List of practice Questions

State any two strategies to achieve the objective of sustainable development.

Interpret the given picture and explain any one strategy to control it from becoming an ecological disaster.

“The Government of India has taken various measures to align the agricultural marketing system with the growing production activities in the rural areas.”
Do you agree with the given statement? Give any two valid reasons in support of your answer.

“Recently, the Government of India launched Jan-Dhan Yojana.”
In the light of the given statement, discuss briefly the objectives of this scheme.

\[ \begin{array}{|c|l|} \hline \textbf{Column I} & \textbf{Column II} \\ \hline \text{1. Cement shop owner} & \text{(iii) Self-employed} \\ \hline \text{2. Construction worker} & \text{(ii) Casual wage workers} \\ \hline \text{3. Civil engineer} & \text{(i) Regular salaried} \\ \hline \end{array} \]

Read the following statements: Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Choose the correct alternative from those given below:
Assertion (A): In the recent past, Indian economy has been facing the problem of jobless growth.
Reason (R): Jobless growth refers to a situation where an economy is able to produce more goods and services without generating additional employment.

Read the following statements carefully: Statement 1: India, Pakistan and China have similar physical endowments, but totally different political systems.
Statement 2: Both India and Pakistan laid great emphasis on creating a large private sector.

After the implementation of economic reforms, Pakistan experienced slowdown of growth due to various reasons including _________ .
(Choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank):
[(i)] Volatile performance of the agriculture sector.
[(ii)] Over-dependence on remittances from abroad.
[(iii)] Political instability

Identify the sources of Human Capital Formation and choose the correct alternative to fill in the blanks:

A salt QCl of a certain metal Q is electrolyzed to its elements. 40 g of metal Q is formed at an electrode. The volume of Cl₂ formed at the other electrode at 1 atm pressure and 298 K is _______ litres. (rounded off to one decimal place)
[Given: The gas constant 𝑅 = 0.082 L atm mol⁻¹ K⁻¹ , the molar mass of Q is 40 g mol⁻¹ and Cl₂ is assumed to be an ideal gas]

The specific rotation of an optically pure compound is +75.3 (c 1.0 in CHCl₃) at 20 °C. A synthetic sample of the same compound showed a specific rotation of +66.3 (c 1.0 in CHCl₃) at 20 °C. The enantiomeric excess (ee) of the synthetic sample is _______ %.
(rounded off to the nearest integer)

Which of the following matrices is Hermitian as well as unitary?

A cultured skin fibroblast cell of a goat ‘P’ was fused with an enucleated ovum of a goat 'Q'. The resultant activated early embryo was then transplanted into a pseudopregnant (surrogate) female goat 'R' of the same strain as 'Q'. On completion of gestation, a female goat 'S' was born. With the exception of mitochondrial DNA, 'S' is a clone of

If a variable 𝑧 shows a standard normal distribution, then the percent probability that $0 ≤ 𝑧^2 ≤ 1$ is ________ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

If two distinct non-zero real variables $ x $ and $ y $ are such that $ (x + y) $ is proportional to $ (x - y) $, then the value of $ \frac{x}{y} $ is:

In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)—(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks. Steve was advised to keep his head ………. (i) before heading ……….. (ii) to bat; for, while he had a head ……….. (iii) batting, he could only do so with a cool head ………. (iv) his shoulders.

The pie chart presents the percentage contribution of different macronutrients to a typical $ 2,000 \, \text{kcal} $ diet of a person.

The typical energy density(kcal/g) of these macronutrients given in the table

The total fat (all three types), in grams, this person consumes is:

A rectangular paper of $ 20 \, \text{cm} \times 8 \, \text{cm} $ is folded 3 times. Each fold is made along the line of symmetry, which is perpendicular to its long edge. The perimeter of the final folded sheet (in cm) is:

The least number of squares to be added in the figure to make $ AB $ a line of symmetry is:

The tangent plane to the surface $ x^2 + y^2 + z = 9 $ at the point $ (1, 2, 4) $ is:

The value of the line integral \[ \oint (x^2 \, dx + 2x \, dy) \] along the ellipse $ 4x^2 + y^2 = 4 $, oriented in the counterclockwise sense, is: