SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3

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In each of the following questions, select the related word/letters/number from the given alternatives.

In each of the following questions, select the one which is different from the other three alternatives.

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SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 12

Which one of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following colours ?
1. Indigo
2. Red
3. Violet
4. Blue
5. Green
6. Yellow
7. Orange

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 13

Arrange the following words as per order in the English dictionary :
1. Caricature
2. Cardinal
3. Carnivore
4. Cartoon
5. Category

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In the following series, how many HIG occur in such a way that “I” is in the middle and ‘H’ and ‘G’ are adjacent to it on both sides ?
GGHIHIIGGJKLMGIHIG

In each of the following questions, a series is given, with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.

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SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 26

Given below are capital letters in the first line and symbols in the second line. Symbols and letters are codes for each other. Choose the correct code for the word : HEIGHT

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 27

In a school, the bell is rung once after each half an hour. The school starts at 8:00 a.m. and closes at 1:30 p.m. The bell is rung 3 times continuously, at the time of beginning, at the time of lunch break at 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. and at the end. How many times is the bell rung every day ?

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Some letters are given with numbers from 2 to 9. Select the sequence of numbers which arranges the letters into a meaningful word.

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Select the correct combination of mathematical signs to replace * signs and to balance the following equation :
( √121 * 9) * 5 * 4 * 1

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If ‘-’ stands for ‘division’, ‘+’ stands for ‘multiplication’, ‘÷’ stands for ‘subtraction’, ‘×’ stands for ‘addition’, then which one of the following equations is correct ?

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Some equations are solved on the basis of a certain system. Find the correct answer for the unsolved equation on that basis.
5 Θ 3=-7; 3 Θ 7=-11; 7 Θ 11=?

In each of the following questions, select the missing number from the given responses.

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SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 35

Some statements are given followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to consider the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions if any, follow from the given statements. Indicate your answer.
Statements :
All chickens are birds. Some chickens are hens. Female birds lay eggs.
Conclusions :
I. All birds lay eggs.
II. Some hens are birds.
III. Some chickens are not hens.

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A man is facing South. He turns 135° in the anticlockwise direction and then 180° in the clockwise direction. Which direction is he facing now ?

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Raju cycled 10 km South from his house, turned right and went 5 km and again turned right and cycled 10 km and then turned left and cycled 10 km. How many kilometres will he have to cycle back to reach his house ?

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 38

“If a person is rich, he has a lot of influence.”
What inference can you draw from the above statement ?

In the following questions, identify the diagram that best represents the relationship among the classes given below.

In each of the following questions, which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question figure ?

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SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 49

A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as in two matrices given below. The columns and rows of Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4 and that of Matrix II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column, e.g. ‘A’ can be represented by 03, 34, 86, etc. and can be represented by 12, 65, 79, etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set for the given word.
REST

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India follows the policy of non-alignment which implies.

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If the supply curve is a straight line passing through the origin, then the price elasticity of supply will be

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Who was the French Governor of Pondicherry. Who tried to make the French Company as a powerful company ?

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Democratic Socialism aims at

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The first Mysore War fought between the British and Hy-der Ali in 1767 - 69 A.D., came to an end by the

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Which of the following reasons is responsible for lack of vegetation in the deserts ?

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Leaves of many grasses are capable of folding and unfolding because

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Solar eclipse occurs when

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A and B can together finish a work in 30 days. They worked at it for 20 days and then B left. The remaining work was done by A alone in 20 more days.A alone can finish the work in

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A circular wire of diameter 112 cm is cut and bent in the form of a rectangle whose sides are in the ratio of 9 : 7. The smaller side of the rectangle is

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 106

A piece of cloth measured with a metre stick, one cm short, is 100 metres long. Reckoning the metre stick as being right, the actual length of the cloth (in cm) is

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 108

The cost price of a table is 3,200. A merchant wants to make 25 % profit by selling it. At the the time of sale he declares a discount of 20 % on the marked price. The marked price (in r) is

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A shopkeeper allows a discount of 12.5 % on the marked price of a certain article and makes a profit of 20 %. If the article costs the shopkeeper 210, then the marked price of the article will be

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Some bricks are arranged in an area measuring 20 cu. m. If the length, breadth and height of each brick is 25 cm, 12.5 cm and 8 cm respectively, then in that pile the number of bricks are (suppose there is no gap in between two bricks)

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Charging 30% above its production cost a radio maker puts a label of 286 on a radio as its price. But at the time of selling it, he allows 10% discount on the labelled price. What will his gain be ?

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 115

A man having height 169 cm is standing near a pole. He casts a shadow 130 cm long. What is the length of the pole if it gives a shadow 420 cm long ?

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 116

555 was to be divided among A, B and C in the ratio of 1/4 : 1/5 : 1/6. But by mistake it was divided in the ratio of 4 : 5 : 6. The amount in excess received by C was

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 120

What is the value of $$\frac{2.75\times2.75\times2.75-2.25\times2.25\times2.25}{2.75\times2.75+2.75\times2.25+2.25\times2.25}$$ is

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 132

If $$x\sin^{2} 60^{\circ}-\frac{3}{2} \sec60^{\circ} \tan^{2}30^{\circ}$$ + $$\frac{4}{5}\sin^{2}45^{\circ}\tan^{2}60^{\circ}=0$$ then x is

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 136

A, B and C are three points on a circle such that the angles subtended by the chords AB and AC at the centre 0 are 90° and 110° respectively. Further suppose that the centre ‘0’ lies in the interior L BAC. The L BAC is

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 137

If the lengths of the sides AB, BC and CA of a triangle ABC are 10 cm, 8 cm and 6 cm respectively and if M is the mid - point of BC and MN II AB to cut AC at N, then the area of the trapezium ABMN is equal to

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 141

From a point 20 m away from the foot of a tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 30°. The height of the tower is

The distribution of fruit consumption in a sample of 72 seventeen – year – old girls is given in the graph below. Study the graph and answer the questions.

Distribution of fruit consumption

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SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 149

The following pie-chart shows the monthly expenditure of a family on food, clothing, rent. miscellaneous expenses and savings. What is the central angle for savings ?

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 150

The pie - chart gives the expenditure (in percentage) on various items and savings of a family during a month. Monthly savings of the family is 3,000. On which item is the expenditure maximum and how much is it ?

In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is d) i.e. No error.

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The visitor took the vacant seat (a)/ next from mine (b)/ one of the many huge sofas in the room. (c)/ No error (d)

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With our great annoyance (a)/ we found the ground (b)/ filled with broken glasses. (c)/ No error (d)

In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.

In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word as your answer.

In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 167

The secretary’s thoughtless remark added fuel to the fire.

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 168

He could not get money from his master because he rubbed him up the wrong way.

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 170

You have been trying to solve this puzzle for a long time, be careful so that you avoid barking up the wrong tree.

In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (a), (b), (c) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (d).

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 177

The government representative furnished the reporters all details.

SSC CGL 2014 Tier 1 26 Oct shift 3 - Question 178

It was raining so heavily yesterday that I could not move out for my usual walk.

In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

In the following questions, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open ended nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran is “that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode.”

In 2012, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote of daily dramas, “Although melodramatically eventful, soap operas such as this also have a luxury of space that makes them seem more naturalistic, indeed, the economics of the form demand long scenes, and conversations that a 22- episodes-per – season weekly series might dispense with in half a dozen lines of dialogue may he drawn out, as here, for pages. You spend more time even with the minor characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous.”

Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further
developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent narrative threads that may at times interconnect and effect one another or may run entirely independent of each other. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only a part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end of season cliffhanger.

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An individual episode of a soap opera generally switches between

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What does the author mean by the open - ended nature of soap operas ?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put it in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there sometimes a mile and a half wide; we ran nights, and laid up and hid daytimes; soon as night was most gone we stopped navigating and tied up – nearly always in the dead water under a towhead; and then cut young cottonwoods and willows, and hid the raft with them. Then we set out the lines. Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep and watched the daylight come. Not a sound anywhere – perfectly still just like the whole world was asleep only sometimes the bullfrogs a cluttering maybe.

The ,first thing to see, looking away over the water was a kind of dull line – that was the woods on U other side; you couldn’t make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and wasn’t black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away – trading scows and such things and long black streaks – rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep creaking or jumbled up voices, it was so still and sounds come so far and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there’s a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way.

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After a swim in the moor they

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The streak on the water looks as it does because

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How did the days and nights go by, according to the writer?

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