Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level Exam
Question : What is the duration of the lunch interval in a cricket test match?
Option 1: 25 minutes
Option 2: 35 minutes
Option 3: 30 minutes
Option 4: 40 minutes
Correct Answer: 40 minutes
Solution : The correct option is 40 minutes.
In a cricket test match, the duration of the lunch interval typically lasts for 40 minutes. The lunch break provides players, officials, and spectators with a break to have a meal and rest before the game continues.
Question : Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approaching death was on 25 April 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house for lunch. Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: ‘Oh dear. I can’t see a thing.’ There was a brief pause and then he added: ‘I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m dying...’ I did not know how to respond: his voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: ‘No Shahid — of course not. You’ll be fine.’ He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: ‘When it happens I hope you’ll write something about me.’
I was shocked into silence and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions. ‘Shahid you’ll be fine; you have to be strong...’From the window of my study, I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away. It was just a few months since he moved there: he had been living a few miles away, in Manhattan, when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. After tests revealed that he had a malignant brain tumour, he decided to move to Brooklyn, to be close to his youngest sister, Samantha, who teaches at the Pratt Institute—a few blocks away from the street where I live. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realised that he was dead serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the written word.
He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would have told myself that I was not a poet; that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was still time. ‘You must write about me.’ Finally, I said: ‘Shahid, I will: I’ll do the best I can.’
Question:
What did Shahid request the narrator to do?
Option 1: Write about him after his death
Option 2: Take him along for lunch at their friend’s place
Option 3: Move to his house in Manhattan
Option 4: Be strong and bear the loss bravely
Correct Answer: Write about him after his death
Solution : The first option is correct.
Question : Directions: Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word. (The words must be considered meaningful English words and must not be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word.) Kite : Diamond :: Ball : ?
Option 1: Triangle
Option 2: Square
Option 3: Round
Option 4: Pentagon
Correct Answer: Round
Solution : Given: Kite : Diamond :: Ball : ?
Like, a kite is of diamond shape. Similarly, the shape of the ball is round.
Hence, the third option is correct.
Question : After 'PROM' is programmed, we can only _______ the information.
Option 1: read
Option 2: write
Option 3: read and write
Option 4: remove
Correct Answer: read
Solution : The Correct Answer is- read
On a memory chip known as a PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory), data can only be written once. It belongs to the non-volatile class of computer memory. Data cannot be erased once it has been programmed, making it permanent. Programs
Question : Heavy metals got their name because compared to other atoms they have
Option 1: Higher densities
Option 2: higher atomic masses
Option 3: Higher atomic numbers
Option 4: Higher atomic radii
Correct Answer: higher atomic masses
Solution : The correct option is - higher atomic masses
Because of their larger atomic masses than other atoms, heavy metals received their names. Gallium, thallium, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, and chromium are a few examples of heavy metals.
Question : Directions: A # B means A is the brother of B; A @ B means A is the daughter of B; A & B means A is the husband of B; A % B means A is the wife of B. If S % D # F @ G & H @ J, then how is F related to H?
Option 1: Daughter
Option 2: Mother
Option 3: Daughter’s daughter
Option 4: Son's wife
Correct Answer: Daughter
Solution : Given: A # B ⇒ A is the brother of B A @ B ⇒ A is the daughter of B A & B ⇒ A is the husband of B A % B ⇒ A is the wife of B
As per the given
Question : The pie chart given below shows the number of bikes sold by 8 different companies. The total number of bikes sold by all these 8 companies is 2000. The number of bikes sold by a particular company is shown as a percent of the total number of bikes sold by all these 8 companies. What is the difference between the average number of bikes sold by P, Q, R, and S and the average number of bikes sold by T, U, V, and W?
Option 1: 150
Option 2: 200
Option 3: 175
Option 4: 125
Correct Answer: 150
Solution : Number of bikes sold by P, Q, R, and S = (21 + 19 + 5 + 20)% of 2000 = 1300 The average number of bikes sold by P, Q, R, and S = $\frac{1300}{4} = 325$ Total number of bikes sold = 2000
Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors, and some are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is error-free, your answer is "No Error".
I did not see (1) / Meenu (2) / since Monday. (3) / No Error (4)
Option 1: (1)
Option 2: (2)
Option 3: (3)
Option 4: (4)
Correct Answer: (1)
Solution : The correct choice is the first option.
Explanation: There should be "have not" in place of "did not". Given that there is a specific period of time mentioned ("since Monday"), the use of the present perfect tense is more appropriate. The present perfect
Question : Directions: The second number in the given number pairs is obtained by performing certain mathematical operation(s) on the first number. The same operation(s) are followed in all the number pairs except one. Find that odd number pair.
Option 1: 81 : 19
Option 2: 121 : 23
Option 3: 1 : 3
Option 4: 64 : 9
Correct Answer: 64 : 9
Solution : Let's check the options – First option: 81 : 19→(9)2 = 81; 9 × 2 = 18; 18 + 1 = 19 Second option: 121 : 23→(11)2 = 121; 11 × 2 = 22; 22 + 1 = 23 Third option:
Question : In football, when the ball strikes the frame of the goal or the referee and remains within the goal and touch lines, it is:
Option 1: Foul
Option 2: Still in play
Option 3: A misconduct
Option 4: Out of play
Correct Answer: Still in play
Solution : The correct answer is Still in play.
In football, when the ball strikes the frame of the goal (the goalpost or crossbar) or the referee and remains within the goal and touch lines, it is considered "in play" or "in bounds." This
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