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Instructions

In the following questions, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of
the four alternatives.
Passage 1
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you
as set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years
after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded,
and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.
The fears that my parents had and for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every
usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I
had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.
I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather
than a reality.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure ? Simply because failure meant a stripping away off the
inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and begin to direct all
my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else. I might
never has found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free,
because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter typewriter and a
big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without
failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case,
you fail by default.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things
about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline
than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after,
secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until
both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has
been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes the message of the passage ?

A India’s futures is filled with incessant striving and providing services to millions of sufferers.

B India needs to wake up to the call of future and end her sorrows of the past.

The independence of India is being celebrated as it has opened the door to the triumphs and
C
achievements that have long awaited us.

The birth of freedom has brought in its wake more responsibility of fulfilling our pledges and creating a
D
new history.

Answer: D

Question 2

According to the author, with is the impact of failure on person ?

A A person emerges wiser and stronger implying that he is secure in his ability to survive.

B A person realises that happiness in life does not depend on the achievements or acquisitions

C A person realises that his qualifications and CV are not his life.

D A person realises the strength of his relationships by identifying his true friends.

Answer: A

Explanation:
Passage-2
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not
wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps.
India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out
from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It
is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people
and to the still larger cause of humanity.
AT the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving
and the grandeur of her successes and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost
sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and
India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to
the greater trumps and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this
opportunity and accept the challenge of the future ?
Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body
representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of
labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of hose pains continue even now
Nevertheless the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.
That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we might fulfil the pledges we have
so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who
suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition
of the greatest man of our generation has been to, wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us but
as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labour and work hard to given reality to, our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they
are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them
to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now,
and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
To the people of India, whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in
this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for Ill will or blaming others.
We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.

Instructions

A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to
each question out of the given four alternatives.
Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society since ancient times. History
reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan period. Great scholar, Kautilya, mentions the pressure of forty
types of corruption in his contemporary society. It was practised even in Mughal and Sultanate period. When
the East India Company took control of the country, corruption reached new height. Corruption in India has
become so common that people now are averse to thinking of public life with it. Corruption has been defined
variously by scholars. But the simple meaning of it is that corruption implies perversion of morality, integrity,
character or duty out of mercenary motives, i.e. bribery, without any regard to honour, right and justice. In
other words, undue favour for any one for some monetary or other gains is corruption. Simultaneously,
depriving the genuinely deserving from their right or privilege is also a corrupt practice. Shrinking from one's
duty or dereliction of duty are also forms of corruption. Besides, thefts, wastage of public property constitute
varieties of corruption. Dishonesty, exploitation, malpractices, scams and scandals are various
manifestations of corruption.

Question 3

What people are averse of due to corruption in India?

A thinking of stardom

B thinking of public life

C thinking of monetary gains

D thinking of undue favours

Answer: B

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Question 4

Kautilya mentions the pressure of how many types of corruption in his contemporary society?

A 20

B 30

C 40

D 50

Answer: C

Instructions

The greatest flourishing of northern Indian culture, art, and imperial strength undoubtedly took place during
the reign of the Mughal monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Mughals were Central Asian
descendents of the great Mongol warriors Ghengis Khan and Timur (Tamerlane), whose hordes of cavalry
swept across the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries, conquering everything between Beijing and
Budapest. But by the turn of the 16th century, the great Mongol empire has splintered: the many royal
descendents of Ghengis and Timur fought over the territorial scraps and did their best to hold' on to their own
minor Sultanates.

One of these Sultans. Babur, was not satisfied with his small kingdom of Ferghana (now in modern-day
Kyrgyzstan and eastern Uzbekistan), and he tried and tried again to permanently reconquer Timur's greatest
prize, Samarkand. He never succeeded. So instead, Babur turned his attention south to the Sultanate of Delhi
in northern India. which had been ruled successively by five dynasties of Muslim warriors from Afghanistan
since the late It century. As history would show, Babur's campaign against the Delhi Sultanate catalyzed the
foundation of one of the greatest dynasties in the history of South Asia : the Mughal Empire.

Question 5

the word closet in meaning to catalyzed is

A unrestricted

B exploited

C disseminated

D accelerated

Answer: E

Question 6

the mmongols in the 13th and 14th centuries

A plundered the greater part of asia and eastern europe

B gave rise to the mughal dynasty

C encouraged imperial strength in northern india

D none of the above

Answer: E

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Question 7

the mughal rulers were responsible for

A unleashing terror amongst their subjects

B organizing the eurasian stepe region

C patronizing art and culture

D in-fighting amongst themselves

Answer: E

Question 8

The mughals can trace their ancestry to

A beijing

B budapest

C central asia

D the eurasian steppes

Answer: E

Instructions
For the following questions answer them individually

Question 9

Whose reign in Indian History is called the Golden Age of India?

A Mughal Empire

B Maratha Empire

C Gupta Empire

D Maurya Empire

Answer: C

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Question 10

Which of the following reflects the importance of 8th November 2008 in the history of India ?

A Chandrayaan - 1 was launched this day.

B Chandrayaan - 1 was put into the orbit of the moon on this day.

C This was the day on which 1SRO completed 50 years of its existence.

D This was the day on which Chandrayaan - 1 landed on the surface of the moon.

E None of these

Answer: D

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