Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (9 June 2015)

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1. The Multi-dimensional Poverty Index developed by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support covers which of the following?

1. Deprivation of education, health, assets and services at household level
2. Purchasing power parity at national level
3. Extent of budget deficit and GDP growth rate at national level

Select the correct answer using the codes given below :

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

2. Which of the following is /are among the noticeable features of the recommendations of the Thirteenth Finance Commission?

1. A design for the Goods and Services Tax, and a compensation package linked to adherence to the proposed design
2. A design for the creation of lakhs of jobs in the next ten years in consonance with India’s demographic dividend
3. Devolution of a specified share of central taxes to local bodies as grants

Select the correct answer using the codes given below :

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

3. What is/are the recent policy initiative(s) of Government of India to promote the growth of manufacturing sector?

1. Setting up of National Investment and Manufacturing Zones
2. Providing the benefit of ‘single window clearance’
3. Establishing the Technology Acquisition and Development Fund

Select the correct answer using the codes given below :

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

4. Which of the following are the methods of Parliamentary control over public finance in India?

1. Placing Annual Financial Statement before the Parliament
2. Withdrawal of moneys from Consolidated Fund of India only after passing the Appropriation Bill
3. Provisions of supplementary grants and vote-on-account
4. A periodic or at least a mid-year review of programme of the Government against macroeconomic forecasts and expenditure by a Parliamentary Budget Office
5. Introducing Finance Bill in the Parliament

Select the correct answer using the codes given below :

(a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 only
(b) 1, 2 and 4 only
(c) 3, 4 and 5 only
(d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

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 and Christmas 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 and myself.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. She worked 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.

1.How old is the narrator, the one who is telling you the story and how old is Nick?

(a) Fourteen years and ten years.
(b) Ten years and fourteen years
(c) Fourteen years and thirteen years.
(d) Thirteen years and fourteen years.

2.Why were the narrator and his brother excited?

A. Because they were going to give a gift to their mother.
B. It was their first gift.
C. They were learning French

(a) Only A and B
(b) Only B and C
(c) Only A and C
(d) Only A

3.Nick came to know about Mother's day at.......

(a) Home
(b) Office
(c) The shop
(d) School

4.To whom did the boys tell their secret?

(a) to theirmother
(b) to theirmaster
(c) to their father
(d) to their teacher

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