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A.P.P.S.C. GROUP - 1...............................................................................................................................1 .............. PREVIOUS PAPERS GROUP - 1 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY - 2004 1. The world's first hydrogen fuel cell car reached rent one. The PR button takes you to the channel Sydney on December 27, 2003. Which of the which is a prime numbered channel just a head following statements are true about the car ? of the current channel. And, last but not the least, a) It was designed, built and run by the stu- the MAG button instantaneously takes you to your dents of Tamagawa University of Tokyo. favourite channel. Amit has made Star Plus b) It is named after the Biblical gods of Sun (Channel no. 17) as the Magic channel (favourite). and Water. (Use the additional data from the questions). c) Its name is Isaac Moses. 6. If his T. V. is on Star Plus and he presses T + 2, d) It completed the world's first continental PR, PR and PP to come to Zee, then on which crossing by completing a 4084 km run in less channel is Zee located ? than nine days. 1) 19 2) 23 3) 25 4) 29 e) Its name is Apollondine. 7. If the current channel is Zee and Amit presses f) It was designed and built by the students of T + 2, PR, PP and T + 2, then he will arrive on Tokugawa University, but run by the students Channel number. of the University of Perth. 1) 27 2) 25 3) 29 4) 31 1) a, d, e 2) a, b, f 3) c, d, f 4) b, c, d 8. If the current channel is Star Plus, how can 2. Twice did the Pakistan President, Pervez he reach Channel no. 25 ? Musharraf, escape bids on his life, – first on Musharraf, escape bids on his life, – first on 1) T + 2, PR, T + 2 2) PR, PP December 14, 2003 and next on December 25, 3) T + 2, T + 2, PR 4) None of the above 2003 – in the same city in Pakistan. Which is 9. If the Star Sports channel is Channel no. 30, that city ? then how many channels are there between 1) Karachi 2) Rawalpindi Zee and Star Sports ? 3) Islamabad 4) Lahore 1) 5 2) 6 3) 7 4) None of the above 3. Beagle - 2, surface probe of Mars, was suc- 10. In a certain code language, EMPHASIS is writ- cessfully launched under the aegis of the Eu- ropean Space Agency on December 19, 2003. ten as NDIOBRJR. How do you write CREA- Which country built Beagle - 2 ? TURE in that code ? 1) Britain 2) France 3) Sweden 4) Norway 1) SBBDUTSD 2) QBBDTUSD 4. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the longest - serv- 3) DSDBSTSP 4) SBDBUTDS ing Head of State in Asia, started his five - Directions for question nos. 11 and 12. year term as President of Maldives on Novem- Read the following and find the answers : ber 11, 2003. How many terms had he served Miss Lily has four purses. In one of the purses as the President of Maldives earlier ? she keeps five-rupee notes; in the second, ten- 1) 3 times 2) 4 times 3) 5 times 4) 6 times rupee notes; in the third, twenty-rupee notes; and, 5. The list of languages proposed to be included in the fourth, fifty - rupees notes. In all, she has in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Consti- 78 notes and the total amount is Rs. 1500. tution does not contain. 11. If the twenty-rupee notes were 6 less than the 1) Bodo 2) Santhali 3) Dogri 4) Bhojpuri ten-rupee notes and the five-rupee notes were Directions for questions 6 to 9. 4 more than the fifty-rupee notes, how many Refer to the data below and answer the five-rupee notes did she have ? questions that follow : 1) 12 2) 32 3) 25 4) 20 The new television remote of the BPL televi- 12. If starting from the highest, she took out one sion set has some unusual features. The T + 2 note from it and then went on taking double button takes you to the channel which is two chan- the number of notes from each purse as com- nels ahead of the current one (i.e. channel 1 to pared to the previous one, how much money channel 3). The PP button takes you back to the would she take out ? channel which was switched on before the cur- 1) Rs. 170 2) Rs. 185 3) Rs. 210 4) Rs. 310 A.P.P.S.C. GROUP - 1...............................................................................................................................2 .............. PREVIOUS PAPERS Directions for question nos. 13 to 17. 24. How many triangles does the following fig- The questions are based on the series of sym- ure have ? bols, letters and numbers given below : Δ 4 NZ5R E 6H9 7KD Δ G 2 PQ Δ M 3 T C 8 13. How many letters in the series are preceded 1) 48 2) 44 3) 40 4) 36 by a symbol and followed by a number ? 25. Six plays – A, B, C, D, E and F – are to be 1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 staged, one on each day from Monday to Sat- 14. If the letters in the series are arranged in al- urday. The staging of these plays has to fol- phabetical order, how many letters will remain low the following pattern : at their place as such ? i) A must be staged a day before E. 1) 2 2) 3 3) 4 4) 5 ii) C must not be staged on Tuesday. 15. How many symbols have either letters or num- iii) B must be staged on the day following the bers on both the sides ? day on which F is staged. 1) 5 2) 4 3) 3 4) 2 iv) D must be staged on Friday only and should 16. Identify the odd one : not be immediately preceded by B. 1) 4Z5 2) EH 3) 7K 4) Δ MT v) E must not be staged on the last day of the 17. Which of the following is different from the schedule. others ? Now, which play immediately follows B ? 1) C8T3 2) ER 5 3) G DK 4) 7H6 1) C 2) D 3) E 4) A 18. Find out the pair of numbers that does not 26. A coin is flipped four times with one of the belong to the group for lack of common prop- following results in terms of occurrence of erty : head (H) or tail (T) : 1) 34 – 43 2) 62 – 71 3) 55 – 62 4) 83 – 92 a) HTTH b) TTTT c) HHHH d) HHTH Based on the above information what would 19. If 8 x 9 = 2724, Based on the above information what would be the probability of (H) occuring on the fifth 4 x 2 = 612 and flip ? 7 x 3 = 921, then 6 x 8 = ? 1) 100 % 2) 50% 3) 25 % 4) 0% 1) 1224 2) 2418 3) 1824 4) 1215 27. In one minute, 3/7 of a bucket is filled. The 20. The population of a town was 20,000 in 1944. rest of the bucket can be filled in It decreased by 10 percent during 1944 – 1954 1) 7/3 minutes 2) 21 minutes but increased by 20 percent during 1954 – 3) 4/3 minutes 4) 2 minutes 1964. What was the population like in 1964 ? 28. A child was born on August 18, 1978. It was 1) 24, 600 2) 22,000 3) 20,800 4) 21,600 Tuesday. What day will be his birthday in the 21. A party consists of grand-mother, father, year 1986 ? mother, four sons and their wives, and one 1) Monday 2) Thursday son and two daughters to each of the sons. 3) Saturday 4) None of the above How many females are there in all ? 29. If Venus is brighter than Mercury, Mercury is 1) 14 2) 16 3) 12 4) 24 not brighter than Jupiter, Jupiter is brighter than Venus but not brighter than Pluto, then 22. How many independent words can HEART- which of these is the brightest? LESS be divided into without changing the 1) Jupiter 2) Mercury 3) Venus 4) Pluto order of the letters and using each letter only 30. If X = – 3, then X3 – 3X2 – 2X – 1 is equal to once ? 1) – 1 2) 5 3) 10 4) –15 1) 2 2) 3 3) 4 4) 5 31. Which of the following lakes is the deepest? 23. Find the missing number. 1) Baikal 2) Mansarovar 4 3 64 5 3) Superior 4) Victoria 27 125 32. Which of the following pairs of states experi- 8 ? 216 6 3437 enced the highest rate of population growth (4.97) and the lowest (0.90) respectively, dur- 1) 64 2) 16 3) 512 4) 24 ing 1991 – 2001 in India ? A.P.P.S.C. GROUP - 1...............................................................................................................................3 .............. PREVIOUS PAPERS 1) Tamil Nadu and Nagaland 1) National – Indian National Planning 2) Nagaland and Manipur Congress Committee 3) Kerala and Nagaland 2) People's Plan – M. N. Roy 4) Nagaland and Kerala 3) Gandhian Plan – Sriman Narayan 33. Which of the following pairs is Wrongly 4) Bombay Plan – Rajaji matched ? 47. What is meant by 'Bank Rate' ? 1) Bushmen – Australia 2) Gaucho – Argentina 1) The rate at which commercial banks lend 3) Maoris – New Zealand 2) The rate at which commercial banks accept 4) Zambos – South Africa deposits 34. Identify the odd one : 3) The rate at which the Reserve Bank lends to 1) Jhoom 2) Bewar 3) Masha 4) Bera the commercial banks 35.