DSSSB PRT Mock Test - 1 Free Online Test 2026

As magnet has poles similarly battery has terminals.

The total distance = 15 + 20 + 30 + 15 = 80m

Hence, the correct answer is 80m.

As, 123 → 13²

As, 235 → 25³

The middle digit of first term becomes power to the next term.

Ascending order:
686,   719,   765,   795,   815,   822,   835

Middle Number

Middle digit of 795 is 9.

U is the mother of P and R is the brother of P. So, U is mother of R.

Dr. Sachidanand Sinha chaired the first meeting, and later Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as the permanent Chairman of the Constituent Assembly.

Max Verstappen concluded his exceptional season by winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, securing his 19th victory of the campaign and 54th overall, moving into third place on the all-time list of Formula One victories.

GetVantage, a pioneering company in revenue-based finance (RBF), achieved a significant milestone by obtaining an NBFC license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This makes GetVantage the first RBF and alternative funding platform in India to receive such authorization. With ambitious fundraising goals and a focus on diverse sectors like cleantech, D2C, EV, infrastructure, eCommerce, and SaaS, GetVantage's strategic expansion through its NBFC arm, GetGrowth Capital, highlights its commitment to supporting emerging SMEs and fostering financial innovation in the Indian market.

Let the radius of the circle be r and side of the square be a.
Then, according to question,
2πr = 4a

Now, ratio of their areas,

Therefore, Area of the circle > Area of the square 

The wife drives for 12 minutes less than her driving on normal days.
Thus, she would have saved 6 minutes each way. Hence, Ravi would have walked for 30 minutes
(since his speed is 1/5th of the car’s speed).
In effect, Ravi spends 24 minutes extra on the walking (rather than if he had traveled the same
distance by car).
Thus, if Ravi had got the car at the station only, he would have saved 24 minutes more and reached
at 5 : 36.

Esteemed means regarded with respect, honored, prestigious

The esteemed panel discussed crucial issues on a televised debate

The esteemed judge ruled in the favor of convict due to lack of evidence

• Dreamy: Having a magical or pleasantly unreal quality; dreamlike.
•  Stupefied: Make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.
• Unsteady: Liable to fall or shake; not steady in position.
• Drunken: Drunk or intoxicated.
• Inebriate: Drunk or intoxicated.

So the synonym of Inebriate is Drunken.

• 1. Incorrect. That "Rorty believed in conventional philosophical generalisations" is incorrect as the passage states "both of them [Rorty and Geuss] dissented from the mainstream view of philosophy..."
• 2. Correct. It is clear from the passage that Rorty wanted philosophy to be a kind of conversation about human existence which everybody could be a part of. Geuss had a differing opinion. Refer to the part, "Geuss pays tribute to Montaigne ... He is a bit of a mysophobe himself, and that seems to be why he never formed a lasting alliance with his old comrade in Princeton ... Rorty told him that he found inspiration in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, who saw the whole of human existence as a vast 'conversation', in which we should try to include everyone, even those with whom we disagree." Therefore, option 2 is the right answer.
• 3. Incorrect. The passage states this about Guess, but not about Rorty.
• 4. Incorrect. The passage states this about Rorty but not about Guess. In fact, "He is a bit of a mysophobe himself,..."

सही उत्तर विहित है।

Key Points

• निषिद्ध का विलोम विहित है।
• निषिद्ध का अर्थ- जिसका निषेध किया गया हो
• विहित का अर्थ- उचित, मुनासिब।

अन्य विकल्प-

• कठोर का अर्थ होता है - कड़ा, सख़्त।
  • कठोर का विलोम कोमल
• विहित का अर्थ होता है - उचित।
  • विहित का विलोम- 'निषिद्ध
• आदृत का अर्थ होता है - सम्मानित।
  • आदृत का विलोम- निरादृत
• सिद्ध का विलोम असिद्ध

सभी शब्दों के अर्थों से हमें ज्ञात होता है कि निषिद्ध का विलोम शब्द विहित होता है।

सही उत्तर 'वाक् + हरि' है।

• 'वाग्घरि' का सही संधि-विच्छेद 'वाक् + हरि' है।
• 'वाग्घरि' शब्द में 'क् + ह = ग्ह' का मेल हो रहा है इसलिए यहां व्यंजन संधि है।

Key Points

Important Points'क्' का 'ग्' होना-

• वाक् + जाल = वाग्‍जाल
• ऋक् + वेद + ऋग्‍वेद
• वाक् + दान = वाग्‍दान
• दिक् + विजय = दिग्विजय
• वाक् + धारा = वाग्‍धारा

• 'निर्झर - निर्जर' शब्द युग्म का सही अर्थ - 'झरना - देवता' l
  • निर्झर - निर्जर यह दोनों 'श्रुतिसम भिन्नार्थक' शब्दों के उदाहरण है l
• निर्झर का अर्थ:- झरना l
• निर्जर का अर्थ:- देवता l
  • अन्य विकल्प 'निर्झर - निर्जर' शब्दों का सही अर्थ ना बताने के कारण गलत उत्तर है l

Additional Information

• ऐसे शब्द जो पढ़ने और सुनने में लगभग एक-से लगते हैं, परंतु अर्थ की दृष्टि से भिन्न्न होते हैं, श्रुतिसम भिन्नार्थक शब्द कहलाते हैं।

श्रुतिसम भिन्नार्थक शब्द के उदाहरण :-

• अलि - भौंरा - फूलों पर बहुत-से अलि मँडरा रहे है।
• अली - सखी - राधा की एक अली का नाम शांता था।
• नीर - पानी - भाषा बहता हुआ नीर होती है।
• नीड़ - घोंसला - रात में पंछी अपने-अपने नीड़ों में विश्राम करते हैं।

क्ष व्यंजन 'संयुक्त व्यंजन' का उदाहरण है।

• क्ष = क् (स्वर रहित) + ष (स्वर सहित)
• क्ष से शब्द = क्षय, कक्षा, नक्षत्र, रक्षा आदि।
• दो या दो से अधिक असमान व्यंजनों के मिलने से बनने वाले व्यंजन को संयुक्त व्यंजन कहते हैं।

उदाहरण -

• त्र = त् + र
• ज्ञ = ज्+ ञ
• श्र = श् + र

Important Pointsवर्ण के दो भेद होते हैं।

1. स्वर वर्ण
2. व्यंजन वर्ण

अघोष व सघोष व्यंजन -

अघोष

• जिन वर्णों के उच्चारण में स्वर तंत्रियों में कंपन नहीं होता है और वर्णों का उच्‍चारण करते समय केवल श्‍वास का प्रयोग किया जाता है, उन्हें अघोष वर्ण कहते हैं।
• क-वर्ग, च-वर्ग, ट-वर्ग, त-वर्ग, प-वर्ग के प्रथम और द्वितीय वर्ण अघोष वर्ण होते हैं।
• अघोष ऊष्म वर्ण - श, ष, स

सघोष

• जिन वर्णों के उच्चारण में स्वर तंत्रियों में कंपन होता है उन्हें सघोष वर्ण कहते हैं।
• क-वर्ग, च-वर्ग, ट-वर्ग, त-वर्ग, प-वर्ग के तृतीय, चतुर्थ व पंचम वर्ण सघोष वर्ण होते हैं।
• सघोष अंतःस्थ वर्ण - य, र, ल, व
• सघोष ऊष्म वर्ण- ह

अल्‍पप्राण व महाप्राण व्यंजन -

अल्‍पप्राण

• जिन वर्णों के उच्चारण में श्वास या प्राण वायु की मात्रा अल्प(कम) होती है, उन्हें अल्पप्राण वर्ण कहते हैं।
• क-वर्ग, च-वर्ग, ट-वर्ग, त-वर्ग, प-वर्ग के प्रथम, तृतीय व पंचम वर्ण अल्पप्राण वर्ण होते हैं।
• अल्‍पप्राण अंतःस्थ वर्ण - य, र, ल, व

महाप्राण

• जिन वर्गों के उच्चारण में श्वास या प्राण वायु की मात्रा अधिक होती है, उन्हें महाप्राण वर्ण कहते हैं।
• क-वर्ग, च-वर्ग, ट-वर्ग, त-वर्ग, प-वर्ग के द्वितीय व चतुर्थ वर्ण महाप्राण वर्ण होते हैं।
• महाप्राण ऊष्म वर्ण- श, ष, स, ह

सही उत्तर "सामने" है।

• दिए गए विकल्पों में, 'सामने' शब्द 'समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय' नहीं है।
• 'सामने' शब्द 'सम्बन्धबोधक अव्यय' है।
• अन्य उदाहरण:

Key Points

• वे शब्द जिनमे लिंग, कारक, वचन, पुरुष आदि के कारण कोई विकार/ परिवर्तन उत्पन्न नहीं होता है, अव्यय शब्द कहलाते है।
• जैसे – आज, कब, इधर, किन्तु आदि।
• अव्यय के पांच भेद हैं –

Apgar scale was developed in 1952 by Dr. Virginia Apgar, an American anesthesiologist, and it's named after her.

Key Points

• The Apgar scale is a standard assessment tool used to evaluate the physical condition of a newborn immediately after birth.
• The test is typically administered one minute after birth and again five minutes after birth, and it assesses the infant's appearance (skin color), pulse rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and respiration.
• Each of these five categories is scored on a scale of 0 to 2, and the scores are added up to give a total score ranging from 0 to 10.
• A score of 7 or above is considered normal, while a score below 7 may indicate that the baby needs further medical attention.

Thus, it is concluded that the Apgar Scale is used for evaluating the physical health of newborns.

Key PointsThe three stages of prenatal development are as follows:

• Germinal stage:
  • This stage begins at conception when the sperm and egg cells unite in one of the two fallopian tubes.
  • The fertilized egg, known as a zygote, undergoes rapid cell division and differentiation.
  • It eventually forms a blastocyst with three layers: ectoderm (skin and nervous system), endoderm (digestive and respiratory systems), and mesoderm (muscle and skeletal systems).
  • The blastocyst then attaches to the uterine wall in a process called implantation.
• Embryonic period:
  • This stage occurs from the third to the eighth week after conception.
  • During this time, major organs and body structures develop.
  • The embryo grows rapidly, and critical systems such as the heart, brain, and limbs take shape.
  • It’s a crucial phase for organogenesis.
• Fetal period:
  • Starting from the ninth week until birth, this period involves the maturation of tissues and organs.
  • The fetus continues to grow, and its body systems become more functional.
  • By the end of this stage, the fetus is ready for delivery.

Therefore, the correct Sequence is Germinal­-embryonic­-fetal.

Key Points

• The purpose of the Three Mountain Task is to assess children's ability to take another person's perspective.
• The Three Mountain Task is a well-known cognitive development task that is used to study a child's ability to understand and represent the perspective of others.
• It assesses their cognitive development in terms of perspective-taking and understanding that different people may see the same scene from different viewpoints.

Thus, it is concluded that Only II is the correct answer.

As per Sternberg (1999), memory is how we draw from our past experiences to use this information is present. In fact, memory is a crucial component for the existence of the human race, in absence of memory, we would not be able to function in the present or think about our future. Memorization is a complex process that can be broken down into “Encoding, Storage & Retrieval”.

• ​Encoding: information is received/ sensed by our sensory organs like eyes, nose, ears and then that information reaches our brain for further processing. Now information can be of multiple types like Visual or sound, this information is coupled along with the information of the environment at that time.
• Storage: Depending on the amount of information received and the time for which we need it (importance), the memory either goes for storage in short-term memory or long-term memory. The details behind the storage and how it works are not very clear.
• Retrieval: It is the process of fetching information from your memory. The inability to fetch information from memory is commonly termed as forgetting. By relating particular information to multiple visual and spatial cues can help in long-term retention.

Important Points

Memory and memorization are complex processes in our brain, and memory, in general, is the power to recollect past events.

• Rationalization: This is an active activity by the brain to make sense of the information available.
• Recognition: This is a brain function that utilizes memory to identify information that was recorded in past.
• Redirection: it is not related to memory functions.

Key Points

Since we understand memory storage. Let’s talk about the memory types:

• Sensory Memory: Our senses are receiving a lot of information every second. Such information gathered from touch, hearing or vision stays with us for the least amount of time. A minute amount of information is considered for storage by our brain.
• Short Term Memory (STM): This is the active mind or conscious mind. We use this memory to hold information that is required right now but not always required for retention. A part of the information is passed on from STM to Long term memory.
• Long Term Memory (LTM): This is used to store information for a longer duration of time. In psychology, it is also referred to as preconscious or unconscious

Hence, we can conclude that Memory is the power of recollection of past events.

Implementation of the historical “Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009” (RTE) brings with it the promise of a paradigm shift in the manner in which education is perceived and delivered. The RTE Act specifically provides an opportunity for admission to all such out-of-school children (OSC) in the age-appropriate classes and continues support to them till the completion of the elementary stage for the achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE).

Important Points

Roles and Responsibilities of the Teacher- The teacher’s role is crucial in the whole exercise of organizing special training with regard to conducting training as well as planning, development, and execution of test items for each level. Children need the special assistance of teachers to achieve knowledge/ competencies and develop adjustment ability with other children in the class.

• participate in various training programs
• prohibition of deployment of teachers for non-educational purposes.
• acquaint with child-friendly and child-centered classroom processes
• acquaint themselves with the psychological, emotional, educational, and social needs of children with special needs
• assess the learning ability of each child and accordingly supplement additional instructions.
• comprehensive and continuous evaluation of child's understanding of knowledge and his or her ability to apply the same
• administer various assessment tools (quarterly) for determining the achievement levels of children

Hence, we can conclude that all of the above statements are correct about RTE 2009.

Clearly school is not the only place for learning, and one can acquire a wide range of experiences from the world around him/her. If we know the processes that help one to gather experiences in a natural way, we can use those processes in the classroom for making school learning more natural, meaningful and easier to adopt and internalize.

Key Points

Much of human learning is a function of imitating and observing the behaviour and action of others and these are also the main processes through which children acquire new experiences and behaviour. Imitation is copying or reproducing others’ actions or behaviours.

• One does not imitate everybody one comes across. One chooses consciously or otherwise a person for imitating some of his/her behaviours or actions that attract him/her. Such a person becomes a model for imitation.
• The model can be a person with whom the child/individual has direct contact like the parents, siblings, teacher, or any other adult member with some quality to be imitated. There are other persons with whom the child has no direct contact but can be models for imitation.

Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that copying or reproducing others’ actions or behaviours is called imitation.

Additional Information

Observation:

• Observational learning (also known as vicarious learning, social learning, or modelling) is a type of learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating novel behaviour executed by others.

Gender refers to the socially constructed differences between men and women. It refers to the masculine and feminine qualities, behavior, roles, and responsibilities that society upholds. Gender can be changed / re-oriented.

Gender stereotype is an oversimplified and unfair belief or idea that groups of people have particular characteristics or that all people in a group are the same.

Key Points

• Gender stereotype is the belief that set the limit on the learning of the students and also demotivates them if they are willing to learn some new skills.
• Gender stereotype is a belief of the society that boys have a good command of tools and utensils as compared to the girls, this shows Gender Stereotyping thought.
• It is believed that girls are not much intelligent in mathematics as boys, so boys should have to choose Mathematics and Science as a subject, and girls have to choose languages and arts.

Thus, Gender stereotype is reflected in the perception that girls will do well in languages but will perform poorly in mathematics and science.

Hint

• Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. Everyone is affected by gender inequality - women, men, trans, and gender diverse people, children, and families.
• Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, strategies and measures must often be available to compensate for women's historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating on a level playing field. Equity leads to equality.

Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.

Key Points

• Children are born with the ability to speak. Language acquisition in a child starts from birth when the child is exposed to the language-rich environment in their family.
• Children are born with universal grammar, they have a psychological readiness about language acquisition and this readiness gets completed with the environmental exposure, which is all-natural and untutored.
• NCF-2005 also corroborates the same by stating that children have an innate (by birth) potential to acquire language.

Important Points

There are a few points that are essential in language acquisition:

• Language is very deeply seated in the human brain/mind Every child is born with universal grammar.
• In spite of having universal grammar, the child learns that language that he hears from his environment.
• A child not only acquires linguistic competence but also communicative competence to be able to use language appropriately in different contexts.
• A normal child in any society in any part of the world becomes a linguistic adult by the age of 4. S/he acquires the basic vocabulary and structure of her languages and uses them accurately.

Thus, we can say that it is from birth only that the child is able to acquire the language and gradually learns its rule and grammar.

Additional Information

• Noam Chomsky, a famous linguist coined the term "Language acquisition Device" (LAD) in the 1960s which is a mental capacity that is innately present in the child to acquire any language. He is a component of the nativist theory of language.

Stephen Krashen, a linguist, propounded the "Theory of Second Language Acquisition", in which he proposed the five main hypotheses which include Input Hypothesis, Acquisition Learning Hypothesis, Natural Order Hypothesis, Monitor Hypothesis, and Affective Filter Hypothesis.

Key Points

Let's Understand in Brief:

• Acquisition Learning Hypothesis:
  • According to Krashen, there are two ways for second language learners to develop knowledge of a second language: 'acquisition' and 'learning'.
  • In his view, we acquire as we are exposed to samples of the second language which we understand.
• Monitor Hypothesis:
  • Krashen argues that the acquired system acts to initiate the speaker's utterances and is responsible for fluency and intuitive judgments about correctness.
  • The learned system, on the other hand, acts only as an editor or 'monitor', making minor changes and polishing what the acquired system has produced.
• The Natural Order Hypothesis:
  • It suggests that like first language learners, second language learners seem to acquire the features of the target language in predictable sequences.
  • Krashen observes that the natural order of acquisition is independent of the order in which rules have been learned in language classes.

• Input hypothesis:
  • It refers to the relationship between what the learner is exposed to a language and language acquisition.
  • It helps learners in language learning by making them able to communicate efficiently. It emphasizes putting comprehensible input slightly above the learner's current level.
• Affective Filter Hypothesis:
  • The 'affective filter' is an imaginary barrier, which prevents learners from acquiring language from the available input.
  • 'Affect' refers to such things as motives, needs, attitudes, and emotional states. A learner who is tensed, angry, anxious, or bored may filter out' input, making it unavailable for acquisition.

Hence, it could be concluded that both I and II are correct in the context of The Natural Order Hypothesis, proposed by Stephen Krashen.

The Hindi sound system refers to the phonological structure and characteristics of the Hindi language, which is one of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in India.

• Both Rule I and Rule II are valid rules of the Hindi sound system. Rule I restricts the consonants that can cluster with /p/ to /y/, /r/, /l/, and /v/, while Rule II limits the number of consonants that can precede a vowel in the word-initial position to four.

Key Points

Here's a breakdown of each rule:

• Rule I: If a word starts with a consonant cluster and the first consonant is /p/, the consonants that can cluster with /p/ are limited to /y/, /r/, /l/, and /v/. This means that consonant clusters like /pr/, /pl/, and /pv/ are allowed, while clusters like /pʃ/, /pt/, and /pk/ are not.
• Rule II: Not more than four consonantal sounds can precede a vowel in the word-initial position. This means that words like /प्रत्येक/ (pratyek) and /प्लास्टिक/ (plaastik) are allowed, while words with more than four consonants before a vowel, such as /प्रस्तुतिकरण/ (prastutikaran), are not.

Therefore, both Rule I and Rule II are valid and important rules of the Hindi sound system.