APSC CCE Prelims (Paper 2) Mock Test - 8 - APSC CCE (Assam) MCQ

You are a police constable on duty and notice two people on a bike riding without helmets. You ask them to pull over and are about to fine them when the driver tells you that they could not put on their helmets as the pillion rider is extremely sick and needs to be taken to the hospital urgently. You will

Statement: Many cases of cholera were reported from a nearby village.
Courses of action:

1. The question to be raised in the legislative assembly.
2. A team of doctors should be rushed to the village.

Statements:

I. Man in the photograph is the only son ofTanya's grandfather.

II. The man in the photograph has no brothers or sisters and his father is Tanya's grandfather.

Q.How is Tanya related to the man in the photograph ?

Directions forthe following 11 (eleven) items:

Read the following three passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Your answers to these items should be based on these passages only.

                             Passage 1

Any government that runs on a huge fiscal deficit has to, at some point, finance that deficit by creating money through borrowings. When the government does that, there is more money chasing the same number of goods and services in the economy. The result is a hike in prices, or inflation. At 5.1%, India's fiscal deficit is dangerously high, controlling which should have been the government's highest priority. Raising diesel prices by 14% such that the subsidy bill on the fuel falls will help bring this deficit under control. To put that issue in perspective, at Rs.47,800 crore oil subsidies for the first quarter of the current financial year have already exceeded the full year's budgeted figure.

For consumers already reeling under a double digit onslaught of food prices, the hike in the diesel prices will hurt, no doubt. Part of this increase can be neutralized, by cutting excise duties on the fuel, for instance. But for successive governments that have been unable to curb spending on vote buying schemes- some of them crucial - or on an inflated and unproductive bureaucracy, the other option is to increase taxes and return to the sky high rates of the coercive 1970s, a regime that is best behind us.

This brings us to the next issue: economic growth. With a high fiscal deficit that keeps inflation high, there is no way the RBI will cut interest rates. Even though most ofthe inflationary expectations are coming from goods outside India's control- crude oil imports, a falling rupee and a globally rising food and commodity prices- RBI's stance has been to keep policy rates high so that thousands cut down on discretionary grounds. In the process, home loan EMIs have been rising and along with inflation on one side, scissoring household targets.

Making matters more complex is the fact that today the sovereign has very little control over its finances. Like it or nor, India cant and will not grow at 9% if the rest of the world is contracting, thereby closing business opportunities- there, the UPA government is right. "The political power of the sovereign goes down with every move towards globalization," Kaushik Basu said. "Economics has become an instrument of global, political and even military strategy." To illustrate, Indian farmers and businesses get affected by WTO negotiations, Indian workers by ILO negotiations, Indian fiscal policy by G20 communities, Indian markets by QE3.

Q.From the passage, it can be inferred that the main aim of the author is

Statements:

1. A is the sister of C.

2. E is the husband of A.

Q.B is the brother ofA. How is A related toB?

Directions forthe following 4 (four) items:

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

                               Passage 1

Volatility in capital flows resulting from the spillover effects of monetary policy choices and other uncertainties in the advanced financial markets further impacted exchange rates and made the task of macro- economic management difficult in many emerging economies. This has brought out a new dimension of globalisation in the post financial crisis world, where easy monetary policy in one set of countries may result in inflation elsewhere due to cross border capital flows.

The changes in composition of the global economy suggest a percentile shift in the global balance of output of goods, especially manufacturing. While services, in particular financial services, continue to be largely concentrated in advanced economies, a large share in world population, coupled with higher growth, implies, that the Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and developing countries will increasingly account for incremental 

growth in the global market forgoods and services. Even if the emerging economies, including India, witnessed a slow growth in 2011, growth prospects of most ofthese economies remain robust in the medium to long run due to various factors such as demographics and size of the domestic market, apart from high rates of investment and savings.

Q.Consider the following statements-

1. The new dimension of globalisation is an outcome of difficult macro-economic management scenario.

2. Monetary policy in a set of countries can potentially affect other countries.

With reference to the above passage, which ofthe following assumptions is/are valid?

  Passage 3

The relation between gender and poverty is a complex and controversial topic that is now being debated more than ever before. Although much policymaking has been informed by the idea of feminization of poverty, the precise nature of the nexus between gender and poverty needs to be better understood and operationalized in policymaking. The difficulty originates from the different shapes and forms gender inequalities and poverty take depending on the economic, social and ideological context. Yet another difficulty involves the scarcity of gender disaggregated data for a number of countries. For the last three decades, many women's advocates have been arguing that women are poorer than men. The most common empirical expression of this idea is the concept of feminization of poverty. This idea has become popular both in shaping analyses of poverty and poverty alleviation strategies. Thus, targeting women has become one vehicle for gender sensitive poverty alleviation. Poor women have become the explicit focus of policymaking, for example, in the area of microcredit programs and income generation activities.

However, the universal validity of the feminization of poverty is being empirically challenged. Although the idea that there are gender differences in experiences of poverty is not abandoned, a more nuanced and complex analysis of poverty and gender inequalities is emerging. This, in turn, is giving rise to a more gender aware approach to poverty elimination strategies.

Q.Consider the following statements-

1.Policymaking, till date, has ignored the link between poverty and gender.

2.Gender disaggregated data is important for formulating policies that factor in the link between poverty and gender.

With reference to the above passage, which ofthe following statements is/are valid?

Statements:

1.Anjali was born on an even date of the month.

2.Anjali's birth date was a prime number.

Q.On which date of the month was Anjali born in February 2004 ?

Passage 2

There is a controversy raging over the entry of giants such as Tesco and the Wall Mart into India after the government permitted FDI in multi-brand retail. Most economic analysts look at it in terms of capital coming into India to oust local shopkeepers or in terms of capital coming in to offer better prices to farmers or set up distribution chains and storage facilities to help consumers. These arguments seem a little old. There is a technological dimension to this that may reveal that it is India that it is India that is behind the competitive edge of big retail chains.

In 2009, Walmart picked Bangalore based Infosys Technologies and India centric Cognizant among three information technology service vendors for a $600 million multi-year contract. Finance is now easily available for retail companies from banks and equity markets. What sets the real smart retail giants apart is their ability to leverage software and IT to keep their competitive edge.

Supply chain software can help lower costs by managing inventories. Data analytics and customer relations software can help them identify the more lucrative customers or choose discount strategies. Partners, employees and vendors of retail giants are now connected by software Indian talent figures in all this.

Infosys was an early adapter ofWalmart's move to go in for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that helps the retail chain track inventories at low cost.

Last year, Walmart also acquired Kosmix, a cutting edge search engine, founded by Indian born Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman (who earlier co-founded Junglee.com that Amazon acquired). Now Kosmix is a part of Walmart Labs. Its technology filters and aggregates information by topic from Twitter messages and the larger Web in real time. This is a new way to interact with shoppers.

Tesco now owes its edge to its Bangalore IT facility called the "Hindustan Service Centre". The British retail chain says 6000 employee strong HSC's strategic initiatives coverthe "IT, business, financial, commercial and property aspects." In Bangalore, Indian techies develop tools like mobile applications for Tesco.

Q.Which of the following options best explains the purpose of the last four paragraphs?

Passage 1

Any government that runs on a huge fiscal deficit has to, at some point, finance that deficit by creating money through borrowings. When the government does that, there is more money chasing the same number of goods and services in the economy. The result is a hike in prices, or inflation. At 5.1%, India's fiscal deficit is dangerously high, controlling which should have been the government's highest priority. Raising diesel prices by 14% such that the subsidy bill on the fuel falls will help bring this deficit under control. To put that issue in perspective, at Rs.47,800 crore oil subsidies for the first quarter of the current financial year have already exceeded the full year's budgeted figure.

For consumers already reeling under a double digit onslaught of food prices, the hike in the diesel prices will hurt, no doubt. Part of this increase can be neutralized, by cutting excise duties on the fuel, for instance. But for successive governments that have been unable to curb spending on vote buying schemes- some of them crucial - or on an inflated and unproductive bureaucracy, the other option is to increase taxes and return to the sky high rates of the coercive 1970s, a regime that is best behind us.

This brings us to the next issue: economic growth. With a high fiscal deficit that keeps inflation high, there is no way the RBI will cut interest rates. Even though most ofthe inflationary expectations are coming from goods outside India's control- crude oil imports, a falling rupee and a globally rising food and commodity prices- RBI's stance has been to keep policy rates high so that thousands cut down on discretionary grounds. In the process, home loan EMIs have been rising and along with inflation on one side, scissoring household targets.

Making matters more complex is the fact that today the sovereign has very little control over its finances. Like it or nor, India cant and will not grow at 9% if the rest of the world is contracting, thereby closing business opportunities- there, the UPA government is right. "The political power of the sovereign goes down with every move towards globalization," Kaushik Basu said. "Economics has become an instrument of global, political and even military strategy." To illustrate, Indian farmers and businesses get affected by WTO negotiations, Indian workers by ILO negotiations, Indian fiscal policy by G20 communities, Indian markets by QE3.

Q.Consider the following statements:

1.Globalization ensures that economies have less autonomy and thus less say in matters of their economic growth.

2.The WTO has adversely affected the Indian farmer and the prospects of agricultural goods in the country. With reference to the above passage, which ofthe following assumptions is/are valid?

Statement:

1. xisa multiple of 4.

2. xisa multiple of 5.

Q.What is the remainder when x is divided by 20?

You are an administrative authority. One of the new employees working under you has expressed concern that developmental work in the district is suffering because the senior members in his team are not open to new ideas. You would:

You are newly appointed as secretary in the telecom commission. The commission is ready to sell the radio wave spectrum to private companies. After the scrutiny of the documents you have come to know that the price at which the spectrum is being sold is substantially lower than the current market valuation. You think that this may cause a huge loss. You will

Statements:

1. One-fourth of the weight of each pole is 5 kg.

2. The total weight ofthree poles is 20 kilograms more than the total weight oftwo poles.

Q. What will be the total weight of 10 poles, each of the same weight ?

Directions forthe following 5 (five) 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:

1. The ratio of a:b = 1:5

2. The ratio of b:c = 3:2

Q.What is the value of the ratio (a +c ) :c?

You are the parliamentary affairs minister of your country. The members of the opposition party create a hue and cry about each and every issue, reasonable or otherwise. They demand a probe into every other issue and halt the functioning of the parliament. As a result, the functioning of the parliament has been paralysed. What would you do to restore the proper functioning of the Parliament

Study the following information carefully to answer the questions.
Amul, Byomkesh, Chaman, Diksha, Emily, Fahim and Gauri are seated in a straight line facing north but not necessarily in the same order.

• Only three people sit between Fahim and Byomkesh.
• Neither Fahim nor Byomkesh sits at the extreme ends of the line.
• Only two people sit between Byomkesh and Emily.
• Diksha is not an immediate neighbour of either Byomkesh or Fahim.
• Diksha sits third to  the left of Gauri.
• Gauri is not an immediate neighbour of Byomkesh.
• Diksha is not an immediate neighbour of Amul.

Who are immediate neighbours of Chaman?

Statements:

1. The company sold 8000 units of product A each costing Rs. 25.

2. This company has no other product line.

Q.How much was the total sale of the company ?

Passage 1

Any government that runs on a huge fiscal deficit has to, at some point, finance that deficit by creating money through borrowings. When the government does that, there is more money chasing the same number of goods and services in the economy. The result is a hike in prices, or inflation. At 5.1%, India's fiscal deficit is dangerously high, controlling which should have been the government's highest priority. Raising diesel prices by 14% such that the subsidy bill on the fuel falls will help bring this deficit under control. To put that issue in perspective, at Rs.47,800 crore oil subsidies for the first quarter of the current financial year have already exceeded the full year's budgeted figure.

For consumers already reeling under a double digit onslaught of food prices, the hike in the diesel prices will hurt, no doubt. Part of this increase can be neutralized, by cutting excise duties on the fuel, for instance. But for successive governments that have been unable to curb spending on vote buying schemes- some of them crucial - or on an inflated and unproductive bureaucracy, the other option is to increase taxes and return to the sky high rates of the coercive 1970s, a regime that is best behind us.

This brings us to the next issue: economic growth. With a high fiscal deficit that keeps inflation high, there is no way the RBI will cut interest rates. Even though most ofthe inflationary expectations are coming from goods outside India's control- crude oil imports, a falling rupee and a globally rising food and commodity prices- RBI's stance has been to keep policy rates high so that thousands cut down on discretionary grounds. In the process, home loan EMIs have been rising and along with inflation on one side, scissoring household targets.

Making matters more complex is the fact that today the sovereign has very little control over its finances. Like it or nor, India cant and will not grow at 9% if the rest of the world is contracting, thereby closing business opportunities- there, the UPA government is right. "The political power of the sovereign goes down with every move towards globalization," Kaushik Basu said. "Economics has become an instrument of global, political and even military strategy." To illustrate, Indian farmers and businesses get affected by WTO negotiations, Indian workers by ILO negotiations, Indian fiscal policy by G20 communities, Indian markets by QE3.

Q.Which of the following would help explain the relationship between the interest rates and a high fiscal deficit?

Your father has had a heart attack and needs to be taken to the hospital right away. You are the only one in your house as other family members are on a tour. While you are taking your father to the hospital you see that a small girl has fallen into a deep drain. You will

Statements:

1. If 4 more books are placed on the shelf, the total number of books on the shelf will be more than 28.

2. If 5 books are removed, the shelf will contain less than 21 books.

Q.: How many books are there on the shell?

An item for sale is marked down 20%. By what percent must it be marked up in order to return to the original selling price?

Statements:

1. H is the only daughter of X who is wife of M.

2. K and J are brothers of M.

Q.How many children does M have?

You are a district collector in a small district where the local goons are rampant. A particular area is notorious for the instances of goons being involved in eve teasing and rape and has found place in many national media reports. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has pointed this out to you and asked you to do something about it. You will

A tap can fill a tank in 4 hours. After half the tank is filled, two more similar taps are opened. What is the total time taken to fill the tank completely?

You are the administrative authority in a district. A part of your district lies near the coast. Heavy showers have been forecasted and the reservoirs on rivers flowing through the region are already overflowing. You would:

1. set up shelter homes that the seaside residents can move into at short notice.

2. ensure that all warnings from monitoring bodies get disseminated as quickly as possible.

Statements:

1. P has two sisters M and N.

2. F's mother is sister of M's father.

Q.How is F related to P?