Staff Selection Commission Stenographer Grade C & D Exam
Question : Which of the following is/are the sessions of our Parliament?
Option 1: Monsoon Session
Option 2: Winter Session
Option 3: Budget Session
Option 4: All of these
Correct Answer: All of these
Solution : The correct option is All of these.
Parliament meets for three sessions. The time that a House of Parliament convenes to conduct business is known as a session of Parliament. A year usually consists of three sessions: the monsoon session, the winter
Question : The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don't find any error, mark 'No error' as your answer.
Besides the banyan tree / is the path / that leads to the forest.
Option 1: No error
Option 2: Besides the banyan tree
Option 3: that leads to the forest
Option 4: is the path
Correct Answer: Besides the banyan tree
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The phrase "Besides the Banyan Tree" contains an error. Besides means in addition to something while beside means at the side of or next to somebody or something. So, we will replace "besides" with
Question : Directions: P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are seven friends having different heights. R is taller than 4 persons. Q is taller than R but shorter than P. T is taller than U but shorter than S. U is not the shortest. How many people are shorter than T?
Option 1: 3
Option 2: 5
Option 3: 2
Option 4: 1
Correct Answer: 2
Solution : Given: (I) R is taller than 4 persons. Q is taller than R but shorter than P. P > Q > R > __ > __ > __ > __ (II) T is taller than U but shorter than S. U is not the shortest.
Question : Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given that follow.
An excavation of ancient Babylon revealed evidence that Babylonians were making soap around 2800 B.C. This is the first concrete evidence we have of a soap-like substance. The early soap makers were Babylonians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians, as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans. All of them made soap by mixing fat, oils, and salts. Soap wasn't made and used for bathing and personal hygiene but was rather produced for cleaning cooking utensils or goods or was used for medicine purposes. The early references to soap making were for the use of soap in cleaning wool and cotton used in textile manufacture, which was used medicinally for at least 5000 years. Soap is a product for cleaning made from natural ingredients that may include both plant and animal products, including items such as animal fat, such as tallow, or vegetable oil, such as castor, olive, or coconut oil. Soap supposedly got its name from Mount Sapo in Rome. The word 'sapo', Latin for soap, first appeared in Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. The first soap was made by the Babylonians around 2800 B.C. Soap-making history goes back many thousands of years. In the early beginnings of soap making, it was an exclusive technique used by small groups of soap makers. The demand for soap was high, but it was very expensive, and there was a monopoly on soap production in many areas. Back then, plant byproducts and animal and vegetable oils were the main ingredients in soap. The price of soap was significantly reduced in 1791 when a Frenchman by the name of LeBlanc discovered a chemical process that allowed soap to be made cheaply and sold for significantly less money. More than 20 years later, another Frenchman identified relationships between glycerin, fats, and acid—what marked the beginning of modern soap-making. With the discovery of another method of making soap, soap became even less expensive. Since that time, there have been no major discoveries, and the same processes are used for the soap making we use and enjoy today. Advances came as the science of chemistry developed because more was understood about the ingredients. In the mid-nineteenth century, soap for bathing became a separate commodity from laundry soap, with milder soaps being packaged, sold, and made available for personal use. Liquid hand soaps were invented in the 1970s, and this invention keeps soaps in the public eye. Today, there are many different kinds of soaps made for a vast array of purposes. Soap is available for personal, commercial, and industrial use. There is handmade, homemade, and commercially produced soap; there is soap used to wash clothes, dishes, and cars; there is soap used for your pet; there is soap for your carpet; and there is also soap for your child.
Question:-
The main theme of the passage is:
Option 1: the ingredients of soap
Option 2: the history of soap
Option 3: the invention of soap
Option 4: the kinds of soap
Correct Answer: the history of soap
Solution : The second option is the correct answer.
Explanation: The main theme of the passage is the historical development and evolution of soap. The passage explores how soap was first made by ancient civilisations, its early uses, the discovery of chemical processes that
Question : Which of the following monuments received the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation 2019 in the category of 'Award of Distinction'?
Option 1: Vikram Sarabhai Library, Ahmedabad
Option 2: Belvedere House, Kolkata
Option 3: Metcalfe House, Kolkata
Option 4: Qutub Minar, Delhi
Correct Answer: Vikram Sarabhai Library, Ahmedabad
Solution : The correct answer is Vikram Sarabhai Library, Ahmedabad.
Vikram Sarabhai Library received the UNESCO Asia Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation 2019 in the category of “Award of Distinction." This library is named after a world-renowned physicist and the founding director of
Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If the sentence is free from error, select "No Error".
The plane (1) / has (2) / sunk the ship. (3) / No Error (4)
Option 1: 1
Option 2: 2
Option 3: 3
Option 4: 4
Correct Answer: 4
Solution : The correct answer is the fourth option.
Since the sentence is grammatically accurate and doesn't need any change. The sentence conveys the idea of the action performed by the plane, which is to have caused the ship to sink.
Question : Directions: In the following question select the missing figure from the given responses.
Option 1:
Option 2:
Option 3:
Option 4:
Correct Answer:
Solution : According to the given figures – 1. Circles and triangles interchange their position. 2. The number of circles or triangles at the bottom of the arrow is incremented by one each time after interchanging their position. So, following the above pattern, the required figure will be
Question : Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.
The staff member could not show off that day to the office as his ward was ill.
Option 1: cannot show off
Option 2: could not show up
Option 3: No substitution
Option 4: cannot show up
Correct Answer: could not show up
"Show up" should replace "show off" to make the sentence grammatically accurate, as "show up" is a more suitable expression than "show off," because the latter typically implies trying to impress others, while the
Question : Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
India (1)__________ a rich cultural heritage. We are inheritors of several grand (2)_________ in the fields of music, fine arts, dance, drama, etc. Our scriptures are the storehouses of (3)_________ wisdom. Our saints aspired to the (4)_________ of the infinite. We have (5)__________ great spiritual values, contrasted with which the materialistic progress of the West appears insignificant.
Question: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 1.
Option 1: was
Option 2: had
Option 3: did
Option 4: has
Correct Answer: has
Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option.
Has is the correct auxiliary verb, as it is the correct third-person singular form, which is used to indicate possession or ownership. In this context, it helps convey that India boasts a rich cultural heritage.
Question : In 1815, who among the following was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India?
Option 1: Henry Walpole
Option 2: Max Muller
Option 3: John Marshall
Option 4: Colin Mackenzie
Correct Answer: Colin Mackenzie
Solution : The correct answer is Colin Mackenzie
Colin Mackenzie rose to prominence in engineering, surveying, and mapping. He assumed the role of India's first Surveyor General in 1815 and remained in it until he died in 1821. He started gathering oral histories from the locals
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