Staff Selection Commission (SSC) MULTI-TASKING STAFF (MTS) Recruitment Exam 2020 Solved Paper (Exam Held on 05-10-2021)

                         General Knowledge & General Awareness

1. Who was made the Nawab of Bengal following the Battle of Plassey?
(A) Mir Jafar ✔
(B) Alivardi Khan
(C) Sirajuddaulah
(D) Mir Qasim

2. The Kodava community of Coorg worships weapons during the..........festival.
(A) Madai
(B) Kailpodh ✔
(C) Thaipusam
(D) Bhagoriya

3. How many colours does sunlight consist of?
(A) Three
(B) Two
(C) Seven ✔
(D) Five

4. The Kamakhya Temple is located in
(A) Guwahati ✔
(B) Kohima
(C) Imphal
(D) Agartala

5. The monthly maintenance amount of ........... payable by children to parents, set by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007, was removed by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
(A) 10000 ✔
(B) 5000
(C) 12000
(D) 8000

6. Which of the following concepts implies that sustainable development should take a holistic approach towards notions of progress and give equal importance to non-economic aspects of wellbeing?
(A) Gross Domestic Product
(B) Gross National Product
(C) Gross National Happiness ✔
(D) Net National Product

7. Which of the following books is written by Rajendra Prasad?
(A) India Divided ✔
(B) An Autobiography: Towards Freedom
(C) The Discovery of India
(D) Glimpses of World History

8. Which of the following books was written by James Mill, a Scottish economist, in 1817?
(A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
(B) A Passage to India
(C) The History of British in India ✔
(D) The Great Mutiny

9. What was India's rank in the Human Development Index-2019 released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?
(A) 141
(B) 132
(C) 112
(D) 129 ✔

10. Moved by the Swadeshi Movement, .......... painted his famous image of Bharat Mata portraying her as an ascetic figure
(A) Satyendranath Tagore
(B) Abanindranath Tagore ✔
(C) Jyotirindranath Tagore
(D) Dwijendranath Tagore

11. Hafiz (Hafez) was a .......... century poet whose collection of poems is known as 'Diwan' or 'Diwan-e-Hafiz'.
(A) 14th ✔
(B) 15th
(C) 16th
(D) 17th

12. Which of the following diseases is not caused by ingesting polluted water?
(A) Typhoid
(B) Cholera
(C) Rabies ✔
(D) Meningitis

13. Who is the first Indian cricketer to have twin centuries in his maiden appearance as a Test opener?
(A) Shikhar Dhawan
(B) MS Dhoni
(C) Virat Kohli
(D) Rohit Sharma ✔

14. Zinc + Sulphuric acid → Zinc sulphate +............
(A) Hydrogen ✔
(B) Nitrogen
(C) Carbon
(D) Chlorine

15. Who among the following is a professional football player?
(A) Boris Gelfand
(B) Sadio Mane ✔
(C) Peter Svidler
(D) Magnus Carlsen

16. Which of the following is not a natural acid-base indicator?
(A) Geranium flowers
(B) Red cabbage leaves
(C) Petunia flowers
(D) Thyme leaves ✔

17. The Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal is threatened by the ongoing
(A) dolomite mining ✔
(B) copper mining
(C) magnetite mining
(D) hematite mining

18. Which of the following princely states was annexed by the British under the pretext of 'misgovernment of the Nawab'?
(A) Udaipur
(B) Awadh ✔
(C) Nagpur
(D) Satara

19. Which of the following statements about the Reserve Bank of India is Incorrect?
(A) In 1931, the Indian Central Banking Enquiry Committee revived the issue of the establishment of the Reserve Bank of India as the Central Bank for India.
(B) The Reserve Bank of India commenced operations in 1935.
(C) In 1929, the Hilton Young Commission recommended the establishment of a central bank to be called the ‘Reserve Bank of India'. ✔
(D) The Reserve Bank of India Act was enacted in 1934.

20. As per the Companies Act, 2013, dividend declared by a company but not paid or claimed within ............. days from the date of declaration is to be transferred to the Unpaid Dividend Account
(A) 120
(B) 60
(C) 30 ✔
(D) 90

21. Which of the following is a snow-fed river?
(A) Yamuna ✔
(B) Godavari
(C) Kaveri
(D) Narmada

22. Where was the first Jute mill set-up at Kolkata in 1859?
(A) Sreerampur
(B) Mesra
(C) Howrah
(D) Rishra ✔

23. Which of the following Acts was enacted in British India in the year 1878?
(A) Indian Contract Act
(B) Transfer of Property Act
(C) Vernacular Press Act ✔
(D) East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act

24. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
(A) Pure metals have a shining surface.
(B) Metals are good conductors of heat.
(C) Metals have high melting points.
(D) Lead and mercury are best conductors of heat. ✔

25. ................, a festival of the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, is celebrated in April every year.
(A) Doljatra
(B) Ali Ai Ligang
(C) Mopin ✔
(D) Me Dam Me Phi

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) MULTI-TASKING STAFF (MTS) Recruitment Exam 2020 Solved Paper (Exam Held on 05-10-2021)

                           English Language

1. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
ndulgence
(A) Accuracy
(B) Leniency ✔
(C) Diligence
(D) Attentiveness

2. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
By the same token
(A) Use the same password
(B) Use the same ticket
(C) In the same way ✔
(D) In the same bus

3. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Today, banking in a seamless world ............. a distinct reality.
(A) are
(B) was
(C) have
(D) is ✔

4. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
Have you decided what you what to become when you grown up.
(A) when you grown up ✔
(B) to become
(C) Have you decided
(D) what you want

5. Select the most appropriate Antonym of the given word.
Sly
(A) Thick
(B) Slow
(C) Honest ✔
(D) Stiff

6. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error. Seldom has the discoveries of the world's greatest discoverers, like Copernicus or Galileo, been forgotten.
(A) like Copernicus or Galileo
(B) of the world's greatest discoverers
(C) been forgotten
(D) Seldom has the discoveries ✔

7. Select the Incorrectly spelt word.
(A) Obvious
(B) Queer
(C) Hesitete ✔
(D) Dealer

8. Select the Incorrectly spelt word.
(A) Outhority ✔
(B) Condition
(C) Meddle
(D) Edible

9. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The ................ for a vaccine could take up to a year.
(A) chase
(B) pursuit
(C) track
(D) search ✔

10. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required'.
I can't live at a place which is far from the sea.
(A) No substitution required ✔
(B) hasn't lived
(C) can't lived
(D) couldn't being live

11. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Protest
(A) Support
(B) Assist
(C) Object ✔
(D) Favour

12. Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given words.
One who interferes in the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons.
(A) Interloper ✔
(B) Interpreter
(C) Foreigner
(D) Stranger

13. Select the most appropriate Antonym of the given word.
Narrow
(A) Wide ✔
(B) Firm
(C) Tight
(D) Solid

14. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To get on the nerves
(A) To soothe
(B) To have an illness
(C) To give medicine
(D) To irritate ✔

15. Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given group of words.
Restore (someone) to health or normal life after imprisonment, addiction, or illness
(A) Refurbish
(B) Renovate
(C) Reinstate
(D) Rehabilitate ✔

16. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I hope your parents ................ soon.
(A) are recovering
(B) recover ✔
(C) should recover
(D) are recover

17. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required.
There are many birds in the verandah today. Hema, please feed those.
(A) fed those
(B) No substitution required
(C) fed them
(D) feed them ✔

18. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
We do hope you are enjoy this online course in art and craft.
(A) in art and craft
(B) you are enjoy
(C) We do hope
(D) this online course

19. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required'.
During the winter months the bears go without food by nearly six to seven months.
(A) No substitution required
(B) from almost
(C) for almost ✔
(D) for quite

20. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Many ................ tales evoke the memory of Akbar and Birbal.
(A) populous
(B) popular ✔
(C) populated
(D) populist

Directions (Q.Nos. 21-25) In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

One day while the magistrate was walking (1) ......... a market he saw a crowd outside a poultry shop. (2).. enquiring what the matter was (3) ............ learnt that a peasant had accidentally (4) ........... a heavy sack on a chicken, (5) ......... it to death.

21. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 1.
(A) along
(B) over
(C) through ✔
(D) aside

22. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 2.
(A) Whereas
(B) How
(C) On ✔
(D) So

23. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 3.
(A) she
(B) he ✔
(C) they
(D) him

24. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 4.
(A) selected
(B) dropped ✔
(C) picked
(D) filled

25. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5.
(A) creeping
(B) covering
(C) crushing ✔
(D) crumbling