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fafa tr (a) afhen.aos Civil Services(Pretim) Exam-2048 DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO T.B.C. : B-AQN-O-JUA Test Booklet Series Serial No. > . You have to enter your Roll Number on the Test Booklet in the Box provided alongside. DO NOT write anything else on the Test Booklet. TEST BOOKLET GENERAL STUDIES i665 Paper—I d : Two Hours Maximum Marks : 200 INSTRUCTIONS . IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATION, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT THIS TEST BOOKLET DOES NOT HAVE ANY UNPRINTED OR TORN OR MISSING PAGES OR ITEMS, ETC. IF SO, GET IT REPLACED BY A COMPLETE TEST BOOKLET. . Please note that it is the candidate’s responsibility to encode and fill in the Roll Number ‘and Test Booklet Séries A, B, C or D carefully and without any omission or discrepancy at ‘the appropriate places in the OMR Answer Sheet. Any omission/discrepancy will render the Answer Sheet liable for rejection. This Test Booklet contains 100 items (questions). Bach item is printed both in Hindi and English. Each item comprises four responses (answers). You will select the response which you want to mark on the Answer Sheet. In case you feel that there is more than one correct response, mark the response which you consider the best. In any case, choose ONLY ONE response for each item. . You have to mark all your responses ONLY on the separate Answer Sheet provided. See directions in the Answer Sheet. All items carry equal marks. Before you proceed to mark in the Answer Sheet the response to various items in the Test Booklet, you have to fill in some particulars in the Answer Sheet as per instructions sent to you with your Admission Certificate. ‘After you have completed filling in all your responses on the Answer Sheet and the examination has concluded, you should hand over to the Invigilator only the Answer Sheet. You are permitted to take away with you the Test Booklet. Sheets for rough work are appended in the Test Booklet at the end Penalty for wrong answers : THERE WILL BE PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY A CANDIDATE IN THE OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION PAPERS. i) There are four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one-third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) Ifa candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above to that question. (ii) If a question is left blank, i.e., no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO corer & area an fe ware wa GEIS Roa BET OT pte iD 1. ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana’ has been launched for (a) providing housing’ loan to poor People at cheaper interest rates (b} promoting women’s Self-Help Groups in backward areas () promoting financial inclusion in the country (@) providing financial help to the marginalized communities 2. With reference to the Fourteenth Finance Commission, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It has increased the share of States in the central divisible pool from 32 percent to 42 percent. 2, It has made recommendations concerning sector-specific grants. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (o) 2 only () Both 1 and 2 (a) Neither 1 nor 2 The Fortaleza Declaration’, recently in the news, is related to the affairs of (a) ASEAN (&) BRICS () OBCD (a) WTO 4. A decrease in tax to GDP ratio of a country indicates which of the following? 1. Slowing economic growth rate 2. Less equitable distribution of national income B-AQN-O-JUA/63A, Select the correct answer using the code given below. fa) 1 only (b) 2 only (o} Both 1 and 2 (@) Neither 1 nor 2 8. In the South Atlantic and South-Bastem Pacific regions in tropical latitudes, cyclone does not originate, What is the reason? (a) Sea surface temperatures are low (®) inter-Tropical Convergence Zone seldom occurs (6) Coriolis force is too weak (a) Absence of land in those regions 6. Which one of the following pairs of States of India indicates the easternmost and westernmost State? (a) Assam and Rajasthan () Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan (c} Assam and Gujarat (@) Arunachal Pradesh and Gujarat 7. Consider the following statements regarding the Directive Principles of State Policy 1. The Principles spell out the socio- economic democracy in the country. 2. 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