MODEL QUESTION PAPERS FRAMED AS PER ‘THE ASSAM PUBLIC SERVICES COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION (AMENDMENT) RULE, 2019 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 India 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) Guwahati d) 1, 2 and 3 only c) Tezpur 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) Golaghat 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) Hemchandra Goswami tributaries of Brahmaputra? b) Chandra Kumar Agarwala 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.