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Solved General Awareness Question Paper (Test Form No. 3529538) of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam 2015.


1. The best milch breed in the world is:

  • A) Sindhi
  • B) Chittagong
  • C) Deoni
  • D) Holstein - Friesian


2. Best way to conserve our water resources:

  • A) Rain water harvesting
  • B) Sustainable water utilization
  • C) Encouragement of natural regeneration of vegetation
  • D) All above


3. Constitutional Monarchy means:

  • A) The king is elected by the people
  • B) The king exercises his power as granted by the constitution
  • C) The king intreprets the constitution
  • D) The king writes the constitution


4. An enzyme produced by HIV that allows the integration of HIV DNA into the host cell's DNA is:

  • A) Integrase
  • B) Ligase
  • C) Helicase
  • D) DNA gyrase


5. Granite, quartzite areas have upstanding look because:

  • A) mechanically weathered faster
  • B) these rocks are not easily eroded
  • C) these rocks are resistant to all kinds of erosion
  • D) not easily worn down


6. Who was the first Indian women president of the United Nations General Assembly?

  • A) Margaret Thatcher
  • B) Sarojini Naidu
  • C) Golda Mayer
  • D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


7. SIDBI stands for:

  • A) Small Industries Development Bank of India
  • B) Small Industries Developmental Banker Institute
  • C) Small Innovations Development Banker's Institution
  • D) Small Industries Designed Bank of India


8. First Nobel Prize to India was given for:

  • A) Chemistry
  • B) Physics
  • C) Literature
  • D) Medicine


9. Muddy water is treated with alum in purification process, it is termed as:

  • A) absorption
  • B) adsorption
  • C) coagulation
  • D) emulsification


10. Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  • A) Dr S P Mukherjee
  • B) B R Ambedkar
  • C) G V Mavalankar
  • D) N Sanjeev Reddy


11. Reserve Bank of India was nationalised in:

  • A) 1949
  • B) 1947
  • C) 1935
  • D) 1951


12. Which among the following is the sweetest sugar?

  • A) fructose
  • B) lactose
  • C) maltose
  • D) glucose


13. Who intiated the movement to form the Indian National Congress?

  • A) Gandhiji
  • B) A O Hume
  • C) W C Banerjee
  • D) Annie Besant


14. Day and night are equal at the:

  • A) Antartic
  • B) Equator
  • C) Poles
  • D) Prime Meridian


15. Burns caused by steam are much more severe than those caused by boiling water because:

  • A) Steam has latent heat
  • B) Steam pierces through the pores of body quickly
  • C) Temperature of steam is higher
  • D) Steam is gas and engulfs the body quickly


16. The metal ion present in vitamin B12 is:

  • A) iron
  • B) nickel
  • C) cobalt
  • D) zinc


17. Choose the correct option which represents the arrangement of atmospheric layers.

  • A) Exosphere, Troposphere, Ionosphere, Mesophere, Stratosphere
  • B) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesophere, Ionosphere, Exosphere
  • C) Mesophere, Ionosphere, Exosphere, Troposphere, Stratosphere
  • D) Ionosphere, Exosphere, Mesophere, Stratosphere, Troposphere


18. Ultra purification of a metal is done by:

  • A) slagging
  • B) smelting
  • C) leaching
  • D) zone melting


19. In which year the Indian National Congress formed?

  • A) 1875
  • B) 1835
  • C) 1885
  • D) 1901


20. Which one among the following industries is the maximum consumer of water in India?

  • A) Thermal power
  • B) Engineering
  • C) Paper and pulp
  • D) Textile


21. Surplus budget is recommended during:

  • A) Depression
  • B) War
  • C) Famines
  • D) Boom


22. Which of the following is called the Light House of the Mediterranean?

  • A) Paracutin of Mexico
  • B) Vesuvius of Italy
  • C) Stramboliy of Sicily
  • D) Mount Pelee of West Indies


23. The layer of atmosphere close to the earth's surface is called:

  • A) Troposphere
  • B) Exosphere
  • C) Ionosphere
  • D) Stratosphere


24. A computer executes programs in the sequence of:

  • A) Store, Fetch, Execute
  • B) Decode, Fetch, Execute
  • C) Execute, Fetch, Decode
  • D) Fetch, Decode, Execute


25. Microbial degradation of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen is known as:

  • A) Putrefaction
  • B) Nitrification
  • C) Denitrification
  • D) Ammonification


26. Radioactivity was discovered by:

  • A) Soddy
  • B) Curie
  • C) BecQueral
  • D) Rutherford


27. Gandhiji's famous Quit India Movement call to the British was given in:

  • A) 1943
  • B) 1940
  • C) 1942
  • D) 1941


28. NABARD stands for:

  • A) National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development
  • B) National Business for Accounting and Reviewing
  • C) National Bureau for Air and Road Transport
  • D) National Bank for Aeronautics and Radar Development


29. The One Rupee Note bears the signature of:

  • A) Secretary, Ministry of Finance
  • B) Governor, Reserve Bank of India
  • C) Finance Minister
  • D) None of these


30. The two specific heats of gases are related by:

  • A) Cp - Cv = RJ
  • B) Cp + Cv = RJ
  • C) Cp - Cv = R/J
  • D) Cp/Cv = R


31. What is plural voting system?

  • A) Candidates themselves caste more than one vote.
  • B) Eligible voter exercises one vote and some voters with specific qualifications cast more than one vote.
  • C) All the citizens cast three votes each
  • D) Only the higher officials cast more than one vote.


32. Evergreen type forests are found in:

  • A) Mediterranean region
  • B) Equatorial region
  • C) Monsoon climatic area
  • D) Desert region


33. Pulses are obtained from the family:

  • A) Leguminosae
  • B) Fungi
  • C) Liliaceae
  • D) Cycadaceae


34. What is the currency of Saudi Arabia?

  • A) Lira
  • B) Pound
  • C) Dinar
  • D) Riyal


35. Bangladesh was created in:

  • A) 1973
  • B) 1970
  • C) 1971
  • D) 1972


36. Which of the following particles has the dual nature of particle-wave?

  • A) Electron
  • B) Proton
  • C) Meson
  • D) Neutron


37. What is popular sovereignty?

  • A) sovereignty of the legal head
  • B) sovereignty of the head of state
  • C) sovereignty of the people
  • D) sovereignty of people's representative


38. Who of the following has given the term rhizosphere?

  • A) Hiltner
  • B) Garret
  • C) Alexopolus
  • D) None of the above


39. What is 'Reformation'?

  • A) Rise of absolute monarchy
  • B) Change in attitude of man
  • C) Revival of classical learning
  • D) The revolt against authority of pope


40. Which of the following options correctly explains the term 'heat budget'?

  • A) It is the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation.
  • B) It is the amount of heat which the surface of earth receives from the sun.
  • C) It is the radiation from the earth in the form of long waves.
  • D) It is a mode of transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.


41. The ash-grey soils of high altitude coniferous forests are known as:

  • A) Podsols
  • B) Grey-Brown soils
  • C) Red and Yellow soils
  • D) Tundra soils


42. The gene which exhibits multiple effects is known as:

  • A) Polygene
  • B) Complementary
  • C) Pseudogene
  • D) Pleiotropic


43. Economic profit or normal profit is the same as:

  • A) maximum profit
  • B) net profit
  • C) accounting profit
  • D) optimum profit


44. Reverse transcription was discovered by:

  • A) Har Govind Khurana
  • B) Beadle and Tatum
  • C) Watson and Crick
  • D) Temin and Baltimore


45. Which of the following is in the ascending order of Data hierarchy?

  • A) bit-byte-Field-record-File-Database
  • B) bit-byte-record-Field-Database-File
  • C) byte-bit-File-record--Database-Field
  • D) Field-byte-bit-record-File-Database


46. Which of the following plant shows chloroplast dimorphism?

  • A) Sugar beet
  • B) Wheat
  • C) Rice
  • D) Sugarcane


47. Which among the following is a folk dance of India?

  • A) Mohiniattam
  • B) Manipuri
  • C) Garba
  • D) Kathakali


48. Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it. This was advocated by:

  • A) Sardar Patel
  • B) Lala Lajpat Rai
  • C) Lokmanya Tilak
  • D) Mahatma Gandhi


49. Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of:

  • A) Prarthna Samaj
  • B) Arya Samaj
  • C) Brahmo Samaj
  • D) Ram Krishna Mission


50. Voting is:

  • A) Universal adult franchise.
  • B) The process by which voters exercise their right to vote.
  • C) The process of selecting representatives.
  • D) The unit of area who constitute a unit for electing representative.