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Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions (96 - 100) :
Ronald Dworkin՚s thesis is that some of the rights people have are fundamental, but
many are not. They are fundamental because they are ‘the rights against the state’ .
Dworkin says that the notion of rights as trumps “marks the distinctive concept of an
individual right against the state which is the heart … of the constitutional theory in
United States” . In the special supplement, Dworkin argued that the concept of right
against the government becomes most useful particularly when the society is divided on
racial lines into majority and minority. The right to freedom of speech and religious
freedom belongs to this category. Therefore, they are strong rights. He asserts that
these rights should be permitted and should not be interfered or banned. These
freedoms are to be allowed even if the welfare of the collectivity is infringed.
On the contrary, he also presupposes a large area of rights where the state can make
legislations curtailing those rights to achieve common welfare. They can be called weak
rights. Right to liberty for example becomes a weak right against right to equality, a
strong right. This at the outset may look contradictory, but is not. For example,
restraining the movement on the roads for safety and smooth traffic movement does not
mean restraining the rights, on the other hand, putting a restriction on publication and
restraining the freedom of speech will infringe the rights even if it enhances general
welfare. Thus, even though in both cases rights are involved, curtailment of one is
justified, whereas the other is not.
Q. 96. The rights claimed against the state are considered as:
a) Fundamental rights
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b) Human rights
c) Natural rights
d) Legal rights
Answer: a) Fundamental rights
Q. 97. The rights that are curtailed to achieve common welfare may be called as?
a) Strong rights
b) Fundamental rights
c) Human rights
d) Weak rights
Answer: d) Weak rights
Q. 98. The idea of right against the government becomes very useful when the society is
divided into majority and minority on the basis of?
a) Caste
b) Class
c) Race
d) Religion
Answer: c) Race
Q. 99. Which of the following is a weak right?
a) Right to property
b) Right to equality
c) Right to liberty
d) Right to religious freedom
Answer: a) Right to Property
Q. 100. The strong rights need to be?
a) Inferred
b) Permitted
c) Borrowed
d) Ordained
Answer: b) Permitted
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expected questions.
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions (91 - 95) :
From this perspective of democracy, representation can help and hurt democracy, even
if representation cannot be democratic since it cannot replicate the demos. But the
phenomenon of representation reflects an emotional roller-coaster- great hopes during
an election campaign; great disappointments from the works of government in office.
This problems stems in part from the fact that representative government and demos
potentially operate at cross-purposes. The office of a representative results from
elections, which elevate a set of political rulers above the ruled in order to make in laws.
In office, they make compromises to get legislative business done. Representative may
feel proud of what they accomplished, because they made the decisions which led to the
compromise. But citizens can՚t take pride in legislative work, and they mostly suffer the
consequences required by the compromise. That doesn՚t mean that representatives
always will be scorned; as mentioned above, their office enables them to undertake
political initiatives not viable during an election campaign or to protect minorities
whose needs may have been neglected. That said, the necessary activity of legislative
compromise takes place above the heads and behind the backs of the people. As such it
contradicts the ‘Athenian and Aristotelian’ understanding of democracies as political
order that depend on the deliberative and decisive powers of the citizens (i.e.. the
demos) acting with authoritative power. Citizens of the Athenian democracy were said
to rule and be ruled in turn, but in every case their power required political presence
and deliberative action of citizens.
Q. 91. Athenian and Aristotelian understanding of democracies means:
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a) Political orders depending on the deliberative power of citizens
b) Political system rooted in grassroot politics
c) System of government prevalent in Greek city states
d) Western conceptualization of democracy
Q. 92. Which of the following is represented in the phenomenon of representation?
a) Great hopes during an election campaign
b) Great appreciation for the work of government in office
c) Great promises for the representative democracy
d) Great challenges to liberalization, privatisation and globalization
Answer: a) Great hopes during an election campaign
Q. 93. What is the obvious outcome of an election?
a) Career of a leader
b) Ministerial berth of a politician
c) Office of a representative
d) Future prospects of a budding activist
Answer: c) Office of a Representative
Q. 94. What takes place above the heads and behind the backs of the people?
a) Executive arrogance
b) Judicial Activism
c) Parliamentary sovereignty
d) Legislative Compromise
Answer: d) Legislative Compromise
Q. 95. Why could have representatives felt proud of what they accomplished?
a) They made the decision for their followers
b) They made the decisions which led to the compromise
c) They made a level jump in their career progression
d) They made their adversaries compromise with their core values
Answer: b) They made the decisions which led to the compromise
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expected questions.
Q. 86. Which of the following statements are true regarding Authoritarianism and
Totalitarianism?
(1) In authoritarian regime, government is not constitutionally responsible to the

public.
(2) Authoritarian regimes may be institutionalised and legitimate.
(3) Totalitarian regimes seek to control and transform all aspects of state, society and
economy.
(4) Totalitarian regimes do not have strong ideological goals and do not use violence as
a tool for remaking institutions
Choose the correct options:
a) (2) , (3) and (4) only
b) (3) , (4) and (1) only
c) (4) , (1) and (2) only
d) (1) , (2) and (3) only
Answer: d) (1) , (2) and (3) only
Q. 87. Which of the following characterise International Criminal Court (ICC) ?
(1) The Rome Statute created ICC as ‘Court of last resort’ .
(2) ICC can exercise jurisdiction only when national courts are unwilling or unable to
investigate or prosecute.
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(3) It cannot prosecute acts of war crimes.
(4) ICC is not located in The Hague.
Choose the correct answer:
a) (1) and (2)
b) (2) and (3)
c) (3) and (4)
d) (1) and (4)
Answer: a) (1) and (2)
Q. 88. A formal organisation, according to Chester Bernard, Comes into existence

when?
a) There are persons who are willing to contribute action
b) There are persons with different goals and purposes
c) There are persons willing to communicate through informal channels only
d) Executive is unwilling to handle the economy of incentives within an organisation
Answer: a) There are persons who are willing to contribute action
Q. 89. Match List I with List II:
List I List II
Landmarks in Indian Foreign Policy Prime Ministers
(1) Shimla Accord (i) Rajiv Gandhi
(2) Act East Policy (ii) Indira Gandhi
(3) India՚s Peacekeeping in Sri Lanka (iii) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(4) Lahore Declaration (iv) Narendra Modi

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Choose the correct answer from below:
a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
d) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (i)

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Answer: b) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
Q. 90. Which of the following thinkers did not believe in women equality?
a) Plato and Mill
b) Aristotle and Hegel
c) Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft
d) Plato and Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer: b) Aristotle and Hegel
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Com) Part 13
expected questions.
Q. 80. Which of the following features about the Indian political system are false?
(1) Dual Government
(2) Supremacy of the Parliament
(3) Indestructability of the Union
(4) Indestructability of the states
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (2) and (3) only
c) (2) and (4) only
d) (3) and (4) only
Answer: c) (2) and (4) only
Q. 81. The theory that ‘Earth is best understood as living entity that acts to maintain its
own existence’ is known as?
a) Tragedy of Commons
b) Sustainability
c) Social Ecology
d) Gaia Hypothesis
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Answer: d) Gaia Hypothesis
Q. 82. ‘The combination of liberal democracy and market has drawn a finishing line in
the history of political and social development.’ Who made this statement?
a) Samuel P Huntington
b) Benjamin Barber
c) Francis Fukuyama
d) Alexander Wendt
Answer: c) Francis Fukuyama
Q. 83. Given below are two statements:
Statement 1: Swadeshi, Boycott, National Education and Passive Resistance were the
means of protest used by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
Statement 2: Boycott was accepted to be an effective weapon by Tilak.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
a) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct.
b) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are incorrect.
c) Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect.
d) Statement 1 is incorrect but Statement 2 is correct.
Answer: a) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct.
Q. 84 ‘Hegemony’ refers to?
a) Economic exploitation
b) Structural inequality
c) Capacity of bourgeoisie to replace rival views and become, in effect, the common
sense of the age
d) Military domination
Answer: c) Capacity of bourgeoisie to replace rival views and become, in effect, the
common sense of the age
Q. 85 Match List I with List II:
List I List II
Books Authors
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(1) Policy Science (i) Robert Dahl
(2) Principles of Public Administration (ii) Herbert Simon
(3) Administrative Behaviour: A Study of Decision-Making (iii) D Lerner and

Process in Administrative Organisations Herald Larswele
(4) The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems (iv) WF Willoughby

a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (iii)
d) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
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expected questions.
Q. 75. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The idea of ‘governance’ gained in prominence by connoting a

plurality of rules in place of the state՚s monopoly.
Reason (R) : The idea of governance owes its origin to the World Bank.
Choose the correct option:
a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
c) (A) is true but (R) is false
d) (A) is false but (R) is true
Answer: a) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Q. 76. Which of the following indicates the nature of planning in India in contemporary
times?
a) Annual Planning
b) Central Planning
c) Perspective Planning
d) Five-year Planning
Answer: c) Perspective Planning

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Q. 77. Which of the following statements regarding women՚s movements in India are
true?
(1) Arya Samaj was not concerned about women՚s issues at all.
(2) All India՚s Women Conference was set up in 1927.
(3) Sarojini Naidu and Anne Besant raised the issue of right to vote for women.
(4) Tilak՚s ‘Ganesh Utsavas’ were mainly aimed at drawing women into national
movement.
a) (1) and (2)
b) (2) and (3)
c) (3) and (4)
d) (1) and (4)
Answer: b) (2) and (3)
List I List II
(i) Kenneth
(1) Bipolarity is the most stable distribution of power.
Waltz
(ii) John
(2) Interests are defined as power.
Mearsheimer
(iii) Hans
(3) States seeks to maximise their relative power position.
Morgenthau
(4) Justice, law and society have no place or are circumscribed in

(iv) Thucidides
international politics.
a) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (i)
b) (1) - (i) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (iv)
c) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (ii)
d) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
Answer: b) (1) - (i) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (iv)

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Q. 79. In which of the following countries, did India participate in peace-keeping

missions?
(1) Korea
(2) Gaza strip
(3) Cyprus
(4) Lebanon
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (1) , (2) and (3) only
c) (2) , (3) and (4) only
d) All
Answer: d) All
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expected questions.
Q. 69. Which of the following are the characteristics of Prismatic model of FW Riggs?
(1) Formalism
(2) Heterogeneity
(3) Overlapping
(4) Bureau of Office
Choose the correct option from below:
a) (1) , (2) and (3) only
b) (1) , (2) , (3) and (4) only
c) (2) and (4)
d) (3) and (4)
Answer: a) (1) , (2) and (3) only
Q. 70. Jaya Prakash Narayan Formed which of the following Parties?
(1) Congress Socialist Party
(2) Bhoodan Aandolan Party
(3) Praja Socialist Party
(4) Democratic Praja Socialist Party

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a) (1) and (2)
b) (2) and (3)
c) (3) and (4)
d) (1) and (3)
Answer: d) (1) and (3)
Q. 71. Which among the following countries have no written constitution?
a) Australia
b) New Zealand
c) Spain
d) France
Answer: b) New Zealand
Statement 1: Choudhary Charan Singh was the only Prime Minister in India who did not
faced the Parliament.
Statement 2: Passage of a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha leads to the ouster of
the government from office.
below:
a) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
b) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
c) Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.
d) Statement 1 is incorrect but Statement 2 is true.
Answer: a) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
Q. 73. Which among the following forms of government is ideal for Machiavelli?
a) Republic
b) Democracy
c) Aristocracy
d) Hereditary Monarchy
Answer: a) Republic
Q. 74. Which of the following is not a principle of jus ad bellum (just recourse to war) ?
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a) Just cause
b) Legitimate authority
c) Proportionality
d) Humanity
Answer: d) Humanity
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expected questions.
Q. 63. Which of the following statements are true about dependency theory?
(1) Dependency theory was strongly influenced by Marxists and Non-Leninists who
were critical of Development theory.
(2) Dependency theory stress the peaceful, evolutionary process of modernisation.
(3) Development in the third world was dependent on the development of already
developed nations.
(4) The First World does not exploit the third world.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (1) and (4) only
c) (1) and (3) only
d) (3) and (4) only
Answer: c) (1) and (3) only
Q. 64. In which of the following subjects, Rajya Sabha has got more powers than Lok
Sabha?
a) Ratification of President՚s rule in a state
b) Creation of a new All India Service
c) Creation of a Legislative Council in a state

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d) Alteration in the boundary of a state
Answer: b) Creation of a new All India Service
Q. 65. Who among the following provide the structural-functional perspective on the
nature of Indian state?
(1) WH Morris Jones
(2) Rajni Kothari
(3) Francine Frankel
(4) Llyod Rudolf
a) (1) and (2)
b) (2) and (3)
c) (3) and (4)
d) (1) , (2) , (3) and (4)
Answer: a) (1) and (2)
Statement 1: India has deliberately been christened as ‘Union of States’ instead of

‘Federation of states’ by the Constitution.
Statement 2: The word ‘Union’ does indicate a particular type of federation that the
constitution makers envisaged for India.
below:
Answer: c) Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.
Q. 67. Who among the following was not a member of the ‘syndicate’ group of Congress
Party?
a) MN Nijalingappa
b) Morarji Desai
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c) K Kamaraj
d) YV Chauhan
Answer: d) YV Chauhan
Q. 68. Arrange the works of Karl Marx in ascending Order:
(1) The capital (Das Capital)
(2) The Communist Manifesto
(3) The Critique of Gotha Programme
(4) The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
a) (1) , (2) , (3) , (4)
b) (3) , (1) , (2) , (4)
c) (2) , (1) , (3) , (4)
d) (4) , (2) , (3) , (1)
Answer: c) (2) , (1) , (3) , (4)
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expected questions.
Q. 56. Which of the following statements is true about International Monetary Fund
(IMF) ?
(1) The IMF is not created by Bretton Woods agreement.
(2) Its function is to assure exchange rate stability.
(3) Critics see IMF as political arm of neoliberal globalization.
(4) The IMF is not specialized agency of the UN.
a) (1) and (2)
b) (3) and (4)
c) (2) and (3)
d) (1) and (4)
Answer: Question dropped by NTA
Q. 57. Which one of the following are civil society organisations?
(1) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
(2) India Against Corruption
(3) Vigyan Prasar
(4) Mazdoor Kisan Sangarsh Samiti
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a) (1) and (3) only
b) (1) and (2) only
c) (1) , (2) , (3) and (4)
d) (1) , (2) and (4) only
Q. 58. The concept of ‘credible minimum deterrent’ relates to which of the following
types of weapons?
a) Chemical
b) Biological
c) Nuclear
d) Space-based
Answer: c) Nuclear
Q. 59. The concept of ‘traditional’ authority involves?
a) Use of authority by virtue of their inherited status by persons
b) The exercise of power subject to rules and regulation
c) The use of power based on the basis on magical qualities by a person
d) The use of authority as per inherited status as well as extraordinary contribution to

the history of advanced business organisation.
Answer: a) Use of authority by virtue of their inherited status by persons
Statement 1: Oligarchy is a government dominated by the few.
Statement 2: Robert Mckenzie formulated the iron law of oligarchy.
below:
Answer: c) Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.

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Q. 61. Who among the following was strongly opposed to the idea of Panchayati Raj
system in India?
a) BR Ambedkar
b) Jai Prakash Narayan
c) Ram Manohar Lohia
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: a) BR Ambedkar
Q. 62. Which one of the following parties firstly joined by EV Ramaswamy?
a) Bharatiya Janata Party
b) Indian National Congress
c) Justice party
d) Communist Party of India
Answer: c) Justice Party
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Com) Part 8
expected questions.
Q. 48. Who among the following is NOT a post-modernist thinker?
a) Jean Francois Lyotard
b) Michel Foucault
c) Richar Rorty
d) Herbert Marcuse
Answer: d) Herbert Marcuse
Q. 49. ′ Consumer Protection Bill 2019 ′ was passed by the Indian Parliament on?
a) 13 July 2019
b) 25 July 2019
c) 6 August 2019
d) 9 August 2019
Answer: c) 6 August 2019
Q. 50. Which one of the following is not a theory or model of representation?
a) Trusteeship
b) Delegation
c) The Mandate
d) Consensus
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Answer: d) Consensus
Q. 51. Which of the following statement about the ‘Consumer Protection Act 2019’ is
NOT true?
a) It has widened the definition of consumer
b) It provides for E-filing of complaints
c) It establishes Central Consumer Protection Authority
d) It ignores mediation as an alternate disputes՚ Redressal mechanism
Answer: a) It ignores mediation as an alternate disputes՚ Redressal mechanism
Q. 52. Which of the following characterise shallow or reformist ecology?
(1) Reformist ecology seeks to reconcile ecology with capitalist modernity
(2) It recognises ‘limits to growth’
(3) It rejects all forms of anthropocentrism, embracing ecocentrism
(4) It considers damage to environment as an externality or ‘social cost’
a) (1) , (2) and (3) only
b) (2) , (3) and (4) only
c) (1) , (2) and (4) only
d) (1) , (3) and (4) only
Answer: c) (1) , (2) and (4) only
Statement 1: Chester Bernard defined organisation as a system of consciously

coordinated activities of two or more persons.
Statement 2: Chester Bernard supported the viewpoint that man is mainly motivated by
economic incentives.
below:

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Answer: c) Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect.
Q. 54. Who among the following reformulated Hans Morgenthau՚s ‘six principles of
political realism’ from a feminist perspective?
a) Judith Butler
b) J Ann Tickner
c) Helen M Kinsella
d) Betty Friden
Answer: b) J Ann Tickner
Q. 55. In which one of the following countries, ‘consociationalism’ as a power sharing

mechanism is not practiced?
a) Germany
b) Netherlands
c) Switzerland
d) Belgium
Answer: a) Germany
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Com) Part 7
expected questions.
Q. 43. According to Aristotle which of the following statements are correct:
(1) Polis should be large enough to guarantee self-sufficiency and small enough to
ensure good government.
(2) The Polis was natural and prior to the individual, not chronologically but
teleologically.
(3) Polis is the highest and most comprehensive of human associations.
(4) Polis is man writ large.
a) (1) and (4) only
b) (2) and (4) only
c) (3) and (4) only
d) (1) , (2) and (3) only
Statement 1: A country՚s foreign policy is the product of its history.
Statement 2: Core values of the Indian national movement constituted the building
blocks of Indian foreign policy.
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below:
Q. 45. Arrange the following foundational elements of Indian Foreign Policy in order of
their appearance:
(1) Gujral Doctrine
(2) Panchasheel
(3) Look-East Policy
(4) India-Soviet Friendship Treaty
a) (1) , (2) , (3) , (4)
b) (4) , (3) , (2) , (1)
c) (3) , (4) , (1) , (2)
d) (2) , (4) , (1) , (3)
Answer: d) (2) , (4) , (1) , (3)
List I
List II
Works of Rabindranath
Content of the work
Tagore
(1) Geetanjali (i) The Realization of Life
(2) Gora (ii) Devotion of God
(iii) Deeper meaning of life in the backdrop of

(3) Sadhana
Swadeshi movement
(4) Ghare-Baire (The home and (iv) Analysis of multifarious social life in colonial
the world) India
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a) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (iii)
c) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
d) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (iii)
Answer: c) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
List I List II
(1) The Age of Consent (i) Jacques Derrida
(2) Parecon (ii) Naomi Klein
(3) Spectres of Marx (iii) George Monbiot
(4) No Logo (iv) Michael Albert

a) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (iii)
b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
d) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
Answer: c) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
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Com) Part 6
expected questions.
Q. 36. Which of the following is NOT a cause of Democratic Shift in the concept of
Democratisation?
a) Crisis of import-substitution
b) Loss of popularity and legitimacy by military regimes
c) Social change
d) Media
Answer: d) Media
Q. 37. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the evolution of Scientific
Management Theory?
a) Lack of effective standards of work
b) Lack of clear understanding of worker-management responsibilities
c) Rule-of-thumb based decisions by the management
d) Proper job design and economic incentives to workers
Answer: d) Proper job design and economic incentives to workers
Q. 38. According to Greek system of classification of regimes, the degenerative form of

rule by many is known as:
a) Tyranny
b) Aristocracy
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c) Anarchic Democracy (mob rule)
d) Oligarchy
Answer: c) Anarchic Democracy (mob rule)
Q. 39. Marx՚s concept of alienated labour includes:
(1) Alienation from the Product
(2) Alienation from the Process
(3) Alienation from the Species
(4) Alienation from the Nature
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (2) and (3) only
c) (3) and (4) only
d) (1) , (2) , (3) and (4)
Answer: d) (1) , (2) , (3) and (4)
Q. 40. ‘Agannasutta’ is related to?
a) Hindu Philosophy
b) Buddhist Philosophy
c) Jain Philosophy
d) Vedanta Philosophy
Answer: b) Buddhist Philosophy
Q. 41. Who among the following is not a key figure of Conservatism?
a) TH Green
b) Edmund Burke
c) Michael Oakeshott
d) Friedrich Von Hayek
Answer: a) TH Green
Statement 1: MN Roy considered the economic interpretation of history as propounded

by Marx as misconceived and imperfect.
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Statement 2: MN Roy argued that the real form of social and economic process is not
determined merely by type of material resources.
below:
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Com) Part 5
expected questions.
Q. 29. Which of the following statements are true about the concept of governance?
(1) It does not simply mean “rule” or “administration” .
(2) It has a specific meaning in context of globalisation.
(3) It is the manner in which power is exercised.
(4) Governance and government are the same thing.
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (1) , (2) and (3) only
c) (1) , (2) , (3) , (4)
d) (2) , (3) and (4) only
Answer: b) (1) , (2) and (3) only
Q. 30. Which of the following statements are false about Indian Federalism?
a) It is a good example of ‘holding together’ federation.
b) It has a tendency of strong Central government.
c) It reflects the spirit of ‘coming together’ federation.
d) It has been referred to as ‘quasi-federal’ system.
Answer: c) It reflects the spirit of ‘coming together’ federation.

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Q. 31. Which article of the Indian constitution is associated with Judicial Activism?
a) 14
b) 18
c) 21
d) 25
Answer: c) 21
Q. 32. Arrange the following freedoms mentioned in Article 19 in the Indian

constitution in order of their appearance:
(1) Form associations or unions
(2) Practice any profession
(3) Move freely throughout the territory of India
(4) Assemble peacefully and without arms
a) (3) , (2) , (1) , (4)
b) (4) , (1) , (3) , (2)
c) (1) , (2) , (3) , (4)
d) (2) , (3) , (4) , (1)
Answer: b) (4) , (1) , (3) , (2)
Q. 33. Arrange the following Parliamentary Committees in order of their formation:
(1) Estimates Committee
(2) Departmental Standing Committee
(3) Public Accounts Committee
(4) Committee on Public Undertakings
a) (1) , (2) , (3) , (4)
b) (4) , (3) , (2) , (1)
c) (3) , (1) , (4) , (2)
d) (2) , (3) , (4) , (1)
Answer: c) (3) , (1) , (4) , (2)

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Q. 34. Who has given originally the idea of ‘Hindu Rashtra’ ?
a) VD Savarkar
b) KB Hedgewar
c) BS Moonje
d) MS Golwalker
Answer: a) VD Savarkar
Q. 35. “All aspects of luck, including natural ability, should be irrelevant to distributive
justice” - this statement refers to the concept of:
a) Meritocracy
b) Plutocracy
c) Luck Egalitarianism
d) Aristocracy
Answer: a) Luck Egalitarianism
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Com) Part 4
expected questions.
Q. 22. Match List 1 with List 2:
List 1 List 2
Centres of Adi Dravida Movements Leaders
(1) Madras (i) Vithoba Raoji
(2) Hyderabad (ii) Murugesh Pillai
(3) Mysore (iii) BR Verma
(4) Nagpur (iv) MS Raja

a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iv)
c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
d) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iv)
Answer: c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
Q. 23. Which of the following terms is referred to as ‘software’ of the state?
a) Capacity
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b) Accountability
c) Resilience
d) Responsiveness
Answer: b) Accountability
Q. 24. Which of the following are associated with the notion of governance?
(i) Competitive Democracies
(ii) Participatory Democracy
(iii) Democratic Administration
(iv) Change-oriented Democracy
a) (i) and (ii)
b) (ii) and (iii)
c) (iii) and (iv)
d) (ii) and (iv)
Answer: a) (i) and (ii)
Q. 25. ‘Fatwa-i-Jahandari’ of Ziauddin Barani is related with?
(1) Advices for Muslim kings in order to earn religious merit and the gratitude of the
subjects.
(2) Advices for all kings.
(3) Description of the origin of state.
(4) Tenets of Secularism.
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (1) only
c) (2) and (3) only
d) (3) and (4) only
Answer: b) (1) only
Q. 26. Who called the 1857 revolt as the First War of Independence?
a) VD Savarkar
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b) Rammanohar Lohia
c) Swami Vivekananda
d) Deendayal Upadhyaya
Answer: a) VD Savarkar
Q. 27. Who among the following was/is the first Chairman of NITI Aayog in India?
a) Amitabh Kant
b) Arvind Pangariya
c) Narendra Modi
d) Manmohan Singh
Answer: c) Narendra Modi
Q. 28. Which among the following is not an element of GA Cohen՚s thought on the
theory of Socialism?
a) Theory of maldistribution of freedom under capitalism
b) Genuine Fraternity promulgated by liberal egalitarianism
c) Deep inegalitarian structure of John Rawl՚s theory
d) Market socialism
Answer: b) Genuine Fraternity promulgated by liberal egalitarianism
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Com) Part 3
expected questions.
Q. 15. Who among the following rejected ‘scientific determinism’ and advocated
political and intellectual struggle?
a) Antonio Gramsci
b) Karl Marx
c) V. I. Lenin
d) Friedrich Engels
Answer: a) Antonio Gramsci
List 1 List 2
Books Authors
(1) Politics and Markets (i) Robert Dahl
(2) The Power Elite (ii) C Wright Mills
(iii) Mancure
(3) A Preface to Democratic Theory
Olson
(4) The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory (iv) Charles
of Groups Lindblom
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a) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (ii)
b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
d) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
Answer: d) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
Q. 17. Which one of the following is the executive-bureaucratic arm of the European
Union?
a) The European Council
b) The European Commission
c) The Council
d) The European Parliament
Answer: b) The European Commission
Q. 18. In “The Considerations on Representative Governments” , JS Mill did not

elaborate upon:
a) Ideal government based on proportional representation
b) Protection of minorities
c) Institutions of self-government
d) Political Economy
Answer: c) Institutions of self-government
Statement 1: Every constitution has a philosophy of its own.
Statement 2: For the philosophy underlying Indian Constitution, we must look back
into the historic Objective resolution moved by Pandit Nehru.
below:
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Q. 20. Who among the following is often portrayed as the ‘father’ of cultural
nationalism?
a) Giuseppe Mazzini
b) Charles Morras
c) Frantz Fanon
d) Johann Gottfried Herder
Answer: d) Johann Gottfried Herder
List 1 List 2
(1) Security Complex (i) Karl Deutsch
(2) Common security (ii) Robert Jarvis
(3) Security Community (iii) Barry Buzan
(4) Security Regimes (iv) Palme Report, 1992

a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
d) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
Answer: d) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
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Com) Part 2
expected questions.
Q. 8. Given below are the statements about the difference between Passive Resistance
and Satyagraha. Which ones are correct?
(1) Passive resistance is the weapon of the weaker sections, Satyagraha never desires to
terrorise the opponent.
(2) Passive resistance is negative in practice, whereas Satyagraha is positive morality.
(3) Passive resistance is equivalent to Satyagraha.
(4) Passive resistance is not afraid of the physical strength while Satyagraha is afraid of
physical strength.
a) (1) and (2) only
b) (3) and (4) only
c) (2) and (3) only
d) (1) and (4) only
Answer: a) (1) and (2) only
List 1 List 2
Environmental Movement State
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(1) Narmada Bachao Andolan (i) Odisha
(2) Chipko Movement (ii) Karnataka
(3) Appiko Movement (iii) Uttarakhand
(4) Chilika Movement (iv) Madhya Pradesh

a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iv)
d) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
Answer: b) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
Q. 10. Who among the following characterised the Indian Polity as being stable not in
the sense of a stationery unresponsive state but in terms of a “regulated movement” ?
a) Myron Weiner
b) WH Morris Jones
c) James Manor
d) Atul Kohli
Answer: b) WH Morris Jones
Q. 11. Who among the following regarded state as a “necessary evil” ?
a) Jeremy Bentham
b) Thomas Paine
c) James Mill
d) JS Mill
Answer: b) Thomas Paine
Q. 12. Which among the following is NOT a feature of “individualist anarchism” ?
a) Private property
b) Ultra Liberalism
c) Civil disobedience
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d) Organicism
Answer: d) Organicism
Q. 13. Who gave the idea of the “New Northern Concept of Power” (NNCP) to analyse
the relevance of non-aligned movement in post-cold war era?
a) MS Rajan
b) SD Muni
c) AP Rana
d) Muchkund Dubey
Answer: c) AP Rana
Q. 14. Which of the following statements are true with regards to Pandita Ramabai?
(1) She was a staunch supporter of Hindu philosophy.
(2) She was pioneer in the field of education and emancipation of women in India.
(3) She was the writer of ‘The High Caste Hindu Women’ .
(4) She was anti-Christianity.
a) (1) and (2)
b) (2) and (3)
c) (3) and (4)
d) (1) and (4)
Answer: b) (2) and (3)
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Com) Part 1
expected questions.
Statement 1: Globalisation has helped in deepening of democracy in India.
Statement 2: Globalisation has deeply impacted the Indian society.
below:
Answer: d) Statement 1 is incorrect but Statement 2 is true.
Q. 2. Which one of the following is not the function of a state, according to Kautilya?
a) Acquisition of that which is not under its control or possession
b) Preservation of what has been acquired
c) Accentuation of what has been preserved
d) Empire building only
Answer: d) Empire building only
Q. 3. Aristotle՚s “ideal state is always Plato՚s second best” who said this?
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a) GH Sabine
b) W Ebenstien
c) JA Dunning
d) CL Wayper
Answer: a) GH Sabine
Q. 4. Who among the following has presented the incremental model of public policy?
a) Henry Fayol
b) Charles E Lindblom
c) FW Riggs
d) David Easton
Answer: b) Charles E Lindblom
List 1 List 2
President Term of Office
(1) Shankar Dayal Sharma (i) 2012 - 2017
(2) R Venkataraman (ii) 2007 - 2012
(3) Pratibha Patil (iii) 1992 - 1997
(4) Pranab Mukherjee (iv) 1987 - 1992

a) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (ii)
b) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (i)
d) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (i) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (iii)
Answer: b) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (iv) , (3) - (ii) , (4) - (i)
List 1 List 2
Author Books
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(1) Hannah Arendt (i) Little Red Book
(2) Frantz Fanon (ii) The Wretched of the Earth
(3) Mao Tse Tung (iii) Affluent Society
(4) John K Galbraith (iv) The Human Condition

a) (1) - (i) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iii) , (4) - (iv)
b) (1) - (ii) , (2) - (iii) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (i)
c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
d) (1) - (iii) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (iv) , (4) - (i)
Answer: c) (1) - (iv) , (2) - (ii) , (3) - (i) , (4) - (iii)
Statement 1: Social democracy combines the elements of Liberalism and Socialism to

reconcile freedom and equality.
Statement 2: Social democratic regimes use the system of neo corporatism wherein
policy making involves the state, labour and business.
below:
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Read the passage and answer the questions (96 - 100) :

Answer: a) Fundamental rights

Answer: d) Weak rights

Q. 99. Which of the following is a weak right?

d) Right to religious freedom

Answer: a) Right to Property

Q. 100. The strong rights need to be?

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Read the passage and answer the questions (91 - 95) :

Q. 91. Athenian and Aristotelian understanding of democracies means:

a) Political orders depending on the deliberative power of citizens

b) Political system rooted in grassroot politics

c) System of government prevalent in Greek city states

d) Western conceptualization of democracy

Q. 92. Which of the following is represented in the phenomenon of representation?

a) Great hopes during an election campaign

b) Great appreciation for the work of government in office

c) Great promises for the representative democracy

d) Great challenges to liberalization, privatisation and globalization

Answer: a) Great hopes during an election campaign

Q. 93. What is the obvious outcome of an election?

b) Ministerial berth of a politician

d) Future prospects of a budding activist

Answer: c) Office of a Representative

Answer: d) Legislative Compromise

a) They made the decision for their followers

b) They made the decisions which led to the compromise

c) They made a level jump in their career progression

d) They made their adversaries compromise with their core values

Answer: b) They made the decisions which led to the compromise

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(1) In authoritarian regime, government is not constitutionally responsible to the

(2) Authoritarian regimes may be institutionalised and legitimate.

Choose the correct options:

a) (2) , (3) and (4) only

b) (3) , (4) and (1) only

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

d) (1) , (2) and (3) only

Answer: d) (1) , (2) and (3) only

Q. 87. Which of the following characterise International Criminal Court (ICC) ?

(1) The Rome Statute created ICC as ‘Court of last resort’ .

(3) It cannot prosecute acts of war crimes.

(4) ICC is not located in The Hague.

Choose the correct answer:

a) (1) and (2)

b) (2) and (3)

c) (3) and (4)

d) (1) and (4)

Answer: a) (1) and (2)

Q. 88. A formal organisation, according to Chester Bernard, Comes into existence

a) There are persons who are willing to contribute action

b) There are persons with different goals and purposes

c) There are persons willing to communicate through informal channels only

d) Executive is unwilling to handle the economy of incentives within an organisation

Answer: a) There are persons who are willing to contribute action