PPSC Cooperative Inspector 2022

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CI 2022 (A–1)
SECTION I 4. Who founded and edited the three
1. Consider the following events in the important papers i.e., The Punjabi,
history of British India : Vande Mataram and The People ?
1. Santhal Rebellion (a) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
2. Indigo Revolt (b) Annie Besant
3. Sanyasi Rebellion (c) Subramania Iyer
4. Munda Rebellion (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Which one of the following is the
correct chronological sequence of the
above events starting with the
earliest ? 5. Arrange the following events during
(a) 3, 1, 2, 4 the period 1944 to 1947 in correct
chronological order (from the earliest
(b) 3, 2, 1, 4
to the latest) :
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3
1. Clement Attlee’s June, 1948
(d) 2, 1, 4, 3 deadline for India’s Independence
2. Direct Action Day proclaimed by
Jinnah
2. Under whose leadership was a
mission sent to Kabul by Lord 3. Congress led interim government
Auckland ? formed at the Centre with
Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime
(a) Alexander Burnes Minister of United India
(b) Bogle 4. Mountbatten Plan
(c) Pemberton (a) 2, 3, 1, 4
(d) None of the above (b) 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 1, 2, 3, 4
3. In the Battle of Plassey in 1757, (d) 3, 4, 1, 2
Siraj-ud-Daulah was defeated by the
English East India Company mainly
due to the treachery of his
6. Name the celebrated Chinese pilgrim
Commander-in-Chief. What was the
who visited the royal palace of
name of the Commander-in-Chief ?
Chandragupta II.
(a) Mir Jafar
(a) Hiuen-Tsang
(b) Mir Qasim
(b) Fahien
(c) Begum of Oudh
(c) Wang-hiuen-tse
(d) Reza Khan
(d) Chou En-lai
CI 2022 (A–2)
7. Muhamad-bin-Tughluq set up a new 11. The ruler who gave permission to East
department called ‘Diwan-i-Kohi’ for India Company for establishing a
the progress and development of factory at Surat was
(a) Villages (a) Akbar
(b) Cities/Towns (b) Farrukhsiyar
(c) Agriculture (c) Shah Jahan
(d) Industries (d) Jahangir
8. In which of the following hills of

12. Which of the following European
Odisha is Hathigumpha inscription of
trading companies adopted the ‘Blue
Kharavela present ?
Water Policy’ in India ?
(a) Mahendragiri
(a) Dutch Company
(b) Khandagiri
(b) French Company
(c) Udayagiri
(c) British East India Company
(d) Goradhgiri
(d) Portuguese Company
9. On which riverside of Punjab was the

ancient Greek settlement ‘Boukephala’ 13. Who among the following wrote “Pagri
situated ? Sambhal Jatta” ?
(a) Ravi (a) Ajit Singh
(b) Chenab (b) Bhagat Singh
(c) Jhelum (c) Banke Dayal
(d) Beas
(d) None of the above
10. Firdausi, the writer of Shah-nama,

was the poet laureate of the court of 14. To which village did the great Sikh
which ruler ? warrior woman Mai Bhago belong ?
(a) Mahmud Ghaznavi (a) Guru Ki Wadali
(b) Muhammad Ghori (b) Jhabal
(c) Iltutmish (c) Muktsar
(d) Alauddin Khilji (d) Kartarpur
CI 2022 (A–3)
15. On which river was Khanki 18. Match the following works with its
Headworks built, which irrigated writers :
3 million acres of barren lands in west i. Jaswant 1. Buhe
Punjab during the British period ? Singh Kawal
ii. Amrita 2. Pinjar
(a) Ravi Pritam
iii. Sant Singh 3. Lahoo Di Lo
(b) Chenab
Sekhon
(c) Jhelum iv. Mohan Singh 4. Lahu Mitti
Codes :
(d) Sind
(a) i-3, ii-2, iii-4, iv-1
(b) i-2, ii-1, iii-4, iv-3
(c) i-2, ii-3, iii-1, iv-4
(d) i-1, ii-4, iii-3, iv-2
16. Who among the following died during
hunger strike by Bhagat Singh and his
19. Identify the historical site that does
associates in jail ?
not exist in the Indian Punjab.
(a) Jatin Das
(a) Aam Khas Bagh
(b) Shiv Verma (b) Rohtas Fort
(c) Khudiram (c) Khairuddin Masjid
(d) Master Amir Chand (d) Bahadurgarh Fort
20. Which of the following is not the folk

instrument of Punjab ?
17. Arrange the following in chronological (a) Dilruba

order : (b) Chimta
1. Communal Award (c) Ravanhatha
2. Simon Commission (d) Algoza
3. Cabinet Mission
21. How many districts of Punjab share a
4. Wavell Plan
border with Pakistan ?
(a) 3, 2, 1, 4 (a) 8
(b) 2, 1, 4, 3 (b) 7
(c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (c) 4
(d) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) 6
CI 2022 (A–4)
22. Winter Diesel is a specialized fuel that 24. The function of the Public Accounts
was introduced by Indian Oil Committee is to
Corporation. Choose the correct
statement about Winter Diesel : 1. See that the amounts shown in
the accounts as having been
(a) It contains additives to maintain
disbursed were legally available
lower viscosity, can be used in
for and applicable to the service
temperatures as low as – 100°C.
or purpose for which they have
(b) It has lower cetane rating. been applied or charged.
(c) It has high Sulphur content. 2. See that the expenditure

(d) It is specifically used for high conforms to the authority which
altitude regions and governs it.
low-temperature regions such as
3. See that every re-appropriation
Ladakh, where ordinary diesel
has been made in accordance
can become unusable.
with the provisions made in this
behalf under the rules framed by
competent authority.
4. Consider the report of the

Comptroller and Auditor General
23. An Appropriation Bill as passed by the in cases where the President may
Lower House have required him to conduct an
audit of any receipts or to
1. is discussed by the Rajya Sabha.
examine the accounts of stores
2. is modified by the Rajya Sabha. and stocks.
3. is rejected by the Rajya Sabha.

Which of the statements given above
4. is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
is/are correct ?
is/are correct ? (a) Only 1 is correct
(a) All are correct

(b) 2 and 3 are correct
(c) 2 and 4 are correct (c) 1, 2, 3 are correct
(d) 2 and 3 are correct (d) All are correct
CI 2022 (A–5)
25. In connection to Government of India 27. Which among the following is not a
Act, 1935 consider the following World Bank unit ?
statements :
(a) International Finance
1. The Act came into effect in 1937.
2. The Act laid down that the High Corporation
Court would be composed of at (b) International Monetary Fund
least three judges of whom one
would be Chief Justice. (c) International Development
3. The Act ensured the provisions of Association
all India Civil Services.
4. According to the Act, the (d) Multilateral Investment
Governor General is only Guarantee Agency
required to act according to the
advice of the Council of Ministers.
are correct ? 28. Marshall Plan was a US Programme
(a) 1, 2 and 4 only providing economic assistance to
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only Western Europe following the
(c) 1 and 4 only destruction of World War–II. Who was
the US President during the Marshall
(d) All the statements are correct
Plan ?
26. Match List-I with List-II and select the (a) Dwight Eisenhower
correct answer :
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
List I List II
(c) Woodrow Wilson
A. Lord Clive 1. Subsidiary
Alliance (d) Harry S. Truman
B. Lord Wellesley 2. Indian
Universities
Commission
C. Lord Dalhousie 3. Doctrine of
29. NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Lapse
D. Lord Curzon 4. Dual Agreement) was replaced by a new
Government trade agreement in 2020 called
in Bengal
(a) Panama Treaty Agreement
Choose your answer with the help of
the given options : (b) USMCA (United States-Mexico-
A B C D Canada Agreement)
(a) 2 3 4 1 (c) Southern Common Market

(b) 4 1 3 2 Agreement (Mercosur)
(c) 4 3 2 1 (d) CACM (Central American
(d) 1 4 2 3 Common Market)
CI 2022 (A–6)
30. With reference to Self-Help Groups 32. Which of the following are correct
(SHGs), consider the following about the immigration laws in India ?
statements : 1. A person who was born in India
shall be considered citizen of the
1. A Self-Help Group is an
country.
organization of the rural poor
2. Either of whose parents are born
formed through social
in India shall be considered a
mobilization for the purpose of
citizen of the country.
their betterment and poverty
3. A person who has been ordinarily
eradication.
resident living in the Indian
2. Self-Help Groups are Territory for not less than 5 years
non-governmental organizations shall be considered a citizen of
at Panchayat levels to assist the India.
local administration in rural 4. Those who have invested a sum
development. of < 5 crores in India shall be
Which of the statements given above considered a citizen of India.
is/are correct ? (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(a) 1 only (b) 1 and 4 are correct
(c) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(b) 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
33. Match the following :

31. Correctly arrange the following islands Father of
Agriculture and
of India from North latitude to South Revolution
Allied Revolution
in India
latitude.
A. Green 1. Nirpakh Tutej
1. Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep) B. White 2. M.S.
2. Ross Island (Netaji Subhas Swaminathan
Chandra Bose Island) C. Blue 3. Arun Krishnan
D. Golden 4. Verghese
3. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep)
Kurien
4. Barren Island Codes :
(a) 1, 3, 2, 4 A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 4, 3, 1, 2 (c) 2 4 3 1
(d) 3, 2, 4, 1 (d) 1 2 3 4
CI 2022 (A–7)
34. Which of the following is the name of a 38. Which of the following is a landmark
wildlife corridor ? international agreement designed to
protect the stratosphere ozone layer ?
(a) Rohtang Pass
(a) The Stockholm Declaration
(b) Chilla-Motichur
(b) The Montreal Protocol
(c) Indira Gandhi Canal, Rajasthan (c) The Geneva Convention
(d) Binsar (d) The Bern Convention
35. Blue-green algae are chiefly used as 39. What is the name of a species that is
highly connected to the entire food web
biofertilisers in the crop of
and whose loss may result in
(a) Maize ecosystem collapse ?
(a) Limiting species
(b) Wheat
(b) Keystone species
(c) Paddy (c) Vital species
(d) Top species
(d) Gram
40. The Western Ghats of India are also

36. The maximum tidal energy potential known as
in India is (a) Nilgiris
(b) Sahyadris
(a) in Gulf of Khambhat
(c) Annamalai Hills
(b) in Gangetic delta in Sundarbans (d) Cardamom Hills
(c) along the coast of Odisha
(d) along the coast of Chennai 41. Atlantic Ocean gets its cold, deep
water from the Arctic Ocean, whereas
the Pacific and Indian Oceans get
theirs from the water surrounding
37. In the Sustainable Development Goals,
Antarctica. This is a result of which of
2030 (SDGs 2030) – which goal is the following phenomenon ?
pertinent to “make cities and human 1. El Niño
settlements inclusive, safe, resilient 2. La Niña
and sustainable” ? 3. Ocean Conveyer Belt
(a) Goal 11 Choose the correct answer from the
options given below :
(b) Goal 12 (a) 1 only
(c) Goal 13 (b) 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) Goal 14 (d) 1 and 2 only
CI 2022 (A–8)
42. Which of the following is correctly 46. Ever-rising emission of greenhouse
matched ? gases is considered as the major cause
1. Prithvi – surface-to-air missile
of global warming and climate change.
2. Trishul – surface-to-surface
Which of the following statements is
missile
correct with respect to the greenhouse
3. Nag – anti-tank missile
effect in the atmosphere ?
4. Pinaka – light combat aircraft
(a) 3 only (a) Absorption and re-emission of
(b) 2 and 3 only visible light by the atmosphere.
(c) 1 only (b) Absorption and re-emission of
(d) 4 only visible light by clouds.
(c) Absorption and re-emission of
43. A solar eclipse occurs when a portion ultraviolet radiation by the
of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow atmosphere.
cast by the Moon which fully or (d) Absorption and re-emission of
partially blocks sunlight. At which infrared radiation by the
phase of the Moon do solar eclipses atmosphere.
occur ?
(a) Full
(b) New 47. Which of the following crop genome
(c) First quarter was the first to be sequenced ?
(d) Third quarter (a) Rice
(b) Maize
44. NASA is participating in new (c) Wheat
international missions to Mars.
(d) Sugarcane
The 2022 ExoMars Rover and Surface
Platform will help understand if
(a) life ever existed on Mars
48. UPOV refers to which of the
(b) water can be collected from Mars
following ?
(c) minerals can be extracted from
Mars (a) The International Union for the
(d) None of the above Protection of New Breeds of
Animals
(b) The International Union for the
45. LPG used in domestic set-ups in
Protection of New Strains of
kitchens is actually which of the
Microbes
following gas ?
(a) Methane/Carbon dioxide (c) The International Union for
Conservation of Nature
(b) Hydrogen/Oxygen
(d) The International Union for the
(c) Butane/Propane
Protection of New Varieties of
(d) Oxygen/Methane Plants
CI 2022 (A–9)
49. Which of the following are energy 52. Through email an unauthorized person
foods ? asks about the details of the credit
card and personal identification
(a) Carbohydrates and Fats
number (PIN). What kind of
(b) Proteins and Mineral salts cyber attack is this ?
(c) Vitamins and Minerals (a) Virus signing
(d) Water and Roughage (b) Skimming
(c) Phishing
(d) Spamming
50. Which is the first enzyme that mixes
with food ?
(a) S. Amylase
53. Sustainable development refers to one
(b) Trypsin
of the following :
(c) Erepsin
(a) Long lasting development
(d) Gastric juice without impacting environment
negatively
(b) Economic decisions are taken

focusing on the growth
51. With reference to “Supercomputer”,
which of the following statements (c) Economic decisions are taken
is/are correct ? based on the demand and supply
1. Performance of supercomputer is forces
measured in “Floating-Point (d) GDP increases owing to increase
Operations Per Second (FLOPS)”.
in general price level
2. Performance of supercomputer is
measured in “Million Instructions
Per Second (MIPS)”.
3. “PARAM 8000” is a 54. The first Robot citizen, a humanoid
supercomputer. robot is named as
(a) 1 only (a) Rocky
(b) 2 only (b) Stefan
(c) 1 and 3 only (c) Sophia
(d) 2 and 3 only (d) Kitty
CI 2022 ( A – 10 )
55. Eastern Waterways Connectivity 58. Which country has proposed to ban the
Transport Grid (EWaCTG) Project sale of petrol and diesel vehicles from
aims to provide seamless connectivity the year 2030 ?
for regional integration of five (a) Sweden
countries (b) UK
(a) India, Nepal, Bhutan, (c) European Union
Bangladesh and Afghanistan (d) New Zealand
(b) India, Nepal, Bhutan,

Afghanistan and Myanmar
59. What is the name of the Joint Military
(c) India, Nepal, Bhutan, Exercise that involves Indian Navy,
Bangladesh and Myanmar Indian Army, Indian Air Force and
Indian Coast Guard ?
(d) India, Sri Lanka, Maldives,
(a) Sagar Anveshika
Bangladesh and Myanmar
(b) Asmi
(c) Sea Vigil – 21
(d) Sagar Kavach
56. Which institution launched the ‘Fast
and Secured Transmission of
Electronic Records’ (FASTER) digital
60. IWWAGE refers to
platform ?
(a) Initiative for Waste Water
(a) Reserve Bank of India Amelioration and Green Ecology
(b) Initiative for What Works to
(b) Supreme Court of India
Advance Women and Girls in the
(c) Election Commission of India Economy
(c) Initiative for Worldwide
(d) Central Bureau of Investigation
Adaptation of Global Endemic
Species
(d) Initiative of Wind and Weather
57. Indian Navy commissioned the new Assessment for Good Ecosystems
naval station INS Kohassa in
Andaman and Nicobar Islands which
has been named after 61. Territories of which of the following do
not touch the Dead Sea ?
(a) Centropus andamanensis
(a) Lebanon
(b) White-Bellied Sea Eagle (b) Jordan
(c) Andaman serpent-eagle (c) Israel
(d) Palestine
(d) Caprimulgus andamanicus
CI 2022 ( A – 11 )
62. Consider the following statements : 65. On which of the following will the
1. CryptoWire, a global crypto super Indian Space Research Organisation
app that is a special business unit send a spacecraft to orbit, in 2024, to
of Ticker Plant, announced the study what lies below its surface ?
launch of India’s first index of
Crypto-currencies — IC15, which 1. Mars
is a rule-based broad market 2. Venus
index by market capitalisation.
3. Jupiter
2. The IC15 tracks and measures
4. Saturn
the performance of the top 15
widely traded liquid (a) 1 only
crypto-currencies listed on
leading crypto exchanges of the (b) 2 only
world, the company stated. (c) 3 only
Which of the above statements is/are
(d) 4 only
correct ?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 66. Consider the following statements :
(d) None of the above 1. The Davis Cup 2021 was won by
the Russian Tennis Federation by
a 2-0 lead over Croatia in the
63. ___________ has surpassed US Davis Cup final in Madrid.
chipmaker Intel to become the world’s 2. Medvedev defeated Marin Cilic in
leading chipmaker by revenue in 2021. the second singles match to give
(a) Lenovo Electronics Russia an insurmountable 2-0
lead over Croatia and its first
(b) Samsung Electronics
Davis Cup title since 2006.
(c) Vivo Electronics
3. Croatia also was seeking its third
(d) Sony Electronics title after triumphs in 2005 and
2018.
4. Casper was named the Most
64. ___________ has overtaken China to
Valuable Player.
become India’s top trading partner in
2021 – 22, reflecting strong economic Which one of the above statements are
correct ?
ties between the two countries.
(a) 1 and 2 only
(a) Russia
(b) USA (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) UAE (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(d) Canada (d) All of the above
CI 2022 ( A – 12 )
67. Consider the following statements : 69. Which among the following is the
1. Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan world’s highest island ?
Jr won the 56th Jnanpith Award (a) Hawaii
and Konkani novelist Damodar (b) Borneo
Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith (c) New Guinea
Award. (d) Sumatra
2. India’s highest literary award,

the Jnanpith is bestowed on
writers for “their outstanding 70. Consider the following statements :
contribution to literature”. 1. The UN General Assembly
3. Jnanpith Award is a literary (UNGA) recently passed a
award presented by the resolution that recognises
Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation Healthy Environment as a
to Indian writers every year. Human Right.
4. This was instituted in 1950 and 2. As per the resolution, right to a
is given only to the world writers clean, healthy and sustainable
who write in Indian languages environment has become a
and English. human right.
Which of the above statements are 3. UN General Assembly passed the
correct ? resolution on July 28, 2022.
(a) 1 and 2 only 4. India has voted against this
(b) 2 and 3 only resolution.
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only Which of the above statements are
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 correct ?
68. Consider the following statements : (a) 1 and 2 only

1. Mahi River is the only river in (b) 3 and 4 only
India that cuts the Tropic of
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
Cancer twice.
2. Bhopal and Gandhinagar are also (d) All of the above
located fairly close to the “Tropic
of Cancer”.
3. The Tropic of Cancer 71. ________ will hold the Presidency of
passes through 20 countries, the G20 from 1st December, 2022 to
3 continents, 8 water bodies. 30th November, 2023 and the G20
Which of the above statements is/are Summit will be held in 2023.
correct ?
(a) India
(a) 1 only
(b) Brazil
(b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 only (c) Russia
(d) 1 and 3 only (d) Singapore
CI 2022 ( A – 13 )
72. Recently the Hyderabad Declaration 75. _________ has been named the World’s
was in the news due to which of the Best Airport for the second year ?
following ? (a) Qatar’s Hamad International
(a) E-Governance Airport
(b) Health (b) Indira Gandhi International
(c) Education Airport
(d) Equity (c) France International Airport
(d) Paris International Airport
73. Consider the following statements :
1. GST was passed as the 101st
Amendment Act. It came into
force on 1st July, 2017. 76. What is the objective of PURA
2. Germany is the first country to Scheme ?
introduce GST.
(a) To provide employment
3. Amitabh Bachchan is the brand
opportunities in rural areas
ambassador to promote Goods
and Services Tax. (b) To provide urban amenities in
Which of the above statements are rural areas
correct ?
(c) To provide tool kits to artisans in
(a) 1 and 2 only rural areas
(b) 1 and 3 only
(d) To provide housing facilities to
(c) 1, 2 and 3
marginalized
74. The Board of Cooperative Societies

may be superseded or kept under 77. Which Ministry(ies) launched the
suspension in which of the following Kisan Sarathi Digital Platform ?
cases ?
1. Ministry of Agriculture
1. Of its persistent default.
2. Ministry of Electronics and
2. Of negligence in the performance Information Technology
of its duties.
3. Ministry of Power
3. Of there being a stalemate in the
4. Ministry of Drinking Water and
constitution or functions of the
Sanitation
Board.
Select the correct answer from the code
given below :
correct?
(a) 1 only (a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 4 only

(d) None of the above (d) 2 and 4 only
CI 2022 ( A – 14 )
78. When the Reserve Bank of India SECTION II
announces an increase of the Cash
Reserve Ratio, what does it mean ? 81. A, B and C can do a piece of work in
(a) The commercial banks will have
12 days, 15 days and 20 days
more money to lend
respectively. A and C left 3 days
(b) The commercial banks will have
less money to lend before the completion of the work. In
(c) The Reserve Bank of India will how many days will the work be
have less money to lend completed ?
(d) The Union Government will have
less money to lend (a) 5 days
79. Consider the following statements (b) 7 days

regarding the Scheduled Co-operative (c) 10 days
Banks :
1. Unlike commercial banks, (d) 12 days
Scheduled Co-operative Banks are
not regulated by RBI.
2. In the event Co-operative Banks 82. Ramesh has a certain number of
fail, deposits with them are covered mangoes. If three mangoes get rotten
by the Registrar of
then rest can be divided into six
Co-operative Societies either under
the State or Central government. bunches having equal number of
3. Co-operative Banks are structured mangoes. If two mangoes get rotten
as cooperatives, with their then rest can be divided into seven
members carrying unlimited
bunches having equal number of
liability.
Which of the above statements is/are mangoes. What is the number of
incorrect ? mangoes with Ramesh ?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only (a) 285
(c) 2 only (b) 423
(d) 1 and 3 only
(c) 562
80. The Shanta Kumar Committee is
related to (d) 345
(a) Suggest measures to achieve an
efficient administration for the
country at all levels of the 83. What is mirror image of
government. TIRUCHIRAPPALLI ?
(b) Suggest measures towards
doubling farmer’s real income.
(c) Restructuring and reforms of
Food Corporation of India.
(d) Review the Defence Procurement
Procedure (DPP), 2016.
CI 2022 ( A – 15 )
84. There are 3 Indians and 3 Chinese in a 87. When a runner was crossing the 12 km
group of 6 people. How many mark, she was informed that she had
subgroups of this can we choose so that completed only 80% of the race. How
every subgroup has at least one many kilometres was the runner
Indian ? supposed to run in this event ?
(a) 56 (a) 14
(b) 15
(b) 48
(c) 16
(c) 52
(d) 16.5
(d) 44
Directions (Q. 88 to Q. 90) Study the
following graph carefully and answer the
85. Select the number that can replace the questions given below :
question mark (?) in the following Distribution of candidates who were

series. enrolled for MBA entrance exam and the
1537, 1539, 1543, ? , 1557, 1567 candidates (out of those enrolled) who
passed the exam in different institutes.
(a) 1549
(b) 1553
(c) 1550
(d) 1546
86. The letters from A – Z are numbered

Figure I – Candidates enrolled for exam = 8550
1 to 26 respectively. If GHI = 1578 and
DEF = 912 then what is ABC equal
to ?
(a) 492
(b) 468
(c) 262
(d) 246 Figure II – Candidates who passed the exam = 5700
CI 2022 ( A – 16 )
88. What percentage of candidates passed Directions (Q. 91 to Q. 94) : Study the
the exam from institute E out of the following graph carefully to answer the
total number of candidates enrolled given questions :
from the same institute ?
The line graph gives profit percent of
(a) 80% companies A and B over different years.
Study the following graph carefully and
(b) 75%
answer the questions given below it.
(c) 62.5%
(d) 50%
89. What is the percentage of candidates

passed to the candidates enrolled for
institutes B and C together ?
(a) 65% 91. Investment of company ‘B’ in 2022 is

more by 60% than that in the previous
(b) 74% year. Income in 2022 was what percent
of the investment in 2021 ?
(c) 80%
(a) 280%
(d) 68%
(b) 252%
(c) 245%
(d) 52%
90. The number of candidates passed from

institutes D and A together exceeds 92. Average investment of company ‘A’
the number of candidates enrolled over the years was < 26 lakh. What
from institutes E and C together by was its average income over the
years ?
(a) 407
(a) < 40.56 lakh
(b) 399
(b) < 41.60 lakh
(c) 279 (c) < 50.26 lakh
(d) 228 (d) Data Inadequate
CI 2022 ( A – 17 )
93. Income of company ‘A’ in 2020 was 96. Which of the following cannot be
< 18.6 lakh. What was the true ?
investment ? (a) E finishes second
(a) < 11 lakh
(b) F finishes second
(b) < 12 lakh
(c) E finishes ahead of F
(c) < 13 lakh
(d) F finishes ahead of D
(d) < 14 lakh
94. Income of company ‘A’ in 2020 is equal

to the investment of company B in 97. If D finishes third, which of the
2021. What is the ratio of the following must be true ?
investment of company ‘A’ in 2020 to (a) G finishes first
the investment of company ‘B’ in
(b) E finishes ahead of F
2021 ?
(a) 37 : 36 (c) F finishes ahead of E
(b) 31 : 28 (d) F finishes behind D

(c) 20 : 31
(d) Data Inadequate
98. If C finishes first, in how many
different orders is it possible for the
Answer Q. 95 to Q. 99 based on the following other golfers to finish ?
paragraph :
(a) 1
Five golfers, C, D, E, F and G, play a series
of matches in which the following are (b) 2
always true of the results. Either C is last (c) 3
and G is first or C is first and G is last. D
(d) 4
finishes ahead of E. Every golfer plays in
and finishes every match. There are no ties
in any match; that is, no two players ever
finish in the same position in a match. 99. If a sixth golfer, H, enters a match and
finishes ahead of F and behind D,
95. If exactly 1 golfer finishes between
which of the following cannot be
C and D, which of the following must
true ?
be true ?
(a) D finishes ahead of G
(a) C finishes first
(b) G finishes first (b) H finishes ahead of E
(c) F finishes third (c) E finishes third

(d) E finishes fourth (d) H finishes fifth
CI 2022 ( A – 18 )
100. Which of the following diagrams 102. Select the option that will fill in the
indicate the best relation between blank and complete the given series.
passengers, train, bus, taxi and auto
0, 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, 511, 728, __
rickshaw ?
(a) 990
(a)
(b) 1000
(c) 1001
(d) 999
(b)
103. In a class 40% of the students enrolled

for Math and 70% enrolled for
(c) Economics. If 15% of the students
enrolled for both Math and Economics,
what percentage of the students of the
class did not enrol for either of the two
subjects ?
(d) (a) 5%
(b) 15%
(c) 25%
101. If ‘P’ means ‘+’; ‘R’ means ‘’; ‘S’ means

‘–’; ‘T’ means ‘÷’, then what is the value 104. A father has divided his properties in
such a way that 1/2 of the total
of properties go to A, 2/3rd of the
5R9P7S9T3P6=? remaining are shared equally between
B, C and D and the rest go to E, F, G
(a) 54 and H equally such that each gets
< 30,000. Then how much amount
does D get ?
(b) 128
(a) < 68,000
(c) 55 (b) < 24,000
(c) < 80,000
(d) 59
(d) < 72,000
CI 2022 ( A – 19 )
105. A watch, which gains 5 seconds in 109. The average height of 5 people in a
3 minutes, was set right at 7 a.m. In room is 160 cm. A sixth person with
the afternoon of the same day, when height 172 cm enters the room. The
the watch indicates quarter past average height of the 6 people in the
4 o’clock, the true time is room is
(a) 6 p.m.
(a) 166 cm
(b) 5 p.m.
(c) 4 p.m. (b) 164.50 cm
(d) 3 p.m. (c) 163.33 cm
(d) 162 cm
106. Pointing to a portrait, a lady tells her
friend, ‘‘He is the grandson of the elder
brother of my father.’’ How is the boy
110. A student scored 30% marks in the
in the photograph related to this
first paper of Physics out of 180 marks.
woman ?
He has to get an overall score of at
(a) Nephew
least 50% in two papers. The second
(b) Brother
paper is carrying 150 marks. The
(c) Uncle
(d) Brother-in-law percentage of marks he should score in
the second paper to get the overall
average score is
107. What is the difference between the
(a) 80%
speed of second hand and minute hand
of a clock in degrees per second ? (b) 76%
(a) 1/10 degrees per second (c) 74%
(b) 6 degrees per second
(d) 70%
(c) 59/10 degrees per second
(d) 36 degrees per second
111. In a certain code ORGANISE is

th
108. Friday falls on 7 December, 2007. written as BHSPDRHM. How is
What day of the week was it on DESTINED written in that code ?
9th March, 2008 ? (a) SRDCCDMH
(a) Saturday
(b) UTFECDMH
(b) Sunday
(c) UTFEEFMH
(c) Monday
(d) Tuesday (d) None of the above
CI 2022 ( A – 20 )
112. The age of a man is three times the 114. If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of
sum of ages of his two sons and five the following must be true ?
years later his age will be double the
1. u>s
sum of their ages. What is the father’s
present age ? 2. s>q
(a) 47 years 3. u>r
(b) 45 years
(c) 42 years (a) 1 and 2 only
(d) 49 years
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
113. B, C and D are located at different

directions from A. While it takes
30 hours to reach B from A; C and D
are 15 and 20 hours away from A.
B and C are 50 and 20 hours
respectively from D, while the travel
115. Find the number of squares in the
from B to C will take 40 hours. Which
given figure :
of the following statements is true ?
(a) The time taken to travel from A

to B is same as that taken to
travel between D and C.
(b) It takes double the time to reach

B from D as it takes to reach B
from A.
(c) The time taken to reach C from B

is double that of the time taken to (a) 18
reach C from D.
(b) 12
(d) Travelling time to reach B from A
through C is less than the
(c) 20
travelling time taken to reach B
from D. (d) None of the above
CI 2022 ( A – 21 )
116. A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meter 118. What least number must be added to
deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 1056, so that the sum is completely
5 meters upwards, but at night it divisible by 23 ?
slides 4 meters back downwards. How
many days does the snail take to reach (a) 2
the top of the pit ? (b) 3
(a) 20 days (c) 18
(b) 18 days (d) 21
(c) 17 days
(d) 16 days
119. There are five books A, B, C, D and E
placed on a table. If A is placed below
E, C is placed above D, B is placed
below A and D is placed above E, then
which of the following books touches
117. Pipe A fills a tank of 700 litres
the surface of the table ?
capacity at the rate of 40 litres a
minute. Another pipe B fills the same (a) C
tank at the rate of 30 litres a minute. (b) B

A pipe at the bottom of the tank drains
(c) A
the tank at the rate of 20 litres a
minute. If pipe A is kept open for a (d) E
minute and then closed and pipe B is
kept open for a minute and then closed
and then pipe C is kept open for a 120. Write the following in a logical
minute and then closed and the cycle sequence :
repeated, how long will it take for the
Lock, Door, Key, Switch on, Room
empty tank to overflow ?
1 2 3 4 5
(a) 42 minutes
(a) 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
(b) 39 minutes
(b) 5, 4, 3, 1, 2
(c) 40 minutes 33 seconds
(c) 1, 2, 3, 5, 4
(d) None of the above (d) 4, 5, 2, 1, 3
CI 2022 ( A – 22 )
SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK
CI 2022 ( A – 23 )
CI 2022 ( A – 24 )
Booklet Sr. No.
*B* Question
Booklet Set
Candidate’s Name ________________________________________________________
Father’s Name ____________________________________________________________
Date of Birth :
D D M M Y Y Y Y
B

candidate.
CI 2022 (B–1)
SECTION I 5. Winter Diesel is a specialized fuel that
was introduced by Indian Oil
1. Match the following works with its
writers :
statement about Winter Diesel :
i. Jaswant 1. Buhe
Singh Kawal
Pritam lower viscosity, can be used in
iii. Sant Singh 3. Lahoo Di Lo temperatures as low as – 100°C.
Sekhon
iv. Mohan Singh 4. Lahu Mitti (b) It has lower cetane rating.
Codes : (c) It has high Sulphur content.
(a) i-3, ii-2, iii-4, iv-1
(d) It is specifically used for high
(b) i-2, ii-1, iii-4, iv-3
altitude regions and
(c) i-2, ii-3, iii-1, iv-4
(d) i-1, ii-4, iii-3, iv-2
(a) Aam Khas Bagh
(b) Rohtas Fort
(c) Khairuddin Masjid
(d) Bahadurgarh Fort 6. An Appropriation Bill as passed by the
Lower House
(a) Dilruba 2. is modified by the Rajya Sabha.
(b) Chimta 3. is rejected by the Rajya Sabha.

(c) Ravanhatha 4. is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
(d) Algoza
is/are correct ?
border with Pakistan ? (a) All are correct
(a) 8 (b) 1 and 4 are correct
(b) 7
(c) 2 and 4 are correct
(c) 4
(d) 6 (d) 2 and 3 are correct
CI 2022 (B–2)
7. The function of the Public Accounts 8. In connection to Government of India
Committee is to Act, 1935 consider the following
statements :
1. See that the amounts shown in 1. The Act came into effect in 1937.
the accounts as having been 2. The Act laid down that the High
Court would be composed of at
for and applicable to the service would be Chief Justice.
or purpose for which they have 3. The Act ensured the provisions of
been applied or charged. all India Civil Services.
4. According to the Act, the
2. See that the expenditure Governor General is only
conforms to the authority which advice of the Council of Ministers.
governs it.
are correct ?
(a) 1, 2 and 4 only
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only
behalf under the rules framed by (c) 1 and 4 only
competent authority. (d) All the statements are correct
4. Consider the report of the 9. Match List-I with List-II and select the
Comptroller and Auditor General correct answer :
in cases where the President may List I List II
have required him to conduct an A. Lord Clive 1. Subsidiary
audit of any receipts or to Alliance
Universities
and stocks. Commission
Lapse
D. Lord Curzon 4. Dual
is/are correct ? Government
in Bengal
(a) Only 1 is correct Choose your answer with the help of
the given options :
(b) 2 and 3 are correct A B C D
(a) 2 3 4 1
(c) 1, 2, 3 are correct (b) 4 1 3 2
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) All are correct (d) 1 4 2 3
CI 2022 (B–3)
10. Which among the following is not a 13. With reference to Self-Help Groups
World Bank unit ? (SHGs), consider the following
(a) International Finance statements :
Corporation 1. A Self-Help Group is an

(b) International Monetary Fund
(c) International Development mobilization for the purpose of
Association their betterment and poverty
eradication.
(d) Multilateral Investment
2. Self-Help Groups are
Guarantee Agency
non-governmental organizations
at Panchayat levels to assist the
local administration in rural
11. Marshall Plan was a US Programme development.
providing economic assistance to Which of the statements given above
Western Europe following the is/are correct ?
destruction of World War–II. Who was (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
Plan ?
(c) Both 1 and 2
(a) Dwight Eisenhower
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt (d) Neither 1 nor 2
(c) Woodrow Wilson

(d) Harry S. Truman
14. Correctly arrange the following islands
of India from North latitude to South
latitude.
12. NAFTA (North American Free Trade 1. Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep)
Agreement) was replaced by a new
2. Ross Island (Netaji Subhas
trade agreement in 2020 called Chandra Bose Island)
(a) Panama Treaty Agreement 3. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep)
(b) USMCA (United States-Mexico- 4. Barren Island
Canada Agreement)
(a) 1, 3, 2, 4
(c) Southern Common Market
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
Agreement (Mercosur)
(c) 4, 3, 1, 2
(d) CACM (Central American
Common Market) (d) 3, 2, 4, 1
CI 2022 (B–4)
15. Which of the following are correct 17. Which of the following is the name of a
about the immigration laws in India ? wildlife corridor ?
1. A person who was born in India
(a) Rohtang Pass
country. (b) Chilla-Motichur
2. Either of whose parents are born (c) Indira Gandhi Canal, Rajasthan
citizen of the country. (d) Binsar
Territory for not less than 5 years 18. Blue-green algae are chiefly used as
shall be considered a citizen of biofertilisers in the crop of
India.
(a) Maize
4. Those who have invested a sum
of < 5 crores in India shall be (b) Wheat
considered a citizen of India.
(c) Paddy
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(d) Gram
19. The maximum tidal energy potential
in India is
(b) in Gangetic delta in Sundarbans
Father of (c) along the coast of Odisha
Agriculture and
Revolution
Allied Revolution (d) along the coast of Chennai
in India
B. White 2. M.S.
Swaminathan 20. In the Sustainable Development Goals,
C. Blue 3. Arun Krishnan 2030 (SDGs 2030) – which goal is
D. Golden 4. Verghese pertinent to “make cities and human
Kurien settlements inclusive, safe, resilient
Codes : and sustainable” ?
A B C D
(a) Goal 11
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) Goal 12
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 2 4 3 1 (c) Goal 13
(d) 1 2 3 4 (d) Goal 14
CI 2022 (B–5)
21. Which of the following is a landmark 25. Which of the following is correctly
international agreement designed to matched ?
(a) The Stockholm Declaration missile
(b) The Montreal Protocol 3. Nag – anti-tank missile
(c) The Geneva Convention 4. Pinaka – light combat aircraft
(d) The Bern Convention (a) 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 only
22. What is the name of a species that is (d) 4 only
26. A solar eclipse occurs when a portion
ecosystem collapse ?
of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow
cast by the Moon which fully or
partially blocks sunlight. At which
(c) Vital species
phase of the Moon do solar eclipses
(d) Top species
occur ?
(a) Full
(b) New
known as (c) First quarter
(a) Nilgiris (d) Third quarter
(b) Sahyadris
(c) Annamalai Hills 27. NASA is participating in new
(d) Cardamom Hills international missions to Mars.
24. Atlantic Ocean gets its cold, deep (a) life ever existed on Mars
water from the Arctic Ocean, whereas (b) water can be collected from Mars
Mars
the following phenomenon ? (d) None of the above
1. El Niño
2. La Niña 28. LPG used in domestic set-ups in
3. Ocean Conveyer Belt kitchens is actually which of the
Choose the correct answer from the following gas ?
options given below : (a) Methane/Carbon dioxide
(a) 1 only (b) Hydrogen/Oxygen
(b) 2 only
(c) Butane/Propane
(c) 3 only
(d) Oxygen/Methane
(d) 1 and 2 only
CI 2022 (B–6)
29. Ever-rising emission of greenhouse 32. Which of the following are energy
gases is considered as the major cause foods ?
correct with respect to the greenhouse (b) Proteins and Mineral salts
effect in the atmosphere ? (c) Vitamins and Minerals
(a) Absorption and re-emission of
visible light by the atmosphere. (d) Water and Roughage
(b) Absorption and re-emission of

visible light by clouds.
ultraviolet radiation by the
with food ?
atmosphere.
(d) Absorption and re-emission of (a) S. Amylase
infrared radiation by the
(b) Trypsin
atmosphere.
(c) Erepsin
(d) Gastric juice

30. Which of the following crop genome
was the first to be sequenced ?
(a) Rice
(b) Maize 34. With reference to “Supercomputer”,
(c) Wheat which of the following statements
(d) Sugarcane is/are correct ?
measured in “Floating-Point
31. UPOV refers to which of the Operations Per Second (FLOPS)”.
following ?
(a) The International Union for the
Protection of New Breeds of
Animals
(b) The International Union for the 3. “PARAM 8000” is a
Protection of New Strains of supercomputer.
Microbes (a) 1 only
(c) The International Union for
(b) 2 only
(d) The International Union for the (c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 3 only
Plants
CI 2022 (B–7)
35. Through email an unauthorized person 38. Eastern Waterways Connectivity
asks about the details of the credit Transport Grid (EWaCTG) Project
card and personal identification aims to provide seamless connectivity
number (PIN). What kind of for regional integration of five
cyber attack is this ? countries
(a) Virus signing (a) India, Nepal, Bhutan,
(b) Skimming Bangladesh and Afghanistan
(c) Phishing (b) India, Nepal, Bhutan,

(d) Spamming
(c) India, Nepal, Bhutan,

36. Sustainable development refers to one Bangladesh and Myanmar
of the following :

without impacting environment 39. Which institution launched the ‘Fast
negatively and Secured Transmission of
platform ?
(a) Reserve Bank of India
(c) Economic decisions are taken
based on the demand and supply (b) Supreme Court of India
forces (c) Election Commission of India
(d) GDP increases owing to increase (d) Central Bureau of Investigation
40. Indian Navy commissioned the new

37. The first Robot citizen, a humanoid Andaman and Nicobar Islands which
robot is named as has been named after
(a) Rocky (a) Centropus andamanensis
(b) Stefan (b) White-Bellied Sea Eagle
(c) Sophia
(c) Andaman serpent-eagle
(d) Kitty
CI 2022 (B–8)
41. Which country has proposed to ban the 45. Consider the following statements :
sale of petrol and diesel vehicles from 1. CryptoWire, a global crypto super
the year 2030 ? app that is a special business unit
of Ticker Plant, announced the
(a) Sweden
(b) UK Crypto-currencies — IC15, which
(c) European Union is a rule-based broad market
(d) New Zealand
widely traded liquid
42. What is the name of the Joint Military crypto-currencies listed on
Exercise that involves Indian Navy, leading crypto exchanges of the
Indian Army, Indian Air Force and world, the company stated.
Indian Coast Guard ? Which of the above statements is/are
(a) Sagar Anveshika correct ?
(b) Asmi (a) 1 only

(c) Sea Vigil – 21 (b) 2 only
(d) Sagar Kavach (c) Both 1 and 2

(a) Initiative for Waste Water 46. ___________ has surpassed US
Amelioration and Green Ecology chipmaker Intel to become the world’s
(b) Initiative for What Works to leading chipmaker by revenue in 2021.
Advance Women and Girls in the (a) Lenovo Electronics
Economy
Adaptation of Global Endemic (c) Vivo Electronics
Species (d) Sony Electronics
Assessment for Good Ecosystems
44. Territories of which of the following do 2021 – 22, reflecting strong economic
not touch the Dead Sea ? ties between the two countries.
(a) Lebanon (a) Russia
(b) Jordan (b) USA
(c) Israel (c) UAE
(d) Palestine (d) Canada
CI 2022 (B–9)
48. On which of the following will the 50. Consider the following statements :
Indian Space Research Organisation 1. Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan
send a spacecraft to orbit, in 2024, to Jr won the 56th Jnanpith Award
study what lies below its surface ? and Konkani novelist Damodar
1. Mars Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith
Award.
2. Venus
3. Jupiter the Jnanpith is bestowed on
4. Saturn writers for “their outstanding
contribution to literature”.
(a) 1 only
3. Jnanpith Award is a literary
(b) 2 only award presented by the
(c) 3 only Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation
to Indian writers every year.
(d) 4 only 4. This was instituted in 1950 and
is given only to the world writers
who write in Indian languages
and English.
49. Consider the following statements : Which of the above statements are
1. The Davis Cup 2021 was won by correct ?
the Russian Tennis Federation by (a) 1 and 2 only
a 2-0 lead over Croatia in the (b) 2 and 3 only
Davis Cup final in Madrid. (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
2. Medvedev defeated Marin Cilic in (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
the second singles match to give
Russia an insurmountable 2-0
lead over Croatia and its first 1. Mahi River is the only river in
Davis Cup title since 2006. India that cuts the Tropic of
Cancer twice.
2. Bhopal and Gandhinagar are also
title after triumphs in 2005 and located fairly close to the “Tropic
2018. of Cancer”.
4. Casper was named the Most 3. The Tropic of Cancer
Valuable Player. passes through 20 countries,
Which one of the above statements are 3 continents, 8 water bodies.
correct ? Which of the above statements is/are
correct ?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) All of the above (d) 1 and 3 only
CI 2022 ( B – 10 )
52. Which among the following is the 55. Recently the Hyderabad Declaration
world’s highest island ? was in the news due to which of the
(a) Hawaii following ?
(b) Borneo
(a) E-Governance
(c) New Guinea
(b) Health
(d) Sumatra
(c) Education
(d) Equity

1. The UN General Assembly
(UNGA) recently passed a 1. GST was passed as the 101st
resolution that recognises Amendment Act. It came into
Healthy Environment as a force on 1st July, 2017.
Human Right. 2. Germany is the first country to
2. As per the resolution, right to a introduce GST.
clean, healthy and sustainable 3. Amitabh Bachchan is the brand
environment has become a
and Services Tax.
human right.
Which of the above statements are
3. UN General Assembly passed the correct ?
resolution on July 28, 2022. (a) 1 and 2 only
4. India has voted against this (b) 1 and 3 only
resolution. (c) 1, 2 and 3
Which of the above statements are (d) None of the above
correct ?
(a) 1 and 2 only 57. The Board of Cooperative Societies
may be superseded or kept under
(b) 3 and 4 only
suspension in which of the following
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only cases ?
(d) All of the above 1. Of its persistent default.
2. Of negligence in the performance
of its duties.
54. ________ will hold the Presidency of 3. Of there being a stalemate in the
the G20 from 1st December, 2022 to constitution or functions of the
30th November, 2023 and the G20 Board.
Summit will be held in 2023. Which of the above statements is/are
correct?
(a) India
(a) 1 only
(b) Brazil (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) Russia (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(d) Singapore (d) None of the above
CI 2022 ( B – 11 )
58. _________ has been named the World’s 61. When the Reserve Bank of India
Best Airport for the second year ? announces an increase of the Cash
Reserve Ratio, what does it mean ?
(a) Qatar’s Hamad International
Airport (a) The commercial banks will have
more money to lend
(b) Indira Gandhi International (b) The commercial banks will have
Airport less money to lend
(c) France International Airport (c) The Reserve Bank of India will
have less money to lend
less money to lend
62. Consider the following statements

59. What is the objective of PURA regarding the Scheduled Co-operative
Scheme ? Banks :
1. Unlike commercial banks,
(a) To provide employment Scheduled Co-operative Banks are
opportunities in rural areas not regulated by RBI.
(b) To provide urban amenities in 2. In the event Co-operative Banks
rural areas fail, deposits with them are covered
by the Registrar of
(c) To provide tool kits to artisans in Co-operative Societies either under
rural areas the State or Central government.
(d) To provide housing facilities to 3. Co-operative Banks are structured
as cooperatives, with their
marginalized
liability.
incorrect ?
60. Which Ministry(ies) launched the (a) 1 and 2 only
Kisan Sarathi Digital Platform ? (b) 2 and 3 only
1. Ministry of Agriculture (c) 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
Information Technology 63. The Shanta Kumar Committee is
3. Ministry of Power related to
Sanitation efficient administration for the
country at all levels of the
Select the correct answer from the code government.
given below :
(a) 1 and 2 only doubling farmer’s real income.
(b) 2 and 3 only (c) Restructuring and reforms of
(c) 1 and 4 only
(d) 2 and 4 only Procedure (DPP), 2016.
CI 2022 ( B – 12 )
64. Consider the following events in the 67. Who founded and edited the three
history of British India : important papers i.e., The Punjabi,
Vande Mataram and The People ?
1. Santhal Rebellion
(a) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
2. Indigo Revolt
3. Sanyasi Rebellion (b) Annie Besant
4. Munda Rebellion (c) Subramania Iyer

Which one of the following is the (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
earliest ?
68. Arrange the following events during
(a) 3, 1, 2, 4
the period 1944 to 1947 in correct
(b) 3, 2, 1, 4 chronological order (from the earliest
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3 to the latest) :
(d) 2, 1, 4, 3 1. Clement Attlee’s June, 1948
deadline for India’s Independence
65. Under whose leadership was a Jinnah
mission sent to Kabul by Lord 3. Congress led interim government
Auckland ? formed at the Centre with
(a) Alexander Burnes Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime
Minister of United India
(b) Bogle
4. Mountbatten Plan
(c) Pemberton
(a) 2, 3, 1, 4
(b) 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 1, 2, 3, 4
66. In the Battle of Plassey in 1757, (d) 3, 4, 1, 2
Siraj-ud-Daulah was defeated by the
Chandragupta II.
(a) Mir Jafar (a) Hiuen-Tsang
(b) Mir Qasim (b) Fahien
(c) Begum of Oudh (c) Wang-hiuen-tse
(d) Reza Khan (d) Chou En-lai
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Kharavela present ?
(a) Mahendragiri
(a) Dutch Company
(b) Khandagiri
(b) French Company
(c) Udayagiri
(d) Goradhgiri

(d) Beas

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78. On which river was Khanki SECTION II
Headworks built, which irrigated
Directions (Q. 81 to Q. 84) : Study the
3 million acres of barren lands in west
following graph carefully to answer the
Punjab during the British period ?
given questions :
(a) Ravi
(b) Chenab
companies A and B over different years.
(c) Jhelum Study the following graph carefully and
(d) Sind answer the questions given below it.

(a) Jatin Das
(b) Shiv Verma

81. Investment of company ‘B’ in 2022 is
(c) Khudiram more by 60% than that in the previous
(d) Master Amir Chand year. Income in 2022 was what percent
(a) 280%
(b) 252%
80. Arrange the following in chronological (c) 245%
order :
(d) 52%
1. Communal Award
2. Simon Commission 82. Average investment of company ‘A’

over the years was < 26 lakh. What
3. Cabinet Mission
was its average income over the
4. Wavell Plan years ?
(a) 3, 2, 1, 4 (a) < 40.56 lakh
(b) 2, 1, 4, 3 (b) < 41.60 lakh
(c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (c) < 50.26 lakh
(d) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) Data Inadequate
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(a) < 11 lakh
(b) < 12 lakh
(c) < 13 lakh
(d) < 14 lakh

2021 ?

(c) 20 : 31
(d) Data Inadequate
Answer Q. 85 to Q. 89 based on the following other golfers to finish ?
paragraph :
(a) 1
(d) 4
true ?
be true ?

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90. Which of the following diagrams 92. Select the option that will fill in the
indicate the best relation between blank and complete the given series.
0, 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, 511, 728, __
rickshaw ?
(a) 990
(a)
(b) 1000
(c) 1001
(d) 999
(b)
93. In a class 40% of the students enrolled

for Math and 70% enrolled for
(c) Economics. If 15% of the students
enrolled for both Math and Economics,
what percentage of the students of the
class did not enrol for either of the two
subjects ?
(d) (a) 5%
(b) 15%
(c) 25%

‘–’; ‘T’ means ‘÷’, then what is the value 94. A father has divided his properties in
of properties go to A, 2/3rd of the
5R9P7S9T3P6=? remaining are shared equally between
(a) 54 and H equally such that each gets
does D get ?
(b) 128
(a) < 68,000
(c) 55 (b) < 24,000
(c) < 80,000
(d) 59
(d) < 72,000
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95. A watch, which gains 5 seconds in 99. The average height of 5 people in a
3 minutes, was set right at 7 a.m. In room is 160 cm. A sixth person with
the afternoon of the same day, when height 172 cm enters the room. The
the watch indicates quarter past average height of the 6 people in the
4 o’clock, the true time is room is
(a) 6 p.m.
(a) 166 cm
(b) 5 p.m.
(c) 4 p.m. (b) 164.50 cm
(d) 3 p.m. (c) 163.33 cm
(d) 162 cm
96. Pointing to a portrait, a lady tells her
friend, ‘‘He is the grandson of the elder
brother of my father.’’ How is the boy
in the photograph related to this
woman ?
(a) Nephew
(b) Brother
paper is carrying 150 marks. The
(c) Uncle
(d) Brother-in-law percentage of marks he should score in
the second paper to get the overall
average score is
(a) 80%
speed of second hand and minute hand
of a clock in degrees per second ? (b) 76%
(a) 1/10 degrees per second (c) 74%
(b) 6 degrees per second
(d) 70%
(d) 36 degrees per second

98. th
Friday falls on 7 December, 2007. written as BHSPDRHM. How is
What day of the week was it on DESTINED written in that code ?
9th March, 2008 ? (a) SRDCCDMH
(a) Saturday
(b) UTFECDMH
(b) Sunday
(c) UTFEEFMH
(c) Monday
(d) Tuesday (d) None of the above
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102. The age of a man is three times the 104. If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of
sum of ages of his two sons and five the following must be true ?
years later his age will be double the
1. u>s
sum of their ages. What is the father’s
present age ? 2. s>q
(a) 47 years 3. u>r
(b) 45 years
(c) 42 years (a) 1 and 2 only
(d) 49 years
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only

30 hours to reach B from A; C and D
are 15 and 20 hours away from A.
B and C are 50 and 20 hours
respectively from D, while the travel
given figure :

to B is same as that taken to

from A.
(c) The time taken to reach C from B

is double that of the time taken to (a) 18
reach C from D.
(b) 12
through C is less than the
(c) 20
from D. (d) None of the above
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(a) 20 days (c) 18
(b) 18 days (d) 21
(c) 17 days
(d) 16 days

(c) A
1 2 3 4 5
(a) 42 minutes
(a) 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
(b) 39 minutes
(b) 5, 4, 3, 1, 2
(c) 1, 2, 3, 5, 4
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111. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 114. There are 3 Indians and 3 Chinese in a
12 days, 15 days and 20 days group of 6 people. How many
subgroups of this can we choose so that
every subgroup has at least one
before the completion of the work. In
Indian ?
how many days will the work be
completed ? (a) 56
(a) 5 days
(b) 48
(b) 7 days
(c) 52
(c) 10 days
(d) 12 days (d) 44
115. Select the number that can replace the

112. Ramesh has a certain number of
question mark (?) in the following
mangoes. If three mangoes get rotten
then rest can be divided into six series.
bunches having equal number of 1537, 1539, 1543, ? , 1557, 1567
mangoes. If two mangoes get rotten (a) 1549

then rest can be divided into seven
bunches having equal number of (b) 1553
mangoes. What is the number of
(c) 1550
mangoes with Ramesh ?
(d) 1546
(a) 285
(b) 423
(c) 562 116. The letters from A – Z are numbered
(d) 345 1 to 26 respectively. If GHI = 1578 and

to ?
113. What is mirror image of
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI ? (a) 492
(b) 468
(c) 262
(d) 246
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117. When a runner was crossing the 12 km 118. What percentage of candidates passed
mark, she was informed that she had the exam from institute E out of the
completed only 80% of the race. How total number of candidates enrolled
many kilometres was the runner from the same institute ?
supposed to run in this event ?
(a) 80%
(a) 14
(b) 15 (b) 75%
(c) 16 (c) 62.5%

(d) 16.5
(d) 50%

questions given below :
Distribution of candidates who were
enrolled for MBA entrance exam and the
candidates (out of those enrolled) who
passed the exam in different institutes. (a) 65%
(b) 74%
(c) 80%
(d) 68%

institutes D and A together exceeds
the number of candidates enrolled
from institutes E and C together by
(a) 407
(b) 399
(c) 279
Figure II – Candidates who passed the exam = 5700 (d) 228
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Booklet Sr. No.
*C* Question
Booklet Set
Candidate’s Name ________________________________________________________
Father’s Name ____________________________________________________________
Date of Birth :
D D M M Y Y Y Y
C

candidate.
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SECTION I 4. Which of the following are energy
foods ?
1. Ever-rising emission of greenhouse
gases is considered as the major cause (a) Carbohydrates and Fats
(b) Proteins and Mineral salts
correct with respect to the greenhouse (c) Vitamins and Minerals
effect in the atmosphere ? (d) Water and Roughage
visible light by the atmosphere.
visible light by clouds. 5. Which is the first enzyme that mixes
(c) Absorption and re-emission of with food ?
(a) S. Amylase
atmosphere.
(d) Absorption and re-emission of (b) Trypsin
infrared radiation by the (c) Erepsin
atmosphere.
(d) Gastric juice
(a) Rice
6. With reference to “Supercomputer”,
(b) Maize which of the following statements
(c) Wheat is/are correct ?
(d) Sugarcane 1. Performance of supercomputer is
following ?
(a) The International Union for the measured in “Million Instructions
Protection of New Breeds of Per Second (MIPS)”.
Animals
3. “PARAM 8000” is a
(b) The International Union for the
supercomputer.
Protection of New Strains of
Microbes (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
Protection of New Varieties of (d) 2 and 3 only
Plants
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(d) Spamming

of the following :

platform ?

(c) Sophia
(d) Kitty
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(a) Sweden
(d) New Zealand
(b) Asmi (a) 1 only

(a) Lenovo Electronics
Economy
Species
(d) Sony Electronics
(b) Jordan
(b) USA
(c) Israel
(c) UAE
(d) Palestine
(d) Canada
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20. On which of the following will the 22. Consider the following statements :
Indian Space Research Organisation 1. Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan
send a spacecraft to orbit, in 2024, to Jr won the 56th Jnanpith Award
study what lies below its surface ? and Konkani novelist Damodar
1. Mars Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith
Award.
2. Venus
3. Jupiter the Jnanpith is bestowed on
4. Saturn writers for “their outstanding
(a) 1 only
3. Jnanpith Award is a literary
(b) 2 only award presented by the
(c) 3 only Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation
(d) 4 only 4. This was instituted in 1950 and
and English.
21. Consider the following statements : Which of the above statements are
1. The Davis Cup 2021 was won by correct ?
the Russian Tennis Federation by (a) 1 and 2 only
a 2-0 lead over Croatia in the (b) 2 and 3 only
Davis Cup final in Madrid. (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
2. Medvedev defeated Marin Cilic in (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
lead over Croatia and its first 1. Mahi River is the only river in
Davis Cup title since 2006. India that cuts the Tropic of
Cancer twice.
title after triumphs in 2005 and located fairly close to the “Tropic
2018. of Cancer”.
4. Casper was named the Most 3. The Tropic of Cancer
Valuable Player. passes through 20 countries,
Which one of the above statements are 3 continents, 8 water bodies.
correct ? Which of the above statements is/are
correct ?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) All of the above (d) 1 and 3 only
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24. Which among the following is the 27. Recently the Hyderabad Declaration
world’s highest island ? was in the news due to which of the
(a) Hawaii following ?
(b) Borneo
(a) E-Governance
(c) New Guinea
(b) Health
(d) Sumatra
(c) Education
(d) Equity

1. The UN General Assembly
(UNGA) recently passed a 1. GST was passed as the 101st
resolution that recognises Amendment Act. It came into
Healthy Environment as a force on 1st July, 2017.
Human Right. 2. Germany is the first country to
2. As per the resolution, right to a introduce GST.
clean, healthy and sustainable 3. Amitabh Bachchan is the brand
environment has become a
and Services Tax.
human right.
3. UN General Assembly passed the correct ?
resolution on July 28, 2022. (a) 1 and 2 only
4. India has voted against this (b) 1 and 3 only
resolution. (c) 1, 2 and 3
Which of the above statements are (d) None of the above
correct ?
(a) 1 and 2 only 29. The Board of Cooperative Societies
may be superseded or kept under
(b) 3 and 4 only
suspension in which of the following
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only cases ?
(d) All of the above 1. Of its persistent default.
2. Of negligence in the performance
of its duties.
26. ________ will hold the Presidency of 3. Of there being a stalemate in the
the G20 from 1st December, 2022 to constitution or functions of the
30th November, 2023 and the G20 Board.
Summit will be held in 2023. Which of the above statements is/are
correct?
(a) India
(a) 1 only
(b) Brazil (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) Russia (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(d) Singapore (d) None of the above
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30. _________ has been named the World’s 33. When the Reserve Bank of India
Best Airport for the second year ? announces an increase of the Cash
(a) Qatar’s Hamad International
Airport (a) The commercial banks will have
more money to lend
(b) Indira Gandhi International (b) The commercial banks will have
Airport less money to lend
(c) France International Airport (c) The Reserve Bank of India will
have less money to lend
less money to lend
34. Consider the following statements

31. What is the objective of PURA regarding the Scheduled Co-operative
Scheme ? Banks :
(a) To provide employment Scheduled Co-operative Banks are
opportunities in rural areas not regulated by RBI.
(b) To provide urban amenities in 2. In the event Co-operative Banks
rural areas fail, deposits with them are covered
by the Registrar of
(c) To provide tool kits to artisans in Co-operative Societies either under
rural areas the State or Central government.
(d) To provide housing facilities to 3. Co-operative Banks are structured
marginalized
liability.
incorrect ?
32. Which Ministry(ies) launched the (a) 1 and 2 only
Kisan Sarathi Digital Platform ? (b) 2 and 3 only
1. Ministry of Agriculture (c) 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
Information Technology 35. The Shanta Kumar Committee is
3. Ministry of Power related to
Sanitation efficient administration for the
country at all levels of the
Select the correct answer from the code government.
given below :
(a) 1 and 2 only doubling farmer’s real income.
(b) 2 and 3 only (c) Restructuring and reforms of
(c) 1 and 4 only
(d) 2 and 4 only Procedure (DPP), 2016.
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36. Consider the following events in the 39. Who founded and edited the three
history of British India : important papers i.e., The Punjabi,
2. Indigo Revolt
3. Sanyasi Rebellion (b) Annie Besant
4. Munda Rebellion (c) Subramania Iyer

Which one of the following is the (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
earliest ?
(a) 3, 1, 2, 4
(b) 3, 2, 1, 4 chronological order (from the earliest
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3 to the latest) :
(d) 2, 1, 4, 3 1. Clement Attlee’s June, 1948
deadline for India’s Independence
37. Under whose leadership was a
Jinnah
mission sent to Kabul by Lord
3. Congress led interim government
Auckland ?
formed at the Centre with
(a) Alexander Burnes Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime
(b) Bogle Minister of United India
(c) Pemberton 4. Mountbatten Plan
(d) None of the above (a) 2, 3, 1, 4

(b) 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 1, 2, 3, 4
38. In the Battle of Plassey in 1757,
Siraj-ud-Daulah was defeated by the (d) 3, 4, 1, 2
(a) Mir Jafar Chandragupta II.
(b) Mir Qasim (a) Hiuen-Tsang
(c) Begum of Oudh (b) Fahien
(d) Reza Khan (c) Wang-hiuen-tse
(d) Chou En-lai
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Kharavela present ?
(a) Mahendragiri
(a) Dutch Company
(b) Khandagiri
(b) French Company
(c) Udayagiri
(d) Goradhgiri

(d) Beas

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50. On which river was Khanki 53. Match the following works with its
Headworks built, which irrigated writers :
3 million acres of barren lands in west i. Jaswant 1. Buhe
Punjab during the British period ? Singh Kawal
(a) Ravi Pritam
iii. Sant Singh 3. Lahoo Di Lo
(b) Chenab
Sekhon
(c) Jhelum iv. Mohan Singh 4. Lahu Mitti
Codes :
(d) Sind
(a) i-3, ii-2, iii-4, iv-1
(b) i-2, ii-1, iii-4, iv-3
(c) i-2, ii-3, iii-1, iv-4
(d) i-1, ii-4, iii-3, iv-2
(a) Jatin Das
(a) Aam Khas Bagh
(b) Shiv Verma (b) Rohtas Fort
(c) Khudiram (c) Khairuddin Masjid
(d) Master Amir Chand (d) Bahadurgarh Fort

52. Arrange the following in chronological (a) Dilruba

order : (b) Chimta
1. Communal Award (c) Ravanhatha
2. Simon Commission (d) Algoza
3. Cabinet Mission
4. Wavell Plan
(a) 3, 2, 1, 4 (a) 8
(b) 2, 1, 4, 3 (b) 7
(c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (c) 4
(d) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) 6
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57. Winter Diesel is a specialized fuel that 59. The function of the Public Accounts
was introduced by Indian Oil Committee is to
statement about Winter Diesel : 1. See that the amounts shown in
the accounts as having been
lower viscosity, can be used in
for and applicable to the service
or purpose for which they have
(b) It has lower cetane rating. been applied or charged.
(c) It has high Sulphur content. 2. See that the expenditure

(d) It is specifically used for high conforms to the authority which
altitude regions and governs it.
behalf under the rules framed by
competent authority.
4. Consider the report of the

Comptroller and Auditor General
58. An Appropriation Bill as passed by the in cases where the President may
Lower House have required him to conduct an
audit of any receipts or to
2. is modified by the Rajya Sabha. and stocks.

is/are correct ?
is/are correct ? (a) Only 1 is correct
(a) All are correct

(c) 2 and 4 are correct (c) 1, 2, 3 are correct
(d) 2 and 3 are correct (d) All are correct
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60. In connection to Government of India 62. Which among the following is not a
Act, 1935 consider the following World Bank unit ?
statements :
(a) International Finance
1. The Act came into effect in 1937.
2. The Act laid down that the High Corporation
Court would be composed of at (b) International Monetary Fund
would be Chief Justice. (c) International Development
3. The Act ensured the provisions of Association
all India Civil Services.
4. According to the Act, the (d) Multilateral Investment
Governor General is only Guarantee Agency
advice of the Council of Ministers.
are correct ? 63. Marshall Plan was a US Programme
(a) 1, 2 and 4 only providing economic assistance to
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only Western Europe following the
(c) 1 and 4 only destruction of World War–II. Who was
(d) All the statements are correct
Plan ?
61. Match List-I with List-II and select the (a) Dwight Eisenhower
correct answer :
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
List I List II
(c) Woodrow Wilson
A. Lord Clive 1. Subsidiary
Alliance (d) Harry S. Truman
Universities
Commission
64. NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Lapse
D. Lord Curzon 4. Dual Agreement) was replaced by a new
Government trade agreement in 2020 called
in Bengal
(a) Panama Treaty Agreement
Choose your answer with the help of
the given options : (b) USMCA (United States-Mexico-
A B C D Canada Agreement)
(a) 2 3 4 1 (c) Southern Common Market

(b) 4 1 3 2 Agreement (Mercosur)
(c) 4 3 2 1 (d) CACM (Central American
(d) 1 4 2 3 Common Market)
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65. With reference to Self-Help Groups 67. Which of the following are correct
(SHGs), consider the following about the immigration laws in India ?
statements : 1. A person who was born in India
1. A Self-Help Group is an
country.
2. Either of whose parents are born
mobilization for the purpose of
citizen of the country.
their betterment and poverty
eradication.
2. Self-Help Groups are Territory for not less than 5 years
non-governmental organizations shall be considered a citizen of
at Panchayat levels to assist the India.
local administration in rural 4. Those who have invested a sum
development. of < 5 crores in India shall be
Which of the statements given above considered a citizen of India.
is/are correct ? (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(a) 1 only (b) 1 and 4 are correct
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

66. Correctly arrange the following islands Father of
Agriculture and
of India from North latitude to South Revolution
Allied Revolution
in India
latitude.
1. Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep) B. White 2. M.S.
2. Ross Island (Netaji Subhas Swaminathan
Chandra Bose Island) C. Blue 3. Arun Krishnan
D. Golden 4. Verghese
3. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep)
Kurien
4. Barren Island Codes :
(a) 1, 3, 2, 4 A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 4, 3, 1, 2 (c) 2 4 3 1
(d) 3, 2, 4, 1 (d) 1 2 3 4
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69. Which of the following is the name of a 73. Which of the following is a landmark
wildlife corridor ? international agreement designed to
(a) Rohtang Pass
(a) The Stockholm Declaration
(b) Chilla-Motichur
(b) The Montreal Protocol
(c) Indira Gandhi Canal, Rajasthan (c) The Geneva Convention
(d) Binsar (d) The Bern Convention
70. Blue-green algae are chiefly used as 74. What is the name of a species that is
biofertilisers in the crop of
(a) Maize ecosystem collapse ?
(b) Wheat
(c) Paddy (c) Vital species
(d) Top species
(d) Gram

71. The maximum tidal energy potential known as
in India is (a) Nilgiris
(b) Sahyadris
(c) Annamalai Hills
(b) in Gangetic delta in Sundarbans (d) Cardamom Hills
(c) along the coast of Odisha
(d) along the coast of Chennai 76. Atlantic Ocean gets its cold, deep
water from the Arctic Ocean, whereas
72. In the Sustainable Development Goals,
2030 (SDGs 2030) – which goal is the following phenomenon ?
pertinent to “make cities and human 1. El Niño
settlements inclusive, safe, resilient 2. La Niña
and sustainable” ? 3. Ocean Conveyer Belt
(a) Goal 11 Choose the correct answer from the
options given below :
(b) Goal 12 (a) 1 only
(c) Goal 13 (b) 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) Goal 14 (d) 1 and 2 only
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77. Which of the following is correctly SECTION II
matched ?
1. Prithvi – surface-to-air missile 81. Which of the following diagrams
2. Trishul – surface-to-surface indicate the best relation between
missile
3. Nag – anti-tank missile
rickshaw ?
4. Pinaka – light combat aircraft
(a) 3 only (a)
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 only
(d) 4 only
(b)
phase of the Moon do solar eclipses (c)
occur ?
(a) Full
(b) New
(c) First quarter
(d) Third quarter (d)
79. NASA is participating in new

international missions to Mars.
Platform will help understand if 82. If ‘P’ means ‘+’; ‘R’ means ‘’; ‘S’ means
(a) life ever existed on Mars
‘–’; ‘T’ means ‘÷’, then what is the value
(b) water can be collected from Mars
(c) minerals can be extracted from of
Mars
5R9P7S9T3P6=?
(a) 54
80. LPG used in domestic set-ups in
kitchens is actually which of the
following gas ? (b) 128
(a) Methane/Carbon dioxide
(b) Hydrogen/Oxygen (c) 55
(c) Butane/Propane
(d) Oxygen/Methane (d) 59
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83. Select the option that will fill in the 86. A watch, which gains 5 seconds in
blank and complete the given series. 3 minutes, was set right at 7 a.m. In
the afternoon of the same day, when
0, 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, 511, 728, __
the watch indicates quarter past
(a) 990 4 o’clock, the true time is
(b) 1000 (a) 6 p.m.
(b) 5 p.m.
(c) 1001
(c) 4 p.m.
(d) 999
(d) 3 p.m.
84. In a class 40% of the students enrolled 87. Pointing to a portrait, a lady tells her
for Math and 70% enrolled for friend, ‘‘He is the grandson of the elder
Economics. If 15% of the students brother of my father.’’ How is the boy
enrolled for both Math and Economics, in the photograph related to this
what percentage of the students of the woman ?
class did not enrol for either of the two (a) Nephew
subjects ? (b) Brother
(c) Uncle
(a) 5%
(d) Brother-in-law
(b) 15%
(c) 25%
(d) None of the above speed of second hand and minute hand
of a clock in degrees per second ?
(a) 1/10 degrees per second
85. A father has divided his properties in (b) 6 degrees per second
properties go to A, 2/3rd of the
remaining are shared equally between (d) 36 degrees per second
and H equally such that each gets
89. Friday falls on 7th December, 2007.
What day of the week was it on
does D get ?
9th March, 2008 ?
(a) < 68,000
(a) Saturday
(b) < 24,000 (b) Sunday
(c) < 80,000 (c) Monday
(d) < 72,000 (d) Tuesday
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90. The average height of 5 people in a 93. The age of a man is three times the
room is 160 cm. A sixth person with sum of ages of his two sons and five
height 172 cm enters the room. The years later his age will be double the
average height of the 6 people in the sum of their ages. What is the father’s
room is present age ?
(a) 166 cm (a) 47 years
(b) 164.50 cm (b) 45 years
(c) 163.33 cm (c) 42 years
(d) 49 years
(d) 162 cm

paper is carrying 150 marks. The 30 hours to reach B from A; C and D
percentage of marks he should score in are 15 and 20 hours away from A.
the second paper to get the overall B and C are 50 and 20 hours
average score is respectively from D, while the travel
(a) 80%
(b) 76%
(c) 74% to B is same as that taken to
(d) 70%
from A.
written as BHSPDRHM. How is (c) The time taken to reach C from B
DESTINED written in that code ? is double that of the time taken to
reach C from D.
(a) SRDCCDMH
(b) UTFECDMH through C is less than the
(c) UTFEEFMH
from D.
CI 2022 ( C – 17 )
95. If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of 97. A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meter
the following must be true ? deep pit. Every day the snail climbs
5 meters upwards, but at night it
1. u>s
2. s>q many days does the snail take to reach
3. u>r the top of the pit ?
(a) 20 days
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 18 days
(b) 2 and 3 only (c) 17 days
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 16 days

minute. Another pipe B fills the same
96. Find the number of squares in the tank at the rate of 30 litres a minute.
given figure : A pipe at the bottom of the tank drains
minute. If pipe A is kept open for a
and then pipe C is kept open for a
minute and then closed and the cycle
(a) 18
(a) 42 minutes
(b) 12
(b) 39 minutes
(c) 20 (c) 40 minutes 33 seconds
(d) None of the above (d) None of the above
CI 2022 ( C – 18 )
99. What least number must be added to 102. A, B and C can do a piece of work in
1056, so that the sum is completely 12 days, 15 days and 20 days
divisible by 23 ? respectively. A and C left 3 days
before the completion of the work. In
(a) 2
(b) 3 completed ?
(c) 18 (a) 5 days
(d) 21 (b) 7 days
(c) 10 days
(d) 12 days

mangoes. If two mangoes get rotten
(a) C then rest can be divided into seven
(b) B
mangoes. What is the number of
(c) A mangoes with Ramesh ?
(d) E (a) 285

(b) 423
(c) 562
101. Write the following in a logical (d) 345
sequence :

1 2 3 4 5 104. What is mirror image of
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI ?
(a) 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
(b) 5, 4, 3, 1, 2
(c) 1, 2, 3, 5, 4
(d) 4, 5, 2, 1, 3
CI 2022 ( C – 19 )
105. There are 3 Indians and 3 Chinese in a 108. When a runner was crossing the 12 km
group of 6 people. How many mark, she was informed that she had
subgroups of this can we choose so that completed only 80% of the race. How
every subgroup has at least one many kilometres was the runner
Indian ? supposed to run in this event ?
(a) 56 (a) 14
(b) 15
(b) 48
(c) 16
(c) 52
(d) 16.5
(d) 44
106. Select the number that can replace the questions given below :
question mark (?) in the following Distribution of candidates who were

series. enrolled for MBA entrance exam and the
1537, 1539, 1543, ? , 1557, 1567 candidates (out of those enrolled) who
passed the exam in different institutes.
(a) 1549
(b) 1553
(c) 1550
(d) 1546

to ?
(a) 492
(b) 468
(c) 262
(d) 246 Figure II – Candidates who passed the exam = 5700
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109. What percentage of candidates passed Directions (Q. 112 to Q. 115) : Study the
the exam from institute E out of the following graph carefully to answer the
total number of candidates enrolled given questions :
from the same institute ?
(a) 80% companies A and B over different years.
Study the following graph carefully and
(b) 75%
answer the questions given below it.
(c) 62.5%
(d) 50%

(a) 65% 112. Investment of company ‘B’ in 2022 is

(b) 74% year. Income in 2022 was what percent
(c) 80%
(a) 280%
(d) 68%
(b) 252%
(c) 245%
(d) 52%

institutes D and A together exceeds 113. Average investment of company ‘A’
the number of candidates enrolled over the years was < 26 lakh. What
from institutes E and C together by was its average income over the
years ?
(a) 407
(a) < 40.56 lakh
(b) 399
(b) < 41.60 lakh
(c) 279 (c) < 50.26 lakh
(d) 228 (d) Data Inadequate
CI 2022 ( C – 21 )
(a) < 11 lakh
(b) < 12 lakh
(c) < 13 lakh
(d) < 14 lakh

2021 ?

(c) 20 : 31
(d) Data Inadequate
Answer Q. 116 to Q. 120 based on the other golfers to finish ?
following paragraph :
(a) 1
(d) 4
true ?
be true ?

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CI 2022 ( C – 23 )
CI 2022 ( C – 24 )
Booklet Sr. No.
*D* Question
Booklet Set
Candidate’s Name ________________________________________________________
Father’s Name ____________________________________________________________
Date of Birth :
D D M M Y Y Y Y
D

candidate.
CI 2022 (D–1)
SECTION I 3. Which among the following is the
world’s highest island ?
1. Consider the following statements : (a) Hawaii
1. Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan (b) Borneo
Jr won the 56th Jnanpith Award (c) New Guinea
and Konkani novelist Damodar (d) Sumatra
Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith
Award.
2. India’s highest literary award, 4. Consider the following statements :
the Jnanpith is bestowed on 1. The UN General Assembly
writers for “their outstanding
(UNGA) recently passed a
resolution that recognises
3. Jnanpith Award is a literary Healthy Environment as a
award presented by the Human Right.
Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation
2. As per the resolution, right to a
clean, healthy and sustainable
4. This was instituted in 1950 and environment has become a
human right.
3. UN General Assembly passed the
and English.
resolution on July 28, 2022.
4. India has voted against this
correct ?
resolution.
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only Which of the above statements are
correct ?
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (a) 1 and 2 only
2. Consider the following statements : (b) 3 and 4 only
1. Mahi River is the only river in (c) 1, 2 and 3 only
India that cuts the Tropic of
Cancer twice. (d) All of the above
located fairly close to the “Tropic
of Cancer”. 5. ________ will hold the Presidency of
3. The Tropic of Cancer the G20 from 1st December, 2022 to
passes through 20 countries,
30th November, 2023 and the G20
3 continents, 8 water bodies.
Summit will be held in 2023.
correct ? (a) India
(a) 1 only (b) Brazil
(b) 2 only
(c) Russia
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only (d) Singapore
CI 2022 (D–2)
6. Recently the Hyderabad Declaration 9. _________ has been named the World’s
was in the news due to which of the Best Airport for the second year ?
following ? (a) Qatar’s Hamad International
(a) E-Governance Airport
(b) Health (b) Indira Gandhi International
(c) Education Airport
(d) Equity (c) France International Airport
1. GST was passed as the 101st
Amendment Act. It came into
force on 1st July, 2017. 10. What is the objective of PURA
2. Germany is the first country to Scheme ?
introduce GST.
(a) To provide employment
3. Amitabh Bachchan is the brand
opportunities in rural areas
and Services Tax. (b) To provide urban amenities in
Which of the above statements are rural areas
correct ?
(c) To provide tool kits to artisans in
(a) 1 and 2 only rural areas
(b) 1 and 3 only
(d) To provide housing facilities to
(c) 1, 2 and 3
marginalized
8. The Board of Cooperative Societies

may be superseded or kept under 11. Which Ministry(ies) launched the
suspension in which of the following Kisan Sarathi Digital Platform ?
cases ?
1. Ministry of Agriculture
1. Of its persistent default.
2. Of negligence in the performance Information Technology
of its duties.
3. Ministry of Power
3. Of there being a stalemate in the
constitution or functions of the
Sanitation
Board.
Select the correct answer from the code
given below :
correct?
(a) 1 only (a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 4 only

(d) None of the above (d) 2 and 4 only
CI 2022 (D–3)
12. When the Reserve Bank of India 15. Consider the following events in the
announces an increase of the Cash history of British India :
(a) The commercial banks will have
more money to lend 2. Indigo Revolt
(b) The commercial banks will have 3. Sanyasi Rebellion
less money to lend
4. Munda Rebellion
(c) The Reserve Bank of India will
have less money to lend Which one of the following is the
less money to lend
earliest ?
13. Consider the following statements (a) 3, 1, 2, 4
regarding the Scheduled Co-operative
Banks : (b) 3, 2, 1, 4
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3
Scheduled Co-operative Banks are
not regulated by RBI. (d) 2, 1, 4, 3
2. In the event Co-operative Banks
fail, deposits with them are covered
by the Registrar of
Co-operative Societies either under 16. Under whose leadership was a
the State or Central government. mission sent to Kabul by Lord
3. Co-operative Banks are structured Auckland ?
members carrying unlimited (a) Alexander Burnes
liability. (b) Bogle
incorrect ? (c) Pemberton
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
17. In the Battle of Plassey in 1757,
14. The Shanta Kumar Committee is
related to Siraj-ud-Daulah was defeated by the
(a) Suggest measures to achieve an English East India Company mainly
efficient administration for the due to the treachery of his
country at all levels of the Commander-in-Chief. What was the
government.
doubling farmer’s real income. (a) Mir Jafar
(c) Restructuring and reforms of (b) Mir Qasim
(c) Begum of Oudh
Procedure (DPP), 2016. (d) Reza Khan
CI 2022 (D–4)
18. Who founded and edited the three 21. Muhamad-bin-Tughluq set up a new
important papers i.e., The Punjabi, department called ‘Diwan-i-Kohi’ for
the progress and development of
(a) Villages
(b) Annie Besant
(b) Cities/Towns
(c) Subramania Iyer
(c) Agriculture
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Industries

chronological order (from the earliest
Kharavela present ?
to the latest) :
(a) Mahendragiri
1. Clement Attlee’s June, 1948
deadline for India’s Independence (b) Khandagiri
2. Direct Action Day proclaimed by (c) Udayagiri

Jinnah (d) Goradhgiri
3. Congress led interim government
formed at the Centre with
Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime 23. On which riverside of Punjab was the
Minister of United India ancient Greek settlement ‘Boukephala’
4. Mountbatten Plan situated ?
(a) 2, 3, 1, 4 (a) Ravi
(b) 4, 3, 2, 1 (b) Chenab
(c) 1, 2, 3, 4 (c) Jhelum
(d) 3, 4, 1, 2 (d) Beas
20. Name the celebrated Chinese pilgrim 24. Firdausi, the writer of Shah-nama,
who visited the royal palace of was the poet laureate of the court of
Chandragupta II. which ruler ?
(a) Hiuen-Tsang (a) Mahmud Ghaznavi

(b) Fahien (b) Muhammad Ghori
(c) Wang-hiuen-tse (c) Iltutmish
(d) Chou En-lai (d) Alauddin Khilji
CI 2022 (D–5)
25. The ruler who gave permission to East 29. On which river was Khanki
India Company for establishing a Headworks built, which irrigated
factory at Surat was 3 million acres of barren lands in west
Punjab during the British period ?
(a) Akbar
(a) Ravi
(b) Farrukhsiyar
(c) Shah Jahan (b) Chenab
(d) Jahangir (c) Jhelum
(d) Sind

(a) Dutch Company hunger strike by Bhagat Singh and his
(b) French Company associates in jail ?
(c) British East India Company (a) Jatin Das
(d) Portuguese Company (b) Shiv Verma
(c) Khudiram
(d) Master Amir Chand

27. Who among the following wrote “Pagri
Sambhal Jatta” ?
(a) Ajit Singh
(b) Bhagat Singh
31. Arrange the following in chronological
(c) Banke Dayal order :
(d) None of the above 1. Communal Award
2. Simon Commission
3. Cabinet Mission
28. To which village did the great Sikh
warrior woman Mai Bhago belong ? 4. Wavell Plan
(a) Guru Ki Wadali (a) 3, 2, 1, 4
(b) Jhabal (b) 2, 1, 4, 3
(c) Muktsar (c) 2, 4, 3, 1
(d) Kartarpur (d) 2, 1, 3, 4
CI 2022 (D–6)
32. Match the following works with its 36. Winter Diesel is a specialized fuel that
writers : was introduced by Indian Oil
i. Jaswant 1. Buhe Corporation. Choose the correct
Singh Kawal statement about Winter Diesel :
Pritam (a) It contains additives to maintain
iii. Sant Singh 3. Lahoo Di Lo lower viscosity, can be used in
Sekhon
iv. Mohan Singh 4. Lahu Mitti
Codes : (b) It has lower cetane rating.
(a) i-3, ii-2, iii-4, iv-1
(c) It has high Sulphur content.
(b) i-2, ii-1, iii-4, iv-3
(c) i-2, ii-3, iii-1, iv-4 (d) It is specifically used for high
altitude regions and
(d) i-1, ii-4, iii-3, iv-2
(a) Aam Khas Bagh
(b) Rohtas Fort
(c) Khairuddin Masjid
(d) Bahadurgarh Fort
37. An Appropriation Bill as passed by the
34. Which of the following is not the folk Lower House
instrument of Punjab ? 1. is discussed by the Rajya Sabha.
(a) Dilruba
2. is modified by the Rajya Sabha.
(b) Chimta
(c) Ravanhatha
(d) Algoza
35. How many districts of Punjab share a is/are correct ?
(a) All are correct
(a) 8
(b) 7
(c) 2 and 4 are correct
(c) 4
(d) 6 (d) 2 and 3 are correct
CI 2022 (D–7)
38. The function of the Public Accounts 39. In connection to Government of India
Committee is to Act, 1935 consider the following
statements :
1. See that the amounts shown in 1. The Act came into effect in 1937.
the accounts as having been 2. The Act laid down that the High
Court would be composed of at
for and applicable to the service would be Chief Justice.
or purpose for which they have 3. The Act ensured the provisions of
been applied or charged. all India Civil Services.
4. According to the Act, the
2. See that the expenditure Governor General is only
conforms to the authority which advice of the Council of Ministers.
governs it.
are correct ?
(a) 1, 2 and 4 only
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only
behalf under the rules framed by (c) 1 and 4 only
competent authority. (d) All the statements are correct
4. Consider the report of the 40. Match List-I with List-II and select the
Comptroller and Auditor General correct answer :
in cases where the President may List I List II
have required him to conduct an A. Lord Clive 1. Subsidiary
audit of any receipts or to Alliance
Universities
and stocks. Commission
Lapse
D. Lord Curzon 4. Dual
is/are correct ? Government
in Bengal
(a) Only 1 is correct Choose your answer with the help of
the given options :
(b) 2 and 3 are correct A B C D
(a) 2 3 4 1
(c) 1, 2, 3 are correct (b) 4 1 3 2
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) All are correct (d) 1 4 2 3
CI 2022 (D–8)
41. Which among the following is not a 44. With reference to Self-Help Groups
World Bank unit ? (SHGs), consider the following
(a) International Finance statements :
Corporation 1. A Self-Help Group is an

(b) International Monetary Fund
(c) International Development mobilization for the purpose of
Association their betterment and poverty
eradication.
(d) Multilateral Investment
2. Self-Help Groups are
Guarantee Agency
non-governmental organizations
at Panchayat levels to assist the
local administration in rural
42. Marshall Plan was a US Programme development.
providing economic assistance to Which of the statements given above
Western Europe following the is/are correct ?
destruction of World War–II. Who was (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
Plan ?
(c) Both 1 and 2
(a) Dwight Eisenhower
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt (d) Neither 1 nor 2
(c) Woodrow Wilson

(d) Harry S. Truman
45. Correctly arrange the following islands
of India from North latitude to South
latitude.
43. NAFTA (North American Free Trade 1. Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep)
Agreement) was replaced by a new
2. Ross Island (Netaji Subhas
trade agreement in 2020 called Chandra Bose Island)
(a) Panama Treaty Agreement 3. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep)
(b) USMCA (United States-Mexico- 4. Barren Island
Canada Agreement)
(a) 1, 3, 2, 4
(c) Southern Common Market
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
Agreement (Mercosur)
(c) 4, 3, 1, 2
(d) CACM (Central American
Common Market) (d) 3, 2, 4, 1
CI 2022 (D–9)
46. Which of the following are correct 48. Which of the following is the name of a
about the immigration laws in India ? wildlife corridor ?
1. A person who was born in India
(a) Rohtang Pass
country. (b) Chilla-Motichur
2. Either of whose parents are born (c) Indira Gandhi Canal, Rajasthan
citizen of the country. (d) Binsar
Territory for not less than 5 years 49. Blue-green algae are chiefly used as
shall be considered a citizen of biofertilisers in the crop of
India.
(a) Maize
4. Those who have invested a sum
of < 5 crores in India shall be (b) Wheat
considered a citizen of India.
(c) Paddy
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(d) Gram
50. The maximum tidal energy potential
in India is
(b) in Gangetic delta in Sundarbans
Father of (c) along the coast of Odisha
Agriculture and
Revolution
Allied Revolution (d) along the coast of Chennai
in India
B. White 2. M.S.
Swaminathan 51. In the Sustainable Development Goals,
C. Blue 3. Arun Krishnan 2030 (SDGs 2030) – which goal is
D. Golden 4. Verghese pertinent to “make cities and human
Kurien settlements inclusive, safe, resilient
Codes : and sustainable” ?
A B C D
(a) Goal 11
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) Goal 12
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 2 4 3 1 (c) Goal 13
(d) 1 2 3 4 (d) Goal 14
CI 2022 ( D – 10 )
52. Which of the following is a landmark 56. Which of the following is correctly
international agreement designed to matched ?
(a) The Stockholm Declaration missile
(b) The Montreal Protocol 3. Nag – anti-tank missile
(c) The Geneva Convention 4. Pinaka – light combat aircraft
(d) The Bern Convention (a) 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 only
53. What is the name of a species that is (d) 4 only
ecosystem collapse ?
(c) Vital species
phase of the Moon do solar eclipses
(d) Top species
occur ?
(a) Full
(b) New
known as (c) First quarter
(a) Nilgiris (d) Third quarter
(b) Sahyadris
(c) Annamalai Hills 58. NASA is participating in new
(d) Cardamom Hills international missions to Mars.
55. Atlantic Ocean gets its cold, deep (a) life ever existed on Mars
water from the Arctic Ocean, whereas (b) water can be collected from Mars
Mars
the following phenomenon ? (d) None of the above
1. El Niño
2. La Niña 59. LPG used in domestic set-ups in
3. Ocean Conveyer Belt kitchens is actually which of the
Choose the correct answer from the following gas ?
options given below : (a) Methane/Carbon dioxide
(a) 1 only (b) Hydrogen/Oxygen
(b) 2 only
(c) Butane/Propane
(c) 3 only
(d) Oxygen/Methane
(d) 1 and 2 only
CI 2022 ( D – 11 )
60. Ever-rising emission of greenhouse 63. Which of the following are energy
gases is considered as the major cause foods ?
correct with respect to the greenhouse (b) Proteins and Mineral salts
effect in the atmosphere ? (c) Vitamins and Minerals
visible light by the atmosphere. (d) Water and Roughage

visible light by clouds.
with food ?
atmosphere.
(d) Absorption and re-emission of (a) S. Amylase
infrared radiation by the
(b) Trypsin
atmosphere.
(c) Erepsin
(d) Gastric juice

(a) Rice
(b) Maize 65. With reference to “Supercomputer”,
(c) Wheat which of the following statements
(d) Sugarcane is/are correct ?
following ?
(a) The International Union for the
Protection of New Breeds of
Animals
(b) The International Union for the 3. “PARAM 8000” is a
Protection of New Strains of supercomputer.
Microbes (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(d) 2 and 3 only
Plants
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(d) Spamming

of the following :

platform ?

(c) Sophia
(d) Kitty
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(a) Sweden
(d) New Zealand
(b) Asmi (a) 1 only

(a) Lenovo Electronics
Economy
Species
(d) Sony Electronics
(b) Jordan
(b) USA
(c) Israel
(c) UAE
(d) Palestine
(d) Canada
CI 2022 ( D – 14 )
79. On which of the following will the SECTION II
Indian Space Research Organisation
send a spacecraft to orbit, in 2024, to 81. If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of
study what lies below its surface ? the following must be true ?
1. Mars
1. u>s
2. Venus
3. Jupiter 2. s>q
4. Saturn 3. u>r
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only (a) 1 and 2 only
(c) 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(d) 4 only
(c) 1 and 3 only

1. The Davis Cup 2021 was won by
the Russian Tennis Federation by
a 2-0 lead over Croatia in the
Davis Cup final in Madrid.
2. Medvedev defeated Marin Cilic in
given figure :
lead over Croatia and its first
Davis Cup title since 2006.
title after triumphs in 2005 and
2018.
4. Casper was named the Most
Valuable Player.
Which one of the above statements are
(a) 18
correct ?
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 12
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 20
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(d) All of the above (d) None of the above
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(a) 20 days (c) 18
(b) 18 days (d) 21
(c) 17 days
(d) 16 days

(c) A
1 2 3 4 5
(a) 42 minutes
(a) 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
(b) 39 minutes
(b) 5, 4, 3, 1, 2
(c) 1, 2, 3, 5, 4
CI 2022 ( D – 16 )
88. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 91. There are 3 Indians and 3 Chinese in a
group of 6 people. How many
12 days, 15 days and 20 days
subgroups of this can we choose so that
every subgroup has at least one
before the completion of the work. In Indian ?
(a) 56
completed ?
(a) 5 days (b) 48
(b) 7 days (c) 52

(c) 10 days
(d) 44
(d) 12 days
92. Select the number that can replace the

question mark (?) in the following
series.
1537, 1539, 1543, ? , 1557, 1567
mangoes. If two mangoes get rotten (a) 1549
then rest can be divided into seven
(b) 1553
mangoes. What is the number of (c) 1550
mangoes with Ramesh ?
(d) 1546
(a) 285
(b) 423
(c) 562
(d) 345
to ?
90. What is mirror image of
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI ? (a) 492
(b) 468
(c) 262
(d) 246
CI 2022 ( D – 17 )
94. When a runner was crossing the 12 km 95. What percentage of candidates passed
mark, she was informed that she had the exam from institute E out of the
completed only 80% of the race. How total number of candidates enrolled
many kilometres was the runner from the same institute ?
supposed to run in this event ?
(a) 80%
(a) 14
(b) 15 (b) 75%
(c) 16 (c) 62.5%

(d) 16.5
(d) 50%

questions given below :
Distribution of candidates who were
enrolled for MBA entrance exam and the
candidates (out of those enrolled) who
passed the exam in different institutes. (a) 65%
(b) 74%
(c) 80%
(d) 68%

institutes D and A together exceeds
the number of candidates enrolled
from institutes E and C together by
(a) 407
(b) 399
(c) 279
Figure II – Candidates who passed the exam = 5700 (d) 228
CI 2022 ( D – 18 )
Directions (Q. 98 to Q. 101) : Study the 100. Income of company ‘A’ in 2020 was
following graph carefully to answer the < 18.6 lakh. What was the
given questions : investment ?
(a) < 11 lakh
companies A and B over different years. (b) < 12 lakh
Study the following graph carefully and (c) < 13 lakh
answer the questions given below it. (d) < 14 lakh

to the investment of company B in
2021. What is the ratio of the
investment of company ‘A’ in 2020 to
2021 ?
(a) 37 : 36
(b) 31 : 28
(c) 20 : 31
98. Investment of company ‘B’ in 2022 is
(d) Data Inadequate
year. Income in 2022 was what percent
Answer Q. 102 to Q. 106 based on the
(a) 280% following paragraph :
(b) 252% Five golfers, C, D, E, F and G, play a series

of matches in which the following are
(c) 245% always true of the results. Either C is last
(d) 52%
99. Average investment of company ‘A’ in any match; that is, no two players ever
over the years was < 26 lakh. What finish in the same position in a match.
was its average income over the
years ? 102. If exactly 1 golfer finishes between
(a) < 40.56 lakh be true ?
(b) < 41.60 lakh (a) C finishes first
(b) G finishes first
(c) < 50.26 lakh
(c) F finishes third
(d) Data Inadequate
(d) E finishes fourth
CI 2022 ( D – 19 )
103. Which of the following cannot be 107. Which of the following diagrams
true ? indicate the best relation between
(a) E finishes second
rickshaw ?
(a)
(b)
104. If D finishes third, which of the

following must be true ?
(a) G finishes first
(b) E finishes ahead of F (c)
(c) F finishes ahead of E
(d) F finishes behind D
(d)
other golfers to finish ?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
‘–’; ‘T’ means ‘÷’, then what is the value
(d) 4
of
5R9P7S9T3P6=?
106. If a sixth golfer, H, enters a match and
finishes ahead of F and behind D, (a) 54
true ? (b) 128
(b) H finishes ahead of E (c) 55
(c) E finishes third

(d) 59
(d) H finishes fifth
CI 2022 ( D – 20 )
109. Select the option that will fill in the 112. A watch, which gains 5 seconds in
blank and complete the given series. 3 minutes, was set right at 7 a.m. In
the afternoon of the same day, when
0, 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, 511, 728, __
the watch indicates quarter past
(a) 990 4 o’clock, the true time is
(b) 1000 (a) 6 p.m.
(b) 5 p.m.
(c) 1001
(c) 4 p.m.
(d) 999
(d) 3 p.m.
110. In a class 40% of the students enrolled 113. Pointing to a portrait, a lady tells her
for Math and 70% enrolled for friend, ‘‘He is the grandson of the elder
Economics. If 15% of the students brother of my father.’’ How is the boy
enrolled for both Math and Economics, in the photograph related to this
what percentage of the students of the woman ?
class did not enrol for either of the two (a) Nephew
subjects ? (b) Brother
(c) Uncle
(a) 5%
(d) Brother-in-law
(b) 15%
(c) 25%
(d) None of the above speed of second hand and minute hand
of a clock in degrees per second ?
(a) 1/10 degrees per second
111. A father has divided his properties in (b) 6 degrees per second
properties go to A, 2/3rd of the
remaining are shared equally between (d) 36 degrees per second
and H equally such that each gets
115. Friday falls on 7th December, 2007.
What day of the week was it on
does D get ?
9th March, 2008 ?
(a) < 68,000
(a) Saturday
(b) < 24,000 (b) Sunday
(c) < 80,000 (c) Monday
(d) < 72,000 (d) Tuesday
CI 2022 ( D – 21 )
116. The average height of 5 people in a 119. The age of a man is three times the
room is 160 cm. A sixth person with sum of ages of his two sons and five
height 172 cm enters the room. The years later his age will be double the
average height of the 6 people in the sum of their ages. What is the father’s
room is present age ?
(a) 166 cm (a) 47 years
(b) 164.50 cm (b) 45 years
(c) 163.33 cm (c) 42 years
(d) 49 years
(d) 162 cm

paper is carrying 150 marks. The 30 hours to reach B from A; C and D
percentage of marks he should score in are 15 and 20 hours away from A.
the second paper to get the overall B and C are 50 and 20 hours
average score is respectively from D, while the travel
(a) 80%
(b) 76%
(c) 74% to B is same as that taken to
(d) 70%
from A.
written as BHSPDRHM. How is (c) The time taken to reach C from B
DESTINED written in that code ? is double that of the time taken to
reach C from D.
(a) SRDCCDMH
(b) UTFECDMH through C is less than the
(c) UTFEEFMH
from D.
CI 2022 ( D – 22 )
CI 2022 ( D – 23 )
CI 2022 ( D – 24 )
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO 320 POSTS OF INSPECTOR, COOPERATIVE
SOCIETIES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COOPERATION, GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB.
COMPETITIVE EXAM DATE: 11-SEPTEMBER-2022 ANSWER KEY SET - [A ]
Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer
1 B 25 B 49 A 73 B 97 C
2 A 26 B 50 A 74 C 98 C
3 A 27 B 51 C 75 A 99 D
4 D 28 D 52 C 76 B 100 D
5 A 29 B 53 A 77 A 101 C
6 B 30 A 54 C 78 B 102 D
7 C 31 C 55 C 79 A 103 A
8 C 32 D 56 B 80 C 104 C
9 C 33 C 57 B 81 B 105 C
10 A 34 B 58 B 82 D 106 A
11 D 35 C 59 D 83 D 107 C
12 D 36 A 60 B 84 A 108 B
13 C 37 A 61 A 85 A 109 D
14 B 38 B 62 C 86 D 110 C
15 B 39 B 63 B 87 B 111 B
16 A 40 B 64 B 88 B 112 B
17 B 41 C 65 B 89 C 113 C
18 A 42 A 66 C 90 B 114 B
19 B 43 B 67 C 91 A 115 C
20 C 44 A 68 C 92 D 116 D
21 D 45 C 69 C 93 B 117 D
22 D 46 D 70 C 94 C 118 A
23 B 47 A 71 A 95 D 119 B
24 D 48 D 72 A 96 A 120 A
Sd/-
DATE : 11-09-2022 SECRETARY [ EXAMINATIONS ]
COMPETITIVE EXAM DATE: 11-SEPTEMBER-2022 ANSWER KEY SET - [B ]
1 A 25 A 49 C 73 A 97 C
2 B 26 B 50 C 74 D 98 B
3 C 27 A 51 C 75 D 99 D
4 D 28 C 52 C 76 C 100 C
5 D 29 D 53 C 77 B 101 B
6 B 30 A 54 A 78 B 102 B
7 D 31 D 55 A 79 A 103 C
8 B 32 A 56 B 80 B 104 B
9 B 33 A 57 C 81 A 105 C
10 B 34 C 58 A 82 D 106 D
11 D 35 C 59 B 83 B 107 D
12 B 36 A 60 A 84 C 108 A
13 A 37 C 61 B 85 D 109 B
14 C 38 C 62 A 86 A 110 A
15 D 39 B 63 C 87 C 111 B
16 C 40 B 64 B 88 C 112 D
17 B 41 B 65 A 89 D 113 D
18 C 42 D 66 A 90 D 114 A
19 A 43 B 67 D 91 C 115 A
20 A 44 A 68 A 92 D 116 D
21 B 45 C 69 B 93 A 117 B
22 B 46 B 70 C 94 C 118 B
23 B 47 B 71 C 95 C 119 C
24 C 48 B 72 C 96 A 120 B
Sd/-
COMPETITIVE EXAM DATE: 11-SEPTEMBER-2022 ANSWER KEY SET - [C ]
1 D 25 C 49 B 73 B 97 D
2 A 26 A 50 B 74 B 98 D
3 D 27 A 51 A 75 B 99 A
4 A 28 B 52 B 76 C 100 B
5 A 29 C 53 A 77 A 101 A
6 C 30 A 54 B 78 B 102 B
7 C 31 B 55 C 79 A 103 D
8 A 32 A 56 D 80 C 104 D
9 C 33 B 57 D 81 D 105 A
10 C 34 A 58 B 82 C 106 A
11 B 35 C 59 D 83 D 107 D
12 B 36 B 60 B 84 A 108 B
13 B 37 A 61 B 85 C 109 B
14 D 38 A 62 B 86 C 110 C
15 B 39 D 63 D 87 A 111 B
16 A 40 A 64 B 88 C 112 A
17 C 41 B 65 A 89 B 113 D
18 B 42 C 66 C 90 D 114 B
19 B 43 C 67 D 91 C 115 C
20 B 44 C 68 C 92 B 116 D
21 C 45 A 69 B 93 B 117 A
22 C 46 D 70 C 94 C 118 C
23 C 47 D 71 A 95 B 119 C
24 C 48 C 72 A 96 C 120 D
Sd/-
COMPETITIVE EXAM DATE: 11-SEPTEMBER-2022 ANSWER KEY SET - [D ]
1 C 25 D 49 C 73 D 97 B
2 C 26 D 50 A 74 B 98 A
3 C 27 C 51 A 75 A 99 D
4 C 28 B 52 B 76 C 100 B
5 A 29 B 53 B 77 B 101 C
6 A 30 A 54 B 78 B 102 D
7 B 31 B 55 C 79 B 103 A
8 C 32 A 56 A 80 C 104 C
9 A 33 B 57 B 81 B 105 C
10 B 34 C 58 A 82 C 106 D
11 A 35 D 59 C 83 D 107 D
12 B 36 D 60 D 84 D 108 C
13 A 37 B 61 A 85 A 109 D
14 C 38 D 62 D 86 B 110 A
15 B 39 B 63 A 87 A 111 C
16 A 40 B 64 A 88 B 112 C
17 A 41 B 65 C 89 D 113 A
18 D 42 D 66 C 90 D 114 C
19 A 43 B 67 A 91 A 115 B
20 B 44 A 68 C 92 A 116 D
21 C 45 C 69 C 93 D 117 C
22 C 46 D 70 B 94 B 118 B
23 C 47 C 71 B 95 B 119 B
24 A 48 B 72 B 96 C 120 C
Sd/-

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Booklet Sr. No.

Candidate’s Signature : Total Questions : 120]

8. In which of the following hills of

9. On which riverside of Punjab was the

10. Firdausi, the writer of Shah-nama,

(a) Mahmud Ghaznavi (a) Guru Ki Wadali

(b) Muhammad Ghori (b) Jhabal

(c) Iltutmish (c) Muktsar

(d) Alauddin Khilji (d) Kartarpur

20. Which of the following is not the folk

17. Arrange the following in chronological (a) Dilruba

2. Simon Commission (d) Algoza

(c) It has high Sulphur content. 2. See that the expenditure

4. Consider the report of the

3. is rejected by the Rajya Sabha.

(a) All are correct

(c) 2 and 4 are correct (c) 1, 2, 3 are correct

(d) 2 and 3 are correct (d) All are correct

(a) 2 3 4 1 (c) Southern Common Market

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

33. Match the following :

40. The Western Ghats of India are also

(b) Economic decisions are taken

(d) 2 and 3 only (d) Kitty

(b) India, Nepal, Bhutan,

(c) UAE (c) 1, 2 and 3 only

(d) Canada (d) All of the above

2. India’s highest literary award,

68. Consider the following statements : (a) 1 and 2 only

74. The Board of Cooperative Societies

(b) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1, 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 4 only

79. Consider the following statements (b) 7 days

question mark (?) in the following Distribution of candidates who were

86. The letters from A – Z are numbered

(d) 246 Figure II – Candidates who passed the exam = 5700

89. What is the percentage of candidates

(a) 65% 91. Investment of company ‘B’ in 2022 is

90. The number of candidates passed from

94. Income of company ‘A’ in 2020 is equal

(b) 31 : 28 (d) F finishes behind D

(c) F finishes third (c) E finishes third

103. In a class 40% of the students enrolled

101. If ‘P’ means ‘+’; ‘R’ means ‘’; ‘S’ means

111. In a certain code ORGANISE is

(a) 47 years 3. u>r

(c) 42 years (a) 1 and 2 only

(c) 1 and 3 only

(d) None of the above

113. B, C and D are located at different

(a) The time taken to travel from A

(b) It takes double the time to reach

(c) The time taken to reach C from B

(a) 20 days (c) 18

(b) 18 days (d) 21

tank at the rate of 30 litres a minute. (b) B

Candidate’s Signature : Total Questions : 120]

(b) Chimta 3. is rejected by the Rajya Sabha.

Corporation 1. A Self-Help Group is an

(c) Woodrow Wilson

(d) 1 2 3 4 (d) Goal 14

(b) Absorption and re-emission of

(d) Gastric juice

(c) Phishing (b) India, Nepal, Bhutan,