Model Questions for UPSC PRE CSAT PAPER SET - 35

Direction: You have to take one of the following course of action based on the information provided and the above condition and sub-condition. All the cases are given to you as on 1.07.2011.

(a) If the data provided are not adequate to take a decision.
(b) If the students is to be admitted.
(c) If the case is to be referred to the principal.
(d) If the case is to be referred to the vice-principal.

1. Aaryan pandey has secured 62% average marks in PCM and 55% overall marks in XII std. Final Examination. He was born on 5th July, 1991. He can pay Rs. 60,000 at the time of admission. He has secured 65% marks in the entrance test.

2. Sahil Singla was born on 5th March, 1991. He can pay Rs. 60,000 at the time of admission. He has secured 65% average marks in PCM in XII std. and 65% marks in the entrance test.

3. Sharad was born on 25th October, 1985. He can pay Rs. 40,000 at the time of admission and remaining amount within two months. He has secured 65% marks in the entrance test. He has also secured 60% average marks in PCM and 56% overall marks in XII std. Final Examination.

4. Jeevan Das has secured 75% overall marks in XII std. final Examination. He has secured 60% marks in the entrance test. He was born on 8th January 1992. He can pay Rs. 60,000 at the time of admission. He has secured 58% average marks in PCM in XII std. Final Examination.

5. Shreya was born on 8th August 1993. She can pay Rs. 60,000 at the time of admission. She has secured 65% overall marks in XII std. final examination and 65% marks in PCM. She has also secured 75% marks in the entrance test.

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1. You are meeting a co- worker for the first time outside work. He is late half an hour. How will you react?

(a) Tell him that you don’t appreciate waiting for so long and in future he should take care of this
(b) Ask him the reason of being late
(c) Wait for sometime and then you go to your home
(d) Ask indirectly that if something happened to make him late.

2. You have started a business by taking loan from a bank. But, your business failed miserably what will you do in future?

(a) You will pay the loan anyhow and then run.
(b) You will study your failure and establish your business again
(c) You will again try to establish another business
(d) You will leave everything.

3. You are the director of a big company. To motivate your subordinates, you have decided to pay them perks and incentives. Paying incentives can be done except when.

(a) Output is hard to achieve
(b) Delays are consistent.
(c) Employees have no over control quality
(d) Employees have no over the productivity.

4. A team is performing extremely good and is a paramount example of team work. When of the following may be the primary force in the success of the team?

(a) Cohesiveness among members.
(b) Collective responsibility
(c) The team leader (d) Both (a) and (b).

5. An officer has decided to survey his district identify the problems in the area and important a few policies to benefit the people. But the policies did not succeed the Reason for this failure could be.

(a) He was unexperienced and hence could not identify the problems correctly
(b) He had no knowledge about the district.
(c) He had sufficient resources for the implementation of his policies.
(d) His implementation way was good.

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Passage

Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only morphology but also human behaviour. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behaviour but one of imposing constraint ways of feeling, thinking and acting that “come naturally in archetypal situations in any culture”. Our ‘frailties’, emotion and motives such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy. lust, love may be a very mixed assortment, but they share at least one immediate quality: we are as we feel, “in the grip” of them and this way they give us our sense of constraints.
Unhappily, some of these frailties shape our need for ever increasing security among them which are presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural details, they, too, are said to be biological in direction, and therefore as natural to us as our appendices are. We would need to comprehend thoroughly their adaptive origins in order to understand how badly they snide us now. And we might then begin to resist their pressures.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to present­

1. a p osition on the foundation of human behaviour and on what those foundations imply,
2. a theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behaviour o
3. a practical method for resisting the pressure of biologically determined drives.

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

2. The author implies that control over the “frailties’ that constrain our behaviour is thought to presuppose­

I. that those frailties are recognized as currently beneficial and adaptive
II. a full understanding of why those frailties evolved and of how they function now.

(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) Both I and II
(d) None of these

3. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that-­

I. evolution does not favour the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive ones.
II. changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change.

(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) Both I and II
(d) None of these

Passage

Social justice evades definition, Still in simple and commonly perceived form social justice may be described as principle which consists in the claims of all men to advantages and an equal share in all advantages which are commonly regarded as desirable and which are in fact conducive to human well being. That is reason why social justice encompasses all the principles of justice e.g. justice of transactions or rectificatory justice by way’ of restitution and compensation; justice of conformity to rules or like shall be treated alike; justice according to deserting one or distributive justice; justice according to need; justice according to choice. Social justice modified and fixes priority among the various principles of justice. A jurist very succinctly summaries the practical shape of contents of social Justice.(1) the principle of social . Justice requires that all men and women should have a to an equal share in all those advantages which commonly desired and conducive to human well being; (2) this principle is not identical with the demand for equal treatment for all men and women, it rather requires preferential treatment of the privileged under who lack advantages possessed by others; (3) the principle allocation according to need is a subordinate aspect of social justice; (4) the principle of conformity to rules is also subordinate aspect of social justice. This principle is designed to secure all men and women two advantages; (i) that their reasonable expectations will be fulfilled and (ii) their dignity is respected; (5) discrimination is justified only. (i) to give effect to the principle stated in the two above; (ii) to benefit the exploited (iii) on the basis of conduct and choice and so far as justice of transactions and special relations require it, (6) it is arguable that, the equal claim principle is the principle likely in the long run to lead to social stability.
Now we will discuss about how we are making a transition from equalitarian justice to equalisationaI justice. Article 46 provides that the state. shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular of the scheduled castes and the scheduled tries, and shall protect them from social injustices and all forms of exploitation. It embodies the concept of ‘distributive justice’ which connotes, inter alia, the removal of economic inequalities and rectifying the injustice resulting from dealing or transactions between unequals in society.
With a view to ensure social justice to its citizens the Constitution enshrines many provisions like Articles 15 (4), 16 (4), 19(l) (d)-(e), 275, 330 and 335. Protective discrimination policy gives concrete shape to the idea of social justice and with a view to ensure its meaningful purpose the Supreme Court has kept the creamy layer out of socially and educationally backward classes.

4. Consider the following statements­

l. Principle of social justice supposes that all men and women should be equal stakeholders in all the benefits that accrue to the society.
2. Protective discrimination translates the idea of social justice into reality.

(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1, nor 2

5. Which of the following statements is/ are correct in the light of the passage

(a) Distributive justice presupposes removal of economic inequalities.
(b) Equal claim is the only claim which in the long sun leads to social stability.
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Neither (a), nor (b)

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Passage

At the Fourth World Water Forum held in Mexico City in March 2006, the 120-nation assembly could not reach a consensus on declaring the right to safe and clean drinking water a human right. Millions of people the world over do not have access to potable water supply. But it is good times for the bottled-water industry, which is cashing in on the need for clean drinking water and the ability of urban elite to pay an exorbitant price for this very basic human need. The fortunes of this more-than- $100-billion global industry are directly related to the human apathy towards the environment - the more we pollute our water bodies, the more the sales of bottled-water. It is estimated that the global consumption of bottled-water is nearing 200 billion litres - sufficient to satisfy the daily drinking water need of one-fourth of the Indian population or about 4.5 per cent of the global population.
In India, the per capita bottled-water consumption is still quite low-less than five litres a year as compared to the global average of 24 litres. However, the total annual bottled-water consumption has risen rapidly in recent times – it has tripled between 1999 and 2004 —from about 1.5 billion litres to five billion litres. These are boom times for the Indian bottled-water industry - more so because the economics are sound, the bottom line is fat and the Indian government hardly cares for what happens to the nation’s water resources. India is the tenth largest bottled-water consumer in the world.
In 2002, the industry had an estimated turnover of ‘ 10 billion (‘ 1,000 crore). Today it is one of the India’s fastest growing industrial sectors. Between 1999 and 2004, the Indian bottled-water market grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 percent — the highest in the world. With over a thousand bottled-water producers, the Indian bottled-water industry is big by even international standards. There are more than 200 brands, nearly 80 per cent of which are local. Most of the small-scale producers sell non-branded products and serve small markets. In fact, making bottled-water is today a cottage industry in the county. Leave alone the metros, where a bottled-water manufacturer can be found even in a one-room shop, in every medium and small city and even some prosperous rural areas there are bottled-water manufacturers.
Despite the large number of small producers, this industry is dominated by the big players —Parle, Bisleri, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Parle Agro, Mohan Meakins, SKN Breweries and so on. Parle was the first major Indian company to enter the bottled-water market in the county when it introduced Bisleri in India 25 years ago. The rise of the Indian bottled water industry began with the economic liberalisation process in 1991. The market was virtually stagnant until 1991, when the demand for bottled-water was less than two million cases a year. However, since 1991-1992 it has not looked back, and the demand in 2004–05 was a staggering 82 million cases. Bottled-water is sold in a variety of packages: pouches and glasses, 330 ml bottles, 500 ml bottles, one litre bottles and even 20 to 50 litre bulk water packs. The formal bottled-water business in India can be divided broadly into three segments in terms of cost: premium natural mineral water, natural mineral water and packaged drinking water.
Attracted by the huge potential that India’s vast middle class offers, multinational players such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been trying for the past decade to capture the Indian bottled-water market. Today, they have captured a significant portion of it. However, Parle Bisleri continues to hold 40 per cent of the market share. Kinley and Aquafina are fast catching up, with Kinley holding 20–25 per cent of the market and Aquafina approximately 10 per cent. The rest, including the smaller players, have 20–25 per cent of the market share.
The majority of the bottling plants - whether they produce bottled-water or soft drinks - are dependent on ground-water. They create huge water stress in the areas where they operate because groundwater is also the main source in most places the only source - of drinking water in India. This has created huge conflict between the community and the bottling plants. Private companies in India can siphon out, exhaust and export groundwater free because the groundwater law in the country is archaic and not in tune with the realities of modem capitalist societies. The existing law says that “the person who owns the land owns the groundwater beneath”. This means that, theoretically, a person can buy one square metre of land and take all the groundwater of the surrounding areas and the law of land cannot object to it. This law is the core of the conflict between the community and the companies and the major reason for making the business of bottled-water in the country highly lucrative.

1. What is/are the reason(s) for the global growth of bottled-water industry?

(a) Pollution of water bodies
(b) Basic human need for clean drinking water
(c) Paying capacity of the elite
(d) All of the above

2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is/are true?

A. In India, the increase in total annual bottled-water consumption is followed by increase in per capita bottled-water consumption.
B. Indian bottled-water market grew at the highest CAGR.
C. The formal bottled-water business in India is divided into broadly two segments in terms of cost.

(a) A only
(b) A and C both
(c) B only
(d) A, B and C

Passage

The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa has developed a real-time reporting and Internet-accessible coastal sea-level monitoring system and it has been operational at Verem jetty in the Mandovi estuary in Goa since September 24, 2005. The gauge uses a cellular modem to put on the Internet real-time sea-level data, which can be accessed by authorised personnel. By using a cellular phone network, coastal sea-level changes are continuously updated on to a web-server. The sea-level gauge website can be made available to television channels to broadcast real-time visualisation of the coastal sea level, particularly during oceanogenic hazards such as storm surges or a tsunami. A network of such gauges along the coast and the islands that lie on either side of the mainland would provide data to disaster management agencies to disseminate warnings to coastal communities and beach tourism centres.
The gauge incorporates a bottom pressure transducer as the sensing element. The sea unit of the gauge, which houses the pressure transducer, is mounted within a cylindrical protective housing, which in turn is rigidly held within a mechanical structure. This structure is secured to a jetty. The gauge is powered by a battery, which is charged by solar panels. Battery, electronics, solar panels, and cellular modems are mounted on the top portion of this structure. The pressure sensor and the logger are continuously powered on, and their electrical current consumption is 30 mA and 15 mA respectively. The cellular modem consumes 15 mA and 250 mA during standby and data transmission modes respectively. The pressure sensor located below the low-tide level measures the hydrostatic pressure of the overlying water layer. An indigenously designed and developed microprocessor based data logger interrogates the pressure transducer and acquires the pressure data at the rate of two samples a second. The acquired pressure data is averaged over an interval of five minutes to remove high-frequency wind-waves that are superimposed on the lower frequency tidal cycle. This averaged data is recorded in a multimedia card. The measured water pressure is converted to water level using sea water density and acceleration owing to the earth’s gravity. The water level so estimated is then referenced to chart datum (CD), which is the internationally accepted reference level below which the sea-level will not fall. The data received at the Internet server is presented in graphical format together with the predicted sea-level and the residual. The residual sea level (that is, the measured minus the predicted sea level) provides a clear indication of sea-level oscillation and a quantitative estimate of the anomalous behaviour, the driving force for which could be atmospheric force (storm) or physical (tsunami).
A network of sea-level gauges along the Indian coastline and islands would also provide useful information to mariners for safe navigation in shallow coastal waters and contribute to various engineering projects associated with coastal zone management, besides dredging operations, port operations and man-water treaties with greater transparency. Among the various communication technologies used for real-time transmission of sea-level data are - the wired telephone connections, VHF/UHF transceivers, satellite transmit terminals and cellular connectivity. Wired telephone connections are severely susceptible to loss of connectivity during natural disasters such as storm surges, primarily because of telephone line breakage. Communication via VHF/UHF transceivers is limited by line-of-sight distance between transceivers and normally offer only point-to-point data transfer. Satellite communication via platform transmit terminals (PTTs) has wide coverage and, therefore, allows data reception from offshore platforms. However, data transfer speeds are limited. Further many satellites (for example, GOES, INSAT) permit data transfer only in predefined time-slots, thereby inhibiting continuous data access.
Technologies of data reporting via satellites have undergone a sea change recently in terms of frequency of reportage, data size, recurring costs and so forth. Broadband technology has been identified as one that can be used optimally for real-time reporting of data because of its inherent advantages such as a continuous two-way connection that allows high-speed data transfer and near real-time data reporting. While satellite communication is expensive, wireless communication infrastructure and the ubiquity of cellular phones have made cellular communication affordable. Low initial and recurring costs are an important advantage of cellular communication. A simple and cost-effective methodology for real-time reporting of data is the cellular-based GPRS technology, which has been recently implemented at the NIO for real-time reporting of coastal sea level data.

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

(a) Network of gauges along the coast and the islands would help disaster management agencies to disseminate warnings
(b) Cellular-based GPRS technology is not a simple and cost effective method for real-time reporting of data
(c) Disadvantage of wired telephone connection is the loss of connectivity during disasters due to line breakages .
(d) Data reporting via satellites has undergone changes in terms of frequency, data size, recurring cost, etc.

4. What is the outermost part of the sea unit of the gauge?

(a) Pressure transducer
(b) Mechanical structure
(c) Cylindrical protective housing
(d) Sensing element

5. What is the limitation of satellite communication via platform transmit terminals?

(a) Coverage
(b) Offshore platforms
(c) Data transfer speed
(d) None of these

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1. Find the number of man in the bath if a swimming pool is 22 m long and 18 m broad. When a number of man dive into the bath, the height of the water raises by 1cm. the average amount of water displaced by one of the man be 0.01 cubm?

(a) 39.6
(b) 32
(c) 46
(d) 42

2. The perimeter of a right-angled triangle is 6 times of its smallest side. What will be the proportion between the sides?

(a) 5 :3 : 1
(b) 7: 6: 1
(c) 13 : 12 : 5
(d) None of these

3. If the radius of a circle is tripled, what times will be its new perimeter of its actual perimeter?

(a) Twice
(b) Three times
(c) Nine Times
(d) None of these

4. If  and 0° < x < 90°, what is the value of x?

(a) 10°
(b) 15°
(c) 30°
(d) None of these

5. If 0° < 0 < 90° and what is the value of sec2q?

(a) 4
(b) 104
(c) 4/3
(d) None of these

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Direction: In each of the following questions two statements are given and there statements are followed by two conclusions numbered (i) & (ii). You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

(a) if only (i) conclusion follows
(b) if only (ii) conclusion follows
(c) if neither (i) nor (ii) follows
(d) if both (i) and (ii) follow

1. Statements:

 All dogs are asses.
All asses are bulls.

Conclusions:

(i) Some dogs are not bulls.
(ii) Some bulls are dogs.
(iii) All bulls are dogs.
(iv) All dogs are bulls.

(a) only (ii) and (iv)
(b) only (i) and (iii)
(c) only (iii) and (iv)
(d) only (iii)

2. Statements:

NO door is dog.
All the dogs are cats.

Conclusions:

(i) No door is cat.
(ii) No cat is door.
(iii) Some cats are dogs.
(iv) All the cats are dogs.

(a) only (ii) and (iv)
(b) only (i) and (iii)
(c) only (iii) and (iv)
(d) only (iii)

3. Statements:

Some cars are scooters.
No scooter is cycle.

Conclusions:

(i) No car is cycles.
(ii) No scooter is car.
(iii) Some cars are cycles.
(iv) Some scooters are cars.

(a) None of the four
(b) All the four
(c) only (i) and (iv)
(d) only (iv)

4. Statements:

All the goats are tigers.
All the tigers are lions.

Conclusions:

(i) All the goats are lions.
(ii) All the lions are goats.
(iii) Some lions are goats.
(iv) Some tigers are goats.

(a) All the four
(b) only (i), (ii) and (iii)
(c) only (i), (iii) and (iv)
(d) only (ii), (iii) and (iv)

5. Statement:

should smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol by the actors be completely banned in the movies in India?

Arguments:

(I) yes, this will significantly reduce the trend of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol among the youth in India.
(II) No, there should be no such ban on the creative pursuits of the film- Maker.

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Model Questions for UPSC PRE CSAT PAPER SET - 27

Direction: In each of the following questions two statements are given and there statements are followed by two conclusions numbered (i) & (ii). You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

(a) if only (i) conclusion follows
(b) if only (ii) conclusion follows
(c) if neither (i) nor (ii) follows
(d) if both (i) and (ii) follow

1. Statements:

Some dogs are bats.
Some bats are cats.

Conclusions:

(i) Some dogs are cats.
(ii) Some cats are dogs.

2. Statements:

All the poets are goats.
Some goats are trees.

Conclusions:

(i) Some poets are trees.
(ii) Some trees are goats.

3. Statements:

All the trucks are flies.
Some scooters are flies.

Conclusions:

(i) All the trucks are scooters.
(ii) Some scooters are trucks.

4. Statements:

All buildings are chalks.
No chalk is toffee.

Conclusions:

(i) No Building is toffee.
(ii) All chalks are buildings.

5. Statements:

Some ants are passots.
All the passots are apples.

Conclusions:

(i) All the apples are passots.
(ii) Some ants are apples.

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1. An officer has been given an important target for completion the should

(a) Achieve target by team work and cohesiveness.
(b) Important the plan work gradually
(c) Use his position to achieve the target.
(d) Put pressure on his subordinates.

2. You are the team leader you made a mistake while explaining a project to your team workers.a team member rudely points out the error. How will you react?

(a) You will become angry on him and scold him.
(b) You will feel sorry and improve your mistake.
(c) You will make a mockery of the employee
(d) You will take it lightly and leave the topic.

3. In, life, you often have a share a workspace with any person. What is an important point to Remember when sharing a workspace?

(a) Share your workspace with someone who has a similar way of working.
(b) Do not change the layout of the workspace without asking.
(c) Often crack jokes to make your colleague happy.
(d) Indulge in informal relation with your colleague.

4. There are some people who constantly by complain about one thing or the other. Which of the following characteristics of individuals influence their satisfaction level?

(a) Educational level
(b) Experience
(c) Age
(d) Personality

5. A person went to a psychiatrist this problem was that words were not coming to him quickly during speaking the probable reason for this could be

(a) He has gone brain- dead
(b) He is losing his memory.
(c) He does 30 percent to 40 percent of his work by leaving voice- mail, ménage ore- mails.
(d) He is not talkative

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