MPSC Rajyaseva Prelims Paper 2 Mock Test - 6 - MPSC (Maharastra) MCQ

Directions for the following (one) item:

Read the following passage and answer the item that follow. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.

Governments need to be generous in supporting international humanitarian agencies, whether with food or funds. Stepping-up supply of food to countries worst-hit by the hunger crisis is necessary. While this will help ease the symptoms of the crisis, it will not address its underlying causes. The latter is necessary to address the problem of food insecurity in the world. Humanitarian food aid is important but simultaneously, we need to put in place medium and long-term strategies to address conflict and climate shocks.

Q. Which of the following is the most logical, critical and rational inference that can be drawn from the above passage?

15 men take 20 days to complete a work working 8 hours a day. How many number of hours a day should 20 men take to complete the work in 12 days?

A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but are forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in?

Aman can complete a piece of work in 5 days, but with the help of his son he can finish the same piece of work in 3 days. Find the time taken by the son alone to complete the work?

                                                                                   Passage 3

With the advancement in the frontiers of science, there is an emerging demand for hi-tech minerals, which will have to be met. This will call for earth scientists anticipating demand and exploring and extracting these minerals with cost effective and environment friendly extraction technologies. Agencies of both ofthe central and state governments will have to play an important promotional role in the exploration of these minerals.

The mineral surveys and exploration programmes to be carried out by the central and state agencies will also have to be targeted to take up concept oriented studies integrating geological, geo-physical and geochemical surveys appropriately linked up with laboratory studies involving state ofthe art technologies. Deeper probing of known deposits; intensive and extensive belt wise mineral exploration including covering areas out of the traditional mineral belts and even basement rocks will also have to be undertaken.

Concerted action plans need to be drawn up by the concerned organisations to acquire higher capability in all fields of mineral exploration and development. This will call for technology upgradation for field data acquisition, state of the art laboratory back up and development of expertise. Focus areas will include air-borne surveys, ground geophysical surveys, exploratory drilling, marine survey, etc.

Q. Consider the following statements:

1. Meeting the emerging demand for hi-tech minerals is an imperative.

2. Advancements in science have resulted in emerging demand for hi-tech minerals. With reference to the passage, which of the following statements is/are valid?

                                                                                   Passage - 3

With the advancement in the frontiers of science, there is an emerging demand for hi-tech minerals, which will have to be met. This will call for earth scientists anticipating demand and exploring and extracting these minerals with cost effective and environment friendly extraction technologies. Agencies of both ofthe central and state governments will have to play an important promotional role in the exploration of these minerals.

The mineral surveys and exploration programmes to be carried out by the central and state agencies will also have to be targeted to take up concept oriented studies integrating geological, geo-physical and geochemical surveys appropriately linked up with laboratory studies involving state ofthe art technologies. Deeper probing of known deposits; intensive and extensive belt wise mineral exploration including covering areas out of the traditional mineral belts and even basement rocks will also have to be undertaken.

Concerted action plans need to be drawn up by the concerned organisations to acquire higher capability in all fields of mineral exploration and development. This will call for technology upgradation for field data acquisition, state of the art laboratory back up and development of expertise. Focus areas will include air-borne surveys, ground geophysical surveys, exploratory drilling, marine survey, etc.

Q. Consider the following statements:

1. Earth scientists will come up with cost effective extraction technologies.

2. Promotion of the extraction of hi-tech minerals is required. With reference to the passage, which of the following statements is/are valid?  

                                                                                   Passage - 3

With the advancement in the frontiers of science, there is an emerging demand for hi-tech minerals, which will have to be met. This will call for earth scientists anticipating demand and exploring and extracting these minerals with cost effective and environment friendly extraction technologies. Agencies of both ofthe central and state governments will have to play an important promotional role in the exploration of these minerals.

The mineral surveys and exploration programmes to be carried out by the central and state agencies will also have to be targeted to take up concept oriented studies integrating geological, geo-physical and geochemical surveys appropriately linked up with laboratory studies involving state ofthe art technologies. Deeper probing of known deposits; intensive and extensive belt wise mineral exploration including covering areas out of the traditional mineral belts and even basement rocks will also have to be undertaken.

Concerted action plans need to be drawn up by the concerned organisations to acquire higher capability in all fields of mineral exploration and development. This will call for technology upgradation for field data acquisition, state of the art laboratory back up and development of expertise. Focus areas will include air-borne surveys, ground geophysical surveys, exploratory drilling, marine survey, etc.

Q. Consider the following statements:

1. Concept oriented studies are an important component of mineral surveys and exploration programs.

2. The area of mineral exploration can acquire higher capability through concerted action plans. With reference to the passage, which of the following assumptions is/are valid?

Directions (Q.11-15) for the following  items:

Each of the items below consists of a question and two statements. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Give answer as:

Statements:

I. When students of Shravan's class are ranked in descending order of their heights, Shravan's rank is 17th from the top among all the students and 12th among boys.

II. Shravan's rank from the bottom on the basis of height among boys is 18th and among all students, 29th.

Q. How many girls are taller than Shravan in his class?

Statements:

I. M's brother is husband of P.

II. P is mother of R's sister.

Q. How is R related to M?   

Statements:

I. Gautam was born exactly 28 years after his mother was born.

II. His mother will be 55 years 4 months and 5 days on August 18 this year.

Q. On which day in April is Gautam's birthday?

Statements:

I. C, who is third to the left of D, is to the immediate right of A and second to the left of E.

II. C is second to the left of E, who is not at any of the ends and who is third to the right of A. D is at one of the ends.

Q. Among A, B, C, D and E, who is in the middle while standing in a row?

Statements:

I. A and D are heavier than B, E and F but none of them is the heaviest.

II. A is heavier than D but lighter than C.

Q. Among A, B, C, D, E and F, who is the heaviest? 

Directions (Q. 16-25) select the most appropriate answer.

Your company is undergoing a serious economic peril. The only way out of this situation is to urgently bring in some public money into the company. However, some of the Directors in the company are against this idea as they think that the time is not ripe for raising public money. You will​

Your subordinate does not share a very cordial relation with you. He/she has made an inadvertent mistake related to work, which has affected your work as well. Your superior has questioned you about this. You will​

You have been nominated the head of a committee that is incharge of setting up roads in a remote village area. This road will give the villagers connectivity to the closest town and aid transport of goods and services. However you notice that the local traders who fear competition from outsiders oppose this and threaten your family and you using the force of some local goons. You will

You got a 2 month internship in the company of your choice and if you do well the company will offer you a job at the end of 2 months. Your boss has given you a project with a deadline to complete it in a month and has promised to provide 2 people for completing the project on time. Two weeks have passed and rather than giving you any more people to help with the project your boss keeps giving you other short term assignments to finish. Also, he/she is pressurizing you and saying that it seems unlikely that you will get the job if you do not complete the project within the given deadline. You will  

You have just found that one of your colleagues has been using his official position to secretly demand gifts and favors from the vendors who supply materials to your organization, with the promise to finalize the contract in their favor. Given this situation you will,  

You are the District Magistrate. There has been an incident in the government hospital. A mob went on a rampage in the hospital after a child admitted with head injuries died allegedly due to the negligence of the Medical Officer on duty. Now the medical officers have complained to you saying that it is impossible to work in such a threatening environment. You will   

You are working as an HR manager in an educational organization. The company is facing a financial crunch and as a consequence there are consistent salary disbursement delays. The training staff at one of the centers is highly agitated and refuses to take classes. You will  

You have recently joined a cross functional team wherein you are supposed to work with an individual of another team with whom you are not on good terms. You would   

Your subordinate has been working for a month on an important presentation for a client, involving large number of facts and figures. The report has to be presented tomorrow morning in a meeting with the client. Due to a personal tragedy in his family, your subordinate has taken an unplanned leave from the office. Only your subordinate has the access to the presentation and you are unable to reach him through phone or mail. You will   

You are a sessions judge at a district court where corruption is rampant. You have come across a case wherein an influential person has been accused of murder of a dalit. This has fired up the sentiments of the general public. However, a close relative of the accused has approached you and offered you a bribe in order to exonerate the accused. You will   

Directions(Q. 26-34)  for the following items:

The following  items are based on three passages in English to test the comprehension of English language and therefore these items do not have Hindi version. Read each passage and answer the items that follow.

                                                                                  Passage - 1

All this time, Abe had kept on steadily with his reading whenever he had time, especially in the long winter evenings when he could read by the firelight. Lamps and candles were luxuries no settler could afford, but the wood was plentiful and it was easy to heap the fire high and make a splendid blaze.

He was careful, too, not to forget his writing, and he practiced writing his own name in the snow with a charred stick on slabs of wood. His father was not always pleased to find every smooth surface of the house scrawled over with black marks, but he had a great respect for learning and when he found that Abe was teaching himself to write, he was quite proud of the boy. When spring came around and they were working together in the fields, Abe took a stick and began writing his name with great care in the soft earth.

Q. Why was Abe's father proud of him?

1. Abe had not forgotten his name

2. Abe was teaching himself to write

Choose the correct option using the codes given below:

                                                                                     Passage - 1

All this time, Abe had kept on steadily with his reading whenever he had time, especially in the long winter evenings when he could read by the firelight. Lamps and candles were luxuries no settler could afford, but the wood was plentiful and it was easy to heap the fire high and make a splendid blaze.

He was careful, too, not to forget his writing, and he practiced writing his own name in the snow with a charred stick on slabs of wood. His father was not always pleased to find every smooth surface of the house scrawled over with black marks, but he had a great respect for learning and when he found that Abe was teaching himself to write, he was quite proud of the boy. When spring came around and they were working together in the fields, Abe took a stick and began writing his name with great care in the soft earth.

Q. Examine the following statements:

1. Abe used to read only during the evenings 

2. Fire was a luxury for all the settlers

Choose the correct option using the codes given below:

                                                                                   Passage - 1

All this time, Abe had kept on steadily with his reading whenever he had time, especially in the long winter evenings when he could read by the firelight. Lamps and candles were luxuries no settler could afford, but the wood was plentiful and it was easy to heap the fire high and make a splendid blaze.

He was careful, too, not to forget his writing, and he practiced writing his own name in the snow with a charred stick on slabs of wood. His father was not always pleased to find every smooth surface of the house scrawled over with black marks, but he had a great respect for learning and when he found that Abe was teaching himself to write, he was quite proud of the boy. When spring came around and they were working together in the fields, Abe took a stick and began writing his name with great care in the soft earth.

Q. Abe used to

1. work with his father in the fields sometimes

2. write his name in the snow, on wood and in the earth

Choose the correct option using the codes given below:

                                                                                   Passage - 2

When the late evolutionist and polymath Stephen Jay Gould was a toddler, he became fascinated and terrified by the towering Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History. Gould later claimed that he decided on the spot to become a palaeontologist- years before he even learned the word. Steven Pinker does not believe this oft told story. Pinker relates that Gould dedicated his first book: "For my father, who took me to see the Tyrannosaurus when I was five" and admires Gould's genius for coming up with that charming line, "But he does not believe it. Pinker says that long term memory is notoriously untrustworthy. Many children are exposed to books and museums, but few become scientists. Pinker concludes that perhaps the essence of who we are from birth shapes our childhood experiences rather than the other way round.

Q. Steven Pinker

                                                                                    Passage - 2

When the late evolutionist and polymath Stephen Jay Gould was a toddler, he became fascinated and terrified by the towering Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History. Gould later claimed that he decided on the spot to become a palaeontologist- years before he even learned the word. Steven Pinker does not believe this oft told story. Pinker relates that Gould dedicated his first book: "For my father, who took me to see the Tyrannosaurus when I was five" and admires Gould's genius for coming up with that charming line, "But he does not believe it. Pinker says that long term memory is notoriously untrustworthy. Many children are exposed to books and museums, but few become scientists. Pinker concludes that perhaps the essence of who we are from birth shapes our childhood experiences rather than the other way round.

Q. Which of the following statements reflect/s Pinker's views?

1. Long term memories cannot be correct

2. Childhood experiences are influenced by who we essentially are

Choose the correct option using the codes given below: