UPSSSC JE Mechanical Paper 1 Mock Test - 9 Free Online Test 2026

The correct answer is "beside"

Key Points

• Let's understand the difference between "besides" and "beside".
  • "Beside," without the s, tells us the location of something.
  • Besides, on the other hand, means "in addition," "in addition to," "moreover," or "as well," depending on context.
• Look at the following examples:
  • Your shirt is beside the closet.
  • Besides Anna, who else went to the concert?
• "Beside" shows the location so it will be the right usage here.

सही उत्तर 'उत् + शृंखल' हैं।

• 'उच्छृंखल' शब्द का सन्धि विच्छेद 'उत् + शृंखल' हैं।
• उच्छृंखल शब्द का अर्थ: जो दूसरों के साथ धृष्टतापूर्वक व्यवहार करता हो या धृष्टता से पेश आता हो।
• 'उच्छृंखल' शब्द में ' त् + श = च्छ' का मेल हो रहा है इसलिए यहां व्यंजन संधि है।

Key Points

Additional Information

स्वर संधि के भेद:

The correct answer is 'Used all available means'.

Key Points

• Here, in the given sentence the idiom 'Left no stone unturned' means 'used all available means'.
• Leave no stone unturned: to do everything you can to achieve a good result, especially when looking for something.
  • Example: He left no stone unturned in his search for his natural mother.
• Therefore, as per the points mentioned above, we find that the correct answer is Option 2.​

Correct Answer: Used all available means.

Additional Information

• Let's look at the meaning and examples of some idioms of the word 'Play':

The correct answer is 'Anathema'.

Key Points

• 'Anathema' is spelled with one 'n’ and one 't’.
• It is a word used to refer to something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
  • Example Sentence: "Profiles of internet scammers who cheated innocent people were anathema to the ethical hackers."
• The remaining options are incorrectly spelt.

Therefore, the correct answer is 'Option 1'.

अध्यापिका के बहुवचन रूप का सबसे अच्छा विकल्प अध्यापिकाएँ है।

• अध्यापिकाएँ से अर्थ है कि एक से अधिक अध्यापिका।

Key Pointsवचन :- शब्दों के उस रूप को जो किसी वस्तु के एक अथवा अनेक होने का बोध कराता है, उसे वचन कहते हैं।

वचन के दो भेद हैं -

The correct answer is "I will give it a whirl."

Key Points

• Let us understand the meaning of the following:
  • "Step up the game" means to improve one's performance.
    • Example: I really need to step up my game if I'm going to play basketball with all these young guys.
  • "Give it a whirl" means give something a try especially for the first time.
    • Example: I've never danced salsa before but I'll give it a whirl.
  • "To go to the extra mile" means to make more effort than is expected of you.
    • Example: He's a nice guy, always ready to go the extra mile for his friends.
  • ​"Break a leg" means to wish good luck to someone.
    • Example: Dinesh's family told him to “break a leg” right before he went up on stage.
• Now, in the given sentence, the subject is stating that he will try 'skydiving' for the first time.
• Thus, in context of the given sentence, the correct idiom to use is "give it a whirl"

Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

The correct answer is 'out'.

Key Points

• The phrase 'turn out to be' is used to mean to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one.
• By reading the above-given sentence, we can see the most likely/ intended meaning of the given sentence is that he was found to be a gangster, which apparently was not expected.
• So, the correct choice for the word to fill the blank is 'out' and the correct sentence: 'He turned out to be a gangster.'

Hence, Option 1 is the correct answer.

Additional Information

• turn (something) off ⇒ switch off.
• turn (something) on ⇒ switch on; make someone feel interested or excited.

The correct answer is "The postman said to the guard, "Can you tell me the way to the nearest ATM?"

Key Points

• There are a few rules to remember when changing a sentence from indirect to direct speech.
  • ​​When the reporting verb is in the past tense in indirect speech, the tense of the sentence in direct speech will change.
  • The given sentence is in the past tense in the indirect speech so it will change to the present tense in direct speech.
  • The given sentence is an interrogative statement. When the question is not introduced by an interrogative verb, the reporting verb is followed by whether or if in indirect speech.
  • We use modal verbs to express emotions such as permission, possibility, and certainty in a sentence.
  • The modal verb "could" in indirect speech changes to "can" in the direct speech of the given sentence.
  • The third person pronoun "he" in indirect speech changes to the second person pronoun "you" as per the object of the reporting verb.
  • The third person pronoun "him" in indirect changes to the first person pronoun "me" as per the object of the reporting verb.

The correct sentence is: The postman said to the guard, "Can you tell me the way to the nearest ATM?"

Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Abysmal is the word, which is the opposite of 'superb' , Other options don't mean what is required in the question.

The correct answer is "certainty".

Key Points

• Certainty means the state of being completely sure about something.
  • Example: Death has to come to everyone and this is certain.
• Casuistry - use of clever arguments to trick people.
• Antonym means words having different meaning from other words.
• So, in this question, 'certainty' is opposite to 'casuistry' that's why an answer is 'certainty'.

Additional Information

• Sophistry - the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
  • Example: She knows that it is pure sophistry on his part.
• Insinuation - the action of suggesting, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true.
  • Example: I reject the insinuation behind your question.
• Cacophony - a mixture of loud, unpleasant sounds or noise.
  • Example: I could not think of the cacophony of traffic.

The correct answer is option 1) i.e. But they can be.

Explanation:

• In the given sentence, the use of the pronoun 'it' is incorrect.
• The pronoun 'it' referred to the noun 'fish' in the sentence. The pronoun 'it' is a third-person singular pronoun while 'fish' is a plural noun.
• When you use a singular noun, we can only use a singular pronoun and when you use a plural noun, we can only use a plural pronoun.
• Therefore, the plural personal pronoun of 'it' i.e. 'they' should be used. We use 'they' to refer to specific groups of people, things and animals.
• Hence, the correct option is "But they can be".

Extra- Bites-

• Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).
• Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on the number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality.

​Correct Sentence: Encounters with the big fish are rare, but they can be deadly.

The correct answer is Theoretically tougher optional.

Key Points

• We use rather than to give more importance to one thing when two alternatives or preferences are being compared.
• Here in the sentence, The aspirant has two alternatives one is an easier one and another is a tougher subject, and When we have to choose from two items we use the comparative degree for that. (tougher)
• Also, we need the adverb before the adjective tougher as adverbs are the words that qualify adjectives, so Theoretically is the correct choice for that.
• Hence, option 1 is the correct answer.

Thus the correct sentence is: The aspirant has chosen the theoretically tougher optional subject rather than an easier one like political science.

Additional Information

Forming adverbs from adjectives

In most cases, an adverb is formed by adding -ly to an adjective.

From the common explanation, we get “L is second to the left of O.
Hence, Option B is correct.
Final Arrangement:

Common Explanation:
References:
There are two persons between P and K, who is to the right of P.
R is adjacent to K and O.
M, who is the immediate right of K, is second to the left of P.
Inferences:
From the above reference, we get the final arrangements:

In Eq. alphabets positions of K and T are 11 and 20 respectively.

Similarly positions of J and R are 10 and 18.

From Statement I:

From this statement, we get the following ranking.

Person in the row = 8 persons + Akansha + 4 persons + Rhea + 7 persons + Harshita + 8 persons

So, we get that Rhea is 17th from the bottom in the class.

Clearly, Statement I alone is sufficient to answer the question.

From Statement II:

From this statement, we get the following ranking.

Person in the row = 11 persons + Yamini + 13 persons + Rhea + 4 persons

So, we get that Rhea is 5th from the bottom in the class.

Clearly, Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question.

Clearly, Either Statement I or Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question.

Hence, option C is the correct answer.

From the common explanation, we get Rahul > 87, so only 90 is greater than 87.

Hence, Option C is correct.

References:

Tarun scored more marks than Priyam but less than Rahul.

Sagar neither scored 3rd highest nor scored lowest marks.

Priyam scored more marks than Anurag.

Sagar scored less than Tarun, who scored 87 marks.

Inferences:

From the above references, we get the following arrangements

Rahul > Tarun (87) > Priyam > Sagar > Anurag

From the common explanation, we get O sits exactly opposite to Q.

Hence, Option B is correct.

Final Arrangement:

Common Explanation:

References:

M is sitting fourth to the right of N.

P is sitting second to the left of N.

Inferences:

From the above reference, we get the following arrangements:

References:

Q is sitting third to the right of S.

Inferences:

From the above reference, we get two different cases:

Case 1:

Case 2:

References:

S is not sitting beside P.

T is sitting second to the left of O.

O is not sitting beside M.

Inferences:

So, from this case 1 will be eliminated as S is not sitting beside P.

Thus, the final arrangement,

• Bhaga (Land tax): Bhaga was a type of land tax that was collected in the form of a share of the produce. It was not typically paid in cash but rather in kind.


• Bali (Extra impost on special tracts): Bali was an extra impost imposed on special tracts of land. It was also usually paid in kind rather than cash.


• Kara (A special harsh tax): Kara was a special harsh tax imposed on the people. It was not specifically mentioned to be paid in cash, but it was likely collected in whatever form was available.


• Hiranya (Tax on special classes crops): Hiranya was a tax imposed on special classes of crops. Unlike the other revenue items mentioned, this tax could potentially have been paid in cash as it was directly related to the crops themselves.

The correct answer is Amrita Pritam.

Key PointsAmrita Pritam:

• Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi.
• She is most remembered for her poem titled “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu,” (Today I Invoke Waris Shah).
• She addressed to Punjabi Sufi poet Waris Shah in which she laments the tragedy of the partition of Pakistan from India.
• Her famous novel “Pinjar”, written in 1950, talks about the torture inflicted on women by their abductors in the wake of the Partition.
• It was adapted into a Hindi film which won the National award for Best Feature Film on National Integration in 2004.
• She has written 3 autobiographies: Rasidi Ticket, Kala Gulab' (Black Rose) and Shadows of Words.
• In 1986, she was nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
• She died in 2005.

Additional InformationSurjit Patar:

• Surjit Patar is a Punjabi language writer and poet of Punjab, India.
• He hails from village Pattar Kalan in Jalandhar district from where he got his surname.
• Surjit Patar has written dialogues of the Punjabi movie Shaheed Uddham Singh.
• He was awarded Padma Shri in 2012.

His works:

• Hawa ਵਿਚ Likhe Harf" (Words written in the Air)
• Birkh Arz Kare (Thus Spake the Tree)
• Hanere Vich Sulagdi Varnmala (Words Smouldering in the Dark)

Dalip Kaur Tiwana:

• She was one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of contemporary Punjabi literature.
• She retired as Professor of Punjabi, and Dean, from Punjabi University, Patiala.
• Dalip Kaur Tiwana was born on 4 May 1935 in the village of Rabbon in the Ludhiana district of Punjab.
• She received Padma Shri award in 2004.

Autobiography:

• Nange Pairaan da safar
• Poochte ho to suno
• Turdyaan Turdyaan

The correct answer is Qadar Yar.

• Punjabi Kissa Puran Bhagat wrote by Qadir Yar.
• Puran Bhagat was a Punjabi ascetic and prince of Sialkot.

Important Points

• Waris Shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the Chishti order.
  • He is the author of Heer Ranjha.
  • A 1964 Pakistani film titled Waris Shah featured Inayat Hussain Bhatti in the title role.
• Fazal Shah Sayyad was a Punjabi poet known for his Kissa on tragic romances stories.
  • His notable work was Sohni Mahiwal, Heer Ranjha, and Laila Majnu.
• Bhai Vir Singh was a Sikh writer and theologian who was chiefly responsible for raising the Punjabi language to a literary level never before attained.
  • Bhai Vir Singh founded the weekly paper Khalsa Samachar (“News of the Khalsa”) in Amritsar, 1899.
  • His other novels include Sundari (1943), Bijai Singh (1899), and Baba Noudh Singh (1946).
  • The poem “The Vigil” was written by Bhai Vir Singh.
  • Bhai Vir Singh started the Khalsa Tract society in 1894 to promote the interests of the Sikhs.
    • The society brought a revolutionary change in the literary scene in Punjab. The members started a low-cost publication called Nirguniara, which highlighted Sikh history and philosophy.

The correct answer is 'Gandhara'.

Key Points

• The Sindh hilly terrain was called Gandhara in the Puranic Period.
• In the present day, it is located in northwest Pakistan and parts of south-east Afghanistan.
• Gandhara was frequently mentioned in Vedic epics, including Rig Veda, Ramayana and Mahabharata.
• It was the home of Gandhari, the princess of the Gandhara Kingdom.
• Gandhara was part of the 16 mahajanpad of ancient India (~600 BCE).
• Later it was part of the Indian Maurya Empire (~310 BCE) as its North-Western territory.
• Due to its placement (West of River Sindhu), it was always a place of conflict between Indian and foreign powers.

Additional Information

• Vahlika
  • Vahlika was the king of the Bahlika kingdom.
  • He was the elder brother of Shantanu, who was the king of Hastinapur and the uncle of Bhishma.
  • He was the oldest warrior to fight in the Kurukshetra War.
  • He is mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
• Panjnad
  • ​The Panjnad River is a river at the extreme end of the Bahawalpur district in Punjab, Pakistan.
  • The name Panjnad means "five rivers".
  • The Panjnad River is formed by successive confluence or merger of the five rivers of Punjab, namely Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej.
  • A barrage on Panjnad has been erected; it provides irrigation channels for Punjab and Sindh provinces.

The correct option is (3)

Right-click on the newly inserted slide and choose Layout Options to choose from the existing layout styles.

Key Points

• Choose the slide for which you wish to alter the arrangement. Click on Home > Layout. Choose the layout you like. The layouts have spaces where text, movies, images, charts, shapes, clip art, a background, and other elements can be placed.
• In a PowerPoint presentation, the Title Slide slide arrangement is used by default. For a title and a subtitle, text placeholders are present.
• Click the slide that you want to reapply the new layout to in Normal View's thumbnail pane. Note: Click each slide while holding down the Ctrl key to choose multiple slides.
• Choose the layout you altered in Slide Master View by clicking Layout under the Slides group in the Home menu.
• Each placeholder is placed in a specific location on the slide, for example, a text placeholder for the heading. The Layouts portfolio contains the following predesigned slide layouts. When you open a new presentation in PowerPoint, the Title Slide layout is used by default.

The correct option is (2)

Concept:-

Bytes:- Bytes are the best units of data on an external storage device.

Key Points

• A byte is an eight-binary digit long unit of data in the majority of computer systems. Most computers utilize bytes to represent characters like letters, numbers, and typographic symbols.
• Although they frequently offer instructions that can test and modify bits, computers are typically built to store data in units called bytes, which are multiples of bits.
• In a computer, the smallest unit of data is called a bit (short for binary digit). One of the binary values, 0, or 1, represents a bit.
• An external storage device, also known as auxiliary storage or secondary storage, is a container for all addressable data storage outside of the main storage or memory of a computer.
• Pen drives, CDs, and DVDs are a few examples of external storage devices. A pen drive is a tiny, independently powered device that attaches to a computer via a USB connector.​

127.0.0.1 is a loop-back address.

Here is a breakdown of the different types of IP addresses:

• Limited broadcast address: This is an address used to send a message to all devices on the local network. It is represented by the IP address 255.255.255.255.


• Direct broadcast address: This is an address used to send a message to all devices on a specific network. It is represented by the IP address with all host bits set to 1.


• Multicast address: This is an address used to send a message to a specific group of devices on a network. It is represented by a range of IP addresses.


• Loop-back address: This is a special address used to test network connectivity on a local device. It is represented by the IP address 127.0.0.1.

Therefore, the correct answer is D: Loop-back address.

The correct answer is Cache, SRAM, and DRAM.

Key Points

• Volatile memory is computer memory that loses its data when the computer is turned off.
• Cache
  • It is a volatile memory.
  • The memory buffer used to accommodate a speed differential is called cache.
  • It is used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average cost of time or energy to access data from the main memory.
  • Generally, Cache memory is logically positioned between the CPU and main memory.​
• SRAM
  • ​It is static random access memory.
  • It is a volatile memory.
  • It consists of circuits capable of retaining the stored information as long as the power is applied that it requires constant power.
  • SRAM memories are used to build cache memory.
  • It has low storage density.
• DRAM
  • It is dynamic random access memory.
  • It is a volatile memory.
  • It is widely used as a computer's main memory.
  • Each DRAM memory cell is made up of a transistor and a capacitor within an integrated circuit, and a data bit is stored in the capacitor.
• Nonvolatile storage is physical media that retains data without electrical power.
  • Hard Disk, CD, and DVD are non-volatile storage that does not lose data/information when power is off.