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(c) 15 (d) 19 2 K V H P W 7 O Q S D A
Ans.(a) 3 Y Z R M N 8 S E U E D
4 W V H J P 9 Q B A T O
3. Write the number of space enclosed by rectangle and circle
(a) 11, 57, 00, 55, 12 (b) 11, 75, 00, 55, 10
but not by triangle
(c) 32, 75, 21, 55, 10 (d) 32, 67, 41, 55, 12
8 Ans.(b)
4 6. In the given figure, the circle stands for intelligent, square
1 7 3
5
for hardworking, triangle for Post graduate and the rectangle
2 6
for loyal employes. Study the figure and answer the
(a) 3 (b) 2 following questions.
(c) 1 (d) 4
Ans.(d) 8
10
11
4. If a mirror is placed on the line MN, then which of the 12 7 6
4
answer figures is the right image of the given figure? 2 5
1
Question figure
3
M
Employees who are intelligent, hardworking and loyal but
not Post graduate are represented by
N (a) 11 (b) 5
Answer figures (c) 4 (d) 3
Ans.(c)
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Directions : In questions nos. 7 and 8, one/two statement(s)
are given are followed by two conclusion/assumption, I and II.
You have to consider the statements to be true even if they
seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have Answer figure
to decide which of the given conclusion/assumptions, if any,
follows from the given statements.
10. From the given answer figures, select the one in which the KILOMETERS
52. Thigmotropism is the response of the plant to (c) tan (d) cot
1 a 1 g
(a) trichotnes (b) trichiblast
(a) sin (b) sin
(c) rhizodermis (d) epidermis g a
Ans.(c)
1 a 1 g
(c) tan (d) tan
54. Second Ozone hole was detected over g a
(a) Antartica (b) Artica Ans.(c)
(c) Sweden (d) Northern hemisphere
61. Who is called the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’?
Ans.(a)
(a) Raj Kapoor (b) Dilip kumar
55. Glycolysis during fermentation results in not gain of (c) Mehboob Khan (d) Dada Saheb Phalke
(a) 1 ATP (b) 2 ATPs Ans.(d)
(c) 3 ATPs (d) 4 ATPs
62. Name the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest
Ans.(b)
(a) Santosh Yadav (b) Backhendri Pal
56. The disadvantage of self-pollination is (c) Rita Farai (d) Leela Seth
(a) seeds are less in number
Ans.(b)
(b) no dependence of pollinating agents
(c) mechanism is too simple 63. Which IPL Team won the eighth edition of the Indian
(d) no wastage of pollengrains Premier League?
Ans.(a) (a) Mumbai Indians (b) Chennai Super Kings
(c) Delhi Daredevils (d) Kolkata Knight Riders
57. By increasing the intensity of incident light on the surface,
Ans.(a)
the photo electric current
(a) increases 64. Nehru Trophy is associated with which sport in India?
(b) decreases (a) Football (b) Cricket
(c) unchanged (c) Hockey (d) None of the above
(d) increases initially and then decreases Ans.(c)
Ans.(d)
65. Aung San Suu Kyi, a prodemocracy compaigner, is from
58. The Phenomenon of light splitting into seven distinct colours which of the following countries?
when it passes through prism is (a) Nepal (b) Myanmar
(a) diffraction (b) polarisation (c) Bangladesh (d) China
(c) dispersion (d) reflection Ans.(b)
Ans.(c)
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66. Usain Bolt is famous as 75. The hydrogen ion concentration of a solutin is measured
(a) an astronaut (b) a boxer using a
(c) an athlete (d) a cricketer (a) thermometer (b) pH meter
Ans.(c) (c) hydrometer (d) barometer
67. Which of the following is the morning ‘Ragg’ in music ? Ans.(b)
(a) Sohini (b) Bhairavi
76. Non-bonding valence electrons are
(c) Sarang (d) Malhaar
(a) Involved only in covalent bond formation
Ans.(b)
(b) Involved only in ionic bond formation
68. When was the first All India Postage Stamp issued? (c) Involved in both ionic and covalent bond formation
(a) 1854 (b) 1858 (d) Not involved in covalent bond formation
(c) 1850 (d) 1856
Ans.(c)
Ans.(a)
77. When is the World Earth Day celebrated?
69. In which country was paper currency first used?
(a) 4 April (b) 22 April
(a) India (b) Egypt
(c) 1 May (d) 23 March
(c) China (d) Japan
Ans.(b)
Ans.(c)
78. World “No Tabacco Day” was observed globally on
70. The murder of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife triggered
off which of the following events? (a) 31 May (b) 2 June
(a) Crimean War (b) Balkan War (c) 15 June (d) 20 June
(c) First World War (d) Second World War Ans.(a)
Ans.(b)
79. The greenhouse gases, otherwise called radioactively active
71. .com represents ? gases include
(a) communication domain (b) Educational domain (a) Carbon dioxide (b) CH4
(c) Commercial domain (d) Government domain (c) N 2 O (d) All of these
Ans.(a) Ans.(d)
72. IKE stands for 80. The most serious environmental effect posed by hazardous
(a) Internet Key Exchange
wastes is
(b) Information Key Execution
(a) air pollution
(c) Information Key Exchange
(b) contamination of ground water
(d) Infrastructure Key Encryption
(c) increased use of land of landfills
Ans.(a)
(d) None of the above
73. When salt is added to water, the boiling point of water is Ans.(b)
(a) Lowered (b) Unaffected
(c) Increased (d) Constant 81. Which Delhi Sultan resorted to price control and rationing?
Ans.(c) (a) Balban
(b) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq
74. The gas dissolved in water that makes it acidic
(c) Bahlul Lodi
(a) hydrogen (b) nitrogen
(d) Alaud-din-Khilji
(c) carbon dioxide (d) ammonia
Ans.(d)
Ans.(c)
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82. The Maratha ruler Shivaji ruled his kingdom with the help 91. Name the co-operative society that provides housing loan
of a Council of Ministers called facility at reasonable rates
(a) Ashtapradan (b) Ashtadigajas (a) Credit co-operatives
(c) Navarathnas (d) Mantriparishad (b) Housing co-operatives
Ans.(a) (c) Consumer co-operatives
83. Ms. Florence Nightingale was associated with (d) Producer’s co-operatives
(a) Seven years War (b) Thirty Years War Ans.(b)
(c) Crimean War (d) Hundred Years War
92. Name the biggest employer in India
Ans.(c)
(a) Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL)
84. Who among the following Gupta emperor was known as (b) Post & Telecom Department
‘Vikramaditya’? (c) Food Corporation of India (FCI)
(a) Samudra Gupta (b) Kumar Gupta (d) Indian Railways
(c) Chandra Gupta I (d) Chandra Gupta II Ans.(d)
Ans.(d)
93. Which of the following is an allied activity of agriculture
85. The finely painted cotton fabric made in Golkanda was called
(a) Livestock (b) Small Scale Industry
(a) Calico (b) Muslin
(c) Money lending (d) Insurance
(c) Kalamkari (d) Palampore
Ans.(a)
Ans.(c)
94. Disguised unemployment means
86. Which of the best type of cotton grown in the world?
(a) Working as Self-Employed
(a) Long staple (b) Medium staple
(c) Short staple (d) Thick staple (b) Not working whole day
(a) Red Panda (b) Rhododendron 96. In the presidential system of government, the President is
(c) Bear (d) White Tiger (a) Head of the state
Ans.(a) (b) Head of the state and Head of the Government
89. Market Gardening comes in this category (c) Head of the Government
(a) Horticulture (b) Monoculture (d) Head of the Executive
(c) Subsistence farming (d) Sericulture Ans.(b)
Ans.(a)
97. The Chief Election Commissioner of India is appointed by
90. A deep or french in the ocean floor is called (a) Chief Justice of India (b) Prime Minister
(a) Ridges (b) Crest (c) President (d) Parliament
(c) Trough (d) Continental Shelf Ans.(c)
Ans.(b)
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98. The Election Commission of India is
(a) An independent body (b) Quasi-judicial body
(c) Quasi-legislative body (d) Executive body
Ans.(a)
101. In a homogeneous, isotropic elastic material, the modulus (a) the net work transfer is higher than the net heat transfer
of elasticity E in terms of G and K is equal to (b) the network transfer is lower than the net heat transfer
9KG 9KG (c) the network transfer is equal to the net heat transfer
(a) (b)
G 3K 3G K (d) the network transfer is equal to or higher than the net
3K G 6KG heat transfer
(c) (d)
3G K K 3G Ans.(c)
Ans.(a)
107. Enthalpy is calculated as the
102. In a composite bar the resultant strain produced will be (a) sum of internal energy and the product of pressure and
(a) sum of the strain produced by the individual bars volume of the system
(b) same as the strain produced in each bar
(b) sum of internal energy and the product of pressure and
(c) difference of strain produced by the individual bars
density of the system
(d) same as the stress produced in each bars
(c) difference between the internal energy and the product
Ans.(b)
of pressure and density of the system
103. Two springs of of stiffness k1 and k2 respectively are (d) difference between the internal energy and the product
connected in series, what will be the stiffness of the of pressure and volume of the system
composite spring? Ans.(a)
k1k 2 k1 k 2
(a) k k k (b) k k k 108. The area below the p–V diagram of a non-flow process
1 2 1 2
represents
(c) k k1 k 2 (d) k k1k 2
(a) heat transfer (b) mass transfer
Ans.(a)
(c) work transfer (d) entropy transfer
104. A solid shaft transmits 44 kW power at 700 rps. Calculate Ans.(c)
the torque produced
109. A heat engine is a device that operates on a thermodynamics
(a) 10 Nm (b) 100 Nm
cycle
(c) 600 Nm (d) 60 Nm
(a) to convert the heat supplied into complete work energy
Ans.(a)
under reversible conditions
105. What are the equilibrium conditions to be satisfied for a (b) to convert the heat supplied into complete work energy
particle applied with a system of non-coplanar concurrent under all conditions
forces? (c) to produce useful work from the heat received from a
(a) Fx 0 and Fy 0 source and also rejects the remaining heat to the sink
(b) Fx 0, Fy 0 and M z axis 0
under all conditions
(c) Fx 0, Fy 0 and Fz 0
(d) to produce useful work from the heat received from a
(d) Fx 0, Fy 0, Fz 0,
source and also rejects the remaining heat to the sink
M x 0, M y 0 and M z 0
under reversible conditions
Ans.(d)
Ans.(c)
106. As per first law of thermodynamics, when any system
110. Sub-cooling in a vapour compression cycle
confined within a boundary is carried through a series of
(a) decreases the required work and refrigeration effect
operations such that the final state is same as the initial
(b) increase the required work and refrigeration effect
state, then
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(c) increases the required work and decrease the 117. Netwon’s law of viscosity is a relationship between
refrigeration effect (a) pressure, velocity and temperature
(d) does not affect the required work and increases the (b) shear stress and rate of shear strain
refrigeration effect (c) shear stress and rate of shear strain
Ans.(d) (d) rate of shear strrain and temperature
Ans.(b)
111. An ideal flow of any fluid must fulfil the following
(a) Boundary layer theory 118. The coefficient of discharge of an orifice varies with
(b) Continuity equation (a) Reynolds number (b) Weber number
(c) Newton’s law of viscosity (c) Froude number (d) Mach number
(d) Pascal’s law Ans.(a)
Ans.(b)
119. In manometer a better liquid combination is one having
112. If w is the specific weight of the liquid and h the depth of (a) lower surface tension (b) higher surface tension
any point from the surface, then the pressure intensity at (c) high viscosity (d) low viscosity
that point will be Ans.(a)
(a) h (b) wh
120. A micrometer with inclined tube is called is
(c) w/h (d) h/w
(a) inverted manometer (b) differential manometer
Ans.(b)
(c) closed tube manometer (d) sensitive manometer
113. The stress-strain relation of the newtonian fluid is Ans.(d)
(a) Hyperbolic (b) Inverse type
121. Hydrometer is used to determine
(c) Linear (d) Parabolic
(a) density of liquids
Ans.(c)
(b) specific gravtity of the liquid
114. When a vertical wall is subjected to pressure due to liquid (c) flow of liquids
on both sides, the resultant pressure is the_____of the two (d) relative humidity
pressures. Ans.(b)
(a) Sum (b) Difference
122. Continuity equation for a compressible fluid is
(c) Arithmetic (d) Geometric mean
(a) A1V1 A 2 V2
Ans.(a)
(b) 1A1V1 2 A 2 V2 A area
115. A flow in which each liquid particle has a definite path, and A1V1 A 2 V2
(c) V velocity
the paths of individual particles do not cross each other is 1 2
called
1A1 2 A 2
(a) Steam flow (b) Uniform flow (d) V V density
1 2
(c) Streamline flow (d) Turbulent flow
Ans.(b)
Ans.(b)
123. For the same maximum temperature in the cycle, the
116. A fluid is said to be ideal, if it is
average temperature of heat addition of a Rankine cycle
(a) inviscous and incompressible
compared to that of Carnot cycle is
(b) inviscous and compressible
(a) lower (b) higher
(c) viscous and compressible
(c) same (d) not related
(d) viscous and incompressible
Ans.(b)
Ans.(a)
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124. If a reheater is added to a Rankine Cycle, then usually, 131. The degree of reaction of a steam turbine is the ratio
(a) the network and efficiency increase between the enthalpy drops in
(b) the network and efficiency decrease (a) moving blades and that in the stage
(c) the network remain same and efficiency increases (b) moving blades and that in the nozzle
(d) the network remain same and efficiency remains same
(c) in the nozzle and that in the moving blades
Ans.(a)
(d) in the nozzle and that in the stage
125. The Babcock and Wilcox boiler is considered asa Ans.(a)
(a) natural convection fire tube boiler
132. The expansion process in the throttling device of a vapour
(b) forced convection fire tube boiler
(c) natural convection water tube boiler compression cycle is
(d) forced convection water tube boiler (a) isothermal process (b) adiabatic process
Ans.(c) (c) isenthalpic process (d) isentropic process
Ans.(c)
126. Boiler accessories are used to ensure
(a) improved performance 133. Lowering the evaporator pressor in a vapour compression
(b) safe operation cycle
(c) easy maintenance (a) decreases the required work and COP
(d) automatic control (b) increases the required work and COP
Ans.(a)
(c) increases the required work and decreases the COP
127. The Benson boiler has (d) decreases the required work and increases the COP
(a) two drums – one for water and another for steam Ans.(c)
(b) a horizontal steam drum
134. In ammonia-water vapour absorption refrigeration system
(c) a vertical steam drum
(d) no steam drum (a) ammonia is the refrigerant and water is absorbent
Ans.(a) Ans.(b)
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137. The cone angle of a pivot bearing is increased by 2%. The (a) Varignon’s theorem (b) Lame’s theorem
maximum load carrying capacity at the bearing will increase (c) Pythagoras theorem (d) Hamilton theorem
by Ans.(b)
(a) 0.05% (b) 1%
145. A body of mass 5 kg accelerates at a constant rate of
(c) 0.5% (d) 0%
2 m/s2 on a smooth horizontal surface due to an external
Ans.(c)
force acting at 30° with horizontal. The magnitude of the
138. Why are gear teeth made harder? force is
(a) To avoid wear (b) To avoid pitting (a) 10 cos 30 N (b) 10 sin 30 N
(c) To avoid abrasion (d) To avoid tensile strength (c) 10/cos 30 N (d) 10/sin 30 N
Ans.(a) Ans.(c)
139. A structural member subjected to an axial compressive 146. In case of a circular section the section modulus is given
force is called as
(a) beam (b) Column (a) d2/16 (b) d3/16
(c) frame (d) strut (c) d3/32 (d) d4/64
Ans.(b) Ans.(c)
140. Volumetric strain of a rectangular body subjected to an 147. Leaf springs are subjected to
axial force, in terms of linear strain e and Poisson’s ratio , (a) bending stress (b) tensile stress
is equal to (c) shear stress (d) compressive stress
(a) e 1 2 (b) e 1 Ans.(a)
142. Two shafts, one solid and the other hollow, are made of the P v2
(a) Z constant
same materials and are having length and weight. The w 2g