Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level Exam
Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
The investigator asked me, "Did you see or hear anything in the dead of night?"
Option 1: The investigator asked me if I saw or heard anything in the dead of night.
Option 2: The investigator asked me if I see or hear anything in the dead of night.
Option 3: The investigator asked me if I had seen or heard anything in the dead of night.
Option 4: The investigator asked me that if I had seen or heard anything in the dead of night.
Correct Answer: The investigator asked me if I had seen or heard anything in the dead of night.
Solution : The correct solution is the third option.
When transforming a direct question into reported speech, it's important to use an appropriate reporting verb, adjust the tense, and make necessary changes
Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Fight shy of
Option 1: to invite
Option 2: to avoid
Option 3: to challenge
Option 4: to perform
Correct Answer: to avoid
Solution : The second option is the correct answer.
The idiom fight shy of typically means to avoid or be hesitant about something. When someone is described as fighting shy of something, it implies that they are unwilling to engage with it or are actively avoiding
Question : Directions: In the following question a series is given, with one number missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series. 41, 43, 47, 53, ?
Option 1: 59
Option 2: 63
Option 3: 61
Option 4: 65
Correct Answer: 61
Solution : Given: 41, 43, 47, 53, ?
Add even numbers from 2 onwards to the previous term to get the next term of the series – 41 + 2 = 43; 43 + 4 = 47; 47 + 6 = 53; 53 + 8 = 61
Question : Directions: Which of the following interchanges of signs and numbers would make the given equation correct? 25 – 10 ÷ 5 + 15 × 30 = 55
Option 1: × and ÷, 30 and 25
Option 2: ÷ and +, 15 and 10
Option 3: × and –, 15 and 10
Option 4: + and –, 5 and 10
Correct Answer: × and –, 15 and 10
Solution : Given: 25 – 10 ÷ 5 + 15 × 30 = 55
Let's check the options – First option: × and ÷, 30 and 25 ⇒ 30 – 10 × 5 + 15 ÷ 25 = 55 Solving the
Question : Directions: A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but eight died. How many was he left with?
Option 1: 17
Option 2: 0
Option 3: 8
Option 4: 9
Correct Answer: 8
Solution : Given: Total sheep = 17 In the statement, a phrase is used 'all but' that means 'all except'.
The number of sheep that died is 9. Therefore, the remaining number of alive sheep = 17 – 9 = 8
So, 8 sheep are left with
Question : If $\frac{(17)^3+(7)^3}{\left(17^2+7^2-\mathrm{k}\right)}=24$, then what is the value of $\mathrm{k}?$
Option 1: 119
Option 2: 128
Option 3: 24
Option 4: 109
Correct Answer: 119
Solution : We know that $a^3+b^3=(a+b)(a^2+b^2-ab)$ So, $17^3+7^3=(17+7)(17^2+7^2-17\times 7)$ Given, $\frac{17^3+7^3}{17^2+7^2-k}=24$ ⇒ $\frac{(17+7)(17^2+7^2-17\times 7)}{17^2+7^2-k}=24$ ⇒ $17^2+7^2-17\times 7=17^2+7^2-k$ $\therefore k= 119$ Hence, the correct answer is 119.
Question : Bronze is an alloy of Which of the following?
Option 1: Copper and zinc
Option 2: Tin and Zinc
Option 3: Copper and Tin
Option 4: Iron and Zinc
Correct Answer: Copper and Tin
Solution : The correct answer is copper and tin.
Bronze is a metal alloy made largely of copper and tin with different amounts of additional elements, such as zinc, aluminium, and nickel. It is well-known for its strength, durability, and corrosion resistance.
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 kind of person was Shahid Ali?
Option 1: Forgetful
Option 2: Full of life
Option 3: Dangerous
Option 4: Depressed
Correct Answer: Full of life
Solution : The second option is correct.
Question : Which act allows the government to confiscate the assets of newspapers in case of publishing anything “objectionable”?
Option 1: Ilbert Act, 1883
Option 2: Vernacular Press Act, 1878
Option 3: Media Act, 1883
Option 4: Newspaper Act, 1855
Correct Answer: Vernacular Press Act, 1878
Solution : The correct answer is the Vernacular Press Act of 1878.
The printing press and other media, as well as newspaper assets, might be seized by the "British government" under the Vernacular Press Act. With the aid of the Vernacular Press Act,
Question : Directions: By interchanging the given two signs which of the following equations will be correct? × and +
Option 1: 7 × 8 ÷ 9 + 18 – 11 = 16
Option 2: 24 – 8 – 5 × 5 + 3 = 14
Option 3: 5 × 10 – 15 + 20 ÷ 25 = 8
Option 4: 24 × 8 + 6 ÷ 3 – 18 = 22
Correct Answer: 24 × 8 + 6 ÷ 3 – 18 = 22
Solution : Let's check the options – First option: 7 × 8 ÷ 9 + 18 – 11 = 16 On interchanging the given signs, the equation becomes – ⇒ 7 + 8 ÷ 9 × 18
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