Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (30 July 2015)

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1. Which one of the following is an incorrect statement

(a) The Word ‘socialist’ was incorporated into the preamble by the 42nd Amendment Act 1976
(b) The 73rd & 74th Amendment Acts were passed in 1997 with Panchayat and Nagarapalika bodies being given constitutional Status.
(c) 86th Amendment Act of 2002 changed the subject matter of Article 45 and made elementary education a fundamental right under Article 21
(d) Article 39A has provisions to promote equal justice and to provide free legal aid to the poor

2. Consider the following statements

1) 93rd Amendment Act 2006 provides for reservation in educational institutions for SC, ST and OBC and other minority.
2) 52nd Amendment Act 1982 is related with Anti Defection law and the Tenth schedule.
3) By 14th Amendment Act 1962, Pondicherry was included in the First Schedule as a Union Territory.

Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1 & 2 only
(d) 1, 2 & 3 only

3. Consider the following statements in regards to Presidential Power.

1) The president appoints the Prime Minister and the other Minister & they hold office during his pleasure.
2) The president can appoint an inter-state council to promote centre-state and inter-state coperation.

Which statements given above is / are Correct?

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

4. Consider the following statements.

1) Pocket Veto, that is, taking action on the bill passed by the legislature.
2) Suspensive Veto, which can be over ridden by the legislature with an ordinary Majority.
3) Absolute Veto, that is, withholding of assent to the bill passed by the legislature.

Select the correct answer from the code given below

(a) 1, 3 only
(b) 1, 2 only
(c) 1, 2, 3 only
(d) 2, 3 only

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

I was ten years old then, and my brother, Nick, was fourteen. For both of us this buying of a gift our mother on Mother's day was a time of excitement and great imprtance.

It was our first gift to her. We were very poor. It was just after the firstWorldWar andwe lived in difficult times of trouble. Our father worked now sometimes as a waiter. Birthday andChristmas gifts were taken care of by him as well as he could, but such a thing as a mother's day gift was out-of-the-ordinary luxury. But we had been lucky, Nick andmyself.A second hand furniture store had opened on the block, and deliveries were made by means of loading the furniture on a wobbly pushcart, which we carefully pushed through traffic, to the customer's home. We got a nickel each and, perhaps, a tip. I remember how Nick's thin, dark face lighted up with the joy of the present. He had first thought of it in shool; and the thought of surprise and giving grew in him, and myself, and we were highly excited.When,we secretly told our father, hewas very pleased.He strokedour heads proudly. "It's a fine idea", he said. "It will make your mother very happy". From his town, we knew what he was thinking.He had given our mother very little in their life together. Sheworked all day, cooking and buying, looking after us in illness and stoking the stove in the kitchen with wood and coal to keep us warm in winter. She did her own washing of the family clothes in the bath tub. And she did all these things silently. She did not laugh much, but when she smiled at us it was a beautiful thing-well worth waiting for.