Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (27 August 2015)

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1. Consider the following statements about The National Judicial Appointments Commission(NJAC)

1) The National Judicial Appointments Commission(NJAC) shall not recommend a person for appointment if any two of its members do not agree to such recommendation.
2) The President cannot advise the NJAC to reconsider the recommendations made by it.

Which of the statements given above is / are correct

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 & 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

2. Which of the following duties is NOT performed by the comptroller and Auditor General of India.

(a) To Audit and report on all expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India
(b) To Audit and report on all expenditure from the Contingency Funds and Public Accounts
(c) To Audit and report on all trading manufacturing, profit and loss accounts
(d) To control the receipt and issue of Public Money, and to ensure that the public revenue is lodged in the Exchequer

3. Consider the following statements.

1) The duty of delimitation is assigned to a high power body called the Delimitation Commission
2) It’s order have the force of law and be called in question only before Supreme Court.
3) So, far delimitation commissions have been constituted 4 times.

Which of the statements given above is / are correct.

(a) 1 & 3 only
(b) 1 & 2 only
(c) 2 & 3 only
(d) All of the above

4. Consider the following statements.

1) 42nd Amendment Act laid down that there would be no delimitation till after the 2001 census.
2) 85th and 88th Amendment Acts extended the freeze on seats till 2031.
3) It is noted that Article 82 is related to the readjustment of seats after each census.

Which of the statement given above is / are correct.

(a) 1 & 2 only
(b) 1 & 3 only
(c) 2 & 3 only
(d) All of the above

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

Directions: In this section you find a number of sentences, parts of which are bold. For each boldpart, four or fivewords/phrases are listed below. Choose theword/phrase nearest in meaning to the bold part.

1. The football coach had a sympathetic presence, albeit a commanding one.

(a) Although
(b) Furthermore
(c) Because
(d) Not only

2. The chief engineer was irritated by their perpetual complaints.

(a) Trivial
(b) Eternal
(c) Baseless
(d) Repeated

3. The individual's freedom is circumscribed by his responsibility to others.

(a) Limited
(b) Entangled
(c) Destroyed
(d) Eroded

Direction : Sentences given in each question,when properly sequenced forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

4.

A. The Vikings were the terrorists whom Europe feared the most between the eighth and the twelfth centuries.
B. They set out on these voyages of dangerous adventure because they felt an even more unbearable fear than did their neighbours who stayed behind.
C. For they were tortured by the thought that their name and reputation might vanish into nothingness.
D. They managed to brave the seas to pillage, ransom, and create havoc from Constantinople to Lisbon and Dublin, even though they carried inside them all the usual fears of poor peasants as well as the loneliness of Scandinavia's long nights.

(a) CDAB
(b) CBAD
(c) DABC
(d) ADBC

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