SSC CGL (Tier II) Practice Test - 15 - SSC CGL MCQ

(331 + 19)*(15 – 11)*(37 + 13) = ?

Pipe A and B can fill a Tank alone in 12 Hours and 6 Hours respectively. Another Pipe C can empty the same Tank alone in 9 Hours. In an empty Tank for the First hour, Pipe A is opened alone, Second Hour pipe B is opened alone, Third Hour pipe C is opened alone. This process is continued until the Tank is filled. Then Pipe A is opened for How many Hours?

Directions to Solve

Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and replace the question mark in the given series.

Question -

In the series 3, 9, 15, ...... what will be the 21st term?

Which one will replace the question mark ?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: engineer 30 marble famous 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump
Step 1: engineer famous 30 marble 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump
Step 2: engineer famous 89 61 30 marble 41 52 seven rough 36 jump
Step 3: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 30 41 52 seven rough 36
Step 4: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 30 seven rough 36
Step 5: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 30 36
Step 6: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 36 30

Step 6 is the last step of the above input.

Now, as per the rules followed in the above steps, answer the given question based on the following input:
Input: bone 11 alluring 25 major 47 81 enough 49 simple 16 anxious

Q. In Step 6, if 'enough' and 'major', and '11' and '49' are interchanged, then how many elements will be placed between '49' and 'enough'?

Directions: In this question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. Consider the statement and decide which of the given assumptions is implicit. 
Statement:
‘Smoking is injurious to health’ – A statutory warning printed on a cigarette box.
Assumptions: 
I. The warning will have a negative effect on the smoking habits of the people buying the product.
II. People will not pay heed to such notices.

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.

A * B means A is to the left of B at a distance of 2 m.
A & B means A is to the west of B at a distance of 3 m.
A © B means A is to the south of B at a distance of 4 m.
A £ B means A is to the north of B at a distance of 3 m.

It is given that all the persons face north.

Q. If we have F © T & U £ S, then how far is U from F?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the question that follows.

'A + B' means A is father of B.
'A # B' means A is sister of B.
'A - B' means A is husband of B.
'A @ B' means A is brother of B.
'A = B' means A is mother of B.

Q. If the expression 'N # S = X - C # H' is true, how is N related to C?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: engineer 30 marble famous 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump
Step 1: engineer famous 30 marble 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump
Step 2: engineer famous 89 61 30 marble 41 52 seven rough 36 jump
Step 3: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 30 41 52 seven rough 36
Step 4: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 30 seven rough 36
Step 5: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 30 36
Step 6: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 36 30

Step 6 is the last step of the above input.

Now, as per the rules followed in the above steps, answer the given question based on the following input:
Input: bone 11 alluring 25 major 47 81 enough 49 simple 16 anxious

Q. What is the position of '25' in Step 4 from the right end?

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

An AC 3-Tier train ticket on the Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani, under the Tatkal quota, is priced at around Rs. 2,900, where about a third — over Rs. 800 or 28 per cent — is charged as “dynamic pricing”. It is such high pricing that the majority of people probably referred to it when they voted in LocalCircles’ citizens’ poll.

Tatkal charges are extra charges levied for last minute booking by train passengers and form a part of dynamic charges in a ticket.

Tatkal fares have become “excessive”, said almost three-fourth (74 per cent) of the 8,165 people who answered a query on their experience with Tatkal ticket fares on LocalCircles, a citizen interaction platform. Almost one-fifth polled found the charges “reasonable”. Five per cent even found the charges “quite low”.

Almost 80 percent of people found the ticket cancellation charges high, and desired that such charges on Tatkal tickets be lowered. For seven questions, LocalCircles received votes from over 27,000 participants from over 200 districts. “Railway travellers from Vadodara to Bhubaneswar and from Jammu Tavi to Tirunelveli participated in this survey,” said Sachin Taparia, Founder, LocalCircles.

Almost half of the people who voted were from tier-1 cities, 30 percent from tier-2 cities and 22 per cent from tier-3 and rural locations. Almost 40 per cent of people who participated in the poll were females.

From the 7,739 people who voted on the question “how has cleanliness of trains and railway stations improved in the last 12 months”, about four-fifth felt there was an improvement. Specifically, 39 per cent felt there was marginal improvement, 38 per cent voted for “significant improvement”. Over a fifth (23 per cent) of train customers felt there was no improvement, including five per cent who felt the cleanliness of trains and stations have worsened.

Almost 46 per cent of 8,000-odd people found the food served in trains edible though not delicious, while four per cent found the food catered delicious. 31 per cent said the food was unhygienic or inedible, while 19 per cent were “unsure” about judging the quality of food.

On punctuality of trains, 66 percent of 8,122 people who took the poll during the last 12 months said the trains were delayed by upto one hour.

There is scope to make the India Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Website more consumer-oriented and scope to improve food hygiene standards.

Q. Which among the following is correct regarding the gender-based participation in the survey conducted by LocalCircles regarding the railway services?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has kicked off the process to set new standards to measure quality of services offered to consumers across different sectors, including telecom, aviation, e-commerce and healthcare.

The BIS, which sets the quality regulations for various products from gold to bottled water, on Friday called a meeting of industry bodies to “persuade them to be part of the process and give their inputs.”

“Service sector is one of the key sectors of the Indian economy with a huge potential to grow into one of the largest markets of the world. Standards can play a major facilitative role in this regard. It is important that the standardisation needs and priorities of the sector are determined,” a senior official said.

During the meeting, the BIS pointed out that the initial focus will be the 12 champion services sectors identified by the government. These include IT, tourism and hospitality, transport and logistics, accounting and finance services, legal services, communication services and construction.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standards is set to formulate a framework for quality services that should be provided to consumers and also talk about the benchmarks to deal with consumer complaints or after sales service in an effort to ensure quality in the services sector.

At a meeting with industry bodies on Friday, it has been decided that the BIS will set up a separate ‘divisional council’ for services in a month’s time. Under this, different technical committees will be set up — one for each service. The committees will have various stakeholders such as government officials, experts and industry representatives.

The process was initiated after concerns over lack of standardisation, particularly with regards to after-sales service, in their feedback to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.

In a poll, online community network LocalCircles found that in the absence of defined customer service standards in the country, a majority of consumers were not happy with after-sales services. As per the poll, 43% feel that mobile handset and computer manufacturers are the worst in after-sales services, followed by white goods firms (38%) and automobile companies (11%). About 93% of respondents said brands should at least acknowledge complaints from users within 72 hours. “Many consumers complained that customer service numbers of many companies do not work,” according to LocalCircles.

Q. Which among the following will be framework for standardization initiative of the Bureau of Indian Standards with regard to the services sector?

Directions: Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

A list of explanations of rare, technical or obsolete words

Most of the members at the meeting felt / hat the group appointed for investigating the case / were not competent to do the job efficiently / No error.

Today most businessmen are very worried. To begin with, they are not used to competition.In the past they sold whatever ...(1)... produced at whatever prices they chose. But ...(2)... increasing competition, customers began to ...(3)... and choose. Imports suddenly became ...(4)... available and that too at cheaper ...(5)...

What will come in Option Three?

As a rule of thumb, manned mission costs from fifty to a hundred times more than a comparable unmanned mission. Thus, for scientific exploration alone, ...(1)... missions, employing machine intelligence, are ...(2)... However, there may well be ...(3)... other than scientific for exploring ...(4)... social, economic, political, cultural or ...(5)...

What will come in Option Three?

Acme, the family oriented entertainment company, has moved away from traditionalfamily programming and now draws on the production both of adult entertainerswho work for magazines and of those in the movie industry.

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the question given below.

1. She put the bag with Jimmy’s belongings on the seat beside her in the car.
2. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son’s room.
3. Sally walked out of Children’s mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last six months there.
4. It was even harder to enter the empty house.
5. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them.
6. The drive home was difficult.

Q. Which of following is the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) is a type of payment system that is based on the Unique Identification Number and allows Aadhaar cardholders to seamlessly make financial transactions through Aadhaar-based authentication. Which of the following services is not provided by Aadhar Enabled Payment System?

What was the authorized share capital when the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was established?

What is the aim of the BHARAT campaign launched by Manoj Ahuja, Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare?

What is the theme of the 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress (IMC 2023)?

Who amongst the following CANNOT vote in the election of the President?

Which ecological pyramid does not give any idea of the rate of ecological/ecosystem production: 

Chikankari is a traditional Indian embroidery style believed to have been introduced by Nur Jehan, the wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir. Which city is this craft associated with?

It has been observed in recent times that Indian currency is depreciating against US Dollar. Which of the following reason can be accounted for the same?

The first PC virus was developed in _______.

In what table does the operating system keep track of all the open files?