Staff Selection Commission Multi Tasking Staff Exam
Question : Four sentences are given, out of which three have spelling errors. Choose the sentence with all the correctly spelt words.
Option 1: I was a bit depressed by our apparant lack of progress.
Option 2: Urban dwellers often accept noise as part of city life.
Option 3: She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultary.
Option 4: Its sanctions are based on compairisons between the two companies.
Correct Answer: Urban dwellers often accept noise as part of city life.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option.
The fourth option has all the spellings correct and according to the dictionary.
In the first option: Incorrect - apparant, Correct - apparent
In the third option: Incorrect -
Question : The statement below has been given with bracketed text. Select the option with the correct idiom for the bracketed text.
She started repaying the money she borrowed from me, but the amount she returned to me is (insignificant compared) to what she still owes.
Option 1: eat out of your hand
Option 2: jaw dropping
Option 3: an eye for an eye
Option 4: a drop in a bucket
Correct Answer: a drop in a bucket
Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option.
Explanation:
A drop in the bucket means a very small or insignificant amount compared to the whole. In this context, it signifies that the amount returned is much less compared to the total debt
Question : Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’. Their should be Lokpal to check corruption by the bureaucrats and politicians.
Option 1: Their should be Lokpal to
Option 2: No error
Option 3: The bureaucrats and politicians
Option 4: Check corruption by
Correct Answer: Their should be Lokpal to
Solution : The correct choice is the first option.
The error in the original sentence is the use of their instead of there.
The correct word to use in this context is there, indicating the existence or presence of something.
Therefore, the
Question : Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose 'No improvement' as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct. All work and none play makes Jack a dull boy.
Option 1: no play
Option 2: No improvement
Option 3: none plays
Option 4: no played
Correct Answer: no play
Solution : The first option is correct.
The correct version of the proverb is all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The phrase none play should be corrected to no play. The revised sentence maintains the rhyme scheme of the original proverb and
Question : Directions: Select the option that is related to the fifth term in the same way as the second term is related to the first term and the fourth term is related to the third term. TREE : RTEE :: KEEP : EKPE :: SOLO : ?
Option 1: OOSL
Option 2: OLSO
Option 3: OSOL
Option 4: LOSO
Correct Answer: OSOL
Solution : Given: TREE : RTEE :: KEEP : EKPE :: SOLO : ?
Like, TREE : RTEE – Divide the word TREE into two halves→TR / EE Now, interchange the letters of both the halves→RTEE And, KEEP : EKPE – Divide the word KEEP into two
Question : Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement required’.
My mother’s sister work since eight hours every weekday.
Option 1: working of eight
Option 2: works for eight
Option 3: work for eight
Option 4: No improvement required
Correct Answer: works for eight
Explanation: The underlined portion should be replaced with works for eight to make the sentence grammatically accurate. Works is the correct usage because the subject is singular, and the preposition for should be used
Question : Directions: In a certain code language, 231 means Pant is Brown, 307 means His Brown Shirt, and 781 means Shirt and Pant, Find the code for is.
Option 1: 2
Option 2: 0
Option 3: 8
Option 4: 1
Correct Answer: 2
Solution : Given: (I) 231 ⇒ Pant is Brown (II) 307 ⇒ His Brown Shirt (III) 781 ⇒ Shirt and Pant
On comparing sentences, I and II 3 and brown are common. On comparing sentences, I and III 1 and pant are common. On comparing sentences, II
Question : P is thrice as good as a workman as Q and therefore can finish a work in 40 days less than Q. In how many days can they together complete the same work?
Option 1: 20 days
Option 2: 15 days
Option 3: 22.5 days
Option 4: 18 days
Correct Answer: 15 days
Solution : Let Q finish the work in $D$ days then P will finish the same work in $(D - 40)$ days. So, 1-day work (efficiency) of Q = $\frac{1}{D}$ and 1-day work (efficiency) of P = $\frac{1}{D - 40}$ According to the question ⇒ $\frac{1}{D
Question : Two successive price decreases of 20% and 30% of an article are equivalent to a single price decrease of:
Option 1: 50%
Option 2: 44%
Option 3: 25%
Option 4: 40%
Correct Answer: 44%
Solution : Single equivalent discount = $(a+b–\frac{a×b}{100}$)%, where $a$% and $b$% are successive discounts. ⇒ Single equivalent discount = $20+30-\frac{20×30}{100}=50-6=44$% Hence, the correct answer is 44%.
Question : Comprehension: Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it. Quarantine and self-isolation need not be monotonous and stifling. They can be the gateway to work, be it in the arts or the sciences, that define the history of the world. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Milton and Lord Byron used much time to add to their formidable body of work in science and literature. It was not called lockdown in their time, but they spent long spells in isolation when medicine was not as developed as it is now. The University of Cambridge, where all four were studied, delved into its archives to collate their activities during such periods of isolation centuries ago. Isaac Newton (Trinity College): Considered Trinity’s most accomplished alumni, he exemplified productivity during a pandemic. Like many in Cambridge during the Great Plague of 1655-56, he retreated to the countryside to escape the disease-ridden city and spent two extended periods at his family home in rural Lincolnshire. Newton thrived in isolation, and later described it as one of the most productive times in his life, finding the space to reflect on and develop his theories on optics, calculus, and the law of motion and gravity. It was during this time that he conducted his famous prism experiment. “He bored a hole through his window shutters to produce a single, thin beam of light to pass through two prisms, proving for the first time that prisms did not create colours, but merely separated colours that were already there,” the university’s researcher, Alisha Matthewson-Grand, wrote. “Indeed, Newton was so intellectually transformed by his period of isolation that later commentators have referred to his time away from Cambridge as his annus mirabilis, or his year of wonders.” Charles Darwin (Christ’s College): Darwin’s experience with isolation was not the result of a pandemic but his own chronic ill health. He suffered from a myriad of unexplained symptoms, including vertigo, vomiting, cramps, fatigue, anxiety and visual disturbances. He noted in his autobiography of 1876 that “few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [Darwin and his wife Emma] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere.” Darwin believed that periods of isolation and ill health helped his career. At home, he was free from the demands placed on other scientists (teaching, administrative work), and thus able to devote himself entirely to research; he wrote: “Ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” Lord Byron (Trinity College): In 1811, Lord Byron was forced to quarantine in Malta after returning from a cholera-ravaged Greece. He was furious at the prospect of spending 40 days in lockdown, a measure he considered to be draconian and unnecessary. While confined, he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’, a satirical poem attacking the island for (among other things) “Its smoky towns and cloudy sky” and its “cursed street of stairs”. He references his quarantine explicitly in the first verse “Adieu, thou damned’st quarantine / That gave me fever, and the spleen!’. John Milton (Christ’s College): The author of ‘Paradise Lost’ spent some time away from Cambridge as a first-year undergraduate in 1626, when the town was hit by bubonic plague. He was home in London when he wrote Elegia Prima, his first Latin elegy. The work is an early example of his aptitude for verse composition, as well as his impressive flair for comedy. Question: Lord Byron was a:
Option 1: teacher
Option 2: scientist
Option 3: poet
Option 4: researcher
Correct Answer: poet
Solution : The right choice is the third option.
Explanation: Lord Byron was a renowned poet. This is evident from his activities during quarantine mentioned in the passage, where he wrote 'Farewell to Malta', a satirical poem. His poetic work is a clear indication of
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