuit, and with no voltage there is no current either.

The SI unit of resistance is the ohm, since by Ohm's law resistance is the ratio of voltage to current. The volt measures potential difference and the ampere measures current.

Citrus fruits such as lemon and orange contain citric acid, which gives them their sour taste. Acetic acid is found in vinegar and formic acid in ant stings.

Carcinogenic substances such as tobacco smoke, asbestos and benzene cause uncontrolled cell growth, which leads to cancer. The word ‘carcino’ itself refers to cancer.

The outermost layer of the skin is the epidermis, and the dermis lies beneath it. The endodermis is a layer found in plant roots, not in human skin.

चरण 1: $\frac{36.1}{102.4}=\frac{361}{1024}$ (अंश और हर को 10 से गुणा किया)।

चरण 2: $\sqrt{361}=19$ और $\sqrt{1024}=32$, अतः उत्तर $\frac{19}{32}$ है।

‘तीक्ष्ण’ का अर्थ तेज़ या धारदार होता है, इसका विलोम ‘कुण्ठित’ (भोथरा, मंद) है। ‘तीव्र’ तो इसका समानार्थी है और तृष्णा व त्यागी का इससे कोई संबंध नहीं है।

‘गजवदन’ का अर्थ है हाथी के समान मुख वाला, जो भगवान गणेश का नाम है, इसलिए इसका पर्यायवाची ‘गणपति’ है। मेघनाद रावण का पुत्र था और विष्णु अलग देवता हैं।

‘कंटक’ (काँटा) और ‘आकीर्ण’ (भरा हुआ) मिलकर ‘कंटकाकीर्ण’ बनता है, जिसका अर्थ काँटों से भरा हुआ है। अकेला ‘कंटक’ केवल काँटा है और ‘विकीर्ण’ का अर्थ बिखरा हुआ है।

‘दूध का दूध और पानी का पानी करना’ का अर्थ है निष्पक्ष रहकर ठीक-ठीक न्याय करना, यानी उचित निर्णय करना। ‘पक्षपातपूर्ण निर्णय’ इसका ठीक उल्टा अर्थ है, इसलिए प्रकाशित कुंजी का विकल्प (C) सही नहीं है।

शुद्ध शब्द ‘बहिष्कार’ है, जो ‘बहिः + कार’ की विसर्ग संधि से बना है और इसमें ‘ह’ पर छोटी इ की मात्रा लगती है। बहीष्कार, बाहिष्कार और बइष्कार अशुद्ध रूप हैं।

The passage says his fear made sleep impossible, and soon he sat up in bed peering into the darkness. Putting out the light and the plate-like window are details, not the reason he sat up.

He was suddenly roused by a draught of cold air and then jumped out of bed, so a cold breeze is the reason. The passage mentions no sound, no person approaching and no push.

The sentence says he climbed into bed and rolled into his blankets, first extinguishing the light near the door, so putting out the light came first.

That action is not among the options, so None of these fits; the published key gives Climbing into bed, which is only the first of the listed actions.

Pride means a feeling of self-respect and worth, which is closest to dignity. Humour, hate and cowardice have unrelated or opposite meanings, so dignity is the synonym.

Keen means sharp, eager or intensely interested, so its opposite is dull. Alert and eager are near synonyms of keen, and humble is unrelated to its meaning.

A dog bite spreads rabies, and in the same way a mosquito spreads malaria. Plague is spread by rat fleas, and stinging is an action, not a disease.

Nun, monk and priest are all persons devoted to religious life, while a knight is a warrior. So knight is the odd one out of the group.

Rajasthan launched the Mukhyamantri Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme on 1 May 2021 and became the first state to offer health cover of up to 5 lakh rupees per family to all residents.

For not following the rule on storing payment data in India, the RBI barred Mastercard from onboarding new customers from 22 July 2021; the ban was lifted in June 2022.

Ahead of International Yoga Day 2021 the Ministry of Ayush launched the ‘Namaste Yoga’ mobile app with yoga information and sessions. Yoga and Ayurveda come under the Ministry of Ayush.

Rio high-jump gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu was named the flag-bearer. Because of a Covid contact, Tek Chand finally carried the flag at the opening ceremony, but the named flag-bearer was Mariyappan.

For the July-September 2021 quarter the government left small savings rates unchanged, so the Sukanya Samriddhi scheme kept earning 7.6% a year. The scheme is part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign.

In February 2021 the Indian Army named a firing range at Gulmarg in Kashmir the ‘Vidya Balan Firing Range’ after she attended an Army event at the Gulmarg Winter Festival there.

In the Henley Passport Index 2021 Japan's passport ranked first, with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 193 destinations, followed by Singapore. India ranked much lower on the list.

In the April 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election the DMK won a majority and M.K. Stalin became Chief Minister. The AIADMK became the main opposition party.

In the Global Peace Index 2021 of the Institute for Economics and Peace, Iceland again ranked as the most peaceful country, followed by New Zealand and Denmark.

The Telangana government started the Chief Minister Dalit Empowerment Programme (Dalit Bandhu) in 2021, giving Dalit families 10 lakh rupees of support for self-employment.

Bhutan is called Druk Yul in its own language, meaning the land of the Thunder Dragon, and its national flag shows a dragon. Japan is called the land of the rising sun.

Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. The capital of Myanmar is Naypyidaw and that of Bangladesh is Dhaka, so the other options are wrong.

Goa, with about 3,702 square km, is the smallest state of India by area. Sikkim, with about 7,096 square km, is the second smallest state.

The Rajya Sabha is a permanent house that is never dissolved; its members are elected for 6 years and one-third of them retire every 2 years.

The United Nations Charter came into force on 24 October 1945, so United Nations Day is celebrated every year on 24 October.

The International Court of Justice sits in the Peace Palace at The Hague in the Netherlands. Geneva hosts bodies such as the WHO and Vienna hosts the IAEA.

The Khajuraho temples are in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, built by the Chandela rulers, and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Odisha is famous for the Konark Sun Temple.

Nabakalebara is a festival of the Jagannath Temple at Puri in Odisha, in which the wooden idols of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra are made anew; it was last held in 2015.

Nitrogen ( $N_2$) makes up about 78% of the air but does not absorb infrared heat, so it is not a greenhouse gas. Methane, carbon dioxide and CFCs trap heat and warm the planet.

The Arjuna Award has been given since 1961 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for outstanding performance in sports. Bravery in war is honoured with awards such as the Param Vir Chakra.

‘स्पृहणीय’ शब्द ‘स्पृहा’ (इच्छा) से बना है, जिसका अर्थ है जिसकी इच्छा की जाए, यानी प्राप्त करने योग्य। गद्यांश में उत्तम और स्पृहणीय विशेषताओं की बात इसी अर्थ में है।

पूरा गद्यांश बताता है कि गाँधीजी के नेतृत्व में आंदोलन अहिंसक, सत्याग्रही, जनतांत्रिक और धर्मनिरपेक्ष था। क्रांतिकारियों, कृषकों या गुलाम देश की दशा की चर्चा गद्यांश में नहीं है।

लेखक स्वतंत्रता संग्राम की विशेषताएँ गिनाता है, जैसे अहिंसा, सत्याग्रह, जनतांत्रिकता और धर्मनिरपेक्षता। गद्यांश में अंग्रेजी राज के दोष या जनतंत्र की हानि की बात नहीं की गई है।

धर्मनिरपेक्षता का अर्थ है कि राज्य किसी धर्म को अपना धर्म नहीं बनाता और लोगों के धार्मिक मामलों में हस्तक्षेप नहीं करता, इसलिए आधिकारिक उत्तर ‘धर्म में हस्तक्षेप न करना’ है।

‘सभी धर्मों का आदर’ (सर्वधर्म समभाव) भी इससे जुड़ा भाव है, पर यह इसका परिणाम है; धर्म की अवज्ञा या किसी धर्म को न मानना इसका अर्थ नहीं है।

गद्यांश के अनुसार आंदोलन जनतांत्रिक था क्योंकि इसमें हर वर्ग और जाति के लोग, धनी-गरीब, नर-नारी और विभिन्न संप्रदायों के लोग शामिल थे। केवल हिन्दू-मुसलमान वाला विकल्प अधूरा है।

गद्यांश कहता है कि ‘यत् पिण्डे तत् ब्रह्माण्डे’ की कल्पना यथार्थ है, क्योंकि मानव-मन में जो विचार रूप में घटित होता है उसी का कृति रूप सृष्टि है। ‘सिरमौर’ होना कारण के रूप में नहीं दिया गया है।

गद्यांश में साहित्यशास्त्रियों द्वारा भावनाओं और रसों के निरूपण के ठीक बाद ‘परन्तु वैज्ञानिक दृष्टि से’ कहकर विरोध दिखाया गया है, इसलिए वैज्ञानिक दृष्टि का अभाव साहित्यशास्त्री में बताया गया है।

साहित्यकार भी भावपरक है, पर विरोध सीधे साहित्यशास्त्री वाले वाक्य से जुड़ा है; शल्य-चिकित्सक और वैज्ञानिक तो वैज्ञानिक दृष्टि वाले ही हैं।

गद्यांश के अनुसार जैसे यन्त्र का एक पुर्जा बिगड़ने पर पूरा यन्त्र बेकार हो जाता है, वैसे ही एक अवयव बिगड़ने पर पूरा शरीर प्रभावित होता है, इसलिए शरीर को यन्त्रवत् कहा गया है।

गद्यांश पूछता है कि विकृत अंग के स्थान पर नया निरामय अंग लगाकर शरीर को सामान्य क्यों न बनाया जाए, और शल्य-चिकित्सकों ने यही चुनौती स्वीकार कर अंग-प्रत्यारोपण में सफलता पाई।

‘आमय’ का अर्थ रोग है, अतः ‘निरामय’ का अर्थ रोग रहित, यानी स्वस्थ है। गद्यांश में ‘नव्य निरामय अंग’ का अर्थ नया और स्वस्थ अंग है; ‘नवीन’ तो ‘नव्य’ का अर्थ है, ‘निरामय’ का नहीं।