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PSPCL MOCK TEST -1

Choose the correct Preposition to be filled b)to abandon all thought of making peace
into the gap of the following sentence:-
c)to criticize others unnecessarily
1. Do not ascribe this error____me.
d)to sing songs
a) to b) by c) for d) from
Mark the correct Synonym of the following
2. There is no respite_____inflation. words:

a)in b)from c)by d)with 7. Indefatigable

3. He is bereft____ideas. a)tireless b)convivial c)versatile d)sad

a)with b)of c)from d)on 8. Tedium

Mark the correct meaning of the Idioms: a) happiness b)shining c)ennui

d)vitality
4. Take the gilt off the gingerbread
9. Ingenuous
a)to accept one’s responsibility
a) ingenious b)frank c)intrepid d)cruel
b)to miss the opportunity
Mark the correct preposition :;
c)to hurt someone’s feelings
10.His failure can be ascribed____his
d)to make something no longer appealing carelessness.
5. In the first flush a)to b)of c)at d)by
a)in a state of freshness and vigour 11.He worked hard to sift___these documents.
b)in a state of crisis a)through b)of c)off d)from
c)in a state of despair 12. Mohan dotes____his daughter.
d)in a state of confusion a)on b)of c)at d)over
6.To throw away the scabbard Mark the correct Antonym:
a)to help others who are in distress 13. Fidgety

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a) cruel b)merciful c)clever a)Magnetic tape b)Printer c) VDU
d)calm terminal d)Interpreter

14. Economy 24.Number of OCTET in IP address?

a)politics b)biology c)extravagance a)2 b)4 c) 8 d)16

d)ready
25.Thesaures tool in MS-word is used for
Find out Error from the following sentence:
a)Spelling suggestions b)Grammar options
15.Even though the shirt is rather expensive a) c) Synonyms and antonyms words d)Printing
but I wish to b) purchase it with my own money address
c) No error d).
26.High Level Languages are:-
16.Many a student a) are frustrated b) because
of unemployment.c) No error d). a)Machine Independent b)Difficult to
program c) Error prone
17. The new facts he a) has discovered and the d)Understandable by computer
new b) arguments he has advanced c) has not
changed my opinion.d) No error e). 27.The standard protocol used for sending the
mail is called:
Find out the correctly spelt word from the
a)Telnet b)POP c) SMTP d)FTP
following words:

18.a)Sovereignty b)Sovereignty c) 28.In SQL Which command is used to add new

Sovereignity d)Soveriegnity rows to a relation?

19. Sacrilegeous b) Sacrilegious c) a)ALTER TABLE b)INSERT c) APPEND

Sacriligious d)Sacrielgious d)ADD ROW

20. Rennaisance b) Rennaissance c) 29.Pick the odd one

Renaissance d) Renaisance a)WWW b)WWWW c) VIRUS
21.In the formula =SUM(E4:F7) in MS EXCEL d)TROJAN
,how many cells are there? 30.An Solicited commercial/non commercial
a)2 b)7 c) 8 d)10 email is known as:

22.A computer can not boot if it does not have a)Usenet archive E-mail b)Spam E-mail
the :- c) E-mail with virus d)Faulty E-mail

a)compiler b) Loader c) operating System 31.A cone of height 7cm and base diameter
6cms is made from rectangular block of wood of
d)Assembler
dimensions 10 cm x 5 cm x 2 cm.Find the
23.which of the following is not hardware? percentage of wood wasted?

a)60% b)44% c) 40% d)34%

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32.Rs 100 invested in 5 years at 6% per annum a) 7 yrs b) 8yrs c) 9yrs d) 10yrs
interest compound annually will grow to:
40.In a examination it is required to get 441
5
a)[100(1.06)] b) )[100(1+(.06)(5)] marks to pass. A student gets 392 marks and =is
declared failed by 5%marks.Find the aggregates
c) )[100(1+.06)]5 d) )1006 marks?
33.What will be the reminder if (x97 -1) is a) 890 b) 940 c) 980 d) 1140
divided by x+1
41.Two pipes A and B can fill tank in 15 min and
a)96 b)-2 c) 0 d)2 20 min resp.Both the pipes are opened
34. 55% of 860 +24% of 450 = together.But the after 4 min pipe A is turned
off.What is the total time required to fill the
a)571 b)681 c) 581 d)591 tank?

35.The average of five consecutive natural a) 10 min 20 sec b) 11 min 45 sec c) 12

numbers in ‘m’.If the next three natural min 30 sec d) 14 min 40 sec
numbers are also included, how much than ‘m’
will the average of these 8 numbers be? 42.Write the next number

a)1 b)1.5 c) 1.4 d)2 1 ,3 , 6, 10, 15, ?

36.If the speed of train is increased by 5 Km/hr a) 21 b) 19 c) 23 d) 17

from its normal speed then it would have taken 43.When x3 + kx2 +x+1 is divided by x-1,the
2hrs less for a journey of 300km.What is the remainder is 6,the value of k is
normal speed of the train?
a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3
a) 30 Km/hr b) 25 Km/hr c) 20 Km/hr
d) 45 Km/hr 44.In a group of 120 members 1/5th are adult
men ,1/4th are adult women and rest are
37.A number when divided by 6 leaves children.The average age of women is 5/6th of
remainder 3.When the square of same number the average of men.The average age of children
is divided by 6,the remainder is: is 1/4th of average age of the men.If the average
a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3 age of men is 60 years.Find the average age of
group of 120 persons.
38.The difference between compound interest
and simple interest at the same rate on 5000/- a) 32.50 yrs b) 32.75 yrs c) 32.85 yrs
for two years is 72/-.The rate of interest per d) 32.95 yrs
annum is 45.The angles of isosceles right angled triangle
a) 6% b) 8% c) 10% d) 12% are

a) 120o,120o,90o b) 60o,60o,60o
39.The ratio of present ages of A and B is 4:3.If
four years before the ratio of their ages was c) 45o,45o,90o d) none
2:1,the present age of A is
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46.In a group of cows and hens the number of a) x2 +11x + 4 b) x2 +4x + 11 c) x2 +4x - 11
legs are 14 more than twice the number of
heads.The number of cows in the group is d) x2 - 4x + 11

a) 5 b) 7 c) 13 d) 15
53.A wire in the form of the circle of diameter
47.The ratio of the number of students studying
21 cm is cut and bent to form a square.The side
in school A,B,C is 5:6:8.If the number of student
in each of the school is increased by of the square is
30%,25%and 25% resp.What will be the ration
of the student in the school A,B,C?
a) 33/2 b) 33 c) 34 d) 35
a) 14:15:20 b) 13:15:20 c) 13:14:15 d)
15 :17:19
54.Ram and Sham can do a work in 6 and 12
48.Sum of the opposite angles of a cyclic
days resp. Ram starts the work and sham joins
quadrilateral is equal to
after 3 days to finish the work together. For
a) 2 right angle b) 4 right angle c) a
right angle d) none
how many days Sham worked?
49.If ten person are arranged at random in a
ring ,the probability of getting two particular a) 6 days b) 5 days c) 2 days d) none
person together is :
55.A man rows upstream 20km and
a) 1/5 b) 2/9 c) 1 d) 1/9 downstream 30km taking 5 hours each.What is
the speed of the current?
50.A train M leaves Meerut at 5AM and reaches
a delhi at 9 AM .Another train leaves Delhi at 7 a) 4km/hour b) 6km/hour c) 1km/hour
am and reaches Meerut at 10.30 AM .A t what d) none
time the train will cross each other?
56. The ‘Sikh Guru’ called ‘Bala Pir’ by muslim
a) 7.36 am b) 8 am c) 8.26 am d) 7.56 population of the area was
am
a) Guru Teg Bahadur
51.The length of rope by which a horse must be
tethered so that it may be allowed to graze over b) Guru Har Rai ji
an area of 2464 square meters is
c) Guru Har Krishan Ji
a) 18.22m b) 13.68m c) 15.28m d)
d) Guru Har Gobind ji
28 m
57. Who is known as Punjab’s ‘Breaded Mother
52. The quadratic polynomial with 4 and 11 as
Teresa’?
the sum and product of its zero of its zero is
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b) Master Tara Singh 62.Green revolution has been most successful
for
c) Bhagat Puran Singh
A) Wheat
d) Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal
b) Rice
58.Who is the first speaker of Punjab Legislative
Assembly? c) Gram

a) Dr. Satya Pal d) Maize

b) S.Gurdial Singh Dhillon 63.Artificial application of water to the soil for

the purpose of crop production is called:
c) Sh. Parbodh Chandra
a) drip irrigation
d) S. Kapur Singh
b) flow irrigation
59.Which one of the following is not a
fundamental duty? c) irrigation

a) To abide by the constitution d) none of these

b)To protect sovereignty of India 64. A short duration crop in between two main
seasonal crops is termed as:
c) To develop scientific temper
a) cash crop
d) To protect monuments and places of national
importance b) inter crop

60.The ratio of the width of national flag of c) companion crop

India to its length is
d) catch crop
a) three to two b) one to two
65. In SI units , the units of Force and energy
c)two to three d) two to one are:

61.The words “Satyamev Jayate” inscribed on a) Newton and Joule

the state emblem of India, have been taken
from b) Dyne and Newton

a) Mundaka Upanishad c) Newton and Watt

b) Ishavasya Upanishad d) None of these

c) Mandukya Upanishad 66 The process of chlorination is done beyond

the break point is known as:
d) Kena Upanishad
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b) post chlorination a)ArunJaitley
b)SureshPrabhu
c) super chlorination c)HarshVardhan
d) Nitin Gadkari
d) break point chlorination

67. Aga Khan is associated with 72. What is the India’s rank in the 2017 EIU
Global Democracy Index?
a) Cricket a)42nd
b)64th
b) Polo
c)33rd
d) 21st
C) Golf

d) Hockey
73. The National Power Training Institute (NPTI)
68.The man responsible for bringing white is located in which city?
a)\NewDelhi
revolution in India and founder of India’s dairy
b)Chennai
company Amul is c)Dehradun
d) Faridabad
a) Ashok Kumar

B) Verghese Kurien
74. In the Union Budget 2018, the Union
government has announced to build a tunnel
C) Antony Kurien
through the Sela Pass. The Sela pass is located
d) Samuel Kurien in which state?
a)Sikkim
69.Who was the political Guru of M.K Gandhi? b)ArunachalPradesh
c)Manipur
a) Dadabhai Naroji d) Himachal Pradesh

b) Gopal Krishan Gokhale 75. Who has taken charge as the new Director
General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the
c) Lala Lajpat Rai Indian Army?
a)JSSandhu b)AnilChauhan
d) Lokmanya Tilak c)PSJain d) A K Bhatt
70. Who has been appointed the new director 76. Directions (76-77): In column 1 words in
general of the Sports Authority of India (SAI)? capital letters are coded in small letters in
a)NeelamKapoor column 2 as jumbled up. Choose the correct
b)ParagKishore code for words given in Q. No. 76 77
c)NandaniJain Column1 Column2 Column-1 Column-2
d) Rajiv Saxena CURSE opkif DRIP rotc
INCUR fbpoc TOIL jugc
TALLY ughvg VARY vwoh
71. Which union minister has launched 2.8 Peta CADET rkufh
Flops High Performance Computer (HPC) system
‘Mihir’?

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76. TODAY is coded as ASSUMPTION 2:-You can find lucid books on a
very few topics.
a)rjuyh
b)kjuvh a) only assumption 1 implicit
c)rjuvh
d)rjuvk b) only assumption 2 implicit

77. RIVET coded as c) neither 1 nor 2 is implicit

a)wckou d) both assumption are implicit

b)ckwiu
c)wckov 82. Directions for question: In each question
d)kcvow below there are two statements followed by
four conclusions numbered I, I, II, III and IV. You
78. Kailash faces north. Turning to the right he have to take the given statements to be true
walk 25 meter then he turns left and walk 30 even if they seem to be at variance with
mts. Next he moves 25 mts to his right , again commonly known facts and then decide which
turns right and walk 55 mts. Finally he walk to of the given conclusions logically follows from
his right and moves 40 mts, In which direction is the given statements.
he now from his starting point.?
Statement I : Some ladies are pretty.
a) South-west b) South
Statement II : All pretty are clever.
c) North-west d) South-east
Conclusion I : Some ladies not clever.
79. In a class of the 35 students, Kunal is placed
7th from the bottom and sonali is placed 9th Conclusion II : Some ladies are clever.
from the top. Pulkit is placed exactly between
two. What is Kunal’s position from Pulkit. Conclusion III : Some clever are not ladies.

a)11 b)10 c)13 d)none Conclusion IV : Some clever are ladies.

80. If ‘-‘ stands for ‘÷’, ‘+‘ stands for ‘*’ ,‘÷ ‘ A) I and IV follow
stands for ‘’- ,‘*’stands for ‘+’.Which of the
B) Only I follows
following is correct?
C) Either III or IV and II follow
a)6+20-12/7-1=38
D) Either I or II and either III or IV follow
b)6+20-12/7*1=62
83. Directions: Study the given information and
c)6-20/12*7+1=57
answer the following questions:
d 6/20*12+7-1=70
I. There are 6 Toll-Bridges P, Q, R, S, T and U.
81.Statement “ Never before a lucid book was
II. Toll-Bridge U is 35 kms to the North of S
available on the topic ”
which is 20 kms to the North-East of Q.
AASUMPTION 1:-Some other books were
III. Toll-Bridge P is 10 kms west of T and 20 kms
available on the topics
to the south-west of R
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IV. Q, P and T are in straight line. the given combination.
QUANTITATIVELY
V. The Toll-Bridge Q and T are 60 kms apart
from each other.

If a car moves from T to U via P, Q and S, how A)

much distance it will have to cover?
B)
A) 115
C)
B) 120
D)
C) 100

D) 90
86. How many such pairs of digits are there in
84. Study the following figure: A person goes
the number 421579368 each of which has as
from A to B always moving to the right or
many digits between them in the number as
downwards along the lines. How many different
when they are arranged in ascending order?
routes can he adopt?
A) None B) One

C) Two D) Three

87.How many 4's are there preceded by 7 but

not followed by 3?

5 9 3 2 1 7 4 2 6 9 7 4 6 1 3 2 8 7 4 1
3 8 3 2 5 6 7 4 3 9 5 8 2 0 1 8 7 4 6 3

A) Four B) Three
Select the correct answer from the codes given
C) Six D) Five
below:
A) 4
88. In a family, there are six members U, V, W,
B) 5 X, Y, Z. U and V are married couple, U being a
male member. X is the only son of W, who is the
C) 6 brother of U.Y, is the sister of X. V is the
daughter- in –law of Z, whose husband has
D) 7 died.How V is related to Y ?

A) Mother

85. Directions: In each of the following B) Sister

questions four alternatives are given which C) Cousin
follow a combination of alphabets and/ or D) Aunt
numbers. You have to select one alternative
89. A cube has six numbers marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
which exactly matches with the mirror image of
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shown below: year.If it is set right at 1PM on the 20th day of
the same month?

a)8 hours 2 min 52 sec

b)8 hours 3 min 20 sec

c)8 hours 2 min 40 sec

d)8 hours 3 min 12 sec

93. Direction: Study the following information

carefully and answer the questions given below:
A) 2 and 3
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students of a
B) 6 and 1 school. They study in Std VI, VII and VIII with not
more than three in any Std. Each of them has a
C) 1 and 4 favourite subject from Physics. Geography,
English, Marathi, Mathematics, Chemistry,
D) 3 and 1 Biology and Economics not necessarily in the
90. Which interchange of signs will make the same order.
following equation correct?
(16 – 4) × 6 ÷ 2 + 6 = 28 D likes Chemistry and studies in Std VIII with
only H.B does not study in Std VII. E and A study
in the same Std but not with B. C and F study in
A) ÷ and – the same Std. Those who study in Std VI do not
B) + and × like Mathematics or Biology. F likes Physics. The
one who studies in Std VIII likes English. C does
C) – and +
not like Geography. A's favourite subject is
D) ÷ and + Marathi and G does not like Biology.
E) None of these
Which subject does H like?

91.In the following question, some words are A) English

given, all of which, except one, share a common
similarity while one is different. Choose the odd B) Marathi
one out.
C) Science
A) Bird: Ornithology D) Data inadequate
B) Kidney: Nephrology
C) Brain: Neurology E) None of these
D) Fishes: Ichthyology 94. What is G's favourite subject?
E) Human being: Archaeology
A) Biology
92.A watch which gains 4 second per hour what
time will it show at 8AM on the 22FEB of leap B) Physics

C) Marathi
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D) Data inadequate
a)1/9 b)1/10 c)10/17 d)5/27
E) None of these
98. What will be the day of the week 15th
95. Which of the following combinations of August, 2010?
student-Std Subject is correct?
A.Sunday B.Monday
A) C- VII- Economics
C.Tuesday D.Friday
B) D-VI- Chemistry
99.Count the number of triangles and squares
C) G-VII-Physics in the given figure.
D) B-VIII- Mathematics

E) None is correct

96. Which of the following groups of students A. 28 triangles, 10 squares

study in Std VII?
B. 28 triangles, 8 squares
A) EAF
C. 32 triangles, 10 squares
B) ECG
D. 32 triangles, 8 squares
C) EAG

D) Data inadequate 100

.
E) None of these

97.A survey of 1000 person with respect to their

knowledge of HINDI(H) .ENGLISH(E) AND
SANSKRIT(S) is given in fig. What is the ratio of
those who know all the three languages to
those who do not know Sanskrit?

E H

a) 8 b)9 c)10 d)11 e)1

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ANSWER KEY-

1 A 22 C 43 D 64 D 85 D
2 B 23 D 44 A 65 A 86 D
3 B 24 B 45 C 66 D 87 A
4 A 25 C 46 B 67 D 88 D
5 C 26 A 47 B 68 B 89 A
6 B 27 C 48 A 69 B 90 A
7 D 28 B 49 B 70 A 91 E
8 A 29 A 50 D 71 C 92 A
9 A 30 B 51 D 72 A 93 A
10 B 31 D 52 D 73 D 94 E
11 A 32 C 53 B 74 B 95 E
12 A 33 B 54 C 75 B 96 C
13 A 34 C 55 C 76 C 97 D
14 D 35 B 56 C 77 A 98 A
15 B 36 B 57 C 78 D 99 C
16 B 37 D 58 D 79 A 100 C
17 D 38 D 59 D 80 D
18 A 39 B 60 A 81 D
19 B 40 C 61 A 82 A
20 C 41 A 62 A 83 A
21 C 42 A 63 C 84 C

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