APSC Prelim 2009 GS Paper – Questions & Section-wise Analysis

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APSC Question Papers: Prelim Exam 2009 GS (General Studies) Papers & Analysis

APSC prelims questions

APSC Previous years are always very helpful as they provide the trends APSC asks questions about and also the topics APSC gives more weightage upon. Here we will list the Questions asked in APSC Prelim 2009 General Studies Paper  and also analyse the paper by segregating no. of questions from each areas and see from which area more questions have appeared and which are the sections very lightly covered by the GS paper.

  1. Indian Polity + Political System in India
  • Habeas corpus writ
  • National Flood Control Programme (NFCP)
  • The Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP)
  • Direct democracy
  • Article 80
  • Fundamental Duties – committee
  • Panchayati Raj was established in Assam
  • Planning Commission year
  • Citizenship Act, 1955 to acquire Indian citizenship
  • types of budgeting is followed in India
  • Articles of the Constitution of India is related to the independence of the Union Public Service Commission
  • Schedules to the Constitution of India relates to languages
  • Impeachment of the President of India
  • not a part of the financial management
  • Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 – provisions
  • How many members are there in the Rajya Sabha from Assam?

  1. Current Affairs National + International
  • Who Was awarded the Man of the Series in Cricket World Cup, 2011?
  • Authored the book, India from Midnight to Millennium?
  • First Secretary-General of UN
  • Chairs the Planning Commission
  • Sanjukta Panigrahi was the popular exponent of which Indian clasaical dance
  • slogan of the Commonwealth Games-2010
  • Swine flu is caused by
  • First Indian to win the gold medal in men’s singles tennis at the Asian Games
  1. Economy+Planning
  • Organisation related to international trade (EXIM, IIP, FPO, TQM)
  • headquarters of WTO
  • Per capita income of Assam
  1. Geography
  • Drip irrigation
  • Grey Revolution
  • In which Indian State is the hill station Kodaikanal
  • longest river in Asia?
  • ‘Land of Morning Calm’.
  • total area of Assam
  • largest continent in the world
  • Assam State climate
  • Terai zone is situated at Assam’s
  • National Park of Assam where the rare white-winged duck (Deohanh) is found
  • new island emrging out of the Bay of Bengal?
  • total geographical area of Assam the total area under forest
  • World’s largest producer of gold
  • world’s longest railway line?
  • How are latitude and Iongitilde lines drawn on a globe
  • Bhakra Dam is located in
  • Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research is Located
  • States which have common boundaries with Bangladesh
  • National Highway 1
  • States is not touched by Tropic of Cancer
  • odd pair out,(A) Dheerbeel : Dhubri district(B) Khamrengabeel : kamrup (C) Tamrangabeel : Bongaigaon district(D) Merbeel :jorhat
  • average gradient of the Brahamaputra within Assam
  • Clouded leopard and capped langur are important animals of which NP
  • not a tributary to the Indus
  • Sardar Sarobar Dam is constructed on river
  • Bermuda Triangle is located in
  • Waterloo is located in country
  • vast grassland of Australia is known as
  • famous fort sonar killa is located
  • Strait divides Europe from Africa

  1. History, culture, Literature, Freedom
  • ‘PurnaSwaraj’ resolution
  • Home Rule Movement
  • French philosopher Rousseau years
  • Indus Valley Cilvilization
  • first to visit India – Huen Tsang, I-Tsing, Fa-Hien
  • AhalyaBai
  • ‘Do or Die’
  • Land Settlement Systems in Assam
  • capital of British India was shifted to Delhi in the year
  • A. O. Hume was a
  • Indian National Army was headed by
  • Swadeshi Movement started during
  • first regular census in India
  • earliest historical dynasty of Assam
  • first tea company established in Assam
  • The slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was given by
  • events can be ascribed to the year 1919
  • Act transferred power from the Company to the Crown in India?
  • first railway line in India
  • When East India Company begin to build up its territorial power in India
  • Third Battle of Panipat
  • When was Mizoram converted into a Union Territory?
  • which year was Burma annexed by the British?
  • Who wrote ‘VandeMatram’?
  • Indian National Congress was founded during the viceroyalty of?
  1. Science
  • Rusting
  • purest form of gold
  • the percentage of oxygen in the earth’s crust
  • the precise time taken by the earth for one rotation?
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) Should be
  • Black hole
  • operating system of computers
  • Escape velocity
  • Largest moon in the solar system
  • Pacemaker
  • prolonged fasting, his/her urine will contain abnormal quantity of
  • Science of improving human race
  • photon will have less energy
  • Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is mainly a mixture of
  • radioactive isotope is most useful for nuclear power
  • third most abundant gas in the atmosphere
  • planet takes more time to complete one rotation on its axis than to complete one revolution around the sun
  1. Aptitude
  • % problem

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