राज्यसेवा पूर्व परीक्षा  २०१३ - Paper 2

Select the figure from given alternatives, which will continue the sequence. 

In a small village in no man's land, brains of people are wired to answer inquiries in two sentences. One of the sentences always describes the fact as it is and the other describes nonexistent thing. One among them is the best archer of the area and you are there to get some tips from him for developing your archery skills. On reaching the place you find three persons sitting in the shadow of a banyan tree enjoying gossip. Two of them were busy mending their own arches. When you started inquiring with them, their responses were as follows :

Aanu said, "This is my arch. But I am not the best archer among us.

Banu said, "This is not my arch. Aanu is the best archer of this village.

Chanu said, "] never touch the arch. Banu is the best archer”.

From whom will you get the tips about archery?

In an election, the voting power was not used by 8% voters. There were only two candidates in this election. The elected candidate got 48% votes, out of the total votes and he defeated the other candidate by 1100 votes. How many total voters were there in the election?

When the speed of a monorail is 60 km/hr it reaches on time. If the speed is increased by 20 kms it reaches one hour earlier then how much distance does the monorail cover ?

The meanings of  and % are as follows :

Trmeans, P, is not less than Q.

 P*Q means, P, is not greater than Q.

 P%Q means, P, is not greater than Q and not equal to Q.

 P$Q means, P is not less than Qand not equal to Q.

 P@Q means, P is not greater than or less than Q

Considering the statements true, which of the conclusion/s I, II, III is/are perfectly true?

Select the correct alternative.

Statement : B%N; ; F*H

Conclusion : I - H$N

                    II - F%B 

                    III - B%H 

Select proper alternative in place of the question-mark.

The population of five states, of five years, is given in lacs, in the table.

What is the proportion of the average population of all years of the states A and B taken together, with the average population of all years of the states C, D and E taken together, respectively?

Learn the system and find the next term in the given series : 

From the following alphabet triangle find out what that system is. On the basis of the system, which is the third letter on the base line from your right? 

Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle. Triangle OBC is an isosceles triangle. If angle BOC is 100°; then how much will the ZACO be ? 

There are five similar boxes, having labels, indicating the description of the items contained in them, as follows:

Items                                                 Labels

Two Balls                            --               BB

Two pens                            --               PP

Two Watches                      --               WW
One watch and one Ball     --               WB

One watch and one Pen    --                WP 

Some one has changed the labels on all the boxes, such that, no box contains the items, as per the label on it.  

If the boxes with labels WB and PP are opened and no item is watch, then which statement will be true in case of the box, having label WW ?    

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are the members of a family. Out of them, four are adults and three are children, of which two, F and G are girls. A and D are brothers and A is a Doctor. E is an Engineer and has married one of the two brothers. E has two children. B is married to D and G is their child. Then who is C?

Kabir requires 10 days less than Akshay to complete a certain task. Satyam takes 15 days more than Akshay to complete the same task. If Kabir and Akshay both take 12 days to complete the task together how many days will be required by Akshay and Satyam together to complete it ?

You as an administrative authority have been approached by a house wife of a well-established entrepreneur complaining harassment for having two daughters. She also informs you that her parents are not financially well off to help her in this matter. You would :

Situation : Government has formulated a policy to ensure that each family in rural area of the State should have a toilet as most of the diseases and epidemics are caused due to e-coli found in human excreta carried through the use of contaminated water. The loss of human life, mandays wasted and the loss of wages due to these ailments and expenditure required to be incurred on the treatment is enormous. The embarrassment to the female population is another factor, so also the village environmental pollution caused. The Supreme Court interpreted Right to life means life with dignity. In fact, human excreta, if treated scientifically, is a rich source of organic manure. In spite of these provisions and severe consequences the percentage of rural families having toilets is only 60% and out of these, who are actually using the toilets is only 50%. The failure is ascribed to the fact that toilet policy is "Construction oriented" and the element of educating and sensitizing the people as to the adverse effects of the non use of toilets is squarely missing. It is felt that a strong public education campaign is the need of the time.

Question: If you are assigned a role of preparing a public awareness campaign, which of the following elements you would incorporate in order of priority in the design of the campaign :

(a) Regular use of toilet reduces health hazards of open defecation.

(b) Maintaining the ambience of the village.

(c) Maintaining the dignity of the human being particularly women folk.

(d) Boost to farm productivity and economy

Answer options : 

You are a government representative and a member of a committee that has been given responsibility of selecting young artists for awarding two year government scholarships. An influential artist of high reputation is also a member on this committee as an expert. After studying the shortlisted artists, for this prestigious state scholarship, another member brought to your notice that many artists are from the institute that is managed by this reputed artist or institutes that are managed by his past students. You would :

As an administrative incharge of a communally sensitive area, you are faced with a situation where the religious heads of both the communities have given inflammatory speeches thereby inciting violence amongst their respective communities. You would :

Situation : One major difference between the severe drought faced by the State in the year 1973 vis-a-vis year 2012-13 is, where as there was a food scarcity in 1973, the year 2012-13 reflects acute water scarcity. Thousands of villages do not have even adequate quantity, forget appropriate quality drinking water. Most Rabi crops could not simply be sown as the moisture in the soil is completely dried away. The chemical contamination like Nitrate, Fluoride is causing a grave concern even where water is available, which if consumed would lead to grave health hazards. Human survival till onset of the monsoon is the major concern.

Question : Under such circumstances if you are entrusted with a responsibility to tackle the situation, which of the following options would you resort to, on priority to manage the immediate crisis,

(a) Reserving all public and private water sources exclusively for drinking water purposes.

(b) To strike a balance between farmers losing their income of Rabi Crops and also to ensure acute drinking water needs, 50-50 distribution plan for crop survival and drinking water.

(c) As the poor farmers will be losing their only income source which may have severe economic consequences, crop production will be given priority and most of the water will be reserved for the agriculture purposes.

(d) Even taking the risk of diseases people will be motivated to use chemically contaminated water for survival till onset of monsoon to save human life there being no alternative as diseases can be cured in due course.

Answer options :

Your friend has rented his shop to a shopkeeper and shopkeeper has not paid his rent for the last one year and now refuses to vacate his shop. Shopkeeper has offered to purchase that shop from him but only at 50% of the present market value. Shopkeeper uses his contacts and has threatened him of dire consequences if he lodges a police complaint. What kind of advice would you give to your friend as a police officer ?

Suppose you are going for Public Service Commission's Interview. On the road you see an accident in which few men are stuck in. What will you do?