UPSC Previous Year Questions: CSP 2021
One cannot place less emphasis on the fact as to how important it is to solve questions asked by UPSC Previously. In fact, UPSC tends to repeat from its own stock, verbatim.
This thread, shall be solely dedicated for posting questions asked in CSP & CAPF.
I shall be posting questions here on a daily basis. Urge you all to answer these in all seriousness. Shoot doubts if you have any, wrt solving any question.
Remember the idea is to solve them, again. Reading questions and solutions is NOT sufficient.
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@Neyawn @root
A child receives tall plant from father as a birthday gift. Father asked how she could verify whether this tall plant was a progeny of both tall plants or one tall and short plant. She could verify this through
a. Cross Pollination
b. Self Pollination
c. Tissue Culture
d. Negative Propogation
b?
Correct.
Pollination is basically a method of sexual reproduction in plant, miosis separates chromosomes and these chromosomes meets again during process of reproduction. Cross pollination or self pollination is method of mixing the chromosomes. Gene of particular trait might be dominant or recessive character. In case of self pollination you get all plant of tall trait, it means plant of progeny of tall plant, in case you get mixed traits(short or long) it is progeny of both tall and short plant.
Haryana,
Which of the following statements with regard to the creation of a new state or alteration of boundaries of states is/are correct?1. An amendment has to be moved in the Parliament under Article 368 of the Constitution.2. Ratification by one half of the states is necessary after the amendment is made by the Parliament.3. The legislation can be passed by a simple majority of both Houses of Parliament.Select the correct answer:a. 2 onlyb. 1 and 3 onlyc. 3 onlyd. 2 and 3 only
C?
An antibiotic is not useful against virus whereas a vaccine is. Which one of the following is the most appropriate reason for this?A. An antibiotic can break RNA only whereas virus has DNA.B. An antibiotic is a carbohydrate in its chemical nature, whereas a vaccine is a protein, which works well to kill a virus.C. Only vaccine can break the genetic material of a virus.D. A virus does not use biochemical pathways which can be blocked by an antibiotic. But a vaccine can boost an immune system to fight the virus.
D is it?
upsc2020said
Which of the following statements with regard to the creation of a new state or alteration of boundaries of states is/are correct?1. An amendment has to be moved in the Parliament under Article 368 of the Constitution.2. Ratification by one half of the states is necessary after the amendment is made by the Parliament.3. The legislation can be passed by a simple majority of both Houses of Parliament.Select the correct answer:a. 2 onlyb. 1 and 3 onlyc. 3 onlyd. 2 and 3 only
d
upsc2020said
Which of the following statements with regard to the creation of a new state or alteration of boundaries of states is/are correct?1. An amendment has to be moved in the Parliament under Article 368 of the Constitution.2. Ratification by one half of the states is necessary after the amendment is made by the Parliament.3. The legislation can be passed by a simple majority of both Houses of Parliament.Select the correct answer:a. 2 onlyb. 1 and 3 onlyc. 3 onlyd. 2 and 3 only
C
@Masked_marvel Negative liberty is the notion that liberty is lack ofexternal restrictions. For example, most governments have laws that prevent one from taking hard drugs like cocaine or heroine. This would be an infringement on one's liberty in terms of negative liberty since there is a restriction placed on an individual. Whether the restriction is good for the individual or society is a null point (or a 'moo point' as Joey would put it lol) for proponents of negative liberty.
Positive liberty is the notion that liberty is having thecapacity to act. For example, think of a Dalit and a so called 'high caste' during the early periods of Independence. While they both enjoyed the same legal and political rights, their capabilities to get a meaningful and decent job were entirely different. One could say that the members of the high caste have a higher amount of liberty than members of the Dalit community in terms of positive liberty. In this case, proponents of negative liberty would say they have the same amount of liberty.
So while negative liberty is only concerned with political and legal rights while positive liberty is also concerned with socio-economic rights.
Can someone please explain 2nd statement properly?
Radio waves have high wavelength meaning that the difference between two consecutive crests/troughs (appearing as Peaks or lows in a general imagined wave) is the greatest wrt to other wave bands of Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum. If you have ever come across an EM Spectrum (google for the image), you will see that Radiowaves lie at the far end of the spectrum depicting high wavelength.
P.s. if the marking on the image is intended to be the correct answer, then it is a wrong one, correct answer should be ‘B’
Statement 1 is absolutely wrong as there is no presence of ozone in the Ionosphere, (UPSC gave this statement just to confuse us.)while Radio waves have high wavelength but the official key of UPSC gave D as correct (PYQ 2011, Q-27 Set A)
Maybe it is because of the word ‘very’. Can you please share the official answer key as well?
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