UPSC NDA II General Ability Test (30 June 2024)

Question 1:

Who has become the first state to implement the 'Right to Movement' on May 11, 2023 –

11 मई, 2023 को 'चलने के अधिकार' को लागू करने वाला पहला राज्य कौन बन गया है –

• मध्यप्रदेश Madhya Pradesh

• पंजाब Punjab

• उडीसा Odisha

• राजस्थानRajasthan

Question 2:

Directions :- Each of the following items features one part of a sentence, followed by four alternatives. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct alternative and mark you answer accordingly.

I had to wait for fifteen minutes..

• of  the bus

• at  the bus

• to the bus

• for  the bus

Question 3:

Directions :- Each of the following items features one part of a sentence, followed by four alternatives. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct alternative and mark you answer accordingly

I have been doing this job

• since the last five years.

• by the last five years.

• from the last five years.

• for the last five years.

Question 4:

Directions - In the following questions, the sentence given with a blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Keith has................ with a failure in English examination thrice.

• gone

• caught

• got

• met

Question 5:

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word given in bold Capital letters.

They waited with ANXIETY for the final results.

• Feebleness

• Calmness

• Shrewdness

• Wilderness

Question 6:

Directions :- In this section, there is a passsge having some blank spaces, each blank space is followed by four alternatives or words. Select a word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for filling the blank space, and indicate your response.

The working of the stomach was (a) ………….. by a strange accident. In 1822, a man named Alexis St. Martin was (2) ……………. hit by a shot gun. The bullet had seriously (3) ………… the chest wall and made a hole in

(4) …………… stomach. He was brought to an American army (5) …………. William Beaumont.

The doctor saved the patient but he (6) ………… not close the hole properly. Beaumont took it as a (7) …………… opportunity to see the inside of the stomach (8) ………. the hole. He made some wonderful observations. Beaumont (9) …….…….. that the stomach was churning food. Its wall secreted a fluid (10) …………. could digest the food. He also observed that the end of the stomach opens into the intestine only after the digestion of the food inside the stomach is completed.

2.

• Badly

• Nicely

• Extremely

• Poorly

Question 7:

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word given in bold Capital letters

A DISTINCT sense of restlessness was bothering me when I left the cemetery.

• terrible

• prior

• critical

• vague

Question 8:

Directions :- Each of the following items in this section consists of a sentence, the parts of which have been jumbled as A, B , C and D. Rearrange the jumbled parts of the sentences into sequence and select the correct sequences as (a) , (b) (c) abd (d) given below and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

A. They appeared to be posing for 'selfies'.

B. An expeditioner had left it sitting on the ice while he visited a rookery.

C. In Antarctica, two penguins found a video camera.

D. The penguins curiously stared down at the camera.

• BCDA

• DACB

• CADB

• CBDA

Question 9:

In the given question, out of four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.

Give up the Ghost

• To overcome one's fear

• To stop working

• To give encouragement

• To feel superior

Question 10:

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

Turn his hand to

• To try new things

• To adapt or apply to

• To try hard

• To resolve