UPSSSC PET 2022 16 October Shift 2 Question Paper and Answer Key

The fintech company Acemoney launched wearable ATM cards and an offline UPI facility in 2022. A wearable card is built into a device such as a watch or band, so payment is made by tapping it. RuPay, MasterCard and VISA are card networks, not the launcher of this service.

Sri Lanka and Maldives are the two neighbouring island countries of India in the Indian Ocean to the south. Myanmar is a land neighbour, Australia and Seychelles are not neighbours, and Lakshadweep is an Indian Union Territory, not a country.

Muscat is the capital of Oman and lies on the coast of the Gulf of Oman. Manama is the capital of Bahrain, Male of Maldives and Moscow of Russia, so those options are wrong.

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance launched the industry-first 'Global Health Care' plan in June 2022, covering treatment costs in India as well as abroad. ICICI Lombard, SBI Life and HDFC ERGO did not launch this plan.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar became the first Speaker of the first Lok Sabha in 1952. M.A. Ayyangar was the second Speaker, while Hukam Singh and K.S. Hegde held the office later, so they were not the first.

International Workers' Day is observed every year on 1 May. In India it was first celebrated in 1923 in Chennai (then Madras). The dates 15 April, 1 August and 12 December have no link with this day.

Udaipur is called the 'White City' (and the City of Lakes) of Rajasthan because its palaces and buildings are made of white marble. Jaipur is the Pink City, while Bikaner and Ajmer do not carry this name.

Aizawl is the capital of Mizoram, which is a full state and not a Union Territory. Daman is the capital of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry of Puducherry and Kavaratti of Lakshadweep.

Baseball is regarded as the national game of the USA and is called the 'national pastime' there, although no national sport is declared by law. Tennis, basketball and badminton are popular but are not known as the national game.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote 'Hind Swaraj' in Gujarati in 1909 on a ship while returning from England to South Africa. In it he set out his ideas on swaraj, satyagraha and a critique of modern civilisation; Patel, Naidu and Nehru did not write it.

Green accounting subtracts the cost of pollution and environmental damage (depletion of natural resources) from national income to give 'green GDP'. Destruction of forest cover is only one part of this damage, so the complete and correct answer is pollution and environmental damage.

The Sangai Festival is the main tourism festival of Manipur, held every year in November. It is named after the state animal of Manipur, the sangai (brow-antlered deer), found only in Keibul Lamjao National Park.

अनुच्छेद के अंत में कहा गया है कि नेता जानते हैं कि मुफ्त की चीज़ों के लालच में जनता वोट दे ही देगी, इसलिए वे नहीं चाहते कि लोग शिक्षित और जागरूक बनें। शिक्षित व्यक्ति अपने वोट की असली कीमत पहचानता है और लालच या जाति-धर्म के समीकरणों के आधार पर वोट नहीं देता, इसलिए (D) सबसे तर्कयुक्त है।

• में झूठे वायदों को पूरा करने का दबाव और (B) में रोज़गार की माँग भी संभव परिणाम हैं, पर अनुच्छेद का तर्क वोट के लालच पर टिका है, इसलिए वोट का मूल्य पहचानने वाला विकल्प (D) अधिक सटीक है।

अनुच्छेद के अनुसार पुराने समय में वही लोग राजनीति में आते थे जो देश की सेवा करना चाहते थे और भविष्य की चिंता छोड़कर निःस्वार्थ भाव से काम करते थे। आज के नेता नेतागिरी के लोभ में हैं, इसलिए देश-सेवा की भावना वह विशेषता है जो अब दिखाई नहीं देती; (C) तो आज के नेताओं का वर्णन है।

अनुच्छेद में लिखा है कि सत्ता में आने के लिए लम्बे भाषण, झूठे वायदे और दूसरी पार्टियों पर कीचड़ उछालना होता है और नेता साम, दाम, दंड, भेद से अपने गंतव्य तक पहुँचते हैं। अतः उनका गंतव्य जनता के वोटों से चुना जाकर सत्ता पाना है, देश की सेवा या उन्नति नहीं।

अनुच्छेद के अनुसार नेता अच्छी तरह समझते हैं कि मुफ्त की चीज़ों के लालच में जनता उन्हें वोट दे ही देगी। यानी वे जनता के लालच रूपी दुर्बलता का फायदा उठाकर मुफ्त की चीज़ों का वायदा करते हैं; दल बदलना जनता की दुर्बलता नहीं, नेताओं का स्वार्थ है।

अनुच्छेद में कहा गया है कि आवश्यकता पड़ने पर नेता तुरंत पार्टी बदल लेते हैं और नेतागिरी का लोभ मनुष्य को पतित बना रहा है। अतः पार्टी बदलने का कारण स्वार्थ-सिद्धि है, सिद्धांतों का मेल या देश की समस्याओं का हल खोजना नहीं।

अनुच्छेद के अनुसार क्रोध, शोक, ईर्ष्या, चिंता, भय और निराशा जैसे घातक मनोभाव लम्बे समय तक तीव्रता से रहें तो वे हमें शारीरिक, मानसिक और भावनात्मक रूप से पंगु बना देते हैं। यही नकारात्मक सोच जीवन को निराशा के अंधकार से भर देती है, इसलिए (C) सही है।

अनुच्छेद के आरंभ में कहा गया है कि हम जैसे विचार करते हैं, वैसी ही घटनाओं को जीवन में आकर्षित करते हैं। उत्साह और आनंद के विचारों से अच्छी घटनाएँ आती हैं, इसलिए प्रिय घटनाओं के लिए मन को सदा प्रिय विचारों से भरा रखना चाहिए।

अनुच्छेद कहता है कि यदि हम इन विचारों पर ध्यान देना शुरू कर दें तो दुर्भाग्य को सौभाग्य में बदल सकते हैं। अर्थात् अपने विचारों पर ध्यान देकर लगातार रचनात्मक विचार रखने से भाग्य बदलता है; ज्योतिष, चींटियों को आटा खिलाना या मंदिर जाना अनुच्छेद में नहीं है।

अनुच्छेद में आशा, उत्फुल्लता, प्रसन्नता, मुस्कान, निश्चिंतता, शांति, संतुष्टि, विश्वास और आनंद को रचनात्मक भाव बताया गया है, जो विकल्प (D) में हैं। बाकी तीनों विकल्पों में क्रोध, शोक, ईर्ष्या या अशांति जैसे घातक भाव भी मिले हुए हैं।

अनुच्छेद के अनुसार यदि आप आशा, उत्फुल्लता और आत्मविश्वास की ऊर्जा से ओतप्रोत हैं, तो कार्य-सिद्धि और सफलता के बहुत पास हैं। निराशा, कुंठा, भय या संदेह में लिए गए निर्णय सफलता के विपरीत होते हैं, इसलिए (D) सही है।

Non-violence (ahimsa) is the most important fundamental principle of Jainism and the first of the five great vows; Mahavira taught avoiding harm even to tiny creatures. Karma and vairagya are parts of Jain thought, but its core is ahimsa.

In the court of the Gupta ruler Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya), nine scholars such as Kalidasa, Amarasimha, Dhanvantari and Varahamihira were called the 'Navratnas'. Srigupta founded the Gupta dynasty, and the Navratna tradition is not linked with Samudragupta's court.

The Khilji dynasty ruled from 1290 to 1320, about 30 years, the shortest among the Delhi Sultanate dynasties. The Sayyid dynasty lasted from 1414 to 1451 (37 years), the Tughlaq from 1320 to 1414 and the Lodi from 1451 to 1526.

Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh to the British empire in 1856 on the charge of misgovernment (the state being maladministered) and removed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. The Doctrine of Lapse was not used for Awadh because heirs existed, and no war was waged.

Lothal (Gujarat) was a major port of the Harappan civilisation, where a brick dockyard has been found. Nagapattinam is a port of the Chola period, Mahasthangarh is an ancient city in Bangladesh and Alexandria (Sikandariya) is a port of Egypt.

During the Swadeshi movement against the 1905 partition of Bengal, a tricolour flag of red, green and yellow, bearing lotuses and 'Vande Mataram', was hoisted in Calcutta in 1906. Khilafat, Civil Disobedience and the Dandi March came later.

After the First World War, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919 to defend the temporal powers of the Turkish Khalifa, led by the Ali brothers. The year 1909 saw the Morley-Minto reforms, while 1930 and 1931 belong to the Civil Disobedience period.

The Government of India Act, 1935 set up the Federal Court (1937) with one Chief Justice and not more than six other judges, so the answer is 6. Only two other judges were appointed at first, but the question asks what the Act provided.

The Revolt of 1857 was started by the sepoys; after Mangal Pandey's act at Barrackpore on 29 March, the sepoys at Meerut rose against the greased cartridges on 10 May 1857. Peasants and zamindars joined later.

Guru Shikhar (about 1722 metres) on Mount Abu (Rajasthan) is the highest peak of the Aravalli range. Dodabetta is in the Nilgiris, Anaimudi in the Anamalai hills and Pachmarhi (Dhupgarh) in the Satpura range, so they are not Aravalli peaks.

Loo is the very hot and dry wind that blows from west to east over the northern plains during the day in summer (May-June). Kaal Baisakhi is the stormy rain of Bengal, mango showers are pre-monsoon rain in Kerala and Karnataka, and trade winds are planetary winds.

India's Standard Meridian is 82° 30' E longitude, which passes through Mirzapur (near Naini, Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh. Indian Standard Time is based on it and is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich time.

The Cripps Mission of March 1942 offered India only dominion status after the war, and the Congress rejected it. After this failure the Quit India resolution was passed in Bombay on 8 August 1942; the Simon Commission is of 1927, the Wavell Plan of 1945 and the Cabinet Mission of 1946.

Kanchenjunga (8586 metres, Sikkim) is the highest peak within India's administered territory and the third highest in the world. Nanda Devi (7816 metres) and Kamet (7756 metres) are in Uttarakhand, and K10 (Saltoro Kangri) is also lower.

The New Economic Policy of 1991 is called the LPG model because of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation. CNG, LNG and PNG are names of gas fuels, not of economic models.

Under Section 2(45) of the Companies Act, 2013, a government company is one in which at least 51 percent of the paid-up capital is held by the Central Government, a State Government or both. At 50 or 49 percent the government does not hold a majority.

Naimisharanya (Nimsar) lies on the bank of the Gomti river in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh and is regarded as the place of penance of 88,000 sages and of the recital of the Puranas. Ayodhya, Moradabad and Ballia are different districts.

NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development), set up on 12 July 1982, is the apex institution for financing agriculture and rural areas. SIDBI finances small industries, IFCI large industries and EXIM Bank foreign trade.

In 1991 India faced a severe foreign exchange reserve crisis (reserves worth about two weeks of imports), the rupee had to be devalued and the old controlled economic policy had failed. The reforms of 1991 addressed all these problems, so the answer is 'All of these'.

Hallmark is the mark of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) that certifies the purity of gold and silver jewellery. Agmark is used for agricultural products, and the ISI mark for electrical and electronic goods.

The Directive Principles of State Policy (Part IV, Articles 36 to 51) are the ideals the State must keep in mind while making laws and policies; courts cannot enforce them. Fundamental Rights are enforceable in court, while socialist and Gandhian principles are parts of these directives.

The Fundamental Duties were added in Part IV-A (Article 51A) by the 42nd Amendment, 1976; there were ten originally and the eleventh came with the 86th Amendment, 2002. Part III has the Fundamental Rights and Part IV the Directive Principles, and there is no Schedule IV-A.

Article 343 of the Constitution deals with the official language of the Union and says that it shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script. The office of President is in Article 52, the constitution of Parliament in Article 79 and the Governor's special address in Article 176.

Article 110 defines a Money Bill, and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha certifies whether a bill is one. Article 111 deals with the President's assent to bills and Article 112 with the annual financial statement (budget).

The seven colours of the rainbow are violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red (VIBGYOR). White light is the mixture of these seven colours, separated by dispersion in raindrops, so white itself is not a rainbow colour.

Argon is an inert (noble) gas that does not absorb infrared radiation, so it is not a greenhouse gas, even though it makes up about 0.93% of the atmosphere. Methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are major greenhouse gases.

Washing soda is sodium carbonate decahydrate, ${Na}_2{CO}_3\cdot 10H_{2}O$, used for washing clothes and removing the hardness of water. Calcium carbonate is limestone, while potassium and magnesium carbonate are not washing soda.

Under Article 124(2), a Supreme Court judge holds office until the age of 65 years. High Court judges retire at the age of 62, so 62, 60 and 58 years are the wrong options.

Plants take mineral nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium mainly from the soil, absorbed with water by the roots. Chlorophyll is the pigment that captures light, and light is a source of energy, not of nutrients.

चरण 1: $\left(6.25-2.23\right)\times \left(3.35-2.23\right)=4.02\times 1.12=4.5024$ ।

चरण 2: $0.0016-2.987=-2.9854$, अतः मान $=4.5024-2.9854=1.517$ ।

The ozone hole means a sharp decrease in the thickness of the ozone layer in the stratosphere (about 15 to 35 km high), seen most clearly over Antarctica. Its main cause is chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs); an increase in density or in the troposphere is not its meaning.

चरण 1: $9+4\sqrt{5}=4+5+2\times 2\times \sqrt{5}={\left(2+\sqrt{5}\right)}^2$ ।

चरण 2: अतः $\sqrt{9+4\sqrt{5}}=2+\sqrt{5}$, क्योंकि $2+\sqrt{5}$ धनात्मक है; अन्य विकल्पों के वर्ग $9+4\sqrt{5}$ नहीं देते।

धरेश = धरा + ईश; यहाँ आ + ई = ए होता है, जो गुण संधि का नियम है, और अर्थ 'धरा (पृथ्वी) का स्वामी' बनता है। धर + ईश में भी अ + ई = ए होगा, पर मूल शब्द 'धरा' है, इसलिए मानक विच्छेद धरा + ईश है; अन्य विकल्पों से 'ए' नहीं बनता।

'अलि' का अर्थ भौंरा (भ्रमर) और 'अली' का अर्थ सखी (सहेली) है। ये समश्रुत भिन्नार्थक शब्द हैं, जो सुनने में लगभग समान हैं पर अर्थ अलग है; अतः सही युग्म भौंरा-सखी है, अन्य युग्म इन शब्दों के अर्थ नहीं हैं।

'नागर' का अर्थ है नगर में रहने वाला, सभ्य और चतुर (कुशल) व्यक्ति, इसलिए दिए गए विकल्पों में इसका पर्यायवाची चतुर है। 'नगर' इसका मूल शब्द है, पर्यायवाची नहीं, और देवनागरी लिपि तथा ढोल का इससे कोई अर्थ-संबंध नहीं है।

संन्यासी वह है जिसने गृहस्थ जीवन त्यागकर वैराग्य ले लिया हो, इसलिए उसका विलोम गृहस्थ (घर-परिवार वाला) है। विरक्त तो संन्यासी का ही समानार्थी है और संतापी का अर्थ दुखी करने वाला है, जो विलोम नहीं है।

'कोल्हू का बैल होना' का अर्थ है बिना रुके कठिन परिश्रम करते रहना, अर्थात् बुरी तरह काम में लगे रहना, जैसे कोल्हू का बैल दिन भर एक ही घेरे में चलता रहता है। मन लगाकर काम न करना, निर्धन होना या बहुत दिनों बाद दिखना इसके अर्थ नहीं हैं।

The passage says that one day Joe ran into Carmen at the market by chance; they had gone to kindergarten together. Church and the football ground are not mentioned, and summer school came much later, after their grades slipped.

Joe's parents sent him to an all-boys school because, as his mom said, he would get distracted by girls. The passage gives no reason about costly teaching, bad company or strict public school teachers.

'Random' means happening by chance, without plan or order, so its synonym is 'accidental'. 'Examine' means to inspect, 'guard' means to protect and 'sober' means serious or not drunk; none of these means chance.

An allergy is an abnormal sensitiveness of the body to a particular food or substance, such as peanuts or pollen. 'Diversion' means a change of direction, 'congregation' means a gathering of people, and 'None of these' is wrong because allergy fits exactly.

'Beautiful' means pleasing to look at, so its antonym is 'ugly', meaning unpleasant to look at. 'Compassionate' means kind, 'accept' is a verb meaning to receive, and 'prosperity' means wealth; none is the opposite of beautiful.

In July 2022, NASSCOM partnered with Investment NSW, the agency of the New South Wales state government in Australia, to attract investment for Indian tech SMEs. No such agreement was made with an agency of Canada, Brazil or Russia.

Rosatom is Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company; in 2022 it supplied the upgraded TVS-2M fuel with a longer fuel cycle to the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu. The Kudankulam plant is built with Russian cooperation, not with Canada or the UAE.

In the first State Ranking Index for NFSA released in July 2022, Odisha came first among the General Category States, Uttar Pradesh second and Andhra Pradesh third. Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan were not at the top.

The I2U2 group consists of India, Israel, the United States (US) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE); its name comes from the two 'I's and two 'U's. Its first summit was held virtually in July 2022, and Iran, Ireland, Italy and the UK are not members.

India's first 'Amrit Sarovar' was built in Patwai gram panchayat of Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh, and was inaugurated on 13 May 2022. Mission Amrit Sarovar aims to build or revive 75 water bodies in every district.

In June 2022, large uranium deposits were confirmed in the Rohil area of Sikar district, Rajasthan, and the process of granting a mining lease to the Uranium Corporation of India began. Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh are older uranium areas, but this recent find was in Rajasthan.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched a honey testing laboratory at Dimapur, Nagaland, in June 2022, linked to the National Beekeeping and Honey Mission. Dimapur is the largest city of Nagaland, not of Assam or Uttarakhand.

In July 2022, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial Award for academic excellence in public administration at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). So the award belongs to public administration, not banking or social service.