APSC Prelim 2022 CSAT Paper (GS-2) – Decision making and Problem solving sections Questions Analysis

APSC Prelim 2022 CSAT Paper (GS-2) – Decision making and Problem solving sections Questions Analysis

Questions from Decision making and Problem solving sections

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Q45. You are riding your bike in an isolated stretch of the highway, about 100 m behind  ascooterist. Suddenly a car overtakes you, knocks down the scooterist  (unfortunately) and tries to flee from the scene. What will you do?

(A) Run away from the scene as quickly as possible to avoid any involvement with the police

(B) Pursue the culprit vehicle at breakneck speed with the intention of thrashing the erring driver

(C) Attend the victim of the accident and call for 108 ambulance service, if required

(D) Wait for other people to arrive at the spot

 

Q46. You ordered food for 1,000 on a food app and paid online. The delivery boy, after delivering the food packet, suggested that from the next time onward you should order food on cash on delivery mode. Then he would deliver the food at half the actual price. You understand that this is a scam but a win-Win arrangement foryou and the delivery boy at’ the expense of the food delivery app. You  will

(A) take advantage Of the situation and go by the suggestion or the food delivery boy

(B) just ignore the suggestion and forget the

(C) highlight the incident in social media platforms tagging the CEO of the food delivery app       

(D) give a moral lecture to the delivery boy and ask him not get involved in such scams 

 

Q47. You experienced racial abuse while visiting a foreign country. What will you do?

(A) Move away from the scene

(B) Quarrel with the abuser

(C) Try to become friendly with the abuser

(D) Calmly tell the abuser that what he has done is wrong and that you are going to report the matter to the authority.

 

Q48. Assam is plagued by recurrent and devastating floods and erosion every year. The large number of rivers and their tributaries carry a huge volume Of water, silt and other debris including carcasses of dead animals. Apart from the misery paused by loss of hearth and homes, water-borne diseases play havoc with their lives. Successive governments have succeeded to a certain extent in solving the problem by building embankments, spurs and other innovative ideas, etc. Many people have put forward a variety of solutions including dredging of the rivers, doing away with all embankments and allowing the river waters to flow freely, raising the height of the homes, shifting people from riverine areas and settling them elsewhere. You would

(A) build dams to reduce the flow of water

(B) do away with all embankments

(C) solve the problem using innovative ideas

(D) shift people from riverine areas        

 

Q49. You and your friend have gone shopping and have purchased jewellery amounting to rupees five lakh from a shop. You request the store manager to give you a rebate considering the fact that you have purchased high value goods at a considerable cost. The store manager offers a discount of one percent, but your friend is outraged by the offer and threatens to leave without buying anything. The store manager is worried and asks her how much rebate she expects and she demands a rebate of at least 10%. The manager says he has to consult his boss. The manager comes back in a few minutes and says he can give the rebate of 10% as desired but in that case would not provide an invoice to the customer. If you were the customer, what would you do?

(A) Accept the manager’s original offer of one percent rebate

(B)’ Advise your friend to pay the bill and not ask for a rebate

(C) Accept the manager’s offer of not providing an invoice

(D) Accept the manager’s offer and then report the matter to the authorities

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APSC CCE Prelim 2020 General Studies GS Paper 1 – Art & Culture, Literature & Sports Questions Analysis

APSC CCE Prelim 2020 General Studies (GS) Paper 1 Questions Analysis

Questions from Art & Culture, Literature & Sports sections

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Q82. Bhogeswar Baruah was the first Arjuna Award winner from Assam in 1966. Who was the 2nd Assamese to win this coveted award of Indian sports in 1987?

  1. Tayabun Nisha
  2. Monalisa Baruah Mehta
  3. Madalisa Hazarika
  4. Toshen Bora

Correct option: (B) Monalisa Baruah Mehta.

Five Arjuna Award winners from Assam

Arjuna Award is India’s second highest sporting honour. Started in 1961, the Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Since then five sports persons from Assam had been awarded with this prestigious award.

Bhogeswar Baruah

Bhogeswar Baruah is the first Arjuna Award winner from Assam. He received the prestigious award in 1966. He won gold medal in the 800 metres race at Bangkok Asian Games in 1966. Baruah’s birthday is celebrated on September 3 every year in Assam, called Abhiruchi Sports Day.

Monalisa Baruah Mehta.

Ace table tennis player Monalisa Baruah Mehta is the second Assamese to receive Arjuna Award. She received the prestigious award in 1987. Monalisa is married to ace table tennis player Kamalesh Mehta. Monalisa was the 12 time state champion and won the national table tennis championship eight times.

Jayanta Talukdar

Ace archer Jayanta Talukdar received the Arjuna Award in 2006. He is the third sports person from Assam, after Bhogeswar Baruah (1966) and Monalisa Barua Mehta (1987) to receive this prestigious award. Jayanta Talukdar made it to the Indian men’s recurve archers team for London Olympics 2012.

Shiva Thapa

World Championships bronze-medallist Shiva Thapa is the fourth Assamese player to receive the prestigious award in 2016. Thapa was the only boxer recommended in 2016 for Arjuna Award. Shiva Thapa participated in the 2012 London Olympics. He was the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics.

Hima Das

India’s track queen Hima Das is the latest addition to the list of Arjuna awardees from Assam this year. She is the second athlete after Bhogeswar Baruah (1966) and fifth Assamese player to receive this award.

 

Q83.

Q83. Which Assamese film won the first-even National Film Award (the President’s Certificate of Merit) for regional language category in 1955?

  1. Piyoli Phukan
  2. Maniram Dewan
  3. Indramalati
  4. Ronga Police

(A) Piyoli Phukan

The 1955 Phani Sarma directorial film Piyali Phukan received the first Certificate of Merit.

The film is based on the life and struggle of a historical character of Assam, Piyoli Phukan, son of Badan Borphukan, who revolted against British occupation. He was sentenced to death and hanged in 1830 at Jorhat. The film is produced by Gama Prasad Agarwalla under the banner of Rupjyoti Production, Tezpur, Assam. Piyoli Phukan is the first Assamese film, which got national reorganization.

Film Ronga Police, directed by Nip Barua, became the first film to receive the president’s Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Assamese.

 

Q84. Great Footballer Talimeren Ao was born in undivided Assam (in Naga Hills

district), and went on to study at Cotton College and RG Kar Medical College for his degree in medicine. He holds an unique status in Indian football. What is that?

  1. He scored the first goal for India in international matches.
  2. He was the first captain of Indian football team in 1948 London Olympics.
  3. He was the flag bearer of Indian contingent in 1948 London Olympics.
  4. Both b and c

Correct option: (D) Both b and c

Talimeren Ao was an Indian footballer and physician. He is best known as the captain of Indian team in their first ever match. He was born on 28 January 1918 in the then Naga Hills District of Assam. He was a figurehead of India’s football history, and his name is resonant in the collective memory of the people.

Ao was the captain of the India national football team in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the team’s first official game and was the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent.

 

Q85. Aximat Jar Xeral Xima is a landmark in Assamese Novel written by Kanchan Baruah and was published in 1945. But Kanchan Baruah is the pen name. What is the author’s real name?

  1. Brajamohan Sarma
  2. Bhubanmohan Baruah
  3. Medini Choudhury
  4. None of them

Correct option: (B) Bhubanmohan Baruah

 

Q86. The Tale of Nomadic Soul is the English translation of a famous Novel by Syed Abdul Malik. Which is that novel among the following?

  1. Parashmoni
  2. Adharshila
  3. Aghari Atmar Kahini
  4. Ruptirthar Yatri

Correct option: (C) Aghori Atmar Ka Hinee

The Tale of Nomadic Soul: Translated in English by R.P.Khaund from the Original Assamese Novel “Aghori Atmar Ka Hinee” by Malik Syed Abdul.

 

Q87. The novel Abhijatri is based on the life and achievements of

  1. Nalini Bala Devi
  2. Aideu Handique
  3. Chandraprabha Saikiani
  4. Rajbala Handique

Correct option: (C) Chandraprabha Saikiani

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APSC Mains – Political Science 2015 Question Paper I & Paper II

APSC Mains Exam – Political Science 2015 Question Paper I & Paper II

It’s very important that we know the definite trend of question being recently asked in the Mains Exam. Thus, the Polity Paper I & Paper II of 2015 is given here, to give you a better idea of the areas/topics more question appears in the exam.

POLITY PAPER-I

Q. Define political science and discuss its scope.Is political science simply a study of state and government.

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Q.  What is the difference between behaviourism and post-behviouralism? Discuss the characteristics of behaviouralism in relation to  traditionalism.

Q. What is individualism ? Explain the arguments of JS Mill and herbert spencer in defence of individualism.Point out the weakness of individualism.

Q. What is laissez Faire state.In what respect does it differ from a welfare state?Discuss.

Q. Enumerate the essential features of Democracy.Bring out the distinction between democracy and Dictatorship.

Q. Explain Austin’s theory of Sovereignty.Examine the Pluralists attack on it.

Q. Plato s republic is not a work on politics but the finest treatise on education that has never been written. Explain and
Discuss.

Q. What, according to Aristotle, are the causes of revolution? Discuss the remedies he suggested.

Q. What is meant by liberty?Examine the relation between liberty and equality.

Q. Why is independent judiciary considered important in a democratic system?how can judicial independence be ensured? Discuss.

Q. Analyse Gandhi’s theory of trusteeship.Is the theory practicable.

Q. Elaborate Marxian view of state as an instrument of class domination

Q. Elaborate the function of a Socialist state

Q. Examine the challenges to sovereignty of the state in the contemporary world

Q. Discuss the nature and kinds of Authority.

Q. Write note on plato’s concept of Ideal State.

Q. Bring out plato’s view on emancipation of women.

Q. “State is prior to individual “.Discuss

Q. Write a note on Marx’s theory of class struggle.

Q. Examine Gandhi’s concept of swaraj.

POLITY PAPER-II

Q. Discuss the constitutional developments during the freedom movement highlighting the importance of Nehru Report and Lahore congress Resolution.

Q. What are the provision for constitutional protection of right to freedom of religion and how far they succeeded in promoting
secularism in India? Discuss.

Q. Is it correct to say that the Indian constitution is ‘a ragbag of borrowings’?Give reasons for your answer.

Q. Examine the significance of the directive principle of state policy as laid down in the constitution of India. To what extent have these directive been implemented

Q. What are the different ways of acquiring Indian citizenship?How can Indian citizenship be lost ? Discuss

Q. Critically evaluate the emergency powers of the president of india and justify the emergency provision of the constitution of India.

Q. Discuss the superior position of the union in respect of legislative relation between the centre and the states in India.

Q. What are the major tension areas in Union State relation in India?

Q. Examine the changing structure of Panchayati Raj institution in India with special reference to the 73rd constitution Amendment Act.”

Q. How is the american President Elected?Discuss the powers and function of the president of USA.

Q. Analyse the composition and functions of the house of Lords.Do you agree that the House of Lords needs to be mended not ended.

Q. What is the composition of the security council of the UNO? What are its functions?Do you support the argument that there should be more permanent members in the security council of UNO ?Give reasons

Q. Explain the basic principles of the preamble to the constitution of India.

Q. How is the union council of minsters constituted?describe its composition.

Q. The problem of India bureaucracy is not that it is a bureaucracy, but that it carries too much baggage of the past.”Examine Discuss the role of the speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Q. Write a note on ‘role of law’ of british political system.

Q. Write a note on the powers and functions of US senate.

Q. Discuss the composition and Functions of Zilla Parishad under the Assam Panchayat Act,1994.

Q. Write a note on judicial activism in India.

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APSC Mains Exam – Political Science 2014 Question Paper I & Paper II

APSC Mains Exam – Political Science 2014 Question Paper I & Paper II

It’s very important that we know the definite trend of question being recently asked in the Mains Exam. Thus, the Polity Paper I & Paper II of 2014 is given here, to give you a better idea of the areas/topics more question appears in the exam.

POLITY PAPER-I

Q. Comment on any three of the following :

1.”The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form.The individual has a soul but the state is a souless machine,it can never be weaned from violence to which its very existence.”

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2.”Popular sovereignty has no necessary connection with democracy. “

3.”The philosophical approach aims at evolving standards of right and wong for thr purpose of a critical evaluation of the
existing institution,laws and policies .”

4.Plato’s entire system of education in the republic is a prerequisite to the organisation of an idle state.

5.”The secret of Rousseau s doctrine is found in the sub stitution for a sovereign.His Sovereign is the ‘general will’ and he us perfectly ready to apply to all the sweeping attributes which Hobbes delivers to his ‘one man or assembly of men ‘.It is one and indivisible,inerrant,indestructible,omnipotent.”

Q. Critically evaluate behaviouralism in terms of tools and techniques of political inquiry,theory-building and contribution to  an inter-disciplinary approach.

Q. What is çredo of relevance ‘?Discuss it in the context of the post behavioural approach.

Q. Critically discuss the welfare state prespective regarding the functions of the state.

Q.  Is sovereignty absolute or divisible ?Which are the political and govermental arrangements that give rise to arguments of divisibility of sovereignty?

Q. Highlight the difference between the following :

1.seperation of power and division of power.

2.socialism and communism

3.nagative liberty and positive liberty.

4.procedural justice and substantive justice”

Q. Explain the pluralistic theory of sovereignty

Q. What do you mean by elitist theory of democracy?what are it features?

Q. Analyse the contributions of Aristotle to development of political science as an independent science.

Q. What is power and how is it related to authority?Does reliance on authority limit the use of power

Q. Highlight the significant contribution of the following thinkers :

1.J.J.ROUSSEAU

2.DAVID EASTON

3.HAYEK

4.JOHN RAWLS”

Q.  Comment on any three of the following:

1. the crown is the ‘function of Honour ‘

2. India is a Quasi-federation

3.”The king is dead,long live the king”

4.The US president office is “one of the most powerful office ever created by a democratic nation “.

POLITY PAPER-II

Q. Discuss the three colonial apparatuses still functioning in the Indian political system.Did the constitution of India blindly accept all the provision of the Government Act,1935

Q. Write an essay on the different constitutional arrangements adopted by the Indian state to accommodate its diversity.How far has India been successful in doing so.

Q. Answer any three of the following :

1.Do you think the 6th schedule is respnsible for increasing the hill plains gap?justify

2.Write on the features of the 73rd Amendment Act of 1992

3.Write on the division of legislative powers between centre and the state.

4.Give a brief outline on the BTC.

5.Write on the powers and functions of the speaker of the Lok sabha.

Q. Discuss the areas of conflict between the centre and the state.

Q. Make a comparative study between the american president and the british monarch.

Q. Is the office of the Indian President purely ornanental?Critically analyze it.

Q. Critically discuss the utility of the House of Lords in the British Political System.

Q. As a citizen of India,how would you support India’s candidature for permanent membership of the security council?
Justify your proposal.

Q. Analyse the functioning of the UNO as a peace Keeping international organisation.

Q. Write short notes on any two of the following :

1.Election commision of India.

2.Public Interest Litigation(PIL).

3.Loss of Indian citizenship.

4. APT 21″

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APSC Mains Exam – Political Science 2006 Question Paper I & Paper II

APSC Mains – Political Science 2006 Question Paper I & Paper II

It’s very important that we know the definite trend of question being recently asked in the Mains Exam. Thus, the Polity Paper I & Paper II of 2006 is given here, to give you a better idea of the areas/topics more question appears in the exam.

POLITY PAPER-I

Q. Comment on any three of the following:
1.”virture is knowledge ”
2.”political science beings and ends with the state ”
3.”…all peaceful beginings of government have been laid in the consent of the people. ”
4.” The Authority of the state rests on violence. ”
5.”State exists for the sake of good life,not for the sake of life only.”
Q. Define political science and examine its scientific character.
Q. Analyse the concept of power and discuss the nature of political power.
Q. Highlight the factors leading to the emergence of the concept of welfare state.What are the major function of a welfare state?
Q. Explain the significant features of a parliamentary form of government.How to distinguish it from the presidential form
Q. Highligh the relationship between any two of the following :
1.liberty and equality
2.truth and non violence
3.state and society
4.Democracy and human personality
Q. Explain the Gandhi concept of non violence.Examine the utility of the technique of non violent resistance in a modern state.
Q. Explain the process of withering away of the state in the light of Marxian theory of state.
Q. Analyse the plato’s theory of communism.How will you distinguish it from the modern concept of communism
Q. Discuss the causes of revolution in a state as indentifiedby Aristole.
Q. Highlight the significant contribution of the following thinkers.
1.Abraham lincoln
2.jean jacques rousseau
3.John Rawls
4.Harold J laski

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POLITY PAPER-II

Q. Comment on any three of the following :
1.”India, that is Bharat ,shall be a Union of States. ”
2.”At the commencement of the contribution every person who has his domicile in the territory of India and who was born in the territory of India..shall be a citizen of India. ”
3.”No person who is a member of a Civil Services of the Union…shall be dismissed or removed by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed “.
Q. What is the utility of the Indian administrative service
Q. Justify the position of the Us president as the real chied executive
Q. Evaluate the role of the Civil Service in India.To what extent the civil service are commited to the welfare of the nation
Q. Discuss the areas of tension in the centre state relationship in the Indian federal system.
Q. Analyse the significant features of the American senate
Q. Write a critique on the powers and functions of the British Prime Minister.
Q. Discuss the role of the UNO in spreading human rights education amongst nations.
Q. Analyse the judicial sytem in India and justify the supreme court as the guardian of the constitution of India.
Q. Analyse the sources of the constitution of India.Is the constitution a bag of borrowing?Justify Your answer.
Q. Explain the directive principle of state policy in corporated in the constitution of India.To what extent these principles conform to the Gandhian thought.
Q. Answer any three of the following :
1.justiy Indian Democracy as a Representative democracy.
2.Forward arguments in favour of a strong centre in India.
3.Comment on the collective security of the Ministers to the Lok Sabha.
4.What is the role of the Governor of a state during President s rule .

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APSC Mains – Political Science 2002 Question Paper I & Paper II

APSC Mains – Political Science 2002 Question Paper I & Paper II

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POLITY PAPER-I

Q.Comment on any three :
(a)’History without political science has no fruit,political science without history has no root.’
(b)”To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man…’
(c )”democracy is not a way of governing…but,primarly a way of determining who shall govern and broadly to what ends.’
(d)Í have no right to eat cake…if my neighbour is compelled to go without bread ‘
(e)’The inferiors revolt in order to get equility and equals to become superiors.’
Q. Discuss critically the social contract theory of the origin of the state
Q. Can the marxist theory sufficiently explain the origin of the state?discuss
Q. Discuss the meaning and dimension of liberty
Q. Define Democracy.Discuss the condition for the successful working of Democracy.Can it become successful in developing countries
Q. Distinguish between
(a)procedural and substantive justice
(b) De jure and De facto Sovereignty
(c)Civil and political liberty
(d)Unitary and federal forms of government
Q. What do you understand by sovereignty?What are its characteristics?
Q. Discuss critically the pluralist theory of sovereignty.
Q. Give an account of Aristotle s theory of justice
Q. Give an account of Plato’s idea of division of labour.
Q. Write short notes one any two of the following :
(a) Gandhiji concept of swaraj
(b) Marxist concept of Alienation
(c )Ideal state according of Aristole
(d) Plato s concept of justice

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POLITY PAPER-II

Q. Comment on any three of the following :
1. The state shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
2. The state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.
3. the law declared by Supreme Court shall be binding on all courts within the territory of india.
4. No child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or in any hazardours employment.
5. Parliament has exclusive power to make any law with respect to any matter enumerated in the concurrent List or state List.
6. Evry High court shall be court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself.
Q. Highlight the importance feature of the sixth schedule to the constitution of india.Do you recommend its application to plains tribal areas in Assam?give reason for Your answer
Q. Discuss the role of the civil service in the implementation of the rural development programmes in Assam.
Q. Explain the main features of American federal System and analyse the factors responsible for the growth in the power of the federal Government in the united states.
Q. Analyse the role of the UNO in the maintenance ofinternational peace and security.Suggest measures to make the future of the UN bright.
Q. What are the provision of the constitution of India which deal with Émergency Powers ‘ of the president ? Point out there effects.
Q. Discuss the basic principles of the preamble to the constitutional significance.
Q. Answer any three of the following :
1.The president of India is not a member of either house of parliament.yet he is a part of the parliament,explain.
2.Article 356 is the most unfederal provision of the constitution of India.It should be scrapped.Comment
3.India is not a nation but a conglomeration of nationalities.Do you agree?give reason for Your answers
4.Politics in NE India is highly influenced by the demand for ethnic autonomy.Comment
5.’A singular feature of the 74 constitutional Amendment is the new role assigned to the urban local bodies in the field of planning ‘.Comment

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