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COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION (AMENDMENT) RULE, 2019

Syllabus for Combined Competitive Preliminary Examination:

GENERAL STUDIES – Paper – I (200 marks) – 100 Questions

Duration: Two hours

i. Current events of national and international importance.

ii. History of India and Indian National Movement.
iii. Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the
World.
iv. Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public
Policy, Rights issues etc,
v. Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion,
Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
vi. General issues on Environment ecology, Bio-Diversity and Climate Change- that do not
require subject specialization.
vii. General Science.

Note: 30-35% questions in General Studies Paper I will be related to Assam.

1. North Eastern Regional Institute of a) 1 only
Water and Land Management is b) 2 and 3 only
located at c) 1 and 3 only
a) Shillong b) Guwahati d) 1, 2 and 3 only

c) Tezpur d) Dimapur 7. Which one of the following is not the

most likely measure the
2. The fundamental rights of Indian Government/RBI takes to stop the
constitution has been borrowed from slide of Indian Rupee?
the constitution of a) Curbing imports of non-essential
goods and promoting exports
a) USSRC
b) Encouraging Indian borrowers to
b) Canada
c) UK issue rupee denominated Masala
d) USA Bonds
c) Easing conditions relating to
external commercial borrowing
3. Which of the following is not included
under in situ conservation? d) Following an expansionary
a) National Park monetary policy.
b) Sanctuary
8. Author of Badhakabya
c) Botanical Garden
a) Madhab Kandali
d) Biosphere Reserve
b) Ananta Acharya
4. The river Tuni is situated in the c) Ram Saraswati
d) Madhabdeva
district

a)Sonitpur b) Golaghat 9. Which of the following is true of

International Court of Justice?
c)Nalbari d) Majuli a) The judges of the court are
appointed according to the
5. The first ever delegation of
direction of secretary general
Assamese leaders to the 1921
b) No two judges may belong to the
Nagpur session of the Indian National
same country
Congress was led by
c) The court consists of 20 judges
a) Ambikagiri Raichoudhari
d) The statue of the International
b) Kuladhar Chaliha
Court of justice is not an integral
c) Chandranath Sharma
part of UN charter.
d) Nabin Chandra Bardoloi

10. The first editor of Jonaki

6. Which of the following is/are tributary/
a) Hemchandra Goswami
tributaries of Brahmaputra?
b) Chandra Kumar Agarwala
1. Dibang
c) Lakshminath Bezboruah
2. Kameng
d) Padmanath Gohai Baruah
3. Lohit
Select the correct answer using the
code given below.
11. According to 2011 census highest (c) Nitrous oxide, which is a
literacy rate in the district of Assam greenhouse gas, is not at all
a) Sibsagar released into atmosphere by crop
b) Golaghat fields.
c) Sonitpur (d) It is a combination of a weedicide
d) Kamrup Metro and a fertilizer for particular
crops.
12. Who acts as the president of India
when neither the president nor the 17. Which of the following are the
vice president is available? objectives of ‘National Nutrition
a) Speaker of the Lok Sabha Mission?’
b) Chief Justice of Supreme Court 1. To create awareness relating to
c) Vice Chairman of Rajya Sabha malnutrition among pregnant
d) Senior most Governor women and lactating mothers.
2. To reduce the incidence of
13. When a bank return a cheque unpaid, anaemia among young children
it is called adolescent girls and women.
a) Payment of the cheque 3. To promote the consumption of
b) Drawing of the cheque millets, coarse cereals and
c) Cancelling of the cheque unpolished rice.
d) Dishonour of the cheque 4. To promote the consumption of
poultry eggs.
14. Arjun Bhanjan by Madhabdeva is a
a) Yatra Select the correct answer using the
b) Jhumura code given below:
c) Rupak
(a) 1 and 2 only
d) None of the above (b) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 4 only
15. Who discovered Green house
(d) 3 and 4 only
effect?
a) Muller 18. Leader of Dandua Droh?
b) J. Fourier
c) J. C. Farman a) Badan Chandra Phukan
d) Paul Ehlirch
b) Phuleswari Konwari
c) Pramatta Singh
16. Why does the Government of India d) Hara Dutta and Bira Dutta
promote the use of ‘Neem-coated
Urea’ in agriculture?
19. The first known traditional king of
(a) Release of Neem oil in the soil
Kamrupa was
increases nitrogen fixation by the a) Hatakasur
soil microorganisms. b) Ratnasur
(b) Neem coating slows down the c) Gatakasur
rate of dissolution of urea in the
d) Mahiranga Danava
soil.
20. The founder of Chutiya royal dynasty 2. Data centers
a) Birpal 3. Body corporate
b) Haria Mandal
c) Ratnadhwajpal Select the correct answer using the
d) Giripal code given below

(a) 1 only
21. Consider the following statements:
(b) 1 and 2 only
1. The Reserve Bank of India (c) 3 only
manages and services (d) 1, 2 and 3
Government of India Securities
but not any State Government
24. The Poa Macca of Hazo is
Securities.
associated with
2. Treasury bills are issued by the a) Mir Zumla
Government of India and there b) Giyasudin Aulia
are no treasury bills issued by c) Aurangzeb
the State Governments.
d) Azanphakir
3. Treasury bills offer are issued at
a discount from the par value. 25. Total area of land Assam
Which of the statements given a) 78438 Sq. Km
above is/are correct? b) 84348 Sq. Km
c) 65432 Sq. Km
(a) 1 and 2 only d) 72528 Sq. Km
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only 26. Namdang Silar Sako is on
(d) 1, 2 and 3 a) NH-56
b) NH-52
22. Which of the following is/are famous c) NH-31
for sun temples? d) NH-37
1. Arasavalli
2. Amarkantak 27. The Headquarter of Asian
3. Omkareshwar Development Bank is located at
a) Tokyo
Select the correct answer using the b) Singapore
code given below. c) Manila
(a) 1 only d) Bankok
(b) 2 and 3 only
28. The identity platform ‘Aadhaar’
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 provides open “Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs)”.
23. In India, it is legally mandatory for What does it imply?
1. It can be integrated into any
which of the following to report on
electronic device.
cyber security incidents?
1. Service providers 2. Online authentication using iris is
possible.
 Which of the statements given 32. The name of the hills where the
above is/are correct? eastern and western ghats of the
(a) 1 only Indian peninsula meet is
(b) 2 only a) Kodai kanal
(c) Both 1 and 2 b) The Nilgiries
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 c) Malbar
d) Coorg
29. Which of the following events
happened earliest? 33. India’s ranking in the ‘Ease of Doing
(a) Swami Dayanad established Business Index’ is sometimes seen in
Arya Samaj. the news. Which of the following has
(b) Dinbhandhu Mitra wrote declared that ranking?
Neeldarpan. (a) Organization for Economic
(c) Bankim Chandra Chottopadhyay Cooperation and Development
wrote Anandmath. (OECD)
(d) Satyendranath Tagore became (b) World Economic Forum
the first Indian to succeed in the (c) World Bank
Indian Civil Services (d) World trade Organization (WTO)
Examination.
34. With reference to ‘Stand Up India
30. Consider the following pairs: Scheme’ which of the following
Terms sometimes statements is/are correct?
seen in the news Their Origin 1. Its purpose is to promote
entrepreneurship among SC/ST
1. Annex-I Countries : Cartagena and women entrepreneurs.
Protocol 2. It provides for refinance trough
2. Certified Emissions : Nagoya SIDBI.
Reductions Protocol
3. Clean Development : Kyoto Select the correct answer using the
Mechanism Protocol code given below.

Which of the pairs given above (a) 1 only

is/are correctly matched? (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(a) 1, and 2 only (d) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 only 35. Karengar Ligiri was written by
(d) 1, 2 and 3 a) Bishnu Prasad Rabha
b) Lakshmi Nath Bezboruah
31. The Kamakhya temple was rebuilt by c) Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
king Naranarayana in the year d) Padmanath Gohai Baruah
a) 1565 b)1545
36. Which town of Assam has the largest
c) 1555 d)1575 dry fish market of Asia?
a) Tangla
 b) Jagiroad 2. It is headed by the Union Finance
c) Dhubri Minister
d) Hilakandi 3. It monitors macroprudential
supervision of the economy.
37. ‘Mission Indradhanush’ launched by
Government of India pertains to Which of the statements given above
(a) immunization of children and is/are correct?
pregnant women. (a) 1 and 2 only
(b) construction of smart cities across (b) 3 only
the country (c) 2 and 3 only
(c) India’s own search for the Earth-
(d) 1, 2 and 3
like planets in outer space
(d) New Educational Policy 41. Which of the following was the
second Assamese film to be
38. Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is released?
aimed at
a) Indramalati
(a) Bringing the small entrepreneurs b) Joymati
into formal financial system c) Pioliphukan
(b) Providing loans to poor farmers d) Pratidhwani
for cultivating particular crops
(c) Proving pensions to old and 42. Assamese: Its formation and
destitute persons Development is a famous book
(d) Funding the voluntary written by
organizations involved in the
a) K. K. Handique
promotion of skill development
b) Banikanta Kakati
and employment generation.
c) Maheswar Neog
d) Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi
39. ‘SWAYAM’, an initiative of the
Government of India, aims at 43. Assamese movie Village Rockstar
(a) promoting the Self Help Groups in
was selected as India’s official entry
rural areas to the Oscars 2019 under which
(b) proving financial and technical category?
assistance to young start-up a) Foreign language film category
entrepreneurs
b) Documentary (short subject)
(c) promoting the education and
c) Writing (adopted screenplay)
health of adolescent girls d) Cinematography
(d) providing affordable and quality
education to the citizens for free
44. The term ‘Core Banking Solution’ is
sometimes seen in the news. Which
40. With reference to ‘Financial Stability of the following statements best
and development Council’, consider describes/describe this term?
the following statements: 1. It is a networking of a bank’s
1. It is an organ of NITI Aayog.
branches which enables
customers to operate their
 accounts from any branch of the (b) 2 only
bank on its network regardless of (c) 3 only
where they open their accounts. (d) 2 and 3 only
2. It is an effort to increase RBI’s
control over commercial banks 47. With reference to Indian freedom
through computerization. struggle consider the following
3. It is a detailed procedure by events:
which a bank with huge non- 1. Munity in Royal Indian Navy
performing assets is taken over 2. Quit India Movement launched
by another bank. 3. Second Round Table Conference
Select the correct answer using
the code given below- What is the correct chronological
(a) 1 only sequence of the above events?
(b) 2 and 3 only (a) 1-2-3
(c) 1 and 3 only (b) 2-1-3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 3-2-1
(d) 3-1-2
45. Which of the following gives ‘Global
Gender Gap Index’ ranking to the 48. Nameri National park is located in
countries of the world?
which district in Assam?
(a) World Economic Forum
a) Barpeta
(b) UN Human Rights Council b) Biswanath
(c) UN Women c) Sonitpur
(d) World Health Organization
d) Nagaon

46. Which of the following statements

49. In which year “O Mor Aponar Desh”
is/are correct regarding Smart India was officially adopted as Assam’s
Hackathon 2017? state song?
1. It is centrally sponsored scheme
a) 1927
for developing every city of our
b) 1932
country into Smart Cities in a c) 1937
decade. d) 1929
2. It is an initiative to identify new
digital technology innovations for
50. The Kamrupa king who took part in
solving the many problems faced
Mahabharat war
by our country. a) Naraka
3. It is a programme aimed at b) Bhagadatta
making all the financial
c) Bhaskar Barman
transactions in our country
d) Mahiranga Danva
completely digital in a decade.

Select the correct answer using the 51. Gohai Kamal Ali was constructed in
code given below: the reign of
a) Nara Narayan
(a) 1 and 3 only b) Raghu Deb
 c) Gadhadhar Singa Einstein’s General Theory of
d) Rudra Singha Relativity, often discussed in media?

52. If a commodity is proved free to the (a) 1 and 2 only

public by the Government, then (b) 3 only
(a) The opportunity cost is zero. (c) 1 and 3 only
(b) The opportunity cost is ignored (d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) The opportunity cost is
transferred from the consumers 55. In which of the following areas can
of the product to the tax- paying GPS technology be used?
public. 1. Mobile phone operations
(d) The opportunity cost is 2. Banking operations
transferred from the consumers 3. Controlling the power grids.
of the product to the Select the correct answer using the
Government. code given below:

53. Consider the following statements: (a) 1 only

1. The Food Safety and Standards (b) 2 and 3 only
Act, 2006 replaced the (c) 1 and 3 only
Prevention of Food Adulteration (d) 1, 2 and 3
Act, 1954
2. The Food Safety and Standards 56. Who among the following was/were
Authority of India (FSSAI) is associated with the introduction of
under the charge of Director Ryotwari Settlement in India during
General of Health Services in the the British rule?
Union Ministry of Health and 1. Lord Cornwallis
Family Welfare. 2. Alexander Read
3. Thomas Munro
Which of the statements given
above is/are correct? Select the correct answer using the
code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only (a) 1 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 only
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
54. Consider the following phenomena:
1. Light is affected by gravity. 57. Which of the following statements
2. The Universe is constantly is/are correct?
expanding. Proper design and effective
3. Matter warps its surrounding implementation of UN-REDD+
space-time. Programme can significantly
contribute to
Which of the above is/are the 1. Protection of biodiversity
prediction/predictions of Albert 2. Resilience of forest ecosystems
 3. Poverty reduction c) Bhaskar Varman
d) Durlav Narayan
Select the correct answer using the
code given below 62. Atal Innovation Mission is set up
(a) 1 and 2 only under the
(b) 3 only (a) Department of Science and
Technology
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) Ministry of Labour and
Employment
58. Which of the following statements (c) NITI Aayog
(d) Ministry of Skill Development
is/are correct?
and Entrepreneurship
Viruses can infect
1. Bacteria
2. Fungi 63. Recently, India signed a deal known
3. Plants as ‘Action Plan for Prioritization and
Implementation of Cooperation Areas
Select the correct answer using the in the Nuclear Field’ with which of the
code given below. following countries?
a) Japan
(a) 1 and 2 only b) Russia
(b) 3 only c) The United Kingdom
(c) 1 and 3 only d) The United States of America
(d) 1, 2 and 3
64. With reference to Indian National
59. The first Assamese periodical was Movement, consider the following
first published by American Baptist pairs:
Missionaries in the year
a) 1886 Person Position held
b) 1846
c) 1885 1. Sir Tej Bahadur : President, All
d) 1871 Sapru India Liberal
Foundation
60. Which British Assistant 2. K. C. Neogy : Member, The
Commissioner was killed during Constituent
Phuloguri Dhawa? Assembly
a) Herbert Sconce 3. P. C. Joshi : General
b) Henry Hopkinson Secretary,
c) Lt. Singer Communist
d) Berrington Party of India

61. Hem Saraswati and Harihar Vipra Which of the pairs given above
enjoyed the patronage of is/are correctly matched?
a) Raghu Rai
b) Purandar Singha (a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
 (c) 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 68. If the President of India exercises his
power as provided under Article 356
65. Consider the following pairs: of the Constitution in respect of a
particular State then
Famous place River (a) The Assembly of the State
automatically dissolved.
1. Pandharpur : Chandrabhaga (b) The powers of the Legislature of
2. Tiruchirapalli : Cauvery the State shall be exercisable by
3. Hampi : Malaprabha or under the authority of the
Parliament.
Which of the pairs given above are (c) Article 19 is suspended in that
correctly matched? State.
(a) 1 and 2 only (d) The President can make laws
(b) 2 and 3 only relating to that State.
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 only 69. A modern feral horse population (wild
horse) is found in
66. What is/are the a) Kaziranga National Park
consequence/consequences of a b) Manas National Park
country becoming the member of the c) Orang National Park
‘Nuclear Suppliers Group’? d) Dibru-Saikhowa Biosphere
1. It will have access to the latest Reserve
and most efficient nuclear
technologies. 70. In 2005, at the initiative of the Kind of
2. It automatically becomes a Bhutan became the first country in
member of “The Treaty on the the world to make its priority on GNH
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear instead of GDP to measure the
Weapons (NPT)”. prosperity and well being of a nation.
What is meant by GNH?
Which of the statements given
above is/are correct? a) Gross National Happiness
(a) 1 only b) Gross Net Happiness
c) Geographical Natural Habitat
(b) 2 only
d) None of the above
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
71. DONER Ministry was set up in the
year
67. Among the following cities, which one
a) 1971
lies on a longitude closest to that of
Delhi? b) 1985
(a) Bengaluru c) 1995
(b) Hyderabad d) 2001
(c) Nagpur
(d) Pune
72. Forest area as percentage of total d) Horse Power
geographical area is maximum in
a) Nagaland 78. The rear view mirror used in a motor
b) Assam vehicle is
c) Arunachal Pradesh a) Concave
d) Manipur b) Convex
c) Plane
73. Which one of the following is a d) None of these
source of revenue of a local self
government (Municipal/Panchayat)? 79. The former name of Assam Sahitya
a) Income tax Sabha
b) Octroi duty a) Axom Sahitya Sanstha
c) Excise duty b) Assam Literary Society
d) Customs duty c) Assam Sahitya Sanmilani
d) Asomiya Sahitya Sanmilani
74. Economic justice has been
incorporated in the constitution of 80. Which planet takes more time to
India under complete one rotation on its axis than
to complete one rotation around the
a) Direct principle of state policy sun?
a) Mercury
b) Fundamental Rights
b) Venus
c) Residuary powers c) Mars
d) Jupiter
d) Fundamental duties
81. Which of the following was the
earliest stringed musical instrument
75. The language of discourses of
of India?
Gautam Buddha was
a) Tanpura
a) Bhojpuri
b) Sitar
b) Magadhi
c) Santoor
c) Pali
d) Veena
d) Sanskrit

82. The obnoxious smell near a pulp and

76. The currency of Indonesia is
paper mill is due to
a) Dollar
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Pound
b) Hydrogen Sulphide
c) Rupee
c) Organic sulphur compound
d) Rupiah
d) Aromatic Hydrocarbons
77. Which of the following exception to
83. Building ‘Kalyana Mandapas’ was a
the others
notable feature in the temple
a) Joule
construction in the kingdom of?
b) Erg
(a) Chalukya
c) Watt hour
 (b) Chandela universities of India in Calcutta,
(c) Rashtrakuta Bombay and Madras?
(d) Vijayanagara a) Hunter Commission
b) Charter Act of 1813
84. Consider the following pairs: c) Charles Wood’s despatch
d) Lee Commission
Movement/ Leader
Organization 88. Do or Die was the slogan which
Mahatma Gandhi gave during the
1. All India Anti- : Mahatma a) Quit India Movement
Untouchability Gandhi b) Non-cooperation movement
League c) Khilaphat Movement
d) Civil Disobedience Movement
2. All India Kisan : Swami
Sabha Sahajanand 89. Birds Flue is caused by the virus
Saraswati a) H5N1
b) HIV
3. Self-Respect :E.V. c) H6N2
Movement Ramaswami d) PH3
Naicker
90. Consider the following states:
Which of the pairs given above 1. Chhattisgargh
is/are correctly matched? 2. Madhya Pradesh
(a) 1 only 3. Maharashtra
(b) 1 and 2 only 4. Odisha
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1,2 and 3 With reference to the States
mentioned above, in the terms of
85. The total length of international percentage of forest cover to the
border of Assam with Bangladesh total area of state, which one of the
a) 467.30 km following is the correct ascending
b) 367.30 km order?
c) 262.03 km a) 2-3-1-4
d) 567.30 km
b) 2-3-4-1
86. National Rural Health Mission was
launched in the year c) 3-2-4-1

a) 2003 b) 2002 d) 3-2-1-4

c)2004 d) 2005 91. Consider the following pairs:

87. Who recommended for the Tradition State

establishment of first three 1. Chapachar kut
festival – Mizoram
 2. Khongjom Parba (a) 1 and 2 only
ballad – Manipur (b) 3 only
3. Thang-Ta dance – Sikkim (c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
Which of the pairs given above
is/are correct? 95. Which of the following is
geographically closest to Great
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 Nicobar?
(c) 3 only (a) Sumatra
(d) 2 and 3 (b) Borneo
(c) Java
(d) Sri Lanka
92. Which of the following is/are the
indicator/indicators used by IFPRI to
compute the Global Hunger Index 96. Consider the following statements:
Report? The India-Africa Summit
1. Held in 2015 was the third such
1. Under nourishment
2. Child stunting Summit
3. Child mortality 2. Was actually initiated by
Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951
Select the correct answer using the
code given below- Which of the statements given above
is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only (c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
93. A recent movie titled The Man Who
97. Consider the following countries:
Knew Infinity is based on the
1. Australia
biography of
2. Canada
(a) S. Ramanujan
3. China
(b) S. Chandrashekhar
4. India
(c) S. N. Bose
5. Japan
(d) C.V. Raman
6. USA
94. Consider the following statements: Which of the above are among the
1. In India, the Himalayas are ‘free-trade partners’ of ASEAN?
spread over five States only.
2. Western Ghats are spread over (a) 1, 2, 4 and 5
five States only. (b) 3, 4, 5 and 6
3. Pulicat Lake is spread over two (c) 1, 3, 4 and 5
States only. (d) 2, 3, 4 and 6

Which of the statements given above

is/are correct?
98. With reference to pre-packaged items
in India, it is mandatory to the
manufacturer to put which of the
following information on the main
label, as per the Food Safety and
Standards (Packaging and Labeling)
Regulations, 2011?
1. List of ingredients including
addictives
2. Nutrition information.
3. Recommendation, if any, made
by the medical profession about
the possibility of any allergic
reactions.
4. Vegetarian/non-vegetarian

Select the correct answer using the

code given below –

(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 1 and 4 only

99. Presence of fluoride in drinking water

is associated with
a) Mottling of teeth
b) Dental fluorisis
c) Skeletal fluorisis
d) All of the above

100. The name of the poet Kalidasa is

mentioned in the
a) Allahabad pillar inscription
b) Ajanta Caves
c) Aihole inscription
d) Alpadu grant

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