Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (01 December 2015)

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1. The Ramsar convention was signed in

(a) 1971
(b) 1970
(c) 1972
(d) 1973

2. Match the following Hypothesis Founder

i) Gaseous Hypothesis     a) Kant
ii) Nebular Hypothesis     b) Laplace
iii) Planetismal                 c) Chambeline and Moulton
iv) Tidal                          d) Jeans and Jeffery

(a) i-b, ii-c, iii-d, iv-a
(b) i-d, iii-b, iii-c, iv-a
(c) i-a, ii-b, iii-c, iv-d
(d) i-c, ii-b, iii-a, iv-d

3. The NASA mission to study the composition of Comet Tempel 1

(a) Deep Impact
(b) Rosetta
(c) Messenger
(d) Hayabusa

4. Hayabusa is the space mission of

(a) America
(b) USSR
(c) Japan
(d) European Space

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

1. There are many cases of corruption and fraud found against the variousmicrofinance companies, that are charging very high interest rates from the poor people becoming cause for the suicide of these people. What steps should be taken ?

(a) Ban all the micro finance enterprises.
(b) Enact a law to regulate and nationalize them.
(c) Ask them to pay compensation to those who charged more interest rate from the poor people.
(d) Appoint a committee to see the issue.

2. If you are secretary in HRD ministry. The most important task of HRDis to identifying, nurturing and developing the talent among the most important task of HRD Department.But you want to make the plan for all the employees of your department. What you do ?

(a) Recommend the plan to HRD minister.
(b) Present the case study of HAD department, analyse the situation and then recommend.
(c) Recommend the name of the officials of most important rank for their development alone.
(d) Judge the overall condition of HAD department and then recommend.

3. Corruption costs the economy about three per cent of the GDP every year which is almost equal to the amount spent on education. What you will suggest to reduce the corruption level

(a) Government should make the very stringent laws against the culprits.
(b) Amend the existing laws to make it more effective.
(c) Take strong actions against those who found guilty.
(d) Try to enhance the ethics and morality in the administration.

4. A National Development Fund was created by the Government of India a fewyears ago. The purpose of the fund are to boost investment in social sector projects to promote education, healthcare and employment, capital investments in selected profitable PSEs to yield adequate returns, to fund revision in pay structure of Government employees, but still lags inmost of the areas. What you

(a) shut down the NDF
(b) take initiative to improve the NDF by suggesting the alternative methods
(c) assist theNDFwith somemoney on your own.
(d) avoid some procedural steps.

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