राज्यसेवा पूर्व परीक्षा २०१७ - Paper 2

Given here is a set of facts and courses of action are suggested after these. Choose the most appropriate option related to these.
1 A suicide by farmers has become daily routine.

2 All related predictions are getting weird due to changing climatic conditions.

3 Consumer biased media are in the forefront in creating hype over increasing prices,

4 New practices like remote sensing agriculture based on accurate analysis, nutri agriculture, safe food producing agriculture, wireless agriculture, climate smart agriculture, variable fertilizer application agriculture, knowledge facilities like wind mapping, yield mapping, water quality mapping, etc. are in
vogue but farmers are not aware about these.

Courses of actions :

a. Government, voluntary organizations and agricultural universities should work in collaboration for preparing a squad of intelligent, technically skilled, hardworking and honest agricultural assistants for empowering farmers to use new agricultural ways of producing safe food.

b. Quality produce should be distributed in order to gain appropriate price with the initiative and collaboration of farmers, self-help groups and consumers and at the same time government should plan policies for maintaining quality of sources of air, water, soil, various ecosystems and prevent their deterioration.

c. Government should assist political parties capaciously which are toiling for giving relief to farmers by waiving off their loans and giving them relief.

In a class of 43 students, 13 enrolled for both Spanish and Portuguese. 21 enrolled for Portuguese. If the students of the class enrolled for at least one of the two subjects, then select the option that indicates the number of students who enrolled only for Spanish and not Portuguese.

Study the accompanying figure, with a circle inscribed in a square, that is inscribed in a larger circle and select the option which indicates the ratio of larger circle to that of the smaller circle.

In order to buy a lift pump for his well, Sunil borrowed Y 16,000 for 3 years at the rate of compound intrest of 12.5 p.c.p.a. What would have been the difference in the interest on this principal had he borrowed it at simple interest? 

Select the appropriate option with respect to the given information.
Parks A, B and C lie in a plane but do not lie on a straight line. The distance between Parks A and B is 40 km, and the distance between Parks A and C is 110 km.
Quantity X = Distance between Parks B and C
Quantity Y = 60 km

 A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio 7:5. When 9 litres of the mixture is drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7 : 9, How many litres of liquid A was contained by the can initially ?

Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together?

Replace the question mark choosing the correct alternative. 

Replace the question mark choosing the correct alternative.

If 3 less than twice a certain number is equal to 2 more than 3 times the number, then select the option that is 5 less than 5 times the number.

You were an avid dhol player as a teenager. You did not play it for few years till now as you were busy with acquiring professional skills. At present, you are in charge of solving the city's pollution problems including noise pollution. A group of young persons approached you to permit them to practice and play dhol for a festival to be celebrated during next month and earn some money. Similarly, another group of young persons already approached you with the problem of noise pollution in the city with scientifically collected evidence. You will,

You are the head of the hospital that provides services to one of the government organisation. You have received a written complaint from one of the employees stating that he is having a terrible pain in the throat and he did not eat solid food for the last three days. He further stated that he is not given proper treatment for two reasons; one is that he is from a reserved group and secondly he is not working on the higher designation. As a head you know that there is some truth in this complaint. For sorting out the things you will,

Recently you have started voluntarily assisting people to give up their tobacco and alcohol addiction and lead a healthy life. As a lay person you always thought that the people get addicted with tobacco or alcohol because of friends, relatives, out of curiosity and enjoyment but recently you came to know that most of the people employed as sanitation workers take to these habits to manage stress and ailments as the unbearable smell, loathsome thoughts due to handling of dirt, and experiencing feeling of discomfort all the time. This made you to rethink about their plight by putting yourself in their shoes. You will,

You are heading a government mission that aims at making innovations work and providing better government services for people in rural areas. Many young management school students are recruited to assist you. These persons are enthusiastic, come up with brilliant ideas, are techno savvy, give amazing presentations using their eloquence and communication skills, and are highly assertive. At the same time majority of them being city dwellers for all their life, are from affluent middle-class families, and are little aware of the plight of people living with various kinds of scarcities and their marginalization due to social dogmas. They lack patience and perseverance required for experiencing and understanding ground level realities of the life of the majority people in rural areas and helping them to take initiatives in making their life better. You will,

You are a member of a team of experts that is responsible for conducting the workshops for heads of the institutions in different States. While designing the programme and work schedule it was suggested by some of the members that the team should request the host office for arranging a visit of all team members to the famous temple that is 300 km away from the place. You will,