The pH of fresh milk is 6. When it turns sour, the pH

The displacement of a particle is given by x = cos²ωt. The motion is

A motor vehicle is moving on a circle with uniform speed. The net acceleration of the vehicle is

An object moving is undergoing a non accelerated motion. Its rate of change in momentum is

The motion of an electron in presence of a magnetic field is depicted in the figure.

Force acting on the electron will be directed

Imagine a current carrying wire with the direction of current downward or into the page. The direction of magnetic field lines is

The main thinking part of the brain is

Which one among the following hormones stimulates the plant cells to grow in a manner such that the plant appears to be bent towards light?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in medical diagnosis to obtain image our internal body organs. This is primarily possible because

The motion of a particle is given by a straight line in the graph given above drawn with displacement (x) and time (t). Which one among the following statements is correct?

The human eye is like a camera and hence it contains a system of lens. The eye lens forms

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The Golden Quadrilateral which connects Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata passes through

 Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor connects the political and business capital of India. Arrange the States from highest to lowest in terms of the length of the corridor passing through them

Which of the following statements is/are true?

1. The angle of the axis in relation to the plane in which the earth revolves around the sun is not constant.
2. The amount of energy given off by the sun changes with the transparency of the atmosphere.

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A car is moving with a uniform speed. However its momentum is changing. Then the car

Ohm’s law defines

Which of the following statements about sexual reproduction in flowering plants are correct?

1. Stamen is present in the centre of a flower.
2. Stamen produces pollen grains in the ovary.
3. The swollen bottom part of carpel is the ovary.
4. The fusion of germ cells gives rise to zygote.

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The complete digestion of carbohydrates, proteins and fats occurs in

Which one among the following statements about a healthy diet is correct?

The Nobel Prize in Medicine for the year 2012 has been awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that

The sex of a newborn baby is determined by the chromosome inherited from

Arrange the following events that took place in the first decade of the 20th century in chronological order:

1. Indian National Congress, Bombay Session
2. Establishment of All India Muslim League
3. Partition of Bengal
4. Indian National Congress, Surat Session

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Consider the following statements about Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy:

1. He was a politician, social activist and an important figure in the Dravidian movement in South India
2. He championed the cause of caste upliftment, nationalism and the rights of women
3. He was contemporary of the Maharashtran anti-caste reformer, Jyotiba Phule

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Two atoms are said to be isotopes if

The principle of cleaning by soap is

The phenomenon of radioactivity was discovered by

Sodium stearate is a salt and is used

The pure form of carbon is

Which one among the following countries was least affected by the tsunami that hit the Indonesian Ocean on 26th December 2004?

Which one among the following statements is not true about Bahadur Shah Jafar II?

Which one among the following statements is true about Lord Curzon?

Which one among the following statements about Civil Disobedience Movement is correct?

The greatest stylistic forms of temple architecture during the early medieval period were the Nagara, the Dravida and the Vesara. Which of the following was the geographical spread of the Dravida style?

Consider the following statement

No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress. If the founder of the Congress had not been a great Englishman and a distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authority would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement.

Who among the following gave the statement on the establishment of Indian National Congress

Which one among the following is the chemical formula of gypsum which is an ingredient of cement?

Which of the following statements in conection with the properties of water is/are correct?

1. Water has higher specific heat in comparison with other liquid
2. Water has no dipole moment
3. Water has low heat of vaporization

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The bond which is present between water molecules is

Water is a good solvent. This is due to high

Which of the following statements regarding the property of hard water is/are correct?

1. Temporary hardness of water is due to the presence of soluble magnesium and calcium hydrogen carbonate
2. Temporary hardness of water can be removed by boiling
3. Calgon’s method is applied to remove temporary hardness of water
4. Permanent hardness of water is removed by Clark’s method

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An ant is moving on thin (negligible thickness) circular wire. How many coordinates do you require to completely describe the motion of the ant?

 If d denotes the distance covered by a car in time t and s denotes the displacement by the car during the same time, then

 A current-carrying wire is known to produce magnetic lines of force around the conducting straight wire. The direction of the lines of force may be described by:

If an object undergoes a uniform circular motion, then its ?

A force F is applied on a body (which moves on a straight line) for a duration of 3 s. The momentum of the body changes from 10 g cm/s to 40 g cm/s. The magnitude of the force F is

Which one among the following areas is conducive for well irrigation?

Humid climate, ready market and availability of cheap and skilled labour are the conditions conducive for the production of cotton cloth. Which of the following States of India will have the highest cotton cloth production?

The requirement of water is highest in which one among the following industries?

 Which of the following statements regarding hurricanes is/are correct?

1. They develop over the ocean between 8^o and 15^o
2. They are almost absent in the South Atlantic Ocean
3. They do not develop close to the equator.

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Joint Parliamentary Sessions in India are chaired by the

Which one among the following is not a function of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?

Specific gravity of silver is 11 and specific gravity of iron is 8. Which one among the following is the approximate relative density of silver with respect to iron

Metal used to make wires for safety fuses must have

A positively charged particle projected towards west is deflected towards north by a magnetic field. The direction of the magnetic field is

Which one among the following films won the prestigious Golden Globe Award, 2013 in the best motion picture – Drama category?

Ward Cunnigham is famous for developing for the first time

Catch Me if You Can is a Hollywood movie made on the life of Frank Abagnaic who was

Who among the following is a sportsperson who has won the maximum number of gold medals in Summer Olympic Games?

Anthony De Mello Trophy is associated with test cricket series played between :

Which one among the following European countries has the maximum number of running nuclear reactors?

Which one among the following has completed thirty years of its development on 1st January, 2013?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The 14th Finance Commission was constituted under the Chairmanship of Shri Vijay Kelkar
2. The 14th Finance Commission has been specifically asked also to recommend how non-priority PSUs be relingquished.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. UN General Assembly in November 2012 adopted a resolution banning death penalty.
2. India voted against the resolution.

Which one among the following stock exchanges was closed for two continuous days in October 2012 due to the devastating effects of hurricane Sandy?

Consider the following diseases :

1. Cholera
2. Tuberculosis
3. Filaria
4. Typhoid

Which of the above diseases are caused by bacteria?

Consider the following statements in relation to plant tissue ‘chlorenchyma’:

1. It is formed by the palisade and spongy mesophyll.
2. It is a form of parenchyma which contains chloroplasts.
3. It serves to transport organic solutes made by photosynthesis.
4. It is a thin transparent layer which has chiefly a protective function.

Consider the following statements regarding osmosis in animal cells:

1. If the water potential of the solution surrounding the cell is too high, the cell shrinks.
2. If the water potential of the solution surrounding the cell is too low, the cell swells and bursts.
3. It is important to maintain a constant water potential inside the animal body.
4. In animal cells, water potential far exceeds the solute potential.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

 In India, increase in population and diversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes have resulted in the decrease of:

Radioactive decay provides an internal source of heat for the earth. This helps in the formation of which type of rocks?

Sun emits energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The following help in the generation of solar energy. Arrange them in the right sequence beginning from the starting of the cycle:

1. Hydrogen is converted to helium at very high temperatures and pressures.
2. The energy finds its way to sun’s surface.
3. A vast quantity of energy is generated by nuclear fusion.

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The greatest seasonal contrast of insolation on the earth is in which of the following latitudinal zones?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Ain-i-Akbari is the third book in the Akbarnama written during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
2. Abul Fazl was the author of the first two books of the Akbarnama while Akbar was the author of the third.
3. The best known accounts of illustrated Mughal official reports are the Akbarnama and Babarnama.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Gandhiji’s Salt Satyagraha in 1930 was against the State monopoly of the manufacture and sale of salt.
2. The American news magazine Time covered the progress of Gandhiji’s walk to Dandi on the Salt Satyagraha.
3. The Viceroy of India at the time of the Salt Satyagraha was Lord Ripon.
4. Gandhiji did not complete the Dandi March due to ill-health.

Consider the following statements:

1. Gandhiji’s launched the Rowlatt Satyagraha in 1919 because of the British measures to impose censorship on the Press.
2. Gandhiji launched the Rowlatt Satyagraha because of the British policy of permitted detention without trial.
3. The Rowlatt Act was restricted to Bombay and Madras presidency.
4. The agitation against the Rowlatt Act reached climax with the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The acid contained in vinegar is

Which one among the following is not a chemical change?

The acid in gastric juice is

An object is placed at the focus of a concave mirror. The image will be:

An optician prescribes a power = - 0.5 dioptre. The corresponding lens must be a

A current I flows through a potential difference V in an electrical circuit containing a resistance R. The product of V and I i.e. VI may be understood as

When the winds blow from all sides to the central low in an anticlockwise direction, then this phenomenon is known as

The diagram given below shows the schematic relations of temperature and precipitation of tropical climatic type over land :

Arrange the climatic types in the correct sequence from left to right:

1. Monsoon tropics
2. Wet and dry tropics
3. Arid and semi-arid
4. Rainy tropics

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Which of the following statements relating to tsunami is/are correct?

As the tsunamis leave the deep water of the open sea and travel towards shallow water

1. the speed is considerably reduced
2. they attain enormous height
3. they appear as a gentle rise and fall of the sea.

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Consider the following statements about the Indo-Saracenic architecture:

1. It combined the Indian with the European style of architechture in the beginning of the 20th century.
2. The Gateway of India in Mumbai is the most famous example of this style.
3. There are many famous examples of this style in the colonial cities of Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai).
4. It takes its imputation from ancient Greece.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Under Article 200 of the Constitution of India, the Governor of a State may

1. withhold his assent to a bill passed by the State Legislature
2. reserve the bill passed by the State Legislature for reconsideration of the President
3. return the bill other than a money bill, for reconsideration of the Legislature

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Point out the difference between the local government in India before and after the Constitutional Amendments in 1992:

1. It has become mandatory to hold regular elections to the local government bodies.
2. 1/3rd positions are reserved for women.
3. Elected officials exercise supreme power in the government.

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The President of India is elected by proportional representative system by a single transferable vote. This implies that

A particle is moving freely. Then its

The displacement of a particle at time t is given by

where a, b and c are positive constants. Then the particle is

Gravitational force shares a common feature with electromagnetic force. In both cases, the force is

The spread in colours in a rainbow on sky is primarily due to

Statement I :
I. Insolation is greatest when the sun is directly overhead and the sun’s rays are vertical.
Statement II :
II. When the sun is lower in the sky, the same amount of solar energy spreads over a greater area of ground surface, so insolation is lower

Statement I :
I. The Russian Revolution of 1917 inspired the Indian working class movement.
Statement II :
II. The Non-Cooperation Movement (1921-22) saw the involvement of the Indian working class.

Statement I :
I. Intellectual criteria which informed the reform movements are rationalism and religious universalism.
Statement II :
II. Social relevance was not judged by a rationalist critique.

Statement I :
I. Hard water does not give lather with soap.
Statement II :
II. Calcium and magnesium salts present in hard water form precipitate with soap.

Statement I :
I. There is a large-scale fluctuation of oil flow from oil wells prior to earthquakes.
Statement II :
II. Tectonic stress accumulates to a certain level, the pore pressure within a deep oil bearing stratum reaches its breaking strength causing oil to sprout along the oil wells.

Statement I :
I. Evapotranspiration helps in classifying the climatic types.
Statement II :
II. Only temperature affects evapotranspiration, hence it can be used for classifying the climatic types.

Statement I :
I. The potential energy that results from pushing water above mean sea level is transferred to kinetic energy that initiates the horizontal propagation of tsunami waves.
Statement II :
II. The vertical displacement of sea-water due to abrupt and jerky movements of fault blocks on sea-bed gives birth to tsunamis.

Statement I :
I. Indian economy has experienced slower growth rate during the years 2010-11 and 2011-12.
Statement II :
II. Indian economy has experienced weakening industrial growth during the period.