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SSC CGL 2018 Tier I — 13 June 2019, Shift 2

13 June 2019 · 1:00 PM–2:00 PM77 of the paper’s 100 questions+2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one

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Questions from the Staff Selection Commission’s paper of 13 June 2019, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

General Intelligence and Reasoning

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General Awareness

1. Identify the part of brain that controls the maintenance of posture, balance and equilibrium.
- (a) Diencephalon
- (b) Cerebrum
- (c) Brainstem
- (d) Cerebellum
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Answer: (d)
2. Which of the following is the largest container port of India?
- (a) Ennore Port
- (b) Jawaharlal Nehru Port
- (c) Paradip Port
- (d) Chhatrapati Shivaji Port
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Answer: (b)
3. In which medical condition is the eye's optic nerve damaged and the condition worsens over time?
- (a) Cataract
- (b) Glaucoma
- (c) Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- (d) Dry Eye
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Answer: (b)
4. Which theory in economics proposes that countries export what they can most efficiently and plentifully produce?
- (a) Heckscher-Ohlin Model
- (b) Cournot Competition
- (c) Solow-Swan Model
- (d) Input-Output Model
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Answer: (a)
6. Who among the following is/was the longest serving governor of an Indian state?
- (a) Padmaja Naidu
- (b) N D Tiwari
- (c) Lakshmi Kant Jha
- (d) Sarojini Naidu
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Answer: (a)
7. Which of the following is the national sport of Bangladesh?
- (a) Cricket
- (b) Kho Kho
- (c) Kabaddi
- (d) Boxing
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Answer: (c)
8. How many sessions of the Lok Sabha are normally held in a year?
- (a) 2
- (b) 5
- (c) 7
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9. Name the comprehensive pension management system developed by the Department of Telecom in December 2018.
- (a) ACHARAN
- (b) SAMPANN
- (c) SAMADHAN
- (d) VIGYAN
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Answer: (b)
10. With which sport is the term bleeder associated?
- (a) Swimming
- (b) Cricket
- (c) Volleyball
- (d) Boxing
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11. Who among the following was the last Nawab of Awadh?
- (a) Wajid Ali Shah
- (b) Muhammad Mukim
- (c) Saadat Ali Khan
- (d) Amjad Ali Khan
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Answer: (a)
12. In December 2018, Havelock Island was renamed as ________.
- (a) Veer Savarkar Island
- (b) Netaji Subhash Bose Island
- (c) Swaheed Dweep
- (d) Swaraj Dweep
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Answer: (d)
13. Who was the first Russian prime minister to visit independent India?
- (a) Boris Yeltsin
- (b) Mikhail Gorbachev
- (c) Nikolai Bulganin
- (d) Vladimir Putin
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Answer: (c)
14. In which year was the Battle of Saragarhi fought?
- (a) 1867
- (b) 1878
- (c) 1854
- (d) 1897
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Answer: (d)
15. What was the theme of World AIDS Day 2018?
- (a) We Shall Overcome
- (b) Check Yourself
- (c) Save Yourself
- (d) Know your Status
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16. Byopa is a traditional headgear of tribes belonging to ______.
- (a) Kerala
- (b) Arunachal Pradesh
- (c) Jharkhand
- (d) Goa
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Answer: (b)
17. As of April 2019 who is longest serving chief minister of an Indian state?
- (a) Pawan Chamling
- (b) Jyoti Basu
- (c) Jayalalitha
- (d) Sheila Dixit
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Answer: (a)
18. Which was the wettest place in India in 2018 as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD)?
- (a) Mawsynram
- (b) Ooty
- (c) Mahabaleshwar
- (d) Cherrapunji
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19. In which part of the body is blood produced?
- (a) Lungs
- (b) Heart
- (c) Brain
- (d) Bone Marrow
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20. Chepu is a unique cultural symbol of ______.
- (a) Bhutan
- (b) Nepal
- (c) Myanmar (Burma)
- (d) China
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Answer: (b)
21. Which of the following is the highest peak in Sri Lanka?
- (a) Hakgala
- (b) Bible Rock
- (c) Mount Pedro
- (d) Kirigalpotta
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22. Which state of India was ruled by the Ahom Dynasty?
- (a) Odisha
- (b) Karnataka
- (c) Rajasthan
- (d) Assam
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Answer: (d)
23. Wind turbines convert ________ energy into mechanical power.
- (a) kinetic
- (b) chemical
- (c) nuclear
- (d) gravitational
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Answer: (a)
24. Which theory is used to make long-run predictions about exchange rates in a flexible exchange rate system?
- (a) Purchasing Power Parity Theory
- (b) Portfolio Balance Approach
- (c) Interest Rate Approach
- (d) Balance of Payment Theory
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Answer: (a)
25. The study of insects is called ______.
- (a) Geology
- (b) Anthropology
- (c) Ornithology
- (d) Entomology
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Answer: (d)

Quantitative Aptitude

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English Comprehension

1. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. It is a popular tourist spot for watching the sunset and sunrise over the ocean. B. Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the State of Tamil Nadu on India's southern tip. C. It is also a noted pilgrimage site, thanks to its Bagvathi Amman Temple and Our Lady of Ransom Church, a centre of Indian Catholicism. D. Jutting out into the Laccadive sea, the town was known as Cape Comorin during the British rule.
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2. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PROGRESSIVE
- (a) repeated
- (b) moving
- (c) conservative
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3. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PUBLIC
- (a) common
- (b) resticted
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Answer: (c)
4. Select the correctly spelt word.
- (a) mantion
- (b) mentoin
- (c) mention
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5. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. The invigilator did not know that the two boys were exchanging notes under his nose.
- (a) rolled into small pellets
- (b) written in small letters
- (c) right in front of him
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6. Select the correct active form of the given sentence. Rudra was laughed at by all his friends when he wore his socks inside- out.
- (a) All his friends laughed at Rudra when he wore his socks inside-out.
- (b) When Rudra wore his socks inside-out all his friends were laughing at him.
- (c) All his friends will be laughing at Rudra for wearing his socks inside-out.
- (d) If Rudra wears his socks inside-out all his friends will laugh at him.
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Answer: (a)
7. In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. You may left the class when you have completed the test.
- (a) You may left
- (b) when you have
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Answer: (a)
8. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. He would sit at the edge of her mother's bed and stare into her crib. B. Arvind bumbled down the interminable corridor, suddenly reminded of his daughter in the days after she was born. C. As a proportion to the fragment of life his daughter had seen, an hour was a vast sprawling space. D. Some days he would imagine the world through her eyes and he would feel in his heart how long an hour actually was.
- (a) DACB
- (b) BCDA
- (c) ABCD
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Answer: (d)
9. In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. Although there are more than a hundred known elements, they rarely occur at a pure state.
- (a) more than a hundred
- (b) Although there are
- (c) at a pure state
- (d) they rarely occur
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Answer: (c)
10. Select the correct passive form of the given sentence. They will put away their woollens after the festival of Holi.
- (a) Their woollens are being put away after the festival of Holi.
- (b) Their woollens will be put away after the festival of Holi.
- (c) Their woollens have been put away after the festival of Holi.
- (d) Their woollens are put away after the festival of Holi.
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Answer: (b)
11. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. The female ostrich guards the nest at night and the male guard it in the day.
- (a) guards it during the day.
- (b) guard it during the day.
- (c) No improvement
- (d) guarding it during day.
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Answer: (a)
12. Select the correctly spelt word.
- (a) scissors
- (b) teribble
- (c) clettering
- (d) sweatter
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Answer: (a)
13. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Today, _______ society is literally poisoning the earth with acid rain.
- (a) industrialised
- (b) cosmopolitan
- (c) growing
- (d) developing
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Answer: (a)
14. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. INSULT
- (a) offer
- (b) apply
- (c) offend
- (d) remove
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Answer: (c)
15. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. Let us have all the regulations in black and white.
- (a) painted in colour
- (b) in writing
- (c) written on the black- board
- (d) printed in coloured ink
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Answer: (b)
16. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. I am quite satisfied that I have not been ________ in doing whatever was needful for building up their character.
- (a) affectionate
- (b) caring
- (c) devoted
- (d) negligent
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Answer: (d)
17. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. liable to break easily
- (a) brittle
- (b) soft
- (c) bent
- (d) thin
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Answer: (a)
18. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. HOSTILITY
- (a) enmity
- (b) sympathy
- (c) friendship
- (d) goodwill
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19. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. impossible to satisfy
- (a) satisfiable
- (b) contented
- (c) insatiable
- (d) satisfactory
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20. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. How long you are living in this city?
- (a) No improvement
- (b) are you been living
- (c) have you lived
- (d) are you live
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PassageFor questions 21–25
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
Marine Conservation Society is hosting the Anjarle Turtle festival 2019, aiming to make more people aware about Olive Ridley turtles. The sea (1) ______ get their names from their olivecoloured (2)______ They grow to about two feet in (3)______ and reportedly mate at around 1000 kilometers from the Anjarle (4)______ These turtles come to the beach to lay (5)______.
21. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(1)
- (a) snakes
- (b) turtles
- (c) animal
- (d) fish
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Answer: (b)
22. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(2)
- (a) feathers
- (b) wings
- (c) beaks
- (d) shells
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Answer: (d)
23. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(3)
- (a) weight
- (b) depth
- (c) length
- (d) growth
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Answer: (c)
24. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(4)
- (a) beach
- (b) festival
- (c) sand
- (d) sea
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Answer: (a)
25. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(5)
- (a) shells
- (b) young ones
- (c) eggs
- (d) pebbles
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Answer: (c)

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Answer key

Answer key as marked in the Staff Selection Commission’s response sheet. “—” means the sheet did not show it clearly.

General Intelligence and Reasoning

Q 1: (c)
Q 4: (a)
Q 5: (c)
Q 7: (b)
Q 9: (a)
Q 10: (d)
Q 11: (b)
Q 13: (b)
Q 15: (b)
Q 20: (a)
Q 22: (a)
Q 23: (d)

General Awareness

Q 1: (d)
Q 2: (b)
Q 3: (b)
Q 4: (a)
Q 6: (a)
Q 7: (c)
Q 8: (d)
Q 9: (b)
Q 10: (d)
Q 11: (a)
Q 12: (d)
Q 13: (c)
Q 14: (d)
Q 15: (d)
Q 16: (b)
Q 17: (a)
Q 18: (c)
Q 19: (d)
Q 20: (b)
Q 21: (c)
Q 22: (d)
Q 23: (a)
Q 24: (a)
Q 25: (d)

Quantitative Aptitude

Q 3: (a)
Q 4: (d)
Q 6: (a)
Q 7: (c)
Q 8: (b)
Q 9: (d)
Q 10: (b)
Q 11: (d)
Q 12: (c)
Q 13: (a)
Q 14: (b)
Q 15: (a)
Q 18: (d)
Q 21: (b)
Q 22: (b)
Q 24: (d)

English Comprehension

Q 1: (a)
Q 2: (c)
Q 3: (c)
Q 4: (c)
Q 5: (c)
Q 6: (a)
Q 7: (a)
Q 8: (d)
Q 9: (c)
Q 10: (b)
Q 11: (a)
Q 12: (a)
Q 13: (a)
Q 14: (c)
Q 15: (b)
Q 16: (d)
Q 17: (a)
Q 18: (a)
Q 19: (c)
Q 20: (c)
Q 21: (b)
Q 22: (d)
Q 23: (c)
Q 24: (a)
Q 25: (c)