Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level Exam
Question : Directions: Looking at a photograph, Reema says, "This boy's father is the father of my daughter". How is the boy related to Reema's daughter?
Option 1: Father
Option 2: Son
Option 3: Brother
Option 4: Father's brother
Correct Answer: Brother
Solution : According to the given information, the family tree is as follows –
Here, the quadrilateral represents the male, and the circular figure represents the female in the figure.
So, from the above family tree, Boy is the brother of Reema's daughter. Hence, the third option
Question : Study the following bar graph and answer the questions given below. Difference between the number of boys and girls in schools A, B, C, D, and E. Total number of boys and girls in schools A, B, C, D, and E. Note: The number of boys > the number of girls What is the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in school E?
Option 1: 5 : 3
Option 2: 7 : 4
Option 3: 4 : 3
Option 4: 5 : 4
Correct Answer: 5 : 3
Solution :
As per the graph, The number of boys in a school = $\frac{1}{2}$(Total number of students in the school + Difference between the number of boys and girls in school E) The number of boys in a school = $\frac{1}{2}$(2800 + 700) =
Question : Find the value of $\sin^2 25^\circ+\sin^2 65^\circ$:
Option 1: $-1$
Option 2: $\frac{1}{2}$
Option 3: $0$
Option 4: $1$
Correct Answer: $1$
Solution : Given: $\sin^2 25^\circ+\sin^2 65^\circ$ $= \sin^2 25^\circ+\sin^2 (90^\circ – 65^\circ)$ $= \sin^2 25^\circ+\cos^2 25^\circ=1$ Hence, the correct answer is $1$.
Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence may have some errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If the sentence is free from error, select "No error".
When at last (1) / we got to the theatre, (2) / the much-publicised programme by the Bollywood stars was begun. (3) / No error (4)
Option 1: (1)
Option 2: (2)
Option 3: (3)
Option 4: (4)
Correct Answer: (3)
Solution : The error lies in the third part of the sentence.
The phrase "was begun" should be replaced with had begun to maintain the tense consistency. It indicates that the programme had already started before the narrator arrived at the theatre, so the past perfect tense
Question : If the simple interest on a sum of money for 2 years at 5% per annum is Rs. 50, the compound interest on the same at the same rate and for the same time is:
Option 1: Rs. 50.50
Option 2: Rs. 51.25
Option 3: Rs. 51.50
Option 4: Rs. 51.05
Correct Answer: Rs. 51.25
Solution : Let the amount be Rs. $x$ Simple Interest on Rs. $x$ for 2 years and 5% interest = Rs. 50 Simple Interest on Rs. $x$ for t years and r% interest = $\frac{{x\times r}\times t}{100}$ So, $50 = \frac{{x\times 5}\times 2}{100}$ ⇒ $x =
Question : " Ranji Trophy " is associated with
Option 1: Hockey
Option 2: Football
Option 3: Cricket
Option 4: Kabaddi
Correct Answer: Cricket
Solution : The correct answer is Cricket
The Ranji Trophy founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), was named after one of India’s first test cricketer.
Ranjitsinhji, who played for England and Sussex.Ranjitsinhji known as ‘Father of Indian cricket’, never actually played for
Question : A trader sold a cycle at a loss of 10%. If the selling price had been increased by Rs. 200, there would have been a gain of 6%. The cost price of the cycle is:
Option 1: Rs. 1200
Option 2: Rs. 1205
Option 3: Rs. 1250
Option 4: Rs. 1275
Correct Answer: Rs. 1250
Solution : Let the cost price of the cycle be Rs. $x$. Selling price when loss is $10$% $=\frac{100- \text {Loss percentage}}{100}$ × Cost price = $\frac{90x}{100}$ Selling Price when profit is $6$% $= \frac{100 + \text {Profit percentage}}{100}$ × Cost price = $\frac{106x}{100}$ Difference between
Question : Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
I understand your plight.
Option 1: Predicament
Option 2: Dilemma
Option 3: Quandary
Option 4: Advantage
Correct Answer: Advantage
Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option.
The word plight typically refers to a difficult or unfavourable situation, often suggesting someone is facing challenges, difficulties, or adversity.
Conversely, advantage represents a favourable or beneficial situation. Therefore, "advantage" is the antonym of "plight" because it signifies
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".
All they need to do is feed their contact (1) / details, feed the IMEI number to receiving (2) / an OTP on their mobile. (3) / No Error (4)
Correct Answer: (2)
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The verb "receive" should be used instead of "receiving" following the infinitive form rule (to + base form of the verb). “Receiving” is a gerund here and cannot be preceded by “to”. So, the infinitive “to receive”
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:
Shahid was perfectly ‘lucid’. This suggests he was:
Option 1: confused
Option 2: in a delirium
Option 3: speaking coherently
Option 4: not intelligible
Correct Answer: speaking coherently
Solution : The third option is correct.
Let's have a look at the meanings of the given word and the marked option. Lucid means expressed clearly and easy to understand. Coherently means in reference to speech in a clear and understandable way.
Thus, the term lucid
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