SSC CGL (Tier II) Practice Test - 21 - SSC CGL MCQ

How many positive integer pairs (a, b) satisfy the equation ab = a + b + 20?

Find the value of x + y, if both x and y are real and x² + y² + 2x - 10y = -26.  

Directions: Study the table given below and answer the questions that follow:
Total Number of Employees in different Departments of an Organization and Percentage of Females and Males.

Q. What is the total number of employees in all the departments together?

40 persons are sitting in a row. How many persons are sitting between 31st person from left and 25th person from right?

Directions to Solve: In each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and

Give answer:
- (A) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
- (B) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question
- (C) If the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question
- (D) If the data given in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question and
- (E) If the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

Question: How many students in a class play football ?
Statements:
I.Only boys play football.
II.There are forty boys and thirty girls in the class.

Directions to Solve: In each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and

Give answer:
- (A) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question
- (B) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question
- (C) If the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question
- (D) If the data given in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question and
- (E) If the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

Question: On a T.V. channel, four serials A, B, C, and D were screened, one on eacn days, on four consecutive days but not necessarily in that order. On which day was serial C screened?
Statements:
I. The first serial was screened on 23rd, Tuesday and was followed by serial D.
II. Serial A was not screened on 25th and one serial was screened between serials A and B.

Directions to Solve

In each of the following questions two statements are given. Which are followed by four conclusions (1), (2), (3) and (4). Choose the conclusions which logically follow from the given statements.

Question -

Statements: Some pens are books. Some books are pencils.

Conclusions:

1. Some pens are pencils.
2. Some pencils are pens.
3. All pencils are pens.
4. All books are pens.

Directions: This question given below is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the following arguments is a ‘strong’ argument and which is a ‘weak’ argument.
Statement:
Should the Government introduce Gross Happiness Index on the lines of that introduced in Bhutan?
Arguments: 
I. Yes. It will greatly help India in becoming a prosperous nation.
II. No. Bhutan has not gone anywhere even after introducing GHI over four decades ago.

Point A is 20 m to the east of point B. Point B is 5 m to the north of point C. Point D is 10 m to the east of point B. Point E is 5 m to the south of point A. Point F is 10 m to the west of point E.

Which of the following points lie in a straight line?

Directions: In the question given below, there is a group of letters followed by combinations of digits/symbols lettered (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to find out which of the combinations correctly represents the group of letters based on the coding system and mark the letter of that combination as your answer.

Conditions:
(i) If both the first and the last letters are consonants, then all the vowels are to be coded as the code of E.
(ii) If both the first and the last letters are vowels, then both are to be coded by &.
(iii) If the first letter is a vowel and the last letter is a consonant, then their codes are to be interchanged.

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Five sentences have been given below. These have been taken from a paragraph and are not in their proper order. You are required to read these before rearranging them into a proper sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
A Such eco-friendly behaviours include turning off ACs, heaters and lights when not in use, as this, for instance, can conserve up to 282 kilowatts of electricity per day.
B However, the positive impact that individual and community behaviours can have on climate action has remained under realised.
C Avoiding food wastage can reduce an individual’s carbon footprint by 370 kg per year.
D According to the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP), if one billion people out of the global population of close to eight billion adopt eco-friendly behaviours in their daily lives, global carbon emissions could drop by approximately 20 per cent.
E Over the last two decades, many countries have attempted policies and actions to address climate change.

Q. The sentence that comes between the third and the fifth sentences after rearrangement is?

In each of the questions below, a sentence is given with two blanks. Identify the correct pair of words that fits in the sentence to make it grammatically and contextually correct.

Q. AIM’s mission is to create and promote a _________ ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country. Over the past four years, since its inception, AIM’s various initiatives have achieved __________ successes.

Direction: The following question consists of a sentence which is divided into three parts, with grammatical error in one or more than one part of the sentence. If there is an error in any part of the sentence, find the correct alternatives to replace those parts from the three options given below, to make the sentence grammatically correct. If there is an error in any part of the sentence and none of the alternatives is correct to replace that part, then choose 'None of the A, B, and C' as your answer. If the given sentence is grammatically correct or does not require any correction, choose 'No correction required' as your answer.
For three decades, India's self-branding (A) as the world’s fastest-growing free-market democracy worked, (B) with world leaders queuing up to visit New Delhi and burden a generation of diplomatic protocol officers. (C)
(A) For three decades, India's self-branding
(B) as the world’s fastest-growing free-market democracy worked,
(C) with world leaders queuing up to visit New Delhi and burdening a generation of diplomatic protocol officers.

Directions: Find out the most effective word from the given options to fill the blanks of the following questions. 

1. Boris Johnson was one among the many world leaders who were _______ by the COVID virus. 
2. In Africa, it was very hard for the natives to be ________ by any disease since they were immune to most of them. 

Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions. Some of the words have been highlighted in the passage that will help you locate them to find the appropriate answer according to the questions asked.
Undoubtedly, trafficking is a pernicious offence, one that societies and governments must have zero tolerance for, and yet, handling the offence of trafficking needs precision, not a sledgehammer. In its current form, the draft Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021 seems to be lacking in nuance, even if well intentioned, to stamp out exploitative trafficking. The Bill, which will shortly be introduced in Parliament, aims at preventing and countering trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, to provide for care, protection and rehabilitation to the victims, while respecting their rights, and creating a supportive legal, economic and social environment for them. This is the Bill’s second iteration; the first was passed in the Lok Sabha, in 2018, but then meandered into nothingness as it was never introduced in the Upper House. Notably, the Bill has expanded the area under coverage to include offences taking place, not only within India but also outside it. It envisages the setting up of anti-trafficking committees at the State and national levels to implement the provisions, when passed. In the days the Bill was up in the public domain for comments, civil society activists and legal experts have criticised its various provisions, and submitted that an overzealous approach would blur the nuances and an understanding of the contributing factors, including vicious poverty, debt, lack of opportunity, and development schemes missing their mark.
Vociferous opposition has arisen over the key aspect of handing over investigation in trafficking crimes to the NIA both by those who believe that it would burden the already stretched unit further, and those arguing that this move would be an attack on federalism, by removing local enforcement agencies out of the picture. Another key criticism of the Bill has been its broad definitions of victims, smacking of refusal to consider consensual sexual activity for commerce. This would only land up criminalising sex work and victimisation of the exploited. Bringing pornography into the definition of sexual exploitation would not allow even for any adult consumption of non­exploitative, consensual material. Reporting of offences has been made mandatory with penalties for nonreporting, but those with an understanding of the tortuous processes, point to the fact that victims often do not ________. The mention of the death penalty for various forms of aggravated trafficking offences needs to be flagged too. The Government would do well to scan and incorporate the responses to its Bill in order to ensure that the fence does not eat the crop. While sexual exploitation and trafficking can be ghastly crimes invoking public horror, for the state to not employ a wholesome approach, cognisant of the causative factors, one that would be sensitive and precise, would be equally horrific.

Q. Find the option which can fill the blank given in the passage appropriately.

In the following question, a passage is given with six words given as bold and labelled as A, B, C, D, E and F. You have to choose the word from the given options which grammatically and contextually replaces the bold part.
China is expanding its nuclear force much fast(A) than US officials predicted just a year ago, highlighting a broad and decelerating (B) buildup of military muscle designed to enable Beijing to match or surpass US global power by mid-century, according to a Pentagon report released Wednesday.
The number of Chinese nuclear warheads could increase to 700 within six years, the report said, and may top 1,000 by 2030. The report did not say how many weapons China has today, but a year ago the Pentagon said the number was in the “low 200s” and was likelihood (C) to double by the end of this decade.
The United States, by comparison, has 3,750 nuclear weapons and has no plans to increase. As recently as 2003 the US total was about 10,000. The Biden administration is undertaking (D) a comprehensive review of its nuclear policy and has not said how that might be influenced by its China concerns.
The report does not suggest open amicable(E) with China but it fits an emerging U.S. narrative of a People’s Liberation Army, as China calls its military, intent on challenging the United States in all domains of warfare — air, land, sea, space and cyberspace. Against that backdrop, U.S. defense officials have said they are increasingly weary (F) of China’s intentions with regard to the status of Taiwan.

Q. (C). ?

Five statements are given below, which are jumbled in any random order. Statement is the fixed/fifth statement. Arrange the remaining sentences in the right order and answer the questions that follow.
A) The national flag will be provided to the railway employees by a private agency. 
B) An amount of Rs 38 per flag will be deducted from the salary of the railway employees. 
C) However, the railway employees’ union has strongly opposed it.
D) The cost of the Tricolour given by the Railways to all their employees, under the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, will be recovered from their salaries.
E) Railway employees will not have to buy this Tricolour by paying cash, but this money will be deducted from their salaries.
F) Meanwhile, the North Central Railway Employees Union has expressed strong displeasure over this.

Q. After rearrangement, which among the following will be the first statement?

BoP always balance when accommodating items are reflected as a part of capital account of BoP.

What will be the likely impact of increase in tariff on balance of trade keeping other things unchanged?

RBI has five wholly-owned subsidiaries. Which of the following is not a subsidiary of RBI?

Whenever RBl does some open market operation transactions, its main motive is to regulate

_____________ are retail agents engaged by banks for providing banking services at locations other than a bank branch introduced in 2006.

Which of the following is the oldest stock exchange in Asia?

The address in the main memory is known as ________________.

Which one of the following refers to the copies of the same data (or information) occupying the memory space at multiple places.

Resolution of laser printer is specified in terms of

Which of the following controls the way in which the computer system functions and provides a means by which users can interact with the computer?