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Syllabus for Combined Competitive Preliminary Examination:

GENERAL STUDIES – Paper – I (200 marks) – 100 Questions

Duration: Two hours

i. Current events of national and international importance. ii. History of and Indian National Movement. iii. Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World. iv. Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights issues etc, v. Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc. vi. General issues on Environment ecology, Bio-Diversity and Climate Change- that do not require subject specialization. vii. General Science.

Note: 30-35% questions in General Studies Paper I will be related to Assam.

1. North Eastern Regional Institute of a) 1 only Water and Land Management is b) 2 and 3 only located at c) 1 and 3 only a) Shillong b) d) 1, 2 and 3 only

c) d) Dimapur 7. Which one of the following is not the most likely measure the

2. The fundamental rights of Indian Government/RBI takes to stop the constitution has been borrowed from slide of Indian Rupee? the constitution of a) Curbing imports of non-essential goods and promoting exports a) USSRC b) Encouraging Indian borrowers to b) Canada c) UK issue rupee denominated Masala d) USA Bonds c) Easing conditions relating to external commercial borrowing 3. Which of the following is not included under in situ conservation? d) Following an expansionary a) National Park monetary policy. b) Sanctuary 8. Author of Badhakabya c) Botanical Garden a) Madhab Kandali d) Biosphere Reserve b) Ananta Acharya 4. The river Tuni is situated in the c) Ram Saraswati d) Madhabdeva district

a)Sonitpur b) 9. Which of the following is true of International Court of Justice? c)Nalbari d) Majuli a) The judges of the court are appointed according to the 5. The first ever delegation of direction of secretary general Assamese leaders to the 1921 b) No two judges may belong to the Nagpur session of the Indian National same country Congress was led by c) The court consists of 20 judges a) Ambikagiri Raichoudhari d) The statue of the International b) Kuladhar Chaliha Court of justice is not an integral c) Chandranath Sharma part of UN charter. d) Nabin Chandra Bardoloi

10. The first editor of Jonaki 6. Which of the following is/are tributary/ a) tributaries of Brahmaputra? b) 1. Dibang c) Lakshminath Bezboruah 2. Kameng d) Padmanath Gohai Baruah 3. Lohit

Select the correct answer using the code given below. 11. According to 2011 census highest (c) Nitrous oxide, which is a literacy rate in the district of Assam greenhouse gas, is not at all a) Sibsagar released into atmosphere by crop b) Golaghat fields. c) Sonitpur (d) It is a combination of a weedicide d) Kamrup Metro and a fertilizer for particular crops. 12. Who acts as the president of India when neither the president nor the 17. Which of the following are the vice president is available? objectives of ‘National Nutrition a) Speaker of the Lok Sabha Mission?’ b) Chief Justice of Supreme Court 1. To create awareness relating to c) Vice Chairman of Rajya Sabha malnutrition among pregnant d) Senior most Governor women and lactating mothers. 2. To reduce the incidence of 13. When a bank return a cheque unpaid, anaemia among young children it is called adolescent girls and women. a) Payment of the cheque 3. To promote the consumption of b) Drawing of the cheque millets, coarse cereals and c) Cancelling of the cheque unpolished rice. d) Dishonour of the cheque 4. To promote the consumption of poultry eggs. 14. Arjun Bhanjan by Madhabdeva is a a) Yatra Select the correct answer using the b) Jhumura code given below: Rupak c) (a) 1 and 2 only d) None of the above (b) 1, 2 and 3 only (c) 1, 2 and 4 only 15. Who discovered Green house (d) 3 and 4 only effect?

a) Muller 18. Leader of Dandua Droh? b) J. Fourier c) J. C. Farman a) Badan Chandra Phukan d) Paul Ehlirch b) Phuleswari Konwari

c) Pramatta Singh 16. Why does the Government of India d) Hara Dutta and Bira Dutta promote the use of ‘Neem-coated Urea’ in agriculture? 19. The first known traditional king of (a) Release of Neem oil in the soil Kamrupa was increases nitrogen fixation by the a) Hatakasur soil microorganisms. b) Ratnasur (b) Neem coating slows down the c) Gatakasur rate of dissolution of urea in the d) Mahiranga Danava soil.

20. The founder of Chutiya royal dynasty 2. Data centers a) Birpal 3. Body corporate b) Haria Mandal c) Ratnadhwajpal Select the correct answer using the d) Giripal code given below (a) 1 only 21. Consider the following statements: (b) 1 and 2 only 1. The Reserve Bank of India (c) 3 only manages and services (d) 1, 2 and 3 Government of India Securities but not any State Government 24. The Poa Macca of Hazo is Securities. associated with 2. Treasury bills are issued by the a) Mir Zumla Government of India and there b) Giyasudin Aulia are no treasury bills issued by c) Aurangzeb the State Governments. d) Azanphakir 3. Treasury bills offer are issued at a discount from the par value. 25. Total area of land Assam Which of the statements given a) 78438 Sq. Km above is/are correct? b) 84348 Sq. Km c) 65432 Sq. Km (a) 1 and 2 only d) 72528 Sq. Km (b) 3 only (c) 2 and 3 only 26. Namdang Silar Sako is on (d) 1, 2 and 3 a) NH-56 b) NH-52 22. Which of the following is/are famous c) NH-31 for sun temples? d) NH-37 1. Arasavalli 2. Amarkantak 27. The Headquarter of Asian 3. Omkareshwar Development Bank is located at a) Tokyo Select the correct answer using the b) Singapore code given below. c) Manila (a) 1 only d) Bankok

(b) 2 and 3 only 28. The identity platform ‘Aadhaar’ (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 provides open “Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)”. 23. In India, it is legally mandatory for What does it imply? 1. It can be integrated into any which of the following to report on electronic device. cyber security incidents? 1. Service providers 2. Online authentication using iris is possible. Which of the statements given 32. The name of the hills where the above is/are correct? eastern and western ghats of the (a) 1 only Indian peninsula meet is (b) 2 only a) Kodai kanal (c) Both 1 and 2 b) The Nilgiries (d) Neither 1 nor 2 c) Malbar d) Coorg 29. Which of the following events happened earliest? 33. India’s ranking in the ‘Ease of Doing (a) Swami Dayanad established Business Index’ is sometimes seen in Arya Samaj. the news. Which of the following has (b) Dinbhandhu Mitra wrote declared that ranking? Neeldarpan. (a) Organization for Economic (c) Bankim Chandra Chottopadhyay Cooperation and Development wrote Anandmath. (OECD) (d) Satyendranath Tagore became (b) World Economic Forum the first Indian to succeed in the (c) World Bank Indian Civil Services (d) World trade Organization (WTO) Examination. 34. With reference to ‘Stand Up India 30. Consider the following pairs: Scheme’ which of the following Terms sometimes statements is/are correct? seen in the news Their Origin 1. Its purpose is to promote entrepreneurship among SC/ST 1. Annex-I Countries : Cartagena and women entrepreneurs. Protocol 2. It provides for refinance trough 2. Certified Emissions : Nagoya SIDBI. Reductions Protocol 3. Clean Development : Kyoto Select the correct answer using the Mechanism Protocol code given below.

Which of the pairs given above (a) 1 only is/are correctly matched? (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (a) 1, and 2 only (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 3 only 35. Karengar Ligiri was written by (d) 1, 2 and 3 a) Bishnu Prasad Rabha b) Lakshmi Nath Bezboruah 31. The Kamakhya temple was rebuilt by c) Jyotiprasad Agarwalla king Naranarayana in the year d) Padmanath Gohai Baruah a) 1565 b)1545 36. Which town of Assam has the largest c) 1555 d)1575 dry fish market of Asia? a) Tangla b) Jagiroad 2. It is headed by the Union Finance c) Dhubri Minister d) Hilakandi 3. It monitors macroprudential supervision of the economy. 37. ‘Mission Indradhanush’ launched by Government of India pertains to Which of the statements given above (a) immunization of children and is/are correct? pregnant women. (a) 1 and 2 only (b) construction of smart cities across (b) 3 only the country (c) 2 and 3 only (c) India’s own search for the Earth- (d) 1, 2 and 3 like planets in outer space

(d) New Educational Policy 41. Which of the following was the second Assamese film to be 38. Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is released? aimed at a) Indramalati (a) Bringing the small entrepreneurs b) Joymati into formal financial system c) Pioliphukan (b) Providing loans to poor farmers d) Pratidhwani for cultivating particular crops

(c) Proving pensions to old and 42. Assamese: Its formation and destitute persons Development is a famous book (d) Funding the voluntary written by organizations involved in the a) K. K. Handique promotion of skill development b) Banikanta Kakati and employment generation. c) Maheswar Neog d) Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi 39. ‘SWAYAM’, an initiative of the Government of India, aims at 43. Assamese movie Village Rockstar (a) promoting the Self Help Groups in was selected as India’s official entry rural areas to the Oscars 2019 under which (b) proving financial and technical category? assistance to young start-up a) Foreign language film category entrepreneurs b) Documentary (short subject) (c) promoting the education and c) Writing (adopted screenplay) health of adolescent girls d) Cinematography (d) providing affordable and quality education to the citizens for free 44. The term ‘Core Banking Solution’ is

sometimes seen in the news. Which 40. With reference to ‘Financial Stability of the following statements best and development Council’, consider describes/describe this term? the following statements: 1. It is a networking of a bank’s 1. It is an organ of NITI Aayog. branches which enables customers to operate their accounts from any branch of the (b) 2 only bank on its network regardless of (c) 3 only where they open their accounts. (d) 2 and 3 only 2. It is an effort to increase RBI’s control over commercial banks 47. With reference to Indian freedom through computerization. struggle consider the following 3. It is a detailed procedure by events: which a bank with huge non- 1. Munity in Royal Indian Navy performing assets is taken over 2. Quit India Movement launched by another bank. 3. Second Round Table Conference Select the correct answer using the code given below- What is the correct chronological (a) 1 only sequence of the above events? (b) 2 and 3 only (a) 1-2-3 (c) 1 and 3 only (b) 2-1-3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 3-2-1 (d) 3-1-2 45. Which of the following gives ‘Global Gender Gap Index’ ranking to the 48. Nameri National park is located in countries of the world? which district in Assam? (a) World Economic Forum a) Barpeta (b) UN Human Rights Council b) Biswanath (c) UN Women c) Sonitpur (d) World Health Organization d) Nagaon

46. Which of the following statements 49. In which year “O Mor Aponar Desh” is/are correct regarding Smart India was officially adopted as Assam’s Hackathon 2017? state song? 1. It is centrally sponsored scheme a) 1927 for developing every city of our b) 1932 country into Smart Cities in a c) 1937 decade. d) 1929 2. It is an initiative to identify new digital technology innovations for 50. The Kamrupa king who took part in solving the many problems faced Mahabharat war by our country. a) Naraka 3. It is a programme aimed at b) Bhagadatta making all the financial c) Bhaskar Barman transactions in our country d) Mahiranga Danva completely digital in a decade. Select the correct answer using the 51. Gohai Kamal Ali was constructed in code given below: the reign of a) Nara Narayan (a) 1 and 3 only b) Raghu Deb c) Gadhadhar Singa Einstein’s General Theory of d) Rudra Singha Relativity, often discussed in media?

52. If a commodity is proved free to the (a) 1 and 2 only public by the Government, then (b) 3 only (a) The opportunity cost is zero. (c) 1 and 3 only (b) The opportunity cost is ignored (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) The opportunity cost is transferred from the consumers 55. In which of the following areas can of the product to the tax- paying GPS technology be used? public. 1. Mobile phone operations (d) The opportunity cost is 2. Banking operations transferred from the consumers 3. Controlling the power grids. of the product to the Select the correct answer using the Government. code given below:

53. Consider the following statements: (a) 1 only 1. The Food Safety and Standards (b) 2 and 3 only Act, 2006 replaced the (c) 1 and 3 only Prevention of Food Adulteration (d) 1, 2 and 3 Act, 1954 2. The Food Safety and Standards 56. Who among the following was/were Authority of India (FSSAI) is associated with the introduction of under the charge of Director Ryotwari Settlement in India during General of Health Services in the the British rule? Union Ministry of Health and 1. Lord Cornwallis Family Welfare. 2. Alexander Read 3. Thomas Munro Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (a) 1 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 only (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 54. Consider the following phenomena: 1. Light is affected by gravity. 57. Which of the following statements 2. The Universe is constantly is/are correct? expanding. Proper design and effective 3. Matter warps its surrounding implementation of UN-REDD+ space-time. Programme can significantly contribute to Which of the above is/are the 1. Protection of biodiversity prediction/predictions of Albert 2. Resilience of forest ecosystems 3. Poverty reduction c) Bhaskar Varman d) Durlav Narayan Select the correct answer using the code given below 62. Atal Innovation Mission is set up (a) 1 and 2 only under the (b) 3 only (a) Department of Science and Technology (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) Ministry of Labour and Employment 58. Which of the following statements (c) NITI Aayog (d) Ministry of Skill Development is/are correct? and Entrepreneurship Viruses can infect 1. Bacteria 2. Fungi 63. Recently, India signed a deal known 3. Plants as ‘Action Plan for Prioritization and Implementation of Cooperation Areas Select the correct answer using the in the Nuclear Field’ with which of the code given below. following countries? a) Japan (a) 1 and 2 only b) Russia (b) 3 only c) The United Kingdom (c) 1 and 3 only d) The United States of America (d) 1, 2 and 3 64. With reference to Indian National 59. The first Assamese periodical was Movement, consider the following first published by American Baptist pairs: Missionaries in the year a) 1886 Person Position held b) 1846 c) 1885 1. Sir Tej Bahadur : President, All d) 1871 Sapru India Liberal Foundation 60. Which British Assistant 2. K. C. Neogy : Member, The Commissioner was killed during Constituent Phuloguri Dhawa? Assembly a) Herbert Sconce 3. P. C. Joshi : General b) Henry Hopkinson Secretary, c) Lt. Singer Communist d) Berrington Party of India

61. Hem Saraswati and Harihar Vipra Which of the pairs given above enjoyed the patronage of is/are correctly matched? a) Raghu Rai b) Purandar Singha (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 68. If the President of India exercises his power as provided under Article 356 65. Consider the following pairs: of the Constitution in respect of a particular State then Famous place River (a) The Assembly of the State automatically dissolved. 1. Pandharpur : Chandrabhaga (b) The powers of the Legislature of 2. Tiruchirapalli : Cauvery the State shall be exercisable by 3. Hampi : Malaprabha or under the authority of the Parliament. Which of the pairs given above are (c) Article 19 is suspended in that correctly matched? State. (a) 1 and 2 only (d) The President can make laws (b) 2 and 3 only relating to that State. (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 only 69. A modern feral horse population (wild horse) is found in 66. What is/are the a) Kaziranga National Park consequence/consequences of a b) Manas National Park country becoming the member of the c) Orang National Park ‘Nuclear Suppliers Group’? d) Dibru-Saikhowa Biosphere 1. It will have access to the latest Reserve and most efficient nuclear technologies. 70. In 2005, at the initiative of the Kind of 2. It automatically becomes a Bhutan became the first country in member of “The Treaty on the the world to make its priority on GNH Non-Proliferation of Nuclear instead of GDP to measure the Weapons (NPT)”. prosperity and well being of a nation. What is meant by GNH? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? a) Gross National Happiness (a) 1 only b) Gross Net Happiness c) Geographical Natural Habitat (b) 2 only d) None of the above (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 71. DONER Ministry was set up in the year 67. Among the following cities, which one a) 1971 lies on a longitude closest to that of Delhi? b) 1985 (a) Bengaluru c) 1995 (b) Hyderabad d) 2001

(c) Nagpur (d) Pune 72. Forest area as percentage of total d) Horse Power geographical area is maximum in a) Nagaland 78. The rear view mirror used in a motor b) Assam vehicle is c) Arunachal Pradesh a) Concave d) Manipur b) Convex c) Plane 73. Which one of the following is a d) None of these source of revenue of a local self government (Municipal/Panchayat)? 79. The former name of Assam Sahitya a) Income tax Sabha b) Octroi duty a) Axom Sahitya Sanstha c) Excise duty b) Assam Literary Society d) Customs duty c) Assam Sahitya Sanmilani d) Asomiya Sahitya Sanmilani 74. Economic justice has been incorporated in the constitution of 80. Which planet takes more time to India under complete one rotation on its axis than to complete one rotation around the a) Direct principle of state policy sun? a) Mercury b) Fundamental Rights b) Venus c) Residuary powers c) Mars d) Jupiter d) Fundamental duties 81. Which of the following was the

earliest stringed musical instrument 75. The language of discourses of of India? Gautam Buddha was a) Tanpura a) Bhojpuri b) Sitar b) Magadhi c) Santoor c) Pali d) Veena d) Sanskrit

82. The obnoxious smell near a pulp and 76. The currency of Indonesia is paper mill is due to a) Dollar a) Carbon dioxide b) Pound b) Hydrogen Sulphide c) Rupee c) Organic sulphur compound d) Rupiah d) Aromatic Hydrocarbons

77. Which of the following exception to 83. Building ‘Kalyana Mandapas’ was a the others notable feature in the temple a) Joule construction in the kingdom of? b) Erg (a) Chalukya c) Watt hour (b) Chandela universities of India in Calcutta, (c) Rashtrakuta Bombay and Madras? (d) Vijayanagara a) Hunter Commission b) Charter Act of 1813 84. Consider the following pairs: c) Charles Wood’s despatch d) Lee Commission Movement/ Leader Organization 88. Do or Die was the slogan which Mahatma Gandhi gave during the 1. All India Anti- : Mahatma a) Quit India Movement Untouchability Gandhi b) Non-cooperation movement League c) Khilaphat Movement d) Civil Disobedience Movement 2. All India Kisan : Swami Sabha Sahajanand 89. Birds Flue is caused by the virus Saraswati a) H5N1 b) HIV 3. Self-Respect :E.V. c) H6N2 Movement Ramaswami d) PH3 Naicker 90. Consider the following states: Which of the pairs given above 1. Chhattisgargh is/are correctly matched? 2. Madhya Pradesh (a) 1 only 3. Maharashtra (b) 1 and 2 only 4. Odisha (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3 With reference to the States mentioned above, in the terms of 85. The total length of international percentage of forest cover to the border of Assam with Bangladesh total area of state, which one of the a) 467.30 km following is the correct ascending b) 367.30 km order? c) 262.03 km a) 2-3-1-4 d) 567.30 km b) 2-3-4-1 86. National Rural Health Mission was launched in the year c) 3-2-4-1

a) 2003 b) 2002 d) 3-2-1-4

c)2004 d) 2005 91. Consider the following pairs:

87. Who recommended for the Tradition State establishment of first three 1. Chapachar kut festival – Mizoram 2. Khongjom Parba (a) 1 and 2 only ballad – Manipur (b) 3 only 3. Thang-Ta dance – Sikkim (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only Which of the pairs given above is/are correct? 95. Which of the following is geographically closest to Great (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 Nicobar? (c) 3 only (a) Sumatra (d) 2 and 3 (b) Borneo (c) Java

(d) Sri Lanka 92. Which of the following is/are the indicator/indicators used by IFPRI to compute the Global Hunger Index 96. Consider the following statements: Report? The India-Africa Summit 1. Held in 2015 was the third such 1. Under nourishment 2. Child stunting Summit 3. Child mortality 2. Was actually initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951 Select the correct answer using the code given below- Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 only (d) 1 and 3 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

93. A recent movie titled The Man Who 97. Consider the following countries: Knew Infinity is based on the 1. Australia biography of 2. Canada (a) S. Ramanujan 3. China (b) S. Chandrashekhar 4. India (c) S. N. Bose 5. Japan (d) C.V. Raman 6. USA

94. Consider the following statements: Which of the above are among the 1. In India, the Himalayas are ‘free-trade partners’ of ASEAN? spread over five States only. 2. Western Ghats are spread over (a) 1, 2, 4 and 5 five States only. (b) 3, 4, 5 and 6 3. Pulicat Lake is spread over two (c) 1, 3, 4 and 5 States only. (d) 2, 3, 4 and 6

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 98. With reference to pre-packaged items in India, it is mandatory to the manufacturer to put which of the following information on the main label, as per the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labeling) Regulations, 2011? 1. List of ingredients including addictives 2. Nutrition information. 3. Recommendation, if any, made by the medical profession about the possibility of any allergic reactions. 4. Vegetarian/non-vegetarian

Select the correct answer using the code given below –

(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 1 and 4 only

99. Presence of fluoride in drinking water is associated with a) Mottling of teeth b) Dental fluorisis c) Skeletal fluorisis d) All of the above

100. The name of the poet Kalidasa is mentioned in the a) Allahabad pillar inscription b) Ajanta Caves c) Aihole inscription d) Alpadu grant

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