ComBINED GEO-ScieNTIsT m)Exen2009 DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO T.B.C. : SDGH-U-GKS Test Booklet Series Serial No. 1022205 TEST BOOKLET PAPER—I ( General Studies ) ‘Time Allowed : Two Hours ‘Maximum Marks : 100 INSTRUCTIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATION, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT THIS TEST BOOKLET DOES NOT HAVE ANY UNPRINTED OR TORN OR MISSING PAGES OR ITEMS, ETC. IF SO, GET IT REPLACED BY A COMPLETE TEST BOOKLET. Please note that it is the candidate's responsibility to encode and fill in the Roll Number and Test Booklet Series A, B, C or D carefully and without any omission or discrepancy at the appropriate places in the OMR Answer Sheet. Any omission/discrepancy will the Answer Sheet liable for rejection. You have to enter your Roll Number on the Test Booklet in the Box provided alongside. 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Penalty for wrong answers THERE WILL BE PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY A CANDIDATE IN THE OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION PAPERS. @) There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question for which a Tueedon anes has been given by the candidate, one-third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) Ifa candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above to that question. (ii) 1a question is left blank, i.e., no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO1. Deserts are generally located at (a) Equatorial region () Polar region () about 30° latitude (a) about 65° latitude 2. Which one of the following has the adaptation ‘echolocation’ to detect the prey? (a) Rattlesnake (&) Barn owt () Grasshopper (@) Bat 3. Which one of the following is the most important stage in the process of ecological succession? (@) Claim (®) Acceptance by community members (@) Reaction (@) Settlement In which one of the following trophic structures of ecosystems, both fungi and bacteria occur? (a) Decomposer (b) Autotroph () Heterotroph (a) Food web ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 5. The uplift mechanism that takes place ‘when lighter warm moist air mass rises after encountering a colder and denser air mass causes (a) conventional precipitation (b) frontal precipitation () cyclonic precipitation (d) orogenic precipitation 6. Which one of the following managed ecosystems has the highest amount of standing crop? (a) Agricultural land () Grazing land () Human habitation (@) Forest plantation 7. Who among the following was the Viceroy of India in 1905, when the Partition of Bengal was announced? (a) Lord Ripon (0) Lord Canning (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Minto Nil Darpan, which deals with the condition of indigo planters, was written by (@) Michael Madhusudan Dutta (b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee () Lal Behari Dey (@ Dinabandhu Mitra9. Who among the following revolutionaries founded the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army? (@) Ashfaquilah () Batukeshwar Dutta () Ram Prasad Bismil (d) Chandra Shekhar Azad 10. Chronologically arrange the following events : 1, Invasion of Alexander 2, Indo-Greek Rule in the North-West 3. Accession of Kanishka 4. Accession of Chandragupta Maurya Select the correct answer using the code given below. (@) 43-1-2 (b) 2-3-4-1 () 3-4-1-2 (@) 142-3 11. Consider the following statements : 1, Ajanta paintings depict stories from the Jatakas. 2. Ajanta paintings depict scenes of court-life, processions, men and women at work, festivals, etc. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (@) 1 only (b) 2 only () Both 1 and 2 (@) Neither 1 nor 2 SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 12. Which one of the following schematic graphs correctly represents qualitatively the variation of resistivity p with respect to temperature T for a semiconductor? (a) P Oya? ° (ae 13. Which one of the following semi- conductors possesses the highest value of band gap E,? (@) Si () Ge (c) GaAs (a) Pbs [Pro.14. A steel rod having radius r and length L 17. The oxidation state and covalency of gets stretched along its length by AL, Al in [AICI (H,0)5]?* are when a force F is applied to it. If another rod made of the same material having (a) +3and 3 radius 2r and length L is subjected to the same force F, then the elongation (6) +3 and 6 observed for the second rod is ic samen (a) 4aL (a) +2and 1 (b) 2aL 18. What is the total number of orbitals fg aLls associated with the principal quantum number 3? (d) aL /2 (a) 3 (b) 6 18, Which one of the following quantit oo dimensionless? (a 12 (a) Specific weight 19. The phenomenon of radioactivity was (b) Specific heat first discovered by () Specific density (a) Marie Curie (b) Henri Becquerel (@) Specific gravity (c) Frederick Soddy (@) Ernest Rutherford 16. Which one of the following is the correct order of increase of the atomic radius of the elements? 20. Which one of the following is the correct electronic configuration of copper? Bc S Sag Oe (a) 1s22s?2p63s?3p%3d'°4st ) C) Growth of plant tip with changing light direction () Annual responses of _ living organisms to light conditions (d)_ Daily responses of animals to water availability 50. What is ‘bioenergetic approach’ in modern ecology? (a) Study of similarities and differences in food relationships among living organisms and various forms of energy supporting their life (®) Study of energy retention by ecosystems under threat (c) Study of energy loss by ecosystems under threat (a) Study of energy in deep oceans during cyclone buildup [P.T.0.51. Which one of the following is defined as a natural biological unit tied together by the sharing of a common gene pool? (a) Vegetation (b) Flora (c) Fauna (a) Species 52. Which one of the following is not a non-renewable energy source? (a) Coal (b) Oil (©) Sunlight (d) Nuclear fuel 53. The typical Nagara style Shikhara is visible in which one of the following temples? (a) Brihadeshwara Temple, Thanjavur () Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh () Kailasanatha Temple, Ellora (@) Meenakshi Temple, Madurai 54. Which one of the following Harappan centres specialized in making shell objects? (a) Balakot (®) Kalibangan (c) Mohenjo-daro (@) Banawali ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 10 55. Who among the following was the first to decipher the Ashokan inscriptions? (a) William Jones (&) John Marshall (©) James Prinsep (d) Alexander Cunningham 86. The structure of Mahanavami Dibba is situated in which one of the following places? (a) Ujjain () Gaur () Hampi (@) Mandu 87. Chronologically arrange the following events : 1, Third Battle of Panipat 2. Invasion of Nadir Shah 3. Impeachment of Warren Hastings 4. ‘The Diwani of Bengal transferred to the East India Company Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 2-1-4-3 (o) 3-4-2-1 () 1-342 @ 432158. Lassaigne’s test is used for the detection 61. Which one of the following reagents is of which of the following elements? used to cary out the transformation given below? (@) N,S, P, Cl CHg(CHy)9COOC,Hs — CH3(CH2)9CHO DIBAL-H/H,0 (@) C,N, P, Br &. a (b) Hy/Pd-BaSO, () CN, 8,1 () SnC1z/HCI (@) LiAlH, (@) C,N, 8, Br 62. The —electrophile generated —_in sulphonation of benzene from fuming sulphuric acid is (a) S03 (®) SO3H (6) S03 (d) SOgH 89, What is the use of heavy water? (a) It is used in nuclear reactors as a moderator 63. The reaction of 1,2-dibromoethane with (®) It is used in nuclear reactors as ‘alcoholic KOH yields fuel (a) ethene (o) It is used in radiation therapy for (%) ethyne ae (c) 1-bromo-2-hydroxyethane (@) tis used in water softening plants (Gs nonce 64. Consider the following statements regarding Janani Suraksha Yojana 60. Which one of the following statements sy) : about Febling’s test is not correct? aaa kk vention under the National Health (a) Fehling’s A solution is aqueous Mission. separ sna 2, The objective of JSY is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. () Fructose gives a positive Fehling’s test. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (e) Red-brown ppt of CuO is obtained (a) 1 only in the reaction. hee. (d) Aromatic aldehydes do not respond (see Land to this test. (@) Neither 1 nor 2 SDGH-U-GKS/54A 1 [P-1.0.65. Which one of the following statements regarding Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) is not correct? (a) JSS aims to provide vocational skills to non-literate, neo-literate and person with rudimentary level of education. (b) JSS is meant for vocational education of women only. (¢) JSS works at the doorstep of the beneficiaries. (@) JSS receives grants from the government for skill development. 66. According to the National Multi- dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) constructed by the NITI Aayog, the education dimension is represented by parameters pertaining to 1, school attendance 2. years of schooling 3, literacy rate in the region Select the correct answer using the code given below. (@) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only () 2 and 3 only (@ 1,2and3 SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 12 67. What is Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) as per the National Education Policy (NEP), 20207 (a) ABC enables credits awarded to students for one programme from @ recognized higher education institution to be transferred or redeemed by another higher education institution (®) ABC is the bank account of the students for direct transfer of scholarship () ABC is the newly created institution for providing credits to academic institutions for building infrastructure (@) ABC is an autonomous banking system dealing with the financial management of higher education institutions under NEP, 2020 68. Which one of the following expressions has dimensions of energy (here Vis the voltage across a resistor of resistance R and / is the current through the resistor, and t is the time)? v2 @ > P)orget: re (a)69. The angular acceleration of a simple 73. Which one of the following would be a pendulum at an angle a from the suitable plant to test that chlorophyll is vertical is proportional to necessary for photosynthesis? (@) tana (a) Lady Plymouth (®) sin?a () Cactus ae () Cuscuta (aoe (@) Oleander 70. Which one of the following statements about X-rays is not correct? 74. Quadrat is generally used to enumerate the number of (@) animals breeding in a pond (a) X-rays are longitudinal waves. (>) X-rays are transverse waves. (c) X-rays are electromagnetic waves. (b) burrows present in an anthill (@) X-rays do not require a medium to (c) plants present in a unit area Propagate. (d) epiphytes on a tree ‘71, The magnitude of work done in moving an electron across two points having 7S. “Athlete's foot” is a skin disease caused @ potential difference 6 V is (electronic by charge = 1-6x107!9 q) oe 2810-19 (a) 1-2x1079 5 (®) fungus @) 9-6x107"9 J ‘elute (e) 4-8x10719 5 (a) bacterium @ 16x10 5 76. Which one of the following is a ‘alse 72, Reverberation of sound ensures a (a) @ single refraction Ct (®) a single reflection () Banana (c) multiple reflections (o) Apple (@) multiple refractions (@) Apricot ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A 13 [Pr0.77. Which one among the following States is ‘81. Little Andaman is separated from Great the largest producer of natural gas in ‘Andaman by ae Chann Ten Di 1 (a) Madhya Pradesh ree a es (®) Jharkhand (o) Homfray's Strait () Bibar (c) Duncan Passage (d@) Rajasthan (d) Austen Strait 78. Which of the following statements about river valleys is/are correct? 82. Which one of the following is the 1, Kullu Valley is an example of strike international convention agreement valley. specifying the commitments of different 2. Kangra Valley is a transverse countries to mitigate climate change? valley. (a) Montreal Protocol 3. Narmada flows in a rift valley. to Protocol Select the correct answer using the code Bee given below. (c) Paris Agreement (ee (a) Bali Agreement () 2and3 () 2 only i 83. Which one of the following is a known (a) 3 only metallophyte for Fe? 79. The Kumaon Himalayas lie between (a) Eichhornia crassipes (a) Indus River and Satluj River (0) “Adiconia Iytescena (6) Satluj River and Kali River (c) Chenab River and Satluj River (@) Bhagirathi River and Alaknanda (2); Menthacarvorees River (0) Astragalus acemosus 4 3 84. Which one of the following is a ‘drupe’? 80. Which one of the following glaciers is not part of Pir Panjal Range? jeanne (a) Urdok A kt (6) Sonapani (e) Bara Shigri (@ eCoconps (@ Gangri (a) Tomato SDGH-U-GKS/54A 1485. Duckweed or Azolla is used as a/an 89. The ozonolysis of which one of the following alkenes yields a mixture of (a) pesticide propan-2-one and formaldehyde? (b) biofertilizer (@) Propene (6) arsenic indicator (®) Butene (2) antiseptic (c) 2-Methylpropene (d) 2-Methylbutene 86. Which one of the following ‘algae’ is not known identified partner to form ae 90. Which one of the following compounds is (a) Nostoc used for the synthesis of silicones? (b) Stigonema (a) SiCl, (c) Trentepohlia (0) (CHg)2Si(0H)2 (@) Vaucheria (o) SiO, (d) Na4SiO, 87. Which one of the following is a secondary metabolite produced by some plants? 91. Which one of the following products is formed by the oxidation of phenol with eee chromic acid? (b) Terpenoids (9) Matate a (@) Sugar 88, What is ‘phenology’? o (a) Study of phenol production in plants OH (b) Study of periodical phenomena of plants, such as the time of flowering in relation to climate © (e) Study of excretory pathway of phenols by herbivores (@) Study of phenotypic variation in newborn individuals of cats SDGH-U-GKS/54A 15 (P10.92. Which of the following statements relating to SWIFT is/are correct? 1, It is a messaging network used by banks and financial institutions globally for quick and faultle ‘exchange of information pertaining to financial transactions. 2. It stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommuni- cations. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only () 2only () Both 1 and 2 (@) Neither 1 nor 2 93. Which of the following statements relating to the State Election Commissioner is/are correct? 1, The State Election Commissioner is appointed by the Election Commission of India. 2, The State Election Commissioner can be removed only in the same | manner as a Judge of a High Court. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (%) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 SDGH-U-GKS/54A 16 94, Which one of the following statements relating to the duration of Panchayat is not correct? (a) Every Panchayat shall continue for six years from the date of its first meeting. (b) A Panchayat can be dissolved before the expiry of its term in accordance with the procedure prescribed by State Law. () Election to Panchayat must take place within six months of its dissolution. (a) A Panchayat reconstituted after premature dissolution _shall continue only for a remainder of the period. 95. Which of the following words/phrases was not incorporated into the Preamble to the Constitution of India by the Forty-second Amendment? (a) Socialist (b) Secular (c) Unity and integrity of the nation (d) Dignity of the individual96. Which one of the following statements with regard to the Attorney-General of India as per Article 76 of the Constitution of India is not correct? (@) The Attorney-General of India is appointed by the Chief Justice of India. () A person who is qualified to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India is appointed as the Attorney-General of India. () In the performance of his/her duties, the Attorney-General shall have right of audience in all courts in the territory of India. (d) The Attorney-General shall hold office during the pleasure of the President of India. 97. Which part of independent India had held the first election based on universal adult franchise? (a) Hyderabad () Manipur () West Bengal (@) Nagaland SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 17 98. According to the NITI Aayog SDG India Index, 2020-21, which one among the following States is a Front Runner in its performance on SDG-14? (@) Tripura (b) Maharashtra (c) Punjab (a) Odisha 99. The force of buoyancy on an object floating on water is F, while it is Son an object that sinks in water. The weight of both the objects is W. Which one of the following is always true? (@) F=Wand S=0 () Both F and Shave upward direction () F has upward direction and Shas downward direction (@) F=Wand S>w 100. Infrasonic sounds have frequencies (a) above 25 kHz (b) between 20 kHz and 25 kHz (©) below 20 Hz (d) between 20 Hz and 20 kHz [P.7.0,101. When the temperature of a gas increases, the average speed of its molecules (a) remains the same (b) decreases (o) increases (a) either increases or decreases depending on the gas 102. Which one of the following is the quantity of transfer of linear momentum to the floor, when a dumbbell of mass 500 g falls from a height of 5 m and stops after hitting the floor (take g= 10 m/s”)? (@) 05 kg-m/s () 5:0 kg-m/s (6) 10-0 kg-m/s (a) 1-0 kg-m/s 103, The gravitational force (F) on mass M due to another mass m at a distance x is given by (vector x is from mass M to mass m and unit vector & is the corresponding unit vector) ( F-c™tx x SDGH-U-GKS/S4A, 18 104, The FV graph for two resistors, resistor 1 (R) and resistor 2 (Rj), are shown below : Which one of the following statements about these resistors is not correct? (a) R, follows Ohm's law. (b) Ry does not follow Ohm's law after voltage Yj. (c) Up to V, the resistance of R, is ‘smaller than that of Ra. (d) Up to ¥, the resistance of R is larger than that of Ra. 105. In which of the following situations will an applied force do negative work on a body? (a) The applied force and displacement of the body are at 135° to each other () The applied force and displacement of the body are parallel to each other (c) The applied force and displacement of the body are perpendicular to each other (d) The applied force and displacement of the body are at 45° to each other108. According 106, Which one of the following is a tributary of Krishna River? (@) Harangi () Hiran (¢) Purna (@) Munneru 107. Which of the following statements about breaks in the South-West Monsoon is/are correct? 1. In Northern India, rains are likely to fail if the rain-bearing storms are not very frequent along the monsoon trough. 2, In the West Coast, the dry spells ‘occur when winds blow parallel to the coast. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (2 only () Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 to the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, the responsibility of waste generators has been fixed for segregation of waste in which of the following streams? (@) Biodegradable and non-biodegrad- able wastes (®) Metallic and non-metallic wastes (c) Wet, dry and domestic hazardous wastes (@) Recyclable wastes and — non-recyclable ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A 19 111. According 109. Which one of the following countries is landlocked? (a) Paraguay (b) Uruguay () Suriname (a) Colombia 110. Which one of the following States of India has the largest area under ravines? (@) Uttar Pradesh (o) Himachal Pradesh () Punjab (@) Gujarat to the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), 2023, India climbed two spots to rank (a) seventh () eighth (9 ninth (d) tenth 112, Freddie, Elton, Oban, Siyaya, Aasha, ‘Tbilisi, Sasha and Savannah are names of, (q) nuclear reactors of Ukraine () cheetahs brought to India from Namibia (c) National Parks of Tanzania (a) tropical and —_—_ sub-tropical grasslands [Pr.0.113, Who among the following players won the Golden Boot Award in FIFA World Cup, 2022? (a) Lionel Messi (®) Kylian Mbappe (©) Angel Di Maria (@) Thomas Muller 114, Thundi Beach and Kadmat Beach, which recently entered the coveted list of Blue Beaches, an eco-label given to the cleanest beaches in the world, are located in (@) Puducherry (b) Lakshadweep () Kerala 117. The area under millets cultivation is the highest in (a) Asia () Africa (o) America (a) Burope 118. Who among the following is credited with pioneering the oral rehydration therapy? (a) Anandi Joshi (®) Bidhan Chandra Roy () Dilip Mahalanabis (@) Siddhartha Mukherjee (@) Andaman and Nicobar Islands 119. According to scientists, which one of the following is the only known animal, except for humans, capable of telling the difference between odd and even 115. The recent outbreak of extremely contagious lumpy skin disease affects mostly which one of the following animals? numbers? oy om (a) Butterfly (b) Dog ey () Honeybee (d) Horse (c) Dragonfly (d) Cricket 116. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), one of the recent large-scale accidental 120, Who among the following is the recipient releases of methane gas into the ocean of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022? occurred in (@) David Julius (a) Exxon Valdez (®) Nord Stream (b) Svante Paabo (©) Deepwater Horizon (6) Charles M. Rice (@) Atlantic Empress (d) Ardem Patapoutian ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A, 20SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK SDGH-U-GKS/54A a1 [P-7.0,SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK SDGH-U-GKS/54A 22SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK SDGH-U-GKS/54A 23 [P7.0.SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK ‘SDGH-U-GKS/54A 24 82325068ntist (P) Exam.-2023 —— osmEa| ¢ (Sa eae Sse fs eu sacs eae es eae ise ease eraser (ad (ea tes ev ees se oie a oe eae ee lel