Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (9 September 2015)

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1. Consider the following statements.

1) The United Nations declared the period from 2011-2020 as the UN Decade on Biodiversity.
2) UN General Assembly had proclaimed 2014 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies.
3) 2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils by the UN General Assembly.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) All of the above
(b) 1 & 3
(c) 2 & 3
(d) 1 & 2

2. Consider the following statements.

1) The term sustainable development was coined in the paper ‘Our Common Future’.
2) Agenda 21 was a special product of the Earth Summit.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) 1 only
(b) Both 1 & 2
(c) 2 only
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

3. Consider the following statements.

1) The emission reductions produced by the clean development mechanism are called Emission Reduction Units (ERUs).
2) Reductions produced by Joint Implementations (JI) called certified emission Reductions (CERs).

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 only
(d) Both 1 & 2

4. Match the following Conference of Country Parties (CoP)

(1) COP 15     A) Qatar
(2) COP 16     B) Cancun
(3) COP 17     C) South Africa
(4) COP 18     D) Copenhagen

(a) 1 - d 2 - b 3 - c 4 - a
(b) 1 - c 2 - a 3 - b 4 - d
(c) 1 - b 2 - c 3 - d 4 - a
(d) 1 - a 2 - d 3 - c 4 - b

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

Directions: Read the following information to answer these questions.

1. Ankit is decorating his roomandtrying to arrange six paintings on the East and West walls in his room. The paintings are each multicolour representations of one of the letters of the alphabets E,H,M, O, R, T Ankit does not want the three letters on each wall to make any common English word. Also, the colours of the O and E do not look good next to each other, nor do the T and O go well together. If Ankit puts E, H andM on the East wall, which of the following must he true ?

(a) R and M cannot face each other.
(b) O cannot be in the centre of the West wall.
(c) E cannot be in the centre of the East wall.
(d) T and M cannot face each other.

2. Ankit is decorating his room and trying to arrange six paintings on the East and West walls in his room. The paintings are each multicolour representations of one of the letters of the alphabets E,H,M, O, R, T Ankit does not want the three letters on each wall to make any common English word. Also, the colours of the O and E do not look good next to each other, nor do the T and O go well together. If Ankit’smother is coming to visit and he decides to celebrate the visit by having his paintings spell ‘MOTHER’, startingwith the leftmost painting on the East wall and going around the room, which of the following will be false ?

(a) O is opposite to E
(b) H is next to E
(c) T is next to O
(d) T is opposite to R

3. Ankit is decorating his room and trying to arrange six paintings on the East and West walls in his room. The paintings are each multicolour representations of one of the letters of the alphabets E,H,M, O, R, T Ankit does not want the three letters on each wall to make any common English word. Also, the colours of the O and E do not look good next to each other, nor do the T and O go well together. Which of the following is not possible ?

(a) T andO to be opposite to each other
(b) T, H and R to be on the same wall
(c) H, M and R to he on the same wall
(d) M andO to be opposite to each other

4. Ankit is decorating his room and trying to arrange six paintings on the East and West walls in his room. The paintings are each multicolour representations of one of the letters of the alphabets E,H,M, O, R, T Ankit does not want the three letters on each wall to make any common English word. Also, the colours of the O and E do not look good next to each other, nor do the T and O go well together. If Ankit trades his M painting for another O painting just like the one he has now, which of the following must be false ?

(a) O can be on opposite walls in the middle
(b) Either R or H will be next to an O
(c) Either R or H will be next to either T or E
(d) T will be opposite to either O or E

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