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LIAS Is Providing Reading Room/Library Facilities for IAS/ACS Students. Interested Students Can Contact 9085601887/7002140373 ANALYSIS /SOURCE / PROBABLE SOLUTIONS: APSC CCE GENERAL STUDIES PRE 2018 PAPER (held on 30th Dec 2018) (Disclaimer: Though due care has been taken in preparing the solutions, there may be divergences in the actual answers and the solution given here.) LIAS is providing Reading Room/Library facilities for IAS/ACS students. Interested students can contact 9085601887/7002140373 LAKSHYAFORIAS Institute for civil service aspirants Guwahati , House no : 18 R.G.B. Road , Bhaskar Nagar , Near Ivory Enclave Contact No : 9085601887/7002140373 https://lakshyaforias.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Lakshyaforias-233850620321465/ Pattern of Questions CCE 2018 Prelims (GS) Sl No. of TOPIC SUB TOPIC TOTAL No. QUES India 1 GEOGRAPHY/ENVT/CENS A 3 US World 2 INDIAN B ---------- 2 2 CULTURE/LITERATURE ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY/ART & 2 CULTURE MEDIEVAL INDIAN HISTORY/ART & C HISTORY 2 9 CULTURE: MODERN INDIAN HISTORY (IND. NAT. 5 MOVT.) WORLD D --------- 4 4 CULTURE/LITERATURE E ECONOMY 50% questions from 5 yr plans 14 14 F POLITY ----- 11 11 G SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY -------- 5 5 Polity 4 Banking/finance/economy 5 H CURRENT AFFAIRS Science & Tech 3 19 International Affairs 5 Prizes 2 Current Affairs 2 Geography/Census 4 ASSAM/NORTH EAST I 23 BASED QUESTIONS History/Culture 16 Polity 1 GENERAL MENTAL J --------- 10 10 ABILITY Page 2 of 29 TOTAL 100 Page 3 of 29 TREND OF QUESTIONS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS: APSC APSC APSC CCE CCE CCE TOPIC 2009 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 Polity 11 19 15 16 18 11 History/Culture 19 7 11 14 32 15 Geo/Envt/Census 23 5 12 8 10 3 S&T 13 2 7 3 8 5 Economics 5 20 13 10 4 14 Assam/NE based culture, 16 34 15 14 7 23 census etc Current Affairs 13 7 19 28 18 19 General Mental Ability 0 6 8 7 3 10 TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 Page 4 of 29 Page 5 of 29 A. GEOGRAPHY/ENVIRONMENT/CENSUS: 3 Nos. 1. Indian geography: 1 No. Sl. QUESTION ANS REMARKS/SOURCE No. 1 Which of the following rivers of India does C The Mahi is a river in western India. It rises in not meet the Bay of Bengal? Madhya Pradesh and, after flowing through the (A)North Pennar Station . Vagad region of Rajasthan, enters Gujarat and (B) Subarnarekha Station flows into the Arabian Sea. It is one of the many (C) Mahi west-flowing rivers in India, along with Tapti (D) Vaigai River, Sabarmati River, Luni River and the Narmada River. 2. World geography: 2 Nos. 1 Which of the following is known as the C Norway, the land of the midnight sun, is called Land of_Midnight Sun? so because the northern part of the country is (A) Finland located above the artic circle, where the sun (B) Spain shines 24 hours a day from Mid-May to Mid- (C) Norway July. (D) Greenland Even though there are numerous nations in the Arctic Circle which experience the midnight sun, Norway is the only one known as the land of the midnight sun. 2 Which of the following numericals stands A NCERT Class 11:Indian Physical Envt. as the extent of seawater ocean water distance from the baseline in case of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)? (A) 200 nautical miles (B) 250 nautica1 miles (C) 300 nautical miles (D) 500 nautical miles B. INDIAN CULTURE: 2 Nos. 1 Therukoothu is an art form of C Therukoothu is one of the most ancient folk art forms of the Tamils, incorporating itself in (A) Telangana music, dance, drama, and painting. It is a street (B) Kerala play put up by the village actors for the (C) Tamil Nadu collective enjoyment of the entire village. (D) Maharashtra This form of street theatre mainly focuses on epics like Mahabharata. In the text Mahabharata it mainly focuses on the character of Draupadi. Also, the plays are performed on the stories of Ramayana at Mariamman festivals. http://www.bodahub.com/tamil-folk-theatre- therukoothu/ 2 Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya B Page 6 of 29 Academi Award for English literature? (A) Nayantara Sehgal (B) R. K. Narayan (C) Raja Rao (D) Mulk Raj Anand C. HISTORY : 9 Nos Ancient Indian History/Art & Culture: 2 Nos Sl. QUESTION ANS REMARKS/SOURCE No . 1 Which one of the following scholars is A believed to have written the Panchatantra stories? (A) Vishnu Sharma (B) Bhattadeva (C) Suchruta (D) Chaitanya. 2 The largest Buddhist monastery in India is D Tawang Monastery located in It is located in Tawang city of Tawang district (A) Sanchi in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, is the (B) Bodhgaya largest monastery in India and second largest in (C) Nalanda the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa, (D) Tawang Tibet. Medieval Indian History/Art & Culture: 2 No. Sl. QUESTION ANS REMARKS/SOURCE No. 1 Which one was not the principal item of - export in the 17th century Indian trade? (A) Pepper (B) Opium (C) Ivory (D) Sugar 2 Which one of the following is a profusely B illustrated treatise on elephants, dated 1734? (A) Chitra-bhagavata (B) Hastividyarnava (C) Kadambari (D) Parijatharan Page 7 of 29 MODERN INDIAN HISTORY (INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT : 5 Nos Sl. QUESTION ANS REMARKS/SOURCE No. 1 In India, the Zamindari system was first A NCERT Class XII Themes of Indian History introduced in Part 3: Theme 10 – Colonialism And The (A)Bengal Countryside (B)Madras (C)Bombay Spectrum: A Brief History of Modern India (D)Delhi 2 Which of the following regional parties D Shiromani Akali Dal formed on 14 was formed prior to India’s October 1920 Independence? DMK formed on 17 September 1949 (A) DMK DMK formed on 17 October 1972 (B) AlADMK Asom Gana Parishad formed in 1985 (C) Asom Gana Parishad (D)Shiromani Akali Dal 3 Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in the year A Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on March 5, 1931, between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, who (A) 1931 was at the time the Viceroy of India. It was a (B) 1925 political agreement that was signed before the (C) 1929 second Round Table Conference (D) 1932 Points of Agreements: All the political prisoners who were not convicted for creating violence were to be released immediately. Villages that were located along the coast were given the right to make salt for their consumption. Confiscated properties of the satyagrahis was to be restored. Peaceful picketing of foreign clothes and liquor shops was to be permitted. The ban over the Congress was to be lifted. Meanwhile, the Congress agreed to end the Civil Disobedience Movement and to participate in the Second Round Table Conference 4 Who founded the Home Rule League in D Indian Home Rule League of Tilak was launched September, 1916? in April 1916, while the Home Rule League of (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Annie Besant came into existence in September (B) Bipin Chandra Pal that year. As per a common informal (C) Lala Lajpat Rai understanding between the two leaders, the Indian (D) Annie Besant Home Rule league had to work in Maharastra and Central Provinces, while Home Rule League had to work in all India except Maharastra and Central Provinces. Commonweal and New India were the papers of Home Rule League, while those of the Indian Home Rule league were Kesari and Mahratta. 5 Match List—I with List—II and select the B The most sophisticated account of the economic correct answer using the codes given drain—a basic characteristic of the Indian colonial below the Lists : economy—was made by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1871 Page 8 of 29 List—I List—II in his book, Poverty and un-British Rule in India. a. Famines in India 1. Dadabhai The basic purpose of his study was to measure Naoroji mass poverty which was a direct consequence of b. Poverty and un- 2. M. G. Ranade the economic drain. British rule in India c. The Industrial 3. B. M. Bhatia Evolution of India d. Essays on Indian 4. D. R. Gadgil Economics Codes: (A) a b c d 3 4 1 2 (B) a b c d 3 1 4 2 (C) a b c d 2 4 3 1 (D) a b c d 2 3 4 1 D. WORLD CULTURE/LITERATURE: 4 Nos. 1 Which artist made the famous painting B ‘Guernica’ in 1937? (A) Michelangelo (B) Pablo Picasso (C) Pablo Neruda (D) Salvador Dali 2 Which of the following is not a poetic D/B Ans D (As tradition? per http://www.bcssolutionbd.com/question/foll owing-not-poetic-tradition/ (A) The Epic (B) The Occult & (C) The Tragic (D) The Comic http://www.cssforum.com.pk/349863-post4.html) As per https://sites.google.com/site/computer2english /net-tgt-pgt/mcq-english-literature) Ans is B) 3 Renaissance is a/ an D "Renaissance" is a French word meaning (A) Italian world "rebirth". The period is called by this name (B) Spanish word because at that time, people started taking an (C) Greek word interest in the learning of ancient times, in (D) French word particular the learning of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Renaissance was seen as a "rebirth" of that learning. The Renaissance is often said to be the start of the "modern age 4 The Room on the Roof was written by A (A) Ruskin Bond (B) Virginia Woolf (C) Thomas Hardy (D) George Orwell Page 9 of 29 E. ECONOMY: 14 Nos. Sl. QUESTION ANS REMARKS/SOURCE No. 1 Which of the following is the major A Basic Question contributor to national income of India within the primary sector? NCERT Class 10: Understanding Economic Development (A) Agriculture (B) Fishery http://statisticstimes.com/economy/sectorwise (C) Forestry -gdp-contribution-of-india.php (D) Mining 2 In terms of nominal GDP, Indian D India is now the world’s sixth largest economy, at economy is the world’s $2.6 trillion, says IMF, displacing France.
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