Staff Selection Commission Multi Tasking Staff Exam
Question : Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose 'No improvement' as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
The day are warm, so the students ate their lunch outside.
Option 1: was warming
Option 2: is warm
Option 3: No improvement
Option 4: was warm
Correct Answer: was warm
Solution : The fourth option is correct.
Explanation: In the original sentence, the subject is the day, indicating a singular entity. However, the verb (are) is plural, resulting in a lack of agreement in the tense. To rectify this, the appropriate past tense form
Question : Directions: Which one of the given responses will be a meaningful order of the following? 1. Key 2. Door 3. Lock 4. Room
Option 1: 4, 2, 1, 3
Option 2: 1, 2, 3, 4
Option 3: 1, 3, 2, 4
Option 4: 1, 2, 4, 3
Correct Answer: 1, 3, 2, 4
Solution : Given: 1. Key 2. Door 3. Lock 4. Room
We use a key to open the lock of the door of a room. Key→Lock→Door→Room
So, the order is 1, 3, 2, 4. Hence, the third option is correct.
Question : On 8th September 2022, NITI Aayog launched the country's first national electric freight platform "Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport (e-FAST India)" in collaboration with_____.
Option 1: International Monetary Fund
Option 2: World Resources Institute
Option 3: World Bank
Option 4: World Health Organisation
Correct Answer: World Resources Institute
Solution : The correct answer is the World Resources Institute.
On 8th September 2022, NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), India, jointly launched e-FAST India (Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport), the nation’s inaugural electric freight platform. With road freight transport anticipated to
Question : Directions: Maximum marks of five exams E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 are compared, Maximum marks of each exam are different. Maximum marks of E5 are more than E3 and maximum marks of E3 are more than E1. Maximum marks of E1 are more than E4 and E2. Maximum marks of E2 are not the least among them. If the maximum maks of E2 are 180, then what can be the maximum maks of E4?
Option 1: 185
Option 2: 188
Option 3: 178
Option 4: 190
Correct Answer: 178
Solution : Given: (I) Maximum marks of five exams E1, E2, E3, E4, and E5 are compared, Maximum marks of each exam are different. _, _, _, _, _ (II) Maximum marks of E5 are more than E3 and maximum marks of E3 are more than E1.
Question : Directions: Six girls Mansi, Shweta, Monika, Payal, Aarti, and Kajal are sitting in a row facing north (not necessarily in the same order). Shweta is second to the left of Aarti. Payal is second to the right of Kajal. Kajal is second to the right of Monika. Kajal is to the immediate left of Shweta. Who is sitting to the immediate left of Aarti?
Option 1: Mansi
Option 2: Kajal
Option 3: Payal
Option 4: Shweta
Correct Answer: Payal
Solution : Given: (I) Shweta is second to the left of Aarti. Kajal is to the immediate left of Shweta.
(II) Payal is second to the right of Kajal. Kajal is second to the right of Monika.
So, Payal is sitting to the immediate left of Aarti.
Question : Directions: Select the number from among the given options that can replace the question mark (?) in the following series. 31, 62, 65, 260, 265, ?
Option 1: 860
Option 2: 1240
Option 3: 555
Option 4: 1590
Correct Answer: 1590
Solution : Given: 31, 62, 65, 260, 265, ?
The pattern is as follows – 31 × 2 = 62; 62 + 3 = 65; 65 × 4 = 260; 260 + 5 = 265; 265 × 6 = 1590
So, the missing number is 1590. Hence,
Question : The World Health Organisation defines adolescents as individuals in the age group of ______.
Option 1: 10 to 19 years
Option 2: 8 to 15 years
Option 3: 12 to 16 years
Option 4: 6 to 14 years
Correct Answer: 10 to 19 years
Solution : The correct answer is 10 to 19 years
Adolescence is the stage of life that is between childhood and adulthood in terms of growth and development. Anybody between the ages of 10 and 19 is considered an adolescent, according to the World
Question : If 750 is divided into two parts such that the ratio of one to the other is in the ratio 8 : 7, then find the smallest number.
Option 1: 135
Option 2: 120
Option 3: 350
Option 4: 90
Correct Answer: 350
Solution : 750 is divided into two parts such that the ratio of one to the other is in the ratio 8 : 7. So, the smallest part $=750×\frac{7}{8+7}=750×\frac{7}{15}=350$ Hence, the correct answer is 350.
Question : Directions: After interchanging which two signs, the value of the given equation will be 1? 3 ÷ 1 + 6 × 2 – 5
Option 1: + and –
Option 2: ÷ and +
Option 3: × and –
Option 4: ÷ and ×
Correct Answer: ÷ and ×
Solution : Given: 3 ÷ 1 + 6 × 2 – 5
Interchange the signs according to the given options. First option: + and – Solving the L.H.S. of the equation – 3 ÷ 1 – 6 × 2 + 5 = 3 – 12
Question : Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Nuclear power for civil use is well (1)________ in India. Since building the two small boiling water reactors (2)________ Tarapur in the 1960s, its civil nuclear strategy (3)__________ directed towards complete independence in the nuclear fuel cycle, necessarily (4)_________ it is excluded (5)________ the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Question: Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Option 1: though
Option 2: that
Option 3: because
Option 4: thus
Correct Answer: because
Solution : The most appropriate option to fill in the blank is the third option.
Explanation: In this context, the sentence introduces the cause or reason for the civil nuclear strategy in India. The correct conjunction to use in this case is because.
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