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- Excess of which pollutants contributes directly to acid rain: (1) carbon monoxide; (2) nitrogen oxides; (3) ozone; (4) sulphur dioxide?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Acid Rain
- Acid rain is caused by pollution of the environment by2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Acid Rain
- Acid rain is caused by the pollution of environment by2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Acid Rain
- Comment on the need of administrative tribunals as compared to the court system. Assess the impact of the recent tribunal reforms through rationalization of tribunals made in 2021.2025 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Administrative Tribunals
- The Central Administrative Tribunal which was established for redressal of grievances and complaints by or against central government employees nowadays is exercising its powers as an independent judicial authority. Explain.2019 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Administrative Tribunals
- Regarding Lake Turkana: 1. It is the world's largest permanent desert lake. 2. It lies in South Sudan on the Sahara's eastern edge. 3. Its associated national parks are UNESCO-listed and it is known as the Jade Sea. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · African lakes
- Which West African lake is well known for having largely dried up and transformed into desert-like terrain?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · African Lakes
- Six cousins A, B, C, D, E and F have distinct ages 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 and share the same birthday. E is oldest; F's age lies between B and D; A is older than B; C is older than D; and A is one year older than C. Which assignment is possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Age ordering
- Using the same six-cousin conditions, how many logically possible ascending age orders are there?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Age ordering
- X tells Y: at the time of your birth I was twice your present age. X is now 42. Are these correct: 1 eight years ago X was five times Y's age; 2 after fourteen years X will be twice Y's age?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ages
- In 2002, Meenu was one-third as old as Meera; in 2010, Meenu was half as old as Meera. In which year was Meenu born?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ages
- Ena is 13. Her mother is 24 years older than her and three years younger than Ena’s father. Ena was born four years after her parents married. How old was her father at marriage?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ages
- A father is 9 times his son's age and the mother is 8 times the son's age. Together the parents are 51. What is the son's age?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Ages
- A father is nine times as old as his son and the mother is eight times as old as the son. The sum of the father’s and mother’s ages is 51 years. What is the age of the son?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ages
- Passage: Indian agriculture never experienced a sustained high-growth phase comparable with the non-agricultural economy. Agricultural growth peaked around the 1980s and then relatively stagnated while non-agricultural growth kept rising. Which corollary is most reasonable?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Agricultural growth
- From the passage on agricultural and non-agricultural growth divergence, consider suggested assumptions for reducing the gap: I. Large-scale commercial crops and corporate farming. II. Free crop insurance and very heavy input subsidies comparable with developed countries. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Agricultural growth
- Discuss direct and indirect farm subsidies in India and WTO-related concerns about agricultural subsidies.2023 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Agricultural Subsidies
- How do subsidies affect the cropping pattern, crop diversity and economy of farmers? What is the significance of crop insurance, minimum support price and food processing for small and marginal farmers?2017 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Agricultural Subsidies
- Passage: Earlier customer-service technologies raised fears of job losses that largely did not materialize. AI may differ, but it could also free humans for more creative and rewarding work such as using feedback to improve products. Which option best captures the passage?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · AI and employment
- Using the customer-service technology passage, which conclusions are correct? 1. New customer-service technologies have repeatedly triggered job-loss fears. 2. Technology may replace tasks without eliminating jobs, creating alternative work. 3. New technology inevitably creates stressful outcomes.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · AI and employment
- Passage: India is beginning to use AI in weather forecasting, pest control and yield optimization, but adoption is concentrated among tech-savvy farmers. Wider use could come from affordable Indian-language tools, AgTech partnerships and government advisory programmes. Which assumptions are valid? 1. Western agricultural productivity advanced because AI economies of scale. 2. Affordable local-language AI can reach more small farmers. 3. India already uses AI in some critical farm applications despite low penetration.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · AI in agriculture
- From the agricultural-AI passage, which statements are NOT correct? 1. Tech-savvy farmers will drive future AgTech companies. 2. Government AI advisory services would help. 3. AI has replaced traditional farming in the US and Europe. 4. Large datasets are already integrated for real-time agronomic insight.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · AI in agriculture
- If -3<X<-1 and -1<Y<1, between which bounds must X²−Y² lie?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- A bookseller sells a Geography books at ₹x each, a+2 History books at ₹(x+2), and a−2 Mathematics books at ₹(x−2). What is total sales value?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- Given x−y=8, consider: 1. x and y are always both positive. 2. If x is positive, y is always negative. 3. If x is negative, y is positive. Which statement is correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- A person ordered 5 pairs of black socks and x pairs of brown socks. A black pair costs three times a brown pair. The clerk interchanged the quantities, making the bill 100% higher. What was x?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- In a parking area, the total number of wheels of cars (four-wheelers) and scooters/motorbikes (two-wheelers) is 100 more than twice the number of parked vehicles. How many cars are parked?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- A person orders 5 pairs of black socks and x pairs of brown socks. A black pair costs three times a brown pair. The clerk swaps the quantities, doubling the bill. How many brown pairs were originally ordered?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Algebra
- Four persons, Alok, Bhupesh, Chander and Dinesh have a total of Rs.100 among themselves. Alok and Bhupesh together have as much as Chander and Dinesh together; Alok has more than Bhupesh; Chander has half as much as Dinesh; and Alok has Rs.5 more than Dinesh. Who has the maximum amount?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebra
- Natural numbers p,q,r,s satisfy p−2016 = q+2017 = r−2018 = s+2019. Which is largest?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Algebraic Comparison
- A+B income is greater than C+D; A+C equals B+D; and A earns half the sum of B and D. Whose income is highest?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Algebraic Comparison
- In the concatenated pattern A, AB, ABC, ABCD, ABCDE, ... what letter occupies the 100th position?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Alphabet series
- Reverse each successive block of four letters in the English alphabet and interchange Y and Z at the end. What is the fourth letter to the right of the 13th letter in the transformed sequence?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Alphabet series
- In the alphametic addition 3P + 4P + PP + PP = RQ2, with P,Q,R distinct digits, what is the arithmetic mean of all possible sums?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Alphametic arithmetic
- In the alphametic multiplication PQ × 3 = RQQ, with P,Q,R distinct and R non-zero, what is (P+R)/Q?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Alphametic arithmetic
- The irrigation device called'Araghatta' was2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- Who among the following rulers in ancient India had assumed the titles 'Mattavilasa', 'Vichitrachitta' and 'Gunabhara'?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- Fa-hien(Faxian), the Chinese pilgrim, travelled to India during the reign of2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- Who among the following led a successful military campaign against the kingdom of Srivijaya, the powerful maritime State, which ruled the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and the neighbouring islands?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- With reference to ancient India(600–322 BC), consider the following pairs: Territorial Region - River. I. Asmaka: Godavari II. Kamboja: Vipas III. Avanti: Mahanadi IV. Kosala: Sarayu. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- Ashokan inscriptions suggest that the 'Pradeshika', 'Rajuka' and 'Yukta' were important officers at the:2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient History
- With reference to ancient India, Gautama Buddha was generally known by which of the following epithets? 1. Nayaputta 2. Shakyamuni 3. Tathagata2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient India
- Consider the following information: Archaeological Site - State - Description. 1. Chandraketugarh: Odisha: Trading Port town 2. Inamgaon: Maharashtra: Chalcolithic site 3. Mangadu: Kerala: Megalithic site 4. Salihundam: Andhra Pradesh: Rock-cut cave shrines. In which of the above rows is given information correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Ancient India
- Explain the role of geographical factors in the development of Ancient India.2023 · Mains GS1 · History · Ancient India
- Among lion-tailed macaque, Malabar civet and sambar deer, how many are generally nocturnal/most active after sunset according to the final UPSC key?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Animal Behaviour
- Which organism uses a waggle dance to communicate direction and distance to food?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Animal Behaviour
- Among the following organisms, which one does not belong to the class of the other three?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Animal Classification
- Consider the following animals: 1. Sea cow 2. Sea horse 3. Sea lion. Which of the above is/are mammal/mammals?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Marine Fauna, Animal Classification
- Annie Besant was 1. responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement 2. the founder of the Theosophical Society 3. once the President of the Indian National Congress. Select the correct statement/statements.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Modern Indian History · Annie Besant
- Annie Besant was 1. responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement 2. the founder of the Theosophical Society 3. once the President of the Indian National Congress. Select the correct statement/statements using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Modern History · Annie Besant
- On anti-defection law: (1) a nominated legislator is prohibited from joining a party during the first six months after entering the House; (2) the Tenth Schedule sets no statutory time limit for the presiding officer to decide a defection case. Which is correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Anti-Defection Law
- Which one of the following Schedules of the Constitution of India contains provisions regarding anti-defection?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Anti-Defection Law
- The role of individual MPs (Members of Parliament) has diminished over the years and as a result healthy constructive debates on policy issues are not usually witnessed. How far can this be attributed to the anti-defection law, which was legislated but with a different intention?2013 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Anti-defection Law
- In a box of marbles, there are three less white marbles than the red ones and five more white marbles than the green ones. If there are 10 white marbles, how many marbles are there in the box?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arithmetic
- A, B, C and D each have Rs.100. A pays Rs.20 to B; B pays Rs.10 to C; C receives Rs.30 from D. Which statement is not correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arithmetic
- In a race, six apples lie in a straight line. A bucket is at the starting point, 5 m from the first apple; successive apples are 3 m apart. The competitor may carry only one apple at a time and must return each to the bucket. What total distance must be run?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Arithmetic Progression
- A group of 630 children is seated in rows for a photograph. Each row contains three fewer children than the row in front. Which number of rows is not possible?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arithmetic Progression
- ₹700 is divided into seven prizes, each ₹20 less than the preceding prize. What is the smallest prize?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arithmetic Progression
- Two five-segment rods carry matching colour positions labelled P1–P5 and Q1–Q5, with P1 matching Q3, P4 matching Q1 or Q2, and Q4 matching P3 or P5. If Q3 and Q5 are adjacent, are these possible? I. Q3 is in the middle. II. P2 is at an extreme.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Arrangement
- Six officers A-F occupy offices on two sides of a corridor under the stated facing/corner constraints. If E faces the corridor, whose office is to E's left?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arrangement
- Using the same office-layout constraints, who is F's immediate neighbour?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Arrangement
- Six boxes A, B, C, D, E and F are painted with six different colours—violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange—and arranged from left to right. Each contains one ball from cricket, hockey, tennis, golf, football and volleyball. The golf ball is in the violet box and not in D. Box A contains the tennis ball, is orange and is at the extreme right. The hockey ball is neither in D nor E and is neither in the blue nor yellow box. Box C contains the cricket ball and is green. C is fifth from the right and next to B. B contains the volleyball. The box containing the hockey ball is between the boxes containing the golf ball and volleyball.\n\nWhich one of the following boxes contains the golf ball?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- Six boxes A, B, C, D, E and F are painted with six different colours—violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange—and arranged from left to right. Each contains one ball from cricket, hockey, tennis, golf, football and volleyball. The golf ball is in the violet box and not in D. Box A contains the tennis ball, is orange and is at the extreme right. The hockey ball is neither in D nor E and is neither in the blue nor yellow box. Box C contains the cricket ball and is green. C is fifth from the right and next to B. B contains the volleyball. The box containing the hockey ball is between the boxes containing the golf ball and volleyball.\n\nWhich of the following statements is/are correct?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- Six boxes A, B, C, D, E and F are painted with six different colours—violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange—and arranged from left to right. Each contains one ball from cricket, hockey, tennis, golf, football and volleyball. The golf ball is in the violet box and not in D. Box A contains the tennis ball, is orange and is at the extreme right. The hockey ball is neither in D nor E and is neither in the blue nor yellow box. Box C contains the cricket ball and is green. C is fifth from the right and next to B. B contains the volleyball. The box containing the hockey ball is between the boxes containing the golf ball and volleyball.\n\nThe football is in the box of which colour?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- When three friends A, B and C met, each wore a different outer garment and a different colour. The garments were jacket, sweater and tie; the colours were blue, white and black. Their surnames were Kumar, Singh and Ribeiro. Neither B nor Ribeiro wore a white sweater. C wore a tie. Singh's garment was not white. Kumar did not wear a jacket. Ribeiro did not like to wear black. Each friend wore only one garment of one colour.\n\nWhat is C's surname?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- When three friends A, B and C met, each wore a different outer garment and a different colour. The garments were jacket, sweater and tie; the colours were blue, white and black. Their surnames were Kumar, Singh and Ribeiro. Neither B nor Ribeiro wore a white sweater. C wore a tie. Singh's garment was not white. Kumar did not wear a jacket. Ribeiro did not like to wear black. Each friend wore only one garment of one colour.\n\nWhat is the colour of the tie?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- When three friends A, B and C met, each wore a different outer garment and a different colour. The garments were jacket, sweater and tie; the colours were blue, white and black. Their surnames were Kumar, Singh and Ribeiro. Neither B nor Ribeiro wore a white sweater. C wore a tie. Singh's garment was not white. Kumar did not wear a jacket. Ribeiro did not like to wear black. Each friend wore only one garment of one colour.\n\nWho wore the sweater?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Arrangement Puzzle
- The first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a music training school, was set up in 1901 by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar in:2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Who amongst the following are members of the Jury to select the recipient of 'Gandhi Peace Prize'? I. The President of India II. The Prime Minister of India III. The Chief Justice of India IV. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Consider the following statements in respect of the first Kho Kho World Cup: I. The event was held in Delhi, India. II. Indian men beat Nepal with a score of 78-40 in the final to become the World Champion in men category. III. Indian women beat Nepal with a score of 54-36 in the final to become the World Champion in women category. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Consider the following statements: I. In the finals of the 45th Chess Olympiad held in 2024, Gukesh Dommaraju became the world's youngest winner after defeating the Russian player Jan Nepomniachtchi II. Abhimanyu Mishra, an American chess player, holds the record of becoming world's youngest ever Grandmaster. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- The famous female figurine known as 'Dancing Girl', found at Mohenjo-daro, is made of2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Which one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa?2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Sanghabhuti, an Indian Buddhist monk, who travelled to China at the end of the fourth century AD, was the author of a commentary on:2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Consider the following statements: 1. There are no parables in Upanishads. 2. Upanishads were composed earlier than the Puranas.2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Art & Culture
- Biomass as fuel for power, heat and transport has very high mitigation potential among renewable sources. It comes from agricultural and forest residues as well as energy crops. The biggest challenge in using biomass residues is securing a long-term reliable supply at reasonable cost; logistics and collection costs are key problems. Energy crops, if not managed properly, compete with food production and may affect food prices. Biomass production is also sensitive to climate change. Projections of its future role may be overestimated because sustainable supply is limited unless technology greatly raises productivity. Some climate models rely on biomass-based carbon capture and storage, an unproven technology, to achieve negative emissions. Some liquid biofuels such as corn-based ethanol may aggravate rather than reduce lifecycle carbon emissions; second-generation lignocellulosic biofuels hold promise but remain under development.\n\nWith reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. Some climate-energy models suggest biomass as fuel for power generation helps mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions. 2. It is not possible to use biomass as fuel without disrupting food and forest resources. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumption
- All humans digest mother's milk as infants, but until cattle began being domesticated about 10,000 years ago, children once weaned no longer needed to digest milk and stopped making much of the enzyme lactase. After humans began herding cattle, it became advantageous to digest milk, and lactose tolerance evolved independently among cattle herders in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Groups not dependent on cattle, such as the Chinese and Thai, largely remained lactose intolerant.\n\nWhich among the following is the most logical assumption that can be made from the passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumption
- Geeta says Naresh became a better boxer after meditation. Radha says this is impossible because aggression is a boxer's most important asset. What belief underlies Radha's statement?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Assumption
- Using the same net-zero passage, consider: I. Supply-side investment can encourage low-carbon behaviour. II. People cannot adopt low-carbon behaviour without government or company involvement. Which assumption(s) are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
- Using the battery-recycling passage, consider: I. Automobile factories are themselves examples of a circular economy. II. Economic growth can be compatible with circular use of mineral resources. Which assumption(s) are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
- Using the corporate-capitalism passage, consider: I. It promotes expansion of employment opportunities. II. Poor and marginalized groups can benefit because additional State revenue can finance welfare and wider opportunity. Which assumptions are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
- From the same RTE passage, assess assumptions: RTE guarantees teacher accountability; guarantees 100% enrolment; intends to exploit demographic dividend.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- For the desertification passage, assess assumptions: it is only a tropical phenomenon; deforestation can lead to floods and desertification.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- From the same climate-adaptation passage, assess assumptions: livelihood diversification is a coping strategy; monocropping can drive loss of crop varieties and wild relatives.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- A passage on climate finance discusses the policy complexity of climate change and the need to build adaptive capacity. Consider assumptions: 1. Climate change is not a challenge for developed countries. 2. Climate change is a complex policy and development issue. 3. Finance is needed to build adaptive capacity in developing countries. Which are valid?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- A passage says the industrial-age education model is poorly suited to a knowledge society. Which assumption is most consistent with the passage?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- From the tiger-conservation passage, assess assumptions: 1. Relocation of tigers between protected areas is often unsuccessful. 2. India lacks suitable tiger-protection law and its conservation programme has failed.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- In general, religious traditions stress our duty to God, or to some universal ethical principle. Our duties to one another derive from these. The religious concept of rights is primarily derived from our relationship to this divinity or principle and the implication it has on our other relationships. This correspondence between rights and duties is critical to any further understanding of justice. But for justice to be practiced, rights and duties cannot remain formal abstractions. They must be grounded in a community bound together by a sense of common union. Even as a personal virtue, this solidarity is essential to the practice and understanding of justice.\n\nWith reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. Human relationships are derived from their religious traditions. 2. Human beings can be duty bound only if they believe in God. 3. Religious traditions are essential to practice and understand justice. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
- From the democracy passage, assess the assumptions that non-Western countries cannot have democracy because it is Western, and that Western countries always try to impose democracy.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- The malnutrition passage says poverty is not the main cause. Which proposed reasons are valid: working mothers do not prioritise children; public-health authorities fail to propagate nutritional awareness?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- From the same misery passage, are these assumptions valid: physical/material help is primary; charitable homes and hospitals can largely remove misery?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
- A passage treats equal civic standing as a basic democratic norm. Which assumptions are valid: 1 equality enables confident participation in social transactions; 2 inequality necessarily destroys democracy; 3 equal standing is unrealizable; 4 equality should enter everyday values and political vocabulary?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage attributes high food prices to fuel, weather, land diversion and rising demand from populous emerging economies. Which assumptions are valid: 1 oil-producing countries cause high food prices; 2 a future food crisis will occur specifically in emerging economies?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage describes GDP growth as central to development economics because it can create employment, investment and resources for a better life. Are these assumptions valid: 1 rising GDP is essential for being developed; 2 rising GDP guarantees reasonable income distribution?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage explains that fig trees can support frugivores when other food is scarce and may foster seedlings of other trees. Which assumptions are valid: 1 figs can act as keystone species; 2 they grow where no other woody species can; 3 sacred trees can aid biodiversity conservation; 4 figs can support seed dispersal of other trees?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage links infectious disease control to personal hygiene plus clean water, sanitation, food security and community conditions. Which assumptions are valid: 1 personal-hygiene enthusiasts ignore community hygiene; 2 personal cleanliness prevents multidrug resistance; 3 market entry itself raises infection risk; 4 micro-level interventions alone are insufficient; 5 community hygiene through public health is crucial?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage says most flowering plants depend on animal pollination and effective pollination requires refuges of natural vegetation. Which assumptions are valid: 1 cereal production is impossible without diverse animal pollinators; 2 horticultural monoculture necessarily harms insects; 3 pollinators become scarce in cultivated landscapes lacking natural vegetation; 4 insect diversity can support plant diversity?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- Researchers use embryonic stem cells and biochemical assays to assess BPA toxicity during cell differentiation. Which assumptions are valid: 1 BPA may alter embryonic development in vivo; 2 such assays directly identify treatments for pollution-induced diseases; 3 embryonic stem cells can model physiological effects of pollutants?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- A passage discusses tension between markets and democracy: markets allocate resources efficiently but can leave people without demanded skills or employment. Which assumptions are valid: 1 welfare democracies depend on markets alone; 2 markets ensure enough growth for effective democracy; 3 government programmes are needed for people left behind?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions from passage
- How many space-object pairs are correctly described: Cepheids as dust/gas clouds; nebulae as periodically varying stars; pulsars as neutron stars formed after massive-star collapse?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Astronomy
- Why are astronomical distances conveniently expressed in light-years?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Astronomy
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James. What does this quotation convey to you in the present context?2025 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Attitude
- A positive attitude is considered to be an essential characteristic of a civil servant who is often required to function under extreme stress. What contributes to a positive attitude in a person?2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Attitude
- Consider: (1) the Attorney General and Solicitor General are the only government law officers permitted to participate in Parliament; (2) the Constitution requires the Attorney General to resign when the appointing government resigns. Which is correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Attorney General
- The Attorney-General is the chief legal adviser and lawyer of the Government of India. Discuss.2019 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Attorney General
- Consider the following statements: Attorney General of India can 1. take part in the proceedings of the Lok Sabha 2. be a member of a committee of the Lok Sabha 3. speak in the Lok Sabha 4. vote in the Lok Sabha. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance, Indian Polity · Attorney General, Attorney General of India
- The Attorney General of India plays a crucial role in guiding the legal framework of the Union Government and ensuring sound governance through legal counsel. Discuss his responsibilities, rights and limitations in this regard.2025 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Attorney General of India
- Consider the following statements: Attorney General of India can 1. take part in the proceedings of the Lok Sabha 2. be a member of a committee of the Lok Sabha 3. speak in the Lok Sabha 4. vote in the Lok Sabha. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance, Indian Polity · Attorney General, Attorney General of India
- A class average x rises by 4 when a score is corrected from 0 to100. Later another score is corrected from81 down to56. If the final average is y, find y−x.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Average
- The reported average of 100 students is 40 marks. One student’s actual score of 53 was mistakenly recorded as 83. What is the corrected average?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Average
- A mother and two children average 50 kg; a father and the same two children average 52 kg. If the father weighs 60 kg, what is the mother’s weight?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Average
- The average monthly income per person in a family of five is Rs. 10,000. What will be the new average monthly income per person if one person's income increases by Rs. 1,20,000 per year?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Average
- The average of p,q,r is k. The amount by which p exceeds the average equals the amount by which q falls below the average. What is r?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Averages
- Average weight of A,B,C is 40 kg; average of B,D,E is 42 kg; and F weighs exactly as much as B. What is the average weight of all six people?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Averages
- Class A has 25 students with scores from 17 to 21; Class B has 30 students with scores from 22 to 30. Four students move from A to B. Which is certain: 1 B's average decreases; 2 A's average increases?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Averages
- With reference to aircraft flight recorders ('black boxes'): 1. Their underwater beacons emit red-light pulses. 2. They record cockpit audio and flight data. 3. Crash-survivable memory is protected using materials such as stainless steel or titanium. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Aviation technology
- What is Greased Lightning-10 (GL-10), recently in the news?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Aviation Technology
- With reference to Balance of Payments, which of the following constitutes/constitute the Current Account? 1. Balance of trade 2. Foreign assets 3. Balance of invisibles 4. Special Drawing Rights2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Balance of Payments
- The balance of payments of a country is a systematic record of2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy, Economy · Balance of Payments
- Which of the following constitute Capital Account? 1. Foreign Loans 2. Foreign Direct Investment 3. Private Remittances 4. Portfolio Investment2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Balance of Payments
- With reference to Urban Cooperative Banks, examine: (1) they are regulated only by local boards created by State Governments; (2) they can issue equity and preference shares subject to law; (3) they came under the Banking Regulation Act through the 1966 amendment. Which are correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Banking Regulation
- The Reserve Bank of India regulates the commercial banks in matters of 1. liquidity of assets 2. branch expansion 3. merger of banks 4. winding-up of banks. Select the correct answer.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Banking Regulation
- Consider the following statements: I. No virus can survive in ocean waters. II. No virus can infect bacteria. III. No virus can change the cellular transcriptional activity in host cells. How many of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Basic Science
- Consider the following pairs: Plant - Description. I. Cassava: Woody shrub II. Ginger: Herb with pseudostem III. Malabar spinach: Herbaceous climber IV. Mint: Annual shrub V. Papaya: Woody shrub. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Basic Science
- Which one of the following is synthesised in human body that dilates blood vessels and increases blood flow?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Basic Science
- The Bhakti movement received a remarkable re-orientation with the advent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Discuss.2018 · Mains GS1 · History · Bhakti Movement
- Consider the following Bhakti Saints: 1. Dadu Dayal 2. Guru Nanak 3. Tyagaraja. Who among the above was/were preaching when the Lodi dynasty fell and Babur took over?2013 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture, Art & Culture · Bhakti Movement
- P has a son and a daughter. S is T's mother and R's spouse. Q and R are P's children. How is Q related to S?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Blood relations
- P is brother of Q and R. S is R's mother and T is P's father. Consider: I S and T are a couple; II Q is T's son; III T is Q's father; IV S is P's mother; V R is T's daughter; VI P is S's son. How many are definitely true?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Blood relations
- How is Q related to P? Statement I: P has two sisters R and S. Statement II: R's father is the brother of Q. Which data-sufficiency option is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Blood relations
- A two-generation family has P,Q,R,S,T,U, with three males and three females, two married couples and two unmarried siblings. U is P’s daughter; Q is R’s mother-in-law; T is an unmarried male; S is male. Which statement is correct?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Blood Relations
- A seven-member family A–G has three women. G is a widow and sister-in-law of F, who is D’s father. B and D are siblings; A is B’s daughter; C is B’s cousin. Regarding E: I E is F’s wife; II E is A’s grandmother; III E is C’s aunt. Which are correct?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Blood Relations
- If A+B means A is the son of B and A−B means A is the wife of B, what does P+R−Q mean?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Blood Relations
- Border management is a complex task due to difficult terrain and hostile relations with some countries. Elucidate the challenges and strategies for effective border management.2016 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Border Management
- How far are India’s internal security challenges linked with border management, particularly in view of the long porous borders with most countries of South Asia and Myanmar?2013 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Border Management
- Examine India’s border issues with China and Pakistan and development under BADP and BIM schemes.2024 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Border Security
- The cross-border movement of insurgents is only one of the several security challenges facing the policing of the border in North-East India. Examine the various challenges currently emanating across the India-Myanmar border. Also, discuss the steps to counter the challenges.2019 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Border Security
- The “Fortaleza Declaration”, recently in the news, is related to the affairs of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, International Relations · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, BRICS
- With reference to BRICS, consider the following statements: 1. The first BRICS summit was held in Rio de Janeiro in 2009. 2. South Africa was the last to join the BRICS grouping. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · BRICS
- Which of the following kingdoms were associated with the life of the Buddha? 1. Avanti 2. Gandhara 3. Kosala 4. Magadha2015 · Prelims GS1 · Ancient History · Buddha and Mahajanapadas
- Which of the following kingdoms were associated with the life of the Buddha? 1. Avanti 2. Gandhara 3. Kosala 4. Magadha2014 · Prelims GS1 · Ancient History · Buddha and Mahajanapadas
- Pala period is the most significant phase in the history of Buddhism in India. Enumerate.2020 · Mains GS1 · History · Buddhism
- Which features are associated with Mahayana Buddhism? (1) deification and transcendent conceptions of the Buddha; (2) emphasis on the Bodhisattva path; (3) image worship and ritual practices.2019 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Buddhism
- With reference to the religious history of India, consider the following statements: 1. The concept of Bodhisattva is central to Hinayana sect of Buddhism. 2. Bodhisattva is a compassionate one on his way to enlightenment. 3. Bodhisattva delays achieving his own salvation to help all sentient beings on their path to it. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Buddhism
- Which one of the following describes best the concept of Nirvana in Buddhism?2013 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture, Art & Culture · Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy
- Which of the following dates in June 2099 falls on a Sunday?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- What day of the week is 10 October 2027?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- If 12 January is a Sunday in a particular year, which statement is correct?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- In the same year, one child’s birthday is on the fifth Monday of April and another’s is on the fifth Thursday of November. On which weekday does 20 December fall that year?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- Which of these years has the same calendar arrangement as 2009?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- If second and fourth Saturdays and all Sundays are the only holidays for an office, what is the minimum possible number of working days in any month of any year?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Calendar
- If the 3rd day of a month is Monday, which of the following will be the fifth day from the 21st of this month?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Calendar
- Critically analyse India’s evolving diplomatic, economic and strategic relations with Central Asian Republics.2024 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · Central Asia
- A number of outside powers have entrenched themselves in Central Asia, which is a zone of interest to India. Discuss the implications, in this context, of India joining the Ashgabat Agreement, 2018.2018 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · Central Asia
- From the university-professor charts, how many Physics professors are aged 35-44?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Charts
- From the professor charts, which discipline has the highest male-to-female ratio?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Charts
- What percentage of all Psychology professors are female?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Charts
- If female Physics professors aged 25-34 are 25% of all Physics professors in that age group, how many males are there?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Charts
- If Psychology professors form 2% of all university professors, what is the total number of professors?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Charts
- Runners X and Y have speed ratio 7:5 and start together in the same direction. After Y finishes5 laps it reverses and doubles speed; X continues until completing21 laps. How many meetings occur after start and before the final stopping instant?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Circular motion
- A and B run on a circular track. B starts 30° ahead; when A reaches the diametrically opposite point, A meets B. Find speed ratio A:B.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Circular Motion
- A and B walk around a circular park from the same point at 8 a.m. in opposite directions. Their speeds are 2 and 3 rounds per hour respectively. How many times do they cross each other after 8:00 a.m. and before 9:30 a.m.?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Circular Motion
- Eight people P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W sit around a circle. P and R are adjacent to Q; T and R are adjacent to S; U and W are adjacent to V; S and W are opposite. Moving clockwise from P, R occurs before T. How many people does Q pass clockwise before meeting W?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Circular seating
- Eight people A–H sit around a circular table facing inward. B and D are neither adjacent nor opposite C; A sits between E and D; F sits between B and H. Which listed relationship is definitely true?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Circular seating
- Identify factors hindering the Citizens’ Charter initiative and suggest measures to realise its promise.2024 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Citizens Charter
- The Citizens’ Charter is an ideal instrument of organisational transparency and accountability, but it has its own limitations. Identify the limitations and suggest measures for greater effectiveness of Citizens’ Charters.2018 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Citizens Charter
- Examine gender-specific challenges faced by female public servants and explain how Mission Karmayogi can improve civil-service efficiency.2024 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Civil Service Values
- Identify five ethical traits on which one can plot the performance of a civil servant and justify their inclusion. Also identify ten essential values needed to be an effective public servant and describe ways to prevent non-ethical behaviour in public servants.2021 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Civil Service Values
- State the three basic values, universal in nature, in the context of civil services and bring out their importance. Distinguish between Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct with suitable examples.2018 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Civil Service Values
- Examine the relevance of transparency, accountability, fairness and justice, courage of conviction, and spirit of service in the context of civil service.2017 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Civil Service Values
- Institutional quality is a crucial driver of economic performance. In this context, suggest reforms in Civil Service for strengthening democracy.2020 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Civil Services Reform
- There is increasing concern in India to develop effective civil service ethics, codes of conduct, transparency measures, integrity systems and anti-corruption agencies. Focus is needed on anticipating threats to ethical standards, strengthening ethical competence of civil servants, and developing administrative processes that promote ethical values and integrity. Suggest institutional measures to address these issues.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Civil Services Reform
- Which one of the following was given Classical Language status recently before the 2015 examination?2015 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Classical Languages
- Consider the following languages: 1. Gujarati 2. Kannada 3. Telugu. Which had been declared Classical Languages by the Government at the time of the examination?2014 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Classical Languages
- Passage: Cleaner air depends strongly on the fuels we burn. Pet coke and coal bans show that bans need feasible cleaner alternatives; the CNG transition required assured supply and fiscal measures keeping clean fuel affordable. Which inferences follow? 1. Fuel choice is central to clean-air policy. 2. Bans work mainly when public will is strong. 3. Courts have supported fiscal intervention to keep cleaner fuels competitively priced.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Clean fuel transition
- From the clean-air passage, consider: 1. Thermal power stations in Delhi were ordered simply to shut down. 2. CNG supply had to be assured when diesel buses were stopped. 3. The Supreme Court itself imposed the coal ban across the NCR. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Clean fuel transition
- Passage: Climate risks and mitigation opportunities differ across Indian regions: coasts face sea-level rise, dry districts face variable monsoons, Himalayan regions have distinct risks, while some peninsular and offshore areas have wind-energy potential. What is the most pragmatic message?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Climate adaptation
- Using the same passage on region-specific climate risks and opportunities, consider the assumptions: I. Green-energy production can be integrated with climate mitigation/adaptation. II. Climate-change effects are necessarily much more severe in coastal and mountainous regions. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Climate adaptation
- During summer in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice has been melting earlier and faster and winter freeze has been coming later. The lengthening melt period threatens the Arctic food web, atop which stand polar bears. What is the most crucial message?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Climate Change
- Climate change is a global problem. How will India be affected by climate change? How will Himalayan and coastal states of India be affected by climate change?2017 · Mains GS3 · Environment · Climate Change
- At which time range are the hour and minute hands exactly 180° apart around 7 o'clock?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Clock problems
- Between 6 and 7 o'clock, when is the minute hand ahead of the hour hand by 3 minute-spaces?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Clock problems
- A clock gains 10 minutes every 24 actual hours. It was correct at 8:00 a.m. Monday. When it displays 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, what is the actual time?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Clocks
- Between 6 PM and 7 PM, the minute hand of a clock will be ahead of the hour hand by 3 minute-spaces at2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Clocks
- A clock shows a time between 8 and 9 o’clock and its hour and minute hands are exactly one above the other. After how many minutes, to the nearest integer, will they again lie one above the other?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Clocks
- Explain the phenomenon of cloudbursts.2024 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Cloudbursts
- With reference to National Disaster Management Authority guidelines, discuss the measures to be adopted to mitigate the impact of recent incidents of cloudbursts in many places of Uttarakhand.2016 · Mains GS3 · Disaster Management · Cloudbursts
- If ZERO is coded as ADSN by alternately shifting letters +1,−1,+1,−1, how is STOP coded?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Coding-decoding
- If NO is coded as 210, NOT as 4200 and NOTE as 21000, how is NOTES coded?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Coding-decoding
- If FRANCE is coded 654321 and GERMANY is coded 9158437, how is YEMEN coded?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Coding-decoding
- In a code, ABCD is written as 24 and EFGH as 1680. How is IJKL written?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-Decoding
- In a code, POT becomes ATOP and TRAP becomes APART. How is ARENA written?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-Decoding
- Letters P, Q, R, S and T represent the numbers 4, 5, 10, 12 and 15 in an unknown order. If Q−S=2S and T=R+S+3, what is P+R−T?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-Decoding
- If the alphabet is reversed so A maps to Z, B to Y, and so on, how is LUCKNOW encoded?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-decoding
- In a code, MATHEMATICS becomes LBSIDNZUHDR by alternately shifting letters backward and forward by one. How is CHEMISTRY coded?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-decoding
- If letters are valued A=1, B=2, …, Z=26, and the coding rule maps GHI to 1578 and DEF to 912, what is the code for ABC?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding-Decoding
- If LSJXVC is the code for MUMBAI under a backward-shift pattern, what is the code for DELHI?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding Decoding
- If RAMON=12345 and DINESH=675849, how is HAMAM written?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Coding Decoding
- A military code writes SYSTEM as SYSMET and NEARER as AENRER. Using the same code, FRACTION can be written as:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Coding-Decoding
- Why did the British Government favour the rupee–sterling exchange rate recommended by the Hilton-Young Commission in 1926?2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Colonial economy
- Examine how the decline of traditional artisanal industry in colonial India crippled the rural economy.2017 · Mains GS1 · History · Colonial Economy
- Six people stand in a row. A seventh person must shake hands with exactly three of them, with no two selected people consecutive in the row. How many combinations are possible?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinations
- One Principal and two Vice-Principals are to be selected from six candidates. Only two candidates are eligible for Principal; all six are eligible for Vice-Principal. How many possible combinations of selectees are there?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Combinations
- A student must choose 2 subjects from Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics I and Mathematics II. Mathematics II may be chosen only with Mathematics I. How many valid combinations are possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Combinations
- Using the five denominations ₹50, ₹100, ₹200, ₹500 and ₹2,000, how many different denomination-combinations are possible if at least three different denominations must be used?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- How many ordered triples of positive integers (x,y,z) satisfy x+y+z=6?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- From 700 to 1000, how many numbers have hundreds digit > tens digit > units digit?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- In a society it is customary for friends of the same sex to hug and friends of opposite sex to shake hands. A group of friends met at a party and there were 24 handshakes. Which of the following could be the number of hugs?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- A student must choose 2 of Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics I and Mathematics II. Mathematics II can be chosen only if Mathematics I is also chosen. How many valid two-subject combinations are possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- A committee must select one Principal and two Vice-Principals from six persons, of whom only two are eligible to be Principal. How many selections are possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Combinatorics
- At a gathering, each pair of friends of the same sex hugs, while each pair of opposite sex shakes hands. There are 24 handshakes. Which number of hugs is possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Combinatorics
- Communalism arises either due to power struggle or relative deprivation. Argue by giving suitable illustrations.2018 · Mains GS1 · Society · Communalism
- Distinguish between religiousness or religiosity and communalism, giving one example of how the former has got transformed into the latter in independent India.2017 · Mains GS1 · Society · Communalism
- With reference to LiFi, recently in the news, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It uses light as the medium for high-speed data transmission. 2. It is a wireless technology and is several times faster than WiFi. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Communication Technology
- 'Project Loon', sometimes seen in the news, is related to2016 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Communication Technology
- How many news-region/reason pairs are correct: North Kivu & Ituri–Armenia/Azerbaijan war; Nagorno-Karabakh–Mozambique insurgency; Kherson & Zaporizhzhia–Israel/Lebanon dispute?2023 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · Conflict Geography
- How many conflict-area/country pairs are correct: Donbas–Syria; Kachin–Ethiopia; Tigray–North Yemen?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · Conflict Geography
- What is meant by conflict of interest? Illustrate with examples the difference between actual and potential conflict of interest. Explain Warren Buffett’s statement on integrity, intelligence and energy in the present-day scenario.2018 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Conflict of Interest
- Conflict of interest in the public sector arises when official duties, public interest and personal interest take priority one above the other. How can this conflict in administration be resolved? Describe with an example.2017 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Conflict of Interest
- Public servants are likely to confront issues of conflict of interest. What do you understand by conflict of interest and how does it manifest in decision-making by public servants? If faced with such a situation, how would you resolve it? Explain with examples.2015 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Conflict of Interest
- Consider the following statements: 1. In the first Lok Sabha, the single largest party in the opposition was the Swatantra Party. 2. In the Lok Sabha, a "Leader of the Opposition" was recognised for the first time in 1969. 3. In the Lok Sabha, if a party does not have a minimum of 75 members, its leader cannot be recognised as the Leader of the Opposition. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Parliament of India can place a particular law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India. 2. The validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule cannot be examined by any court and no judgement can be made on it. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. Aadhaar card can be used as a proof of citizenship or domicile. 2. Once issued, Aadhaar number cannot be deactivated or omitted by the Issuing Authority. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- "Rule of Law Index" is released by which of the following?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- With reference to the Parliament of India, which of the following Parliamentary Committees scrutinizes and reports to the House whether powers to make regulations, rules, sub-rules, by-laws, etc., conferred by the Constitution or delegated by Parliament are being properly exercised by the Executive within the scope of such delegation?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. As per the Right to Education (RTE) Act, to be eligible for appointment as a teacher in a State, a person would be required to possess the minimum qualification laid down by the concerned State Council of Teacher Education. 2. As per the RTE Act, for teaching primary classes, a candidate is required to pass a Teacher Eligibility Test conducted in accordance with National Council of Teacher Education guidelines. 3. In India, more than 90% of teacher-education institutions are directly under State Governments. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Regarding Money Bill, which of the following statements is not correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- With reference to the election of the President of India, consider the following statements: 1. The value of the vote of each MLA varies from State to State. 2. The value of the vote of MPs of the Lok Sabha is more than the value of the vote of MPs of the Rajya Sabha. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall vacate his/her office if he/she ceases to be a member of the Assembly. 2. Whenever the Legislative Assembly is dissolved, the Speaker shall vacate his/her office immediately. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Which one of the following reflects the most appropriate relationship between law and liberty?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. No criminal proceedings shall be instituted against the Governor of a State in any court during his term of office. 2. The emoluments and allowances of the Governor of a State shall not be diminished during his term of office. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the Rule of Law? 1. Limitation of powers 2. Equality before law 3. People's responsibility to the Government 4. Liberty and civil rights. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- If the President of India exercises his power as provided under Article 356 of the Constitution in respect of a particular State, then:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. Which of the following in the Constitution of India correctly and appropriately imply the above statement?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Consider the following statements: 1. The definition of "Critical Wildlife Habitat" is incorporated in the Forest Rights Act, 2006. 2. For the first time in India, Baigas have been given Habitat Rights. 3. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change officially decides and declares Habitat Rights for Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups in any part of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitution, Governance & Rights
- Indian Constitution has conferred the amending power on the ordinary legislative institutions with a few procedural hurdles. In view of this statement, examine the procedural and substantive limitations on the amending power of the Parliament to change the Constitution.2025 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Constitutional Amendment
- For a Constitution Amendment Bill: (1) prior Presidential recommendation is required; (2) the President must assent once duly passed; (3) both Houses must pass it separately with the required special majority and there is no joint sitting. Which are correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitutional Amendment
- ‘The Supreme Court of India keeps a check on arbitrary power of the Parliament in amending the Constitution.’ Discuss critically.2013 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Constitutional Amendment
- Consider the following statements: 1. An amendment to the Constitution of India can be initiated by introduction of a bill in the Lok Sabha only. 2. If such an amendment seeks to make changes in the federal character of the Constitution, the amendment also requires to be ratified by the legislature of all the States of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitutional Amendment
- Consider the following statements: 1. An amendment to the Constitution of India can be initiated by an introduction of a bill in the Lok Sabha only. 2. If such an amendment seeks to make changes in the federal character of the Constitution, the amendment also requires to be ratified by the legislature of all the States of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Constitutional Amendment
- Which Constitutional Amendment was widely regarded as intended to overcome judicial interpretations of Fundamental Rights?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Constitutional Amendments
- Which principle was added to the Directive Principles of State Policy by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Constitutional Amendments
- Consider the following statements about the Election Commission of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Constitutional Bodies
- Among NCBC, NHRC, Law Commission and NCDRC, how many are constitutional bodies?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Constitutional Bodies
- Recent amendments to the Right to Information Act will have profound impact on the autonomy and independence of the Information Commission. Discuss.2020 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Constitutional Bodies
- Consider these statements on women's political representation under British rule: (1) the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms proposed universal voting rights for all women above 21; (2) the Government of India Act, 1935 provided reserved legislative seats for women. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Constitutional Developments
- The Montagu-Chelmsford Proposals were related to2016 · Prelims GS1 · History · Constitutional Developments
- Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment but a product of civil education and adherence of the rule of law. Examine the significance of constitutional morality for public servant highlighting the role in promoting good governance and ensuring accountability in public administration.2025 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Constitutional Morality
- Constitutional morality is the fulcrum which acts as an essential check upon the high functionaries and citizens alike. In view of the above observation of the Supreme Court, explain the concept of constitutional morality and its application to ensure balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability in India.2025 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Constitutional Morality
- Constitutional Morality is rooted in the Constitution itself and is founded on its essential facets. Explain the doctrine of Constitutional Morality with the help of relevant judicial decisions.2021 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Constitutional Morality
- What is meant by the term constitutional morality? How does one uphold constitutional morality?2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Constitutional Morality
- Why did the Montagu-Chelmsford constitutional framework encourage political alliances organized around community? Consider: 1. Separate electorates were retained and extended. 2. Such electorates fragmented an increasingly strong nationalism. 3. Communities and disadvantaged groups organized around the political safeguards/benefits created by separate representation.2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Constitutional reforms
- In the context of Indian history, the principle of Dyarchy refers to2017 · Prelims GS1 · Modern India History · Constitutional Reforms
- What is the chief purpose of a country’s Constitution?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Constitutionalism
- What is the essential meaning of 'constitutional government'?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitutionalism
- A constitutional government is best understood as what kind of government?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitutionalism
- A Constitutional Government is one which: 1. places effective restrictions on individual liberty in the interest of State authority; 2. places effective restrictions on the authority of the State in the interest of individual liberty. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Constitutionalism
- Passage: Convergence theory describes breakaway, catch-up and fine-tuning phases between technology leaders and followers. Leaders pull ahead when a new technology emerges; followers later adopt it; in fine-tuning both extract remaining gains and incomes converge. Which conclusions are correct? 1. Followers make slow progress during breakaway. 2. Leaders stagnate during catch-up. 3. In fine-tuning, an increasingly exhausted technology yields similar income levels. 4. The historical sequence cited is scavenging→hunting→farming→industrial technology.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Convergence theory
- Using the convergence passage, which statements are correct? 1. The model divides nations themselves into three phases. 2. Its core is closing a gap between 'labour' and 'productivity'. 3. Technology leaders generally enter new economic eras earlier than followers. 4. The time span should be obtained by adding all four historical date markers listed in the passage.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Convergence theory
- Cooperative federalism: Myth or reality.2016 · Essay · Polity · Cooperative Federalism
- The concept of cooperative federalism has been increasingly emphasised in recent years. Highlight the drawbacks in the existing structure and extent to which cooperative federalism would answer the shortcomings.2015 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Cooperative Federalism
- Explain moral integrity and professional efficiency in corporate governance, and comment on ethics in contemporary international aid.2023 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Corporate Governance
- In the light of Satyam Scandal (2009), discuss the changes brought in corporate governance to ensure transparency and accountability.2015 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Corporate Governance
- Consider the Union Council of Ministers: (1) the Constitution classifies ministers into Cabinet Minister, MoS Independent Charge, MoS and Deputy Minister; (2) the total Union ministry including PM cannot exceed 15% of Lok Sabha strength. Which is correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Council of Ministers
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Council of Ministers in the Centre shall be collectively responsible to the Parliament. 2. The Union Ministers shall hold office during the pleasure of the President of India. 3. The Prime Minister shall communicate to the President about the proposals for legislation. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Council of Ministers
- On a standard chessboard, in how many ways can six consecutive squares be selected along one of the two full diagonals, staying on a straight diagonal path?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Counting
- A question paper has five questions, each answered True or False. No two candidates give an identical five-answer sequence. What is the maximum number of candidates possible?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Counting
- Across all two-digit positive integers, how many times does the digit 5 occur?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Counting digits
- How many three-digit numbers with no repeated digit have all digits odd and are divisible by 5?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Counting digits
- How many decimals of the form 0.XY exist when X and Y are distinct non-zero digits?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Counting digits
- Critically examine the role of WHO in providing global health security during the COVID-19 pandemic.2020 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · COVID-19
- COVID-19 pandemic accelerated class inequalities and poverty in India. Comment.2020 · Mains GS1 · Society · COVID-19
- Explain the rationale behind the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act of 2017. How has COVID-19 impacted the GST compensation fund and created new federal tensions?2020 · Mains GS3 · Economy · COVID-19
- COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented devastation worldwide. However, technological advancements are being availed readily to win over the crisis. Give an account of how technology was sought to aid management of the pandemic.2020 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · COVID-19
- Regarding the Cripps proposals: (1) Provincial Assemblies would nominate Constituent Assembly members while princely states also nominated representatives; (2) a province unwilling to accept the new Constitution could retain its existing position and negotiate a separate arrangement with Britain. Which is correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Cripps Mission
- The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War2016 · Prelims GS1 · History · Cripps Mission
- A passage presents India's energy and climate choices as involving fuel production, access, imports, pricing, governance, environment, efficiency, transport and renewables. What is its critical message?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Critical message
- A passage warns that feeding antibiotics to livestock as growth promoters can create resistant superbugs, while countries eliminating such use can still maintain production. What is the best message?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Critical message
- What are the present challenges before crop diversification? How do emerging technologies provide an opportunity for crop diversification?2021 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Crop Diversification
- What are the major reasons for declining rice and wheat yield in the cropping system? How is crop diversification helpful to stabilize yield in the system?2017 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Crop Diversification
- Passage: Climate and atmospheric changes may alter crop-disease prevalence. Modern high-value crops have been selectively bred for present conditions, often losing genetic variation that could help them cope with new stresses; a minor or unfamiliar disease could therefore spread rapidly through a genetically uniform crop. What is the central idea?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Crop genetic diversity
- From the passage on crop disease and genetic uniformity, consider assumptions: I. Climate change can shift plant diseases into new areas. II. Better understanding of wild crop relatives could help strengthen food security. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Crop genetic diversity
- Plato's passage describes aristocracy, oligarchy and democracy each deteriorating when its own governing principle is carried to excess. What is the crux?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- A climate study of the Cauvery basin projects rising temperatures, fewer rainy days, more runoff, less recharge and more drought, increasing farmers' groundwater dependence. What is the crux?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- A passage observes that historic exploration—from Silk Road trade to ocean voyages—was driven strongly by the search for resources and markets. Which statement best sums it up?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- A passage criticizes schooling that transmits academic content but insufficiently prepares students to question, confront caste/gender/famine issues and handle the ideological freedom of university. What is the central idea?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- A passage describes top universities using flipped classrooms, sharing high-quality video lectures freely and encouraging other institutions to integrate them into local teaching. What is the central idea?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- A political-philosophy passage says that in a natural condition each person judges good and bad by private advantage, whereas common notions of right and wrong arise in civil society through shared law. What is the central idea?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Crux of passage
- Rotated views of a solid show faces marked by dots, a cross and a line. Which symbol is opposite the face with one dot?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Cube Reasoning
- In the same solid, which symbol is opposite the face with two dots?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Cube Reasoning
- In the same solid, which symbol is opposite the face containing the cross?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Cube Reasoning
- Three views of a numbered cube are given. Which pair can occupy the faces marked A and B?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Cube Reasoning
- A 3 cm cube painted on all faces is cut into 1 cm cubes. How many small cubes have exactly two painted faces?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Cubes
- A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into equal smaller cubes whose side is one-fourth that of the big cube. How many small cubes have only one side painted?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Cubes
- Passage: Handlooms are often supported as a continuous 'tradition', but the idea of a single linear tradition is contested because dominant narratives have excluded many identities and histories. Against this background, promoting handloom only as traditional can alienate sections of society. What is the most logical message?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Culture and handloom
- From the handloom passage, evaluate assumptions: I. The State need not be involved in the handloom sector at all. II. Handloom products have become unattractive in the modern world. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Culture and handloom
- Consider the following properties included in the World Heritage List released by UNESCO: 1. Shantiniketan 2. Rani-ki-Vav 3. Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 4. Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodhgaya. How many of the above properties were included in 2023?2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Current Affairs (Art & Culture)
- Which one of the following was the latest inclusion in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List of UNESCO?2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Current Affairs (Art & Culture)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: If the United States of America (USA) were to default on its debt, holders of US Treasury Bonds will not be able to exercise their claims to receive payment. Statement-II: The USA Government debt is not backed by any hard assets, but only by the faith of the Government.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Current Affairs (Economics)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Syndicated lending spreads the risk of borrower default across multiple lenders. Statement-II: The syndicated loan can be a fixed amount/lump sum of funds, but cannot be a credit line.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Current Affairs (Economics)
- Consider the following statements in respect of the digital rupee: 1. It is a sovereign currency issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in alignment with its monetary policy. 2. It appears as a liability on the RBI’s balance sheet. 3. It is insured against inflation by its very design. 4. It is freely convertible against commercial bank money and cash.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Current Affairs (Economics)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: India does not import apples from the United States of America. Statement-II: In India, the law prohibits the import of Genetically Modified food without the approval of the competent authority.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Current Affairs (Economics)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Recently, Venezuela has achieved a rapid recovery from its economic crisis and succeeded in preventing its people from fleeing/emigrating to other countries. Statement-II: Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Current Affairs (Economics)
- According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which one of the following is the largest source of sulphur dioxide emissions?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: The European Parliament approved The Net-Zero Industry Act recently. Statement-II: The European Union intends to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 and therefore aims to develop all of its own clean technology by that time.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- Which one of the following is the correct description of "100 Million Farmers"?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: The Indian Flying Fox is placed under the “vermin” category in the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. Statement-II: The Indian Flying Fox feeds on the blood of other animals.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- Recently, the term "pumped-storage hydropower" is actually and appropriately discussed in the context of which one of the following?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- "Membrane Bioreactors" are often discussed in the context of:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Current Affairs (Environment)
- Operations undertaken by the Army towards upliftment of the local population in remote areas to include addressing of their basic needs is called:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · Current Affairs (Internal Security)
- Which of the following statements about ‘Exercise Mitra Shakti-2023’ are correct? 1. This was a joint military exercise between India and Bangladesh. 2. It commenced in Aundh (Pune). 3. Joint response during counter-terrorism operations was a goal of this operation. 4. Indian Air Force was a part of this exercise.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · Current Affairs (Internal Security)
- Consider the following pairs: Country - Reason for being in the news. 1. Argentina: Worst economic crisis 2. Sudan: War between the country’s regular and paramilitary forces 3. Turkey: Rescinded its membership of NATO. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · Current Affairs (International Relations)
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Sumed pipeline is a strategic route for Persian Gulf oil and natural gas shipments to Europe. Statement-II: Sumed pipeline connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea.2024 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · Current Affairs (International Relations)
- What are the duties of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as Head of the Department of Military Affairs? 1. Permanent Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee. 2. Exercise military command over the three Service Chiefs. 3. Principal Military Advisor to Defence Minister on all tri-service matters.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Polity & Governance)
- Which of the following statements about the Ethics Committee in the Lok Sabha are correct? 1. Initially it was an ad-hoc Committee. 2. Only a Member of the Lok Sabha can make a complaint relating to unethical conduct of a member of the Lok Sabha. 3. This Committee cannot take up any matter which is sub-judice.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Polity & Governance)
- Consider the following statements regarding ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’: 1. Provisions will come into effect from the 18th Lok Sabha. 2. This will be in force for 15 years after becoming an Act. 3. There are provisions for the reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes Women within the quota reserved for the Scheduled Castes.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Polity & Governance)
- Which one of the following words/phrases is most appropriately used to denote "an interoperable network of 3D virtual worlds that can be accessed simultaneously by millions of users, who can exert property rights over virtual items"?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Current Affairs (S&T)
- With reference to radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), consider the following statements: 1. RTGs are miniature fission reactors. 2. RTGs are used for powering the onboard systems of spacecrafts. 3. RTGs can use Plutonium-238, which is a by-product of weapons development.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Current Affairs (S&T)
- Consider the following aircraft: 1. Rafael 2. MiG-29 3. Tejas MK-1. How many of the above are considered fifth generation fighter aircraft?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Current Affairs (S&T)
- In which of the following are hydrogels used? 1. Controlled drug delivery in patients 2. Mobile air-conditioning systems 3. Preparation of industrial lubricants2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Current Affairs (S&T)
- With reference to the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, consider the following statements: 1. To implement the scheme, the Central Government provides 100% funding. 2. Under the Scheme, Cadastral Maps are digitized. 3. An initiative has been undertaken to transliterate the Records of Rights from local language to any of the languages recognized by the Constitution of India.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Social Schemes)
- With reference to the ‘Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan’, consider the following statements: 1. This scheme guarantees a minimum package of antenatal care services to women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy and six months post-delivery health care service in any government health facility. 2. Under this scheme, private sector health care providers of certain specialities can volunteer to provide services at nearby government health facilities.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Social Schemes)
- With reference to the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana, consider the following statements: 1. The entry age group for enrolment in the scheme is 21 to 40 years. 2. Age specific contribution shall be made by the beneficiary. 3. Each subscriber under the scheme shall receive a minimum pension of Rs. 3000 per month after attaining the age of 60 years. 4. Family pension is applicable to the spouse and unmarried daughters.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Current Affairs (Social Schemes)
- What are the different elements of cyber security? Keeping in view the challenges in cyber security, examine the extent to which India has successfully developed a comprehensive National Cyber Security Strategy.2022 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Cyber Security
- Keeping in view India’s internal security, analyse the impact of cross-border cyber attacks. Also, discuss defensive measures against these sophisticated attacks.2021 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Cyber Security
- What is the CyberDome Project? Explain how it can be useful in controlling internet crimes in India.2019 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Cyber Security
- Discuss the potential threats of cyberattack and the security framework to prevent it.2017 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Cyber Security
- In India, it is legally mandatory for which of the following to report cyber-security incidents? 1. Service providers 2. Data centres 3. Body corporate2017 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Cyber Security
- Considering the threats cyberspace poses for the country, India needs a Digital Armed Forces to prevent crimes. Critically evaluate the National Cyber Security Policy, 2013 outlining the challenges perceived in its effective implementation.2015 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Cyber Security
- Year-wise variation of the price of a commodity is shown in the original UPSC graph (figure reference: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CSAT-2015-Q58.png?resize=300%2C238&ssl=1). The price of the commodity in the year 1980:2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- The original UPSC bar charts compare expenditure by Families A and B (figure reference: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CSAT-2015-Q59.png?resize=300%2C238&ssl=1). Family A spends Rs.20,000 monthly with 50% on food; Family B spends Rs.1,00,000 with 10% on food. What follows?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- The original UPSC graph depicts earnings of A and B from 2000 to 2010 (figure reference: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CSAT-2015-Q52.png?resize=300%2C242&ssl=1). Which conclusion is supported?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- An automobile owner reduced monthly petrol consumption as prices rose: Rs.40→60 litres, Rs.50→48 litres, Rs.60→40 litres, Rs.75→32 litres. If price becomes Rs.80 per litre, expected consumption is2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- The original UPSC graph shows average annual profit of fruit-sellers A and B from 1995 to 2000. Figure: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-52.png?resize=516%2C526&ssl=1 . In which year was the average profit of A and B the same?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- Using the same fruit-seller profit graph, what is the difference between the average profit of A and B in 1998?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- Using the fruit-seller profit graph, how much more average profit did A make in 2000 than in 1999?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- Using the fruit-seller profit graph, what is the trend of B’s average profit from 1997 to 2000?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- Marks table: Student A—English 60/100, Psychology 70/100, History 50/100, Sanskrit 30/50; Student B—English 80/150, Psychology 70/100, History 60/100, Sanskrit 15/25. The difference in their mean aggregate percentage marks is2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- The following table gives population and total income of a city for four years: 1992—20 lakh and Rs.1010 crore; 1993—21 lakh and Rs.1111 crore; 1994—22 lakh and Rs.1225 crore; 1995—23 lakh and Rs.1345 crore. Which statement is correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Interpretation
- X receives three different coins chosen from denominations 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20; their total is m. Is a ₹5 coin included? Statement I: m is not prime. Statement II: the sum of the digits of m exceeds 5.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Analytical Ability, Reasoning · Data sufficiency
- For two distinct real numbers x and y, can we determine which is larger? Statement I: x² < y < 1. Statement II: y < √x < 1.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Analytical Ability, Reasoning · Data sufficiency
- Integers x,y,z are each greater than 1. Is x prime? I. xy²=116. II. xz=261.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Analytical Ability, Reasoning · Data sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: With 10 minutes left, football team P trails Q by 3 goals. Does P win? I. P scores 4 goals in the last 10 minutes. II. Q scores 4 goals in the entire match.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Analytical Ability · Data sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: For natural numbers p and q, is (p+q)²−4pq positive? I. p q.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Analytical Ability · Data sufficiency
- What is the smallest one-digit number with exactly four distinct factors? Statement I: 2 is one of its factors. Statement II: 3 is one of its factors. Which data-sufficiency option is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Data sufficiency
- P,Q,R,S are distinct non-zero digits and PP × PQ = RRSS, with P≤3 and Q≤4. What is Q? Statement I: R=1. Statement II: S=2. Which data-sufficiency option is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Data sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: x and y are distinct natural numbers. Can their unique values be determined? Statement I: x/y is an odd integer. Statement II: xy = 12.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- A sum is distributed among X, Y and Z. Who received the least? Statement I: X received 4/5 of what Y and Z together received. Statement II: Y received 2/7 of what X and Z together received.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: The average marks in a class are 60. Can the number of students be determined? Statement I: highest marks are 70 and lowest are 50. Statement II: removing the highest and lowest marks does not change the average.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- There are three distinct prime numbers whose sum is also prime. Can the three numbers be uniquely identified? Statement I: their sum is less than 23. Statement II: one of them is 5.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: Is x+y an integer? Statement I: 2x+y is an integer. Statement II: x+2y is an integer.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- A person buys articles p, q and r for ₹50; q costs ₹16 and is the least expensive. What is the price of p? Statement I: p costs no more than r. Statement II: r costs no more than p.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- P, Q, R and S took a test. Can we determine whether P scored more than Q? Statement I: P+Q=R+S. Statement II: P+S>Q+R.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- P and Q each have a two-digit age between 10 and 100, and reversing the digits of P’s age gives Q’s age. Can their age difference be determined? Statement I: P is older than Q. Statement II: their age sum is 11/6 times their age difference.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: S1—no page of a 51-page book contains more than two figures. S2—every page contains at least one figure. Can it be determined whether the book contains more than 100 figures?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency
- Data sufficiency: Is x an integer? Statement 1: x/3 is not an integer. Statement 2: 3x is an integer. Which assessment is correct?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data sufficiency—number properties
- Data sufficiency: S1 p and q are both prime. S2 p+q is odd. Question: Is pq odd? Which information is sufficient?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency - Number Properties
- Data sufficiency: A and D are each heavier than B, E and F but neither is the heaviest. A is heavier than D but lighter than C. Who is heaviest among A, B, C, D and E?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data sufficiency—ordering
- Data sufficiency: S1 C is younger than D but older than A and B. S2 D is oldest. S3 A is older than B. Which information is sufficient to identify the youngest among A,B,C,D?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Data Sufficiency - Ordering
- With reference to food chains in ecosystems, which of the following kinds of organism is/are known as decomposer organism/organisms? 1. Virus 2. Fungi 3. Bacteria2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Decomposers
- With reference to the food chains in ecosystems, which of the following kinds of organism is/are known as decomposer organism/organisms? 1. Virus 2. Fungi 3. Bacteria. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Decomposers
- No supporters of Party X who knew Z and supported his campaign strategy agreed to an alliance with Party Y, but some of them had friends in Party Y. Which statement must be true?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Deductive Logic
- Given: some Party X supporters knew Z; some who knew Z and supported his strategy did not agree to alliance with Party Y; and some had friends in Party Y. Which statement among the following is not correct? 1. Some supporters of Party X knew Z. 2. Some supporters of Party X who opposed Z's strategy knew Z. 3. No supporters of Party X supported Z's campaign strategy.2017 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Deductive Logic
- Which way of financing a budget deficit is generally the most inflationary?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Deficit Financing
- In India, deficit financing is used for raising resources for2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy, Economy · Deficit Financing
- Passage: A wise statesman learns from opponents because supporters may overlook danger. A healthy balance of political power prevents arbitrary administration and revolutionary opposition. What is the critical message?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Democratic opposition
- From the passage on political opposition, evaluate assumptions: I. Strong opposition is needed only when the head of government is indifferent. II. More aggressive opposition always produces better governance. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Democratic opposition
- Demographic Dividend in India will remain only theoretical unless our manpower becomes more educated, aware, skilled and creative. What measures have been taken by the government to enhance the capacity of our population to be more productive and employable?2016 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Demographic Dividend
- To obtain full benefits of demographic dividend, what should India do?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy, Economy · Demographic Dividend
- Match India-supported projects with countries: A Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project; B restoration of Stor Palace; C District Hospital at Dickoya; D Institute of Security and Law Enforcement Studies. Countries: 1 Maldives, 2 Afghanistan, 3 Bhutan, 4 Sri Lanka.2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Development partnerships
- What kind of government-NGO-private sector collaboration is most productive for socio-economic development?2024 · Mains GS1 · Governance · Development Partnerships
- PQR and PPT are three-digit numbers and PS is a two-digit number; P,Q,R,S,T are distinct non-zero digits. If PQR−PS=PPT, Q=3 and T<6, how many possible ordered pairs (R,S) exist?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Digit puzzle
- A3BC and DE2F are four-digit numbers in which A,B,C,D,E,F are distinct digits greater than 3. Their sum is 15902. What is the absolute difference between A and D?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Digit Puzzle
- In the digit-sum puzzle • + 1• + 2• + •3 + •1 = 21•, what digit does • represent?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Digit Puzzle
- Examine the status of digitalisation in the Indian economy, the problems faced and possible improvements.2023 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Digital Economy
- Digital economy: A leveller or a source of economic inequality.2016 · Essay · Economy · Digital Economy
- How have digital initiatives in India contributed to the functioning of the education system in the country? Elaborate your answer.2020 · Mains GS1 · Society · Digital Education
- 'SWAYAM', an initiative of the Government of India, aims at2016 · Prelims GS1 · Social Issues · Digital Education
- Two runners move together 50 m. X then turns right for 60 m and later left for 50 m; Y turns left for 40 m and later right for 50 m. How far apart are they at the end?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction & displacement
- A woman drives 10 km south, 20 km east, 40 km north, 5 km east and 30 km south. What is the shortest distance from her final position to her start?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction & displacement
- A person walks 12 km north, 15 km east, 19 km west and then 15 km south. How far is he from the starting point?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Direction and Distance
- B is north of A and C is east of A. AB=5 km and AC=12 km. What is the shortest distance between B and C?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction and Distance
- A woman runs 12 km north, 6 km south and then 8 km east. Relative to the start, in which direction is she?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction sense
- A man walks 25 m behind his east-facing house, turns right and walks 50 m, then turns left and walks another 25 m. In which direction is he from the starting point?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction Sense
- A person X was driving where all roads run either north-south or east-west, forming a grid with parallel roads 1 km apart. He started at an intersection, drove 3 km north, 3 km west and 4 km south. Which further route could bring him back to the starting point without repeating the same route?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Direction Sense
- Shahid and Rohit start from the same point in opposite directions. After every 1 km Shahid turns left and Rohit turns right. Which statement is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Direction sense
- Shahid and Rohit start from the same point in opposite directions. After every 1 km Shahid turns left and Rohit turns right. Which statement is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction Sense
- There are six villages A, B, C, D, E and F. F is 1 km west of D; B 1 km east of E; A 2 km north of E; C 1 km east of A; D 1 km south of A. Which three villages are in a line?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Direction Sense
- Under the Indian Constitution, preventing concentration of wealth is most directly an objective of which constitutional category?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Directive Principles
- With reference to the Constitution of India, the Directive Principles of State Policy constitute limitations upon 1. legislative function 2. executive function. Which statement(s) is/are correct?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Directive Principles
- Consider the following statements regarding the Directive Principles of State Policy: 1. The Principles spell out the socio-economic democracy in the country. 2. The provisions contained in these Principles are not enforceable by any court. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Directive Principles
- In the Constitution of India, promotion of international peace and security is included in the2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Directive Principles
- According to the Constitution of India, which of the following are fundamental for the governance of the country?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance, Indian Polity · Directive Principles, Directive Principles of State Policy
- Which part of the Indian Constitution most explicitly contains the ideal of a welfare state?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Directive Principles of State Policy
- According to the Constitution of India, which of the following are fundamental for the governance of the country?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance, Indian Polity · Directive Principles, Directive Principles of State Policy
- Regarding disability policy in India: 1. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act was enacted in 2018. 2. Sugamya Bharat targets accessibility in built environment, transport and ICT. 3. NDFDC was set up under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Disability rights
- The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 remains only a legal document without intense sensitisation of government functionaries and citizens regarding disability. Comment.2022 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Disability Rights
- Does the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 ensure an effective mechanism for empowerment and inclusion of the intended beneficiaries in society? Discuss.2017 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Disability Rights
- Among the first 100 natural numbers, how many are not divisible by any of 2, 3, 5, 7 or 9?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Divisibility
- Two natural numbers differ by 10. What can be said about natural numbers divisible by 5 that lie strictly between them?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Divisibility
- The number 3798125P369 is divisible by 7. Which digit P satisfies the condition?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Divisibility
- A digit n is greater than 3, is divisible by 3, but is not divisible by 6. Which expression must be divisible by 4?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Divisibility
- The 8-digit number 4252746B is divisible by 3. How many possible decimal digits can B be?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Divisibility
- If R and S are different integers both divisible by 5, which of the following is not necessarily true?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Divisibility
- Passage: Most countries use 'double deflation', separately deflating input and output prices. With unchanged quantities and output prices, a fall in imported-oil prices should not change real value added; using one deflator for both may make productivity appear higher. Which statements are correct? 1. Real value should remain unchanged in the stated case. 2. Separate input/output deflators are universally used by all economies.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Double deflation
- From the deflation passage, evaluate assumptions: 1. A deflation method can make manufacturing performance appear better than it truly is. 2. 'Double deflation' means deflating both input and output against a single input-price index.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Double deflation
- E-governance projects have a built-in bias towards technology and back-end integration than user-centric designs. Examine.2025 · Mains GS2 · Governance · E-Governance
- E-governance has improved effectiveness, transparency and accountability. What inadequacies still limit these gains?2023 · Mains GS2 · Governance · E-Governance
- The emergence of Fourth Industrial Revolution has initiated e-Governance as an integral part of government. Discuss.2020 · Mains GS2 · Governance · E-Governance
- E-governance is not only about utilization of the power of new technology but also much about the critical importance of the use value of information. Explain.2018 · Mains GS2 · Polity · E Governance
- Which organisms are most likely to survive on a surface without developed soil: (1) fern; (2) lichen; (3) moss; (4) mushroom?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecological Succession
- In the grasslands, trees do not replace the grasses as a part of an ecological succession because of2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecological Succession, Grassland Ecology
- Which of the following leaf modifications occur(s) in desert areas to inhibit water loss? 1. Hard and waxy leaves 2. Tiny leaves 3. Thorns instead of leaves. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- How is the National Green Tribunal (NGT) different from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)? 1. The NGT has been established by an Act whereas the CPCB has been created by an executive order of the Government. 2. The NGT provides environmental justice and helps reduce the burden of litigation in the higher courts whereas the CPCB promotes cleanliness of streams and wells, and aims to improve the quality of air in the country. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Which of the following has/have shrunk immensely/dried up in the recent past due to human activities? 1. Aral Sea 2. Black Sea 3. Lake Baikal. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- With reference to the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. GACSA is an outcome of the Climate Summit held in Paris in 2015. 2. Membership of GACSA does not create any binding obligations. 3. India was instrumental in the creation of GACSA. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- With reference to the circumstances in Indian agriculture, the concept "Conservation Agriculture" assumes significance. Which of the following fall under Conservation Agriculture? 1. Avoiding monoculture practices 2. Adopting minimum tillage 3. Avoiding cultivation of plantation crops 4. Using crop residues to cover soil surface 5. Adopting spatial and temporal crop sequencing/crop rotations. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- The term "sixth mass extinction/sixth extinction" is often mentioned in the news in the context of discussion of:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Which of the following statements best describes "carbon fertilization"?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Which of the following is/are the possible consequence/s of heavy sand mining in riverbeds? 1. Decreased salinity in the river 2. Pollution of groundwater 3. Lowering of the water-table. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- With reference to agricultural soils, consider the following statements: 1. A high content of organic matter in soil drastically reduces its water-holding capacity. 2. Soil does not play any role in the sulphur cycle. 3. Irrigation over a period of time can contribute to the salinization of some agricultural lands. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a UN mechanism to assist countries transition towards greener and more inclusive economies, emerged at:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Why is a plant called Prosopis juliflora often mentioned in news?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Consider the following statements: 1. Most of the world's coral reefs are in tropical waters. 2. More than one-third of the world's coral reefs are located in the territories of Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. 3. Coral reefs host far more number of animal phyla than those hosted by tropical rainforests. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- "Momentum for Change: Climate Neutral Now" is an initiative launched by:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- In which one of the following States is Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary located?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Consider the following: 1. Birds 2. Dust blowing 3. Rain 4. Wind blowing. Which of the above spread plant diseases?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- With reference to organic farming in India, consider the following statements: 1. The National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) is operated under the guidelines and directions of the Union Ministry of Rural Development. 2. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) functions as the Secretariat for implementation of NPOP. 3. Sikkim has become India's first fully organic State. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Ecology, Agriculture & Climate
- Passage: In India, social inequality is acutely felt socially, while economic insecurity can be felt even more sharply than poverty. People just above the poverty line also face health, wealth, market and job risks, and many public policies seek to reduce such insecurity. What is the critical message?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Economic insecurity
- From the passage on economic insecurity, evaluate assumptions: I. People above the poverty line can also experience anxiety about economic insecurity. II. Eradicating poverty by itself can bring peace and social equality. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Economic insecurity
- With reference to investments, consider the following: I. Bonds II. Hedge Funds III. Stocks IV. Venture Capital. How many of the above are treated as Alternative Investment Funds?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Which of the following are the sources of income for the Reserve Bank of India? I. Buying and selling Government bonds II. Buying and selling foreign currency III. Pension fund management IV. Lending to private companies V. Printing and distributing currency notes2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: I. The Reserve Bank of India mandates all the listed companies in India to submit a Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR). II. In India, a company submitting a BRSR makes disclosures in the report that are largely non-financial in nature. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: In India, income from allied agricultural activities like poultry farming and wool rearing in rural areas is exempted from any tax. Statement II: In India, rural agricultural land is not considered a capital asset under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: I. India has joined the Minerals Security Partnership as a member. II. India is a resource-rich country in all the 30 critical minerals that it has identified. III. The Parliament in 2023 has amended the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 empowering the Central Government to exclusively auction mining lease and composite license for certain critical minerals. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: As regards returns from an investment in a company, generally, bondholders are considered to be relatively at lower risk than stockholders. Statement II: Bondholders are lenders to a company whereas stockholders are its owners. Statement III: For repayment purpose, bondholders are prioritized over stockholders by a company. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: I. India accounts for a very large portion of all equity option contracts traded globally thus exhibiting a great boom. II. India's stock market has grown rapidly in the recent past even overtaking Hong Kong's at some point of time. III. There is no regulatory body either to warn the small investors about the risks of options trading or to act on unregistered financial advisors in this regard. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: I. Capital receipts create a liability or cause a reduction in the assets of the Government. II. Borrowings and disinvestment are capital receipts. III. Interest received on loans creates a liability of the Government. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Suppose the revenue expenditure is Rs.80,000 crores and the revenue receipts of the Government are Rs.60,000 crores. The Government budget also shows borrowings of Rs.10,000 crores and interest payments of Rs.6,000 crores. Which of the following statements are correct? I. Revenue deficit is Rs.20,000 crores. II. Fiscal deficit is Rs.10,000 crores. III. Primary deficit is Rs.4,000 crores.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- A country's fiscal deficit stands at Rs.50,000 crores. It is receiving Rs.10,000 crores through non-debt creating capital receipts. The country's interest liabilities are Rs.1,500 crores. What is the gross primary deficit?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Which of the following statements with regard to recommendations of the 15th Finance Commission of India are correct? I. It has recommended grants of ₹ 4,800 crores from the year 2022-23 to the year 2025-26 for incentivizing States to enhance educational outcomes. II. 45% of the net proceeds of Union taxes are to be shared with States. III. ₹ 45,000 crores are to be kept as performance-based incentive for all States for carrying out agricultural reforms. IV. It reintroduced tax effort criteria to reward fiscal performance.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements in respect of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development(IBRD): I. It provides loans and guarantees to middle income countries. II. It works single-handedly to help developing countries to reduce poverty. III. It was established to help Europe rebuild after the World War II. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements in respect of RTGS and NEFT: I. In RTGS, the settlement time is instantaneous while in case of NEFT, is takes some time to settle payments. II. In RTGS, the customer is charged for inward transactions while that is not the case for NEFT. III. Operating hours for RTGS are restricted on certain days while this is not true for NEFT. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following countries: I. United Arab Emirates II. France III. Germany IV. Singapore V. Bangladesh. How many countries amongst the above are there other than India where international merchant payments are accepted under UPI?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following activities: I. Production of crude oil II. Refining, storage and distribution of petroleum III. Marketing and sale of petroleum products IV. Productions of natural gas. How many of the above activities are regulated by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board in our country?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following statements: 1. In India, Non-Banking Financial Companies can access the Liquidity Adjustment Facility window of the Reserve Bank of India. 2. In India, Foreign Institutional Investors can hold the Government Securities (G-Secs). 3. In India, Stock Exchanges can offer separate trading platforms for debts.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- In India, which of the following can trade in Corporate Bonds and Government Securities? 1. Insurance Companies 2. Pension Funds 3. Retail Investors2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- Consider the following: 1. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) 2. Motor vehicles 3. Currency swap. Which of the above is/are considered financial instruments?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- With reference to the sectors of the Indian economy, consider the following pairs: Economic activity: Sector. 1. Storage of agricultural produce: Secondary 2. Dairy farm: Primary 3. Mineral exploration: Tertiary 4. Weaving cloth: Secondary. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- With reference to physical capital in Indian economy, consider the following pairs: Items: Category. 1. Farmer's plough: Working capital 2. Computer: Fixed capital 3. Yarn used by the weaver: Fixed capital 4. Petrol: Working capital. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- With reference to the rule/rules imposed by the Reserve Bank of India while treating foreign banks, consider the following statements: 1. There is no minimum capital requirement for wholly owned banking subsidiaries in India. 2. For wholly owned banking subsidiaries in India, at least 50% of the board members should be Indian nationals.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- With reference to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rules in India, consider the following statements: 1. CSR rules specify that expenditures that benefit the company directly or its employees will not be considered as CSR activities. 2. CSR rules do not specify minimum spending on CSR activities.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- With reference to the Indian economy, "Collateral Borrowing and Lending Obligations" are the instruments of:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Social Development · Economics
- As per the NSSO 70th Round "Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households", consider the following statements: 1. Rajasthan has the highest percentage share of agricultural households among its rural households. 2. Out of the total agricultural households in the country, a little over 60 percent belong to OBCs. 3. In Kerala, a little over 60 percent of agricultural households reported to have received maximum income from sources other than agricultural activities. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Which one of the following best describes the term "Merchant Discount Rate" sometimes seen in news?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to India's decision to levy an equalisation tax of 6% on online advertisement services offered by non-resident entities, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It is introduced as a part of the Income Tax Act. 2. Non-resident entities that offer advertisement services in India can claim a tax credit in their home country under Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Review Committee Report has recommended a debt-to-GDP ratio of 60% for the general (combined) government by 2023, comprising 40% for the Central Government and 20% for State Governments. 2. The Central Government has domestic liabilities of 21% of GDP as compared to 49% of GDP of State Governments. 3. As per the Constitution of India, it is mandatory for a State to take the Central Government's consent for raising any loan if the former owes any outstanding liabilities to the latter. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: 1. The quantity of imported edible oils is more than the domestic production of edible oils in the last five years. 2. The Government does not impose any customs duty on all imported edible oils. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Which one of the following links all the ATMs in India?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: 1. Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) is the amount that banks have to maintain in the form of their own funds to offset any loss that banks incur if account-holders fail to repay dues. 2. CAR is decided by each individual bank. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to provisions made under the National Food Security Act, 2013, consider the following statements: 1. Families coming under the category of below poverty line (BPL) only are eligible to receive subsidised food grains. 2. The eldest woman in a household, of age 18 years or above, shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issuance of a ration card. 3. Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to a take-home ration of 1600 calories per day during pregnancy and for six months thereafter. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: 1. In India, State Governments do not have the power to auction non-coal mines. 2. Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand do not have gold mines. 3. Rajasthan has iron ore mines. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to digital payments, consider the following statements: 1. BHIM app allows the user to transfer money to anyone with a UPI-enabled bank account. 2. While a chip-PIN debit card has four factors of authentication, BHIM app has only two factors of authentication. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Which one of the following statements correctly describes the meaning of legal tender money?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- If a commodity is provided free to the public by the Government, then:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Increase in absolute and per capita real GNP do not connote a higher level of economic development, if:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: Human capital formation as a concept is better explained in terms of a process which enables: 1. individuals of a country to accumulate more capital 2. increasing the knowledge, skill levels and capacities of the people of the country 3. accumulation of tangible wealth 4. accumulation of intangible wealth. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Despite being a high-saving economy, capital formation may not result in significant increase in output due to:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Reserve Bank of India manages and services Government of India Securities but not any State Government Securities. 2. Treasury bills are issued by the Government of India and there are no treasury bills issued by State Governments. 3. Treasury bills are issued at a discount from the par value. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to solar power production in India, consider the following statements: 1. India is the third largest in the world in the manufacture of silicon wafers used in photovoltaic units. 2. Solar power tariffs are determined by the Solar Energy Corporation of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, consider the following statements: 1. It is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Labour and Employment. 2. It will, among other things, impart training in soft skills, entrepreneurship, financial and digital literacy. 3. It aims to align competencies of the unregulated workforce of the country to the National Skill Qualification Framework. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following: 1. Areca nut 2. Barley 3. Coffee 4. Finger millet 5. Groundnut 6. Sesamum 7. Turmeric. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has announced the Minimum Support Price for which of the above?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- With reference to the governance of public sector banking in India, consider the following statements: 1. Capital infusion into public sector banks by the Government of India has steadily increased in the last decade. 2. To put public sector banks in order, the merger of associate banks with the parent State Bank of India has been effected. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Consider the following items: 1. Cereal grains hulled 2. Chicken eggs cooked 3. Fish processed and canned 4. Newspapers containing advertising material. Which of the above items is/are exempted under GST (Goods and Services Tax)?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy & Development · Economy, Banking & Development
- Passage: Conserving an ecosystem exclusively for biodiversity can constrain livelihoods and commercial use, while exploitation can cause deforestation, floods, siltation and livelihood damage. These tensions are especially acute where people depend heavily on ecosystems. What is the critical message?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Ecosystem-livelihood trade-offs
- From the ecosystem-use passage, evaluate assumptions: I. No country needs ecosystems to boost national income. II. Resource-rich countries must share resources with resource-poor countries to prevent ecosystem degradation. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Ecosystem-livelihood trade-offs
- Passage: Exam-focused teaching is inadequate for future work, which needs critical and independent thinking, learning by doing, multidisciplinary questioning, evidence-based argument and reflection. Higher learning should teach how to think, and teaching must be reinvented. What best expresses the central idea?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Education
- From the higher-education passage, consider: I. Higher education must evolve with changing social and work demands. II. India does not allocate sufficient funds to higher education. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Education
- Education is not an injunction, it is an effective and pervasive tool for all-round development of an individual and social transformation. Examine the New Education Policy, 2020 in light of the above statement.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Education and Ethics
- National Education Policy 2020 is in conformity with Sustainable Development Goal 4. It intends to restructure and re-orient the education system in India. Critically examine the statement.2020 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Education and Ethics
- Neglect of primary health care and education in India are reasons for its backwardness2019 · Essay · Society · Education and Ethics
- Discuss the role of the Election Commission of India in light of the evolution of the Model Code of Conduct.2022 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Election Commission
- Consider: 1. Election Commission of India is a five-member body. 2. Union Home Ministry decides election schedules for general and bye-elections. 3. Election Commission resolves disputes relating to splits/mergers of recognised political parties. Which is/are correct?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Election Commission
- Examine the need for electoral reforms suggested by committees with reference to the one nation-one election principle.2024 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Electoral Reforms
- To enhance the quality of democracy in India, the Election Commission of India has proposed electoral reforms in 2016. What are the suggested reforms and how far are they significant to make democracy successful?2017 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Electoral Reforms
- Discuss whether EQ matters more than IQ for success and distinguish moral intuition from moral reasoning.2023 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Emotional Intelligence
- What are the main components of emotional intelligence? Can they be learned? Discuss.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence is the ability to make your emotions work for you instead of against you. Do you agree with this view? Discuss.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Emotional Intelligence
- What is emotional intelligence and how can it be developed in people? How does it help an individual in making ethical decisions?2013 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Emotional Intelligence
- Statement I: India still relies heavily on coal despite uranium deposits. Statement II: power generation requires uranium enriched to at least 60%. Choose the correct relation.2023 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Energy Resources
- In which of the following regions of India are shale gas resources found? 1. Cambay Basin 2. Cauvery Basin 3. Krishna-Godavari Basin. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Energy Resources
- The organisms "Cicada, Froghopper and Pond skater" are:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Many chewing gums found in the market are considered a source of environmental pollution. Statement-II: Many chewing gums contain plastic as gum base.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following pairs: Country: Animal found in its natural habitat. 1. Brazil: Indri 2. Indonesia: Elk 3. Madagascar: Bonobo. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following statements: 1. Lions do not have a particular breeding season. 2. Unlike most other big cats, cheetahs do not roar. 3. Unlike male lions, male leopards do not proclaim their territory by scent marking.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following: 1. Battery storage 2. Biomass generators 3. Fuel cells 4. Rooftop solar photovoltaic units. How many of the above are considered "Distributed Energy Resources"?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Which one of the following shows a unique relationship with an insect that has coevolved with it and that is the only insect that can pollinate this tree?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following: 1. Butterflies 2. Fish 3. Frogs. How many of the above have poisonous species among them?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following: 1. Cashew 2. Papaya 3. Red sanders. How many of the above trees are actually native to India?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- One of the following regions has the world’s largest tropical peatland, which holds about three years worth of global carbon emissions from fossil fuels; and the possible destruction of which can exert detrimental effect on the global climate. Which one of the following denotes that region?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- With reference to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that are used in making many consumer product, consider the following statements: 1. PFAS are found to be widespread in drinking water, food and food packaging material. 2. PFAS are not easily degraded in the environment. 3. Persistent exposure to PFAS can lead to bioaccumulation in animal bodies.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following: 1. Carabid beetles 2. Centipedes 3. Flies 4. Termites 5. Wasps. Parasitoid species are found how many of the above kind of organisms?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following plants: 1. Groundnut 2. Horse-gram 3. Soybean. How many of the above belong to the pea family?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following materials: 1. Agricultural residues 2. Corn grain 3. Wastewater treatment sludge 4. Wood mill waste. Which of the above can be used as feedstock for producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Which one of the following is the exhaust pipe emission from Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, powered by hydrogen?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment
- Consider the following: I. Cigarette butts II. Eyeglass lenses III. Car tyres. How many of them contain plastic?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following substances: I. Ethanol II. Nitroglycerine III. Urea. Coal gasification technology can be used in the production of how many of them?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Activated carbon is a good and an attractive tool to remove pollutants from effluent streams and to remediate contaminants from various industries. Statement II: Activated carbon exhibits a large surface area and a strong potential for adsorbing heavy metals. Statement III: Activated carbon can be easily synthesized from environmental wastes with high carbon content. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Studies indicate that carbon dioxide emissions from cement industry account for more than 5% of global carbon emissions. Statement II: Silica-bearing clay is mixed with limestone while manufacturing cement. Statement III: Limestone is converted into lime during clinker production for cement manufacturing. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: At the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP28), India refrained from signing the'Declaration on Climate and Health'. Statement II: The COP 28 Declaration on Climate and Health is a binding declaration; and if signed, it becomes mandatory to decarbonize health sector. Statement III: If India's health sector is decarbonized, the resilience of its health-care system may be compromised. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Scientific studies suggest that a shift is taking place in the Earth's rotation and axis. Statement II: Solar flares and associated coronal mass ejections bombarded the Earth's outermost atmosphere with tremendous amount of energy. Statement III: As the Earth's polar ice melts, the water tends to move towards the equator. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate change is frequently discussed in global discussions on sustainable development and climate change. Statement II: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate change sets out the principles of carbon markets. Statement III: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate change intends to promote inter-country non-market strategies to reach their climate targets. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Which one of the following launched the 'Nature Solutions Finance Hub for Asia and the Pacific'?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- With reference to'Direct Air Capture', an emerging technology, which of the following statements is/are correct? I. It can be used as a way of carbon sequestration. II. It can be a valuable approach for plastic production and in food processing. III. In aviation, it can be a source of carbon for combining with hydrogen to create synthetic low-carbon fuel.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Regarding Peacock tarantula(Gooty tarantula), consider the following statements: I. It is an omnivorous crustacean. II. Its natural habitat in India is only limited to some forest areas. III. In its natural habitat, it is an arboreal species. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: I. Carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions in India are less than 0.5 t CO2/ capita. II. In terms of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, India ranks second in Asia-Pacific region. III. Electricity and heat producers are the largest source of CO2 emissions in India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- With reference to the planet Earth, consider the following statements: I. Rain forests produce more oxygen than that produced by oceans. II. Marine phytoplankton and photo-synthetic bacteria produce about 50% of world's oxygen. III. Well-oxygenated surface water contains several folds higher oxygen than that in atmospheric air. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Circular economy reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases. Statement II: Circular economy reduces the use of raw materials as inputs. Statement III: Circular economy reduces wastage in the production process. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Artificial way of causing rainfall to reduce air pollution makes use of2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Which organization has enacted the Nature Restoration Law(NRL) to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Of the two major ethanol producers in the world, i.e., Brazil and the United States of America, the former produces more ethanol than the latter. Statement II: Unlike in the United States of America where corn is the principal feedstock for ethanol production, sugarcane is the principal feedstock for ethanol production in Brazil. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- The World Bank warned that India could become one of the first places where wet-bulb temperatures routinely exceed 35°C. Which of the following statements best reflect(s) the implication of the above-said report? I. Peninsular India will most likely suffer from flooding, tropical cyclones and droughts. II. The survival of animals including humans will be affected as shedding of their body heat through perspiration becomes difficult.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Environment & Ecology
- Which of the following is/are unique characteristic/characteristics of equatorial forests? 1. Presence of tall, closely set trees with crowns forming a continuous canopy 2. Coexistence of a large number of species 3. Presence of numerous varieties of epiphytes2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Equatorial Forests
- Which of the following is/are unique characteristic/characteristics of equatorial forests? 1. Presence of tall, closely set trees with crowns forming a continuous canopy 2. Coexistence of a large number of species 3. Presence of numerous varieties of epiphytes. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Equatorial Forests
- Explain the meaning of the quotations: “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do”; “If a country is to be corruption-free... father, mother and teacher”; and “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”2022 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Quotations
- Explain the meaning of the quotations: “Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding”; “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until and unless we obtain peace within ourselves”; and “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence.”2021 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Quotations
- What do the following quotations mean in the present context: the true rule is whether a thing has more evil than good; anger and intolerance are enemies of correct understanding; falsehood takes the place of truth when it results in unblemished common good.2018 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Quotations
- Interpret quotations of Vivekananda on learning, Sardar Patel on faith and strength, and Kant on law and ethics.2024 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Quotes
- Interpret quotations of Gandhi on kindness, Nehru on women’s awakening, and Vivekananda on love and hatred in the present context.2023 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Quotes
- What does this quotation mean to you: Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If not, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. - Swami Vivekananda.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- What does this quotation mean to you: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- What does this quotation mean to you: A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. - Socrates.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- What does this quotation mean to you: An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- What does this quotation mean to you: A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes. - M.K. Gandhi.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- What does this quotation mean to you: Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethical Thinkers
- As an office head, your close secretary seeks priority housing contrary to published rules. Which responses are considered appropriate under the 2013 decision-making key?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ethics and Administration
- You observe a transport clerk taking an unofficial payment while you are rushing to a meeting. Which responses are accepted as appropriate?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ethics and Administration
- A villager seeks urgent protection from a powerful landlord while you, the District Magistrate, are between meetings. Which responses are accepted as appropriate?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ethics and Administration
- A close friend asks you as District Magistrate to exceed a government sugar-allocation limit for his son's wedding. Which responses are accepted?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ethics and Administration
- The will to power exists, but it can be tamed and be guided by rationality and principles of moral duty. Examine this statement in the context of international relations.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethics in International Relations
- At the international level, bilateral relations between most nations are governed by promoting one’s own national interest without regard for the interests of other nations. This leads to conflicts and tension. How can ethical consideration help resolve such tensions? Discuss with specific examples.2015 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Ethics in International Relations
- Consider European trading settlements: (1) Dutch east-coast factories were on lands granted by Gajapati rulers; (2) Albuquerque captured Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate; (3) the English obtained Madras land from a representative of the Vijayanagara successor polity. Which are correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · European Trading Companies
- In the first quarter of the seventeenth century, at which of these places did the English East India Company have a factory: (1) Broach; (2) Chicacole; (3) Trichinopoly?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · European Trading Companies
- Which countries in the list are European Union members? 1. Belarus 2. Poland 3. Germany 4. Switzerland2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · European Union
- The term Digital Single Market Strategy seen in the news refers to2017 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · European Union
- Passage: An old man in tattered clothes drives heavily laden animals along an uneven road. A stray dog watches and then barks; the author’s two little sons stand still holding his hands firmly. The author’s children held his hands firmly because2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- From the same passage, the expression “a stray dog watched the procession philosophically” means that2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- Passage: Cynthia was a shy girl who thought herself plain and untalented. Her teacher required the class to audition for a school play. Cynthia nearly died of fright at the thought of performing, but during the audition gave an excellent performance. Cynthia was afraid to stand on stage because2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- From the Cynthia passage, her classmates were chatting because2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- From the Cynthia passage, Cynthia’s knees were quaking because2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- From the Cynthia passage, the transformation that occurred during the audition refers to2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Excluded English Comprehension
- Accountability, or the lack of it, in governance generally, and civil services in particular, is a major factor underlying deficiencies in governance and public administration. Designing an effective framework for accountability has been a key element of the reform agenda. A fundamental issue is whether civil services should be accountable to the political executive of the day or to society at large. In other words, how should internal and external accountability be reconciled? Internal accountability is sought through internal performance monitoring, official supervision by bodies like the Central Vigilance Commission and Comptroller and Auditor General, and judicial review of executive decisions. Articles 311 and 312 of the Constitution provide job security and safeguards to the civil services, especially the All India Services. The framers envisaged that these safeguards would produce a civil service not totally subservient to the political executive but strong enough to function in the larger public interest. The need to balance internal and external accountability is thus built into the Constitution. Over the years, emphasis seems to have tilted in favour of greater internal accountability to political leaders of the day, who in turn are expected to be externally accountable to society through elections. This system has not worked out and has led to adverse consequences for governance. Measures can be considered for improving accountability. Articles 311 and 312 should be reviewed and laws and regulations framed to ensure external accountability. The respective roles of professional civil services and political executive should be defined so professional managerial functions and management of civil services are depoliticized. Effective statutory civil service boards should be created at the Centre and in the States. Decentralization and devolution of authority to bring government and decision-making closer to people also helps enhance accountability.\n\nAccording to the passage, which one of the following is NOT a means of enhancing internal accountability of civil services?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Explicit Detail
- Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, this can be critical for a closed and populous economy whose domestic agriculture does not grow sufficiently, while an open growing economy with adequate foreign exchange may buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, supply-demand balance is indispensable for warding off hunger and starvation. Yet adequate global supply does not ensure food will move from surplus countries to deficit countries when the latter lack purchasing power. Uneven hunger and malnutrition are therefore concentrated in poorer economies. Worldwide food supply is gaining importance because the quantum and composition of demand are changing and countries' capabilities to maintain uninterrupted supplies are under strain. Food production, marketing and prices—especially affordability for the poor—need global thinking and solutions.\n\nAccording to the passage, the biggest challenge to world agriculture is:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Explicit Detail
- A natural number N can be written as N=p+q+r, where p, q and r are distinct factors of N. How many such N below 50 exist?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Factors
- Consider: I. There exists a natural number whose number of factors remains unchanged after a 50% increase. II. There exists a natural number whose number of factors remains unchanged after a 150% increase. Which statements are correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Factors
- Which feature most directly demonstrates the federal character of India's constitutional system?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Federalism
- From the resolution of contentious issues regarding the distribution of legislative powers by the courts, the Principle of Federal Supremacy and Harmonious Construction have emerged. Explain.2019 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Federalism
- Which one of the following is not a feature of Indian federalism?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Federalism
- Though the federal principle is dominant in our Constitution and that principle is one of its basic features, it is equally true that federalism under the Indian Constitution leans in favour of a strong Centre, a feature that militates against the concept of strong federalism. Discuss.2014 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Federalism
- For horizontal tax devolution, how many of these did the Fifteenth Finance Commission use besides population, area and income distance: demographic performance; forest/ecology; governance reforms; stable government; tax/fiscal effort?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Finance Commission
- How have the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission of India enabled the states to improve their fiscal position?2021 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Finance Commission
- How is the Finance Commission of India constituted? What do you know about the terms of reference of the recently constituted Finance Commission? Discuss.2018 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Finance Commission
- With reference to the Fourteenth Finance Commission, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It has increased the share of States in the central divisible pool from 32 percent to 42 percent. 2. It has made recommendations concerning sector-specific grants.2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Finance Commission
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana is necessary for bringing the unbanked to the institutional finance fold. Do you agree with this for financial inclusion of the poor section of Indian society? Give arguments to justify your opinion.2016 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Financial Inclusion
- “Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana” has been launched for2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Financial Inclusion
- From the same passage on savings and access to financial institutions, what is the crucial message?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Financial inclusion
- What facility/facilities can beneficiaries get from Business Correspondents (Bank Saathi) in branchless areas? 1. Draw subsidies and social-security benefits in their villages. 2. Make deposits and withdrawals in rural areas.2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Financial Inclusion
- Examine the evolving pattern of Centre-State financial relations in the context of planned development in India. How far have the recent reforms impacted the fiscal federalism in India?2025 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Fiscal Federalism
- Impact of the new economic measures on fiscal ties between the Union and States in India.2017 · Essay · Economy · Fiscal Federalism
- Which one of the following is the correct sequence of a food chain?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Food Chain
- With reference to food chains in ecosystems, consider the following statements: 1. A food chain illustrates the order in which a chain of organisms feed upon each other. 2. Food chains are found within the populations of a species. 3. A food chain illustrates the numbers of each organism which are eaten by others. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Food Chain, Food Chains
- Passage: As societies become wealthier, more grains and legumes are diverted to animal feed, yet converting plant calories into animal food is inefficient—only a small fraction returns as edible animal calories. What is the crux?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Food efficiency
- From the passage on plant-to-animal food conversion, consider assumptions: I. Food-processing industries everywhere should alter objectives with social needs. II. Wealthier societies can lose substantial food calories through indirect use of crops as animal feed. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Food efficiency
- Elaborate the scope and significance of the food processing industry in India.2022 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Food Processing
- What are the challenges and opportunities of food processing sector in the country? How can the income of the farmers be substantially increased by encouraging food processing?2020 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Food Processing
- Discuss the factors for localization of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.2019 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Food Processing
- Elaborate on the policy taken by the Government of India to meet the challenges of the food processing sector.2019 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Food Processing
- What are the reasons for poor acceptance of cost-effective small processing units? How will food processing units be helpful to uplift the socio-economic status of poor farmers?2017 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Food Processing
- What are the impediments in marketing and supply chain management in developing the food processing industry in India? Can e-commerce help in overcoming this bottleneck?2015 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Food Processing
- India moved from being a net food importer in the 1960s to a net food exporter. Provide reasons.2023 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Food Security
- What are the reformative steps taken by the government to make the food grain distribution system more effective?2019 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Food Security
- Passage: by 2050 population growth, changing diets, climate change and finite land/water will strain food supply; higher yields, efficiency and waste reduction are needed. What best summarizes it?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Food security
- Which Union ministry is the nodal ministry for implementing the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Forest Rights Act
- Under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, who shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Social Justice, Indian Polity · Forest Rights Act, Forest Rights Act 2006
- Which one of the following regions of India has a combination of mangrove forest, evergreen forest and deciduous forest?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Forest Types
- In India, in which one of the following types of forests is teak a dominant tree species?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Environment & Ecology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Forest Types
- If the same positive number is added to both numerator and denominator, which fraction among 2/3, 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6 undergoes the smallest change?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Fractions
- In a class there are 18 very tall boys. If these constitute three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of all students, what is the number of girls?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Fractions
- Which of the following statements is/are true of the Fundamental Duties of an Indian citizen? 1. A legislative process has been provided to enforce these duties. 2. They are correlative to legal duties.2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Fundamental Duties
- “To uphold and protect the Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity of India” is a provision made in the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Fundamental Duties
- The known forces of nature can be divided into four classes: gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force. Which one of the following statements is not correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Fundamental Forces
- The known forces of nature can be divided into four classes, viz., gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force. With reference to them, which one of the following statements is not correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Fundamental Forces
- The constitutional protection of the right to privacy in India is principally located within which Article?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Fundamental Rights
- Which one of the following statements is correct?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Fundamental Rights
- In the passage, the author says a thoughtless word hardly escapes his tongue or pen. Which is NOT a valid reason?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Gandhi on silence
- For the author, silence is necessary to overcome which tendency?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Gandhi on silence
- Define potential GDP and explain its determinants. What are the factors that have been inhibiting India from realizing its potential GDP?2020 · Mains GS3 · Economy · GDP
- Do you agree with the view that steady GDP growth and low inflation have left the Indian economy in good shape? Give reasons in support of your arguments.2019 · Mains GS3 · Economy · GDP
- With reference to Indian economy, consider: 1. The rate of growth of Real GDP has steadily increased in the last decade. 2. GDP at market prices in rupees has steadily increased in the last decade. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · GDP
- Which steps are required for constitutionalisation of a commission? Do you think imparting constitutionality to the National Commission for Women would ensure greater gender justice and empowerment in India? Give reasons.2020 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Gender
- Microfinance as an anti-poverty vaccine is aimed at asset creation and income security of the rural poor in India. Evaluate the role of Self Help Groups in achieving twin objectives along with empowering women in rural India.2020 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Gender
- Empowering women is the key to controlling population growth. Discuss.2019 · Mains GS1 · Society · Gender
- The reservation of seats for women in the institutions of local self-government has had a limited impact on the patriarchal character of the Indian political process. Comment.2019 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Gender
- What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?2019 · Mains GS1 · Society · Gender
- Explain constitutional perspectives on gender justice with relevant constitutional provisions and case law.2023 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Gender Justice
- What are the main factors responsible for gender inequality in India? Discuss the contribution of Savitribai Phule in this regard.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Gender Justice
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 replaced the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. 2. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is under the charge of the Director General of Health Services in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · General Studies
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Catalonia — Spain 2. Crimea — Hungary 3. Mindanao — Philippines 4. Oromia — Nigeria. Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2018 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · General Studies
- Consider the following countries: I. Bolivia II. Brazil III. Colombia IV. Ecuador V. Paraguay VI. Venezuela. Andes mountains pass through how many of the above countries?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following water bodies: I. Lake Tanganyika II. Lake Tonlé Sap III. Patos Lagoon. Through how many of them does the equator pass?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements about turmeric during the year 2022–23: I. India is the largest producer and exporter of turmeric in the world. II. More than 30 varieties of turmeric are grown in India. III. Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are major turmeric producing States in India. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Which of the following are the evidences of the phenomenon of continental drift? I. The belt of ancient rocks from Brazil coast matches with those from Western Africa. II. The gold deposits of Ghana are derived from the Brazil plateau when the two continents lay side by side. III. The Gondwana system of sediments from India is known to have its counterparts in six different landmasses of the Southern Hemisphere.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: The amount of dust particles in the atmosphere is more in subtropical and temperate areas than in equatorial and polar regions. Statement II: Subtropical and temperate areas have less dry winds. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: In January, in the Northern Hemisphere, the isotherms bend equatorward while crossing the landmasses, and poleward while crossing the oceans. Statement II: In January, the air over the oceans is warmer than that over the landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: In the context of effect of water on rocks, chalk is known as a very permeable rock whereas clay is known as quite an impermeable or least permeable rock. Statement II: Chalk is porous and hence can absorb water. Statement III: Clay is not at all porous. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: I. Without the atmosphere, temperature would be well below freezing point everywhere on the Earth's surface. II. Heat absorbed and trapped by the atmosphere maintains our planet's average temperature. III. Atmosphere's gases, like carbon dioxide, are particularly good at absorbing and trapping radiation. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- India is one of the founding members of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a multimodal transportation corridor, which will connect2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following countries: I. United Kingdom II. Denmark III. New Zealand IV. Australia V. Brazil. How many of the above countries have more than four time zones?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: I. Anadyr in Siberia and Nome in Alaska are a few kilometers from each other, but when people are waking up and getting set for breakfast in these cities, it would be different days. II. When it is Monday in Anadyr, it is Tuesday in Nome. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following pairs: Country - Resource-rich in. I. Botswana: Diamond II. Chile: Lithium III. Indonesia: Nickel. In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following pairs: Region - Country. I. Mallorca: Italy II. Normandy: Spain III. Sardinia: France. In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- The longest border between any two countries in the world is between:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following countries: 1. Italy 2. Japan 3. Nigeria 4. South Korea 5. South Africa. Which of the above countries are frequently mentioned in the media for their low birth rates, or ageing population of declining population?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Red Sea receives very little precipitation in any form. 2. No water enters the Red Sea from rivers.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: The atmosphere is heated more by incoming solar radiation than by terrestrial radiation. Statement-II: Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are good absorbers of long wave radiation.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Thickness of the troposphere at the equator is much greater as compared to poles. Statement-II: At the equator, heat is transported to great heights by strong convectional currents.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following: 1. Pyroclastic debris 2. Ash and dust 3. Nitrogen compounds 4. Sulphur compounds. How many of the above are products of volcanic eruptions?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Which of the following is/are correct inference/inferences from isothermal maps in the month of January? 1. The isotherms deviate to the north over the ocean and to the south over the continent. 2. The presence of cold ocean currents, Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift make the North Atlantic Ocean colder and the isotherms bend towards the north.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Which of the following countries are well known as the two largest cocoa producers in the world?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- With reference to the Himalayan rivers joining the Ganga downstream of Prayagraj from West to East, which one of the following sequences is correct?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Rainfall is one of the reasons for weathering of rocks. Statement II: Rain water contains carbon dioxide in solution. Statement-III: Rain water contains atmospheric oxygen.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following countries: 1. Finland 2. Germany 3. Norway 4. Russia. How many of the above countries have a border with the North Sea?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following information: Waterfall: Region: River. 1. Dhuandhar: Malwa: Narmada 2. Hundru: Chota Nagpur: Subarnarekha 3. Gersoppa: Western Ghats: Netravati. In how many of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following information: Region: Name of the mountain range: Type of mountain. 1. Central Asia: Vosges: Fold mountain 2. Europe: Alps: Block mountain 3. North America: Appalachians: Fold mountain 4. South America: Andes: Fold mountain. In how many of the above rows is the information correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- With reference to "water vapour", which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It is a gas, the amount of which decreases with altitude. 2. Its percentage is maximum at the poles.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- Consider the following description: 1. Annual and daily range of temperatures is low. 2. Precipitation occurs throughout the year. 3. Precipitation varies between 50 cm – 250 cm. What is this type of climate?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- With reference to "Coriolis force", which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It increases with increase in wind velocity. 2. It is maximum at the poles and is absent at the equator.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- On June 21 every year, which of the following latitude(s) experience(s) a sunlight of more than 12 hours? 1. Equator 2. Tropic of Cancer 3. Tropic of Capricorn 4. Arctic Circle2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- The total fertility rate in an economy is defined as:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Geography
- How many diagonals can be drawn in an octagon?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Geometry
- Twenty-four equally spaced points lie on a circle. What is the maximum number of equilateral triangles whose vertices are among those points?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Geometry
- Twelve equal squares form a 4-by-3 rectangle whose diagonal is 5 units. What is the area of each small square?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Geometry
- Under the Government of India Act 1919, which provincial subjects were 'reserved': (1) administration of justice; (2) local self-government; (3) land revenue; (4) police?2022 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Government of India Act 1919
- The Government of India Act of 1919 clearly defined2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Modern Indian History · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Government of India Act 1919
- Consider the following statements about the Rashtriya Gokul Mission: I. It is important for the upliftment of rural poor, as majority of low producing indigenous animals are with small and marginal farmers and landless labourers. II. It was initiated to promote indigenous cattle and buffalo rearing and conservation in a scientific and holistic manner. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Government Schemes
- Consider the following statements about 'PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana': I. It targets installation of one crore solar rooftop panels in the residential sector. II. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy aims to impart training on installation, operation, maintenance and repairs of solar rooftop systems at grassroot levels. III. It aims to create more than three lakhs skilled manpower through fresh skilling, and up-skilling, under scheme component of capacity building. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Government Schemes
- 'Recognition of Prior Learning Scheme' is sometimes mentioned in the news with reference to2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Government Schemes
- Velocity-time graphs are given for vehicles A and B; using the areas under the graphs, what is the ratio of distances covered in interval OL?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- From the six-month steel-import graph, by how many thousand tonnes did sheet-steel imports exceed coil-steel imports in the first three months?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- Using the same steel graph and the stated average price, what was the approximate total value of sheet steel imported over six months?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- Using the steel graph, what was the approximate ratio of sheet-steel to scrap-steel imports in the first three months?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- A graph compares planned and actual project progress over several months. Which statement is NOT correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- A graph shows population across successive years from 1990 to 2010. Which statement best describes the population-growth trend?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- Using the age/population trend graph, consider: 1. Population stabilized after about 35 years. 2. Population growth rate stabilized after about 35 years. 3. Death rate fell by 10% in the first 10 years. 4. Birth rate stabilized after about 35 years. Which are correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- Two graphs display the same earnings data on different vertical scales. Which observation is correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- A graph shows the composition of tax revenue. Consider: 1. The share of direct taxes rose while the share of indirect taxes fell. 2. The excise-duty trend proves manufacturing growth was negative. Which is valid?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Graphs
- Regarding green hydrogen: 1. Hydrogen from natural-gas reforming with carbon capture is green hydrogen. 2. Renewable-powered water electrolysis produces green hydrogen. 3. India's National Green Hydrogen Mission targets roughly 50 MMT annual GHG-abatement potential by 2030. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Green hydrogen
- How many statements about green hydrogen are correct: usable in internal-combustion engines; blendable with natural gas for heat/power; usable in fuel cells for vehicles?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Green Hydrogen
- Green hydrogen is expected to help decarbonise how many of these heavy industries: fertilizer plants, oil refineries and steel plants?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Green Hydrogen
- Passage: Renewable-energy costs often fall rapidly with scale and learning. Green innovation is path-dependent: the more firms do now, the more they can do later. Solar prices fell dramatically, and starting transition early and gradually reduces disruption compared with a late chaotic shift. What is the central idea?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Green transition
- From the passage on path-dependent green innovation, consider assumptions: I. Path-dependent green investment can plausibly support growth and public finances in a country such as India. II. If other green technologies repeat solar's cost decline, transition is likely to become easier. Which is/are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Green transition
- Enumerate the indirect taxes which have been subsumed in the Goods and Services Tax in India. Also, comment on the revenue implications of the GST introduced in India in July 2017.2019 · Mains GS3 · Economy · GST
- What is/are the most likely advantage/advantages of implementing Goods and Services Tax? 1. It will replace multiple taxes collected by multiple authorities and create a single market in India. 2. It will drastically reduce India's current account deficit and raise forex reserves. 3. It will enormously increase economic growth and enable India to overtake China in the near future.2017 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · GST
- Discuss the rationale for introducing Goods and Services Tax in India. Bring out critically the reasons for the delay in roll out for its regime.2013 · Mains GS3 · Economy · GST
- There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.2024 · Essay · Ethics · Happiness
- All human beings aspire for happiness. Do you agree? What does happiness mean to you? Explain with answers.2014 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Happiness
- Using straight measuring sticks of lengths 7.5 feet and 3.25 feet, what is the smallest length that can be measured exactly by repeated combinations of these lengths?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · HCF & Measurement
- What is the greatest possible length x such that both 3½ metres and 8¾ metres are exact integral multiples of x?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · HCF & Measurement
- For two distinct natural numbers, suppose HCF×LCM equals the cube of one of the numbers. I. Their difference must be even. II. One of the numbers must be a perfect square. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · HCF and LCM
- There are n distinct sets, each containing three positive integers, whose LCM is 1001 and HCF is 1. What can be said about n?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · HCF and LCM
- How will the melting of Himalayan glaciers have a far-reaching impact on the water resources of India?2020 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Himalayan Glaciers
- Bring out the relationship between the shrinking Himalayan glaciers and the symptoms of climate change in the Indian sub-continent.2014 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Himalayan Glaciers
- Which historical place–present State pairs are correctly matched? (1) Bhilsa—Madhya Pradesh; (2) Dwarasamudra—Maharashtra; (3) Girinagar—Gujarat; (4) Sthanesvara—Uttar Pradesh.2020 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Historical Geography
- Consider the following pairs of medieval Indian region and present State/region: 1. Champaka — Central India 2. Durgara — Jammu 3. Kuluta — Malabar. Which is/are correctly matched?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Medieval History · Historical Geography
- ಹೊಯ್ಸಳರ ಕಾಲದ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Hoysala Architecture
- ಹೊಯ್ಸಳರ ವಾಸ್ತು ಶಿಲ್ಪದ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯತೆ2019 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Hoysala Architecture
- Why has human development failed to keep pace with economic development in India?2023 · Mains GS1 · Society · Human Development
- Passage warns against focusing exclusively on economic growth and supports balanced investment in non-income dimensions of human development. Consider: I. A strong institutional framework is the only requirement for human development. II. Human development and economic growth are not always positively inter-related. III. Focusing only on human development should be the goal of economic growth. Which is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Human development
- Is inclusive growth possible under market economy? State the significance of financial inclusion in achieving economic growth in India.2022 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Inclusive Growth
- Explain intra-generational and inter-generational issues of equity from the perspective of inclusive growth and sustainable development.2020 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Inclusive Growth
- It is argued that the strategy of inclusive growth is intended to meet the objectives of inclusiveness and sustainability together. Comment on this statement.2019 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Inclusive Growth
- What are the salient features of inclusive growth? Has India been experiencing such a growth process? Analyze and suggest measures for inclusive growth.2017 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Inclusive Growth
- If the last few decades were of Asia’s growth story, the next few are expected to be of Africa’s. In the light of this statement, examine India’s influence in Africa in recent years.2021 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · India Africa Relations
- Consider the following statements: The India-Africa Summit 1. held in 2015 was the third such Summit 2. was actually initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · India-Africa Relations
- Increasing interest of India in Africa has its pros and cons. Critically examine.2015 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · India-Africa Relations
- Indian diaspora has scaled new heights in the West. Describe its economic and political benefits for India.2023 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · Indian Diaspora
- Indian diaspora has an important role to play in South-East Asian countries’ economy and society. Appraise the role of Indian diaspora in South-East Asia in this context.2017 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · Indian Diaspora
- He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Regarding Wood's Dispatch, which of the following statements are true? 1. Grants-in-Aid system was introduced. 2. Establishment of universities was recommended. 3. English as a medium of instruction at all levels of education was recommended. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Chapchar Kut festival — Mizoram 2. Khongjom Parba ballad — Manipur 3. Thang-Ta dance — Sikkim. Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- In the federation established by the Government of India Act of 1935, residuary powers were given to the:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- The well-known painting "Bani Thani" belongs to the:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- With reference to the cultural history of India, consider the following statements: 1. Most of the Tyagaraja Kritis are devotional songs in praise of Lord Krishna. 2. Tyagaraja created several new ragas. 3. Annamacharya and Tyagaraja are contemporaries. 4. Annamacharya kirtanas are devotional songs in praise of Lord Venkateswara. Which of the statements given above are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- After the Santhal Uprising subsided, what was/were the measure/measures taken by the colonial government? 1. The territories called Santhal Parganas were created. 2. It became illegal for a Santhal to transfer land to a non-Santhal. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Economically, one of the results of British rule in India in the 19th century was the:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Puthukkuli shawls — Tamil Nadu 2. Sujni embroidery — Maharashtra 3. Uppada Jamdani saris — Karnataka. Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- The staple commodities of export by the English East India Company from Bengal in the middle of the 18th century were:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Who among the following were the founders of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha established in 1948?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- With reference to religious practices in India, the "Sthanakvasi" sect belongs to:2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- With reference to the cultural history of India, consider the following statements: 1. White marble was used in making Buland Darwaza and Khankah at Fatehpur Sikri. 2. Red sandstone and marble were used in making Bara Imambara and Rumi Darwaza at Lucknow. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Which one of the following foreign travellers elaborately discussed diamonds and diamond mines of India?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- With reference to Indian history, who among the following is a future Buddha, yet to come to save the world?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India? 1. Charter Act of 1813 2. General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823 3. Orientalist and Anglicist controversy. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- In 1920, which of the following changed its name to "Swarajya Sabha"?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Which among the following events happened earliest?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- With reference to educational institutes during colonial rule in India, consider the following pairs: 1. Sanskrit College at Benaras — William Jones 2. Calcutta Madrasa — Warren Hastings 3. Fort William College — Arthur Wellesley. Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- Consider the following events: 1. The first democratically elected communist party government formed in a State in India. 2. India's then largest bank, Imperial Bank of India, was renamed State Bank of India. 3. Air India was nationalised and became the national carrier. 4. Goa became a part of independent India. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?2018 · Prelims GS1 · History & Art and Culture · Indian History & Culture
- How many statements about Amarkantak, Biligirirangan and Seshachalam hill-range locations are correct?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Indian Physiography
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Cardamom Hills — Coromandel Coast 2. Kaimur Hills — Konkan Coast 3. Mahadeo Hills — Central India 4. Mikir Hills — North-East India. Which of the above pairs are correctly matched?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Indian Physiography
- India's black cotton (regur) soil developed mainly through weathering of which parent material?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Geography & Agriculture · Indian Soils
- Which of the following statements regarding laterite soils of India are correct? 1. They are generally red in colour. 2. They are rich in nitrogen and potash. 3. They are well-developed in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. 4. Tapioca and cashew nuts grow well on these soils.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Indian Soils
- Which Harappan city is especially known for an elaborate water-management system of dams, channels and linked reservoirs?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Indus Valley Civilization
- To what extent has the urban planning and culture of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs to the present day urbanization? Discuss.2014 · Mains GS1 · Art & Culture · Indus Valley Civilization
- Which of the following characterize the people of Indus Civilization? 1. They possessed great palaces and temples. 2. They worshipped both male and female deities. 3. They employed horse-drawn chariots in warfare.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Ancient History · Indus Valley Civilization
- Which of the following characterizes/characterize the people of Indus Civilization? 1. They possessed great palaces and temples. 2. They worshipped both male and female deities. 3. They employed horse-drawn chariots in warfare. Select the correct statement/statements using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Ancient History · Indus Valley Civilization
- Account for the present location of iron and steel industries away from the source of raw material, by giving examples.2020 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Industrial Location
- Can the strategy of regional-resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?2019 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Industrial Location
- Why are copper-smelting plants an environmental concern? (1) they may release lethal quantities of carbon monoxide; (2) slag can leach heavy metals; (3) smelting can emit sulphur dioxide. Which are correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Industrial Pollution
- Which of the following are important pollutants released by the steel industry in India? 1. Oxides of sulphur 2. Oxides of nitrogen 3. Carbon monoxide 4. Carbon dioxide2014 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Industrial Pollution
- Consider: I. If A≤B>C E>F≥G=H, then B is always greater than E. II. If P>Q=R≥S=T≤U=V>W, then S is always less than V. Which statement(s) is/are correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Inequalities
- For a real number 0 x³. II. x>√x. Which is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Inequalities
- Given x ≥ 25 and y ≤ 40, which relation must always hold?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inequalities
- If Pen Cap, which statement is always true?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inequalities
- The price of a cow is more than the price of 4 goats but less than the price of 5 goats. Each goat costs between ₹600 and ₹800. Which statement about the cow's price is necessarily the most valid?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Inequalities
- Given S1: twice Sohan’s weight is less than Mohan’s or Rohan’s weight; S2: twice Rohan’s weight is greater than Mohan’s or Sohan’s. Which conclusion about the greatest weight is justified?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inequalities & Comparison
- Using the same Sohan–Mohan–Rohan weight statements, which person must be the lightest?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inequalities & Comparison
- There were 50 faculty members comprising 30 males and the rest females. No male faculty member knew music, but many female faculty members did. The Head invited six faculty members to a tea party by draw of lots. At the party it was discovered that no member knew music. The conclusion is that:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Inference
- Biomass as fuel for power, heat and transport has very high mitigation potential among renewable sources. It comes from agricultural and forest residues as well as energy crops. The biggest challenge in using biomass residues is securing a long-term reliable supply at reasonable cost; logistics and collection costs are key problems. Energy crops, if not managed properly, compete with food production and may affect food prices. Biomass production is also sensitive to climate change. Projections of its future role may be overestimated because sustainable supply is limited unless technology greatly raises productivity. Some climate models rely on biomass-based carbon capture and storage, an unproven technology, to achieve negative emissions. Some liquid biofuels such as corn-based ethanol may aggravate rather than reduce lifecycle carbon emissions; second-generation lignocellulosic biofuels hold promise but remain under development.\n\nWhich of the following can lead to a food-security problem? 1. Using agricultural and forest residues as feedstock for power generation 2. Using biomass for carbon capture and storage 3. Promoting cultivation of energy crops.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Biomass as fuel for power, heat and transport has very high mitigation potential among renewable sources. It comes from agricultural and forest residues as well as energy crops. The biggest challenge in using biomass residues is securing a long-term reliable supply at reasonable cost; logistics and collection costs are key problems. Energy crops, if not managed properly, compete with food production and may affect food prices. Biomass production is also sensitive to climate change. Projections of its future role may be overestimated because sustainable supply is limited unless technology greatly raises productivity. Some climate models rely on biomass-based carbon capture and storage, an unproven technology, to achieve negative emissions. Some liquid biofuels such as corn-based ethanol may aggravate rather than reduce lifecycle carbon emissions; second-generation lignocellulosic biofuels hold promise but remain under development.\n\nIn the context of using biomass, which of the following is/are characteristic/characteristics of sustainable production of biofuel? 1. Biomass could meet all primary energy requirements of the world by 2050. 2. Biomass need not disrupt food and forest resources. 3. Biomass could help achieve negative emissions, given certain nascent technologies.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity and economic growth. Crony capitalism, where the rich and influential are alleged to have received land, natural resources and licences in return for payoffs to venal politicians, is a major issue to be tackled. One of the greatest dangers to growth of developing economies like India is the middle-income trap where crony capitalism creates oligarchies that slow down growth.\n\nWhich among the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Climate adaptation may be rendered ineffective if policies are not designed in the context of other development concerns. For instance, a comprehensive strategy that seeks to improve food security in the context of climate change may include coordinated measures related to agricultural extension, crop diversification, integrated water and pest management and agricultural information services. Some of these measures may have to do with climate change and others with economic development.\n\nWhat is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Understanding the role of biodiversity in the hydrological cycle enables better policy-making. Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals, microorganisms and ecosystems in which they occur. Water and biodiversity are interdependent. The hydrological cycle influences how biodiversity functions; in turn, vegetation and soil drive the movement of water. Water passing through ecosystems is cleansed and made fit for consumption. The supply of water is a critical service that the environment provides.\n\nWhich among the following is the most critical inference that can be made from the above passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Safe and sustainable sanitation in slums has immeasurable benefits to women and girls in terms of health, safety, privacy and dignity. However, women do not feature in most schemes and policies on urban sanitation. The continued existence of manual scavenging shows that not enough has been done to promote pour-flush toilets and discontinue dry latrines. A sustained campaign towards the right to sanitation is needed, with abolition of manual scavenging as a primary focus.\n\nWith reference to the passage, consider the following statements: 1. Urban sanitation problems can be fully solved by abolition of manual scavenging only. 2. There is a need to promote greater awareness on safe sanitation practices in urban areas. Which statement(s) is/are correct?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. Nature created him for social life and fitted him for that station. His natural wants are greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants; and those wants impel individuals into society.\n\nWhich among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- About 15 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions come from agricultural practices, including nitrous oxide from fertilizers, methane from livestock, rice production and manure storage, and carbon dioxide from burning biomass. Forestry, land use and land-use change account for another substantial share, much of it from tropical deforestation. The remainder is largely from draining and burning tropical peatland; peatlands store enormous quantities of carbon.\n\nWhich among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- The conceptual difficulties in National Income comparisons between underdeveloped and industrialised countries are particularly serious because a part of the national output in various underdeveloped countries is produced without passing through commercial channels.\n\nIn the above statement, the author implies that:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- An increase in human-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could initiate a chain reaction between plants and microorganisms that would unsettle one of the largest carbon reservoirs on the planet—soil. Soil contains roughly twice the carbon present in plants and the atmosphere combined. Higher carbon dioxide can increase plant growth; roots of flourishing vegetation can stimulate microbial activity in soil, which may accelerate decomposition of soil carbon and its release back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.\n\nWhich among the following is the most logical corollary to the passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, this can be critical for a closed and populous economy whose domestic agriculture does not grow sufficiently, while an open growing economy with adequate foreign exchange may buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, supply-demand balance is indispensable for warding off hunger and starvation. Yet adequate global supply does not ensure food will move from surplus countries to deficit countries when the latter lack purchasing power. Uneven hunger and malnutrition are therefore concentrated in poorer economies. Worldwide food supply is gaining importance because the quantum and composition of demand are changing and countries' capabilities to maintain uninterrupted supplies are under strain. Food production, marketing and prices—especially affordability for the poor—need global thinking and solutions.\n\nAccording to the passage, which of the following helps/help in reducing hunger and starvation in developing economies? 1. Balancing demand and supply of food 2. Increasing imports of food 3. Increasing purchasing power of the poor 4. Changing food-consumption patterns and practices. Select the correct answer.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Inference
- Statements: some claim to have seen UFOs; life elsewhere is considered possible; space voyages are established. What can be concluded about UFOs?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Inference
- A passage argues that when people judge only their own religious denomination nothing seems wrong, but mutual judgment between denominations makes every faith appear wrong. What is the most logical assumption?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A passage says unrest and law-breaking arise more from a badly ordered state than innate wickedness, and citizens must be formed through sound laws. Which inference follows best?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A passage notes that computers increasingly control physical systems such as cars, medical devices and infrastructure, while connected devices may be no more trustworthy than desktops. What is the most critical inference?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A grassland-lighting experiment found that low-intensity amber artificial light inhibited flowering of a food plant and reduced aphid abundance. What is the most critical inference?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A passage says most people condemn deliberate lies except where truth may cause greater harm, and notes that even truthful people use words containing some deliberate falsehood. What idea is highlighted in the first part?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- From the same passage on semantic lies, which habit is said to occur more often even among generally truthful or good people?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A passage says Indian cities face climate vulnerability from dense populations and inadequate infrastructure and must address air quality, transport and citizen participation. What is the most rational inference?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- A passage says IBC resolution and bank recapitalization can help NPAs but cannot by themselves prevent reckless lending; future credit cycles need deeper systemic changes. What practical suggestion follows?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inference from passage
- Which one of the following best describes core inflation in macroeconomic analysis?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Inflation
- Demand-pull inflation can be generated or intensified by: (1) expansionary policies; (2) fiscal stimulus; (3) inflation-indexed wages; (4) greater purchasing power; (5) rising interest rates. Which combination is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Inflation
- With reference to inflation in India, which statement is correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Inflation
- Consider the following statements: 1. Inflation benefits the debtors. 2. Inflation benefits the bond-holders. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy, Economy · Inflation, Inflation and Distribution
- A rise in general level of prices may be caused by 1. an increase in the money supply 2. a decrease in the aggregate level of output 3. an increase in the effective demand. Select the correct answer.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Inflation
- With reference to National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, which statement(s) is/are correct? 1. It is an organ of NITI Aayog. 2. It has a corpus of Rs. 4,00,000 crore at present.2017 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Infrastructure Finance
- The Global Infrastructure Facility is a/an2017 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · Infrastructure Finance
- Discuss the world IPR scenario for life materials and why India has low commercialisation despite high patent filing.2024 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Intellectual Property Rights
- With reference to the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy, consider: 1. It reiterates India's commitment to the Doha Development Agenda and TRIPS Agreement. 2. Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is the nodal agency for regulating intellectual property rights in India. Which is/are correct?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Intellectual Property Rights
- Which one of the following issues the “Global Economic Prospects” report periodically?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · International Economic Reports
- Which organization brings out the publication known as World Economic Outlook?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · International Economic Reports
- The Rapid Financing Instrument and Rapid Credit Facility are emergency lending facilities of which international institution?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · International Financial Institutions
- Regarding the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), assess these statements: (1) its membership exceeds eighty countries; (2) India is its largest shareholder; (3) membership is confined to Asian countries. Which statement set is correct?2019 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · International Financial Institutions
- With reference to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), consider the following statements: 1. IMFC discusses matters of concern affecting the global economy and advises the International Monetary Fund on the direction of its work. 2. The World Bank participates as observer in IMFC meetings. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · International Financial Institutions
- What is/are the consequence/consequences of a country becoming a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group? 1. It will have access to the latest and most efficient nuclear technologies. 2. It automatically becomes a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- Very recently, in which of the following countries have lakhs of people either suffered from severe famine/acute malnutrition or died due to starvation caused by war/ethnic conflicts?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- The term "two-state solution" is sometimes mentioned in the news in the context of the affairs of:2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- India enacted the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 in order to comply with obligations to:2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- International Labour Organization's Conventions 138 and 182 are related to:2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- In the Indian context, what is the implication of ratifying the Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- Consider the following countries: 1. Australia 2. Canada 3. China 4. India 5. Japan 6. USA. Which of the above are among the free-trade partners of ASEAN?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Aleppo — Syria 2. Kirkuk — Yemen 3. Mosul — Palestine 4. Mazar-i-Sharif — Afghanistan. Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- What is "Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)", sometimes seen in the news?2018 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Security · International Organisations & Security
- Consider the following countries: I. Austria II. Bulgaria III. Croatia IV. Serbia V. Sweden VI. North Macedonia. How many of the above are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?2025 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following statements in respect of BIMSTEC: I. It is a regional organization consisting of seven member States till January 2025. II. It came into existence with the signing of the Dhaka Declaration, 1999. III. Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Nepal are founding member States of BIMSTEC. IV. In BIMSTEC, the subsector of'tourism' is being led by India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following pairs: I. International Year of the Woman Farmer: 2026 II. International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism: 2027 III. International Year of Peace and Trust: 2025 IV. International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence: 2029. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following statements with regard to BRICS; I. 16th BRICS Summit was held under the Chairship of Russia in Kazan. II. Indonesia has become a full member of BRICS. III. The theme of the 16th BRICS Summit was Strengthening Multiculturalism for Just Global Development and Security. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following statements: 1. India is a member of the International Grains Council. 2. A country needs to be a member of the International Grains Council for exporting or importing rice and wheat.2024 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: There is instability and worsening security situation in the Sahel region. Statement-II: There have been military takeovers/coups d'etat in several countries of the Sahel region in the recent past.2024 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Consider the following statements regarding World Toilet Organization: 1. It is one of the agencies of the United Nations. 2. World Toilet Summit, World Toilet Day and World Toilet College are the initiatives of this organization, to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. 3. The main focus of its function is to grant funds to the least developed countries and developing countries to achieve the end of open defecation.2024 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations & Current Affairs · International Relations
- Petrol price and monthly consumption are: ₹40→60 L, ₹50→48 L, ₹60→40 L, ₹75→32 L. If price becomes ₹80/L, expected consumption is?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Inverse proportion
- If x men working at constant rate complete a fixed job in y days, which diagram correctly represents x versus y?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Inverse Proportion
- What major challenges does India’s irrigation system face, and what measures have been taken for efficient irrigation management?2024 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Irrigation
- Which of the following is/are the advantage/advantages of practising drip irrigation? 1. Reduction in weed 2. Reduction in soil salinity 3. Reduction in soil erosion. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Irrigation
- The belief that souls exist not only in animals/plants but also in rocks, water and other natural objects reflects which ancient Indian tradition?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Jain Philosophy
- Which of the following statements is/are applicable to Jain doctrine? 1. The surest way of annihilating Karma is to practice penance. 2. Every object, even the smallest particle has a soul. 3. Karma is the bane of the soul and must be ended. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Jain Philosophy
- Which of the following is not one of Jainism's four principal gatis or forms of rebirth/existence?2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Jainism
- Which of the following statements is/are applicable to Jain doctrine? 1. The surest way of annihilating Karma is to practice penance. 2. Every object, even the smallest particle has a soul. 3. Karma is the bane of the soul and must be ended.2013 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Jainism
- Near jobless growth in India: An anomaly or an outcome of economic reforms.2016 · Essay · Economy · Jobless Growth
- The nature of economic growth in India in recent times is often described as a jobless growth. Do you agree with this view? Give arguments in favour of your answer.2015 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Jobless Growth
- The Indian Constitution has provisions for holding a joint session of the two houses of Parliament. Enumerate the occasions when this would normally happen and also the occasions when it cannot, with reasons thereof.2017 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Joint Sitting
- When a bill is referred to a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, it has to be passed by2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Joint Sitting
- Consider two propositions on constitutional review: (1) a High Court cannot invalidate a Central law on constitutional grounds; (2) a constitutional amendment cannot be judicially reviewed by the Supreme Court. Which proposition is correct?2019 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Judicial Review
- In India, Judicial Review implies2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Judicial Review
- What was held in the Coelho case? In this context, can you say that judicial review is of key importance amongst the basic features of the Constitution?2016 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Judicial Review
- Regarding the Indian judiciary, consider: (1) with the President's consent, the Chief Justice of India may request a retired Supreme Court judge to sit and act as a judge of the Supreme Court; (2) every High Court has the same express constitutional review power over its own judgments as the Supreme Court. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Judiciary
- The judicial system in India and UK seem to be converging as well as diverging in recent times. Highlight the key points of convergence and divergence between the two nations in terms of their judicial practices.2020 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Judiciary
- Passage: Under the JJ Act 2015, a child above16 may potentially be tried as an adult for a heinous offence, defined by a minimum punishment of seven years; the 2021 amendment classifies offences with no minimum but maximum of seven years or more as serious. Which conclusions are valid? 1. Only a serious offence justifies transfer to adult court. 2. Serious-offence classification in the stated category depends on maximum rather than minimum sentence.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Juvenile Justice Act
- Using the JJ Act passage, consider: 1. An offence with no prescribed minimum punishment cannot meet the 2015 definition of 'heinous'. 2. Under the 2021 amendment, an offence with no minimum but a maximum sentence of at least seven years is classified as serious. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Juvenile Justice Act
- Passage: Kalagram at the Maha Kumbh displayed seven regional 'Sanskriti Angans', temple-inspired thematic zones featuring Bengal Pattachitra, Assam bamboo craft, Tamil Nadu Thanjavur painting and Madhya Pradesh tribal sculpture, created by 230 master artisans. Which conclusions are valid? 1. Seven Sanskriti Angans represented different regions. 2. Regional artistry was recognized specifically through the temple inspiration. 3. Contemporary artisans used old techniques to shape representations of India's ancient heritage. 4. Art forms from every region of India were displayed.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Kalagram passage
- Using the Kalagram passage, which statement is NOT correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Kalagram passage
- ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಏಕೀಕರಣದ ಹೋರಾಟ2019 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Karnataka Unification Movement
- ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಏಕೀಕರಣ ಚಳುವಳಿಯ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಧೋರಣೆಗಳು2018 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Karnataka Unification Movement
- Under the 2018 amendment to the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, consider: (1) fixed-term employment made workforce separation easier when contracts expired; (2) termination notice was not required for temporary workmen in the specified categories. Which is correct?2019 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Labour Reforms
- India has a large youth surplus, but most of its labour force is in the unorganised sector and employment growth has slowed. Which is the most rational inference?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Labour Reforms
- What factors enabled successful implementation of land reforms in some parts of India?2024 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Land Reforms
- State the objectives and measures of land reforms in India and assess land ceiling as an effective economic reform.2023 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Land Reforms
- How did land reforms in some parts of the country help to improve the socio-economic conditions of marginal and small farmers?2021 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Land Reforms
- Discuss the role of land reforms in agricultural development. Identify the factors that were responsible for the success of land reforms in India.2016 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Land Reforms
- Establish the relationship between land reforms, agriculture productivity and elimination of poverty in the Indian economy. Discuss the difficulties in designing and implementation of agriculture-friendly land reforms in India.2013 · Mains GS3 · Agriculture · Land Reforms
- Distinguish between laws and rules. Discuss the role of ethics in formulating them.2020 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Law and Ethics
- Law and ethics are considered two tools for controlling human conduct to make it conducive to civilized social existence. Discuss how they achieve this objective and, with examples, show how they differ in their approaches.2016 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Law and Ethics
- X, Y and Z jump in steps of 4, 6 and 5 feet respectively. At 8 AM all are at mark 199. How many marks between 195 and 1000 can all three land on, not necessarily at the same time?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · LCM
- There are five hobby clubs in a college: photography, yachting, chess, electronics and gardening. Gardening meets every second day, electronics every third day, chess every fourth day, yachting every fifth day and photography every sixth day. How many times do all five groups meet on the same day within 180 days?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · LCM
- Five clubs meet every 2,3,4,5 and 6 days respectively. How many times do all meet on the same day within 180 days?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM
- Joseph visits a club every 5th day, Harsh every 24th day and Sumit every 9th day. If they meet on Sunday, on which weekday do they next all meet?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM & calendar
- Seeta swims with a gap of two days between visits; Geeta swims with a gap of three days. They both swim on 1 January. When do they next swim together?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM & Calendar
- What is the smallest integer greater than 1000 that leaves remainder 3 when divided by each of 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM & remainders
- What is the least four-digit number that leaves remainder 2 when divided by each of 3, 4, 5 and 6?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM & Remainders
- Five persons fire bullets at a target at intervals of 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 seconds respectively. The number of times they would fire together at the target in an hour is2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM and Time
- A bell rings every 18 minutes, a second every 24 minutes and a third every 32 minutes. If all ring together at 8:00 AM, when will they next ring together?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · LCM and Time
- The Government of India recently stated that Left Wing Extremism (LWE) will be eliminated by 2026. What do you understand by LWE and how are the people affected by it? What measures have been taken by the government to eliminate LWE?2025 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Left Wing Extremism
- What are the determinants of left-wing extremism in Eastern part of India? What strategy should Government of India, civil administration and security forces adopt to counter the threat in the affected areas?2020 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Left Wing Extremism
- Left-wing extremism is showing a downward trend but still affects many parts of the country. Briefly explain the Government of India’s approach to counter the challenges posed by LWE.2018 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Left Wing Extremism
- The persisting drives of the government for development of large industries in backward areas have resulted in isolating the tribal population and farmers who face multiple displacements. With Malkangiri and Naxalbari foci, discuss the corrective strategies needed to win the Left Wing Extremism doctrine affected citizens back into the mainstream of social and economic growth.2015 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Left Wing Extremism
- Fill the five blanks in AB_CC_A_BCCC_BBC_C so that the resulting letter sequence follows the intended pattern.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Letter series
- Fill the six blanks in the letter series _b_a_ba_b_abab_aab so that the full series follows a consistent repeating order.2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Letter series
- Complete the missing letters in the pattern: abab_b_bcb_dcdcded_d.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Letter Series
- Complete the pattern c_accaa_aa_bc_b by choosing the four letters that fill the blanks in order.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Letter Series
- Weights satisfy A+B+C+D=17, A+C=6, P+Q+S+D=15, P+Q+R+B=17, with P=R and Q=S. Which statement must be correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Linear equations
- A toy moves 5 feet forward for each forward jump and 2 feet backward for each backward jump. In 31 jumps it ends 15 feet ahead. What is the absolute difference between the numbers of forward and backward jumps?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Linear equations
- An exam awards +5 for correct and −2 for wrong. A student attempts all questions and scores69. Under an alternative +4/−1 scheme the same responses would score84. How many questions were there?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Linear equations
- Jay and Vijay spend equal amounts at the same shop. Jay buys 3 pens and 5 pencils; Vijay buys 2 pens and 7 pencils. What follows?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Linear equations
- A vessel weighs 40 kg when full of a liquid and 20 kg when one-third full. What is the weight of the empty vessel?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Linear Equations
- Rakesh and Rajesh together purchase 10 balls and 10 rackets for a combined ₹2,800. A racket costs three times as much as a ball. What is the price of one racket?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Linear Equations
- A paper is cut into three lengths. The first equals the average of the one-digit odd primes. The second equals the first plus one-third of the third, and the third equals the sum of the first two. What was the original total length?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Linear Equations
- There are some nectar-filled flowers on a tree and some bees hovering on it. If one bee lands on each flower, one bee is left out. If two bees land on each flower, one flower is left out. The numbers of flowers and bees respectively are:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Linear Equations
- In a parking area, total wheels of cars and two-wheelers are 100 more than twice the total number of vehicles. How many cars are parked?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Linear equations
- Analyse the role of local bodies in good governance and the pros and cons of merging rural and urban local bodies.2024 · Mains GS2 · Society · Local Governance
- In the absence of well-educated and organised local level government system, Panchayats and Samitis have remained mainly political institutions and not effective instrument of governance. Critically discuss.2015 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Local Governance
- The strength and sustenance of local institutions in India has shifted from their formative phase of functions, functionaries and funds to the contemporary stage of functionality. Highlight the critical challenges faced by local institutions in terms of their functionality in recent times.2020 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Local Government
- Local self-government can be best explained as an exercise in2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Local Government
- Four students A, B, C and D are each from different cities P, Q, R and S, study in different colleges—Science, Arts, Commerce and Engineering—and belong to different States Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam and Kerala. D is from Assam; the Arts college is in city S and Rajasthan; A studies Commerce; B is from city Q; the Science college is in Kerala. In which State is A?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Using the same student-city-college-State constraints, in which city is the Science college located?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Using the same student-city-college-State constraints, which statement correctly identifies C?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Using the same student-city-college-State constraints, which statement is correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Using the same student-city-college-State constraints, which statement about the Engineering college is correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Using the same student-city-college-State constraints, which statement is correct?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- Five people A-E belong to five cities P-T under given exclusions. Which statement is not correct?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logic Grid
- There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.\n\nWho is the doctor?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Logic Puzzle
- There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.\n\nWho is the artist?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Logic Puzzle
- There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.\n\nWho is the spouse of R?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Logic Puzzle
- There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.\n\nWho is the lawyer?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Logic Puzzle
- There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.\n\nWho of the following is definitely a man?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Logic Puzzle
- Two men, Anil and David, and two women, Shabnam and Rekha, are in a sales group. Only two speak Tamil and the other two speak Marathi. Only one man and one woman can drive. Shabnam speaks Marathi; Anil speaks Tamil; both Rekha and David can drive. Which statement is true?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Four persons A, B, C and D, consisting of two married couples, form a group. Both women are shorter than their respective husbands. A is tallest, C is taller than B, and D is B’s brother. Which statement is not correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are on a ladder. A is above E but below C; B is in the middle; G is between A and B; E is between B and F; F is between E and D. Who is on the bottom step?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Four children A, B, C and D sit in a row. A is next to B but not next to C. C is not next to D. Who occupies a seat adjacent to D?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- In a group of six women there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is certainly a dancer and a violinist?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- George attends Music on Monday, Mathematics on Wednesday, History on the day after Mathematics, Sports on Tuesday, and Literature is not on Friday. If he attends only one subject a day and Sunday is free, on which other day is he free?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- A, B, C, D, E and F are family members and their professions are engineer, stenographer, doctor, draughtsman, lawyer and judge. A, the engineer, is married to the lady stenographer; the judge is married to the lawyer; F, the draughtsman, is the son of B and brother of E; C, the lawyer, is daughter-in-law of D; E is the unmarried doctor; D is grandmother of F. What is the profession of B?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Using the same family-profession information, which is/are a married couple/couples?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Using the same family-profession information, what is the profession of D?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Arrangement
- Complete the patterned string A _ BCD _ BBCDABC _ DABC _ D. Which sequence fills the four blanks?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Let p,q be distinct odd positive integers and r,s distinct even positive integers. Which parity statements are correct: (1) (p−r)^2(qs) is even; (2) (q−s)q^2s is even; (3) (q+r)^2(p+s) is odd?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A person walks 100 m straight, turns left for 100 m, turns left again for 300 m, then turns right for 100 m. The final point is north-east of the starting point. In which direction did the person initially walk?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A person walks 100 m west, turns left and walks 100 m, then turns 225° clockwise. Which direction is the person now facing?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Statement: India is the world’s largest producer of milk. Conclusions: (1) India is necessarily the world’s largest milk exporter; (2) India therefore does not import milk or milk products. Which conclusion follows?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Data sufficiency: What are the natural-number values m and n? Statement I: m+n > mn and m>n. Statement II: mn=24.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Data sufficiency: What time is required to download a software file? Statement I: the file size is 12 MB. Statement II: the transfer rate is 2.4 KB per second.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Main statement: Pradeep becomes either a Director or a Producer. P: he is a Director; Q: he is a Producer; R: he is not a Director; S: he is not a Producer. Which ordered implication pair(s) are logically consistent with the main statement?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Let P mean >, Q mean <, R mean “not greater than” (≤), S mean “not less than” (≥), and T mean =. Consider: (1) if 2x S 3y and 3x T 4z, then 9y P 8z; (2) if x Q 2y and y R z, then x R z. Which statements are correct?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Four letters are randomly placed into four addressed envelopes. Consider: (1) exactly one letter can be wrongly placed; (2) there are six arrangements with exactly two letters correctly placed. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Among five positive integers p,q,r,s,t, exactly three are even and two odd. Consider: (1) p+q+r−s−t is definitely even; (2) 2p+q+2r−2s+t is definitely odd. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Given 7⊕9⊕10=8, 9⊕11⊕30=5 and 11⊕17⊕21=13 under the same rule, find 23⊕4⊕15.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A box contains 14 black, 20 blue, 26 green, 28 yellow, 38 red and 54 white balls. Consider two stated worst-case thresholds: 175 to force a full colour-group and 167 to force at least one of every colour. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- If the coding rule maps ZERO to CHUR, how is PLAYER coded?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Five age statements compare A,B,C,D,E,F. How many of the five statements are needed to determine the oldest person/persons?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A family has A,B,C,D,E. Given four statements about marriage, parentage and sibling relations, which information is sufficient to determine E’s relation to B?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Which number group differs from the others?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Forty children stand in a circle. Starting with child 1, the ring is passed with successively increasing jumps: 1→2, 2→4, 4→7, etc. After how many holders including child 1 does it return to child 1?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- In the sequence Z repeated twice, Y three times, X four times, W five times, and so on down to A, which letter occupies the middle term(s)?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Data sufficiency: Is p>q? Statement 1: pq>0. Statement 2: p²>q². Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Data sufficiency: Is p+q−r greater than p−q+r? Statement 1: p−q>0. Statement 2: p−r<0. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- At a party 75 took tea, 60 coffee, 15 both, nobody taking milk takes tea, and everyone took at least one drink. To find total attendance, Statement 1 says 50 took milk; Statement 2 says attendance is five times the number taking milk only. Which is sufficient?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Data sufficiency for an unknown 3-digit number: Statement 1 says sum of digits equals product; Statement 2 says number is divisible by its digit sum. Can the number be determined?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Five children have ages a<b<c<d<e with successive differences of 2 years. Find a. Statement 1: e=3a. Statement 2: average age is 8. Which is sufficient?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Five persons P,Q,R,S,T receive five distinct tasks. Neither P nor Q may take Task 1; Task 2 must go to R or S. How many assignments are possible?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Symbols mean: A+B=>, A−B=≤, A×B=≥, A÷B= Q.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Complete the patterned sequence ABC__ABC_DABBCD_ABCD with four missing letters.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Five candidates P,Q,R,S,T satisfy: exactly one of P,Q was selected; it is false that at least one of R,S was selected; at most two of R,S,T were selected. Conclusions: (1) at least four were selected; (2) S was selected. Which follows?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Statements satisfy: if P then Q and S; if R and S then not T. Conclusions: (1) if T is true, at least one of P and R must be false; (2) if Q is true, P is true. Which follows?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Arrange the letters of INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES in reverse alphabetical order. How many letter positions remain unchanged from the original word?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Six boys A, B, C, D, E and F play a game of cards. Each has a pack of 10 cards. F borrows 2 cards from A and gives away 5 to C, who in turn gives 3 to B while B gives 6 to D who passes on 1 to E. Then the number of cards possessed by D and E is equal to the number of cards possessed by:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Consider the following relationships among members of a family of six persons A, B, C, D, E, and F: 1. The number of males equals that of females. 2. A and E are sons of F. 3. D is the mother of two, one boy and one girl. 4. B is the son of A. 5. There is only one married couple in the family at present. Which one of the following inferences can be drawn from the above?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- If 2 boys and 2 girls are to be arranged in a row so that the girls are not next to each other, how many possible arrangements are there?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- The age of Mr. X last year was the square of a number and it would be the cube of a number next year. What is the least number of years he must wait for his age to become the cube of a number again?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- 15 students failed in a class of 52. After removing the names of failed students, a merit order list has been prepared in which the position of Ramesh is 22nd from the top. What is his position from the bottom?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A 2-digit number is reversed. The larger of the two numbers is divided by the smaller one. What is the largest possible remainder?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Consider the given statement and the two conclusions that follow: Statement: Morning walk is good for health. Conclusions: 1. All healthy people go for morning walk. 2. Morning walk is essential for maintaining good health. What is/are the valid conclusion/conclusions?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- P = (40% of A) + (65% of B) and Q = (50% of A) + (50% of B), where A is greater than B. In this context, which of the following statements is correct?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- In a test, Randhir obtained more marks than the total marks obtained by Kunal and Debu. The total marks obtained by Kunal and Shankar are more than those of Randhir. Sonal obtained more marks than Shankar. Neha obtained more marks than Randhir. Who amongst them obtained the highest marks?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Statement: Good voice is a natural gift but one has to keep practising to improve and excel well in the field of music. Conclusions: I. Natural gifts need nurturing and care. II. Even though one’s voice is not good, one can keep practising. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statement and conclusions?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Eight railway stations A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are connected either by two-way passages or one-way passages. One-way passages are from C to A, E to G, B to F, D to H, G to C, E to C, and H to G. Two-way passages are between A and E, G and B, F and D, and E and D. In how many different ways can a train travel from F to A without passing through any station more than once?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Eight railway stations A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are connected either by two-way passages or one-way passages. One-way passages are from C to A, E to G, B to F, D to H, G to C, E to C, and H to G. Two-way passages are between A and E, G and B, F and D, and E and D. If the route between G and C is closed, which one of the following stations need not be passed through while travelling from H to C?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Eight railway stations A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are connected either by two-way passages or one-way passages. One-way passages are from C to A, E to G, B to F, D to H, G to C, E to C, and H to G. Two-way passages are between A and E, G and B, F and D, and E and D. While travelling from C to H, which one of the following stations must be passed through?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- No supporters of 'party X', who knew Z and supported his campaign strategy, agreed for the alliance with 'party Y'; but some of them had friends in 'party Y'. With reference to the above information, consider the following statements: 1. Some supporters of 'party X' knew Z. 2. Some supporters of 'party X', who opposed Z’s campaign strategy, knew Z. 3. No supporters of 'party X' supported Z’s campaign strategy. Which of the statements given above is/are not correct?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- No supporters of 'party X', who knew Z and supported his campaign strategy, agreed for the alliance with 'party Y'; but some of them had friends in 'party Y'. With reference to the above information, which one among the following statements must be true?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are Lecturers from different cities — Hyderabad, Delhi, Shillong, Kanpur, Chennai, Mumbai, and Srinagar, not necessarily in the same order. Each one is specialized in a different subject: Economics, Commerce, History, Sociology, Geography, Mathematics, and Statistics. Further: 1. Lecturer from Kanpur is specialized in Geography. 2. Lecturer D is from Shillong. 3. Lecturer C from Delhi is specialized in Sociology. 4. Lecturer B is specialized in neither History nor Mathematics. 5. Lecturer A who is specialized in Economics does not belong to Hyderabad. 6. Lecturer F who is specialized in Commerce belongs to Srinagar. 7. Lecturer G who is specialized in Statistics belongs to Chennai. Who is specialized in Geography?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are Lecturers from different cities — Hyderabad, Delhi, Shillong, Kanpur, Chennai, Mumbai, and Srinagar, not necessarily in the same order. Each one is specialized in a different subject: Economics, Commerce, History, Sociology, Geography, Mathematics, and Statistics. Further: 1. Lecturer from Kanpur is specialized in Geography. 2. Lecturer D is from Shillong. 3. Lecturer C from Delhi is specialized in Sociology. 4. Lecturer B is specialized in neither History nor Mathematics. 5. Lecturer A who is specialized in Economics does not belong to Hyderabad. 6. Lecturer F who is specialized in Commerce belongs to Srinagar. 7. Lecturer G who is specialized in Statistics belongs to Chennai. Who of the following belongs to Hyderabad?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are Lecturers from different cities — Hyderabad, Delhi, Shillong, Kanpur, Chennai, Mumbai, and Srinagar, not necessarily in the same order. Each one is specialized in a different subject: Economics, Commerce, History, Sociology, Geography, Mathematics, and Statistics. Further: 1. Lecturer from Kanpur is specialized in Geography. 2. Lecturer D is from Shillong. 3. Lecturer C from Delhi is specialized in Sociology. 4. Lecturer B is specialized in neither History nor Mathematics. 5. Lecturer A who is specialized in Economics does not belong to Hyderabad. 6. Lecturer F who is specialized in Commerce belongs to Srinagar. 7. Lecturer G who is specialized in Statistics belongs to Chennai. To which city does the Lecturer specialized in Economics belong?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A society consists only of fighters and cowards. Two cowards are always enemies; a fighter and a coward are always enemies; fighters are indifferent to one another. If A and B are enemies, C and D are friends, E and F are indifferent, A and E are not enemies, while B and F are enemies, which statement is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Consider the statements: life on other heavenly bodies is considered possible and space voyage is an established fact. What can definitely be concluded about UFOs?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Statements: Lady’s finger is tastier than cabbage; cauliflower is tastier than lady’s finger; cabbage is not tastier than peas. What conclusion follows?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- If A runs less fast than B, and B runs as fast as but not faster than C, then compared with A, C runs2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- All good athletes want to win, and all athletes who want to win eat a well-balanced diet. What is the best conclusion?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Geeta says Naresh has become a better boxer since he started meditation. Radha replies that this is impossible because a boxer’s most important asset is aggressiveness. Radha’s statement reflects her belief that2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- Consider: 1. A man had a wife, two sons and two daughters in his family. 2. The daughters were invited to a feast and the male members went out for a picnic. 3. The man’s father did not return from work. Which statement is true?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- “Price is not the same thing as value. Suppose on a day the price of everything—coal, bread, postage, labour, rent, etc.—were to double. Prices would rise, but values of all things except one would not.” What does the writer mean?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- “Liberty is never real unless the Government can be called to account when it invades rights.” Which option best justifies this statement?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- A question paper must have a question on one of the eight poets: A, B, C, D, E, F, G or H. The first four belong to the medieval period while the rest are considered modern poets. Generally, modern poets figure in the question paper in alternate years. Generally those who like H like G also; and those who like F like E also. The paper-setter does not like to ask about F as he has written a book on F, but he likes F. Last year, the paper contained a question on A. On the basis of the information given, this year’s paper is most likely to contain a question on2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- “If political leadership fails to emerge, there is likelihood of military taking over power in developing countries. Radical student groups or labour may try to raise revolution but they are not likely to compete with the military. Military intervention, rule, and withdrawal from politics is closely related to a society’s level of political development.” In this context, the assumption is that2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Logical Reasoning
- According to the RTE passage, what is critical in bringing quality to education?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- What is the essential message of the RTE passage?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage describes the planet as a biological system and criticizes treating it like a giant shopping mall. What is the crucial inference?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage rejects the idea that leadership is purely innate. What does the author believe?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage reflects on science and the possibility of a happier world. Which statement best captures its message?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage discusses tension between WTO agricultural rules and India's public food-distribution and food-security policies. What is the central issue?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage reviews competing dieting claims and changing nutritional advice. What is its main message?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage discusses the industrial production of meat and its resource use and environmental impacts. What is the crucial message?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- The man who perpetually hesitates between two things will do neither; one who resolves but changes course at the first counter-suggestion accomplishes little. The person who consults wisely, resolves firmly and executes with perseverance can advance to eminence. The keynote of the passage is that:2017 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- There is no harm in cultivating non-injurious habits. Habits simplify the mechanism of life and enable us to do many things automatically. The author suggests that habits:2017 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- Accountability, or the lack of it, in governance generally, and civil services in particular, is a major factor underlying deficiencies in governance and public administration. Designing an effective framework for accountability has been a key element of the reform agenda. A fundamental issue is whether civil services should be accountable to the political executive of the day or to society at large. In other words, how should internal and external accountability be reconciled? Internal accountability is sought through internal performance monitoring, official supervision by bodies like the Central Vigilance Commission and Comptroller and Auditor General, and judicial review of executive decisions. Articles 311 and 312 of the Constitution provide job security and safeguards to the civil services, especially the All India Services. The framers envisaged that these safeguards would produce a civil service not totally subservient to the political executive but strong enough to function in the larger public interest. The need to balance internal and external accountability is thus built into the Constitution. Over the years, emphasis seems to have tilted in favour of greater internal accountability to political leaders of the day, who in turn are expected to be externally accountable to society through elections. This system has not worked out and has led to adverse consequences for governance. Measures can be considered for improving accountability. Articles 311 and 312 should be reviewed and laws and regulations framed to ensure external accountability. The respective roles of professional civil services and political executive should be defined so professional managerial functions and management of civil services are depoliticized. Effective statutory civil service boards should be created at the Centre and in the States. Decentralization and devolution of authority to bring government and decision-making closer to people also helps enhance accountability.\n\nWhich one of the following is the essential message implied by this passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- In general, religious traditions stress our duty to God, or to some universal ethical principle. Our duties to one another derive from these. The religious concept of rights is primarily derived from our relationship to this divinity or principle and the implication it has on our other relationships. This correspondence between rights and duties is critical to any further understanding of justice. But for justice to be practiced, rights and duties cannot remain formal abstractions. They must be grounded in a community bound together by a sense of common union. Even as a personal virtue, this solidarity is essential to the practice and understanding of justice.\n\nWhich one of the following is the crux of this passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- In the last decade, the banking sector has been restructured with a high degree of automation and products that mainly serve middle-class and upper-middle-class society. Today there is need for a new agenda for banking and non-banking financial services that does not exclude the common man.\n\nWhich one of the following is the message essentially implied in the passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- As we look to 2050, when we will need to feed two billion more people, the question of which diet is best takes on new urgency. The foods we choose to eat in coming decades will have dramatic ramifications for the planet. A diet revolving around meat and dairy—an eating pattern on the rise throughout the developing world—will take a greater toll on the world's resources than one revolving around unrefined grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables.\n\nWhat is the critical message conveyed by the passage?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Main Idea
- A passage challenges the idea that democracy is exclusively Western. Which option best reflects the author's view?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage says childhood malnutrition often results from inadequate awareness of young children's feeding needs. Which measure best reduces it?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- What observation follows from the agricultural-risk passage?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- What is the central theme of the agricultural-slurry/eutrophication passage?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- A passage argues that human misery persists until character and ignorance change. Which proposed reason best fits the passage?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Main Idea
- Why are mangroves particularly valuable for climate resilience? Consider: 1. They store freshwater and are ideal for paddy in saline estuaries. 2. Their salt-sensitive roots turn coastal land into freshwater aquaculture zones. 3. They absorb tidal/cyclonic energy while supporting coastal livelihoods. Which is correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Mangroves
- Discuss the causes of the depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.2019 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Mangroves
- Why is maritime security vital to protect India’s sea trade? Discuss maritime and coastal security challenges and the way forward.2025 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Maritime Security
- What are the maritime security challenges in India? Discuss organisational, technical and procedural initiatives taken to improve maritime security.2022 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Maritime Security
- ಮಾರ್ಕ್ಸ್ವಾದಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆಯ ಸ್ವರೂಪ ಮತ್ತು ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳನ್ನು ವಿವರಿಸಿ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Literary Theory · Marxist Literary Criticism
- ಮಾರ್ಕ್ಸ್ವಾದಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಪಶ್ಚಿಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆದ ಬಗೆಯನ್ನು ವಿವರಿಸಿ.2017 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Literary Criticism · Marxist Literary Criticism
- A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 60 equal smaller pieces using the minimum number of planar cuts. Consider: I. The minimum number of cuts is 9. II. Six smaller pieces have no painted face. Which is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Mensuration
- A piece of tin is a rectangle 12 cm by 8 cm and is used to construct a closed cube. The side of the cube is:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Mensuration
- A cylindrical overhead tank of radius 2 m and height 7 m is to be filled from an underground tank of size 5.5 m × 4 m × 6 m. What portion of the underground tank remains filled after the overhead tank is completely filled?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Mensuration
- Ilmenite and rutile in India’s coastal sands are important ores of which metal?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Mineral Resources
- Consider the following statements: 1. Natural gas occurs in the Gondwana beds. 2. Mica occurs in abundance in Kodarma. 3. Dharwars are famous for petroleum. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Mineral Resources, Mineral and Energy Resources
- Which of the following is/are correctly matched in terms of equivalent rank in the three services of Indian Defence forces? 1. Brigadier : Air Commodore : Commander 2. Major General : Air Vice Marshal : Vice Admiral 3. Major : Squadron Leader : Lieutenant Commander 4. Lieutenant Colonel : Group Captain : Captain2024 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · Miscellaneous (General Awareness)
- Who of the following is the author of the books “The India Way” and “Why Bharat Matters”?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · Miscellaneous (General Awareness)
- Missile statements: ballistic missiles are jet-propelled subsonically throughout while cruise missiles are initially rocket-powered; Agni-V is a medium-range cruise missile while BrahMos is an ICBM. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Missile Technology
- With reference to Agni-IV missile, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It is a surface-to-surface missile. 2. It is fuelled by liquid propellant only. 3. It can deliver one-tonne nuclear warheads about 7500 km away.2014 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Missile Technology
- Consider the following statements about Raja Ram Mohan Roy: I. He possessed great love and respect for the traditional philosophical systems of the East. II. He desired his countrymen to accept the rational and scientific approach and the principle of human dignity and social equality of all men and women. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Consider the following subjects with regard to Non-Cooperation Programme: I. Boycott of law-courts and foreign cloth II. Observance of strict non-violence III. Retention of titles and honours without using them in public IV. Establishment of Panchayats for settling disputes. How many of the above were parts of Non-Cooperation Programme?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Consider the following statements in respect of the Non-Cooperation Movement: I. The Congress declared the attainment of 'Swaraj' by all legitimate and peaceful means to be its objective. II. It was to be implemented in stages with civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes for the next stage only if 'Swaraj' did not come within a year and the Government resorted to repression. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- 'Sedition has become my religion' was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Who provided legal defence to the people arrested in the aftermath of Chauri Chaura incident?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Subsequent to which one of the following events, Gandhiji, who consistently opposed untouchability and appealed for its eradication from all spheres, decided to include the upliftment of 'Harijans' in his political and social programme?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Consider the following fruits: I. Papaya II. Pineapple III. Guava. How many of the above were introduced in India by the Portuguese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Who among the following was the founder of the 'Self-Respect Movement'?2025 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- Consider the following pairs: Party - Its Leader. 1. Bhartiya Jana Sangh - Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 2. Socialist Party - C. Rajagopalachari 3. Congress for Democracy - Jagjivan Ram 4. Swatantra Party - Acharya Narendra Dev. How many of the above are correctly matched?2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- With reference to the Government of India Act, 1935, consider the following statements: 1. It provided for the establishment of an All India Federation based on the union of the British Indian Provinces and Princely States. 2. Defence and Foreign Affairs were kept under the control of the federal legislature.2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- With reference to revenue collection by Cornwallis, consider the following statements: 1. Under the Ryotwari Settlement of revenue collection, the peasants were exempted from revenue payment in case of bad harvests or natural calamities. 2. Under the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, if the Zamindar failed to pay his revenues to the state, on or before the fixed date, he would be removed from his Zamindari.2024 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Modern History
- What is the remainder when 9^3 + 9^4 + ... + 9^100 is divided by 6?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Modular arithmetic
- What is the remainder when 51×27×35×62×75 is divided by 100?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Modular Arithmetic
- Statement I: many central banks raised rates after the pandemic. Statement II: central banks use monetary policy to counter rising consumer prices. Choose the relation.2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Monetary Policy
- Which RBI activity is part of monetary sterilisation?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Monetary Policy
- Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding the Monetary Policy Committee? 1. It decides RBI's benchmark interest rates. 2. It is a 12-member body including the RBI Governor and is reconstituted every year. 3. It functions under the chairmanship of the Union Finance Minister.2017 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Monetary Policy
- With reference to Indian economy, consider: 1. Bank Rate 2. Open market operations 3. Public debt 4. Public revenue. Which are components/instruments of Monetary Policy?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Monetary Policy
- An increase in the Bank Rate generally indicates that the2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy, Economy · Monetary Policy, Bank Rate and Monetary Policy
- Discuss how emerging technologies and globalisation contribute to money laundering. Elaborate measures to tackle the problem of money laundering both at national and international levels.2021 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Money Laundering
- Money laundering poses a serious threat to country’s economic sovereignty. What is its significance for India and what steps are required to be taken to control this menace?2013 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Money Laundering
- If ₹1,00,000 is withdrawn in cash from a demand-deposit account, what is the immediate effect on the economy’s aggregate money supply?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Money Supply & Banking
- Which change would generally raise the money multiplier in an economy?2019 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Money Supply & Banking
- What characteristics can be assigned to monsoon climate that succeeds in feeding more than 50 percent of the world population residing in Monsoon Asia?2017 · Mains GS1 · Environment · Monsoon Climate
- The seasonal reversal of winds is the typical characteristic of2014 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Monsoon Climate
- In Mughal administrative geography, what is the correct ascending order of territorial units by size?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Mughal Administration
- In Mughal administration, consider these proposed differences between jagirdars and zamindars: (1) jagirdars held land assignments in return for judicial and police duties, whereas zamindars merely collected revenue without other obligations; (2) jagirs were hereditary whereas zamindari revenue rights were not. Which is correct?2019 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Mughal Administration
- Mycorrhizal biotechnology has been used in rehabilitating degraded sites because mycorrhiza enables plants to 1. resist drought and increase absorptive area 2. tolerate extremes of pH 3. resist disease infestation. Select the correct answer.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Mycorrhiza
- Mycorrhizal biotechnology has been used in rehabilitating degraded sites because mycorrhiza enables the plants to 1. resist drought and increase absorptive area 2. tolerate extremes of pH 3. resist disease infestation. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Mycorrhiza
- ನಾಗಚಂದ್ರ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸಿರುವ ಉದಾತ್ತ ರಾವಣನ ಪಾತ್ರ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Old Kannada Literature · Nagachandra Ravana
- ನಾಗಚಂದ್ರ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿದ ರಾವಣ ಉದಾತ್ತ ಚಾರಿತ್ರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದವನಾಗಿ ಕಂಡುಬರುವ ಪ್ರಸಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ.2017 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Old Kannada Literature · Nagachandra Ravana
- ಹರಿಹರನ ‘ನಂಬಿಯಣ್ಣನ ರಗಳೆ’ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭಕ್ತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಶೃಂಗಾರ ರಸಗಳ ಜಟಾಪಟಿಯನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿ.2018 · Kannada Optional Paper II · Medieval Kannada Literature · Nambiyannana Ragale — Bhakti and Shringara
- ನಂಬಿಯಣ್ಣನ ರಗಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾಗಿರುವ ಭಕ್ತಿಯ ಸ್ವರೂಪ ಎಂತಹುದು? ಇದನ್ನು ಶೃಂಗಾರಕಾವ್ಯವೂ ಹೌದೆನ್ನಬಹುದೆ? ಸೋದಾಹರಣವಾಗಿ ವಿವರಿಸಿ.2017 · Kannada Optional Paper II · Kannada Literature · Nambiyannana Ragale — Bhakti and Shringara
- Regarding carbon nanotubes, consider: (1) they can carry drugs or antigens in the body; (2) they can form artificial blood capillaries for injured tissue; (3) they can be used in biochemical sensors; (4) some carbon nanotubes can be biodegradable. Which statements are correct?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Nanotechnology
- What do you understand by nanotechnology and how is it helping in the health sector?2020 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Nanotechnology
- Why is nanotechnology one of the key technologies of the 21st century? Describe the salient features of Indian Government’s Mission on Nanoscience and Technology and the scope of its application in the development process of the country.2016 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Nanotechnology
- Which comparison between the Eka Movement and Bardoli Satyagraha is accurate?2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · National movement
- Which factors contributed to Subhas Chandra Bose forming the Forward Bloc in 1939? 1. Failure to secure Gandhi's confidence. 2. Disunity of the Congress Left. 3. Complete non-support from Communists as the decisive cause. 4. Royists and socialist leaders prioritized Congress unity over Bose.2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · National movement
- Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.2019 · Mains GS1 · History · National Movement
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Corbett National Park : Ganga 2. Kaziranga National Park : Manas 3. Silent Valley National Park : Kaveri. Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · National Parks and Rivers
- Consider the following pairs: National Park : River flowing through the Park. 1. Corbett National Park : Ganga 2. Kaziranga National Park : Manas 3. Silent Valley National Park : Kaveri. Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · National Parks and Rivers
- Identify factors responsible for diversity of natural vegetation in India and assess the significance of wildlife sanctuaries in rainforest regions.2023 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Natural Vegetation
- Consider the following States: 1. Arunachal Pradesh 2. Himachal Pradesh 3. Mizoram. In which do Tropical Wet Evergreen Forests occur?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Natural Vegetation
- Cities P,Q,R,S,T are linked by specified boat, rail, bus and air routes. Which single mode lets one travel from Q to R without changing mode?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Network Reasoning
- Starting from P, a traveller visits every city in the given transport network and returns to P. Which city must be visited twice?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Network Reasoning
- In the same city network, which listed pair has no direct route between them?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Network Reasoning
- Which pair in the city network has the greatest number of travel-route options?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Network Reasoning
- How are the principles followed by NITI Aayog different from those followed by the erstwhile Planning Commission in India?2018 · Mains GS3 · Economy · NITI Aayog
- The Government of India established NITI Aayog to replace the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, NITI Aayog
- Which of the following adds/add nitrogen to the soil? 1. Excretion of urea by animals 2. Burning of coal by man 3. Death of vegetation2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Nitrogen Cycle
- Which of the following adds/add nitrogen to the soil? 1. Excretion of urea by animals 2. Burning of coal by man 3. Death of vegetation. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Nitrogen Cycle
- Two sequences use the same successive multipliers. If 8,4,6,15,52.5,… corresponds to 5,A,B,C,D,…, what is C?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number pattern
- A number-pattern diagram follows the same arithmetic relation in each row. What number replaces the question mark?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Pattern
- Consider the matrix: top row 3, 8, 10, 2, ?, 1; bottom row 6, 56, 90, 2, 20, 0. What is the missing number?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Pattern
- A 36-cm line is marked from both ends at cumulative distances 1, 1+2, 1+2+3 and so on. Endpoints are excluded and common points counted once. How many marked points are there?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Pattern
- Consider the original UPSC number table in which entries in each row bear a relationship. Figure: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pradheepvijayaraj/prep-loop/0bf10b67af88fca7ba78f324461296d218dfefc1/static/upsc/assets/csat/CSAT_2014_Q17_839dfebde4.png . Which number can replace X?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Pattern
- A number-pattern puzzle shows three figures. What number replaces the question mark?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Pattern
- A positive integer multiplied by 7 produces a number consisting entirely of digit 1s. What is the smallest such integer among the choices?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number properties
- Which statements are possible: 1 five consecutive integers can sum to 100; 2 the product of three consecutive natural numbers can equal their sum?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number properties
- How many integers from 1 to 100 contain the digit 4 but are not divisible by 4?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Properties
- X and Y are natural numbers greater than 1, with Y>X. Which expression is largest?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Properties
- A sequence starts 4,7 and every later term is the sum of the two preceding terms. What is the sixth term?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Number sequence
- In the concatenated sequence 12345678910111213..., what is the 489th digit?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Number sequence
- Find X in the sequence 24, X, 12, 18, 36, 90.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Number series
- Find X in 1, 3, 6, 11, 18, X, 42.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Number series
- Find the missing term in the sequence 3, 14, 39, 84, *, 258.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Series
- Find the next term in the sequence 20, 10, 10, 15, 30, 75, X.2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number series
- Find X in 2, 12, 36, 80, 150, X.2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number series
- In the sequence 3,2,7,4,13,10,21,18,31,28,43,40 the odd and even positions should follow analogous difference patterns. Which term should replace the incorrect one?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number series
- Find X in the sequence 2, 7, 22, 67, 202, X, 1822.2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number series
- The sequence 14, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, ... becomes a sequence of prime numbers after applying the same simple operation to each term. What is the next term?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Series
- Find the next term: 132, 129, 124, 117, 106, 93, X.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Series
- Find X in the alternating-square sequence: 4, 196, 16, 144, 36, 100, 64, X.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Series
- Find X in the series 7, X, 21, 31, 43.2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Number series
- What is the missing number X in the series 7, X, 21, 31, 43?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number Series
- While writing every integer from 1 through 1000, how many times does the digit 5 occur?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number System
- A two-digit number divided by the number formed by reversing its digits equals 4/7. How many valid two-digit number/reversal pairs satisfy this?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number System
- If ABC × DEED = ABCABC, where A, B, C, D and E are different digits, what are D and E?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Number System
- What are the forces that influence ocean currents? Describe their role in the fishing industry of the world.2022 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Ocean Currents
- What explains the eastward flow of the equatorial counter-current?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Geography · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Ocean Currents
- Explain the factors responsible for the origin of ocean currents. How do they influence regional climates, fishing and navigation?2015 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Ocean Currents
- Consider seabed mineral governance: (1) the Global Ocean Commission issues exploration/mining licences in international waters; (2) India holds licences for seabed mineral exploration beyond national jurisdiction; (3) rare-earth-bearing minerals occur on the international seafloor. Which are correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Geography & Agriculture · Ocean Resources
- Critically evaluate the various resources of the oceans which can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world.2014 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Ocean Resources
- x,y,z are distinct values chosen from 2,3,4,5. If M and N are the maximum and minimum of xy+z, what is M−N?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Optimization
- If 4≤x≤8 and 2≤y≤7, what is the ratio of the maximum value of (x+y) to the minimum value of (x−y)?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Optimization
- Let p+q=10. Value I is the maximum pq for positive integers p,q. Value II is the maximum pq when integers satisfy p≥−6 and q≥−4. Compare the values.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Optimization
- A family passage compares badminton ability among Lakshmi, her brother, son and daughter. Who is the best badminton player?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Four tests—Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology—are conducted on four consecutive days. Physics is held before the test conducted after Biology. Chemistry is conducted after exactly two tests have been held. Which is the last test?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Ordering
- A, B, C, D, E and F are cousins of different ages from 17 to 22, with birthdays on the same day and month. E is the oldest at 22. F is somewhere between B and D in age. A is older than B; C is older than D; A is one year older than C. Which is possible?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Using the same cousin-age conditions—A, B, C, D, E and F have distinct ages 17 to 22; E=22; F is between B and D; A>B; C>D; and A is one year older than C—what is the number of logically possible orders in increasing age?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Usha runs faster than Kamala; Priti runs slower than Swati; and Swati runs slower than Kamala. Who is the slowest runner?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Given: lady's finger is tastier than cabbage; cauliflower is tastier than lady's finger; cabbage is not tastier than peas. What conclusion follows?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Ordering
- Usha runs faster than Kamala; Priti slower than Swati; Swati slower than Kamala. Who is slowest?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Ordering
- A is taller than B, C is taller than A, D is taller than C, and E is tallest. If seated in height order, who occupies the middle position?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- A gets one unit less than B; C gets five more than D; D gets three more than B. Who gets the least money?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Geeta is older than Meena; Bipin is older than Geeta. Which conclusion follows?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ordering
- Regarding Revamped Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan: 1. Its implementation runs from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2026. 2. Its key purpose is to build PRI governance capacity for SDG delivery. 3. Central funding is 100% for every State and UT. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Panchayati Raj
- Consider the following statements: 1. The minimum age prescribed for any person to be a member of Panchayat is 25 years. 2. A Panchayat reconstituted after premature dissolution continues only for the remainder period. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Panchayati Raj
- The fundamental object of Panchayati Raj system is to ensure which among the following? 1. People’s participation in development 2. Political accountability 3. Democratic decentralization 4. Financial mobilization2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Panchayati Raj
- For integers x and y, is x even? Statement I: x²y² is even. Statement II: 1+x²+y² is odd.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Analytical Ability, Reasoning · Parity data sufficiency
- X contains odd numbers, Y contains even numbers, and every member of T comes from X or Y. Is every member of T from Y? I. The sum of any two members of T is even. II. For any p,q in T, (p−1)q is even.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Analytical Ability, Reasoning · Parity data sufficiency
- About Parliament's Committee on the Welfare of SCs/STs, consider: 1. Its chair is appointed by the Rajya Sabha Chairman. 2. It has 20 Rajya Sabha and 10 Lok Sabha members. 3. The Social Justice Minister may be a member although other ministers may not. 4. Members serve two-year terms. Which conclusion is correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Parliamentary committees
- Explain the structure of the Parliamentary Committee system and the contribution of financial committees to institutionalising Parliament.2023 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Parliamentary Committees
- Consider the following statements regarding Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Parliamentary Committees
- Why do you think the committees are considered useful for parliamentary work? Discuss, in this context, the role of the Estimates Committee.2018 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Parliamentary Committees
- Which one of the following is the largest Committee of Parliament?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Parliamentary Committees
- Which feature defines a parliamentary form of government?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Parliamentary Government
- The main advantage of the parliamentary form of government is that2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Parliamentary Government
- In the context of India, which of the following principles is/are implied institutionally in the parliamentary government? 1. Members of the Cabinet are Members of the Parliament. 2. Ministers hold office till they enjoy confidence in the Parliament. 3. Cabinet is headed by the Head of the State.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Parliamentary Government
- In the context of India, which of the following principles is/are implied institutionally in the parliamentary government? 1. Members of the Cabinet are Members of the Parliament. 2. Ministers hold the office till they enjoy confidence in the Parliament. 3. Cabinet is headed by the Head of the State. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Parliamentary Government
- Parliamentary questions: 1. Unstarred questions seek oral answers. 2. Starred questions seek written answers. 3. Supplementary questions cannot be asked on unstarred questions. Which conclusion is correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Parliamentary procedure
- Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. A bill pending in the Lok Sabha lapses on its prorogation. 2. A bill pending in the Rajya Sabha, which has not been passed by the Lok Sabha, shall not lapse on dissolution of the Lok Sabha. Select the correct answer using the code given below2016 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Parliamentary Procedure
- India adopted a Westminster-style parliamentary system, but consider these differences from Britain: (1) the British Parliament is legally sovereign, while India's Parliament is limited by a written Constitution and judicial review; (2) constitutional questions involving validity/amendment of parliamentary law may be decided by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Parliamentary System
- There is a Parliamentary System of Government in India because the2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Parliamentary System
- Passage: In a digital society, rights such as privacy and free expression require the State not only to abstain from interference but also to prevent private actors from blocking those rights. Assumptions: I the State needs institutions to discharge this role; II the State should prevent private actors from violating privacy; III a digital economy is incompatible with privacy. Which are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Future GM crops are likely to combine multiple traits; biotechnology regulation must consider socioeconomic effects, climate mitigation/adaptation, trade policy and international obligations. Assumptions: 1 regulation must evolve; 2 public participation is needed; 3 socioeconomic factors should enter decisions; 4 wider political-executive involvement helps address trade and treaty obligations. Which combination is valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Foreign private investment is volatile and cannot reliably carry the burden of job creation; technology transfer may also fail where domestic physical and human capital are weak. Assumptions: 1 long-term dependence on foreign investment is unsound; 2 policy should reduce the inherent volatility of foreign investment; 3 domestic private investment should be strengthened; 4 public investment should always take priority over private investment; 5 substantial public investment in education and health is needed. Which are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: People invest more in education when economic freedom lets them retain the additional income generated by education; higher taxation of that extra income weakens the incentive. Assumptions: 1 lower tax rates invariably encourage greater higher-education investment; 2 investing in children’s education guarantees economic freedom; 3 economic freedom positively builds human capital. Which is valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the urban-water passage, consider assumptions: 1 only rich cities can ensure sustainable water delivery; 2 sustainable water delivery involves more than simply supplying water to households. Which is valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: India’s poverty reduction accelerated when agricultural relative prices improved, private farm investment rose, agricultural GDP grew faster, trade surplus increased and real farm wages rose. Assumptions: 1 rural transformation is impossible with mainly small farms; 2 good price incentives can trigger farm investment; 3 high-value value chains are necessary; 4 higher global agricultural prices are important for poverty reduction. Which are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Reservoirs are often kept very full to maximise irrigation and electricity generation, although accepted reservoir practice keeps room for incoming monsoon water and regulated releases. Consider assumptions: (1) risks from maximum storage are linked to over-dependence on hydropower; (2) dam storage should not be fully utilised before or during the monsoon; (3) the flood-control role of dams is underestimated in India. Which assumptions are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the same liberalisation passage, consider assumptions: (1) India necessarily needs greater global integration to generate large-scale employment and sustainable growth; (2) liberalisation by itself produces enough growth to reduce poverty and provide sufficient long-term jobs. Which is valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Modern genome editing uses sequence-specific molecular tools to make precise changes in plant DNA and differs from conventional transgenic approaches that introduce genes from another organism. Consider assumptions: (1) Genome editing does not require transfer of genes from one plant to another. (2) Genome editing can alter chosen genes precisely in a way analogous to natural adaptation. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- From the protein-intake passage, which assumption is supported? (1) only animal protein is harmful; (2) acids in the body can be neutralised only by calcium; (3) animal protein is nutritionally superior to plant protein; (4) the conventional belief that ever-higher protein intake is beneficial is scientifically questionable.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- A bottle contains 20 litres of liquid A. Four litres are removed and replaced by four litres of liquid B. Again four litres of the resulting mixture are removed and replaced by four litres of B. What is the final ratio of A to B?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the hunting passage, which assumptions are supported? (1) the narrator’s companions killed animals only for food; (2) the companions were skilled hunters/trackers; (3) the companions had detailed practical knowledge of animal anatomy.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the preceding GM passage, consider assumptions: I corporate GM research gives inadequate attention to agricultural stresses caused by natural calamities; II GM technology will ultimately be incapable of addressing agriculture problems caused by global warming. Which assumption is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Child diarrhoeal deaths arise from many food- and water-safety failures, requiring regulation, monitoring, public awareness, trained inspectors and education of street vendors. Assumptions: I food safety needs a multipronged solution; II substantial investment in surveillance/training manpower is needed; III new legislation specifically for the food-processing industry is needed. Which are valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Climate policy may strand fossil-fuel reserves, increase taxes and regulation, and extreme weather can damage many industries. Assumptions: I governments and companies should prepare for climate change; II extreme weather will necessarily reduce future economic growth; III ignoring climate change creates major investment risk. Which are valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: School enrolment is nearly universal, but access to quality education varies sharply by socioeconomic status; RTE quotas in private schools triggered debate on equity and resistance among private actors. Assumptions: I equality of opportunity is necessarily the fundamental goal of the entire Indian education system; II the present school system does not provide egalitarian education; III abolishing private schools is the only way to achieve equality. Which is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- From the preceding regulation passage, assess assumptions: I regulations are generally ineffective at protecting local markets; II governments worldwide generally ignore social and environmental concerns when regulating. Which assumption is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the microbiome passage, consider: I processed probiotic foods are established as the solution for children with immature gut microbiomes; II babies of malnourished mothers tend to be malnourished. Which assumption is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Rapid warming on the western Antarctic Peninsula is melting glaciers; researchers link suspended sediments from melting to loss of benthic diversity. Assumptions: I all glacier regions warm faster than other regions; II global warming can increase seafloor sedimentation in some places; III melting glaciers can reduce marine biodiversity in some places. Which are valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Fossil remains at an owl roost suggest small-mammal communities stayed resilient through rapid natural warming about 13,000 years ago, but human-driven environmental change since the late nineteenth century sharply reduced biomass and ecosystem energy flow. Which assumption is valid? I global warming is frequently recurring; II future warming will not harm small mammals; III humans are responsible for loss of natural ecosystem resilience.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Crop diversity has collapsed as farming and food systems depend on fewer high-yield varieties; locally adapted varieties could become vital if disease or climate change damages dominant crops. Which assumptions are valid? I humans are the main cause of all large-scale plant-species extinction; II eating mainly locally cultivated crops supports crop diversity; III current production will certainly cause near-term food scarcity; IV future food security may depend on preserving local crop varieties.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- From the historical-injustice passage, assess assumptions: I removing economic discrimination automatically removes social discrimination; II democratic polity is necessarily the best method for repairing historical wrongs. Which is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Universities should cultivate both specialised knowledge and culture—thoughtfulness, beauty and human feeling—because information or expertise alone is incomplete. Assumptions: I no society can modernise without well-educated people; II an individual’s education is incomplete without culture. Which is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Fertile soil forms slowly but is rapidly lost by erosion; it also stores large quantities of carbon as organic matter. Assumptions: I soil erosion is a major demonstrated cause of worldwide food insecurity; II soil erosion is mainly human-caused; III sustainable soil management can help address climate change. Which is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: Inequality is visible and measurable, but the economic power organising it is often invisible; power’s influence is best seen through how it tilts observable outcomes. Assumptions: I economic power is the sole cause of inequality; II inequality necessarily reinforces power; III economic power can be studied more readily through its effects than by direct measurement. Which is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Passage: About 56 million years ago, a geologically rapid carbon release caused the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, bringing major warming, ecological disruption and a substantially altered biosphere before excess carbon was reabsorbed. Assumptions: I global warming can influence biological evolution; II separation of land masses itself causes huge carbon releases; III warming can change the composition of flora and fauna; IV current warming will necessarily recreate exactly the same conditions. Which are valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Assumptions
- Using the same biotechnology passage, what best captures its crux?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Crux
- Using the same agriculture-and-poverty passage, what is its critical message?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Crux
- Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, this can be critical for a closed and populous economy whose domestic agriculture does not grow sufficiently, while an open growing economy with adequate foreign exchange may buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, supply-demand balance is indispensable for warding off hunger and starvation. Yet adequate global supply does not ensure food will move from surplus countries to deficit countries when the latter lack purchasing power. Uneven hunger and malnutrition are therefore concentrated in poorer economies. Worldwide food supply is gaining importance because the quantum and composition of demand are changing and countries' capabilities to maintain uninterrupted supplies are under strain. Food production, marketing and prices—especially affordability for the poor—need global thinking and solutions.\n\nAccording to the passage, which of the following are fundamental solutions for the world food-security problem? 1. Setting up more agro-based industries 2. Improving price affordability by the poor 3. Regulating the conditions of marketing 4. Providing food subsidy to one and all. Select the correct answer.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Passage Detail
- Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, this can be critical for a closed and populous economy whose domestic agriculture does not grow sufficiently, while an open growing economy with adequate foreign exchange may buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, supply-demand balance is indispensable for warding off hunger and starvation. Yet adequate global supply does not ensure food will move from surplus countries to deficit countries when the latter lack purchasing power. Uneven hunger and malnutrition are therefore concentrated in poorer economies. Worldwide food supply is gaining importance because the quantum and composition of demand are changing and countries' capabilities to maintain uninterrupted supplies are under strain. Food production, marketing and prices—especially affordability for the poor—need global thinking and solutions.\n\nThe issue of worldwide supply of food has gained importance mainly because of: 1. Overgrowth of population worldwide 2. Sharp decline in the area of food production 3. Limitation in the capabilities for sustained supply of food. Select the correct answer.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Passage Detail
- In the Jim-and-bicycle passage, how did Jim's parents feel when he returned without the bicycle?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Why did Jim return the watch to the old man and boy?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- In the travellers passage, why did the narrator ask John to drive more slowly?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Why did the travellers leave for the next town despite darkness?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Why were the travellers worried after travelling about 20 km?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Why was the old lady told to walk on the pavement?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Why did the old lady refuse to leave the middle of the road?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Detail
- Passage: Workers leaving agriculture are moving largely into construction and informal manufacturing, while services are not creating enough additional jobs; health and education could fill much of the remaining employment gap. What is the best implication?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Water policy often treats water separately from rivers and wetlands, and engineering tends to augment supply rather than strengthen ecological systems. What is the most logical inference?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: No asset is risk-free, but extreme losses across jobs, homes, banks, bonds, governments and companies are unlikely to occur simultaneously. What investment suggestion is best implied?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India’s monsoon water is highly seasonal; much river flow remains unutilised and reaches the sea while droughts and floods coexist. Which are the most rational practical implications? 1 interlink rivers; 2 build a network of dams and canals; 3 subsidise borewells; 4 legally regulate farm-water use; 5 let the Union regulate all interregional river distribution.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Sustainable urban water supply requires costly source development, treatment, distribution, sewerage and sewage treatment; most cities cannot finance the full system themselves. What is the crucial message?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Ireland became dangerously dependent on a single potato variety, and a fungal disease devastated that crop, contributing to famine. What is the most important lesson?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India combines rapid economic growth with a very large burden of child malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes substantially to under-five mortality, while surviving children can suffer permanent physical and cognitive damage, stunting, poorer learning and lower lifetime earnings. Which measures are the most rational and practical implications? (1) Union-level monitoring of the PDS; (2) delaying marriage and first pregnancy; (3) immediate breastfeeding after birth; (4) safe drinking water and sanitation for all; (5) ensuring prescribed vaccination.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Paddy residue is often burned, while residues from pulse crops can be incorporated into soil and may improve it. Which conclusions are supported? (1) pulse cultivation causes less residue-burning pollution than paddy; (2) pulse straw can help improve soil quality.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India's economic liberalisation was shaped more by immediate government economic problems than by people's priorities or long-term development objectives. Experience exposed limitations in its design, including jobless growth, persistent poverty and inequality, while crises in agriculture, infrastructure, industrialisation and education constrain future development. Which inferences are rational? (1) The State's economic role needs to be rethought and redefined in the quest for development. (2) India has not effectively implemented policies or made sufficient investment in social sectors.2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Weak banks can become a burden on the economy, but closing or resolving them is politically and institutionally difficult, while repeated recapitalisation shifts losses to taxpayers. What is the central problem highlighted?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India has major solar potential and must reduce fossil-fuel use, but some renewable technologies are still moving down their cost and learning curves. India has committed to lower emissions and is pushing both a gas-based economy and renewable energy, while businesses remain cautious about investing heavily before technologies mature. What is the most logical inference?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Using the same passage on India's renewable-energy transition, consider assumptions: (1) Governments often provide inefficient and costly subsidies for technologies that may not be ready in the near future. (2) India's commitment to reduce emissions by 33% by 2030 will be based on a gas-based economy. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Using the genome-editing passage, assess: (1) conventional GM technology may deliberately modify genes and can introduce a gene from another species; (2) genome editing can modify an organism’s existing genome without necessarily introducing foreign DNA. Which is correct?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Article 25 guarantees freedom of conscience and the right to profess, practise and propagate religion, but expressly makes that freedom subject to public order, morality, health and other Fundamental Rights. What is the most logical inference?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A batsman's average after 50 innings was 46.4. After the 60th innings his overall average had increased by 2.6. What was his average score in the last ten innings?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: The author argues that corporate control and strong IPR incentives push GM research toward short-lived profit-oriented traits such as herbicide and pest resistance, while public needs include drought, salinity and other stress resistance. What is the central message?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Most introduced plant species in Britain are neither highly successful nor severely harmful; newcomers often increase local diversity and frequently occupy polluted or disturbed habitats where little else grows. What is the most defensible inference?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Conventional city development plans rely heavily on distant technical expertise and often exclude working and poor residents, their lived experiences and activities. What does the author advocate?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India’s GDP growth accelerated substantially while growth of organised-sector employment slowed, despite most people remaining outside that sector. Which implications are supported? I modern growth is substantially productivity/technology driven; II the modern economy is weakly linked to labour-intensive natural-resource livelihoods; III India’s service sector is generally not labour-intensive; IV literate rural people are unwilling to enter organised employment.2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Banking correspondents are crucial to financial inclusion, but need viable incentives, financial-literacy investment and capability to connect customers not only to bank accounts but also insurance and micro-pensions. What is the most important inference?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Cheap low-end Internet-of-Things devices are spreading rapidly through appliances, trackers, implants and vehicles, but adding strong security raises their cost and their explosive growth creates major security challenges. What is the key inference?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Developing countries generate large amounts of data that foreign firms can convert into proprietary digital intelligence and monopoly power; digital issues are increasingly entering trade negotiations. What policy corollary follows for India?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Using the same passage on data and digital intelligence, which proposition is most directly implied?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Small farmers contribute little to human-caused climate change but are highly exposed to droughts, floods, sea-level rise and changing water supplies; billions depend on small farms for food and livelihoods. What follows most logically?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- From the preceding climate-and-small-farm passage, consider: I India faces a potential food-security problem; II India needs stronger disaster-management capability. Which implication is valid?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Tuberculosis among poor Indians is intensified by undernutrition, poor housing, stigma, loss of work, expensive treatment, weak counselling/support and severe side effects that discourage treatment continuation. What is the crucial message?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: India needs a long-term collaborative regulatory system that considers jobs, growth, alternatives and unintended consequences; regulation should secure cost-justified social/environmental benefits while improving broad economic welfare. What is the crucial inference?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Malnourished children have less mature gut microbiomes; a sugar in breast milk feeds beneficial infant microbes, and malnourished mothers tend to have less of this sugar, contributing to immature microbiomes. What inference is most directly supported?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Historical injustices such as untouchability persist because they are embedded simultaneously in economic exploitation, discriminatory ideologies and social representation; different wrongs overlap and can become partly independent of one another. What is the main idea?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Passage: Climate change may help some crops but harm others through pests, drought and flooding; suitable growing zones may shift, while politics, demand and farm practices also influence yields. What is the most reasonable inference?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage notes that around 47% of India's population depends on agriculture and a large share will continue to do so. What is the most logical inference?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage says globalized food production gives consumers more choices but makes contamination harder to regulate and trace. What is the logical corollary?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A scientist says some questions are best addressed by science and some existential questions by faith. What inference follows?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- In a passage reflecting on India's past, why does the author want India to free herself from certain past bonds?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A Right-to-Education passage stresses quality, pedagogy and inclusion. Which is of paramount importance: parent attendance duty, physical infrastructure, or curricular reform for child-friendly learning?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A desertification passage links declining forest cover to erosion, smaller rivers, agricultural damage and groundwater decline. Which consequences are supported?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- From the desertification passage, which inference is valid: deforestation can alter river courses; salinization is only human-caused; monoculture explains desertification across all tropical continents?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A climate-adaptation passage emphasizes natural assets. Which help coping with climate change: conserve water sources, conserve a wider gene pool, retain existing crop-management practices, maintain migration corridors?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage notes that many households cook with biomass or coal, creating severe indoor air pollution. What is the strongest inference?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage discusses Arctic melting, new sea routes and access to resources. What is its most important implication?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage warns that agricultural monocultures reduce resilience to climate change. What is the strongest conclusion?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage about tiger conservation discusses moving tigers between protected habitats and maintaining connectivity. What is the strongest conclusion?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage describes forest fragmentation caused by mining, highways and other intrusions. What is its central focus?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why should continuity of forest landscapes and wildlife corridors be maintained? Consider preservation of biodiversity, management of minerals, and granting forest land for human use.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Which practice is supported by a passage on good corporate governance?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- According to the corporate-governance passage, which claimed benefits are supported: higher share price, rapid turnover growth, and being the main criterion for FII investment?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why does a passage argue that policy intervention is needed to mitigate agricultural risk?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A financial-markets passage cites weak global prospects, international-market uncertainty, Euro-area sovereign risk and bad monsoons. Which factors caused the adverse impact on emerging markets?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why are Indian financial markets affected by global changes?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why is banks' ability to withstand stress critical to India's overall financial stability?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why will risk and liquidity management become more important for Indian banks? Consider globalization, consolidation/deregulation, diversification, and financial inclusion.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage explains why crude-oil deposits below the seabed do not completely decompose. What prevents complete decomposition?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Why does sedimentary rock facilitate formation of oil deposits?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- From a passage on agricultural slurry, which reasons justify restricting slurry discharge into watercourses: economic nutrient loss; lack of decomposer microbes in water; eutrophication risk?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- In the slurry passage, what does the phrase 'pollutant to fertilizer' mean?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- According to the passage, effects of indiscriminate fertilizer use include pollutants, destruction of decomposers, nutrient enrichment and algal blooms. Which are supported?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- Which characteristics accompany cultural eutrophication: loss of ecosystem services; loss of flora/fauna; loss of mineral nutrients?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- What did the old lady fail to understand about liberty?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference
- A passage on evolution says natural selection cannot anticipate future environments. Which statements capture why: (1) inadequately prepared species may go extinct; (2) all existing species will become extinct because genomes cannot handle biological mishaps; (3) genomic inability to handle change can cause extinction; (4) extinction is a recurring feature of evolution?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage inference—evolution
- Passage: Human hands, mole forelimbs, horse legs, porpoise flippers and bat wings perform different jobs yet share the same underlying arrangement of bones. What scientific inference follows?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage Inference - Evolution
- A passage argues that fossil-fuel-dependent production and finite resources make present development patterns unsustainable. Which factors are identified as causes: (1) heavy dependence on fossil fuels; (2) limited resources; (3) expansion of recycling?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage inference—sustainable development
- According to the same passage, developed countries can help developing countries move toward sustainable human development through: (1) cheaper access to clean energy; (2) concessional support for public transport; (3) encouraging more sustainable production and consumption. Which option is accepted?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Passage inference—sustainable development
- A story describes Guleri's suicide after her husband Manak is remarried under family pressure because the couple had no child. What issue is the story primarily meant to sensitize readers about?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Patriarchy
- How does patriarchy impact the position of a middle-class working woman in India?2014 · Mains GS1 · Society · Patriarchy
- A person saves 10% of salary. Salary rises by12% while expenditure rises by10%. What happens to monthly saving?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Percentage
- Petrol rises by 10% from ₹90/litre. A person normally drives 2200 km per month in a car giving 16 km/litre. By how many kilometres must monthly travel be reduced to keep petrol spending unchanged?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Percentage
- A commodity price p is increased by k%, decreased by k%, then again increased by k% and decreased by k%. If the final price is q, which relation is correct?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Percentage
- In a class, 60% are Indian and 50% are girls. If 30% of Indian students are girls, what percentage of foreign students are boys?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- An article's price falls by 20% and the reduced price then rises by 25%. What is the net percentage change from the original?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A heavy block B placed on block A increases the weight by 60% relative to A alone. If B is removed, by what percentage does the combined weight A+B decrease?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A runner reaches the 12-km mark after completing 80% of a race. What is the total race distance?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- Raju has ₹9,000, which is 75% of a mobile phone’s price. He borrows another ₹2,000. Which statement is correct?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A scores 20 marks more than B. If B’s score is 5% lower than A’s, what is B’s score?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A student needs 40% to pass. He scores 30 marks and fails by 30 marks. What are the maximum marks?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- Anita's mathematics test had 70 equal-mark problems: 10 arithmetic, 30 algebra and 30 geometry. She answered 70% of arithmetic, 40% of algebra and 60% of geometry correctly. How many more questions would she need correct to reach 60% overall?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Percentages
- Two numbers X and Y are respectively 20% and 28% less than a third number Z. By what percentage is Y less than X?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Percentages
- Candidates in a competitive examination consisted of 60% men and 40% women. 70% of men and 75% of women cleared the qualifying test and entered the final test, where 80% of men and 70% of women were successful. Which statement is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A candidate attempted 8 questions, scoring 50% on each. His overall test score was 40%, with all questions equally weighted. How many questions were in the test?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Percentages
- In a test, a candidate attempted only 8 questions and secured 50% marks in each attempted question. If the candidate obtained 40% of the total marks and all questions carried equal marks, how many questions were there in the test?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A gardener increases a rectangular garden’s length by 40% and decreases its width by 20%. The new area2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A and B travel by bus. A has Rs.10, which is 80% of the total fare for two persons. B gives A another Rs.3. Which statement is correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A businessman must repay a loan in equal instalments without interest. After paying 18 instalments he has repaid 60% of the loan. How many instalments were agreed?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- For a charity show, 420 tickets were sold. Half were sold at Rs.5 each, one-third at Rs.3 each and the rest at Rs.2 each. What was the total amount received?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- A full petrol tank lasts 10 days. If daily use rises by 25%, how long will it last?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Percentages
- How many arrangements can be made from the letters of QUEUE if Q must always be immediately followed by U?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Permutations
- Three winners receive three distinct coloured blocks chosen from six colours, with no colour repeated. In how many ways can the colours be assigned?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Permutations
- There are five tasks and five persons. Task 1 cannot be assigned to Person 1 or Person 2. Task 2 must be assigned to either Person 3 or Person 4. Every person is assigned exactly one task. In how many ways can the assignment be done?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Permutations
- Among the following cities, which one lies on a longitude closest to that of Delhi?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Physical & Indian Geography
- Which one of the following is an artificial lake?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Physical & Indian Geography
- Twenty pipes of set X can fill 70% of a tank in 14 minutes. Ten pipes of set Y fill 3/8 of it in 6 minutes. Sixteen pipes of set Z can empty half the tank in 20 minutes. If only 10 X pipes and 5 Y pipes work while all Z pipes are open, how long is required to fill half the tank?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Pipes and cisterns
- Pipes A and B can fill a tank independently in 20 and 30 minutes. If opened together, how long do they take?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Pipes and cisterns
- Fruits stored in a cold chamber exhibit longer storage life because2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Plant Physiology, Plant Respiration and Cold Storage
- Many transplanted seedlings do not grow because2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Plant Physiology, Plant Transplantation
- Which statements about Indian State boundaries are incorrect? 1. Uttar Pradesh borders the greatest number of other Indian States. 2. Rajasthan has the longest international border among Indian States. 3. Sikkim is the only State bordering just one other Indian State.2026 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Political geography
- Among Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania, how many share a land border with Ukraine?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Political Geography
- Consider the following information about organizations and their functions: I. Directorate of Enforcement: Enforcement of Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 - Works under Internal Security Division-I, Ministry of Home Affairs II. Directorate of Revenue Intelligence: Enforces provisions of Customs Act, 1962 - Works under Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance III. Directorate General of Systems and Data Management: Carrying out big data analytics to assist tax officers - Works under Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. In how many of the above rows is the information correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: I. Panchayats at the intermediate level exist in all States. II. To be eligible to be a Member of a Panchayat at the intermediate level, a person should attain the age of thirty years. III. The Chief Minister of a State constitutes a commission to review the financial position of Panchayats at the intermediate levels and to make recommendations regarding the distribution of net proceeds of taxes and duties, leviable by the State, between the State and Panchayats at the intermediate level. Which of the statements given above are not correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements about Lokpal : I. The power of Lokpal applies to public servants of India, but not to the Indian public servants posted outside India. II. The Chairperson or a Member shall not be a Member of the Parliament or a Member of the Legislature of any State or Union Territory, and only the Chief Justice of India, whether incumbent or retired, has to be its Chairperson. III. The Chairperson or a Member shall not be a person of less than forty-five years of age on the date of assuming office as the Chairperson or Member, as the case may be. IV. Lokpal cannot inquire into the allegations of corruption against a sitting Prime Minister of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements with regard to pardoning power of the President of India: I. The exercise of this power by the President can be subjected to limited judicial review. II. The President can exercise this power without the advice of the Central Government. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: I. On the dissolution of the House of the People, the Speaker shall not vacate his/her office until immediately before the first meeting of the House of the People after the dissolution. II. According to the provisions of the Constitution of India, a Member of the House of the People on being elected as Speaker shall resign from his/her political party. III. The Speaker of the House of the People may be removed from his/her office by a resolution of the House of the People passed by a majority of all the then Members of the House, provided that no resolution shall be moved unless at least fourteen days' notice has been given of the intention to move the resolution. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: I. If any question arises as to whether a Member of the House of the People has become subject to disqualification under the 10th Schedule, the President's decision in accordance with the opinion of the Council of Union Ministers shall be final. II. There is no mention of the word'political party' in the Constitution of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: In India, State Governments have no power for making rules for grant of concessions in respect of extraction of minor minerals even though such minerals are located in their territories. Statement II: In India, the Central Government has the power to notify minor minerals under the relevant law. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to the Indian polity, consider the following statements : I. An Ordinance can amend any Central Act. II. An Ordinance can abridge a Fundamental Right. III. An Ordinance can come into effect from a back date. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following pairs: State - Description. I. Arunachal Pradesh : The capital is named after a fort, and the State has two National Parks II. Nagaland : The State came into existence on the basis of a Constitutional Amendment Act III. Tripura : Initially a Part 'C' State, it became a centrally administered territory with the reorganization of States in 1956 and later attained the status of a full-fledged State. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to India, consider the following: I. The Inter-State Council II. The National Security Council III. Zonal Councils. How many of the above are established as per the provisions of the Constitution of India?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: I. The Constitution of India explicitly mentions that in certain spheres the Governor of a State acts in his/her own discretion. II. The President of India can, of his/her own, reserve a bill passed by a State Legislature for his/her consideration without it being forwarded by the Governor of the State concerned. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following pairs: Provision in the Constitution of India - Stated under. I. Separation of Judiciary from the Executive in the public services of the State: The Directive Principles of the State Policy II. Valuing and preserving of the rich heritage of our composite culture: The Fundamental Duties III. Prohibition of employment of children below the age of 14 years in factories: The Fundamental Rights. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: With reference to the Constitution of India, if an area in a State is declared as Scheduled Area under the Fifth Schedule I. the State Government loses its executive power in such areas and a local body assumes total administration II. the Union Government can take over the total administration of such areas under certain circumstances on the recommendations of the Governor. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to India, consider the following pairs: Organization - Union Ministry. I. The National Automotive Board: Ministry of Commerce and Industry II. The Coir Board: Ministry of Heavy Industries III. The National Centre for Trade Information: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following subjects under the Constitution of India: I. List I-Union List, in the Sevent Schedule II. Extent of the executive power of a State III. Conditions of the Governor's office. For a constitutional amendment with respect to which of the above, ratification by the Legislatures of not less than one-half of the States is required before presenting the bill to the President of India for assent?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to the Indian polity, consider the following statements : I. The Governor of a State is not answerable to any court for the exercise and performance of the powers and duties of his/her office. II. No criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued against the Governor during his/her term of office. III. Members of a State Legislature are not liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of anything said within the House. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- How many Delimitation Commissions have been constituted by the Government of India till December 2023?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- The Constitution (71st Amendment) Act, 1992 amends the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution to include which of the following languages? 1. Konkani 2. Manipuri 3. Nepali 4. Maithili2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Which of the following statements are correct about the Constitution of India? 1. Powers of the Municipalities are given in Part IX A of the Constitution. 2. Emergency provisions are given in Part XVIII of the Constitution. 3. Provisions related to the amendment of the Constitution are given in Part XX of the Constitution.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Which one of the following statements is correct as per the Constitution of India?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India, has the Supreme Court of India placed the Right to Privacy?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Who was the Provisional President of the Constituent Assembly before Dr. Rajendra Prasad took over?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- As per Article 368 of the Constitution of India, the Parliament may amend any provision of the Constitution by way of: 1. Addition 2. Variation 3. Repeal2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Which of the following statements are correct in respect of a Money Bill in the Parliament? 1. Article 109 mentions special procedure in respect of Money Bills. 2. A Money Bill shall not be introduced in the Council of States. 3. The Rajya Sabha can either approve the Bill or suggest changes but cannot reject it. 4. Amendment to a Money Bill suggested by the Rajya Sabha have to be accepted by the Lok Sabha.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- The North Eastern Council (NEC) was established by the North Eastern Council Act, 1971. Subsequent to the amendment of NEC Act in 2002, the Council comprises which of the following members? 1. Governor of the Constituent State 2. Chief Minister of the Constituent State 3. Three Members to be nominated by the President of India 4. The Home Minister of India2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- A Writ of Prohibition is an order issued by the Supreme Court or High Courts to:2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Consider the following statements: 1. It is the Governor of the State who recognizes and declares any community of that State as a Scheduled Tribe. 2. A community declared as a Scheduled Tribe in a State need not to be so in another State.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to Union Budget, consider the following statements: 1. The Union Finance Minister on behalf of the Prime Minister lays the Annual Financial Statement before both the Houses of Parliament. 2. At the Union level, no demand for a grant can be made except on the recommendation of the President of India.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, consider the following statements: While any resolution for the removal of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is under consideration: 1. He/She shall not preside. 2. He/She shall not have the right to speak. 3. He/She shall not be entitled to vote on the resolution in the first instance.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to the Indian Parliament, consider the following statements: 1. A bill pending in the Lok Sabha lapses on its dissolution. 2. A bill passed by the Lok Sabha and pending in the Rajya Sabha lapses on the dissolution of the Lok Sabha. 3. A bill in regard to which the President of India notified his/her intention to summon the Houses to a joint sitting lapses on the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- With reference to the Parliament of India, consider the following statements: 1. Prorogation of a House by the President of India does not require the advice of the Council of Ministers. 2. Prorogation of a House is generally done after the House is adjourned sine die but there is no bar to the President of India proroguing the House which is in session. 3. Dissolution of the Lok Sabha is done by the President of India who, save in exceptional circumstances, does so on the advice of the Council of Ministers.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Polity & Governance · Polity & Governance
- Incidence and intensity of poverty are most important in determining poverty based on income alone. In this context, analyze the latest United Nations Multidimensional Poverty Index report.2020 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Poverty
- There is a growing divergence in the relationship between poverty and hunger in India. The shrinking of social expenditure by the government is forcing the poor to spend more on non-food essential items squeezing their food budget. Elucidate.2019 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Poverty
- Despite the implementation of various programmes for the eradication of poverty by the government in India, poverty is still existing. Explain by giving reasons.2018 · Mains GS1 · Society · Poverty
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test character, give him power.2024 · Essay · Ethics · Power and Character
- Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln.2013 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Power and Character
- On 26 January 1950, before later Preamble amendments, what was India's exact constitutional description?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Preamble
- Which statement best describes the legal status of the Preamble?2020 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Preamble
- Which one of the following objectives is not embodied in the Preamble to the Constitution of India?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Preamble
- The mind of the makers of the Constitution of India is reflected in which of the following?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Polity · Preamble
- What are the methods used by the farmers' organizations to influence the policy-makers in India and how effective are these methods?2019 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Pressure Groups
- How do pressure groups influence Indian political process? Do you agree with this view that informal pressure groups have emerged as more powerful than formal pressure groups in recent years?2017 · Mains GS2 · General Studies · Pressure Groups
- Pressure group politics is sometimes seen as the informal face of politics. With regards to the above, assess the structure and functioning of pressure groups in India.2013 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Pressure Groups
- If 10^m ×1000×n = 75^25 ×25^32 ×32^75 and n is not divisible by 10, find m.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Prime factorization
- What is the greatest n for which 7×343×385×1000×2401×77777 is divisible by 35^n?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Prime factorization
- Three prime numbers p, q and r, each below 20, satisfy p−q=q−r. How many distinct values can p+q+r take?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Prime numbers
- Let p and k be prime numbers such that p²+k is also prime and less than 30. How many possible values can k take?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Prime numbers
- Statement I: State governments manage prisons through their own rules. Statement II: the Prisons Act, 1894 placed prisons under provincial control. Choose correctly.2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Prison Administration
- On parole in India, consider: (1) once a prisoner establishes sufficient grounds, parole becomes an enforceable right that cannot be refused; (2) State Governments frame their own parole/release rules. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Prison Administration
- A bag has 15 red and 20 black balls numbered 1-3 with given percentage distributions. A win occurs for red-3 or black-1/2. What is the probability of winning?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Probability
- Twelve people form a club. Each month one member is chosen by lot to host a dinner. How many dinners must a particular member host in one year?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Probability
- Twelve people form a club. By picking lots, one of them will host a dinner for all once in a month. The number of dinners a particular member has to host in one year is2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Probability
- What do you understand by probity in governance? Based on your understanding of the term, suggest measures for ensuring probity in government.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Probity
- What do you understand about probity in public life? What are the difficulties in practicing it in the present times? How can these difficulties be overcome?2014 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Probity
- A shopkeeper sells one item for ₹40 at a profit of x% and another for ₹20 at a loss of the same x%. What is the common cost price?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Profit and Loss
- Gopal bought a cell phone and sold it to Ram at 10% profit. Ram then sells it back to Gopal at 10% loss. What is Gopal's position if he agrees?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Profit and Loss
- A seller allows a 10% cash discount on the marked price of a toy and still makes a 10% gain. If the marked price is Rs. 770, what is the cost price?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Profit and Loss
- Sohan sells two goats at the same price, making 10% profit on one and 10% loss on the other. Overall2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Profit and Loss
- Regarding Madhav National Park, consider: 1. It became a Tiger Reserve in 2025. 2. Ramsar-listed Sakhya Sagar lies within it. 3. Its territory is divided between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Protected areas
- With reference to biosphere reserves in India, which of the following statements is correct?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Environment · Protected Areas
- Which of the following National Parks is unique in being a swamp with floating vegetation that supports a rich biodiversity?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Protected Areas
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Nokrek Biosphere Reserve : Garo Hills 2. Loktak Lake : Barail Range 3. Namdapha National Park : Dafla Hills. Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology, Geography · Protected Areas, North-East India Geography
- Discuss the role of Public Accounts Committee in establishing accountability of the government to the people.2017 · Mains GS2 · General Studies · Public Accounts Committee
- Consider the following statements: The Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts 1. consists of not more than 25 Members of the Lok Sabha 2. scrutinizes appropriation and finance accounts of Government 3. examines the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Public Accounts Committee
- Consider the following statements: The Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts 1. consists of not more than 25 Members of the Lok Sabha 2. scrutinizes appropriation and finance accounts of the Government 3. examines the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity · Public Accounts Committee
- Public expenditure management is a challenge to the Government of India in the context of budget-making during the post-liberalization period. Clarify it.2019 · Mains GS3 · Economy · Public Finance
- There has been a persistent deficit budget year after year. Which action/actions of the following can be taken by the Government to reduce the deficit? 1. Reducing revenue expenditure 2. Introducing new welfare schemes 3. Rationalizing subsidies 4. Reducing import duty. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Public Finance
- With reference to the Union Government, consider the following statements: 1. The Department of Revenue is responsible for preparation of the Union Budget. 2. No amount can be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of India without authorization from Parliament. 3. All disbursements from the Public Account need authorization from Parliament. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Public Finance
- What do you understand by the term public servant? Reflect on the expected role of public servant.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Public Service
- Non-performance of duty by a public servant is a form of corruption. Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer.2019 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Public Service
- What do you understand by the following terms in the context of public service: Integrity, Perseverance, Spirit of service, Commitment, Courage of conviction?2013 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Public Service Attributes
- Indicate two more attributes which you consider important for public service. Justify your answer.2013 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Public Service Attributes
- What is the least possible number of straight cuts needed to divide a cube into 64 identical smaller cubes?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- In 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1, replace each * by +, − or ×, with each operator used at most twice. What is the smallest non-negative value obtainable?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A group can finish a job in 6k days. By what percentage must the workforce increase to finish the same job in 5k days?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- X, Y and Z can individually complete a job in 6, 8 and 8 hours. Only one may work in each hour and nobody may work two consecutive hours. What is the minimum completion time?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- How many consecutive zeroes occur at the end of 1^2 × 2^4 × 3^6 × … × 25^50?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Starting 1 January 2023, a person saves ₹1 and then ₹2 more each day than on the previous day. At the end of which date does cumulative saving become both a perfect square and a perfect cube?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- 222^333 + 333^222 is divisible by which combination?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What percentage of water, relative to the quantity of honey, must be added so that selling the mixture at the honey cost price yields a 20% gain?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the rightmost non-zero digit of 30^30?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- 421 and 427 leave remainder 1 when divided by the same divisor. How many divisors can satisfy this?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- 399 L of petrol and 532 L of diesel must be bottled separately in equal integer-litre bottle sizes with no remainder. How many bottle capacities are possible?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For S=x+y+z, where x,y,z are distinct primes below 10, which are possible units digits: (1) 0; (2) 9; (3) 5?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- P and Q are business partners. P invests ₹14,000 more than Q; P invests for 8 months and Q for 10 months. From a ₹2,000 profit, P receives ₹400 more than Q. What is P’s capital?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- P’s salary is 20% below Q’s, and Q’s is 20% below R’s. By what percentage is R’s salary greater than P’s?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A number is mistakenly divided by 4 instead of multiplied by 4. By what percentage does the obtained result differ from the correct result?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- In an exam, 80% pass English, 70% pass Hindi and 15% fail both. What percentage fail exactly one of the two subjects?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A father tells his son: “n years ago I was as old as you are now. My present age is four times your age n years ago.” If their present ages total 130 years, what is the difference between their ages?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Which unit equivalences are correct: (1) 1,000 litres=1 cubic metre; (2) 1 metric tonne=1,000 kg; (3) 1 hectare=10,000 square metres?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Let X be a two-digit number and Y its digit-reversal. If X+Y=99, how many possible values can X take?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The weight of 6 boys equals that of 7 girls, 3 men and 4 women. If the average woman weighs 63 kg, what is the average boy’s weight?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- How many times do the hour and minute hands coincide between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on the same day?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The calendar for 2025 is identical to the calendar for which year?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the smaller angle between the hands of a clock at 4:25?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- How many times is the digit 5 used when numbering the pages of a 260-page book?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Find the sum of the first 28 terms of 1,1,2,1,3,2,1,4,3,2,1,5,4,3,2,…2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A person buys articles P,Q,R for ₹3,330. P costs 25% more than R and R costs 20% more than Q. What is the cost of P?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Two two-digit numbers AB and CD sum to the three-digit number 1CE, where A,B,C,D,E are distinct digits. What is A?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Three numbers x,y,z are selected from {1,2,3,4,5,6,7} such that x>2y>3z. How many ordered triplets satisfy this?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The cost of 4 oranges, 6 mangoes and 8 apples equals twice the cost of 1 orange, 2 mangoes and 5 apples. Assess: (1) 3 oranges+5 mangoes+9 apples costs the same as the first basket; (2) one orange+one mango costs one apple.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For the expression 32^5 + 2^27, which number must divide it?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Let positive integers p<q satisfy p+q=k. What is the smallest k for which p and q are not uniquely determined?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A box has 10 red pairs, 9 white pairs and 8 black pairs of shoes. In the worst case, how many shoes may need to be picked before obtaining a wearable red pair?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- In how many unordered ways can a batsman make exactly 25 runs using only singles, fours and sixes?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the remainder when 85×87×89×91×95×96 is divided by 100?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the units digit of (57242) raised to the product 9×7×5×3×1?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- ABC and DEF are 3-digit numbers using six distinct non-zero digits and ABC+DEF=1111. Find A+B+C+D+E+F.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For a 3-digit number D, the ratio D/(sum of its digits) is minimal. What is the difference between its hundreds and units digits?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For prime p and composite c, consider whether (p+c)/(p−c) can be even, p+c can be odd, and pc can be odd. Which statements can hold?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A 3-digit number ABC multiplied by digit D gives 37DD; A,B,C,D are distinct non-zero digits. Find A+B+C.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For any 3-digit block XYZ, the 6-digit number XYZXYZ is always divisible by which numbers?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- 125 identical small cubes form a larger cube. How many are completely surrounded by other cubes?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- How many distinct arrangements of 11223344 have odd digits only in odd positions and even digits only in even positions?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A, B and C can finish work alone in 8,16 and 12 days and work one day each cyclically from Monday. Consider: (1) work finishes on Thursday; (2) it finishes in 10 days. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For positive integer x, 7x+96 is divisible by x. How many possible x values exist?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- For distinct positive single-digit p,q,r,s, what is the greatest value of (p+q)(r+s)?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- N consists of ninety-nine consecutive 9s. What remainder does N leave on division by 13?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A nine-digit number consisting only of 1s is squared. What is the sum of digits of the square?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the sum of all digits appearing in every integer from 10 through 100 inclusive?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Six marked points lie on the four sides of a square: one each on two opposite sides and two each on the other two. How many distinct triangles use three of these points?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Principal P becomes Q in one year at nominal annual rate R compounded half-yearly, and also at annual rate S compounded once yearly. Which relation holds?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- How many natural-number divisors n make 1186 leave remainder 31 when divided by n?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Let pp, qq and rr denote repeated-digit 2-digit numbers with p<q<r and pp+qq+rr=tt0. Consider: (1) p has 5 possible values; (2) q has 6 possible values. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the sum of all 4-digit numbers below 2000 formed from 1,2,3,4 without repetition?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- From 12 objects arranged on a circle, how many selections of 10 consecutive objects are possible when direction is clockwise?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- If today is Sunday, what weekday is the 10^10-th day from today?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Three traffic lights take 25, 39 and 60 seconds respectively for each green-to-red or red-to-green change. All turn green at 2:00 p.m. When next do all turn green together?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Four papers each carry 100 marks and scores are integers. In how many different ordered score combinations can a student obtain exactly 99% overall?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A flag has four horizontal strips using red, green and yellow, with adjacent strips never the same colour. How many designs are possible?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A 4 m × 2.2 m floor is tiled with non-overlapping 1.4 m × 0.6 m rectangles, edges parallel to floor edges and either orientation allowed. What maximum number fits?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Unlimited coins weigh 2,5,10,25 and 50 g. Consider: (1) buying exactly 78 g requires at least 7 coins; (2) weighing 78 g can be done with fewer than 7 coins. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- What is the remainder when 2^192 is divided by 6?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- AB and CD are two-digit numbers; AB×CD=DEF and DEF+GHI=975. All nine letters are distinct digits, with E=0 and F=8. Find A+B+C.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A 7×5×3 cuboid is painted with a different colour on each pair of opposite faces and cut into 1 cm cubes. Statements: (1) exactly 15 cubes have no paint; (2) exactly 6 cubes have exactly a blue and green face. Which is correct?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- There is a milk sample with 50% water in it. If one-third of this milk is added to an equal amount of pure milk, then water in the new mixture will fall down to:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- There are three pillars X, Y, and Z of different heights. Three spiders A, B, and C start to climb on these pillars simultaneously. In one chance, A climbs on X by 6 cm but slips down 1 cm. B climbs on Y by 7 cm but slips down 3 cm. C climbs on Z by 6.5 cm but slips down 2 cm. If each of them requires 40 chances to reach the top of the pillars, what is the height of the shortest pillar?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- There are 4 horizontal and 4 vertical lines, parallel and equidistant to one another on a board. What is the maximum number of rectangles and squares that can be formed?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Suppose the average weight of 9 persons is 50 kg. The average weight of the first 5 persons is 45 kg, whereas the average weight of the last 5 persons is 55 kg. Then the weight of the 5th person will be2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Two walls and a ceiling of a room meet at right angles at a point P. A fly is in the air 1 m from one wall, 8 m from the other wall, and 9 m from the point P. How many meters is the fly from the ceiling?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The outer surface of a 4 cm × 4 cm × 4 cm cube is painted completely in red. It is sliced parallel to the faces to yield sixty-four 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm small cubes. How many small cubes do not have painted faces?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A watch loses 2 minutes in every 24 hours while another watch gains 2 minutes in every 24 hours. At a particular instant, the two watches showed an identical time. Which of the following statements is correct if a 24-hour clock is followed?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- A clock strikes once at 1 o’clock, twice at 2 o’clock, and thrice at 3 o’clock, and so on. If it takes 12 seconds to strike at 5 o’clock, what is the time taken by it to strike at 10 o’clock?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The monthly incomes of X and Y are in the ratio of 4 : 3, and their monthly expenses are in the ratio of 3 : 2. However, each saves Rs. 6,000 per month. What is their total monthly income?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The average rainfall in a city for the first four days was recorded to be 0.40 inch. The rainfall on the last two days was in the ratio of 4 : 3. The average of six days was 0.50 inch. What was the rainfall on the fifth day?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- Certain 3-digit numbers have the following characteristics: 1. All the three digits are different. 2. The number is divisible by 7. 3. The number on reversing the digits is also divisible by 7. How many such 3-digit numbers are there?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- P works thrice as fast as Q, whereas P and Q together can work four times as fast as R. If P, Q, and R together work on a job, in what ratio should they share the earnings?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude
- The term 'qubit' belongs to which field?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Quantum Computing
- In the context of quantum computing, what is the significance of superposition?2022 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Quantum Computing
- What events led to the Quit India Movement? Point out its results.2024 · Mains GS1 · History · Quit India Movement
- What major event in the national movement is associated with 8 August 1942?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Quit India Movement
- Quit India Movement was launched in response to2013 · Prelims GS1 · Modern Indian History, Modern History · Quit India Movement
- Passage: Rai Sahib refuses profitable offers to lease a common grazing ground because cattle from nearby villages use it; he believes a landlord must look after tenants. Which conclusion is correct? 1. All landlords have innate goodness. 2. Village common grazing land is intended only for cattle of that village. 3. A tradition-minded landlord such as Rai Sahib may be especially concerned about tenants. 4. Winds later in the day are cooler than the morning air.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Rai Sahib passage
- From the Rai Sahib passage, which statements are NOT correct? 1. All of Rai Sahib's landholdings were not being farmed. 2. He was as greedy as other landlords. 3. It cannot be known whether leasing the grazing land could earn money. 4. He valued tenants and their livelihood.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Rai Sahib passage
- P,Q,R,S,T have ranks1–5. P=4, R=1, Q≠5, S≠2, T≠3. I. If S=3 then T=2. II. If Q=3 then T=5. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Ranking
- Fifteen students failed in a class of 52. After failed students are removed, Ramesh is 22nd from the top in the merit list. What is his position from the bottom?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Ranking
- In a class of 60 students, the number of girls is twice the number of boys. Kamal, a boy, ranks seventeenth from the top. If nine girls are ahead of Kamal, how many boys rank after him?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Ranking
- In a class of 45, a boy is 20th. Two boys join and his rank from the top becomes 21st. What is his rank from the bottom?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ranking
- Six students A–F are ranked with distinct scores. Either C or F is first; if C is first, E is last; if F is first, B is last. Also D>A>B and C>A. If F is second, what rank must B hold?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ranking & Ordering
- Using the same ranking rules, if B is last, what can C’s rank be?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ranking & Ordering
- Using the same six-student ranking rules, if E ranks third, which statement must be true?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ranking & Ordering
- Male:female worker ratios in companies A and B are13:10 and7:5. If both companies have the same number of female workers, what is the ratio of their total workforces A:B?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Ratio
- The total emoluments of two persons are the same, but one gets allowances equal to 65% of basic pay and the other 80% of basic pay. The ratio of the basic pay of the former to the latter is:2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Ratio
- Two equal glasses are respectively 1/3 and 1/4 full of milk, then filled with water and mixed. What is the ratio of milk to water?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ratio
- Three T20 players X,Y,Z score 37 runs in total and X/Y=Y/Z. Compare their individual runs. Which ordering must hold?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Ratio and proportion
- A lift can carry either 18 adults or 30 children. If 12 adults are already in the lift, how many children can also be carried at the same capacity?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ratio and Proportion
- A rare-coin collection has one gold coin for every three non-gold coins. After adding 10 gold coins the ratio becomes 1:2. What is the new total number of coins?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Ratio and Proportion
- A passage on global food loss/waste asks which inferences follow: (1) distribution methods alone cause the waste; (2) land productivity is harmed; (3) reducing waste lowers the carbon footprint; (4) post-harvest loss-reduction technologies are unavailable.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same food-waste passage, assess assumptions: (1) food-distribution mechanisms need redesign to reduce losses; (2) reducing food waste is a social and moral responsibility of all citizens.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on inflation, interest rates and public debt asks which inferences follow: (1) central banks cannot sustainably reduce inflation without fiscal backing; (2) monetary-policy effects depend on government fiscal policy.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the inflation passage, assess assumptions: (1) fiscal policy alone causes higher prices; (2) higher prices do not affect long-term government bonds.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage argues that strong institutions reduce uncertainty in public decision-making. Which one of the following is the most logical implication?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on systems-based urban planning asks for the most rational inference.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the urban-planning passage, assess assumptions: (1) India needs a new generation of professionals with modern urban-practice knowledge; (2) Indian universities have no capacity or potential to teach a systems approach.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on digital political discourse asks for its central idea.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the social-media passage, assess assumptions: (1) the Internet is not inclusive enough; (2) the Internet can adversely affect the quality of politics.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on weak foundational learning among class-8 students asks which assumptions are valid: (1) parents have a greater role than government in effective school education; (2) a uniform modern curriculum for the whole country can resolve the issues.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the school-learning passage, which statement best captures the central idea?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on science as a modern social enterprise asks what best reflects the author’s view.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on science and mankind asks which emphatic statements follow: (1) mankind could not have survived until today without science; (2) science will ultimately determine mankind’s destiny.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same passage, assess assumptions: (1) the horrors of modern life are an inevitable result of science; (2) a frequently overlooked truth is that science is what human beings have made of it.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on travel says prolonged exposure to other peoples teaches a crucial distinction. Which one?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same travel passage, assess assumptions: (1) travel promotes understanding among human beings; (2) travel helps discover fundamental common values; (3) a sufficiently experienced traveller can resolve differences among people.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage criticises conventional classroom education for privileging seat-time over competencies and using a one-size-fits-all model. Which inferences follow: (1) it focuses duration more than competency; (2) it follows a one-size-fits-all approach?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same classroom passage, assess assumptions: (1) because many workers are in the unorganised sector, conventional education need not change; (2) the present classroom system produces enough skilled workers for the demographic dividend.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on adolescence and parental conflict asks which assumptions are valid: (1) adolescents may feel uncomfortable because parents are dominating/assertive; (2) modern adolescents generally lack respect for parents.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- What central idea best follows from the adolescence passage?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage describes pumping CO2 dissolved in water into underground basalt, where it mineralises into carbonate rock. What is the most practical implication?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says giant icebergs release nutrients that stimulate phytoplankton and can affect Southern-Ocean ecosystems. Assess assumptions: (1) giant icebergs can affect primary productivity and food chains; (2) their melting can have climate effects and influence world fisheries.2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage describes caterpillar frass triggering plant defences against pathogens. What practical application is most logical?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on democracy argues that inconvenient reality must remain visible in political speech, social assertion and deliberation, while responsible media should circulate reality without distortion. What best captures its central idea?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage discusses network-connected home devices and how manufacturers may compensate for thin margins by collecting personal data, sometimes without meaningful consent, to observe consumer behaviour. What practical message follows?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on green growth argues that resource-intensive growth must give way to efficient, resource-frugal development so that prosperity is environmentally sustainable and broadly shared. What best states the crux?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage contrasts poetry with claims to absolute truth: poetry accepts plurality, contradiction and imperfection and stands against tyranny, hierarchy and arrogance. What is its most rational message?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage explains that flowers evolved petals and perfume to attract pollinating insects; human-perceived beauty is a by-product. Assumptions: (1) flowers are creations of Nature’s luxury; (2) flowers have no usefulness except beauty. Which assumptions are valid?2024 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on growing inter-State water stress asks for the most rational immediate step for fair allocation among competing users.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage links anaemia, tuberculosis and childhood malnutrition to productivity and future skill capacity. What is its main implication?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on small farmers and climate adaptation asks for its central message.2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A climate-risk passage argues that waiting for uncertain future technology before cutting emissions is risky. Which message is strongest?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage contrasts collective inertia on environmental and personal-health choices. Which assumption is most reasonable?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says poor diets, affordability and food-system failures drive malnutrition and NCDs. What is its crux?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage criticises ad-hoc vehicle bans for urban air pollution and calls for continuous scientific source data. What implication follows?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage links strong corporate governance with disclosure, investor confidence and access to external finance. What follows?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage describes elephants creating clearings, dispersing seeds, enriching soil and providing water access. What is the best inference?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A municipal-waste passage discusses segregation, recycling and waste-to-energy. Assumptions: (1) all collection/processing/segregation should be government-run; (2) resource recovery is best handled by private technology firms. Which is valid?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same municipal-waste passage, what is the central practical message?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- An organic-farming passage notes weak regulation and unsafe misuse of some organic inputs. Assumptions: (1) organic farming is inherently unsafe; (2) farmers and consumers need education about eco-friendly food. Which is valid?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- What is the most practical message of the organic-farming passage?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage links monoculture and loss of traditional foods to malnutrition. Which assumptions are valid: monoculture is inevitable for zero hunger; crop dependence harms health/ecosystems; food policy should include nutrition security; subsidies explain all crop-diversity choices?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says warmer, low-snow winters lengthen the “vernal window” and disrupt timing of birds and other ecological events. Assumptions: (1) global warming is making spring earlier/longer; (2) an earlier/longer spring is necessarily harmful to bird populations. Which is valid?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage notes that only about 40% of applied synthetic nitrogen enters crops while the rest causes air/water pollution. What is its key message?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A climate-justice passage discusses adaptation, loss and damage, resources, technology and support for victims. What is the most crucial message?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says forest, wetland and pasture foods can supplement cultivated food and buffer crop failures. What is the central message?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage links untreated antibiotic-manufacturing effluent with drug-resistant bacteria. What is the most practical response?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage argues that foundational school skills are prerequisites for higher education, skills and a knowledge economy. What is its crux?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on the paradox of choice says abundant options, constant connectivity and information overload can increase anxiety and indecision. What is the main message?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage on financialising Indian household savings identifies bureaucracy, distrust and lack of information. Which implied solutions fit: flexible environment; customised household solutions; fintech innovation?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A pharmaceutical-patent passage discusses innovation incentives versus unaffordable medicine. Which assumptions are valid: (1) patent prices burden purchasing power; (2) foreign dependence is the key burden; (3) affordability is irrelevant to policy; (4) governments must balance patentee and patient interests?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage argues that data protection and user control are necessary for a healthy digital economy. Assumptions: privacy has economic value; privacy and innovation are fundamentally linked. Which is valid?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says measured unemployment among young educated Indians partly reflects rising enrolment and willingness to wait for suitable jobs. What is the author’s point?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage argues science and government both need philosophy to coordinate knowledge toward proper goals. What practical message follows?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A passage says the State exists not to dominate or frighten people but to let them live securely and exercise free reason. What term best captures its ultimate goal?2023 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The IMF has pointed out that the fast-growing economies of Asia face the risk of falling into the 'middle-income trap'. It means that average incomes in these countries, which till now have been growing rapidly, will stop growing beyond a point—a point that is well short of incomes in the developed West. The IMF identifies a number of causes of the middle-income trap—from infrastructure to weak institutions, to less favourable macroeconomic conditions. The overall cause, says the IMF, is the growth of productivity. Which among the following is the most logical, rational and critical inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- There has been a significant trend worldwide towards regionalism in government, resulting in a widespread transfer of powers downwards towards regions and communities since the 1990s. This process, which involves the creation of new political entities and bodies at a sub-national level and an increase in their content and powers, is known as devolution. Devolution has been characterized as being made up of three factors—political legitimacy, decentralization of authority, and decentralization of resources. Political legitimacy here means a mass demand from below for the decentralization process, which is able to create a political force for it to take place. In many cases, decentralization is initiated by the upper tier of government without sufficient political mobilization for it at the grassroots level, and in such cases, the decentralization process often does not fulfil its objectives. Which among the following is the most logical, rational, and critical inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Why do people prefer open defecation and not want toilets or, if they have them, only use them sometimes? Recent research has shown two critical elements: ideas of purity and pollution, and not wanting pits or septic tanks to fill because they have to be emptied. These are the issues that nobody wants to talk about, but if we want to eradicate the practice of open defecation, they have to be confronted and dealt with properly. Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The greatest blessing that technological progress has in store for mankind is not, of course, an accumulation of material possessions. The amount of these that can be effectively enjoyed by one individual in one lifetime is not great. But there is not the same narrow limit to the possibilities of the enjoyment of leisure. The gift of leisure may be abused by people who have had no experience of making use of it. Yet the creative use of leisure by a minority in societies has been the mainspring of all human progress beyond the primitive level. With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. People always see the leisure time as a gift and use it for acquiring more material possessions. 2. Use of leisure by some people to produce new and original things has been the chief source of human progress. Which of these assumptions is/are valid?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Climate change is likely to expose a large number of people to increasing environmental risks forcing them to migrate. The international community is yet to recognize this new category of migrants. There is no consensus on the definition and status of climate refugees owing to the distinct meaning the term refugees carry under international laws. There are still gaps in understanding how climate change will work as the root cause of migration. Even if there is recognition of climate refugees, who is going to provide protection? More emphasis has been given to international migration due to climate change. But there is a need to recognize the migration of such people within the countries also so that their problems can be addressed properly. Which of the following is the most rational inference from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- There is no harm in cultivating habits so long as they are not injurious. Indeed, most of us are little more than a bundle of habits. Take away our habits, and the residuum could not get on without them. They simplify the mechanism of life. They enable us to do a multitude of things automatically, which, if we had to give fresh and original thought to them each time, would make existence an impossible confusion. The author suggests that habits:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- There is more than a modicum of truth in the assertion that 'a working knowledge of ancient history is necessary to the intelligent interpretation of current events'. But the sage who uttered these words of wisdom might well have added something on the benefits of studying particularly the famous battles of history for the lessons they contain for those of us who lead or aspire to leadership. Such a study will reveal certain qualities and attributes which enabled the winners to win—and certain deficiencies which caused the losers to lose. And the student will see that the same pattern recurs consistently, again and again, throughout the centuries. With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. A study of the famous battles of history would help us understand modern warfare. 2. Studying history is essential for anyone who aspires to be a leader. Which of these assumptions is/are valid?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Many farmers use synthetic pesticides to kill infesting insects. The consumption of pesticides in some of the developed countries is touching 3000 grams/hectare. Unfortunately, there are reports that these compounds possess inherent toxicities that endanger the health of the farm operators, consumers, and the environment. Synthetic pesticides are generally persistent in the environment. Entering the food chain, they destroy microbial diversity and cause ecological imbalance. Their indiscriminate use has resulted in the development of resistance among insects to insecticides, upsetting the balance in nature and resurgence of treated populations. Natural pest control using botanical pesticides is safer to the user and the environment because they break down into harmless compounds within hours or days in the presence of sunlight. Plants with pesticidal properties have been in nature for millions of years without any ill or adverse effects on the ecosystem. They are easily decomposed by many microbes common in most soils. They help in the maintenance of biological diversity of predators and the reduction of environmental contamination and human health hazards. Botanical pesticides formulated from plants are biodegradable and their use in crop protection is a practical sustainable alternative. On the basis of the above passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. Synthetic pesticides should never be used in modern agriculture. 2. One of the aims of sustainable agriculture is to ensure minimal ecological imbalance. 3. Botanical pesticides are more effective as compared to synthetic pesticides. Which of the assumptions given above is/are correct?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Many farmers use synthetic pesticides to kill infesting insects. Synthetic pesticides are generally persistent in the environment and can destroy microbial diversity and cause ecological imbalance. Natural pest control using botanical pesticides is safer because they break down into harmless compounds and are biodegradable. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding biopesticides? 1. They are not hazardous to human health. 2. They are persistent in the environment. 3. They are essential to maintain the biodiversity of any ecosystem. Select the correct answer using the code given below:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Really I think that the poorest he that is in England has a life to live, as the greatest he, and therefore truly, I think it is clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under the government, and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he has not had a voice to put himself under. The above statement argues for2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The very first lesson that should be taught to us when we are old enough to understand it, is that complete freedom from the obligation to work is unnatural, and ought to be illegal, as we can escape our share of the burden of work only by throwing it on someone else’s shoulders. Nature ordains that the human race shall perish of famine if it stops working. We cannot escape from this tyranny. The question we have to settle is how much leisure we can afford to allow ourselves. The main idea of the passage is that:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- In the last two decades, the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 50 percent, whereas inclusive wealth has increased by a mere 6 percent. In recent decades, GDP-driven economic performance has only harmed inclusive wealth like human capital and natural capital like forests, land and water. While the world’s human capital, which stands at 57 percent of total inclusive wealth, grew by only 8 percent, the natural capital, which is 23 percent of total inclusive wealth, declined by 30 percent worldwide in the last two decades. Which of the following is the most crucial inference from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- In a free country, the man who reaches the position of leader is usually one of outstanding character and ability. Moreover, it is usually possible to foresee that he will reach such a position, since early in life one can see his qualities of character. But this is not always true in the case of a dictator; often he reaches his position of power through chance, very often through the unhappy state of his country. The passage seems to suggest that2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Productive jobs are vital for growth, and a good job is the best form of inclusion. More than half of our population depends on agriculture, but the experience of other countries suggests that the number of people dependent on agriculture will have to shrink if per capita incomes in agriculture are to go up substantially. While industry is creating jobs, too many such jobs are low-productivity non-contractual jobs in the unorganized sector, offering low incomes, little protection, and no benefits. Service jobs are relatively of high productivity, but employment growth in services has been slow in recent years. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The States are like pearls and the Centre is the thread which turns them into a necklace; if the thread snaps, the pearls are scattered. Which one of the following views corroborates the above statement?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A successful democracy depends upon widespread interest and participation in politics, in which voting is an essential part. To deliberately refrain from taking such an interest, and from voting, is a kind of implied anarchy; it is to refuse one’s political responsibility while enjoying the benefits of a free political society. This passage relates to2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- We live in digital times. The digital is not just something we use strategically and specifically to do a few tasks. Our very perception of who we are, how we connect to the world around us, and the ways in which we define our domains of life, labour, and language are hugely structured by the digital technologies. The digital is everywhere and, like air, invisible. We live within digital systems, we live with intimate gadgets, we interact through digital media, and the very presence and imagination of the digital have dramatically restructured our lives. The digital, far from being a tool, is a condition and context that defines the shapes and boundaries of our understanding of the self, the society, and the structure of governance. Which among the following is the most logical and essential message conveyed by the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- By 2020, when the global economy is expected to run short of 56 million young people, India, with its youth surplus of 47 million, could fill the gap. It is in this context that labour reforms are often cited as the way to unlock double-digit growth in India. In 2014, India’s labour force was estimated to be about 40 percent of the population, but 93 percent of this force was in the unorganized sector. Over the last decade, the compound annual growth rate of employment has slowed to 0.5 percent, with about 14 million jobs created during the last year when the labour force increased by about 15 million. Which of the following is the most rational inference from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- What climate change will undeniably do is cause or amplify events that hasten the reduction of resources. Competition over these diminishing resources would ensue in the form of political or even violent conflict. Resource-based conflicts have rarely been overt and are thus difficult to isolate. Instead, they take on veneers that appear more politically palatable. Conflicts over resources like water are often cloaked in the guise of identity or ideology. What does the above passage imply?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intends them to be. We are citizens of a great country, on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or action. The challenge the author of the above passage throws to the public is to achieve2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- An air quality index (AQI) is a way to combine measurements of multiple air pollutants into a single number or rating. This index is ideally kept constantly updated and available in different places. The AQI is most useful when lots of pollution data are being gathered and when pollution levels are normally, but not always, low. In such cases, if pollution levels spike for a few days, the public can quickly take preventive action in response to an air quality warning. Unfortunately, that is not urban India. Pollution levels in many large Indian cities are so high that they remain well above any health or regulatory standard for a large part of the year. If our index stays in the Red/'Dangerous' region day after day, there is not much anyone can do, other than getting used to ignoring it. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The medium-term challenge for Indian manufacturing is to move from lower to higher tech sectors, from lower to higher value-added sectors, and from lower to higher productivity sectors. Medium-tech industries are primarily capital-intensive and resource-processing; and high-tech industries are mainly capital and technology-intensive. In order to push the share of manufacturing in overall GDP to the projected 25 per cent, Indian manufacturing needs to capture the global market in sectors showing a rising trend in demand. These sectors are largely high-technology and capital-intensive. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Over the last decade, Indian agriculture has become more robust with record production of food grains and oilseeds. Increased procurement, consequently, has added huge stacks of food grains in the granaries. India is one of the world’s top producers of rice, wheat, milk, fruits and vegetables. India is still home to a quarter of all undernourished people in the world. On an average, almost half of the total expenditure of nearly half of the households is on food. Which among the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- A landscape-scale approach to land use can encourage greater biodiversity outside protected areas. During hurricane 'Mitch' in 1998, farms using ecoagricultural practices suffered 58 percent, 70 percent and 99 percent less damage in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala, respectively, than farms using conventional techniques. In Costa Rica, vegetative windbreaks and fencerows boosted farmers’ income from pasture and coffee while also increasing bird diversity. Bee pollination is more effective when agricultural fields are closer to natural or seminatural habitat, a finding that matters because 87 percent of the world’s 107 leading crops depend on animal pollinators. In Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Colombia silvopastoral systems that integrate trees with pastureland are improving the sustainability of cattle production, and diversifying and increasing farmers’ income. Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- In a democratic State, where a high degree of political maturity of the people obtains, the conflict between the will of the sovereign law-making body and the organized will of the people seldom occurs. What does the above passage imply?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Disruption of traditional institutions, identifications, and loyalties is likely to lead to ambivalent situations. It is possible that some people may renew their identification with traditional groups whereas others align themselves with new groups and symbols emergent from processes of political development. In addition, political development tends to foster group awareness of a variety of class, tribe, region, clan, language, religion, occupation, and others. Which one of the following is the best explanation of the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The individual, according to Rousseau, puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the General Will and in our corporate capacity we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole. In the light of the above passage, the nature of General Will is best described as2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- An innovative India will be inclusive as well as technologically advanced, improving the lives of all Indians. Innovation and R&D can mitigate increases in social inequality and relieve the pressures created by rapid urbanization. The growing divergence in productivity between agriculture and knowledge-intensive manufacturing and services threatens to increase income inequality. By encouraging India’s R&D labs and universities to focus on the needs of poor people and by improving the ability of informal firms to absorb knowledge, an innovation and research agenda can counter this effect. Inclusive innovation can lower the costs of goods and services and create income-earning opportunities for the poor people. Which among the following is the most logical and rational assumption that can be made from the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend—who fluctuates from opinion to opinion and veers from plan to plan—can never accomplish anything. He will at best be stationary and probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly and then executes his purpose with inflexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit—that can advance to eminence in any line. The keynote that seems to be emerging from the passage is that:2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- During the summer in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice has been melting earlier and faster, and the winter freeze has been coming later. In the last three decades, the extent of summer ice has declined by about 30 percent. The lengthening period of summer melt threatens to undermine the whole Arctic food web, atop which stand polar bears. Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?2017 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Climate-change mitigation and adaptation require substantial finance. Developing countries’ domestic resources may fall short, while UNFCCC negotiations debate developed-country financial support in light of historical greenhouse-gas contributions. Which issue is essentially discussed?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Climate-change action imposes costs; developing-country domestic finances may be inadequate and multilateral finance is needed. It can be inferred that climate change is likely to have implications on developing countries’ 1. domestic finances 2. capacity for multilateral trade.2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Under UNFCCC negotiations, financial support for developing-country mitigation and adaptation is debated. Which are matters of intense debate? 1. Scale and size of required financial support 2. Crop loss due to climate change 3. Enhancement of mitigation and adaptation actions in developing countries.2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: The conflict between State and individual has persisted for centuries. Human society is dynamic, and absolute freedom of speech and action could lead to chaos and anarchy. Which statement best sums up the author’s viewpoint?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: UNFCCC places responsibility for climate financial support on developed countries, taking account of their contribution to accumulated greenhouse gases. Why is the responsibility placed on developed countries? 1. Higher per-capita incomes 2. Larger GDP 3. Large contribution to the stock of GHGs.2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: No right is absolute. The right of personal property must be viewed with liberty, equality and cooperation. Which is the most convincing explanation?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: India’s persistent inflation is linked to administered-price increases, demand-supply imbalances, imported inflation, depreciation and speculation; several are outcomes of economic reforms such as trade liberalisation and subsidy reduction. What is the most logical message?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Government sometimes requires discretionary powers, but such power must remain within recognized rules, safeguards and predictable principles to prevent abuse. What is the most logical assumption?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on formal financial institutions and rural savings. Statements: 1. Indian financial institutions offer no financial instruments to rural households. 2. Poor households tend to spend earnings/savings when they lack access to appropriate financial instruments. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on formal financial institutions and rural savings. What is the crucial message?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage criticizes caste/community/religious favouritism as making democracy phoney and urges respect for persons and opportunities based on merit. Which statement best sums it up?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Open defecation contaminates food and water, spreads disease, contributes to malnutrition, stunting and impaired cognitive development. What is the most critical inference?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- “By liberty I mean the eager maintenance of that atmosphere in which men have the opportunity to be their best selves.” Which interpretation is best?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Advanced-economy portfolio investment in emerging markets has risen sharply, and reversal of US quantitative easing could trigger a chain reaction. What is the most rational inference?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Poverty can make people more vulnerable to climate impacts, while climate impacts can deepen poverty through food insecurity, livelihood loss and price shocks. What is the most logical message?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Mangroves shed large quantities of leaves; decomposers consume the litter, tiny organisms feed on them, and fish, birds and crocodiles feed further up the chain. What is the most logical inference?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on human development: exclusive focus on economic growth can produce adverse distributional and environmental effects. Assumptions: 1. Higher growth is essential to reduce economic disparity. 2. Environmental degradation is sometimes a consequence of economic growth. Which is/are valid?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same human-development passage, consider: 1. A strong institutional framework is the only requirement for human development. 2. Human development and economic growth are not always positively inter-related. 3. Focusing only on human development should be the goal. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on electronic MGNREGS wage payments: many rural beneficiaries with bank accounts still depend on village leaders because of financial, functional and technological illiteracy. What is the crucial message?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Flamingos form large social flocks, perform group mating dances and protect chicks in creches while adults forage. What is the most logical corollary?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: The aim of government is not rule by fear but to free people from fear, secure their right to exist and work without injury, and allow reason and development. What is the most logical inference?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage from “Stench of Kerosene”: family pressure for an heir leads to a second marriage and tragic consequences. The story primarily sensitizes readers about2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Municipal corporations are understaffed and recruitment rules do not adequately require the technical and managerial competencies needed for complex urban services. What is the most logical assumption?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Richer States have greater responsibility and capacity to reduce carbon emissions, invest in clean energy and support poorer States, while financially stressed State Electricity Boards are reluctant to adopt costlier renewable energy. What is the most logical assumption?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: The author explains that silence, restraint and economy of words help a votary of truth avoid exaggeration, suppression or modification of truth. For the author, silence is necessary in order to surmount2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same passage on silence and economy of words, the most appropriate reason the author was spared many a mishap is that2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the passage on silence, the author says a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes his tongue or pen. Which is not a valid reason for this?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: India’s high child mortality is linked to weak breastfeeding and immunisation practices, gaps in maternal care, child marriage, anaemia and poor adolescent sanitation. What critical inference follows?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Some people argue that cutting defence expenditure on weapon-building would create peace with neighbours; the author rejects this as a false argument. What is the most valid assumption?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Long-distance and processed food creates transport pollution, wastage, rainforest destruction, reduced nutrition and additional preservation/packaging demand. Consider: 1. Consuming regionally grown food is eco-friendly. 2. Food processing puts a burden on natural resources.2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: Human history contains theories restricting the right to govern to selected citizens and justifying exclusion for social or political efficacy. Which statement is least essential to this argument?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage: By 2050 a larger population, changing consumption, climate stress and finite land/water will intensify food needs; responses include higher yields, efficient farming, waste reduction, nutrient recovery and changed consumption. What best sums up the passage?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on inclusive growth: What is the author’s central focus?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- From the same passage on inclusive growth, the author supports policies which will help2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the inclusive-growth passage, India’s economy has grown but there is no room for complacency because: 1. growth eradicates poverty; 2. growth has resulted in prosperity for all. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the petrol-pricing passage, an oil company can make greater profits under a transparent pricing formula by: 1. promoting sales 2. undertaking innovation 3. cutting costs 4. selling equity shares at higher prices.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the petrol-pricing passage, private oil companies re-enter the market if: 1. transparent rule-based pricing exists 2. there is no government interference 3. subsidies are given 4. anti-trust regulations are removed.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on climate change and agriculture: shifting locations of existing crops may be forced by 1. melting glaciers 2. water availability and temperature suitability elsewhere 3. poor crop productivity 4. wider adaptability of crop plants. Which are correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the climate-and-agriculture passage, why is it important to promote agricultural research in India?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the greenhouse-gas mitigation passage, which would help mitigation? 1. reducing meat consumption 2. rapid economic liberalization 3. reducing consumerism 4. modern livestock-management practices.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Why, according to the passage, do we continue to depend heavily on fossil fuels? 1. inadequate technological development 2. inadequate funds/support for research and development 3. inadequate practical availability of alternative energy.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the greenhouse-gas passage, how does mitigation help us? 1. reduces expenditure on public health 2. reduces dependence on livestock 3. reduces energy requirements 4. reduces the rate of global climate change.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- What is the essential message of the greenhouse-gas passage?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Passage on Himalayan ecosystem and climate change: adverse impact on an ecosystem can mean 1. permanent disappearance of some flora and fauna 2. permanent disappearance of the ecosystem itself. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Which statement best implies the need to shift toward a contemporary conservation approach in the Himalayan ecosystem?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- What is the most important message conveyed by the Himalayan conservation passage?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- With reference to the Himalayan passage, consider assumptions: 1. exploitation of natural resources should be completely avoided 2. natural as well as anthropogenic reasons can adversely affect ecosystems 3. loss of endemic diversity leads to extinction of ecosystems. Which assumption(s) are correct?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the globalization passage, government interventions are viewed as processes leading to2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the passage, the basic philosophy of globalization is to2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the globalization passage, which are consistent with globalization? 1. privatization of public enterprises 2. expansionary public expenditure 3. free play of market forces in wages and employment 4. privatization of social services such as education and health.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the globalization passage, in the process of globalization the State should have a2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the passage on capitalism and the global banking crisis, apologists of the “Free Market System” believe in2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- With reference to “ideological bias” in the passage on capitalism, what does it imply?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- The passage says the exercise of private greed can be justified as serving larger public interest. Which statements are supported? 1. It is a false ideology of capitalism. 2. It underlies righteous claims of the free market. 3. It is the benevolent face of capitalism. 4. It ignores resultant gross inequity.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the passage on public and private sectors, why has the time come to review the role of the public sector? 1. Public sector has lost all relevance. 2. Public sector performance is unsatisfactory. 3. Private entrepreneurship is expanding. 4. Effective competition policies are available.2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- According to the passage, why should rural roads remain in the public-sector domain?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- In the public/private-sector passage, “portfolio composition of the government” refers to2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Why does the author prefer “government as umpire and private sector as players” in regulated industries?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Reading Comprehension
- Which project was India's first REDD+ initiative to obtain Plan Vivo certification?2026 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · REDD+
- Which of the following statements is/are correct? Proper design and effective implementation of UN-REDD+ Programme can significantly contribute to 1. protection of biodiversity 2. resilience of forest ecosystems 3. poverty reduction. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · REDD+
- ಕನ್ನಡದ ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಎರಡು ಪ್ರಾದೇಶಿಕ ಉಪಭಾಷೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಚಯಿಸಿ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Kannada Linguistics · Regional Dialects
- ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಪ್ರಾದೇಶಿಕ ಉಪಭಾಷೆಗಳು ಯಾವುವು ? ಸೋದಾಹರಣವಾಗಿ ವಿವರಿಸಿ.2017 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Kannada Linguistics · Regional Dialects
- With reference to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, consider the following statements: 1. It is an agreement among all the Pacific Rim countries except China and Russia. 2. It is a strategic alliance for the purpose of maritime security only. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · Regional Trade Agreements
- The term Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership often appears in the news in the context of the affairs of a group of countries known as2016 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · Regional Trade Agreements
- Do you agree that regionalism in India appears to be a consequence of rising cultural assertiveness? Argue.2020 · Mains GS1 · Society · Regionalism
- What is the basis of regionalism? Is it that unequal distribution of benefits of development on regional basis eventually promotes regionalism? Substantiate your answer.2016 · Mains GS1 · Society · Regionalism
- Growing feeling of regionalism is an important factor in the generation of demand for a separate State. Discuss.2013 · Mains GS1 · Society · Regionalism
- A 100 km/h train passes a person walking at 4 km/h in the same direction in 15 seconds. Approximately how long would it take to pass the person if the person walked in the opposite direction?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Relative speed
- A tram moving in the same direction overtakes walkers X and Y, who move at 3 km/h and 4 km/h. It completely passes them in 8 s and 9 s respectively. What is the tram's length?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Relative speed
- A thief runs at 8 km/h and is 100 m ahead of a policeman running at 10 km/h. How long will the policeman take to catch him?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Relative Speed
- A four-digit number N leaves remainders 1, 3, 4 and 7 when divided by 3, 5, 6 and 9 respectively. What is the smallest possible N?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Remainders
- For natural number n, how many distinct remainders can 1^n + 2^n leave when divided by 4?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Remainders
- What is the remainder when 3^2019 is divided by 10?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Remainders
- Do you think India will meet 50 percent of its energy needs from renewable energy by 2030? Justify your answer. How will shifting subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables help achieve this objective?2022 · Mains GS3 · Environment · Renewable Energy
- Give an account of the current status and the targets to be achieved pertaining to renewable energy sources in the country. Discuss in brief the importance of National Programme on Light Emitting Diodes.2016 · Mains GS3 · Energy · Renewable Energy
- 'Net metering' is sometimes seen in the news in the context of promoting the2016 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Renewable Energy
- Passage: At Wimbledon, actor Hugh Grant briefly fell asleep in the Royal Box. The writer treats the nap as a quietly radical surrender not to laziness but to bodily limits, placing rest above society's relentless performance demands. Which statements are correct? 1. A mild surrender against social expectations can itself be radical. 2. Accepting age/body limitations should not be equated with laziness. 3. The phrase 'leading man, not of action but of rest' deliberately recasts a cinematic expression.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Rest and social expectations
- From the Hugh Grant passage, consider: 1. He was watching a men's semifinal between Cobolli and Djokovic. 2. 'Unexpected ace' uses tennis imagery for the nap but the act is condemned. 3. Grant lets bodily wisdom override social performance expectations. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Rest and social expectations
- The 1857 Uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.2019 · Mains GS1 · History · Revolt of 1857
- Explain how the uprising of 1857 constitutes an important watershed in the evolution of British policies towards colonial India.2016 · Mains GS1 · History · Revolt of 1857
- Explain right to privacy under Article 21 and discuss DNA testing of an unborn child to establish paternity.2024 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Right to Privacy
- Examine the scope of Fundamental Rights in the light of the latest judgement of the Supreme Court on Right to Privacy.2017 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Right to Privacy
- The interlinking of rivers can provide viable solutions to the multi-dimensional inter-related problems of droughts, floods and interrupted navigation. Critically examine.2020 · Mains GS1 · Geography · River Interlinking
- Recently, linking of which of the following rivers was undertaken?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · River Interlinking
- Identify the river: it has antecedent drainage, crosses three countries, originates on the Tibetan Plateau, is important for irrigation and does not form a distributary system of its own.2026 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · River systems
- With reference to river Teesta, consider: 1. Its source is the same as Brahmaputra but it flows through Sikkim. 2. River Rangeet originates in Sikkim and is a tributary of Teesta. 3. Teesta flows into the Bay of Bengal on the India-Bangladesh border. Which is/are correct?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · River Systems
- The rock-cut architecture represents one of the most important sources of our knowledge of early Indian art and history. Discuss.2020 · Mains GS1 · History · Rock-cut Architecture
- What is/are common to the two historical places known as Ajanta and Mahabalipuram? 1. Both were built in the same period. 2. Both belong to the same religious denomination. 3. Both have rock-cut monuments. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Rock-cut Architecture
- With reference to the history of Indian rock-cut architecture, consider the following statements: 1. The caves at Badami are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India. 2. The Barabar rock-cut caves were originally made for Ajivikas by Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. 3. At Ellora, caves were made for different faiths. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture, Art & Culture · Rock-cut Architecture
- Consider the following statements: Statement-I: Giant stars live much longer than dwarf stars. Statement-II: Compared to dwarf stars, giant stars have a greater rate of nuclear reactions.2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · S&T
- Consider the following activities: 1. Identification of narcotics on passengers at airports or in aircraft 2. Monitoring of precipitation 3. Tracking the migration of animals. In how many of the above activities can the radars be used?2024 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · S&T
- What did the Sangam-age practice “Vattakirutal” refer to?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Sangam Literature
- Which statement about Sangam literature is correct?2022 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Sangam Literature
- Though not very useful from the point of view of a connected political history of South India, the Sangam literature portrays the social and economic conditions of its time with remarkable vividness. Comment.2013 · Mains GS1 · History · Sangam Literature
- With reference to the history of philosophical thought in India, consider the following statements regarding Sankhya school: 1. Sankhya does not accept the theory of rebirth or transmigration of soul. 2. Sankhya holds that it is self-knowledge that leads to liberation and not any exterior influence or agent. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Sankhya Philosophy
- With reference to the history of philosophical thought in India, consider the following statements regarding Sankhya school: 1. Sankhya does not accept the theory of rebirth or transmigration of soul. 2. Sankhya holds that it is the self-knowledge that leads to liberation and not any exterior influence or agent. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Art & Culture · Sankhya Philosophy
- What are the two major legal initiatives by the State since Independence addressing discrimination against Scheduled Tribes?2017 · Mains GS1 · Society · Scheduled Tribes
- Why are the tribals in India referred to as the Scheduled Tribes? Indicate the major provisions enshrined in the Constitution of India for their upliftment.2016 · Mains GS1 · Society · Scheduled Tribes
- Consider the following types of vehicles: I. Full battery electric vehicles II. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles III. Fuel cell-electric hybrid vehicles. How many of the above are considered as alternative powertrain vehicles?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- With reference to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs), consider the following statements: I. All types of UAVs can do vertical landing. II. All types of UAVs can do automated hovering. III. All types of UAVs can use battery only as a source of power supply. How many of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- In the context of electric vehicle batteries, consider the following elements: I. Cobalt II. Graphite III. Lithium IV. Nickel. How many of the above usually make up battery cathodes?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- What is the common characteristic of the chemical substances generally known as CL-20, HMX and LLM-105, which are sometimes talked about in media?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Consider the following statements: I. It is expected that Majorana 1 chip will enable quantum computing. II. Majorana 1 chip has been introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS). III. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- With reference to monoclonal antibodies, often mentioned in news, consider the following statements: I. They are man-made proteins. II. They stimulate immunological function due to their ability to bind to specific antigens. III. They are used in treating viral infections. Which of the statements given above are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) uses a system of ground stations to provide necessary augmentation. Which of the following statements is/are correct in respect of GAGAN? I. It is designed to provide additional accuracy and integrity. II. It will allow more uniform and high quality air traffic management. III. It will provide benefits only in aviation but not in other modes of transportation.2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Consider the following statements regarding AI Action Summit held in Grand Palais, Paris in February 2025: I. Co-chaired with India, the event builds on the advances made at the Bletchley Park Summit held in 2023 and the Seoul Summit held in 2024. II. Along with other countries US and UK also signed the declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Consider the following statements: Statement I: Some rare earth elements are used in the manufacture of flat television, screens and computer monitors, Statement II: Some rare earth elements have phosphorescent properties. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Consider the following statements: I. Indian Railways have prepared a National Rail Plan(NRP) to create a future ready railway system by 2028. II. 'Kavach' an Automatic Train Protection system developed in collaboration with Germany. III. 'Kavach' system consists of RFID tags fitted on track in station section. Which of the statements given above are not correct?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Consider the following space missions: I. Axiom-4 II. SpaDeX III. Gaganyaan. How many of the space missions given above encourage and support micro-gravity research?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- With reference to India's defence, consider the following pairs: Aircraft type: Description. I. Dornier-228: Maritime patrol aircraft II. IL-76: Supersonic combat aircraft III. C-17 Globemaster: Military transport aircraft. How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?2025 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Science & Technology
- Five people A, B, C, D and E are seated around a round table with equally spaced chairs. (i) C is seated next to A. (ii) A is seated two seats from D. (iii) B is not seated next to A. On this basis, which of the following must be true? 1. D is seated next to B 2. E is seated next to A 3. D and C are separated by two seats.2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Seating Arrangement
- Five people A-E sit around an equally spaced round table. C sits next to A; A is two seats from D; B is not next to A. Which conclusions must hold: I D next to B; II E next to A?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Seating Arrangement
- Discuss India as a secular state and compare it with secular principles in the US Constitution.2024 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Secularism
- What can France learn from the Indian Constitution's approach to secularism?2019 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Secularism
- What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?2019 · Mains GS1 · Society · Secularism
- How is the Indian concept of secularism different from the western model of secularism? Discuss.2018 · Mains GS1 · Society · Secularism
- How do the Indian debates on secularism differ from the debates in the West?2014 · Mains GS1 · Society · Secularism
- A tennis team of four must contain at least two of males A,B,C and satisfy B not with W, C not with Z, W not with Y. If Y is selected and B rejected, which team is possible?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Selections
- With the same tennis constraints, if B is selected and Y rejected, which team is possible?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Selections
- If all three male tennis players A,B,C are selected, how many valid four-person teams are possible?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Selections
- Seven people are available for music work. Rohit and Tanya cannot work together; Kunal and Shobha cannot; Mukesh and Kunal must work together. Which four-person group is acceptable?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Selections
- How many SHG statements are correct: SBI originally initiated the programme; members share responsibility for an individual member’s loan; RRBs and scheduled commercial banks support SHGs?2023 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Self-Help Groups
- The emergence of Self Help Groups in contemporary times points to the slow but steady withdrawal of the State from developmental activities. Examine the role of SHGs in developmental activities and the measures taken by the Government of India to promote SHGs.2017 · Mains GS2 · General Studies · Self Help Groups
- The penetration of Self Help Groups in rural areas in promoting participation in development programmes is facing socio-cultural hurdles. Examine.2014 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Self Help Groups
- The legitimacy and accountability of Self Help Groups and their patrons, the micro-finance outfits, need systematic assessment and scrutiny for the sustained success of the concept. Discuss.2013 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Self Help Groups
- Which institutional principle is the strongest structural safeguard of liberty in a liberal democracy?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Separation of Powers
- Judicial legislation is antithetical to the doctrine of separation of powers as envisaged in the Indian Constitution. In this context, justify the filing of a large number of public interest petitions praying for issuing guidelines to executive authorities.2020 · Mains GS2 · Polity · Separation of Powers
- Do you think the Constitution of India does not accept the principle of strict separation of powers rather it is based on the principle of checks and balance? Explain.2019 · Mains GS2 · Governance · Separation of Powers
- In the sequence 5,1,4,7,3,9,8,5,7,2,6,3,1,5,8,6,3,8,5,2,2,4,3,4,9,6, how many odd entries are immediately followed by another odd entry?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sequence Analysis
- In 1,5,7,3,5,7,4,3,5,7, how many occurrences of 5 are immediately followed by 7 but are not immediately preceded by 3?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sequence Analysis
- The number of persons who read magazine X only is thrice the number of persons who read magazine Y, and the number who read magazine Y only is thrice the number who read magazine X. Conclusions: 1. Those reading both are twice those reading only X. 2. Total readers of either or both are twice those reading both. Which conclusion(s) follow?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- In a bus group, 6 persons speak Tamil, 15 Hindi and 6 Gujarati. Two persons speak exactly two languages and one speaks all three; nobody speaks any other language. How many persons are in the group?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- Out of 130 students, 62 failed English, 52 failed Mathematics and 24 failed both. How many passed finally?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- In a town, 45% read magazine A, 55% B, 40% C, 30% A and B, 15% B and C, 25% A and C, and 10% all three. What percentage read none?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- There are 50 nursery students. Ten speak both English and Hindi. Twenty-one can speak English. How many can speak Hindi, only Hindi and only English respectively?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- Of 120 musicians, 5% play all three of guitar, violin and flute; 30 play exactly two; 40 play guitar alone. How many play violin alone or flute alone in total?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Logic
- A and B play football/cricket; B and C cricket/hockey; A and D basketball/football; C and D hockey/basketball. Who does not play hockey?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Relations
- Using the same four-friends sports information, who plays football, basketball and hockey?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Relations
- Using the same sports information, which game is played by B, C and D?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Set Relations
- In a town, 45% read magazine A, 55% B, 40% C; 30% read A&B, 15% B&C, 25% A&C and 10% all three. What percentage read none?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Set theory
- Of 130 students, 62 failed English, 52 failed Mathematics and 24 failed both. How many passed both subjects?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Set theory
- Among 19 hockey players, 11 have shirts and 14 have pants, with every player having at least one of the two. How many have a complete uniform?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sets
- Among 120 applicants, 70 are men and 80 hold driving licences. What is the ratio of the minimum possible to maximum possible number of men holding licences?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sets
- At a conference there are 100 people, of whom 70 are Indians and 60 are vegetarians. Consider: I at least 30 Indians are vegetarian; II at least 10 Indians are non-vegetarian. Which is necessarily true?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sets & Venn Diagrams
- Among 15 people, 7 read French, 8 read English and 3 read neither language. How many read exactly one of the two languages?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Sets & Venn Diagrams
- P and Q together buy 21 notebooks, Q buys 5 fewer than P, P buys 5 more than X, X and Y together buy 28, and Z buys 8 more than X. At ₹40 each, what is the total cost?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Simultaneous equations
- X, Y and Z have money. If Y gives X Rs 40, Y then has half as much as Z; if Z gives X Rs 40, all three have equal amounts. What is their total money?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Simultaneous equations
- What are Smart Cities? Examine their relevance for urban development in India. Will they increase rural-urban differences? Give arguments for Smart Villages in the light of PURA and RURBAN Mission.2016 · Mains GS3 · Urbanization · Smart Cities and Smart Villages
- Smart cities in India cannot sustain without smart villages. Discuss this statement in the backdrop of rural urban integration.2015 · Mains GS1 · Society · Smart Cities and Smart Villages
- Trace the rise and growth of socio-religious reform movements with special reference to Young Bengal and Brahmo Samaj.2021 · Mains GS1 · History · Socio Religious Reform
- Consider the following: 1. Calcutta Unitarian Committee 2. Tabernacle of New Dispensation 3. Indian Reform Association. Keshab Chandra Sen is associated with the establishment of which of the above?2016 · Prelims GS1 · History · Socio-religious Reform
- Explain briefly the ecological and economic benefits of solar energy generation in India with suitable examples.2025 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Solar Energy
- Describe the benefits of deriving electric energy from sunlight in contrast to the conventional energy generation. What are the initiatives offered by our Government for this purpose?2020 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Solar Energy
- India has immense potential of solar energy though there are regional variations in its developments. Elaborate.2020 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Solar Energy
- To what factors can the recent dramatic fall in equipment cost and tariff of solar energy be attributed? What implications does the trend have for thermal power producers and related industry?2015 · Mains GS3 · Energy · Solar Energy
- With reference to technologies for solar-power production, consider the following statements: 1. Photovoltaics directly converts light to electricity, while solar thermal uses solar heat in an electricity-generation process. 2. Photovoltaics generates AC while solar thermal generates DC. 3. India has a manufacturing base for solar thermal but not for photovoltaics. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Solar Energy
- South China Sea has assumed great geopolitical significance in the present context. Comment.2016 · Mains GS1 · Geography · South China Sea
- With respect to the South China Sea, maritime territorial disputes and rising tension affirm the need for safeguarding maritime security to ensure freedom of navigation and overflight throughout the region. In this context, discuss the bilateral issues between India and China.2014 · Mains GS2 · International Relations · South China Sea
- Consider the following statements: The Mangalyaan launched by ISRO 1. is also called the Mars Orbiter Mission 2. made India the second country to have a spacecraft orbit Mars after USA 3. made India the only country to be successful in making its spacecraft orbit Mars in its very first attempt. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2016 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Space Missions
- Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? 1. Cassini-Huygens — Orbiting Venus and transmitting data to Earth 2. Messenger — Mapping and investigating Mercury 3. Voyager 1 and 2 — Exploring the outer solar system2014 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Space Missions
- Seven places are linked by roads AB, AC, CD, DE, BF, EG and FG. A is 6 km south of B; A is 10 km west of C; D is 5 km east of E; C is 6 km north of D; F is 9 km west of B; F is 12 km north of G. What distance is covered travelling from D to F along the available roads?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reasoning, Logical Reasoning · Spatial reasoning
- Each face of a cube has a different colour V, I, B, G, Y and O. Y, O and B are on adjacent faces; I, G and Y are on adjacent faces; B, G and Y are on adjacent faces. Which colour is opposite O?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- Four cardboard pieces of specific shapes are shown in the original UPSC figure. Figure: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CSAT-2015-Q14.png?resize=130%2C193&ssl=1 . Which figure can be formed by joining these pieces?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- Consider the original UPSC visual figure and choose the figure that should replace the question mark. Main figure: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CSAT-2015-Q11.png?resize=300%2C68&ssl=12015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- Examine the original UPSC embedded-figure question. Main figure: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-53.png?resize=80%2C87&ssl=1 . Which option contains the figure embedded in it?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- Consider the original UPSC figure matrix. Main figure: https://i0.wp.com/adisclasses.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-54.png?resize=194%2C200&ssl=1 . Which option fits the blank part?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- Consider the original UPSC matrix with one empty block in the lower extreme corner. Main figure: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pradheepvijayaraj/prep-loop/0bf10b67af88fca7ba78f324461296d218dfefc1/static/upsc/assets/csat/CSAT_2014_Q18_47dce8f7ee.png . Which figure completes the matrix?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- With reference to the original UPSC route diagram, how many different routes are possible from S to T without retracing from U and/or V? Figure: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pradheepvijayaraj/prep-loop/0bf10b67af88fca7ba78f324461296d218dfefc1/static/upsc/assets/csat/CSAT_2014_Q19_0e258471aa.png2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- The original UPSC figures show a sequence of changing bead positions. Following the same sequence, which option should be the fifth figure?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Spatial Reasoning
- X and Y start 15 km apart and walk toward each other. X walks constantly at 1.5 km/h; Y walks 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2 km/h in successive hours. Are these correct: 1 they meet after 5 hours; 2 they meet halfway?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Speed, time & distance
- A car covers four equal-distance legs at speeds v, 2v, 3v and 4v respectively. In which range does its average speed lie?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Speed, Time & Distance
- Two cities A and B are 360 km apart. A car goes from A to B at 40 km/h and returns to A at 60 km/h. What is the average speed for the round trip?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Speed Time Distance
- In a 500-metre race, B starts 45 metres ahead of A, but when A finishes, B is still 35 metres behind the finish. What is the ratio of A’s speed to B’s?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Speed Time Distance
- A worker reaches his factory 3 minutes late at 5 km/h and 7 minutes early at 6 km/h. What is the distance from his house to the factory?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Speed Time Distance
- Passage: Sport should be seen not merely as medals or quota jobs but as a way of life that can address isolation, anxiety and inactivity while teaching time management, fitness, teamwork and coordination. Which conclusions are valid? 1. Sport is more than games and can be a way of life. 2. It can reduce seclusion among young people. 3. Sporting achievement can help through sports-quota employment. 4. Corporate-type skills cannot be learnt through sport.2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Sport and life skills
- From the sport passage, consider: 1. Parents are insufficiently encouraging children to play sport. 2. Sporting participation can develop life skills. 3. Sport as a way of life can help shape a healthier, happier society. Which are correct?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Sport and life skills
- If N² = 12345678987654321, how many digits does N contain?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Squares
- A gardener has 1,000 plants and wants equal numbers of rows and columns. What is the minimum number of additional plants required?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Squares
- Statement: A good voice is a natural gift, but one has to keep practising to improve and excel in music. Conclusions: I. Natural gifts need nurturing and care. II. Even if one's voice is not good, one can keep practising. Which is correct?2017 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Statement and Conclusion
- Consider the following statements: 1. The rate of population growth is increasing in the country. 2. The death rate is declining faster in the country compared to birth rate. 3. The birth rate is declining faster in the country compared to death rate. 4. Rural-urban migration is taking place regularly in the country. Which one of the following conclusions may be true in light of the above facts?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Statement and Conclusion
- The number of deaths among army personnel is 8 in 1000, but among the civilian population it is 20 per 1000. Which inference can be drawn?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Statement and Conclusion
- Given the statement: “Buses are the cause of more accidents than cars, and trucks cause fewer accidents than buses”, which conclusion can be drawn?2014 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Statement and Conclusion
- With reference to the usefulness of the by-products of sugar industry, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Bagasse can be used as biomass fuel for generation of energy. 2. Molasses can be used as one of the feedstocks for production of synthetic chemical fertilizers. 3. Molasses can be used for production of ethanol.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Economy & Agriculture · Sugar Industry
- Do you agree that there is a growing trend of opening new sugar mills in the southern states of India? Discuss with justification.2013 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Sugar Industry
- Who/Which of the following is the custodian of the Constitution of India?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Supreme Court
- The power to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court of India is vested in2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Supreme Court
- Statement I: 7 August is National Handloom Day. Statement II: the Swadeshi Movement was launched on that date in 1905. Choose the relation.2023 · Prelims GS1 · Modern History · Swadeshi Movement
- With respect to the Swadeshi Movement, assess: (1) it encouraged revival of indigenous crafts and industries; (2) the National Council of Education emerged as part of the movement. Which is correct?2019 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Swadeshi Movement
- The Swadeshi and Boycott were adopted as methods of struggle for the first time during the2016 · Prelims GS1 · History · Swadeshi Movement
- Which one of the following movements contributed to a split in the Indian National Congress resulting in emergence of “moderates” and “extremists”?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Modern Indian History · Swadeshi Movement
- Every red is blue; every blue is green; every green is yellow. P: every blue is yellow. Q: every red is green. R: every red is yellow. Which follow?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning, Reasoning · Syllogism
- Syllogism: All pens are books; no chair is a pen. Conclusions include all chairs are books, some chairs are pens, all books are chairs, and no chair is a book. What necessarily follows?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Syllogism: Some doctors are teachers; all teachers are engineers; all engineers are scientists. Which conclusions follow: I some scientists are doctors; II all engineers are doctors; III some engineers are doctors?2022 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Logic: Some cats are cupboards; some cupboards are chairs; all chairs are tables. Conclusions: I certainly some cupboards are tables; II some cats may not be chairs. Which follows?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Logic: Some radios are mobiles; all mobiles are computers; some computers are watches. Conclusions: I certainly some radios are watches; II certainly some mobiles are watches. Which follows?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Logic: Some greens are blues; some blues are blacks. Conclusions: 1 some greens are blacks; 2 no green is black; 3 all greens are black; 4 all blacks are green. Which conclusion set necessarily follows?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Statement: all cats are black. Conclusions: I all dogs are black; II some dogs are not black. Which conclusion follows if only the statement is used?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Given: some rats are cats; some cats are dogs; no dog is a cow. Which conclusion necessarily follows: I no cow is a cat; II no dog is a rat; III some cats are rats?2019 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- All good athletes want to win; all athletes who want to win eat a balanced diet. What is the best conclusion?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Syllogism
- Statements: Some men are great. Some men are wise. Conclusions: I. Men are either great or wise. II. Some men are neither great nor wise. Which is correct?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Syllogism
- Statements: Some men are great. Some men are wise. Conclusions: I. Men are either great or wise. II. Some men are neither great nor wise. Which is valid?2015 · Prelims CSAT · Logical Reasoning · Syllogism
- A table compares State GDP growth, per-capita income and tele-density. Which inferences are valid? 1. Higher income generally accompanies higher tele-density. 2. Higher GDP growth always means higher per-capita income. 3. Higher GDP growth need not ensure higher tele-density.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Tabular Data
- A table gives distance, time and fuel-use data for four hired cars. Which car maintained the highest average speed?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Tabular Data
- The identity platform Aadhaar provides open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). What does it imply? 1. It can be integrated into any electronic device. 2. Online authentication using iris is possible. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Which of the following is/are the aim/aims of the Digital India Plan of the Government of India? 1. Formation of India's own Internet companies like China did. 2. Establish a policy framework to encourage overseas multinational corporations that collect Big Data to build their large data centres within our national geographical boundaries. 3. Connect many of our villages to the Internet and bring Wi-Fi to many of our schools, public places and major tourist centres. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- In which of the following areas can GPS technology be used? 1. Mobile phone operations 2. Banking operations 3. Controlling the power grids. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Earth's magnetic field has reversed every few hundred thousand years. 2. When the Earth was created more than 4000 million years ago, there was 54% oxygen and no carbon dioxide. 3. When living organisms originated, they modified the early atmosphere of the Earth. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- The terms "WannaCry, Petya and EternalBlue" sometimes mentioned in the news recently are related to:2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- With reference to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), consider the following statements: 1. IRNSS has three satellites in geostationary and four satellites in geosynchronous orbits. 2. IRNSS covers entire India and about 5500 sq. km beyond its borders. 3. India will have its own satellite navigation system with full global coverage by the middle of 2019. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Consider the following phenomena: 1. Light is affected by gravity. 2. The Universe is constantly expanding. 3. Matter warps its surrounding space-time. Which of the above is/are the prediction/predictions of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, often discussed in media?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- With reference to the Genetically Modified mustard (GM mustard) developed in India, consider the following statements: 1. GM mustard has the genes of a soil bacterium that give the plant the property of pest-resistance to a wide variety of pests. 2. GM mustard has the genes that allow the plant cross-pollination and hybridization. 3. GM mustard has been developed jointly by the IARI and Punjab Agricultural University. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Belle II experiment — Artificial Intelligence 2. Blockchain technology — Digital/Cryptocurrency 3. CRISPR-Cas9 — Particle Physics. Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- When the alarm of your smartphone rings in the morning, you wake up and tap it to stop the alarm, which causes your geyser to switch on automatically. A smart mirror shows the day's weather and water level; your refrigerator recognizes a shortage of groceries and places an order; locking the house switches appliances off; and your car warns about traffic and communicates delays. In the context of emerging communication technologies, which term best applies to this scenario?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- "3D printing" has applications in which of the following? 1. Preparation of confectionery items 2. Manufacture of bionic ears 3. Automotive industry 4. Reconstructive surgeries 5. Data processing technologies. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Barren Island volcano is an active volcano located in Indian territory. 2. Barren Island lies about 140 km east of Great Nicobar. 3. The last time the Barren Island volcano erupted was in 1991 and it has remained inactive since then. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- With reference to India's satellite launch vehicles, consider the following statements: 1. PSLVs launch satellites useful for Earth-resources monitoring whereas GSLVs are designed mainly to launch communication satellites. 2. Satellites launched by PSLV appear to remain permanently fixed in the same position in the sky, as viewed from a particular location on Earth. 3. GSLV Mk III is a four-stage launch vehicle with the first and third stages using solid rocket motors and the second and fourth stages using liquid rocket engines. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?2018 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Technology, Space & Applied Science
- Identify the temples in the list that display a Nagara-type curvilinear shikhara: 1. Malegitti Shivalaya, Badami; 2. Huchimalligudi, Aihole; 3. Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh; 4. Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal.2026 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Temple architecture
- About the Chausath Yogini Temple near Morena, consider: (1) it is circular and associated with the Kachchhapaghata period; (2) it is India's only circular temple; (3) it was built to promote Vaishnavism; (4) its plan is popularly said to have inspired the Parliament building. Which are correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Temple Architecture
- Which of the following is/are famous for Sun temples? 1. Arasavalli 2. Amarakantak 3. Omkareshwar2017 · Prelims GS1 · Art and Culture · Temple Architecture
- With reference to the cultural history of India, the term Panchayatan refers to2014 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Temple Architecture
- Terrorism is a global scourge. How has it manifested in India? Elaborate with contemporary examples. What are the counter measures adopted by the State?2025 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Terrorism
- Analyse the complexity and intensity of terrorism, its causes, linkages and obnoxious nexus. Also suggest measures required to eradicate the menace of terrorism.2021 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Terrorism
- Terrorism is emerging as a competitive industry over the last few decades. Analyse the above statement.2016 · Mains GS3 · Internal Security · Terrorism
- During a thunderstorm, the thunder in the skies is produced by the 1. meeting of cumulonimbus clouds in the sky 2. lightning that separates the nimbus clouds 3. violent upward movement of air and water particles. Select the correct answer.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Thunder and Lightning
- During a thunderstorm, the thunder in the skies is produced by the 1. meeting of cumulonimbus clouds in the sky 2. lightning that separates the nimbus clouds 3. violent upward movement of air and water particles. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Thunder and Lightning
- X completes one-third of a work in 6 days, Y one-third in 8 days, and Z three-fourths in 12 days. They work together for n days; then X and Z stop, and Y finishes the remaining work in 8⅔ days. Find n.2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Time and work
- Ram and Shyam work together for four days and complete 60% of a job. Ram then leaves and Shyam works eight more days to finish it. How long would Ram take to complete the entire job alone?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Time and Work
- W can do 25% of a work in 30 days, X can do one-fourth in 10 days, Y can do 40% in 40 days and Z can do one-third in 13 days. Who will complete the entire work first?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Quantitative Aptitude · Time and Work
- Pipes A and B can fill a tank independently in 20 and 30 minutes. If opened together, how long will they take?2015 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Time and Work
- An explosion occurs some distance from an army camp. When its sound reaches the camp, drone 1 flies to the site and sends a picture instantly on arrival. On receipt, drone 2 immediately flies to the same site and sends another picture. Pictures arrive at 5:02 PM and 5:05 PM. Drone speed is 30 m/s and sound speed 300 m/s. When did the explosion occur?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Time speed distance
- A 200 m train moves at 40 km/h. How many seconds does it take to pass a stationary man?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Time Speed Distance
- A person can walk one way and drive back in 6 hours, while walking both ways takes 10 hours. How long would driving both ways take?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Time Speed Distance
- A train covers 63 km at speed x and 72 km at x+6 km/h, taking 3 hours total. Find x.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Time Speed Distance
- How is the Government of India protecting traditional knowledge of medicine from patenting by pharmaceutical companies?2019 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
- India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, which has a database containing formatted information on more than two million medicinal formulations, is proving a powerful weapon in the country’s fight against erroneous patents. Discuss the pros and cons of making the database available publicly under open-source licensing.2015 · Mains GS3 · Science & Technology · Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Limboo (Limbu) : Sikkim 2. Karbi : Himachal Pradesh 3. Dongaria : Odisha 4. Bonda : Tamil Nadu. Which of the above pairs are correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Society · Tribes of India
- Consider the following pairs: Tribe : State. 1. Limboo (Limbu) : Sikkim 2. Karbi : Himachal Pradesh 3. Dongaria Kondh : Odisha 4. Bonda : Tamil Nadu. Which of the above pairs are correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Society · Tribes of India
- In the South Atlantic and South-Eastern Pacific regions in tropical latitudes, cyclones do not originate. What is the reason?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Geography · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Tropical Cyclones
- Tropical cyclones are largely confined to South China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mexico. Why?2014 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Tropical Cyclones
- Which of the following is/are included in the capital budget of the Government of India? 1. Expenditure on acquisition of assets like roads, buildings, machinery, etc. 2. Loans received from foreign governments. 3. Loans and advances granted to the States and Union Territories. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Economy · Union Budget
- With reference to the Union Budget, which of the following were covered under Non-Plan Expenditure? 1. Defence expenditure 2. Interest payments 3. Salaries and pensions 4. Subsidies2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Economy · Union Budget
- Consider the following statements: 1. The Executive Power of the Union of India is vested in the Prime Minister. 2. The Prime Minister is the ex officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Union Executive
- Consider the following statements: 1. The President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of business of the Government of India and allocation among Ministers. 2. All executive actions of the Government of India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the Prime Minister. Which is/are correct?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Indian Polity & Governance · Union Executive
- A cube-shaped vessel of side 1 metre is completely filled with water. Ignoring wall thickness, how many millilitres does it contain?2021 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Units & volume
- If 1 litre of water has a mass of 1 kilogram, how many cubic millimetres of water have a mass of 0.1 gram?2020 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Units & Volume
- What is the units digit of 6^129 × 7^307?2026 · Prelims CSAT · Basic Numeracy, Numeracy · Units digit
- What is the units digit of 1×3×5×7×9×…×999?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Numeracy, Basic Numeracy · Units digit
- “Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana” has been launched for2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Financial Inclusion
- With reference to the Fourteenth Finance Commission, consider: 1. It increased the share of States in the central divisible pool from 32% to 42%. 2. It made recommendations concerning sector-specific grants. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The “Fortaleza Declaration”, recently in the news, is related to the affairs of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, International Relations · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, BRICS
- A decrease in tax to GDP ratio of a country indicates which of the following? 1. Slowing economic growth rate. 2. Less equitable distribution of national income.2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Tax-to-GDP Ratio
- In the South Atlantic and South-Eastern Pacific regions in tropical latitudes, cyclones do not originate. What is the reason?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Geography · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Tropical Cyclones
- Which pair of States indicates the easternmost and westernmost State of India?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider the Directive Principles of State Policy: 1. They spell out socio-economic democracy. 2. Their provisions are not enforceable by any court. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- In the ‘Index of Eight Core Industries’, which one is given the highest weight?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which National Park is unique in being a swamp with floating vegetation that supports rich biodiversity?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Regarding National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF): 1. NIF is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology. 2. NIF is an initiative to strengthen highly advanced scientific research in collaboration with foreign institutions. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- What can be the impact of excessive/inappropriate use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture? 1. Proliferation of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms 2. Increase in soil acidity 3. Leaching of nitrate into groundwater.2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to IUCN and CITES: 1. IUCN is an organ of the UN. 2. IUCN runs thousands of field projects worldwide. 3. CITES is legally binding but does not replace national laws. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane is approved by the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Agriculture · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Sugarcane Pricing
- What explains the eastward flow of the equatorial counter-current?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Geography · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Ocean Currents
- Consider the pairs: 1. Srisailam—Nallamala Hills 2. Omkareshwar—Satmala Hills 3. Pushkar—Mahadeo Hills. Which is/are correctly matched?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to Rowlatt Satyagraha: 1. Rowlatt Act was based on Sedition Committee recommendations. 2. Gandhiji tried to utilize the Home Rule League. 3. Demonstrations against Simon Commission coincided with it. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which places were frequently mentioned in the news for the outbreak of Ebola virus?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to fly ash from coal-based power plants: 1. It can be used in bricks. 2. It can replace some Portland cement in concrete. 3. It contains no toxic elements. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to dugong: 1. It is a herbivorous marine animal. 2. It is found along the entire coast of India. 3. It is protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Who were economic critics of colonialism in India? 1. Dadabhai Naoroji 2. G. Subramania Iyer 3. R. C. Dutt2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which institution issues the ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report periodically?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- When RBI reduces the Statutory Liquidity Ratio by 50 basis points, what is likely to happen?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to nanotechnology in the health sector: 1. Targeted drug delivery is possible. 2. It can contribute to gene therapy. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- In India, markets in agricultural products are regulated under the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Agriculture · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, APMC
- Which one of the following is the national aquatic animal of India?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Environment & Ecology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Gangetic Dolphin
- With reference to Congress Socialist Party: 1. It advocated boycott of British goods and evasion of taxes. 2. It wanted dictatorship of the proletariat. 3. It advocated separate electorates for minorities and oppressed classes. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider: 1. Rajya Sabha has no power to reject or amend a Money Bill. 2. Rajya Sabha cannot vote on Demands for Grants. 3. Rajya Sabha cannot discuss the Annual Financial Statement. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The Government of India Act of 1919 clearly defined2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Modern Indian History · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Government of India Act 1919
- Which institution brings out the Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Regarding IceCube, a particle detector at the South Pole: 1. It is the world’s largest neutrino detector, encompassing a cubic kilometre of ice. 2. It is a powerful telescope to search for dark matter. 3. It is buried deep in the ice. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The terms ‘Agreement on Agriculture’, ‘Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures’ and ‘Peace Clause’ are associated with the affairs of the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to Near Field Communication (NFC): 1. It is contactless communication using electromagnetic radio fields. 2. It is designed for devices even a metre apart. 3. It can use encryption for sensitive information. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The area known as ‘Golan Heights’ appears in the news in the context of events related to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Convertibility of rupee implies2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Currency Convertibility
- Consider the pairs: 1. Champaka—Central India 2. Durgara—Jammu 3. Kuluta—Malabar. Which is/are correctly matched?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider the rivers: 1. Vamsadhara 2. Indravati 3. Pranahita 4. Pennar. Which are tributaries of Godavari?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- When a bill is referred to a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, it has to be passed by2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Joint Sitting
- Which region of India has a combination of mangrove forest, evergreen forest and deciduous forest?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which kingdoms were associated with the life of the Buddha? 1. Avanti 2. Gandhara 3. Kosala 4. Magadha2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which is associated with control and phasing out of ozone-depleting substances?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The arrival of Babur into India led to: 1. Introduction of gunpowder in the subcontinent 2. Introduction of arch and dome in architecture 3. Establishment of Timurid dynasty in the region. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The Government of India established NITI Aayog to replace the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, NITI Aayog
- What is Rio+20 Conference, often mentioned in the news?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Environment & Ecology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Rio+20
- Consider: 1. Executive power of the Union of India is vested in the Prime Minister. 2. Prime Minister is ex-officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The term “Goldilocks Zone” is often seen in the news in the context of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Science & Technology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Habitable Zone
- Who organized a march on the Tanjore coast to break the Salt Law in April 1930?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Modern Indian History · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Civil Disobedience Movement
- Who founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary of river Krishna and undertook to rule his kingdom as the agent of a deity?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider: 1. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress was Sarojini Naidu. 2. The first Muslim President was Badruddin Tyabji. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Regarding the Green Climate Fund: 1. It assists developing countries in adaptation and mitigation. 2. It is founded under UNEP, OECD, ADB and World Bank. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014 was given to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Science & Technology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, ISRO
- With reference to the Cabinet Mission: 1. It recommended a federal government. 2. It enlarged the powers of the Indian courts. 3. It provided for more Indians in the ICS. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which National Park has a climate varying from tropical to subtropical, temperate and arctic?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Amnesty International is2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, International Relations · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Human Rights Organizations
- With reference to the art and archaeological history of India, which was made earliest?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which are essential elements of the feudal system? 1. Very strong centralized political authority and very weak provincial/local authority 2. Administrative structure based on control and possession of land 3. Lord–vassal relationship between feudal lord and overlord.2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- “BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes” is managed by the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Environment & Ecology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, BioCarbon Fund
- India is a member of which among the following? 1. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2. Association of South-East Asian Nations 3. East Asia Summit2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, International Relations · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Regional Groupings
- In India, the steel production industry requires the import of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Steel Industry
- The Fifth and Sixth Schedules in the Constitution of India are made in order to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to the Union Government: 1. Department of Revenue is responsible for preparation of the Union Budget. 2. No amount can be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of India without authorization from Parliament. 3. All disbursements from the Public Account also need authorization from Parliament. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Who/Which is the custodian of the Constitution of India?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider: 1. Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme was launched in 1996–97 to provide loan assistance to poor farmers. 2. Command Area Development Programme was launched in 1974–75 for improving water-use efficiency. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee is constituted under the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Science & Technology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, GEAC
- In the Mekong–Ganga Cooperation initiative, which are NOT participants? 1. Bangladesh 2. Cambodia 3. China 4. Myanmar 5. Thailand2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- “Basel III Accord” seeks to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Basel III
- Consider: 1. Winds blowing between 30° N and 60° S throughout the year are known as westerlies. 2. Moist air masses causing winter rains in north-western India are part of westerlies. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to IOR-ARC: 1. It was established very recently in response to piracy and oil spills. 2. It is an alliance meant only for maritime security. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which movement contributed to a split in the Indian National Congress resulting in Moderates and Extremists?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The unique living root bridges are found in which region?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Tides occur due to which among the following? 1. Gravitational force of the Sun 2. Gravitational force of the Moon 3. Centrifugal force of the Earth2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- In which activities are Indian Remote Sensing satellites used? 1. Crop productivity assessment 2. Groundwater location 3. Mineral exploration 4. Telecommunications 5. Traffic studies2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Consider the States: 1. Arunachal Pradesh 2. Himachal Pradesh 3. Mizoram. In which do Tropical Wet Evergreen Forests occur?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The term ‘IndARC’ refers to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: 1. It is a global partnership of governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples. 2. It provides financial aid directly to universities and individual scientists. 3. It assists countries in REDD+ through financial and technical support. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which one of the following was given classical language status recently?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to BirdLife International: 1. It is a global partnership of conservation organizations. 2. The concept of biodiversity hotspots originated from this organization. 3. It identifies Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which one of the following countries of South-West Asia does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Geography · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, South-West Asia
- In India, in which one of the following types of forests is teak a dominant tree species?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Environment & Ecology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Forest Types
- The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Each day is more or less the same: mornings are clear and bright with a sea breeze; as the Sun climbs, heat mounts, dark clouds form, and rain comes with thunder and lightning before quickly clearing. Which climatic region is described?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to the Indian economy, consider: 1. The rate of growth of real GDP has steadily increased in the last decade. 2. GDP at market prices in rupees has steadily increased in the last decade. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to a State Legislative Council: 1. It can be larger than half the size of the Legislative Assembly. 2. The Governor nominates the Chairman of the Council. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- “To uphold and protect the Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity of India” is a provision made in the2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Polity & Governance · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Fundamental Duties
- Which one of the following is the best description of an ecosystem?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The fundamental object of Panchayati Raj is to ensure which of the following? 1. People’s participation in development 2. Political accountability 3. Democratic decentralization 4. Financial mobilization2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which of the following are components of Monetary Policy? 1. Bank rate 2. Open market operations 3. Public debt 4. Public revenue2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which statement regarding inflation in India is correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Among China, France, India, Israel and Pakistan, which are recognized as nuclear-weapon States under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The ideal of a Welfare State in the Indian Constitution is enshrined in its2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Replacing wooden ploughs with steel ploughs in agriculture is an example of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- There is a Parliamentary System of Government in India because2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- H1N1 virus is sometimes mentioned in the news with reference to which disease?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Science & Technology · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, H1N1
- With reference to bio-toilets used by Indian Railways: 1. Decomposition of human waste is initiated by a fungal inoculum. 2. Ammonia and water vapour are the only end products released. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- The problem of international liquidity is related to the non-availability of2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, Indian Economy · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, International Liquidity
- With reference to fuel cells: 1. If pure hydrogen is used as fuel, heat and water are by-products. 2. Fuel cells can power buildings but not small devices such as laptops. 3. Fuel cells produce alternating current directly. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Kalamkari painting refers to2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies, History & Culture · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I, Kalamkari
- What is the main objective of the Seed Village Concept?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- A persistent deficit budget can be reduced by which actions? 1. Reducing revenue expenditure 2. Introducing new welfare schemes 3. Rationalizing subsidies 4. Expanding industries2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Which have been accorded Geographical Indication status? 1. Banaras Brocades and Sarees 2. Rajasthani Dal-Bati-Churma 3. Tirupati Laddu2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- With reference to the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA): 1. It is a Public Limited Government Company. 2. It is registered as a Non-Banking Financial Company. Which is/are correct?2015 · Prelims GS1 · General Studies · UPSC Prelims 2015 GS Paper I
- Account for the huge flooding of million cities in India including the smart ones like Hyderabad and Pune. Suggest lasting remedial measures.2020 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Urban Floods
- The frequency of urban floods due to high intensity rainfall is increasing over the years. Discussing the reasons for urban floods, highlight the mechanisms for preparedness to reduce the risk during such events.2016 · Mains GS3 · Disaster Management · Urban Floods
- Major cities of India are becoming vulnerable to flood conditions. Discuss.2016 · Mains GS1 · Geography · Urban Floods
- Vijayanagara architecture exemplifies the amalgamation of past traditions with contemporary practices. Elucidate with examples.2026 · Mains GS1 · Art & Culture · Vijayanagara Architecture
- ವಿಜಯನಗರ ವಾಸ್ತು ಶಿಲ್ಪದ ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯಗಳೇನು? ಚರ್ಚಿಸಿ.2019 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Vijayanagara Architecture
- The use of elaborate “Kalyana Mandapas” as a distinctive element of temple architecture is especially associated with which kingdom?2019 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Vijayanagara Architecture
- ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಮಾನಗಳ ಕುರಿತು ವಿವರಿಸಿ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Cultural History · Vijayanagara Empire
- Portuguese chronicler Nuniz described women of Vijayanagara as skilled in which activities: (1) wrestling; (2) astrology; (3) accounting; (4) soothsaying?2021 · Prelims GS1 · History & Culture · Vijayanagara Empire
- Krishnadeva Raya, the king of Vijayanagar, was not only an accomplished scholar himself but was also a great patron of learning and literature. Discuss.2016 · Mains GS1 · History · Vijayanagara Empire
- Who founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary to river Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom all land south of Krishna was supposed to belong?2015 · Prelims GS1 · Medieval History · Vijayanagara Empire
- ‘ವಿಕ್ರಮಾರ್ಜುನ ವಿಜಯಂ’ ಕಾವ್ಯದ ‘ದುಶ್ಯಾಸನ ವಧೆ’ ಪ್ರಸಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಡು ಬರುವ ಹಿಂಸೆಯ ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ.2026 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Old Kannada Literature · Vikramarjuna Vijaya
- ವಿಕ್ರಮಾರ್ಜುನ ವಿಜಯದ ಕಥಾವಸ್ತುವಿನ ಅನನ್ಯತೆ2017 · Kannada Optional Paper I · Old Kannada Literature · Vikramarjuna Vijaya
- Consider: (1) adenoviruses possess single-stranded DNA while retroviruses possess double-stranded DNA; (2) some common colds are caused by adenoviruses, while AIDS is caused by a retrovirus. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Virology
- Which of the following statements is/are correct? Viruses can infect 1. bacteria 2. fungi 3. plants. Select the correct answer using the code given below.2016 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Virology
- Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Viruses lack enzymes necessary for generation of energy. 2. Viruses can be cultured in any synthetic medium. 3. Viruses are transmitted from one organism to another by biological vectors only.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Viruses
- Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Viruses lack enzymes necessary for the generation of energy. 2. Viruses can be cultured in any synthetic medium. 3. Viruses are transmitted from one organism to another by biological vectors only. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Science & Technology · Viruses
- A six-figure visual sequence follows a regular movement pattern. Which figure should appear seventh?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Visual Sequence
- Visual sequence: two symbols change position regularly across four figures. Which answer figure should be fifth?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Visual Sequence
- Visual sequence: choose the fifth figure that continues the first problem-figure pattern.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Visual Sequence
- Visual sequence: choose the fifth figure that continues the second problem-figure pattern.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Visual Sequence
- Visual sequence: which answer figure logically occupies the seventh position?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Visual Sequence
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.2025 · Essay · International Relations · War and Diplomacy
- Carl von Clausewitz once said, “War is a diplomacy by other means.” Critically analyse the above statement in the present context of contemporary geo-political conflict.2025 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · War and Diplomacy
- Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) is a standard criterion for2017 · Prelims GS1 · Environment · Water Pollution
- Which of the following can be found as pollutants in the drinking water in some parts of India? 1. Arsenic 2. Sorbitol 3. Fluoride 4. Formaldehyde 5. Uranium. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.2013 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Water Pollution, Drinking Water Pollution
- Regarding Earth's freshwater distribution, examine: (1) rivers and lakes contain more water than groundwater; (2) polar ice caps and glaciers contain more water than groundwater. Which is correct?2021 · Prelims GS1 · Geography & Agriculture · Water Resources
- On the planet Earth, most of the freshwater exists as ice caps and glaciers. Out of the remaining freshwater, the largest proportion2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · Water Resources, Freshwater Distribution
- Development and welfare schemes for vulnerable groups are discriminatory by nature. Do you agree? Give reasons.2023 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Welfare Schemes
- The performance of welfare schemes that are implemented for vulnerable sections is not so effective due to the absence of awareness and active involvement at all stages of the policy process. Discuss.2019 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Welfare Schemes
- Statement I: Israel has diplomatic relations with some Arab States. Statement II: Israel and the Arab League signed the Saudi-mediated Arab Peace Initiative. Choose correctly.2023 · Prelims GS1 · Current Affairs · West Asia
- Which of the following is not a member of Gulf Cooperation Council?2016 · Prelims GS1 · International Relations · West Asia
- What is wetland? Explain the Ramsar concept of wise use in the context of wetland conservation. Cite two examples of Ramsar sites from India.2018 · Mains GS3 · Environment · Wetlands
- Consider the following pairs: 1. Harike Wetlands — Confluence of Beas and Sutlej 2. Keoladeo Ghana National Park — Confluence of Banas and Chambal 3. Kolleru Lake — Confluence of Musi and Krishna. Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?2014 · Prelims GS1 · Environment & Ecology · Wetlands
- According to the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, which of the following animals cannot be hunted except under provisions provided by law? 1. Gharial 2. Indian wild ass 3. Wild buffalo2017 · Prelims GS1 · Environment · Wildlife Protection
- If a species of tortoise is declared protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, what does it imply?2017 · Prelims GS1 · Environment · Wildlife Protection
- Women’s social capital complements in advancing empowerment and gender equity. Explain.2025 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Women Empowerment
- Though women in post-Independent India have excelled in various fields, the social attitude towards women and the feminist movement has been patriarchal. Apart from women education and women empowerment schemes, what interventions can help change this milieu?2021 · Mains GS2 · Social Justice · Women Empowerment
- Discuss the role of women in the freedom struggle especially during the Gandhian phase.2016 · Mains GS1 · History · Women in Freedom Struggle
- Defying the barriers of age, gender and religion, the Indian women became the torch bearer during the struggle for freedom in India. Discuss.2013 · Mains GS1 · History · Women in Freedom Struggle
- Seema architect case: as Additional Director General, address workplace humiliation by a senior architect and protect project delivery and employee dignity.2023 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Workplace Harassment Case Study
- Pawan, a government officer, faces persistent humiliation and harassment by a senior officer, affecting his confidence, mental health and family life. What options are available, what approach should he adopt, and what suggestions and training are needed for boss-subordinate relations?2021 · Mains GS4 · Ethics · Workplace Harassment Case Study
- Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · World Physical Geography
- Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? Geographical Region : Feature2013 · Prelims GS1 · Geography · World Physical Geography