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Sample Exam Questions For SSC English
Sample Exam Questions For SSC English
(b) Power
2. WRATH
(a) Jealousy (b) Hatred
(c) Anger
(d) Violence
3. PROLIFIC
(a) Impatient
(b) Competent
(c) Fertile
(d) Predominant
Directions: In questions no. 4 to 6, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
4. CULPABLE
(a) Unscrupulous (b) Innocent
(c) Irresponsible
(d) Careless
5. VITAL
(a) Peripheral (b) Dead
(c) Unimportant
(d) Outer
6. ADMONISH
(a) Flatter
Directions: In questions no. 7 to 16, sentences are given with blanks to be filled with an appropriate
word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the
four.
7. My friend has a strange habit of turning . at odd hours.
(a) Down
(b) Out
(c) Over
(d) Up
8. Hardly had he arrived . It started raining.
(a) When
(b) Before (c) After
(d) Then
9. There being no evidence against him, he was acquitted ..the charge.
(a) Of
(b) From
(c) Off
(d) With
10. By this time next year Rajesh will . his university degree in marketing management.
(a) Have took
(b) Have taken
(c) Has taken
(d) Had taken
11. Baggage can be covered loss or accident during travel.
(a) Along
(b) With
(c) Against
(d) For
12. The high court the death sentence of the prisoner.
(a) Set about
(b) Set aside
(c) Set down
(d) Set upon
(d) Raised
(b) Harticulture
(c) Horticultre
(d) Hearticulture
(b) Hygienically
(c) Hygeinically
(d) Hyginically
(b) Inoguration
(c) Inaguration
(d) Inauguration
(b) Jondice
(c) Jaundice
(d) Jaundise
(b) Leutenant
(c) Leutenent
(d) Liutenant
(b) Grammer
(c) Grammarr
(d) Grammerr
Directions: In questions no. 33 to 37, you have a passage with 5 questions. Read the passage
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Max Weber laid the foundation for my belief that decent and hardworking people with high aspirations
make great nations, no matter what the odds are. This was the first piece of the development puzzle
for me. Mahatma Gandhi opened my eyes to the importance of good leadership in raising the
aspirations of people, making them accept sacrifices to achieve a grand vision, and most importantly,
in converting that vision into reality. He unleashed the most powerful instrument for gaining trust
leadership by example. He ate, dressed, travelled and lived like the poor. Walking the talk was
extremely important to the Mahatma who understood the pulse of our people like no other Indian
leader. The biggest lesson for me from Gandhis book and life is the importance of leading by
example. I realized fairly early that this was the second piece of the development puzzle.
Frantz Fanons book on the colonizer mindset of elites in a post-colonial society opened my eyes to
the role of the bureaucracy and the elite in decelerating the progress of the poor and the
disenfranchised. The colonial mindset of the dark elite in white masks in a post-colonial society the
mindset that the ruled and the rulers have different sets of rights and responsibilities with a huge
asymmetry in favour of the rulers was indeed the third piece of the development puzzle. I see this
attitude of the Indian elite every day in how they send their children to English medium schools while
forcing the children of the poor into vernacular schools, extol the virtues of poverty while living in
luxury, and glorify the rural life while they sit comfortably in cities.
33. The main purpose of the author in the above passage is to
(a) discuss the different writers he has read
(b) argue why India should not be considered a developed country
(c) delineate the lessons he has learnt for the development of a nation
(d) prioritise goals for only economic development of India
34. The first piece of the development puzzle, according to the author, is
(a) creating a team of industrious people for a national cause
(b) the importance of decent, inspired and industrious people for a nations development
(c) imbuing the citizens of the country with decency and aspirations
(d) the need for making people understand the importance of leading an idealistic and simple life
35. Mahatma Gandhi proved that only leadership by example can
(a) mobilise the people of a country against colonial rule
(b) fully and properly understand the pulse of the people of a country
(c) gain the trust of the people so that they are willing to make sacrifices for a larger cause
(d) inspire people to eat, dress, travel and live like the poor
16. c. On
17. b. Dozens is incorrect. It must be replaced with dozen.
18. c. The sentence refers to Raju and his friend. Instead of his common friend, it must be their
common friend
19. c. Instead of is going to the polls, it must be are going to the polls.
20. b. In bad mood is an incorrect expression. Article a must be placed before bad mood. It must
read in a bad mood.
21. c. Since two hours, must be replaced with for two hours.
22. a. If you will promise not to get angry must be replaced with If you promise not to get angry.
The conditional clause must be in the present tense, not the future tense.
23. d. No error
24. a. Who must be replaced with whom.
25. b. A right man is an incorrect expression. It must be replaced with the right man.
26.c. Childish grace should be replaced with child-like grace. Childish has a negative
connotation; it means silly and immature.
27. a. Horticulture
28. b. Hygienically
29. d. Inauguration
30. c. Jaundice
31. a. Lieutenant
32. a. Grammar
33. c. The writers motive of writing this passage is to outline the lessons for the development of a
nation. He has discussed the three pieces of the development puzzle, which are nothing but three
lessons.
34. b. The answer has been drawn from the lines Max Weber laid the foundation for my belief that
decent and hardworking people with high aspirations make great nations, no matter what the odds
are. This was the first piece of the development puzzle for me.
35. c. The answer has been drawn from the lines Mahatma Gandhi opened my eyes to the
importance of good leadership in raising the aspirations of people, making them accept sacrifices to
achieve a grand vision, and most importantly, in converting that vision into reality. He unleashed the
most powerful instrument for gaining trust leadership by example.
36. d. Practising what one preaches.
37. a. The hypocrisy of the people of our country. It is an example of the double standards of the
Indian elite.
38. a. Lexicographer
39. b. Theocracy
40. d. Plagiarist
41. b. Oligarchy
42. a. Eulogy
43. d. No improvement
44. b. To stay
45. b. If I were you
46. d. The infinitive form (to ride) must be compared with (to walk).
47. b. At
48. d. Bribe him
49. a. Had no influence on me
50. d. Reward and punishment