SECRETARIAT ASSISTANT PRELIMINARY EXAM Exam Held on 05-06-2004 Time: 75 Min
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SECRETARIAT ASSISTANT PRELIMINARY EXAM Exam held on 05-06-2004 Time: 75 min. Max: 100 marks (c) Shatrugnan Sinha Questions 1 to 5: Choose synonymous word (d) Manmohan Singh 1. To surprise somebody greatly: 9. (a) Cancel (b) Nullify (a) Appraise (b) Antonyms (c) Void (d) Confirm (c) Astonish (d) Reveal 10. (a) G. Sankarakuruppu 2. To make something more important that it really: (b) O.N.V. Kuruppu (a) Excess (b) Elaborate (c) S.K. Pottekkadu (c) Stress upon (d) Exaggerate (d) Thakazhi Sivasankarapillai 3. Express one's opinion without evidence or full knowledge: Questions 11 to 13: Three words are given. There is a relationship between the first two words. Se- (a) Specify (b) Speculate lect a word that expresses a similar relation- (c) Concede (d) Sensing ship with the third word from the given alter- natives. 4. An event that will happen soon: 11. Pather Panjali : Sathyajith Ray; Athithi : (a) Imminent (b) Damnsure (a) K.P. Kumaran (b) M.T. Vasudevan Nair (c) Immense (d) Immutable (c) T.V. Chandran (d) P.A. Backer 5. To lead somebody to do something: 12. Pareekkutty : Madhu; Chemban Kunju : (a) Persuade (b) Placate (a) P.J. Antony (b) Jose Prakash (c) Persecute (d) Perpend (c) Govindankutty Questions 6 to 10: Four words are given in each. (d) Kottarakara Sreedharan Nair Three of them can be grouped together apply- ing a principle. One word does not belong to 13. Bangladesh: Dhaka; Austria: the group. Find it out. (a) Canberra (b) Lapaz 6. (a) Violet (b) Blue (c) Santiago (d) Vienna (c) Magenda (d) Green Question 14 to 20: choose collect answer from the 7. (a) Cucumber (b) Carrot alternative to fill the blank space: 14. A,E, J,O,–,– (c) Brinjal (d) Ladies finger (a) M,Q (b) S, X 8. (a) Yaswanth Sinha (c) T, Y (d) U, Z (b) Jaswant Singh 8 9 9 15. ADH, BEI, CFJ, – (a) 1970 (b) 1975 (a) DGL (b) DHK (c) 1977 (d) 1980 (c) EHL (d) FIM 26. ‘One Life’ is written by: 16. Veluthampi Dalawa —— a brave fight against (a) Dr. B. Iqbal (b) Bergnan British Army. (c) Kurozowa (d) Dr. Christiaan Bernard (a) Put up (b) Put off 27. ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ is written by: (c) Put in (d) Put down (a) Eric Erikson (b) Sigmund Freud 17. The train was coming, the supervisor —— the (c) A. Beck (d) Kraeplin workers to stop working on rail. 28. ‘Kesavante Vilapangal’ is written by: (a) called off (b) called in (a) M. Mukundan (b) O.V. Vijayan (c) called away (d) called out (c) Anand 18. It —— rain this evening. (d) Perumbadavam Sreedharan (a) can (b) may 29. First malayalam cinema is: (c) could (d) is (a) Balan (b) Newspaper Boy 19. —— the suspected cause for earthquakes is the (c) Harishchandra (d) Vigatha Kumaran construction of dams. 30. The Director of the film ‘Susanna’ is: (a) Most of (b) Only (a) T.V. Chandran (b) Priyadarsan (c) One of (d) None of these (c) Adoor Gopalakrishnan 20. There were —— telephone booths around, so (d) Lenin Rajendran that the old one is closed. 31. The Nigerian Novelist who won the Nobel prize: (a) few (b) a little (a) Clod Seamong (b) Vol Soyinga (c) a few (d) little (c) Joseph Brodskey (d) None of the above Questions 21 to 35: Select appropriate answer: 32. ‘World AIDS Day’: 21. Adolph Hitler committed suicide in (a) April 17th (b) June 5th (a) 1943 (b) 1944 (c) December 1st (d) February 14th (c) 1945 (d) 1946 33. The famous film song ‘Easwaran Hinduvalla, 22. Congress Socialist Party was formed in Islamalla, Christianiyalla, Indranum Chandranumalla’ was written by: (a) 1934 (b) 1935 (a) O.N.V. Kuruppu (b) S.L. Puram Sadanandan (c) 1936 (d) 1938 (c) Vayalar Ramavarma 23. IMF/World Bank was formed in (d) None of the above (a) 1942 (b) 1944 34. FIFA President: (c) 1946 (d) 1947 (a) Sep Blatter (b) Urz Linzy 24. Kyoto Conference was held in (c) H.K. Dua (d)None of the above (a) 1992 (b) 1993 35. Erethrean Sea is: (c) 1996 (d) 1997 (a) Bay of Bengal (b) Indian Ocean 25. Indian Patent Act was formed in (c) Red Sea (d) Arabian Sea 9 0 0 Questions 36 to 55: Choose the correct answer: (c) 204 m (d) 184 m2 36. Find out the values of ‘x’ and ‘y’ if x + y = 7; 3x 44. A chess board contain 64 equal squares and the - 2y = 11. area of each square is 6.25 cm2. A border round (a) 4, 3 (b) 5, 2 the board is 2cm wide. Find the length of the side of the chess board. (c) 3,4 (d) 2, 5 (a) 24cm (b) 42cm 37. Five years ago I was thrice as old as my son and ten years later I shall be twice as old as my son. (c) 60cm (d) 64cm2 How old are we now? 45. The area of a triangle is 48cm2, the base is 12 cm. (a) 30 & 40 (b) 50 & 20 What is its altitude? (c) 40 & 15 (d) 35 & 15 (a) 4cm (b) 6cm 38. 3 chairs and 2 tables cost Rs. 700 and 5 chairs (c) 8cm (d) 12cm and 3 tables cost Rs. 1,100. What is the cost of 2 46. The minute hand of a clock is 10cm long. Find chairs and 2 tables? the area on the face of the clock described by the (a) Rs. 400. (b) Rs. 500. minute hand between 9.00 am. and 9.35 am. ( =3.14) (c) Rs. 600. (d) Rs. 900. (a) 183 cm2 (b) 160 cm2 39. Find two consecutive natural numbers whose 2 2 squares have been the sum 221. (c) 100 cm (d) 314 cm 47. The number of children in 10 families in a locality (a) 10, 11 (b) 9,10 are listed: 3, 1,4,0, 2, 1, 1,2,3,3. Find out the mean (c) 12, 13 (d) 13, 15 number of children. 40. Find out the values of x & y if 2x + 3y = 31; 17x - (a) 1 (b) 2 11y = 8. (c) 3 (d) 4 (a) 4, 7 (b) 5,7 48. The mean of a set of 40 values is 6. Each of the (c) 6, 8 (d) 5, 8 values is increased by 5. What will be the mean of the set of new values? 41. The sum of two numbers is 15. If the sum of their (a) 11 (b) 45 3 reciprocals is , find out the numbers. (c) 60 (d) 70 10 49. Find out the median of the values (a) 9, 6 (b) 8, 7 5,10,3,7,2,9,6,2,11. (c) 5, 10 (d) 4, 11 (a) 2 (b) 6 42. The length of a rectangular plot is 8 metres greater (c) 11 (d) 9 than its breadth. If the area of the plot is 308 m. 50. 5:6,7:8, 13: 16-Which of the following is correct, find the length and breadth of the plot in metre. if the above values are arranged in descending (a) L-16, B-8 (b) L-18, B-10 order of magnitude? (c) L-20, B-12 (d) L-22, B-14 (a) 5:6>7:8>13:16 (b) 13:16>7:8>5:6 43. A lawn is in the shape of a rectangle of length 60 (c) 7:8>5:6>13:16 (d) 7:8>13:16>5:6 metres and width 40 meters. Outside the lawn 51. What must be added to the numbers 6,10, 14 and there is a foot path of uniform width 1 metre broad- 22 so that they became successive proportional? ening the lawn. Find out the area of the path. (a) 1 (b) 2 (a) 4 m2 (b) 204 m2 (c) 3 (d) 4 9 0 1 52. Which one of the following is having greater 63. All the following are noble metals EXCEPT: value? (a) Mercury (b) Gold (a) 5:3 (b) 6:4 (c) Silver (d) Platinum (c) 7:6 (d) 9:7 64. EEG is used to study the functions of: 53. Nalini purchases a cycle for Rs. 660 including (a) Heart (b) Muscle sales tax. If the rate of sales tax is 10%, find out (c) Brain (d) Nerve the sale price of the cycle. 65. DNA model is put forward by: (a) Rs. 500 (b) Rs. 550 (a) Ian Wilmut (b) Dr Henri Becquirel (c) Rs. 560 (d) Rs. 600 (c) Robert Hook (d) None of the above 54. What will be the next number in the following 66. World Heavy - weight Champion of 2003: series of numbers 2, 4, 16, ...... (a) Clistsco (b) Muhammed Ali (a) 32 (b) 64 (c) Linnex Lewis (d) None of the above (c) 256 (d) 300 67. Second Kerala Chief Minister is: 55. What will be the next number, if the series of (a) Pattom Thanu Pillai numbers is as follows 3,11,27,59, ..... (b) E.M.S. (c) C. Achutha Menon (a) 70 (b) 86 (d) R.Sankar (c) 100 (d) 123 68. The slogan ‘lnquilab Zindabad’ was first used Questions 56 to 100: Select the appropriate answer: by: 56. Who proposed the atomic theory? (a) Bhagat Singh (a) John Dalton (b) Neils Bohr (b) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Chadwick (d) Rutherford (c) V.I. Lenin (d) Ajay Ghosh 57. Father of Electricty: 69. ‘Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangam’ is founded by: (a) Michal Faraday (b) J.J. Thompson (a) A.K.