Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level Exam
Question : Directions: Three different positions of the same dice are shown. Find the number on the face opposite the face showing 1.
Option 1: 4
Option 2: 3
Option 3: 2
Option 4: 6
Correct Answer: 2
Solution : According to the dice rule, if two or three positions of the same dice are given with two common faces but in different orientations then out of those two common faces the faces that are not common are opposite to each other.
So, the opposite
Question : Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. I have not seen you for last year.
Option 1: you since last year
Option 2: me for last year
Option 3: you about last year
Option 4: you for last years
Correct Answer: you since last year
Solution : The correct answer is the first option.
The reason for the answer is that the preposition since is used to indicate the starting point of a period. In this context, since last year appropriately communicates that the speaker has not seen the
Question : Which one among the following industries is the maximum consumer of water in India ?
Option 1: paper and pulp
Option 2: Thermal power
Option 3: Engineering
Option 4: Textile
Correct Answer: Thermal power
Solution : The correct option is thermal power.
Water is used in thermal power plants to cool the steam that powers the turbines that create energy. Water is also used for ash disposal and other procedures. According to the Central Water Commission, the thermal power industry
Question : If $\sec\theta-\tan\theta=\frac{1}{\sqrt3}$, then the value of $\sec\theta.\tan\theta$ is:
Option 1: $\frac{2}{3}$
Option 2: $\frac{2}{\sqrt3}$
Option 3: $\frac{4}{\sqrt3}$
Option 4: $\frac{1}{\sqrt3}$
Correct Answer: $\frac{2}{3}$
Solution : Given: $\sec\theta-\tan\theta=\frac{1}{\sqrt3}$ -------------------------(1) We know, $\sec^2\theta-\tan^2\theta=1$ ⇒ $(\sec\theta+\tan\theta)(\sec\theta-\tan\theta)=1$ ⇒ $(\sec\theta+\tan\theta)(\frac{1}{\sqrt3})=1$ ⇒ $(\sec\theta+\tan\theta)=\sqrt3$ -----------------------------------(2) Now solving equation (1) and equation (2) we get, $\sec\theta=\frac{2}{\sqrt3}$ and $\tan\theta=\frac{1}{\sqrt3}$ So $\sec\theta.\tan\theta=\frac{2}{\sqrt3}×\frac{1}{\sqrt3}=\frac{2}{3}$ Hence, the correct answer is $\frac{2}{3}$.
Question : Which one of the following pairs belongs to cartilaginous fish?
Option 1: Shark and Tuna
Option 2: Shark and Ray
Option 3: Shaktes and Hilsa
Option 4: Ray and Eel
Correct Answer: Shark and Ray
Solution : The correct option is Shark and Ray
Cartilaginous Fish (Chondrichthyes) have skeletons made of cartilage, which is a tough, flexible tissue (similar to the material in your nose and ears) rather than true bone. This group includes sharks, rays, and skates. Sharks have
Question : Comprehension: Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it. Quarantine and self-isolation need not be monotonous and stifling. They can be the gateway to work, be it in the arts or the sciences, that define the history of the world. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Milton and Lord Byron used much time to add to their formidable body of work in science and literature. It was not called lockdown in their time, but they spent long spells in isolation when medicine was not as developed as it is now. The University of Cambridge, where all four were studied, delved into its archives to collate their activities during such periods of isolation centuries ago. Isaac Newton (Trinity College): Considered Trinity’s most accomplished alumni, he exemplified productivity during a pandemic. Like many in Cambridge during the Great Plague of 1655-56, he retreated to the countryside to escape the disease-ridden city and spent two extended periods at his family home in rural Lincolnshire. Newton thrived in isolation, and later described it as one of the most productive times in his life, finding the space to reflect on and develop his theories on optics, calculus, and the law of motion and gravity. It was during this time that he conducted his famous prism experiment. “He bored a hole through his window shutters to produce a single, thin beam of light to pass through two prisms, proving for the first time that prisms did not create colours, but merely separated colours that were already there,” the university’s researcher, Alisha Matthewson-Grand, wrote. “Indeed, Newton was so intellectually transformed by his period of isolation that later commentators have referred to his time away from Cambridge as his annus mirabilis, or his year of wonders.” Charles Darwin (Christ’s College): Darwin’s experience with isolation was not the result of a pandemic but his own chronic ill health. He suffered from a myriad of unexplained symptoms, including vertigo, vomiting, cramps, fatigue, anxiety and visual disturbances. He noted in his autobiography of 1876 that “few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [Darwin and his wife Emma] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere.” Darwin believed that periods of isolation and ill health helped his career. At home, he was free from the demands placed on other scientists (teaching, administrative work), and thus able to devote himself entirely to research; he wrote: “Ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” Lord Byron (Trinity College): In 1811, Lord Byron was forced to quarantine in Malta after returning from a cholera-ravaged Greece. He was furious at the prospect of spending 40 days in lockdown, a measure he considered to be draconian and unnecessary. While confined, he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’, a satirical poem attacking the island for (among other things) “Its smoky towns and cloudy sky” and its “cursed street of stairs”. He references his quarantine explicitly in the first verse “Adieu, thou damnedest quarantine / That gave me fever, and the spleen!’. John Milton (Christ’s College): The author of ‘Paradise Lost’ spent some time away from Cambridge as a first-year undergraduate in 1626, when the town was hit by bubonic plague. He was home in London when he wrote Elegia Prima, his first Latin elegy. The work is an early example of his aptitude for verse composition, as well as his impressive flair for comedy. Question: Who among the following was quarantined during the bubonic plague?
Option 1: John Milton
Option 2: Isaac Newton
Option 3: Charles Darwin
Option 4: Lord Byron
Correct Answer: John Milton
Solution : The first option is correct.
Question : Directions: A series is given below with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series. ZXV, USQ, PNL, ?
Option 1: MJH
Option 2: JHF
Option 3: KIG
Option 4: KJI
Correct Answer: KIG
Solution : Given: ZXV, USQ, PNL, ?
In the given series, subtract 5 from the place value of the letters of the previous term to obtain the next term – ZXV→Z – 5 = U; X – 5 = S; V – 5 = Q USQ→U –
Question : Directions: In the question, a part of the sentence is in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (1), (2), and (3) that may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).
This book is adopted to the needs of beginners.
(1) adapted to
(2) adapted for
(3) adopted for
(4) No Improvement
Option 1: (1)
Option 2: (2)
Option 3: (3)
Option 4: (4)
Correct Answer: (1)
Solution : The correct answer is the first option because "adopted to" should be replaced with "adapted to" which means to adjust to fit well within a particular environment and convey the intended meaning that the book is modified to suit the needs of beginners.
Adopted means
Question : Which of the following categories did Ram Sahay Panday receive the Padma Shri 2022 in?
Option 1: Carnatic Music
Option 2: Distinguished service in the field of art
Option 3: Instrumentalist
Option 4: Singing
Correct Answer: Distinguished service in the field of art
Solution : The correct option is Distinguished service in the field of art.
Ram Sahay Panday is a Rai dancer from Madhya Pradesh. Padma Shree, the third highest award in the Padma series of awards, was given to him for the
Question : Arrange the following Development Financial Institutions (DFI) in the correct chronological order, according to the year they were set up.
(i) Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI)
(ii) Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)
(iii) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI)
Option 1: (i)-(iii)-(ii)
Option 2: (iii)-(i)-(ii)
Option 3: (ii)-(i)-(iii)
Option 4: (i)-(ii)-(iii)
Correct Answer: (iii)-(i)-(ii)
Solution : The correct answer is (iii)-(i)-(ii).
The correct chronological order of the Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in India, according to the year they were set up, is as follows:
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