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Q.B. Number:
QUESTION BOOKLET

06 Post : Junior Assistant

INSTRUCTIONS

Roll Number:
A
Please read the following instructions carefully. 7) Each objective question is followed by four responses.
Your task is to choose the correct response and mark your
1) Mark carefully your Roll Number, Question Booklet response on the OMR Answer Sheet and NOT on the
Number and series of the paper on the OMR Answer Sheet Question Booklet.
and sign at the appropriate place. Write your Roll number on
the question booklet. 8) All questions are compulsory. Each question carries
1 mark. There is a no NEGATIVE MARKING.
2) Strictly follow the instructions given by the Centre
Supervisor / Room invigilator and those given on the 9) For each answer as shown in the example below. The
Question Booklet. Please ensure you fill all the required CORRECT and the WRONG method of darkening the
details and shade the bubbles correctly on the OMR Answer CIRCLE on the OMR sheet are given below.
Sheet.
Correct Method Wrong Method
3) Please mark the right responses ONLY with Blue/Black
ball point pen. USE OF PENCIL AND GEL-PEN IS NOT
ALLOWED.

4) Candidates are not allowed to carry any papers, notes,

books, calculators, cellular phones, scanning devices,
pagers etc. to the Examination Hall. Any candidate found 10) In view of the tight time span, do not waste your time on
using, or in possession of such unauthorized material, a question which you find to be difficult. Go on solving
indulging in copying or impersonation or adopting unfair questions one by one and come back to the difficult
means, is liable to be summarily disqualified and may be questions at the end.
subjected to penal action.
11) DO NOT make any stray marks anywhere on the OMR
5) After finishing the examination, hand over the OMR Answer Sheet. DO NOT fold or wrinkle the OMR Answer
Answer Sheet to the Room-Invigilator. Candidates are Sheet. Rough work MUST NOT be done on the answer
allowed to carry the Question Booklet with them, after the
examination is over. sheet. Use your question booklet for this purpose.

6) The test is of objective type. This Question Booklet

contains a total of 100 questions and the total time allotted
is 2 hours.

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Section 1 - Aptitude

1) The sum of two numbers is 13 and the sum of their 5) A courtyard is 15 metres long and 10 metres wide. If it
squares is 85, the smaller of the two numbers is is paved by bricks of length 20 cm and width 10 cm, then
A) 4 what is the number of bricks required?

B) 5 A) 4500

C) 6 B) 6000

D) 3 C) 7500

D) 9000
2) If the ratio of a number and its square root is 3:1, then
the value of 2 times the number is 6) ABC is an equilateral triangle of side 4 cm. If P, Q, R
A) 9 are the mid points of the sides BC, CA, AB respectively,
then what will be area of triangle PQR?
B) 6
A) √3/2 cm²
C) 3
B) √3 cm²
D) 18
C) 2√3 cm²

3) The denominator of a fraction is one more than its D) 3√3 cm²

numerator. If the numerator is increased by 2 and the
denominator is decreased by 4, the fraction becomes 6. 7) In an exam, 80% students passed in Hindi and 85% in
What is the fraction? English while 75% passed in both. If 40 students failed in
A) 4 / 5 both subjects, how many students have appeared for the
exam?
B) 3 / 4
A) 150
C) 2 / 3
B) 200
D) 5 / 6
C) 250

4) Mandy bought a dozen oranges at Rs.4 a piece. She D) 400

also bought a dozen mangoes at Rs.6 a piece. The
average price per fruit is 8) Rs. 3000 invested under simple interest for 2 years at
A) Rs. 4.5 a rate of interest of 10% will yield a interest of

B) Rs. 5.0 A) Rs. 600

C) Rs. 5.50 B) Rs.800

D) Rs. 5.75 C) Rs.1000

D) Rs.1200

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9) If ῷ stands for 'addition', ≠ stands for 'subtraction', ɵ 14) I am half the age of my mother. My younger sister is
stands for 'multiplication' and ϭ stands for 'division', then one third the age of my father. My father is 5 years elder
the value of 7 ῷ 8 ϭ 5 ɵ 6 ≠ 4 is to my mother. The sum of my age and my sister's age is
A) 12 45 years. Find the present age of my mother (in years).
B) 10 .6
A) 48
C) 11
D) 12.6 B) 52

C) 50
10) What is the maximum power of 7 that divides 150! ? D) 56
A) 22
B) 23
C) 24 15) Successive discounts of 20% and 15% are equal to a
D) 25 single discount of
A) 30%
11) If 2x=3y, then the value of (x2+y2)/ y2 is B) 32%
A) (4/9)
C) 36%
B) (13/4)
D) 38%
C) (4/13)

D) (9/4) 16) If ‘+’ stands for division, ‘x’ stands for addition, ‘-’
stands for multiplication and ‘÷’ stands
12) A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle of side for subtraction, then which of the following equation is
20 cm, touching its sides. What is the area of the circle? correct?

A) 50π cm² A) 5 ÷ 3 x 2 – 4 + 8 = 8

B) 50π/3 cm² B) 5 + 3 x 2 ÷ 4 - 8 = 4

C) 100π/3 cm² C) 5 – 3 + 2 x 4 ÷ 8 = 2

D) 100π cm² D) 5 x 3 + 2 – 4 x 8 = 19

13) The difference between the compound interest and 17) Rs. 5858 is divided among Atul, Balram and Chandan
the simple interest on a certain sum at 12% p.a. for two in such a way that if Rs. 53, Rs. 62, and Rs. 43 be
years is Rs. 90. What will be the value of the amount to deducted from their respective shares, they have money
the closest rupee, at the end of 3 years, if the interest is in the ratio 4:6:9. Find Atul's share.
compounded annually at 12% p.a? A) Rs. 1653
A) 9000 B) Rs. 1283
B) 6250 C) Rs. 1253
C) 8530.8 D) Rs. 1223
D) 8780.8

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18) A litre of milk sold by a milkman contains 80% of milk. 21) If the total market of 2004 was 75000 Crore Rupees
A housewife adds 200 ml of water to it and drinks 300 ml and there has been 20% increase in 2005, then what is
of the milk solution. How much of pure milk is left now? the market share of BSNL in 2005?
A) 600 ml A) 13500 Crore

B) 667 ml B) 15000 Crore

C) 700 ml C) 20000 Crore

D) 750 ml D) None of the options

19) The ratio of the areas of two similar triangles is equal 22) If the market increases by the same rate in 2006 then
to what will be the market share of Airtel in 2006?
A) The ratio of their corresponding sides A) 21600 Crore

B) The square of the ratio of their corresponding sides B) 20000 Crore

C) The cube of the ratio of their corresponding sides C) 24000 Crore

D) The ratio of their corresponding altitude D) Data Insufficient

Directions for Questions 20-22: 23) The ratio of the weights of Ginny and Tinny is 4:7. If
Tinny loses 8 kg weight, the ratio becomes 2:3. The weight
The following pie chart gives the market share (in of Ginny is
percentage), of the telecom companies in India in 2005. A) 32 kg

B) 36 kg

C) 48 kg

D) 56 kg

24) The cube root of 0.000512 is

A) 0.45
B) 0.08
C) 0.8
D) 0.058

20) What is the difference between the market share of 25) The smallest rational number by which 1/3 should be
Airtel and that of Reliance? multiplied so that its decimal expansion terminates after
A) 15% one place of decimal is
B) 10% A) 1/10
C) 25% B) 3/10
D) Cannot be determined C) 3

D) 30

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Section 2 - General Awareness

26) Who stepped down as captain of the IPL team 30) The capital of Tamil Nadu is
Rajasthan Royals after admitting to have tampered the A) Chennai
ball in the third test match held between Australia and
B) Coimbatore
South Africa in March 2018?
C) Madurai
A) Faf du Plessis
D) Trichy
B) David Warner

C) Steve Smith
31) At the 90th Academy Awards held on January 2018,
D) Hashim Amla which of the following was the winner in the ‘Best Picture’
category?
27) Name the three physicists who won the Nobel Prize in A) The Shape of Water
Physics, 2017 for decisive contributions to the LIGO
B) Call Me by Your Name
detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
C) Dunkirk
A) David J. Thouless, Kip S. Thorne and F. Duncan M.
D) Get Out
Haldane

B) Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne

32) In March 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
C) David J. Thouless, Barry C. Barish and Arthur B.
announced a National Strategic Plan for eradicating which
McDonald
of the following diseases by 2025?
D) Arthur B. McDonald, Rainer Weiss and F. Duncan M. A) Polio
Haldane
B) Dengue

C) Tuberculosis
28) ‘The Coalition Years: 1996-2012’ is written by
D) Swine Flu
A) Arundhati Roy

B) Pranab Mukherjee
33) In February 2018, NCERT signed a pact to integrate
C) Anita Desai
a course on ‘Digital Citizenship and Safety’ in its
D) Dr. Pavan Sharma information and communication technology curriculum
with which of the following corporate giants?
29) The Indian Government has decided to merge Rail A) Apple
Budget with the Union Budget from budget year 2017-18.
B) Microsoft
The merger of Railway Budget with General Budget is
C) Google
based on the recommendations of the Committee headed
D) Oracle
by :
A) Bibek Debroy

B) Dr. Manoj Soni

C) Arvind Saxena

D) Achal Kumar Jyoti

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34) Which of the following is a humanoid robot created by 38) Ottawa is the capital city of which of the following
Hanson Robotics and made history after being granted countries?
citizenship in Saudi Arabia in October 2017? A) Canada
A) Albert Einstein Hubo B) Turkey
B) Han C) Iceland
C) Sophia D) Jamaica
D) Zeno
39) To facilitate investment flow and prevent tax evasion,
35) The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the India signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
Year 2018 was awarded to (DTAA) in March 2018 with which of the following
A) Cristiano Ronaldo countries?

B) Roger Federer A) Singapore

C) Lionel Messi B) Japan

D) Rafael Nadal C) South Korea

D) Hong Kong
36) Name the satellite that will be launched by ISRO to
study solar physics during 2019 – 2020 timeframe by 40) The renowned Hindi litterateur Krishna Sobti has been
PSLV-XL from Sriharikota. honoured with Jnanpith award, 2017 for
A) Aditya-L1 A) Zindaginama

B) Cartosat-2 B) Samay Sargam

C) Astrosat C) Meri Maa Kahan

D) GSAT-17 D) Sikka Badal Gaya

37) Shesh Anand Madhukar, a famous writer was 41) Which of the following Indian novels, written by Karan
awarded with Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman Award, Mahajan has been nominated for the Dublin Literary
in February 2018 for his works in which of the following Award 2018?
languages? A) Things to Leave Behind
A) Sanskrit B) The Association of Small Bombs
B) Kannada C) The Parcel
C) Magahi D) The Extra Terrestrial Delivery
D) Telugu

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42) Which Indian player reached the semi finals of the All C) Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W.
England Open Badminton Championships 2018 before Young
losing to Akane Yamaguchi in the Women's Singles D) John O’Keefe, William C. Campbell and Yoshinori
category? Ohsumi
A) Ashwini Ponnappa

B) PV Sindhu 47) Kailas Satyarthi, was the joint awardee of the Nobel
C) Saina Nehwal Prize 2014 in which of the following disciplines?

D) Jwala Gutta A) Physics

B) Chemistry
43) Ayushman Bharat Program is a part of C) Peace
A) National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) D) Literature
B) National Life Insurance Scheme (NLIS)

C) Koushalya Mission (KM) 48) Which woman cricketer was honoured with the Arjuna

D) Shaadi Mubarak Scheme (SMS) Award, 2017, whose unbeaten knock of 171 helped India
advance to the final of ICC Women’s World Cup 2017?

44) Who among the following was awarded the Nobel A) Smriti Mandhana

Prize in Literature, 2017? B) Jhulan Goswami

A) Kazuo Ishiguro C) Mithali Raj

B) Patrick Modiano D) Harmanpreet Kaur

C) Bob Dylan

D) Svetlana Alexievich 49) To establish and cleanse the system of political

funding in the country, the Govt. of India notified which of
the following schemes in January 2018?
45) Who discovered Laws of Black hole mechanics?
A) Election Bond Scheme
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Election Commission Scheme
B) Harry Brearley
C) Electoral Fund Scheme
C) John Young
D) Electoral Bond Scheme
D) Marty Allen

50) Who among the following was felicitated with Padma

46) Who among the following were awarded the Noble
Shri for Lawn Tennis in 2018?
Prize in Medicine, 2017 for the discovery of molecular
mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm? A) Vijay Amritraj

A) Michael W. Young, Yoshinori Ohsumi and William C. B) Somdev Kishore Devvarman

Campbell C) Leander Adrian Paes

B) Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young and Randy W. D) Mahesh Bhupathi

Schekman

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Section 3 - English
51) Identify the part which has an error. 55) I __________ a younger sister.
(A) Although swimming (B) is a good (C) exercise, I am A) Have
(D) fearing to swim.
B) Has
A) A
C) Have got
B) B
D) Am having
C) C

D) D 56) Identify the complex sentence among the following:

A) Despite his hard work, he did not succeed.
52) Identify the error in the following sentence. The error,
B) Although he worked hard, he did not succeed.
if any, will be in one part of the sentence, the number of
C) He worked hard, but he did not succeed.
that part is your answer. If there is no error, mark your
D) He worked very hard, still he did not succeed.
answer as (D).
(A) He plans to / (B) defends his /(C) Olympic crown. /
(D) No Error. 57) Change the sentence into a compound sentence:
Being innocent, he never thought of running away.
A) A
A) Though he was innocent, he never thought of running
B) B
away.
C) C
B) If he is innocent, he will never run away.
D) D
C) He never thought of running away if he was innocent.

D) He was innocent but he never thought of running

53) Substitute the group of words with a single word:
away.
an office or a position requiring little or no work, especially
one yielding profitable returns
A) presidential Directions for Questions 58 - 59:

B) managerial Identify the word closest to the opposite meaning of the

word given in the question.
C) sinecure
58) Complacent
D) secured
A) Worried

B) Bothered
Directions for Questions 54 - 55:
C) Contented
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option.
D) Anxious
54) When we _____________ the theatre, the movie
_______________.
59) Conceal
A) Were reaching, was beginning
A) Distort
B) Had reached, begun
B) Dispute
C) Reached, had begun
C) Disclose
D) Reach, begins
D) Dissent
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Directions for Questions 60 - 63: 65) Fill up the blanks with a suitable Idiom/Phrase:

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate option: That is enough rambling, let's _______________.

A) get down to brass tacks

60) Meera along with her three young children _________
found in a state of shock. B) fish in troubled waters

A) Is C) eat humble pie

B) Was D) beat about the bush

C) Were
Directions for Questions 66 - 67:
D) Have been
Re-arrange the sentences to form a logical paragraph.

61) _____ do you like the best among the movie stars? 66) a) They were Sue’s pets, and when it was found that
A) Whomsoever they could not possibly be kept, more sadness was
B) Whom caused than by parting from all the furniture.

C) Whoever b) The purchaser was a neighbouring poulterer, and they

were unquestionably doomed to die before the next
D) Whomever
market day.
c) The impending sale of these birds had been the most
62) Neither of the sisters __________ for the mother.
trying suspense of the whole afternoon.
A) Care
d) Sue tried to think away her tears as she heard the
B) Cares trifling sum that her dears were deemed to be worth the
C) Are caring price at which they were finally knocked down.

D) Were caring A) abcd

B) cadb
63) The merchant consented ______________ the bargain. C) abdc
A) to
D) bacd
B) in
C) with
D) by

64) Identify the meaning of the underlined phrase.

The politician’s views on religion are a litmus test of his

attitude towards secularism.
A) A clear disproval

B) Not a test

C) reflections

D) distortions

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67) a) It was destructive to let a few corner all the 70) Have you ever__________of doing this for your family?
resources, leaving others no chance. A) dreamt
b) At a time of dwindling production, shrinking markets
B) had dreamt
and vanishing opportunities to make a living, it was unfair
C) have dreamt
to let one man hoard several business enterprises, while
D) were dreaming
others had none.
c) The editorial predicted the passage of a bill which had
been proposed, a bill forbidding any person or corporation 71) Mohan has just _________ reading Thomas Hardy’s

to own more than one business concern. novel.

d) Competition was essential to society, and it was A) finished

society’s duty to see that no competitor ever rose beyond B) finish
the range of anybody who wanted to compete with him. C) finishing
A) cdab
D) finishes
B) dbac

C) bacd 72) ________ journey was quite quick because _________

D) abcd road was clear.
A) an, an

Directions for Questions 68 - 73: B) the, the

Fill in the blanks with the CORRECT options C) an, the

D) No Article, a
68) Before going _____ a walk, the old couple locked _____
the door and pulled _____ the shutter _____ the garage.
73) Rita fared ______ in the math test.
A) For, up, no preposition, off
A) Too poorly
B) On, no preposition, down, of
B) Very poor
C) For, no preposition, down, in
C) Poorly
D) On, up, no preposition, in
D) Poor

69) "Looking __________ me like that is not going to melt

my heart _________." Directions for Questions 74 - 75:

A) Towards, down Identify the word closest in meaning to the one italicized.

B) At, no preposition
74) It was too late by the time she discovered that he was
C) On, down
lying.
D) Towards, no preposition
A) Customised

B) Realized

C) Rationalized

D) Confirmed

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75) I expected the journey to the village to be quite tedious

but I was pleasantly surprised.
A) Slow, Unexpectantly

B) Boring, imaginably

C) Long, Delightfully

D) Tiring, Unbelievably

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Section 4 - Computer Applications

76) Which of the following operations can be performed By considering the following flowchart value of K [7] is
by using Find and Replace dialog of MS Word? A) 16
I. To search for text without specific formatting. B) 20
C) 32
II. To search for text with specific formatting.
D) 40
III. To search for only specific formatting.
A) Only I and II
79) Identify the type of port in the following diagram?
B) Only I and III

C) Only II and III

D) I, II and III

77) Which of the following are files that claim to be

something desirable but, in fact, they are malicious and A) Parallel Port
they do NOT replicate themselves? B) Serial Port
A) Virus C) Socket
B) Worm D) No such port exists
C) Trojan horse

D) Hoax 80) Based on the communication process, I/O devices can

be divided into two categories as Block devices
78) and Character devices.
Which of the following I/O devices is a block device?
A) Tape drive

B) USB port

C) Keyboard

D) Mouse

81) Which of the following memory stores the programs

that can be executed within a short period of time?
A) Read Only Memory

B) Drive Memory

C) Hard disk Memory

D) Cache Memory

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82) Calculate the output of the following flowchart if input 84) What is the output of the following flow chart?
is "321”?

A) Print second smallest

B) Print negative value

C) Print smallest value

D) Print smallest if negative value is given

85) What is the expansion of WAN?

A) 6
A) World Area Network
B) 3
B) Wide Areal Network
C) 2
C) Wide Area Network
D) 1
D) World Areal Network

83) What is spooling?

86) What is the difference between IPv6 and IPv4 ?
A) The temporary storage and management of output to
printers and other output devices until they can cope A) IPv6 and IPv4 has same number of IP addresses

with it B) IPv4 has more IP addresses available than IPv6

B) The rewinding of tapes after processing C) IPv6 has more IP addresses available than IPv4

C) The recording of all user activities in a log file D) IPv6 uses packet addressing while IPv4 does not.

D) Process of storing data in Disk sectors

87) The Secure Electronic Transaction protocol is used
for
A) credit card payment

B) cheque payment

C) electronic cash payments

D) payment of small amounts for internet services

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88) Which is the device that utilizes a light sensitive 93) Which of the following TCP/IP command can be used
detector to select object on a display screen? to test the connectivity to a remote system in a Windows
A) Light pen Operating System?

B) Mouse A) Telnet

C) Pen B) Ping

D) OMR C) Ring

D) Route
89) Paging and segmentation are two techniques in
operating system, they are used for: 94) What is a Signature in the email?
A) Memory management A) It is an electronic and digital signature sent along with

B) Device management your email

C) Disk scheduling B) It is an in-built digital signature sent along with your

email ID as a QR code
D) CPU scheduling
C) It is a block of text appended to the end of an email
message generally has contact information of user
90) In MS Powerpoint 2007, which key combination is
used to duplicate the current slide? D) It is actually the email ID of the sender attached at the

A) CTRL + Shift + M end of the email body

B) Alt + K
95) Which of the following Decimal number equivalent to
C) CTRL + Shift + R
1BDF0 base 16?
D) CTRL + D
A) 30

B) 640
91) In MS Excel 2007, which key combination is used to
C) 68745
focus the screen on the active cell ?
A) CTRL + ENTER + A D) 1,14,160
B) CTRL + ALT + M
C) CTRL + BACKSPACE
96) Match the following SET A and SET B :
D) CTRL + DELETE + ESCAPE

92) Consider that you have a workbook with two

worksheets named Sheet1 and Sheet2. Identify the
CORRECT option to show the sum of values present in
Sheet1's cells A1 to A10 in Sheet2's cell A1.
A) =SUM(Sheet1!A1:A10)
A) a-i, b-ii
B) =SUM(Sheet1:A1-A10)
B) a-ii, b-iv
C) =SUM(Sheet1.A1:Sheet1.A10)
C) a-i, b-iii
D) =SUM(Sheet2.A1!A1:Sheet2.A1.A10)
D) a-iv, b-ii

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97) What is the unit of printing speed in laser printers?

A) Characters per second

B) Characters per line

C) Lines per page

D) Pages per minute

98) A customer calls in stating that a mail has to be sent

and also wants to get an indication as soon as the
recipient reads the mail. Is this possible?
A) It is not possible if they are using a different mail
server than that of the sender.

B) Needs to contact Email service provider to enable the

feature

C) Can be done only in Intranet mail servers.

D) Must select the option of read receipt in the mail client

used.

99) Which of the following is the most suitable word for

Internet?
A) Network of computers

B) Network of networks

C) Computer connected to mobile

D) Computers without networks

100) What does S/MIME stand for?

A) Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

B) Secret/Multiple Internet Mail Extensions

C) Short/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extractor

D) Secure/Multipurpose Intranet Mail Exclusion

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Space for Rough Work:

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