UPSC NDA II General Ability Test (30 June 2024)

Question 1:

Directions :- Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and find which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer sheet accordingly.

Well, I don't think I did well on that exam.

• adverb

• conjunction

• pronoun

• interjection

Question 2:

• b

• d

• a

• c

Question 3:

Directions :- Read the following passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.

A fact that draws our attention is that, according to his position in life, an extravagant man is either admired or loathed. A successful business man does nothing to increase his popularity by being prudent with his money. A person who is wealthy is expected to lead a luxurious life and to be lavish with his hospitality. If he is not so, he is considered mean, and his reputation in business may even suffer in consequence. The paradox remains that he had not been careful with his money in the first place; he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the low income group, a different set of values exists. The young clerk, who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he has not paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Carefulness with money to the point of meanness is applauded as a virtue. is applauded as a virtue.

Nothing in his life is considered more worthy than paying his bills. The ideal wife for such a man separates her housekeeping money into joyless little piles - so much for rent, for food, for the children's shoes, she is able to face the milkman with equanimity every month, satisfied with her economizing ways, and never knows the guilt of buying something she can't really afford. As for myself, I fall into neither of these categories. If I have money to spare I can be extravagant, but when, as is usually the case, I am hard up and then I am the meanest man imaginable.

The word 'equanimity' in the passage means

• frustration

• agitation

• tranquillity

• anxiety

Question 4:

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

• from the last five years.

• for the last five years.

• since the last five years.

• by the last five years.

Question 5:

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists.

सूची-I को सूची-II से सुमेलित कीजिए तथा सूचियाँ के नीचे दिए गए कूट से सही उत्तर का चयन कीजिए। 

• (c)

• (a)

• (d)

• (b)

Question 6:

In the context of Indian freedom struggle, who were the Khudai Khidmatgars?

भारतीय स्वतंत्रता संग्राम के संदर्भ में, खुदाई खिदमतगार कौन थे? 

• पारसी समुदाय के आधुनिकीकरण के लिए कार्य करने वाला एक सुधारवादी संगठन। A reformist organisation working for the modernisation of the Parsi community.

• बंगाल में छात्रों का एक क्रांतिकारी समूह । A revolutionary group of students in Bengal.

• कांग्रेस में एक समूह ने खिलाफत मुद्दे को उठाने के लिए मौलाना अबुल कलाम आज़ाद के नेतृत्व में बनाया गया एक समूह A group in the Congress formed under the leadership of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to take up the Khilafat issue.

• खान अब्दुल गफ्फार खान के नेतृत्व में एक अहिंसक क्रांतिकारी समूह । A non-violent revolutionary group led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

Question 7:

How many moles of H₂(g) are required to saturate one mole of benzene?

बेन्जीन के एक मोल को संतृप्त करने के लिए H₂ (g) के कितने मोल का 

आवश्यक है? 

• 2 

• 4 

• 1 

• 3 

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) An estimated 70% of this plastic which enters the sea sinks.

(b) This is a problem that stretches far beyond india.

(c) Eight million tonnes of plastic ends up in the world's oceans every year, causing damage to the fragile ecosystem.

(d) And much of it is not biodegradable.

• ABDC

• ADBC

• CADB

• CDBA

Question 9:

• d

• b

• a

• c

Question 10:

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given Idiom/ Phrase given below in bold letters

Queer pitch

• Make a lot of progress

• Spoil somebody's chance of doing something

• Act out of normal

• Make a weird request