SSC GD Constable Previous Year Question (2012) Shift 2

1) 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

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

4) 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

5) 50, 65, 82, ?, 122

6) 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 ?

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

8) Who proposed the chemical evolution of life ?

9) 1st partition of Bengal under Lord Curzon took place in ?

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

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

14) 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 ?

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17) If I, had helped him, he………...

18) 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 ?

19) 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 ?

20) The greatest painter of birds at Jahangir’s court was ?
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21) Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it ?
B_f_ _ _ ndfg

22) 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

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

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25) Earthquakes are caused by ?

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

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

28) 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.

29) 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 ?

30) Huen-tsang found Jainsim flourishing in ?

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

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34) 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

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

PRODIGAL

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

37) 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.

38) 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 = ?
.

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

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

41) 11 : 1331 : : 9 : ?

42) Window : Carpenter :: Statue : ?

43) Teacher : School : : Nurse : ?

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

INTREPID

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

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

47) 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.

48) Who discovered the sea route to India?

49) Who were the three statesmen who formulated NAM ?

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

51) Ice : Coldness : : Earth : ?

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

APPROPRIATE

53) Rickets is a disease of the ?

54) 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

55) UNESCO stands for ?

56) 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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58) 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.

59) 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 ?

60) Water has Maximum density at ?

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

PERSPICUOUS

62) 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 ?

63) 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.

64) 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.

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

66) Who wrote As you like ?

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

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69) 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.

70) 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.

71) Human blood contains - percentage of plasma ?

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

73) Trachoma is disease of the ?

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75) Psychology : Mind : : Arithmetic : ?

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

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78) 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

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

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

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

86) 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.

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

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

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

90) 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

91) 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:

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

Loss of memory

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

To struggle helplessly

94) 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

95) 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

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

ELEVATION

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

GLOSSY