UPSSSC PET 2023 29 October Shift 1 Question Paper and Answer Key

गद्यांश में लिखा है कि स्वावलंबन व्यक्ति, समाज और राष्ट्र के जीवन में सर्वांगीण सफलता-प्राप्ति का महामंत्र है, और स्वावलंबन का अर्थ ही आत्मनिर्भरता है ।

तीसरे अनुच्छेद में यह भी कहा गया है कि स्वावलंबी व्यक्ति अपने आत्मबल से हर कार्य पूरा कर लेता है, इसलिए विकल्प (C) सही है; सहनशीलता, संस्कार या स्नेहयुक्त व्यवहार को महामंत्र नहीं कहा गया है ।

‘स्वार्थमय’ का विलोम ‘निःस्वार्थ’ है और ‘अस्थिर’ का विलोम ‘स्थिर’ है, जिसके अर्थ में ‘गतिहीन’ शब्द आता है; इसलिए क्रमशः सही जोड़ा विकल्प (D) में है ।

विकल्प (A) में ‘चंचल’ तो ‘अस्थिर’ का पर्यायवाची है, विलोम नहीं; विकल्प (B) और (C) में शब्दों का क्रम उल्टा है, क्योंकि पहला शब्द ‘अस्थिर’ का और दूसरा ‘स्वार्थमय’ का विलोम है ।

‘ता’ प्रत्यय से बनी भाववाचक संज्ञाएँ स्त्रीलिंग होती हैं, इसलिए ‘सफलता’ और ‘आत्मनिर्भरता’ दोनों स्त्रीलिंग हैं, जैसे ‘सफलता मिली’ और ‘आत्मनिर्भरता बढ़ी’ ।

‘कार्य’ पुल्लिंग है, क्योंकि हम ‘कार्य पूरा हुआ’ कहते हैं; अतः क्रम स्त्रीलिंग, पुल्लिंग और स्त्रीलिंग बनता है, जो विकल्प (C) में है ।

गद्यांश में सीधे लिखा है कि स्वावलंबन जीवन की सफलता की पहली सीढ़ी है, और स्वावलंबन का अर्थ आत्मनिर्भर बनना है, इसलिए विकल्प (A) सही है ।

अच्छे संस्कारों की बात पहले अनुच्छेद में ध्येय निर्धारण के लिए कही गई है, सफलता की पहली सीढ़ी के लिए नहीं; दृढ़ विश्वास और सहनशीलता को भी पहली सीढ़ी नहीं कहा गया है ।

गद्यांश के अनुसार यदि शैशव में संतान ऐसे व्यक्तियों की छाया में ज्ञान पाएगी जिनमें चरित्र की विशेषता नहीं है, तो उनके चरित्र पर भी उसी की छाप पड़ेगी ।

अतः शिक्षकों के गुण-दोष सहज ही बच्चे में आ जाते हैं, विकल्प (B) सही है; लेखक यह भी कहता है कि शिक्षा केवल पुस्तक पूरी पढ़ाना नहीं है, इसलिए (C) और (D) गलत हैं ।

संघमित्र वैद्यराज से कहते हैं कि देह व्याधि से मुक्ति तो भगवान की शरण में है, इसलिए विकल्प (A) सही है ।

संघमित्र देह को अपने आप में व्याधि मानते थे, इसलिए (B) गलत है; संपन्नता और दीर्घायुष्य में विश्वास मृत्युंजय का था, इसलिए (C) भी गलत है, और मुक्ति को वे असंभव नहीं मानते थे ।

गद्यांश में वैद्यराज संघमित्र से कहते हैं कि निर्वाण (मोक्ष) का अर्थ आत्मा का मृत्यु पर विजय है, और वैद्यराज मृत्युंजय ही हैं, इसलिए विकल्प (A) सही है ।

संघमित्र तो हँसकर इसका खंडन करते हैं कि देह द्वारा मृत्यु पर विजय मोक्ष नहीं है; चरक, सुश्रुत और बौद्ध धर्म का ऐसा कथन गद्यांश में नहीं दिया गया है ।

‘व्याधि’ की रचना ‘वि + आधि’ से होती है, यहाँ ‘आधि’ स्वयं एक शब्द है, इसलिए इसमें उपसर्ग केवल ‘वि’ है; ‘सुयोग’ में ‘सु + योग’ है, अतः उपसर्ग ‘सु’ है ।

इस प्रकार सही उत्तर ‘वि और सु’ विकल्प (D) है; ‘व्या’ कोई उपसर्ग नहीं है और ‘आधि’ तथा ‘ओग’ उपसर्ग नहीं, शब्दांश हैं, इसलिए (A) और (B) गलत हैं ।

गद्यांश के अनुसार दोनों दो विपरीत तटों के समान थे, फिर भी स्नेह-सरिता उन्हें अभिन्न बनाए रखती थी, इसलिए मित्र होते हुए भी उनके सिद्धांत विपरीत थे और विकल्प (D) सही है ।

विकल्प (A) और (C) में दोनों के विचार आपस में बदल दिए गए हैं, और (B) गलत है क्योंकि उनके जीवन-सिद्धांत एक-जैसे नहीं थे ।

गद्यांश में ‘प्रथम का जीवन की संपन्नता और दीर्घायुष्य में विश्वास था’ कहा गया है, और पहले उल्लेखित व्यक्ति मृत्युंजय हैं, इसलिए विकल्प (D) सही है ।

‘द्वितीय’ अर्थात संघमित्र का विश्वास जीवन के निराकरण और निर्वाण में था, इसलिए (C) गलत है; राजा या प्रजा के विश्वास की कोई बात गद्यांश में नहीं है ।

In the Maratha confederacy the Sindhias were based at Ujjain (later Gwalior), the Holkars at Indore, the Gaekwads at Baroda and the Bhonsles at Nagpur.

So the correct match is (i)-(c), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(d), (iv)-(b), option (D); option (A) wrongly gives Nagpur to Sindhia and Ujjain to Bhonsle.

Buddha's foster mother Mahaprajapati Gautami was admitted to the Sangha at Vaishali on Ananda's request, so the order of nuns began at Vaishali.

Sarnath is where Buddha gave his first sermon and Shravasti is where he spent most rainy seasons, so options (A) and (C) are wrong.

The Upanishads form the last part of Vedic literature, so they are called ‘Vedanta’ (end of the Veda); they discuss the soul and Brahman philosophically.

The order is Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka and then Upanishad, while the Vedangas are auxiliary texts outside the Veda, so option (A) is wrong.

Babur defeated Rana Sanga and his Rajput allies in the Battle of Khanwa in 1527, after which he took the title ‘Ghazi’.

At Chanderi Babur defeated Medini Rai in 1528, and at Chausa (1539) Sher Shah defeated Humayun, so options (B) and (C) are wrong.

The Indian Councils Act 1892 enlarged the legislative councils, and the Indian Councils Act 1909 (Morley-Minto Reforms) enlarged the same councils further, extending it.

The 1919 Act brought dyarchy and the 1935 Act brought provincial autonomy; these were new frameworks rather than a direct extension of 1892.

In June 1920 Jawaharlal Nehru toured the villages of Pratapgarh, backing the peasant movement led by Baba Ramchandra, and led the first Kisan March there.

This experience first connected Nehru directly with peasant problems; Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru and Patel did not organise this march.

Asirgarh fort takes its name from its builder Asa Ahir; standing on the route to the Deccan, it is called the ‘Gateway of the Deccan’.

Shivdatta and Ishwarsena were ancient Abhira rulers with no link to building this fort, so option (C) Asa Ahir is correct.

Motilal Tejawat came from Mewar (Udaipur, Rajasthan) and led the Bhil ‘Eki movement’ in 1921; the 1922 Pal-Dadhvav (Neemda) massacre is linked to it.

His movement spread to Bhil areas on the Gujarat border, but he belonged to Rajasthan, so option (D) is correct.

Mines Ministry data show that of the 1319 reporting mines in 2021-22 (excluding atomic, fuel and minor minerals), the largest number, 263, were in Madhya Pradesh.

Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh lead in the value of mineral output, but Madhya Pradesh had the most mines, so option (A) is correct.

The Mandi Conspiracy of 1914-15 was planned by Ghadar Party revolutionaries in the Mandi and Suket states of Himachal to rise against British rule, helped by Rani Khairagarhi.

The INA and HSRA came later, and Abhinav Bharat worked in Maharashtra, so option (B) is correct.

After rejecting the Cabinet Mission plan, the Muslim League under Muhammad Ali Jinnah observed Direct Action Day on 16 August 1946 to press for Pakistan.

It led to severe riots in Calcutta; the Congress, the INA or the Swaraj Party did not observe it, so option (A) is correct.

Lake Turkana lies in the Great Rift Valley of northern Kenya (its northern tip is in Ethiopia) and is the world's largest permanent desert and alkaline lake.

The similar name may suggest Turkey, but the lake is named after the Turkana people of Kenya, so option (C) is correct.

Sir Harry George Champion made the first scientific classification of Indian forests in 1936 in ‘A Preliminary Survey of the Forest Types of India and Burma’; Champion and Seth revised it in 1968.

Dietrich Brandis was India's first Inspector General of Forests and Jadav Payeng is the ‘Forest Man of India’, so options (B) and (C) are wrong.

The Kameng rises in Arunachal Pradesh and joins the Brahmaputra in Assam, the Baitarani flows in Odisha, the Girna is a Tapi tributary in Maharashtra and the Hasdeo is a Mahanadi tributary in Chhattisgarh.

So the correct match is (i)-(d), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(c), option (C).

Chabimura lies on the Gomati river near Amarpur in Gomati district of Tripura, where huge carvings of Shiva, Vishnu, Durga and Ganesha cover the steep rock face.

It is also called ‘Devtamura’; Unakoti in Tripura is another famous rock-carving site, so option (B) is correct.

The Third Five-Year Plan (1961-66) is also called the ‘Gadgil Yojana’ because its outline drew on D. R. Gadgil's idea of a self-reliant, self-generating economy.

The First Plan is linked to the Harrod-Domar model and the Second to the Mahalanobis model, so options (A) and (B) are wrong.

Parliament passed the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981 (Act No. 61 of 1981), under which NABARD was set up on 12 July 1982.

NABARD followed the Sivaraman Committee's advice and took over the RBI's agricultural credit work, so the answer is option (B) Act 61.

In 2003-04 the Task Force on Indirect Taxes headed by Vijay Kelkar suggested a nationwide Goods and Services Tax merging Centre and State taxes.

The Raja Chelliah Committee dealt with direct tax reform and the Narasimham Committee with banking reform, so option (C) is correct.

Phase I of Operation Flood was funded by selling in India the skimmed milk powder and butter oil gifted by the European Economic Community (EEC, now the EU) through the World Food Programme.

The FAO and the World Food Programme helped with the arrangement, but the gift came from the EEC, so option (A) is correct.

Two days after the Constitution came into force, the Supreme Court was inaugurated on 28 January 1950 in the Chamber of Princes, with H. J. Kania as the first Chief Justice.

26 January 1950 is when the Constitution came into force, not the Court's inauguration, so option (A) is wrong and (B) is correct.

On the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee's advice, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated three-tier Panchayati Raj in Nagaur district of Rajasthan on 2 October 1959.

Andhra Pradesh followed a few days later; it did not start in Kota, Jodhpur or Sirohi, so option (C) is correct.

On 19 July 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised, including Dena Bank, Canara Bank and Central Bank of India.

Vijaya Bank was nationalised in the second phase on 15 April 1980 along with five other banks, so option (D) is correct.

The Rajya Sabha takes part in impeaching the President and removing judges, whereas a Vidhan Parishad has no power of impeachment.

Nominated members, indirect election and a six-year term are common to both houses, so (A), (B) and (C) are not differences; option (D) is correct.

Quinine, one of the oldest medicines for malaria, is obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree.

Eucalyptus gives an aromatic oil and Ginkgo is used in memory and circulation remedies, not for malaria, so option (B) is correct.

Starlight passes through air layers of changing density and temperature and is refracted again and again, so the star's apparent position and brightness keep shifting and it twinkles.

Scattering makes the sky blue and dispersion makes rainbows, not twinkling, so option (C) atmospheric refraction is correct.

The Directive Principles (Part IV, Articles 36-51) were taken from the Irish Constitution, as were the method of electing the President and nomination to the Rajya Sabha.

Canada gave a federation with a strong Centre and the U.S.A. gave Fundamental Rights, so options (C) and (D) are wrong.

The 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019 changed Article 334 and ended the nomination of Anglo-Indians to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies.

It also extended SC and ST reservation by ten years to 2030; the 101st Amendment dealt with GST, so option (C) is correct.

Clearing for farming, cities and timber removes millions of hectares of forest every year, so forests are the most rapidly dwindling resource.

Sunlight and air are inexhaustible and water is renewed by the water cycle even when it is polluted, so option (B) is correct.

In anodizing the aluminium article is made the anode in electrolysis, so a thick, hard layer of aluminium oxide forms on it and protects it from corrosion.

Galvanization coats iron with zinc and casting means pouring metal into a mould, so options (B) and (D) are wrong.

As a tadpole becomes a frog its gills turn into lungs, the tail is absorbed and legs grow; this major change of form is metamorphosis, controlled by the hormone thyroxine.

Fertilization is the union of egg and sperm and budding is asexual reproduction in organisms like Hydra, so option (A) is correct.

अशर्फियाँ (सोने के सिक्के) खुले हाथों लुटाना और सस्ते कोयले पर मोहर (ताला-मुहर) लगाना, अर्थात बड़े खर्चों में लापरवाही और छोटी चीज़ों में कंजूसी करना; इसलिए विकल्प (A) सही है ।

विकल्प (B) ‘जंगल में मोर नाचा, किसने देखा’ जैसी लोकोक्ति का भाव है और (C) ‘करेला और नीम चढ़ा’ का भाव है, इसलिए वे गलत हैं ।

‘प्राण’ शब्द हिंदी में सदा बहुवचन में प्रयुक्त होता है, इसलिए शुद्ध वाक्य होगा ‘रात उसके प्राण-पखेरू उड़ गए’; दिया गया वाक्य (B) अशुद्ध है ।

शेष तीनों वाक्य व्याकरण की दृष्टि से शुद्ध हैं: (A) में ‘महत्त्व’ की वर्तनी सही है, (C) में आदरसूचक प्रयोग सही है और (D) में प्रश्नवाचक रचना सही है ।

हिंदी साहित्य का द्विवेदी युग (1900-1920) आचार्य महावीर प्रसाद द्विवेदी के नाम पर है, जिन्होंने ‘सरस्वती’ पत्रिका के संपादक के रूप में खड़ी बोली को परिष्कृत किया ।

जयशंकर प्रसाद और सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी ‘निराला’ छायावाद के कवि हैं, और हजारीप्रसाद द्विवेदी बाद के आलोचक हैं, केवल नाम मिलता है; अतः विकल्प (D) सही है ।

कंदर्प, पंचशर (पाँच बाणों वाला) और पुष्पधन्वा (फूलों के धनुष वाला) तीनों कामदेव के पर्यायवाची हैं; मदन, मनोज और अनंग भी कामदेव के ही नाम हैं ।

गौरीसुत गणेश का, वंशीधर कृष्ण का और यक्षराज कुबेर का पर्यायवाची है, इसलिए विकल्प (A) कामदेव सही है ।

‘श्रद्धानंद’ का सही संधि-विच्छेद ‘श्रद्धा + आनंद’ है (आ + आ = आ, दीर्घ संधि), ‘श्रद्ध’ कोई शब्द नहीं है, इसलिए युग्म (C) गलत है ।

अनु + उदित = अनूदित (उ + उ = ऊ), अवनी + इंद्र = अवनींद्र (ई + इ = ई) और भू + उद्धार = भूद्धार (ऊ + उ = ऊ) तीनों सही दीर्घ संधि हैं ।

The correct spelling is ‘connoisseur’, with double n, ‘oi’ and double s followed by ‘eur’; it means an expert judge of art, food or drink.

The other three options drop the double letters or the ending ‘eur’, so only option (D) is spelt correctly.

‘Rabid’ means having extreme, fanatical views, so ‘fanatic’ is a synonym of it, not an antonym; option (D) is the answer.

‘Moderate’, ‘conservative’ and ‘traditional’ all suggest restraint and holding back from extremes, so each works as an antonym here.

‘A man of straw’ is a person of no real substance or sound character, one who cannot be relied on, so ‘having no integrity’ in option (C) is the closest meaning.

It can also describe a front man, which is why ‘a puppet’ (B) is tempting, but that is a use of such a person rather than the core sense; ‘influential’ is the opposite.

The passage opens by saying the self-portrait is nothing new and that painters and photographers have always used themselves as subjects, so option (B) is correct.

Only the selfie taken on a cell phone is recent, which is why option (A) is a trap; the passage clearly answers the question, so (C) and (D) are wrong.

The passage names Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook as popular platforms people use to share selfies, but Twitter is never mentioned, so option (C) is correct.

Options (A), (B) and (D) all appear in the second paragraph of the passage, so they cannot be the answer.