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Find the odd one out.

(A) Copper (B) Zinc

(C) iron aey Brass

D ire ctio n s : (Q.No. 2 to Q.No. 4) : There is certain relationship between

first two terms. Find out word from the alternatives which has similar
relationship with third word ?

M oon : S atellite : : Earth : ?

(A) Sun } Planet

(C) Soiar System (D) Asteroid

19 : 58 ; : 7 : ?

(A) 20 \J 0 ) 22

(C) 30 (D) 41

4, ODRS : OSRD : : PAGJ : ?

\$ r p jg a (B) PJAG

(C) PGJA (D) PGAJ

5. in a certain code, 15789 is written as XTZAL and 2346 is written as

NPSU. How is 23549 written in that code ?

(A) NPTUL (B) PNTSL.

\ ] P f " NPTSL (D) NBTSL

6. if 'sti nro kti' stands for 'clouds pour down', 'nro bsi mit' stands for 'down he
goes’ and 'bsi nro zpi' stands for 'died down he'. Which word would mean
'goes' ?

(A) nro \J & f mit

(C) kti (D) bsi

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 7. A boy rode his bicycle northwards, then turned left and rode one km and
again turned left and rode 2 kms. He found himself exactly one km west of
his starting point. How far did he ride northwards initially ?
(A) 1 km x (B) 2 km
(C) 3 km (D) 4 km

8. Complete the series

11 , 23 , 48 , 99 , 202 ,
(A) 404 (B) 407
(C) 408 >V( P K 4 09

9. Complete the series

840 , 168 , 42 , 14 , 7 ,

(A) 1 UBf7

(C) 9 (D) 3

10. Complete the series

JE, LH, OL, S Q ,....
(A) WV (B) WX
(C) VX xJD ) XW

11. In the series given, some of the letters are missing, which are given in that
order in one of the alternative. Choose the correct alternative.
abbbaaababab

M A) abba (B) abab

(C) ccac (D) aabb

12 . In the series given, some of the letters are missing, which are given in that
order in one of the alternative. Choose the correct alternative.
cccbb_aa_cc_bbbaa_

(A) acbc M 6 j ' baca

(C) baba (D) acba

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13. If 'x' means '+' means means 'x ' and means then
15 - 2 - 900 + 90 x 100 = ?
(A) 190 (B) -7 0
(C) 60 -6 0

14. In a row of students, Sunita is 9th from the left and Sohan is 12th from the
right. When they interchange their places, Sunita became 19th from the
left. How many students were there in the row ?
(A) 27 (B) 29
30 (D) 33

15. Sarita cuts a cake into two halves and cut one-half into smaller pieces of
equal size. Eachof the smallpiece is twenty five grams inweight. If she
has eleven pieces ofthe cake in all with her, how heavy was theoriginal
cake.
(A) 275 grams (B) 200 grams
(C) 525 grams ^ j p ^ 5 0 0 grams

16. A, B, C, D and E are five friends. A is shorter than B but taller than E. C is
the tallest. D is shorter than B and taller than A. W ho has two persons
taller and two persons shorter than him / her ?
(A) A (B) B
(C) C OD) D

17. Rajan is the brother of Sachin and Manik is the father of Rajan. Jagat is
the brother of Priya and Priya is the daughter of Sachin. Who is uncle of
Jagat ?
Rajan (B) Sachin
(C) Manik (D) Can’t be determined

18. Arrange the given words in alphabetical order and select the one that
comes at fourth place.

MUSIC, MINT, MINK, MURDER, MULTIPLE

(A) MUSIC (B) MINT

^ (P K M U R D E R (D) MULTIPLE

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 19. A family has a man, his wife, their four sons and their wives. The family of
every son also has 3 sons and one daughter. Find out the totai number of
male members in the whole family.

(A) 8 (B) 12

(C) 16 -nJ P K ^

20. A father tells his son, "I was of your present age when you were born". If
the father is 46 now, how old was the boy 5 years back ?

\ i£ ) 18 (B) 20

(C) 22 (D) 23

21. Who wrote "Glimpses of World History" ?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Rajendra Prasad

(C) Mulk Raj Anand \! 0 ) Jawaharlai Nehru

22. 'Hawa Manal' is in which of the following cities ?

(A) Bhopal \ j f f i Jaipur

(C) Udaipur (D) Jodhpur

23. The Classical Indian dance of Andhra Pradesh is

(A) Kathakali (B) Odissi

Kuchipudi (D) Bharatnatyam

24. A rya Samaj' was founded by

(A) Ramkrishna Paramhansa (B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy .*({>) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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25. Before Delhi where was the capital of India during the British India ?
(A) Lucknow (B) Bombay
(G) Calcutta (D) Patna

26. Which port is not on east coast ?

(A) Calcutta '(B) Cochin
(C) Paradeep (D) Vishakhapatnam

27. Commonwealth Games are held once i n ..... ...... years.

(A) 2 /O B f 4
(C) 6 (D) 8

28. Uber Cup is associated with which game ?

(A) Hockey (Women) (B) l able Tennis (Men)
(C) Badminton (Men) \J P Y Badminton (Women)

29. The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at

(A) educating the Indian masses
(B) agitating against theBritish monopoly in administration
(C) boycotting foreign goods
•s jP fa tta in in g self rule for India

30. The capital of Mizoram is

(A) Jtanagar , (B) Imphal
vJ e f Aizwal (D) Agartala

31. Which article confer special status to the S tajeo'f Jammu and Kashmir ?
(A) Article 356 *-• (B j Article 370
(C) Article 372 (D) Article 375

32. The deficiency of which vitamin causes anaemia ?

(A) Vitamin Bi (B) Vitamin B6
- ^ ^ ^ V ita m in B 12 (^ ) Vitamin D

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 33. Sun's heat reaches earth by which of the following modes of heat
transmission ?

(A) Conduction (B) Convection

Radiation (D) Heat Exchange

34. Thejpinim um age required for becoming the Prime Minister of India is

nJ A ) 25 years (B) 30 years

(C) 35 years (D) 40 years

35. Which of the following forts was not build by Akbar ?

(A) Lahore Fort (B) Allahabad Fort

x iC y Gwalior Fort (D) Agra Fort

36. A rectangle is 1 cm longer than its breadth and its perimeter is 14 cm. The
area of the rectangle is :

(A) 16 cm 2 (B) 14 cm 2

( C ) / 1 2 cm 2 (D) 10 cm 2

37. A man cycles from city A to city B at 18 km per hour and returns back from
B to A at 12 km/hr. Find his average speed over the whole journey

(A) 14 km/hr. \ j g f ' 14.4 km/hr.

(C) 14.8 km/hr. (D) 15 km/hr.

38. A and B working together can finish a piece of work in 12 days while B
alone can do it in 30 days. In how many days can A alone finish the
work ?

(A) 15 days (B) 18 days

20 days (D) 21 days

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39. A 300 m long train is running at 72 km/hr. In how much time will it cross a
signal post ?

s j / ( f 15 sec. (B) 18 sec.

(C) 20 sec. (D) 25 sec.

40. A sum of 9% per annum simple interest amounts to ?2921 in 3 years.

What is the sum ?

(A) 2000 (B) 2100

(C) 2200 n (Q K 2 3 0 0

41. A part of ?1500 was lent at 10% per annum and the rest at 7% per annum
simple interest. The total interest earned in 3 years was ?396. The sum
lent at 10% was :

\P < f ?900 (B) ?800

(C) ?700 (D) ?600

42 . 15% of 180 + ? % of 250 = 11 % of 700

(A) 25 -v ^ B ) 20

(C) 18 (D) 16

43 . Out of an earning of ?720, Ram spends 65%. How much does he save ?

(A) ?350 (B) ^390

t2 5 2 (D) ?316

44 . A bicycle is bought for ?1530 and sold for ?1275. Find the loss percent ?

1 2
(A) 1 2 -% (B) 13~%
2 3
2
(C) 15% ^ (D V T B -%

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 7 1
45= I h© th pad of 3 number is 70 Tho ~"th of thG numbsr is ’
4
\ i ^ ' 22 5 (B) 28.5

(c ) 5 4 6 (D) 52.5

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46, ( 9 - - 6 ~ ) x 220 = ?
5 4

(A ) 685 \(B K 671

(C) 666 (□) None of these

47. The product of two numbers is 120 and the sum of their squares is 289.
The sum of the numbers is

(A) 20 -,JB) 23
(C) 169 (p) None of these

ir 5 4 7.5 27 547527
48- l f = *■ th e n ------------ = ?
0.0082 82

v lA f — (B) 10*

(C) lO O x (□) None of these

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49. if ^ of a number is 40 more than 40% of the same number, what is the
number ?

(A) 100 (B) 150

\& > 200 (D) 400

50. The average of first 8 multiples of 5 is :

(A) 22.5 (B) 21.8

(c ) 20 (D) 24

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51. What are two important categories of the databases ?

(A) Reference and information databases

(B) Reference and source databases

(C) Primary and secondary databases

(D) General and special databases

52. Libraries are primarily concerned with which type of bibliography ?

(A) Textual (B) Regional

^C ) Systematic (D) Historical

53. International Standard Book Number (ISBN) consist of how many digits ?

(A) Eight N(6 f Ten

(C) Twelve (D) Fourteen

54. Which one is the primary source of information in the following :

(A) Bibliography (B) Dictionary

{ £ ,) Hand written articles (D) Encyclopaedia

55. Which reference source is known as a store house of knowledge ?

(A) Dictionary X ^B f^Encyclopaedia

(C) Y e a rbo o k (D) Directory

56. Indexing Periodicals are grouped u n d e r:

(A) Primary sources '(B ),.-S econdary sources

(C) Tertiary sources (D) Basic sources

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 57. Which law of library science emphasizes on weeding of unuseful books
from the libraries ?

'i M ' Second Law (B) Third Law

(C) Fourth Law (D) Fifth Law

58 . Generally, extension services are provided in which types of libraries ?

■ \£ £ f 1PLJblic libraries (B) Academic libraries

(C) Special libraries (D) University libraries

59. Shared cataloguing is an example o f .............................

(A) Inter library loan(B) Centralised cataloguing

iC y t ie source sharing (D) Union cataloguing

60 . What is IATLIS ?

(A) International association of the teachers of library science

(B) International association of the teachers of library and information

science

(C) Indian association of teachers of library science

\(P ) Indian association of teachers of library and information science

61 . Newspaper clipping is a type o f ........................ information service.

(A) anticipatory (B) responsive

(C) on-demand X jP f'r e tr o s p e c tiv e

62 . What facilitates identification of a published document with all its

bibliographical details ?

(A) Abstracting services **-(6 ) Indexing services

(C) Information services (D) Reference services

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63. Which organisation has been mainly providing translation services in
India?

(A) NASSDOC (B) DESIDOC

INSDOC (D) SENDOC

64. The most important traditional record of books in libraries is :

(A) Shelf list \J % ) Accession register

(C) Book catalogue (D) Stock register

65. W hat is the essential aspect of the information service ?

(A) Collection of information

(B) Storage of information

(C) Retrieval of information

.\(P ) Communication of information

66 . According to AACR-2 the heading of the main entry for an encyclopaedia

is prepared under which of the following ?

(A) Name of editor (B) Name of publisher

^ J p ^ Title (D) Place of publication

67. What is the full form of ICCP ?

\ J ^ f International Conference on Cataloguing Principles

(B) International Council of Cataloguing Practice

(C) Indian Council of Cataloguing Practice

(D) international Council of Cataloguing Principles

68 . P-notes are used in which classification scheme ?

(A) UDC O ) DDC

(C) CC (D) SC

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 69. What is meant by the term cataloguing.

(A) To make the catalogue

(B) To prepare the catalogue

\ J G) To prepare entries for the catalogue

(D) None of these

70. What are the names of two parts of classified catalogue ?

(A) Alphabetical and non-alphabetical

(B) Classified and alphabetical

(C) Classified and dictionary

JP ) Classified part and alphabetical index

71. National Library (India) uses which cataloguing code to catalogue its
books ?

(A) AACR M 3 ) X AACR-I

(C) AACR-II (D) CCC

72. DBMS means

(A) Data Book Management Software

iB ) Data Base Management System
(C) Data Bank Management System
(D) Data Basic Management Sorter

73. A web page is created using a mark-up language called

(A) MHLT (B) HLTM
(C) HTLM HTML

74. Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) is a

(A) Network (B) D atabase

(C) Website \J P T ^ Consortium

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7 5 .............................is the only code which provides rules for subject entries,

(A) ALA code

(B) Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)

CCC
(D) Anglo American Code

76. The demand of users in special libraries mainly is through the :

(A) Author of the book (B) Title of the book
^9) Subject of the book (D) Publisher of the book

77. What is called the method of knowing the information searching behaviour
of the users ?
(A) Method knowing the habit of reading

{Eif User's study

(C) User's education
(D) User's behaviour

78. According to UGC Library Committee, the librarians are grouped under
which category of library staff ?
\(A) Professional (B) Semi-Professional

(C) Administrative (D) Academic

79. Under which organ of the government, the National Library of India
functions ?
(A) Ministry of Education v^B f^M in istry of Human Resource

(C) Planning Commission (D) UGC

80. What are academic libraries ?

(A) In which educational books are stored

(B) In which education is provided

(C) Libraries established in universities

<vCD^AH libraries of academic institutions

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 The word Libra belongs to the language

Roman (B) American

Latin (D) Greek

82. What is called the process by which all the parts and pages of a book are
arranged in its correct sequence for binding ?

(A) Binding (B) Finishing

(C) Forwarding ^ J P T 'C o lla tio n

83. W hat is the fundamental base to manage human resources in the

libraries?

(A) Job description Job analysis

(C) Class analysis (D) Job satisfaction

84. Which is the suitable method of budgeting for a university library ?

\(A ) Zero Based Budget (B) Performance Budget

(C) Programming Budget (D) Formula Budget

85. What are the guidelines for planning of a library system ?

W BIS standard (B, Five Laws of library science

(C) Law of interpretation <D) Principle o f Osmosis

86. Publication which appears in parts or volumes at regular intervals with the
intensions to continue its publication for e v e rjs called

(A) Serial y' Periodical

(C) Book (D) Year book

87’ library?5 ^ 8SSentia‘ t0 buiid a good col|ection of document in the

(A) Policy (B) Good Policy

\lp K C o lle c tio n Policy (D) None of these

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88. W hat percentage of the total money of the budget is to be spent on
reading material of the library according to Ranganathan ?

W ' 40% (B) 30%

(C) 25% (D) 50%

89 . W hat are two main categories of the computer software ?

(A) Short and Long ^ ( ^ ^ y s t e m and Application

(C) Internal and External (D) Application and Utility

90 . The Internet address are also known as ?

URL (B) OCR

(C) MICR (D) UDP

91 . The network of university libraries in India is

(A) DELNET (B) ERNET

rv (C ).iN F L IB N E T (D) INET

92 . Which one is not the advantage of automation in libraries ?

(A) increased productivity in terms of work and services

(B) Extension of library services

(C) Participation in networking system for resource sharing

■
vXDT" Minimum utility of library material

93 . What is the full form of RAM ?

Random Access Memory (B) Read Access Memory

(C) Random Approach Memory (D) Noneof these

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94. Barcode system is mainly used i n .............. ....

(A) Serial Control \J & f Circulation Control

(C) Cataloguing System (D) Browne System

95. What are the main components of Information Technology ?

(A) Computer technology (B) Communication technology

(C) Networking technology All of these

96. Which of the following are not the secondary sources ?

(A) Encyclopaedia (B) Digest

J C K T h e s is (D) Textbook

97 . What are called the compilations, specially designed to provide items of

information in a most convenient form ?

(A) Sources (B) Documents

Reference Sources (D) Information Sources

98 . Which one network is not concerned with academic libraries ?

(A) ERNET (B) INFLIBNET

(C) JANET \ l & f NICNET

99 . Public Libraries are the gift of

(A) The English Democracy

(C) Political Parties (D) Kingship

100 . Which clause of the Constitution of India is related with the establishment
of National Library ?

(B) 50

■(D) 67

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