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Month: May 2015

  • CSAT DAILY MISSION #93

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    Question 1 In an election to Gram Panchayat only 2 candidates participated. The winner received 68% of the votes and won by 1440 votes. What was the total number of votes polled, if all the votes were valid? (A) 2800 (B) 3200 (C) 3600 (D) 4000 Question 2 Anil travels to the next city from…

  • CSAT DAILY MISSION #94

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    Question 1 You work in a college, and have found a novel solution to an important problem posed by your advisor. However, your advisor sees this as an opportunity for him to get published, downplays the significance of the results, collates a paper and submits it before you are any wiser (the paper acknowledges a…

  • Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 20 May 2015

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    The Hindu National Make parties’ funding public: petition – Declare political parties “public authorities” under RTI; make them liable to disclose their financial assets for public scrutiny, petition requests SC. Clarity needed on L-G’s discretionary powers – Section 41 says that Lt. Governor can use his discretion only in matters which fall outside the purview of…

  • CSAT DAILY MISSION #95

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      Read the following information carefully and answer the two items that follow. The city crime branch has caught 6 criminals suspects A, B, C, D, E and F and the police have interrogated them. The police knows that among the 6 criminals, 2 are pickpockets, 2 are chain snatchers and 2 are kidnappers. Each…

  • Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 19 May 2015

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    The Hindu National Clean Ganga project seeks corporate, NRI participation – The urgent need is to bring down lean season BOD levels in the river to 10 mg/litre/day, the TSS levels to 10 mg/litre/day and TFC to 100 mg/litre/day. Seoul to provide aid for smart cities in India – South Korea will provide $10 billion to India…

  • Its Final: CSAT Made Qualifying, Marks not be added for Prelims Cut Off

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    The Govt’s Press Information Bureau Release had directed the Union Public Service Commission to make the CSAT paper qualifying in nature. This had created a lot of confusion because of the wordings of the press release, as well as Interpretation of the words “qualifying.” Then the UPSC also came with a release saying their official…

  • No Model Answers exist for CS Mains Questions, says UPSC

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      UPSC in an RTI reply has clarified that  no model answers are used for correction of Mains answer sheets.  An RTI was filed owing to delay in results of CSE Mains 2014 due the issue of quashing of Jat Reservation by Supreme Court,  to bring forth some clarity on the issue from Union Public…

  • CSAT DAILY MISSION #96

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    Question 1 Two cyclists start cycling around a circular track of 400m. The speed of first cyclist is 3 km/hr and the second cyclist is 6 km/hr. In how much time the second cyclist will meet the first cyclist again after the start? (A) 4 minutes (B) 6 minutes (C) 8 minutes (D) 10 minutes…

  • Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 18 May 2015

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    The Hindu National SIT cites report of agency funded by Ford Foundation – Global Financial Integrity report has put India among the top five exporters of illicit capital over the past decade. Mongolia gets $1-bn credit gift – India will provide a Line of Credit of $1 billion to support expansion of Mongolia’s economic capacity…

  • CSAT DAILY MISSION #97

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    Question 1 In a building with 7 floors there is exactly one floor between the Bengali and Tamilian. The Bengali lives on the higher floor. The Marathi lives on the floor next to the Punjabi. The Gujarati does not live on the topmost floor. The Keralite lives in the same building. Assume that nobody lives…