UPSSSC PET 2026 25 October Shift 1 Question Paper and Answer Key

World Forestry Day (International Day of Forests) is observed on 21 March every year. 22 March is World Water Day and 24 March is World TB Day.

Sweden is an EU member but still uses its own currency, the Swedish krona. Finland, Slovenia and Estonia all use the euro.

Amrit Dharohar, announced in Budget 2023-24 and launched on 5 June 2023, promotes the conservation values of Ramsar sites through eco-tourism and local community livelihoods. MISHTI is for mangroves.

The Great Indian Novel (1989) by Shashi Tharoor retells the Mahabharata as the story of India's freedom struggle. Aravind Adiga wrote The White Tiger.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1952–1956). M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar was the first Deputy Speaker and later the second Speaker.

Sri Lanka is an island separated from India by the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar, so it shares only a maritime boundary. Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal share land borders with India.

Pingali Venkayya presented a flag design to Gandhiji at the Congress session in Vijayawada in 1921; the national flag is based on it. Surayya Tyabji is credited with the final 1947 version.

Malayalam writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair was given the Padma Vibhushan posthumously in 2025 for Literature and Education. Ram Bahadur Rai and Vinod Dham received the Padma Bhushan in 2025.

NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), earlier called IRNSS, is India's regional satellite navigation system developed by ISRO.

Wimbledon is held in London on grass courts. The French Open is in Paris, the Australian Open in Melbourne and the US Open in New York.

Maharashtra, Kerala and Gujarat are states, while Jaipur is a city (the capital of Rajasthan), so Jaipur is the odd one out.

2016 is a leap year beginning on Friday. A leap year's calendar repeats after 28 years (when no century year intervenes), so 2016 + 28 = 2044 has the same calendar.

Q is R's father and S is R's mother, so S is Q's wife. (P and T are extra information.)

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi) founded the non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar in 1929 in the North-West Frontier Province; its members wore red shirts, so it was called the Red Shirt Movement.

Usha Mehta ran the underground Congress Radio from Bombay in August 1942 during the Quit India Movement. Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the flag at Gowalia Tank.

Dadabhai Naoroji was elected from Finsbury Central in 1892 as a Liberal Party candidate, becoming the first Indian member of the British House of Commons.

The Government of India Act, 1935 set up the Federal Court of India, which began working in Delhi in 1937. The Imperial Legislative Council and Council of India were created by earlier Acts.

The Calcutta flag of 1906 (Swadeshi Movement) had eight half-open lotuses on its top green band, representing the eight provinces of British India.

Product Q: January 180, February 225.

Ain-i-Akbari classifies land as Polaj (cultivated every year, never left fallow), Parauti (left fallow for a while), Chachar (fallow for 3–4 years) and Banjar (uncultivated for 5 years or more).

Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador of Seleucus Nicator at the court of Chandragupta Maurya, wrote Indika describing India and Pataliputra.

Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti (Vardhana) dynasty ruled from 606 to 647 CE with Kannauj as his capital. Pulakeshin II of the Chalukyas defeated him on the Narmada.

Sree Narayana Guru, the social reformer of Kerala who worked against caste discrimination, gave the message “One Caste, One Religion, One God for Mankind”.

The Eightfold Path is right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration. Right Devotion is not part of it.

In the mesosphere (about 50–80 km) temperature falls with height to about −90 °C at the mesopause, the coldest part of the atmosphere. Temperature also falls in the troposphere, but not to such low values.

A tributary is a stream that joins a larger river or lake; the Yamuna is a tributary of the Ganga. A distributary is the opposite: a branch that flows out of a main river.

Mosses are small, green, non-flowering plants (bryophytes); they have no true roots, only root-like rhizoids, and reproduce by spores.

The Central Highlands, north of the Narmada, are bounded by the Aravalli range on the west. The Vindhyas form their southern edge and the Satpura lies south of the Narmada.

Radcliffe Line (India–Pakistan) and Durand Line (Pakistan–Afghanistan) are correct. The McMahon Line is between India and China, and the 24th Parallel is the line Pakistan claims with India in the Rann of Kutch, not with Myanmar.

Former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India's former ambassador to the United States, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in March 2026, succeeding Vinai Kumar Saxena, who moved to Ladakh.

On 29 June 2026 Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched Ayushman Sarathi, a WhatsApp chatbot of the National Health Authority that gives PM-JAY services such as eligibility checks and Ayushman card download.

Fiscal deficit = total expenditure − total receipts excluding borrowings. It shows how much the government must borrow, so it represents the total borrowing requirement. Primary deficit is fiscal deficit minus interest payments.

The UN-Water theme for World Water Day (22 March) 2026 was 'Water and Gender', with the message 'Where water flows, equality grows'. The 2025 theme was Glacier Preservation and the 2024 theme was Water for Peace.

ISRO's SpaDeX (Space Docking Experiment) docked two satellites in orbit on 16 January 2025, making India the fourth country after the USA, Russia and China to achieve space docking.

India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, beating New Zealand by four wickets in the final at Dubai on 9 March 2025. It was India's third Champions Trophy title.

Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) is Arundhati Roy's memoir about her relationship with her mother, Mary Roy. Roy won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.

MAITREE is the India–Thailand joint military exercise. Its 15th edition was held from 18 to 31 August 2026 at Surat Thani, Thailand, focusing on counter-terrorism operations.

On 17 May 2026, in Gothenburg, Sweden conferred the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Commander Grand Cross) on PM Modi, his 31st international honour. The Order of the Falcon is Iceland's and the Order of the Elephant is Denmark's.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was launched on 30 August 2026 on a Falcon Heavy. It is named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, called the 'Mother of Hubble' for her role in making the Hubble telescope possible.

गद्यांश के अनुसार परोपकार व्यक्ति को अपने हित से ऊपर उठाकर दूसरों के सुख-दुःख से जोड़ता है; इसका अर्थ केवल धन देना नहीं है। अतः व्यापक अर्थ दूसरों के सुख-दुःख में सहयोग करना है।

गद्यांश कहता है— ‘वास्तविक परोपकार वह है जिसमें व्यक्ति किसी प्रतिफल, प्रशंसा या सामाजिक प्रतिष्ठा की अपेक्षा किए बिना दूसरों के हित में कार्य करता है।’

गद्यांश के अनुसार ‘परोपकार व्यक्ति के भीतर करुणा, सहानुभूति और सामाजिक उत्तरदायित्व जैसे गुणों को विकसित करता है।’

पहले अनुच्छेद में कहा गया है— ‘इसमें सहायता की मात्रा से अधिक भावना और उद्देश्य का महत्त्व होता है।’

गद्यांश कहता है— ‘आर्थिक सहायता के अतिरिक्त समय, ज्ञान और कौशल का उपयोग भी समाज के लिए किया जा सकता है।’

गद्यांश के अनुसार नियमित अध्ययन और समय का उचित विभाजन विद्यार्थी के व्यक्तित्व को मजबूत बनाते हैं। गद्यांश कठोरता, मनोरंजन के पूर्ण त्याग या केवल नियम-पालन की बात नहीं करता।

दूसरे अनुच्छेद का पहला वाक्य है— ‘विद्यार्थी जीवन में अनुशासन का विशेष महत्त्व है।’ पर्यटन, मनोरंजन और मित्रता का उल्लेख गद्यांश में इस रूप में नहीं है, अतः सही उत्तर ‘अनुशासन’ है।

गद्यांश के अनुसार अनुशासित व्यक्ति केवल बाहरी निर्देशों का पालन नहीं करता, बल्कि ‘परिस्थितियों के अनुसार स्वयं भी सही निर्णय लेने का प्रयास करता है।’

गद्यांश का अंतिम वाक्य है— ‘अनुशासन केवल सफलता प्राप्त करने का साधन नहीं, बल्कि स्वतंत्र, जिम्मेदार और संतुलित जीवन जीने की आधारशिला है।’

गद्यांश कहता है— ‘वास्तविक अनुशासन तकनीकी से दूरी बनाना नहीं, बल्कि उसके उपयोग की सीमा और उद्देश्य निर्धारित करना है।’

Membership percentages: A $=\frac{240}{600}=40\%$, B $=\frac{375}{750}=50\%$, C $=\frac{540}{900}=60\%$, D $=\frac{400}{800}=50\%$, E $=\frac{570}{950}=60\%$. B and D are both 50%. (C and E are both 60%, but that pair is not an option.)

Quicklime (unslaked lime) is calcium oxide, CaO. Adding water to it gives slaked lime, Ca(OH)₂; CaCO₃ is limestone and CaCl₂ is calcium chloride.

Peristalsis is the wave-like contraction and relaxation of the muscles of the alimentary canal that pushes food forward. Mastication is chewing and deglutition is swallowing.

The second law of refraction, $\frac{sini}{sinr}=$ constant (the refractive index), is called Snell's law. Brewster's law is about polarisation by reflection.

Mechanical advantage $=\frac{load}{effort}=\frac{200}{50}=4$.

The atomic mass of oxygen is 16 u, so one mole of oxygen ATOMS weighs 16 g. One mole of oxygen MOLECULES (O₂) weighs 32 g.

Article 39A, added by the 42nd Amendment (1976), directs the State to secure equal justice and free legal aid. Village panchayats are Article 40, maternity relief Article 42 and the uniform civil code Article 44.

The Deputy Commissioner (called the Collector or District Magistrate in many states) heads revenue administration in a district. The Divisional Commissioner supervises several districts, and the SDM and Tehsildar work under the Collector.

Vasant Krishan Vaidya hand-wrote (calligraphed) the original Hindi version of the Constitution. Prem Behari Narain Raizada calligraphed the English version, while Nandalal Bose and Beohar Rammanohar Sinha decorated its pages.

Under the Indian High Courts Act, 1861, the Calcutta High Court was set up on 1 July 1862, the first in British India; Bombay and Madras followed later in 1862, and Allahabad in 1866.

Under Article 64, the Vice-President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. The Speaker presides over the Lok Sabha.

Conceal means to hide or keep secret. Its opposite is reveal (to make known or show); disguise, withhold and suppress are all close in meaning to conceal.

This is a third conditional (an unreal past situation): If + had + past participle, then would have + past participle. So the correct form is 'would have given'.

Advice is given with 'should' followed by the base verb: 'you should get some rest'. 'Ought' needs 'to', 'might have' needs a past participle and 'would rather to' is incorrect.

The last sentence says that unlike people who thought scientists should only care about facts and numbers, Einstein believed imagination was more important than knowledge.

The passage explains the 'fascinating mix of two different sides': on one hand a serious scientist, on the other a playful and gentle man.

‘आपादमस्तक’ = आ (तक) + पाद (पैर) + मस्तक (सिर), अर्थात् पैर से लेकर सिर तक (सिर से पाँव तक)।

‘उग्र’ का अर्थ है तीव्र या क्रोधी; इसका विलोम ‘सौम्य’ (शांत, कोमल) है। प्रखर और प्रचंड तो इसके समानार्थी हैं।

शुद्ध वर्तनी ‘अतिथि’ है (अ + ति + थि), जिसमें दोनों मात्राएँ छोटी इ की हैं। अन्य रूपों में अक्षर या मात्राएँ गलत हैं।

परम + ओज = परमौज। ‘अ’ के बाद ‘ओ’ आने पर ‘औ’ हो जाता है (वृद्धि संधि)।

‘आँखें बिछाना’ का अर्थ है किसी के आने पर अत्यंत प्रेम और आदर से स्वागत करना। ‘आँखों का तारा’ का अर्थ अत्यंत प्यारा होता है।