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Direction for the following 6 (six) that is not totally subservient to the
items: political executive but will have the
Read the following two passage and strength to function in larger public
answer the items that f ollow each interest. The need to balance internal
passage. Your answer to these items and external accountability is thus built
should be based on the passages only. into the Constitution. The issue is where
to draw the line. Over the years, the
Passage - 1
emphasis seems to have tilted in favour
Accountability, or the lack of it, in of greater internal accountability of the
governance generally, and civil services, civil services at large through the
in particular, is a major factor electron process. This system for
underlying the deficiencies in seeking accountability to society has not
governance and public administration. worked out, and has led to several
Designing an effective framework for adverse consequences for governance.
accountability has been a key element
Some special measures can be
of the reform agenda. A fundamental
considered for improving accountability
issue is whether civil services should be
in civil services. Provisions of articles 311
accountable to the political executive of
and 312 should be reviewed and laws
the day or to society at large. In other
and regulations framed to ensure
words, how should internal and external
external accountability of civil services.
accountability be reconciled? Internal
The proposed Civil Services Bill seeks to
accountability is sought to be achieved
address some of these requirements.
by internal performance monitoring,
The respective roles of professional Civil
official supervision by bodies like the
Services and the political executive
Central Vigilance Commission and
should be defined so that professional
Comptroller and Auditor General, and
managerial functions and management
judicial review of executive decisions.
of civil services are depoliticized. For this
Articles 311 and 312 of the Indian
purpose, effective statutory civil service
Constitution provide job security and
boards should be created at the centre
safeguards to the civil services,
and in the states. Decentralization and
especially the All India Services. The
devolution of authority to bring
framers of the Constitution had
government and decision making closer
envisaged that provision of these
to the people also helps to enhance
safeguards would result in a civil service
accountability.
01. According to the passage, which of 03. Which one of the following is the
the following factor/factors led to essential message implied by this
the adverse consequences for
passage?
governance/public administration?
1. Inability of civil services strike a (a) Civil services are not accountable
balance between internal and to the society they are serving.
external accountabilities.
(b) Educated and enlightened
2. Lack of sufficient professional
training to the officers of All India persons are not taking up
Services. political leadership.
3. Lack of proper service benefits in (c) The framers of the constitution
civil services.
did not envisage the problems
4. Lack of constitutional provisions
to define the respective roles of being encountered by the civil
professional civil services vis-a-vis services.
political executive in this context. (d) There is a need and scope for
Select the correct answer using the
reforms to improve the
code given below:
(a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only accountability of civil services.
(c) 1 and 4 only (d) 2, 3 and 4 04. According to the passage, which one
02. With reference to the passage, the of the following is not a means of
following assumptions have been
enhancing internal accountability of
made:
civil services?
1. Political executive is an obstacle
to the accountability of the civil (a) Better job security and
services to the society. safeguards.
2. In the present framework of
(b) Supervision by Central Vigilance
Indian polity, the political
executive is no longer Commission.
accountable to the society. (c) Judicial review of executive
Which of these assumptions is/are
decisions.
valid?
(a) 1 only (d) Seeking accountability through
(b) 2 only enhanced participation by
(c) Both 1 and 2 people in decision making
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 process.
Passage - 2 06. Which one of the following is the
In general, religious traditions stress our
crux of this passage?
duty to god, or to some universal ethical
principle. Our duties to one another (a) Our duties to one another derive
derive from these. The religious concept
from our religious traditions.
of rights is primarily derived from our
relationship to this divinity or principle (b) Having relationship to the divine
and the implication it has on our other
principle is a great virtue.
relationships. This correspondence
between rights and duties is critical to (c) Balance between rights and
any further understanding of justice.
duties is crucial to the delivery
But, for justice to be practiced; virtue,
rights and duties cannot remain formal of justice in a society.
abstractions. They must be grounded in
(d) Religious concept of rights is
a community (common unity) bound
together by a sense of common union primarily derived from our
(communion). Even as a personal virtue, relationship to god.
this solidarity is essential to the practice
and understanding of justice. 07. A ate grapes and pineapple; B ate
05. With reference to the passage, the grapes and oranges; C ate oranges,
following assumptions have been
pineapple and apple; D ate grapes,
made:
1. Human relationships are derived apple and pineapple. After taking of
from their religious traditions. the above facts, its can be said that
2. Human beings can be duty
the cause of sickness was:
bound only if they believe in god.
3. Religious traditions are essential (a) Apple
to practice and understand
(b) Pineapple
justice.
Which of these assumption(s) is/are (c) Grapes
valid?
(d) Oranges
(a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
08. Consider the following statements: 09. A person X was driving in a place
where all roads ran either north-
1. The rate of population growth is
south or east-west, forming a grid.
increasing in the country.
Roads are at a distance of 1 km from
2. The death rate is declining faster each other in a parallel. He started
in the country compared to birth at the intersection of two roads,
rate. drove 3 km north, 3 west and 4 km
3. The birth rate is declining faster south. Which further route could
in the country compared to death bring him back to his starting point,
if the same route is not repeated?
rate.
(a) 3 km east, then 2 km south
4. Rural-urban migration is taking
(b) 3 km east, then 1 km north
place regularly in the country.
(c) 1 km north, then 2 km west
Which one of the following
(d) 3 km south, then 1 km north
conclusions may be true in the light
of the above facts? 10. Consider the following statement:
“We shall go either for a picnic or for
(a) The rate of population growth is
trekking”. Which of the following, if
increasing due to rural-urban
true, would falsify this claim?
migration.
(a) We go for a picnic but not for
(b) The rate of population growth is
trekking.
increasing due to decline in
(b) Activities such as picnic and
death rate only. trekking are encouraged by the
(c) The rate of population growth is health authorities.
increasing due to increase in (c) We go for trekking and not for
birth rate only. picnic.
(d) The rate of population growth is (d) We do not go either for picnic
(b) It is imperative for us to modify 51. The sum of the ages of 5 members
our land use practices in order comprising a family, 3 years ago was
to mitigate climate change. 80 years. The average age of the
family today is the same as it was 3
(c) There are no technological
years ago, because of an addition of
solutions to the problem of
a baby during the intervening
greenhouse gas emissions.
period. How old is the baby?
(d) Tropical areas are the chief sites
(a) 6 months
of carbon sequestration.
(b) 1 year
49. A person climbs a hill in a straight (c) 2 years
path from point ‘O’ on the ground (d) 2 years and 6 months
in the direction of north-east and
52. The total emoluments of two persons
reaches a point ‘A’ after travelling a
are the same, but one gets
distance of 5 km. Then, from the
allowances to the extent of 65% of
point ‘A’ he moves to point ‘B’ in the
his basic pay and the other gets
direction of north-west. Let the
allowances to the extent of 80% of
distance AB be 12 km. Now, how far
his basic pay. The ratio of the basic
is the persons away from the starting pay of the former to the basic pay
point ‘O’? of the latter is
(a) 7 km (b) 13 km (a) 16 : 13 (b) 5 : 4
(c) 17 km (d) 11 km (c) 7 : 5 (d) 12 : 11
53. A person is standing on the first 54. What is C’s surname?
step from the bottom of a ladder. If (a) Ribeiro
he has to climbs 4 more steps to (b) Kumar
reach exactly the middle step, how (c) Singh
many steps does the ladder have? (d) Cannot be determined
(a) 8 (b) 9
55. What is the colour of the tie?
(c) 10 (d) 11
(a) Black
Directions for the following 3 (three) (b) Blue
items: (c) White
Consider the given inf ormation and (d) Cannot be determined
answer the three items that follow.
56. Who wore the sweater?
When three friends A, B and C met, it (a) A
was found that each of them wore an (b) B
outer garment of a different colour. In (c) C
random order, the garments are: jacket, (d) Cannot be determined
sweater and tie; and the colours are:
57. AB is a vertical trunk of a huge tree
blue, white and black. Their surnames
with A being the point where the
in random order are: Ribeiro, Kumar and
base of the trunk touches the
Singh. Further, we know that:
ground. Due to a cyclone, the trunk
1. neither B nor Ribeiro wore a has been broken at C which is at a
white sweater. height of 12 meters, broken part is
2. C wore a tie. partially attached to the vertical
3. Singh’s garment was not white. portion of the trunk at C. If the end
4. Kumar does not wear a jacket. of the broken part B touches the
ground at D which is at a distance
5. Ribeiro does not like to wear the
of 5 meters from A, then the original
black colour.
height of the trunk is
6. Each of the friends wore only one
(a) 20 m (b) 25 m
outer garment of only one
(c) 30 m (d) 35 m
colour.
58. A person walks 12 km due north, 62. If R and S are different integers both
then 15 km due east, after that divisible by 5, then which of the
19 km due west and then 15 km following is not necessarily true?
due south. How far is the from the (a) R – S is divisible by 5
starting point? (b) R + S s divisible by 10
(a) 5 km (b) 9 km (c) R × S is divisible by 25
(c) 37 km (d) 61 km (d) R2 × S2 is divisible by 5
59. A cube has all its faces painted with 63. How many numbers are there
between 100 and 300 which either
different colours. It is cut into
begin with or end with 2?
smaller cubes of equal sizes such
(a) 110
that the side of the small cube is
one-fourth the big cube. The number (b) 111
of small cubes with only one of the (c) 112
sides painted is (d) None of the above
(a) 32 (b) 24 Directions for the following 8 (eight)
(c) 16 (d) 8 items:
Read the following five passages and
60. Ram and Shyam work on a job
answer the items that f ollow each
together for four days and complete
passage. Your answer to these items
60% of it. Ram takes leave then and should be based on the passages only.
Shyam works for eight more days to
complete the job. How long would Passage - 1
Ram take to complete the entire job As we look to 2050, when we will need
alone? to feed two billion more people, the
question of which diet is best has taken
(a) 6 days (b) 8 days
on new urgency. The foods we choose
(c) 10 days (d) 11 days to eat in the coming decades will have
61. A military code writes SYSTEM as dramatic ramifications for the planet.
SYSMET and NEARER as AENRER. Simply put, a diet that revolves around
Using the same code, FRACTION meant and dairy, a way of eating that is
on the rise throughout the developing
can be written as
world, will take a greater toll on the
(a) CARFTION
world’s resources than one that revolves
(b) FRACNOIT around unrefined grains, nuts, fruits
(c) NOITCARF and vegetables.
(d) CARFNOIT
64. What is the critical message Europe. the middle East and Africa.
conveyed by the above passage? Groups not dependent on cattle, such
(a) Our increasing demand for foots as the Chinese and Thai, remain lactose
sourced from animals puts a intolerant.
greater burden on our natural 65. Which among the following is the
resources. most logical assumption that can
(b) Diets based on grains, nuts, be made from the above passage?
fruits and vegetables are best (a) About 10,000 years ago, the
suited for health in developing domestication of animals took
countries. place in some parts of the word.
(c) Human beings change their food (b) A permanent change in the food
habits from time to time habits of a community can
irrespective of the health bring about a genetic change in
concerns. its members.
(d) From a global perspective, we still (c) Lactose tolerant people only are
do not know which type of diet capable of getting simple sugars
is best for us. in their bodies.
Passage - 2 (d) People who are not lactose
All humans digest mother’s milk as tolerant cannot digest any dairy
infants, but until cattle began, being product.
domesticated 10,000 years ago, children Passage - 3
once weaned no longer needed to digest
“The conceptual difficulties in
milk. As a result, they stopped making
National Income comparisons between
the enzyme lactase, which breaks down
underdeveloped and industrialised
the sugar lactose into simple sugars.
countries are particularly serious
After humans began herding cattle, it
because a part of the national output in
because tremendously advantageous to
various underdeveloped countries is
digest milk, and lactose tolerance evolved
produced without passing through the
independently among cattle herders in
commercial channels”.
66. In the above statement, the author amount of carbon present in all plants
implies that: and Earth’s atmosphere combined,
(a) the entire national output could become increasingly volatile as
produced and consumed in people add more carbon dioxide to the
industrialized countries passes atmosphere. This is largely because of
through commercial channels. increased plant growth. Although a
microorganisms that would unsettle one are mainly responsible for the
planet – soil. In a study, it was found (d) Increasing green cover could
that the soil, which contains twice the trigger the release of carbon
trapped in soil.
Passage - 5 the issue of worldwide supply of food
Historically, the biggest challenge to has been gaining significance, in recent
world agriculture has been to achieve a times, both because the quantum and
balance between demand for and supply the composition of demand has been
of food. At the level of individual undergoing big changes, and because,
countries, the demand-supply balance in recent years, the capabilities of
can be a critical policy issue for a closed individual countries to generate
economy, especially if it is a populous uninterrupted chain of food supplies
economy and its domestic agriculture is have come under strain. Food
not growing sufficiently enough to production, marketing and prices,
ensure food supplies, on an enduring especially price-affordability by the poor
basis; it is not so much and not always, in the developing world, have become
of a constraint for an open, and growing global issues that need global thinking
economy, which has adequate exchange and global solutions.
surpluses to buy food abroad. For the 68. According to the above passage,
world as a whole, supply-demand which of the following are the
balance is always an inescapable fundamental solutions for the world
prerequisite for warding off hunger and food security problem?
starvation. However, global availability of 1. Setting up more agro-based
adequate supply does not necessarily industries.
mean that food would automatically
2. Improving the price affordability
move from countries of surplus to
by the poor.
countries of deficit if the latter lack in
3. Regulating the conditions of
purchasing power. The uneven
marketing.
distribution of hunger, starvation, under
4. Providing food subsidy to one
or malnourishment, etc., at the world-
and all.
level, thus owes itself to the presence of
empty-pocket hungry mouths, Select the correct answer using the
overwhelmingly confined to the code given below:
underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch (a) 1 and 2 only
as ‘a two-square meal’ is of elemental (b) 2 and 3 only
significance to basic human existence, (c) 1, 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
69. According to the above passage, the 71. The issue of worldwide supply of
biggest challenge to world food has gained importance mainly
agriculture is because of:
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