SRCC GBO 2024 Question Paper

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the period under which an employee is placed under suspension cannot be treated as period "not spent on duty" for all extensive purposes.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom.

After facing numerous setbacks in the project, Jay decided to throw in the towel completely.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S4) are given, some sentences (S2 and S3) are missing. Identify the alternative that will meaningfully fill in the gap.

S1. After spending a night in the town of Bodhgaya, the ancient settlement where Lord Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment, I set out that morning for Nalanda, whose red-brick ruins are all that remain of one of the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world.
S2. ____________
S3. ____________
S4. As the Dalai Lama once stated: "The source of all the [Buddhist] knowledge we have, has come from Nalanda".

Alternatives:

A. Founded in 427 CE, Nalanda is considered the world's first residential university, a sort of medieval Ivy League institution home to nine million books that attracted 10,000 students from across Eastern and Central Asia.

B. Interestingly, the monarchs of the Gupta Empire that founded the monastic university were devout Hindus, but sympathetic towards Buddhism.

C. They gathered here to learn medicine, logic, mathematics and - above all - Buddhist principles from some of the era's most revered scholars.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

House and Senate Republicans are backing ________ construction of a border wall, former President Donald Trump's signature policy, while ________ large numbers of migrants ________ for asylum and reviving a ________ policy under which asylum seekers are told to remain in Mexico while their immigration case is beard.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom.

After her work, Sarika was ready to hit the hay.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Bala Singh saw me coming and made no attempt to greet me. which was very unusual. and to all my questions he returned the one answer - that he was not ill.

B. That day we did our two-mile march in silence, Bala Singh bringing up the rear and moving like a man who was walking in his sleep, or who was under the influence of drugs.

C. I had six Garhwalis to carry my luggage and I noticed that it was being made up into five head-loads, and that Bala Singh was sitting apart near the camp fire with a blanket over his head and shoulders.

D. After breakfast I walked over to him, and noted as I did so that all the other men had stopped work and were watching me very intently

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

Digital cameras soon gained market share, gradually ________ most film camera sales to cheap, disposable, single-use models. However, with the introduction of smartphones containing ever more-advanced cameras, digital camera sales ________ by 90 percent in the 2010s.

Four words have been given out of which three are alike in some manner and one is different. Select the one that is different.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Bite the bullet

Four jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

1. An esparto grass (Lygeum spartum) is found in the steppes of La Mancha and the southeast; the esparto products of Spain, however, come from an associated alfa grass (Stipa tenacissima).

2. Brown forest soils are restricted to humid Galicia and Cantabria

3. The mountains of the northern Meseta and the Iberian and Baetic cordilleras carry deciduous Portuguese oak; those of the central Pyrenees, the Iberian ranges and the Central Sierras have diverse pine species.

4. Northern Spain has heath and deciduous woodland (oak, beech).