SSC GD Constable Previous Year Question (2012) Shift 2

1) If a sum of money doubles itself in 8 years at simple interest, the rate percent per annum is

2) A part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at 1, 2, and 3 which may
improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is 4.

We had a grand party and we enjoyed very much.

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4) 1st partition of Bengal under Lord Curzon took place in ?

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6) Instructions
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best
expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

To smell a rat

7) A train of length 150m takes 40.5 seconds to cross a tunnel of length 300m. The speed of the train (in
km/hr) is

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9) Which of the following chemicals is used in photograph ?

10) Trachoma is disease of the ?

11) Water has Maximum density at ?

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14) Instructions
The animal mind is like a telephone exchange, it receives stimuli from outside through the sense organs and sends out
appropriate responses through the nerves that govern muscles, glands and other parts of the body. The organism is
constantly interacting with its surroundings receiving messages and acting on the new state of affairs that the messages
signify.
But the human mind is not a simple transmitter like a telephone exchange. It is more like a great projector; for instead
of merely mediating between an event in the outer world and a creature’s responsive action, it transforms or, if you will,
distorts the event into an image to be looked at, retained an contemplated. For the images of things we remember are
not exact and faithful transcriptions even of our actual sense impressions. The are made as much by what we think as
by what we see. It is a well-known fact that if you ask several people the size of moon’s disk as they look at it, their
estimates will very from the area of dime to that of a barrel top. Like a magic lantern, the mind projects its ideas of
things on the screen of what we call ‘memory’ : but like all projections, these ideas are transformations of actual things.
They are in fact, symbols of reality, not pieces of it.

Human memory is subject to

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17) Out of the alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word and mark it in the Answer
Sheet.

PERSPICUOUS

18) In questions choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

ELEVATION

19) The average of Rajeev’s marks in 7 subjects is 75. His average in six subjects excluding science is 72. How
many marks did he get in science ?

20) The ages of x and y are in the ratio 3:1. Fifteen years hence, the ratio will be 2:1. The present ages (in
years) are:

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22) Who were the three statesmen who formulated NAM ?

23) Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it ?
B_f_ _ _ ndfg

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25) The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 27.
What is the differences between the digits of the number ?

26) The works ‘Socialist’ and Secular’ were added to the Preamble of the Constitution of India by
the__Constitution Amendment Act 1976 ?

27) The first Indian to share the Oscar Award was ?

28) In each of the following Questions, a sentence has been given in Active/passive voice out of the four Alternatives
suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

A good deal of money will be made by the investment

29) In each of the following Questions, a sentence has been given in Active/passive voice out of the four Alternatives
suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voic

Who will help me ?

30) A part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at 1, 2, and 3 which may
improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is 4.

The courtiers used to tell the King how efficient an administrator he was all day long.

31) In questions choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

GLOSSY

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34) Instructions
In each of the following questions, find the odd number/letters from the given alternatives

35) Some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error, the
appropriate letter (1, 2, 3). If a sentence is free error, (4) is the Answer Sheet.

36) In questions choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

APPROPRIATE

37) If 18 binders bind 900 books in 10 days, how many binders will be required to bind 660 books in 12 days

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39) Out of the alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word and mark it in the Answer
Sheet.

INTREPID

40) Who proposed the chemical evolution of life ?

41) Who discovered the sea route to India?

42) The typical area of ‘sal’ forest in the Indian Peninsular upland occurs ?

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44) If 'DICTIONARY' is coded as 5479482361, then ‘YARD’ can be coded as ?

45) 50, 65, 82, ?, 122

46) Instructions
In each of the following questions, find the odd number/letters from the given alternatives

47) Who is regarded as the architect of the Indian Constitution

48) If 75% a number is added to 75, the result is the number itself. Then the number is

49) A tower standing on a horizontal plane subtends a certain angle at a point 160 m apart from the foot of the
tower. On advancing 100 m towards it, the tower is found to subtend an angle twice as before. The height
of the tower is

50) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

To struggle helplessly

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52) Which coloured ring represents the Asian Continent in the Olympics Emblem

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54) Earthquakes are caused by ?

55) The largest four digit number which is a perfect cube, is

56) 11 : 1331 : : 9 : ?

57) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

Loss of memory

58) What is the salary of the Chief Justice of India

59) If ABC is an equilateral triangle and D is a point on BC such that AD BC, then

60) ………….the rain forests is very important, if we do not want the flora and fauna found there to become
extinct.

61) Instructions
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best
expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

To move heaven and earth

62) When will you hand………….your assignment ?

63) If I, had helped him, he………...

64) Ice : Coldness : : Earth : ?

65) Instructions
In each of the following Questions, a sentence has been given in Active/passive voice out of the four Alternatives
suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice

In the following Questions, four words are given, out of which only one words is correctly spelt find the
correctly spelt word.

66) Instructions
The animal mind is like a telephone exchange, it receives stimuli from outside through the sense organs and sends out
appropriate responses through the nerves that govern muscles, glands and other parts of the body. The organism is
constantly interacting with its surroundings receiving messages and acting on the new state of affairs that the messages
signify.
But the human mind is not a simple transmitter like a telephone exchange. It is more like a great projector; for instead
of merely mediating between an event in the outer world and a creature’s responsive action, it transforms or, if you will,
distorts the event into an image to be looked at, retained an contemplated. For the images of things we remember are
not exact and faithful transcriptions even of our actual sense impressions. The are made as much by what we think as
by what we see. It is a well-known fact that if you ask several people the size of moon’s disk as they look at it, their
estimates will very from the area of dime to that of a barrel top. Like a magic lantern, the mind projects its ideas of
things on the screen of what we call ‘memory’ : but like all projections, these ideas are transformations of actual things.
They are in fact, symbols of reality, not pieces of it.

An animal mind and a human mind differ like

67) The headquarters of Asian Development Bank is located in which of the following cities ?

68) ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”. This was advocated by ?

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70) Who wrote As you like ?

71) Out of the alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word and mark it in the Answer
Sheet.

PRODIGAL

72) Instructions
Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best
expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer Sheet.

To take someone for a ride

73) Statement is given followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to consider the statement to be
true even they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given
conclusions, if any, follows from the given statement.
Statement: Comic books contain pictures
Conclusions:
I. All books contain pictures
II. Books may or may not contain pictures
III. Books other than the comic books does not contain pictures.

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75) Human blood contains - percentage of plasma ?

76) When the days and nights are equal, the rays of the sum directly fall on the

77) Psychology : Mind : : Arithmetic : ?

78) A part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at 1, 2, and 3 which may
improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is 4.

Every Saturday I go out for shopping

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80) Which of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following in ascending order ?

81) Rickets is a disease of the ?

82) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

Release of prisoner from jail on certain terms and conditions.

83) A mixture of 70 litres of wine and water contains 10% water. How much water must be added to make
water 12 and half% of the total mixture ?

84) Find the correct answer for the unsolved equation
5 x 6 x 3 = 356, 1 x 0 x 5 = 510, 5 x 6 x 7 = ?
.

85) Huen-tsang found Jainsim flourishing in ?

86) In a group of 20 people, 8 read Hindi, 11 read English while 5 of them read none of these two. How many
of them read Hindi and English both ?

87) Some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error, the
appropriate letter (1, 2, 3). If a sentence is free error, (4) is the Answer Sheet.

88) The greatest painter of birds at Jahangir’s court was ?
.

89) In a co-educational secondary school 65% of the students are boys. If there are 224 girls in the school, find
the number of boys in the school ?

90) Window : Carpenter :: Statue : ?

91) Teacher : School : : Nurse : ?

92) The HCF of two numbers 24 and their LCM is 216. If one of the number is 72, then the other number is

93) Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper is 9 times as heavy as water. In what ratio should these be
mixed to get an alloy 15 times as heavy as water ?

94) A mixture of 30 litres of spirit and water contains 20% of water in it. How much water must be added to it,
to make the water 25% in the new mixture

95) A, B, C and D are playing a game of carrom. A, C and B, D are partners. C is to the left of D who is facing
South. Then A is facing

96) In a row of students Ganesh is 7th from one extreme and 11th from the other. Find the total numbers of
students in the row.

97) How many states in India have two Houses, Viz., Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council ?

98) A part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at 1, 2, and 3 which may
improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is 4.

We had a grand party and we enjoyed very much.

99) UNESCO stands for ?

100) Which of the following rivers crosses the equator twice ?