UPSC Paper 1 Mock Test - 24 - UPSC MCQ

Cultural nationalism is a form of nationalism that places primary emphasis on the regeneration of the nations as

Consider the following statements:
1. For election of the President of India, each elected member of either House of Parliament shall have such number of votes as may be obtained by dividing the total number of votes assigned to the members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States by the number of the members of the Lok Sabha. 2. The Vice-President of India is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of the members of both the Houses of Parliament and theelected members of the Legislative Assemblies of each State.

Q. Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Match List I (Fundamental Rights) with List II (Articles of the Indian Constitution)

Consider hthe following statements:
A. Democratic majorities can essily decide not to respect particular rights, especially those of unpopular minorities.
R. Democracy must respect some basic rights, namely those necessary for the effective exercise of democratic citizenship.

Consider hthe following statements:
A. In a multiparty electoral system, through a preelection coalition with smaller parties; major party enhances the possibility of winning more seats than it would have won on its own.
R. In a multiparty system there is no necessary correspondence between the votes received and the seats won by a political party.

Consider the following statements:
A. The original plan in the Draft Constitution concerning Governors was to have elected Governors. This was replaced by the method of appointment of the Governors by the President.
R. The method of appointment of the State executive by the Federal executive is in consonance with the federal system as it obtains in the USA and Australia.

Consider the following statements in respect of distribution between the Federal and the State governments:
1. As evidenced from the history of federations, there is no logical relationship between the location of residuary powers and the strength of the government.
2. Under the Commerce Clause of the American Constitution. enormous centralisation has taken place in the American political system.

Q. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Where did the concept of 'Scheduled Caste' originate from?

Which one from among the following is the correct formula for determining 'Quota' required for the election of a candidate under Proportional Representation with single transferable vote?

A multi-member constituency is better than a singlemember constituency becuase

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

The function of interest aggregation indicates

'We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is, what the judges say it is.' Besides USA, to which one of the following countries can this be applicable?

In which of the following conditions can the Indian Parliament pass a bill on subjects mentioned in the State list?

The most important of the Committee of the Indian Parliament is

The idea of co-operative federalism indicates a constitution

Which one of the following statements describes a unitary system?

Which one of the following statements differentiaties correctly the Indian nation from its various nationalities?

Which one of the following statements is correct?

Which one of the following statements correctly depicts the true nature of the Indian Federal System?

Consider the following statements regarding "Composition Scheme" in GST:
(i) It reduces the compliance cost for small businesses
(ii) It exempts small taxpayers from payment of GST
(iii) It allows small businesses to pay tax at a fix percent of their turnover

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The Macroeconomic Vulnerability Index (MVI) of a country is constructed by adding together which of the following:
(i) External Debt
(ii) Fiscal Deficit
(iii) Current Account Deficit
(iv) Inflation

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Consider the following statements regarding “Inverted Duty Structure”:
(i) It makes domestic manufactured goods less competitive against finished product imports in the domestic market.
(ii) Finished goods are taxed at higher rate than the raw materials
(iii) Raw materials are taxed at higher rate thanthe finished products
(iv) The duty in the “Inverted Duty Structure” is Customs Duty

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In a country, jobs are available but still people are unemployed as there is a serious mismatch between what companies need and what workers can offer. This kind of unemployment is referred as:

The "Consumer Confidence Survey" in India is conducted by which of the following:

Consider the following indices and their organisations and match the columns: Index
(i) Ease of doing business Index                                        1. International Food Policy Research Institute
(ii) Human Development Index                                           2. World Bank
(iii) Global Hunger Index                                                     3. United Nations Development Programme
(iv) Universal Health Coverage Index Organisations          4. International Monetary Fund

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