Question : Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement required'.

In India, processed foods becomes popular in the 20th century.

Option 1: became popular in

Option 2: become popularity in

Option 3: No improvement required

Option 4: become popular at

Question : The Kharif season in India largely coincides with the______.

Option 1: Southwest monsoon

Option 2: Southeast monsoon

Option 3: Northeast monsoon

Option 4: Northwest monsoon

Question : In________, at its Madras session, the Indian National Congress set up an All Parties Conference to draft a Constitution for India.

Option 1: 1922

Option 2: 1932

Option 3: 1927

Option 4: 1915

Question : In India, initially, the High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP)was implemented in about how many areas?

Option 1: 5 million hectares

Option 2: 3 million hectares

Option 3: 4 million hectares

Option 4: 2 million hectares

Question :  Given below is a short passage followed by some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.

More than eight months after the national lockdown was announced in late March, urban India is learning to live with the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, indicating a positive outlook for the future, many survey respondents in a recent survey say they plan to return to pre-lockdown levels of shopping, personal grooming, going to cinemas and socializing as pandemic fears continue to recede.
The survey findings highlight that the suppression of consumer demand because of fears of job losses and salary cuts could be coming to an end. Increasingly, urban Indians are showing increased confidence about the future of the economy. This could be an indicator of the possible 'pent-up demand' that several economists have been talking about - a demand that could be unleashed once a vaccine is developed and distributed, or when there are signs of the pandemic's spread reducing to negligible levels or vanishing totally.

Around 65 per cent of respondents said they had settled into new routines, or that they saw signs of the situation improving, or they had come to terms with the pandemic and were moving on with their lives. And since the survey was conducted before the news of the successful trials of the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus was announced, it is likely that the consumers are now even more positive in their outlook about the future.

Question:
Which one of the following is the antonym of the word 'outlook' in the passage?

Option 1: Indifference
 

Option 2: perspective
 

Option 3: viewpoint
 

Option 4: Interpretation 

Question : Comprehension:

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

India's favourable demographic trends, which have increased the workforce's percentage of the overall population, have paved the way for a significant middle-class expansion. A big population bulge emerging from absolute poverty and set to reach the middle class would generate new dynamics. In India, over 55 per cent of the population is predicted to reach the middle class. In reality, because India's demographics are significantly younger than China and the United States, the country's middle class might be the world's largest (in terms of population) by 2025.

It is no exaggeration to argue that future growth will be reliant on the increasing middle class and that the middle class's development will be reliant on growth. Growth has been fuelled by both private consumption and saving, both of which are fuelled by the middle class. India's private consumption accounts for over 60% of the country's GDP, while private consumption growth has contributed to 70% of the country's growth since 2000.

Despite the fact that China's middle class is now greater than India's, private spending in the former accounts for a lesser share of growth. In contrast to the United States, where domestic savings are dropping and the country borrows excess funds from outside to invest and expand, India's domestic savings and investments are increasing and funding investments. The emergence of the middle class is anticipated to coincide with a transition away from large-scale informality, which now characterises much of the services and industrial sectors, and toward more formal, wage-earning, and medium-scale firms. Technological advancements will spread at a faster rate. Cities will expand as job possibilities concentrate on them. If there is enough movement across states and from rural to urban regions, the population increase will be more evenly distributed.

Question:

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Coincide

Option 1: Differ

Option 2: Agree

Option 3: Confuse

Option 4: Detest

Question : The depression which is likely to form this month around the islands of Andaman will 1) __________________ monsoon advancement and help to regulate the June to September rain fall cycle, which is also considered to crucial for India’s economy, to arrive around the expected time in Kerala around first week of June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.

In charge of IMD’s cyclones monitoring Ananda Kumar Das, 2) __________________ satellite image and said the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which appears to be a  band of clouds 3) __________________ the globe near the equator and is mainly responsible for the wet and dry seasons in the tropics, is very 4) __________________. He also said that this indicates a monsoon surge will be created soon. “The depression will help establish the cross-equatorial flow. The 5) __________________ of the depression will further help monsoon arrive around the normal time over Kerala around June 1 with an error margin of +/-5 days,” said Das.

Choose the correct word to be used in blank 3.

Option 1:  reacted

Option 2:  surmounting
 

Option 3:  renewed
 

Option 4:  encircling

Question : The government of India launched 'Make in India' initiative in september, 2014 to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) in 25 sectors. As of April, 2015, FDI inflow in India increased by 48% since the launch of 'Make in India' initiative. Identify the concept being described in the above lines, with regards to inflow of FDI?

Option 1: Demonetisation 

Option 2: Privatisation 

Option 3: Liberalisation 

Option 4: Globalisation

Question : With which of the following countries, India does not share a land border?

Option 1: Bangladesh

Option 2: China

Option 3: Myanmar

Option 4: Sri Lanka

Question : Gorakhpur is the headquarters of ________ Railway of India.

Option 1: Northern

Option 2: North-Eastern

Option 3: Eastern

Option 4: Western