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Goods Guard, Assistant Station Master (ASM), Traffic Apprentice (TA),
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Commercial Apprentice (CA), Senior Time Keeper, Enquiry-cumReservation Clerk (ECRC) & Traffic Assistant
Recruitment Exam, 2016
1. The face value of 8 in the numeral 458926 is:
A. 8000
B. 8
C. 1000
D. 458000
2.

17.28 x
3.6 0.2
A. 120
C. 12

1
1
1
1
1
1
... 1
=x
3
4
5
n
then the value of x is:
1
2
A.
B.
n
n
2
2(n 1)
C.
D.
n(n 1)
n
1

x 3
, then the value of
3. If
y 4
equals:
5
1
A.
B. 1
7
7
C. 1
D. 2

6
7

2 then, the value of x is:

7. If

B. 1.20
D. 0.12

8. 171 19 9 equals:
A. 0
C. 18

B. 1
D. 81

9. 3120 26 + 13 30 equals:
A. 2400
B. 3900
C. 536
D. None of these
y
y

10. If x =

x
x

5
3
is equal to:
A. 8

and y =

, then (x + y)

B. 6

C. 2 15
D. 2 5
3
x+1
x+3
11. 2 + 2 = 2560, then x is equal to:
A. 12
B. 11
C. 8
D. 6

4. HCF of 1485 and 4356 is:

A. 189
B. 89
C. 99
D. 83

12. The prices of a scooter and a television set are

in the ratio 3 : 2. If a scooter costs ` 6000 more
than the television set, the price of the
television set is:
A. ` 18000
B. ` 12000
C. ` 10000
D. ` 6000

5. Which of the following is in ascending order?

5 7 9
5 9 7
, ,
A. , ,
B.
7 8 11
7 11 8
7 5 9
9 7 5
, ,
C. , ,
D.
8 7 11
11 8 7

13. The weight of a 13 metres long iron rod be 23.4

kg. The weight of 6 metres long of such rod
will be:
A. 7.2 kg
B. 12.4 kg
C. 10.8 kg
D. 18 kg

6. The largest number which exactly divides 210,

315, 147 and 161 is:
A. 3
B. 7
C. 21
D. 4410
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14. Anil started a business investing ` 70,000.

After 8 months Vimal joined him with a capital
of ` 1,80,000. In what ratio should Anil and
Vimal share the profit after two years?
A. 8 : 7
B. 7 : 5
C. 7 : 6
D. None of these
15. A, B and C starts a business. A invests ` 3,20,000
for four months. B invests ` 5,10,000 for three
months and C invests ` 2,70,000 for five
months. If at the end of year there is a profit of
` 1,24,800, then share of B is:
A. ` 79000
B. ` 49200
C. ` 50000
D. ` 45900
16. The average age of a committee of seven trustees
is the same as it was 5 years ago; a young man
having been substituted for one of them. The
new man compared to the replaced old man, is
younger in age by:
A. 5 years
B. 7 years
C. 12 years
D. 35 years
17. The average expenditure of a man for the first
five months is ` 120 and for the next seven
months is ` 130. His monthly average income
if he saves ` 290 in that year, is:
A. ` 160
B. ` 170
C. ` 150
D. ` 140
18. A loss of 5% was suffered by selling a plot for
` 4085. The cost price of the plot was:
A. ` 4350
B. ` 4259.25
C. ` 4200
D. ` 4300
19. On selling an article for ` 240, a trader loses
4%. In order to gain 10%, he must sell that
article for:
A. ` 264.00
B. ` 273.20
C. ` 275.00
D. ` 280.00
20. A certain sum of money at simple interest
amounts to ` 1260 in 2 years and to ` 1350
in 5 years. The rate per cent per annum is:
A. 2.5%
B. 3.75%
C. 5%
D. 7.5%

21. A sum of money doubles itself in 5 years. It

will become 4 times itself in:
A. 10 years
B. 12 years
C. 15 years
D. 20 years
22. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 6, 12 and
24 days respectively. They altogether will
complete the work in:
A. 3

3
days
7

B.

7
days
24

C. 4

4
days
5

D.

5
days
24

23. A, B and C contract a work for ` 550. Together

7
of the work. The share of
A and B are to do
11
C should be:
A. ` 183
C. ` 300

1
3

B. ` 200
D. ` 400

24. If the ratio of the areas of two squares is 9 : 1,

the ratio of their perimeters is:
A. 9 : 1
B. 3 : 1
C. 3 : 4
D. 1 : 3
25. The perimeter of both, a square and a rectangle
are each equal to 48 m and the difference
between their areas is 4 m2. The breadth of the
rectangle is:
A. 10 m
B. 12 m
C. 14 m
D. None of these
26. The radius of a wire is decreased to one-third. If
volumes remains the same, length will increase:
A. 1 time
B. 3 times
C. 6 times
D. 9 times
27. A cylindrical piece of metal of radius 2 cm and
height 6 cm is shaped into a cone of same radius.
The height of cone is:
A. 18 cm
B. 14 cm
C. 12 cm
D. 8 cm

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Directions (Qs. 28 to 30): Study the following graph

carefully and answer the following questions.
Demand and Production of Colour TV sets of
Five Companies for October 1988

2200

2700
1200

33. A E H O U
A. U
C. H

B. O
D. E

34. C H M S W B
A. C
C. B

B. S
D. W

Directions (Qs. 35 to 36): Which of the following

groups of letters will complete the given series?

600

1000

1500

1800

2500

3000

Production

3300

Demand

Directions (Qs. 33 to 34): Which letter(s) in each of

the following series is wrong or is misfit in the
series?

Companies

28. What is the ratio of companies having more

demand than production of those having more
production than demand?
A. 2 : 3
B. 4 : 1
C. 2 : 2
D. 3 : 2
29. What is the difference between average demand
and average production of the five companies
taken together?
A. 1400
B. 400
C. 280
D. 138
30. The production of Company D is
approximately how many times that of the
production of the Company A?
A. 1.8
B. 4.5
C. 2.5
D. 4.9
Directions (Qs. 31 to 32): In each of the following
series determine the order of the letters. Then
from the given options select the one which will
complete the given series.

35. ab---b-bbaaA. babba

C. abbab

B. abaab
D. baaab

36. aa-ab--aaa-a
A. baaa
C. aaab

B. abab
D. aabb

Directions (Qs. 37 to 38): In the questions given

below one term is missing. Based on the
relationship of the two given words find the
missing term from the given options.
37. HUNGER : FOOD : : THIRST : ?
A. Water
B. Drink
C. Tea
D. Coffee
38. HUNTER : GUN : : WRITER : ?
A. Book
B. Pen
C. Poem
D. Page
Directions (Qs. 39 to 40): In the following
questions, select the number from the given
options which follows the same relationship as
shared between the first two numbers.
39. 1 : 11 : : 2 : ?
A. 20
C. 24
40.

31. B Y C X D W E ?
A. S
C. U

B. T
D. V

32. B A F E J I P O ? U
A. V
C. S

B. T
D. Q

B. 22
D. 44

1 1
1
:
:: :?
7 14 9
A.

1
88

B.

1
80

C.

1
81

D.

1
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Directions (Qs. 41 to 42): In each of the following

questions, three words are alike in some manner.
Spot the odd one out.
41. A. Green
C. Colour

B. Red
D. Orange

42. A. Stable
C. Canoe

B. Hole
D. Sty

Directions (Qs. 43 to 44): In the following questions

select the right option which indicates the correct
code for the word or letter given in the question.
43. If MUSK is coded as 146816, then ZERO will
be coded as :
A. 113811
B. 122912
C. 15915
D. 2651815
44. If BAD is coded as 7, HIS as 9, LOW will be
coded as :
A. 50
B. 8
C. 23
D. 5
Directions (Qs. 45 to 46): Ram, Sohan and Mohan
play football, hockey and cricket. Ram, Ramesh and
Mohan play hockey, cricket and basketball. Ram,
Sohan, Rahim and Mohan play football and cricket.
Now answer the following questions based on the
above statements :
45. Which game is played by all the boys?
A. Football
B. Hockey
C. Cricket
D. Basketball
46. Which two boys play all the games?
A. Ram, Sohan
B. Ram, Ramesh
C. Sohan, Mohan
D. Ram, Mohan
Directions (Qs. 47 to 48): In the following questions,
understand the arrangement pattern and then select
the right answer from the given options :
47. Five boys are sitting in a row. Raghu is not
adjacent to Shyam or Amit. Ajay is not adjacent
to Shyam. Raghu is adjacent to Mayank. If
Mayank is at the middle in the row, then Ajay
is adjacent to whom out of the following?
A. Amit
B. Raghu
C. Mayank
D. Shyam

48. Mini is to the right of Rajni but to the left of

Ananta. Saya is to the right of Mini but to the
left of Jaya. Who is on the extreme left if all the
girls are facing North?
A. Jaya
B. Mini
C. Rajni
D. Saya
Directions (Qs. 49 to 50): In the following questions,
select the right answer from the given options to
depict the correct direction/distance.
49. Kittu walks towards East and then towards
South. After walking some distance he turns
towards West and then turns to his left. In
which direction is he walking now?
A. North
B. South
C. East
D. West
50. A person is driving towards West. What
sequence of directions should he follow so that
he is driving towards South?
A. left, right, right
B. right, right, left
C. left, left, left
D. right, right, right
Directions (Qs. 51 to 52): In each of the following
questions keenly study the relationship mentioned
between the persons, and then from the given options
select the right relationship as the answer.
51. A lady said, The person standing there is my
grandfathers only sons daughter. How is the
lady related to the standing person?
A. Sister
B. Mother
C. Aunt
D. Cousin
52. Ajay is the brother of Vijay. Mili is the sister
of Ajay. Sanjay is the brother of Rahul and
Mehul is the daughter of Vijay. Who is Sanjays
Uncle?
A. Rahul
B. Ajay
C. Mehul
D. Data inadequate
53. In a row of trees, one tree is fifth from either
end of the row. How many trees are in the row?
A. 11
B. 8
C. 10
D. 9
54. Jaya ranks 5th in a class of 53. What is her rank
from the bottom in the class?
A. 49th
B. 48th
C. 47th
D. 50th

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55. If denotes , denotes , denotes

, denotes +, denotes = and denotes then which of the following euations
is correct?
A. 2 10 4 5 5 12 6
B. 27 9 6 3 6 9
C. 4 2 0 7 1 0
D. 5 6 3 2 8 4 3
56. If stands for , stands for , stands
for + and stands for , then
25 5 3 6 8 = ?
A. 9
B. 12
C. 16
D. 15
57. Which letter should be ninth letter to the left
of ninth letter from the right if the first half of
the alphabet is reversed?
A. I
B. D
C. F
D. E
58. Starting from the fifth letter from the left, if
twelve letters are written in reverse order, then
which letter will be the seventh to the left of
the fourteenth letter from the right?
A. N
B. H
C. L
D. O
Directions (Qs. 59 to 60): In each question below
five figures are given. Four are similar in a certain
way and so form a group. The question is which
one of the figures does not belong to that group?
59.
A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

60.

61. At a time when empires in Europe were

crumbling before the might of Napoleon
which one of the following Governor-Generals
kept the British flag flying high in India?
A. Warren Hastings
B. Lord Cornwallis
C. Lord Wellesley
D. Lord Hastings

62. Which one of the following statements

regarding Fascism in Italy is not true?
A. The Fascists came to power as a result of
popular uprising
B. In 1926, all political parties except
Mussolinis party were banned
C. The Fascists suppressed the Socialist
movement
D. The Fascists were hostile to the
Communists
63. The fall of Czar Nicholas-II is known as:
A. Bloody Sunday
B. Bolshevik Revolution
C. February Revolution
D. October Revolution
64. Industrial Revolution took place first in:
A. France
B. Germany
C. United Kingdom D. Japan
65. The British Prime Minister at the outbreak of
World War II was :
A. Churchill
B. Baldwin
C. Attlee
D. Chemberlain
66. Nagarjunasagar Project is situated on the river:
A. Tungabhadra
B. Cauvery
C. Krishna
D. Godavari
67. The difference between the Indian Standard
Time and the Greenwich Mean Time is:
A. 3 hours
B. + 3 hours
C. 5 hours
D. + 5 hours
68. Which of the following dams is not on
Narmada river?
A. Indira-Sagar Project
B. Maheshwar Hydel Power Project
C. Jobat Project
D. Koyna Power Project
69. Which of the following statements is not true
about the availability of water on the earth,
the crisis for which is going to increase in the
years to come?
A. About 97.5 per cent of the total volume of
water available on the earth is salty
B. 80 per cent of the water available to us for
use comes in bursts as monsoons

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C. About 2.5 per cent of the total water

available on the earth is polluted water
and cannot be used for human activities
D. Possibility is that some big glaciers will
melt in the coming ten-fifteen years and
sea level will rise by 3-4 metres all over
the earth
70. Which of the following is not a cash crop?
A. Jute
B. Paddy
C. Cashewnut
D. Sugarcane
71. The Secretary-General of the UNO is appointed
by the:
A. General Assembly
B. Security Council
C. Trusteeship Council
D. World Bank
72. The United Nations
existence in 1945 on
A. November 24
C. October 24

officially came into

:
B. October 14
D. November 14

73. Which one of the following is true of the

International Court of Justice?
A. The Judges of the Court are appointed
according to the discretion of the Secretary
General
B. No two Judges may belong to the same
country
C. The Court consists of 20 Judges
D. The statute of the International Court of
Justice is not an integral part of the UN
Charter
74. Which of the following was not among the
six founding countries of the European
Community?
A. Belgium
B. France
C. Germany
D. UK
75. The smallest country in South America is:
A. Ecuador
B. Guyana
C. Surinam
D. Uruguay
76. Who was the first woman Governor of an
Indian State?
A. Sushila Nayar
B. Sucheta Kripalani
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Sulochana Modi

77. Who among the following founded the

Bhartiya Jana Sangh?
A. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
B. Veer Savarkar
C. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
D. Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
78. Who among the following President of India
held his office for two successive terms?
A. V.V. Giri
B. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
C. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
D. None of these
79. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is an exponent of:
A. Flute
B. Sitar
C. Sarod
D. Tabla
80. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the
Bharat Ratna?
A. Martin Luther King
B. Zubin Mehta
C. Mother Teressa
D. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
81. The WTOs 10th Ministerial Conference was
held in ......... in December 2015.
A. Nairobi
B. London
C. Johannesburg
D. Tokyo
82. The country, whose parliament approved civil
union right for same sex couples on December
23, 2015, is ............
A. South Africa
B. Greece
C. Spain
D. UK
83. On December 9, 2015 which European country
agreed to introduce an identity card for
refugees to better control the wave of migrants?
A. Italy
B. Slovakia
C. Germany
D. Bulgaria
84. Who has been named as the Time Person of
the year 2015?
A. Vladimir Putin
B. Barack Obama
C. Xi Jinping
D. Angela Merkel
85. The parliament of which country approved a
resolution on December 22, 2015 calling on the
government to recognise the state of Palestine?
A. Germany
B. Italy
C. Japan
D. Greece

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86. Shaheen-III, a surface-to-surface ballistic

missile, which can carry nuclear warheads was
test-fired on December 11, 2015 by ..........
A. Pakistan
B. Iran
C. Iraq
D. Saudi Arabia
87. In December 2015, which country declared
itself as an Islamic republic?
A. Syria
B. Turkey
C. Gambia
D. Singapore
88. As per the Forest Report 2015, the geographical
area under forest cover in India is ............
A. 21.34 per cent
B. 20.83 per cent
C. 22.52 per cent
D. 24.21 per cent
89. In December 2015, Rajya Sabha moved an
impeachment notice against a sitting Judge of
............
A. Punjab and Haryana High Court
B. Gujarat High Court
C. Madras High Court
D. Allahabad High Court
90. Heart of Asia Conference was held on
December 9, 2015 at ............
A. Istanbul
B. Beijing
C. Islamabad
D. Jaipur
91. Which one is not a work of British mystery
writer Peter Dickinson, who died in December,
2015?
A. The Weathermonger
B. The Devils Children
C. Laidlaw
D. Heartsease
92. Bollywoods veteran actress Sadhana, who
died on December 25, 2015 has not acted
opposite Rajendra Kumar in which of the
following movies?
A. Mere Mehboob
B. Aap Aaye Bahar Aayee
C. Woh Kaun Thi
D. Arzoo
93. The Union Cabinet on December 2 approved
the setting up of six new IITs in different
states. Which one is not in that state-list?
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Karnataka
C. Kerala
D. Andhra Pradesh

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94. The Indian Navy on December 23, 2015
decommissioned the INS Godavari. Indias first
warship designed and built indigenously. In
which year, was it commissioned?
A. 1982
B. 1983
C. 1984
D. 1981
95. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on
December 17, 2015 cleared the purchase of an
estimated ` 40000 crore S-400 Triumf air
defence missile system. This system is
developed by which country?
A. USA
B. France
C. Russia
D. Israel
96. Which country has overwhelmingly voted in
December 2015 to change the constitution to
allow president Paul Kagame to potentially
rule until 2034?
A. Seychelles
B. Latvia
C. Burkina Faso
D. Rwanda
97. Who has been appointed the Chief Information
Commissioner (CIC) on December 18, 2015?
A. R.K. Mathur
B. Reva Khetrapal
C. A.K. Jain
D. Akhilesh Mishra
98. Internet search engine Yahoo on December 3
released its list of top 10 searches on Yahoo
in 2015. Which was the years most searched
term?
A. Caitlyn Jenner
B. iPhone
C. Kim Kardashian
D. Bobbi Kristina Brown
99. Who won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers
Trophy after being named ICC Cricketer-ofthe-Year 2015?
A. Steve Smith
B. A.B. de Villiers
C. Virat Kohli
D. Brandon McCullum
100. Who won the $ 3.5 million Hero World
Challenge (in Golf) on December 6, 2015 at
the Albany Golf Club near Nassau (The
Bahamas)?
A. Patrick Reed
B. Justin Rose
C. Ricki Fowler
D. Bubba Watson

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