SSC CHSL 13th October 2020 Shift-1

For the following questions answer them individually

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
Some people think that the credit card culture encourages people to shop compulsively and merely ______ debts.

In the given sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
A Royal Bengal tigress and her three cubs was poison and their carcasses left to rot in the Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank in the given sentence.
This winter ______ weather conditions have led people to remain indoors.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

Comprehension:
One complaint parents and teachers have about children these days is that they are simply not interested in (1)______. In his weekly column ‘Down in Jungle land’ Ranjit Lal, an (2)______
offers some useful suggestions. Keeping a dog or cat as a pet (3)______ to be made mandatory. Regular visits to national parks and (4)______ are another way to get children hooked. Treks in wilderness areas are even (5)______ as children can then engage with all kinds of life-forms on their turf.

For the following questions answer them individually

Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
Rains lashed Delhi and brought the temperature down by a few degrees.

In the given sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
Scientist have recently announced that a more effective antidote for snakebite venom has been made.

Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Ravi asked, “Ritu, how many sets of class 12 practice papers have you finished?”

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No improvement’.
The Arabian Sea region is very important for India as several major ports are locating there.

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. For example, our project files were kept pending for a few years.
B. However, such hindrances did not stop us from tirelessly working towards the establishment of 450 clinics.
C. We initially constructed over 150 clinics.
D. But very soon many roadblocks were put in our path of expansion.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Bite off more than one can chew

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Some returned in the 80’s but they were not allowed to reclaim or buy land.
B. In the 70’s many Vietnamese living in Cambodia faced deportation after a change in government.
C. Their only solution was to live in wooden homes floating on the lake.
D. Even today they can be found living on the lake surviving on fishing and tourism.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No improvement’.
Sele, is a near extinct language, spoken for just five villages in Nepal, which lie close to Tibet.

Which option represents the correct order of the given words as they would appear in an English dictionary?
1. Mankind
2. Manner
3. Manuscript
4. Management
5. Making

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. Assuming that the information given in the statements is true, even if it appears to be at variance with commonly known facts, decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements.
Statements:

1. Some computers are phones.
2. All phones are televisions.
Conclusions:

I. Some phones are computers.
II. Some televisions are computers.
III.No television is a computer.

$$A \times B$$ means ‘A is the wife of B’;
$$A \div B$$ means ‘A is the father of B’.
Which of the following expression means 'R' is the paternal grandfather of 'S'?

Select the option that is related to the third letter-cluster in the same way as the second letter-cluster is related to the first letter-cluster.
LZ : OA :: UR : ?

Which of the following options best represents the given Venn diagram?

If the following interchanges are made in signs and numbers, which equation would be correct?
Interchanges:
Signs: $$\div$$ and $$—$$
Numbers: 15 and 5

In a certain code language, 'TENDER' is coded as '185414520'. How will 'REQUESTED' be coded as in that language?

Four number-pairs have been given, out of which three are alike in some manner and one is different. Select the number-pair that is different from the rest.

An amount of ₹504 is to be divided among three persons A, B and C in the ratio of 7 : 8 : 9, respectively. How much amount will B and C receive in total?

Select the option in which the numbers are related in the same way as are the numbers in the given set.
(15, 556, 331)

Select the option in which the words share the same relationship as that shared by the given pair of words.
Weight : Kilogram

If $$A = 2(\sin^6 \theta + \cos^6 \theta) - 3(\sin^4 \theta + \cos^4 \theta)$$ then the value of $$3 \alpha$$ such that $$\cos \alpha = \sqrt{\frac{3 + A}{5 + A}}$$ is:

A person purchases 40 items at ₹10 each. He sells a part of them at 25% profit and the remaining at 10% loss. The net profit is 4% in this transaction. The number of items he sold at a loss, is:

A cylindrical vessel with radius 6 cm and height 5 cm is to be made by melting a number of spherical metal balls of diameter 2 cm. The minimum number of balls needed is:

A sum of ₹12,000 was taken at simple interest at some rate. After four months, ₹6,000 more was added and the total principal was charged at double the earlier rate of interest. At the end of the year,if the total interest was ₹2,800, what was the initial rate of interest?

The average of 35 consecutive natural numbers is N. Dropping the first 10 numbers and including the next 10 numbers, the average is changed to M. If the value of M$$^2$$ - N$$^2$$ = 600, then the average of 3M and 5N is:

If the given figure, $$\angle$$ACB + $$\angle$$BAC = 80$$^\circ$$; $$\angle$$BDE = 35$$^\circ$$; $$\angle$$BCE = 45$$^\circ$$, then the marked angle $$\angle$$CED is:

The following graph gives the performance of five students A, B, C, D, E in Math, Physics and Chemistry.

Based on the given information - considering that a performance is based on the difficulty level of the paper, which of the following statements is correct?

A man purchased a car for ₹12 lakhs and was insured for 80% of the cost. He sold the car at a 15% loss, but had not yet delivered it to the buyer when he met with an accident. After the accident, the car was damaged a lot and the insurance company paid 90% of the insured amount. The net difference in the two transactions is:

The value of $$\left(a^{\frac{2}{3}} + 2a^{\frac{1}{2}} + 3a^{\frac{1}{3}} + 2a^{\frac{1}{6}} + 1\right)\left(a^{\frac{1}{3}} - 2a^{\frac{1}{6}} + 1\right)-a^{\frac{1}{2}}\left(a^{\frac{1}{2}} - 2\right)$$, when a = 7, is:

In the following figure, if angles $$\angle ABC = 95^\circ \angle FED = 115^\circ$$ (not to scale). Then the angle $$\angle APC$$ is equal to:

If $$A = \left[\frac{3}{7} of 4\frac{1}{5} \div \frac{18}{25} + \frac{17}{24}\right]$$ of $$\left[\frac{289}{16} \div \left(\frac{3}{4} + \frac{2}{3}\right)^2\right]$$, then the value of 8A is:

The following graph shows the expenditure on education sector by Indian government for the years-2014-15 to 2019-20

If the government plans to increase the expenditure by 30% on the average of the expenditures in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, then the approximate amount(in billions of rupees) to be spent in 2020-21 is:

5 men and 8 women can complete a task in 34 days, whereas 4 men and 18 women can complete the same task in 28 days. In how many days can the same task be completed by 3 men and 5 women?

The value of $$\left[\frac{\sqrt{3} +2 \sin P}{1 - 2 \cos P}\right]^3 + \left[\frac{1 + 2 \cos P}{\sqrt{3} - 2 \sin P}\right]^3$$ is:

In the given figure, AD is bisector of angle $$\angle$$CAB and BD is bisector of angle $$\angle$$CBF. If the angle at C is 34$$^\circ$$, the angle $$\angle$$ADB is:

A sells an item at 20% profit to B, B sells the same at 10% profit to C and receives ₹1,32,000.0. Had C purchased the same item from A, he would have spent 5% less than what he spent with B. What profit would A have made then?

The following graph shows the production of paddy in the agricultural land available the 6 places S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6 (area in hundreds of hectares and production in thousands of tonnes)

Based on the information, the production ratio (production to land) is highest and lowest, respectively, in:

The percentage of customers of two network operators P and Q across the cities A, B, C, D, E is shown in the given pie charts.

Based on the information in the pie charts. if the customers of operator P are 3.6 lakhs. and the customers of operator Q are 4.2 lakhs, then in the city C, the positive difference between the customers of the operators is:

The distance between two railway stations is 1176 km. To cover this distance, an express train takes 5 hours less than a passenger train while the average speed of the passenger train is 70 km/h less than that of the express train. The time taken by the passenger train to complete the travel is:

Which of the following state's legislative assembly adopted a redesigned logo consisting of the National Emblem and the State flower - the Foxtail Orchid (Rhynchostylis Retusa) on 9 January 2020?

Which law states that the volume of an ideal gas at constant pressure is directly proportional to the absolute temperature?

Who threw a bomb in the central legislative assembly along with Bhagat Singh to protest against the Public Safety Bill in 1929?

With reference to metals and their ores, which of the following pairs is INCORRECT?

Which company was ranked as the largest profit making PSU in India for the fiscal year 2018-2019?

The December 1929 session of Congress, in which the resolution for 'Poorna Swaraj' was passed, was presided over by:

Who described the preamble of Indian Constitution as the 'Political horoscope of the Indian Constitution'?

Which Indian social activist and politician led the Self-Respect Movement or Dravidian Movement against Brahminism?

Which is the tallest waterfall of India with a height of 1,493 ft?

Which sanctuary is famous for endangered Estuarine Crocodiles conservation in India?

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