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

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

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1. Which one of the following is not a site for in-situ method of conservation of flora?

(a) Biosphere Reserve
(b) Botanical Garden
(c) National Park
(d) Wildlife Sanctuary

2. Consider the following statements.

In India, a Metropolitan Planning Committe.

1. is constituted under the provisions of the constitution of India.
2. prepares the draft development plants for metropolitan area.
3. has the sole responsibility for implementing Government sponsored schemes in the metropolitan area.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

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

3. What is the difference between “vote-on-account” and “interim budget”?

1. The provision of a “vote-on-account” is used by a regular Government, while an “interim budget” is a provision used by a caretaker Government.
2. A “vote-on-account” only deals with the expenditure in Governments budget, while an “interim budget” includes both expenditure and receipts.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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

4. Regarding the International Monetary Fund, which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) It can grant loans to any country
(b) It can grant loans to only developed countries
(c) It grants loans to only member countries
(d) It can grant loans to the central bank of a country

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yard outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards found a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evenings in search of prey.

1. Which of the following explains best the sentence in the passage “I was almost a part of it”?

(a) I was not alone in the cell.
(b) I was familiar with every bit of the cell.
(c) I greeted little tufts of grass like old friends.
(d) I felt quite at home in the cell.

2. The passage attempts to describe

(a) the general conditions of the country’s jails.
(b) the prisoner’s capacity to notice the minute details of his surroundings.
(c) the prisoner’s conscious efforts to overcome the loneliness.
(d) the prisoner’s ability to live happily with other creatures.

Directions for the following item: Given below question describes .a situation and is followed by four possible responses. Indicate the response you find most appropriate. Choose only one response for each item. The responses will be evaluated based on the level of appropriateness for the given. situation. Please attempt thesel the items. There no penalty, for wrong answers for these seven items.

3. The author of the passage seems to suggest that

(a) it is possible to adjust oneself to uncongenial surroundings.
(b) the conditions in Indian prisons are not bad.
(c) it is not difficult to spend one’s time in a prison.
(d) there is a need to improve the conditions in our jails.

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