UPPSC Prelims (GS 2) Mock Test - 2 (CSAT) - UPPSC (UP) MCQ

The correct answer is "Chile".

Key Points 
 

• Let's understand the passage.
• From the given sentences, 'Since the initial discovery of three planets was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, the exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1'.
• It is evident in the passage that the telescope TRAPPIST belongs to the Chile country where the initial discovery took place.
• Hence, option "Chile" is the correct answer.

Therefore, The correct answer is "Chile".

Calculation:

5 - 5 = 0

5 - 5 + 5 = 5

5 - 5 + 5 - 5 = 0

5 - 5 + 5 - 5 + 5 = 5

The correct option is 1, i.e., 5.

According to the given details,

1.The code starts with 3.

2. The code ends with 729.

• 3__729

​3. The second digit is twice the first digit. (3 × 2 = 6) 

• 36_729

4. The third digit is half of the second digit. (6 ÷ 2 = 3 )

• 363729

Hence, the required coed is "363729".

The correct answer is Logical incrementalism approach. 

Henry Mintzberg has given three most typical approaches to strategic decision making which include:
1. Entrepreneurial mode
2. Adaptive mode
3. Planning mode

Key Points

•  Logical Incrementalism is a fourth decision-making mode that was added to Mintzberg’s modes by James Bryan Quinn (1980).
• Pursuant to this mode, managers develop strategies through “an interactive process in which the organization probes the future, experiments and learns from a series of partial (incremental) commitments rather than through global formulations of total strategies”. 

• As such, the company’s strategies are developed through a combination of debate, discussion, and experimentation. There is an attempt to build consensus among stakeholders before pursuing a strategy. 
• This approach appears to be useful when the environment is changing rapidly, or resources must be developed before committing the entire corporation to a specific strategy.

Additional Information

Entrepreneurial Mode:

• Strategy is made by one powerful individual who has entrepreneurial competencies like innovation and risk-taking. 
• The focus is on opportunities. Problems are secondary. 
• Generally, the founder is the entrepreneur, and the strategy is guided by his or her own vision of direction and is exemplified by bold decisions.
• In any event, strategy is set by an authoritative decision-maker. 

Adaptive mode:

• The adaptive mode is where managers create reactive solutions to existing problems, rather than a proactive search for new opportunities. Simply wait on issues to arise. 
• This is a fragmented approach to strategic decision-making. Because of the lack of directed focused development, there is generally a lack of clarity and consensus on strategic goals. 
• The adaptive mode is commonly known as “muddling through”. It is more appropriate for dealing with complex and changing environments.

Planning Mode:

• The planning mode of strategic decision-making is characterized by the systematic gathering of relevant information for situation analysis, the generation of feasible alternative strategies, and the rational selection of the most appropriate strategy. 
• In summary, it is a proactive search for new opportunities and a reactive solution to existing problems.

Hence, the Logical incrementalism approach was added by Quinn to Mintzberg's modes of strategic decision-making.

Drawing the diagram according to the given information,

So, the direction from the starting point = East

Hence, East is the correct answer.

इनमें से 'ख्' वर्ण अघोष महाप्राण है।

प्रमुख बिंदु

• 'ख्' वर्ण अघोष महाप्राण है।

अन्य विकल्प के अनुसार- 

• 'त्' वर्ण अल्पप्राण-अघोष व्यंजन है।
• 'च्' वर्ण अल्पप्राण-अघोष व्यंजन है।
• 'झ्' वर्ण महाप्राण-सघोष व्यंजन है।

अतिरिक्त जानकारी

Given:

In 2010 A family of 5  people has average age = 50 years

One eldest person died in = 2015

And a new baby was born in = 2015

In 2019 average age of family = 45 years

Calculation:

If no member had died and no new member had joined the family, the average age in 2019 = 50 + 9 = 59 years. But it is 45 years.

The average age decreased by 14 years (59 - 45)

So, the decrease in the total age of family  = 5× 14 = 70 years

The age of baby in 2019 = 4 years

So, the age of eldest man had been alive is 70 + 4 = 74 years

 ∴ If the eldest person was alive in 2019 his age would be 74 years.

Alternate Method

In 2019 the age of the baby = 4 year

Average age of the family in 2019 = 45 years

So, total age of the family in 2019 = 45× 5 = 225 years

So, total age of remaining 4 members in 2019 = 225 - 4 = 221 years

or, total age of the remaining 4 members in 2010 = 221 - (9× 4) = 185 years

Total age of the family of 5 member in 2010 = 50 × 5 = 250 years

So, the age of the eldest member of the family in 2010 = (250-185)years = 65 years

So, if the eldest person was alive in 2019 his age would be (65+9) = 74 years

 ∴ If the eldest person was alive in 2019 his age would be 74 years.

Given:

Statement I base is 7 times height of triangular field

Rolling cost Rs 1400 Rs 100 per hectare

Statement II base is 3 times height of triangular field

Rolling cost Rs 1350 Rs 100 per hectare

Formula used:

Area of triangle = 1/2 × b × h (b = base and h = height)

Calculation:

Statement-I

⇒ b = 7h

⇒ Area of triangular field (A) = 1400/100 hectare = 14 hectare

⇒ A = 14 × 10000 = 140000 m²  (1 hectare = 10000 m²)

Now,

⇒ A = 1/2 × 7h × h

⇒ 140000 m² =(7/2) × h²

⇒ 140000 m² × (2/7) = h²

⇒ h = √ 40000 m² = 200 m

Statement-II

⇒ b = 3h

⇒ Area of triangular field (A) = 1350/100 hectare = 13.5 hectare

⇒ A = 13.5 × 10000 = 135000 m2  (1 hectare = 10000 m2)

Now,

⇒ A = 1/2 × 3h × h

⇒ 135000 m2 =(3/2) × h2

⇒ 135000 m2 × (2/3) = h2

⇒ h = √ 90000 m2 = 300 m

∴ The correct answer is option 1.

The correct answer is 'Option 1' i.e. 'with'.

Key Points

• The phrase "overwhelmed with joy" is a common English expression used to describe a strong feeling of happiness.
• The preposition "with" is often used after "overwhelmed" to indicate the reason or cause of the overwhelming feeling.
  • Example: She felt overwhelmed with work.

Therefore, the correct answer is- The gift was so beautiful that he was overwhelmed with joy.

Additional Information

• Option 2 ('for'): The preposition "for" is used to indicate purpose or a reason for something, but it does not fit naturally with "overwhelmed" in this context.
• Option 3 ('to'): "To" is used to indicate direction, place, or position, and it doesn't make sense in the context of being overwhelmed by an emotion.
• Option 4 ('in'): Although "in" can sometimes be used with emotions, like "in love" or "in despair," the correct and most natural preposition to use with "overwhelmed" in this context is "with," not "in."

Given:

The marked price of an article is 50% more than its cost price.

Formula used:

Selling Price(S.P) = Marked Price × (100 - Discount%)/100

Calculation:

Let the Cost price be Rs. 150

The marked price of an article is 100% more than its cost price.

⇒ Marked price = 150 × 200/100

⇒ Rs. 300

SP = 300 × 100/150 = 200

Profit = 200 - 150 = 50

New SP = 200 × 120/100 = 240

Profit = 240 - 150 = 90

Difference of profit = 90 - 50 = 40

40 → 2000

150 → 2000/40 × 150 = 7500

The answer is 7500

Given Equation: M × N ÷ O + P = ?

BODMAS Rule: 

Decoding the given information:

Now replacing the numbers from left to right using BODMAS Rule, we get:

⇒  2 × 30 ÷ 3 + 5 = ?

⇒ 2 × 10 + 5 = ?

⇒ 20 + 5 = 25

Hence, the correct option is "Option (3)".

A person, who always looks at the dark or negative side of life is pessimist.

Philatelist: A person who studies or collects postage stamps.

Pedestrian: A person who is walking in the street (not travelling in a vehicle)

Philistine: A person who does not like, understand or enjoy the beauty of art, literature, music, etc.

There exists in every organization an informal channel, often called the grapevine, that does not arise out of the organizational needs but is an integral part of the communication system.

Communicative abilities include those skills which are defined with reference to the manner and mode in which the system is realized in use. Communicative abilities embrace linguistic skills but not the reverse. Essentially, they are ways of creating or recreating discourse in different modes.

If you pull your car close enough that the door doesn't open, the police inside will get the time to contain him. Therefore option C is the correct answer.

In the given case immediate action needs to be taken. So options A and B are eliminated.

If you hit the van with your car, the police inside might also fall giving the accused a chance to run away. So option D is also eliminated.

In S-M-C-R model of communication, M stands for the message.

In 1960, David Berlo postulated Berlo’s Sender-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model of communication from Shannon Weaver’s Model of Communication (1949). He described factors affecting the individual components in the communication making the communication more efficient.

The model also focuses on encoding and decoding which happens before the sender sends the message and before the receiver receives the message respectively.

Berlo’s Model has mainly, four components to describe the communication process. They are the sender, message, channel, and receiver. Each of the components is affected by many factors.

Given:

Principal amount,

Rate of interest for the year

Rate of interest for the year

Rate of interest for the year

For the year,

For the year,

For the year,

The amount at the end of the three years is Rs.289380.

'जिसे भय नहीं है' वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द है- निर्भय

अन्य विकल्प-

• बहादुर- जो वीर हो 
• श्रेष्ठ- जो पद में सबसे बड़ा हो 
• निर्दय- जिसके अंदर दया नहीं हो 

Facial expression, kinesics and personal space

It involves breaking a complex problem into smaller, more manageable parts, solving each part, and then integrating the solutions to solve the original problem.

People quenched their thirst for reading during the British rule by borrowing books from lending libraries.

In the second paragraph of the passage, it is clearly mentioned that "My husband was a member of a lending library paying a subscription of Rs. 3 per month for two books at a time- there was no deposit in those days. There were no pavement book shops; these appeared when the British began to leave".

दिए गए इन विकल्पों में सही विकल्प ‘चाहे जैसे हो, तुम्हें वहाँ जाना है’ होगा। अत: विकल्प (B) ‘चाहे जैसे हो, तुम्हें वहाँ जाना है’ इसका सही उत्तर है। अन्य विकल्प इसके उचित उत्तर नहीं हैं।

उपर्युक्त वाक्य में ‘अल्प विराम चिह्न (,)’ का प्रयोग हुआ है।  

When the minute hand is at 12 and the hour hand is at 9, it means that the clock is showing 9:00 am.

From 6:00 am to 9:00 am, there are 3 hours that Bijoy has spent at home.

The rhetorical approach in classroom communication considers teachers as influencing agents of students. It is the teacher who regulates his class upon the basis of his knowledge and that knowledge can only be delivered through the interaction between the teacher and students.

Given:

The length of the train is 500 meter

The train crosses the pole in 40 seconds

The train crosses the bridge 140 seconds

Speed of the train is

⇒ 500/40 = 12.5 meter/second

Distance covered in 140 seconds

⇒ 140 × 12.5 = 1750 meter

The length of the bridge is

⇒ 1750 - 500 = 1250 meter

∴ The length of the bridge is 1250 meter.

2, 1, 4, 5, 3 is the correct logical and meaningful order.

Meaningful order of words is:

Crime → Police → Judge → Judgement → Punishment

First crime will occur then police will come then police pass the case to the judge then judgement will pass and finally punishment given to a person convicted of a crime.

The most popular types of mass media include Newspapers, Radio, Television, Internet, Magazines, etc.

The four functions of mass communications are surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, and entertainment.

The Media and Its Function

• Information.
• Media provides education and information. 
• The other important function of media is entertainment. 
• Persuasion, it is another function of mass media. 
• Surveillance denotes observation. 
• Interpretation. 
• Linkage. 
• Socialization.
• Political Awareness.
  

So, passing messages without checking credibility is not the function of mass media.

Given:

A train of length 240 m crosses a pole in 16 seconds

The same train crosses a platform in 42 seconds

Concept:

Speed

When a train crosses a pole then it covers its length

When a train crosses a platform then it covers its length + length of the platform

Calculation:

According to the question,

Speed of the train m/second

Now, in 42 sec the train will cover m

So, the length of the platform is m

∴ The length (in m) of the platform is 390.

The logical and meaningful order will be:

2. Population 

4. Unemployment 

1. Poverty 

5. Diseases 

3. Death  

The logic behind the above sequence is that Over population leads to unemployment. Unemployment leads to hunger and poverty. Hunger and Poverty leads to Diseases and ultimately deaths.

Therefore, '2, 4, 1, 5, 3' is the correct answer.