Revision of Civil Services Examination

Revision of Civil Services Examination

The Union Public Service Commission has so far constituted following committees for review of different aspects of Civil Services Examination including the language issues:- 

i) Kothari Committee 

ii) Satish Chandra Committee 

iii) Y.K. Alagh Committee 

iv) Anandakrishnan Committee 

v) Bhattacharya Committee S.K. Khanna Committee 

vii) Nigavekar Committee 

viii) Purushottam Agarwal Committee. 

ix) Baswan Committee. 

Except for the Baswan Committee, which is yet to submit its report, all other Committees have since submitted their reports and in none of these reports, any recommendation has been made for revising the Civil Services to set questions in all the languages listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution. 

The Committee inter-alia recommended that the candidates in the Civil Services Examination should be allowed to write their papers (other than the Indian language and English compulsory papers) in any of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution provided the candidate has had his/her graduation in that particular language medium for the examination. However, in view of the concerns raised in the Parliament, print and electronic media about Civil Services Examinations Rules, 2013, the said recommendation was not given effect by the Central Government. 

The Central Government has constituted an Expert Committee under chairmanship of Shri B. S. Baswan, vide Notice dated 12.8.2015 to examine the various issues connected with the Civil Services Examination. The Committee has been asked to submit its report within 06 months of its constitution

ECONOMICS MOCK QUESTIONS FOR APFC & CIVIL SERVICES

Q.1 Jan Dhan Yojna is a recently launched Banking Scheme for financial inclusion under which each account holder will get, among others
1. An overdraft facility of Rs.5,000
2. An insurance cover of Rs. 1,00,000
3. A credit card
Codes:
A) 1 only
B) 2 & 3 only
C) 1 & 2 only
D) 1,2 & 3
Ans. C

Q.2 Consider the following :

Companies CEOs
1. Amazon.com         - Jeff Bezos
2. Apple Inc. - Tim Cook
3. Citi group - Michael Corbat
4. Google - Felipe Gozon
Which of the above are correctly matched ?

A) 1,2,3
B) 2,3,4
C) 1 & 2
D) 2 & 3

Ans. A
Google- Sundar Pichai


Q.3 Shivraj Patil , M Thambidurai, Karia Munda , Who are they ?

A) Deputy speakers of Rajya Sabha
B) Ministry of Parliamentary affairs
C) Deputy speakers of Lok Sabha
D) Speakers of Lok Sabha

Ans. C
M Thambidurai -13 August 2014 to present 

Q 4. Which of the following statements about ‘Burrakatha’ is/are correct?

1. It is an oral storytelling technique in the Katha tradition
2. It is mostly found in Indian tradition

Codes

A) 1 only

B) 2 only

C) Both 1 & 2

D) Neither 1 nor 2

Matching List:

Q.1 Match list I & List II & select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List-I

Persons

a. Nasrin Ejner

b. Journalist Vinod Mehta

c. scholar Dr.Zakir A.Naik

d. Amartya Sen

List-II

Awards

1. Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize

2. King Faisal Award

3. Yash Bharti Samman 2015

4. Bharat Gaurav award

A) a-3,b-4,c-1,d-2

B) a-4,b-3,c-1,d-2

C) a-4,b-3,c-2,d-1

D) a-3,b-4,c-2,d-1

Ans. C

Q.2 Match list I & List II & select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List-I

Persons

a. Arundhati Bhattacharyya

b. Chanda Kochchar

c. Akhila Srinivasan

d. Shika Sharma

List-II

Chairman

1. Axis Bank

2. ICICI CEO

3. Shriram Life Insurance

4. State Bank of India

A) a-4,b-2,c-3,d-1

B) a-4,b-2,c-1,d-3

C) a-2,b-4,c-3,d-1

D) a-2,b-4,c-1,d-3

Ans. A

Q.3 Match list I & List II & select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List-I

Chief Minister

a. Manohar Lal Khattar

b. Raman Singh

c. Arvind Kejriwal

d. Mamata Banerjee

List-II

States

1. Haryana

2. Chattisgarh

3. Delhi

4. Kolkata

Codes:

A) a-2,b-1,c-3,d-4

B) a-1,b-2,c-3,d-4

C) a-2,b-1,c-4,d-3

D) a-1,b-2,c-4,d-3

Ans. B

Q.4 Match list I & List II & select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List-I

Persons

a. Suvarna Raju T

b. Balasubramaniam Venkataramani

c. Punit Renjen

d. Maheshwar Sahu

List-II

Field

1. Multi Commodity Exchange

2. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL)

3. Deloitte Global Operations

4. Reliance Industries Limited

A) a-2,b-1,c-4,d-3

B)a-1,b-2,c-3,d-4

C) a-2,b-1,c-3, d-4

D) a-1,b-2,c-4,d-3

Ans. C

Q.5 Match list I & List II & select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List-I

Persons

a. Hifikepunye Pohamba

b. Lata Mangeshkar

c. Smriti Irani

d. Amitav Ghosh

List-I

Awards

1. Mo Ibrahim prize

2. Voice of the Century

3. Young Global Leader

4. Man Booker International Prize

A) a-1,b-2,c-3,d-4

B) a-3,b-2,c-1,d-4

C) a-1,b-2,c-4,d-3

D) a-3,b-2,c-4,d-1

Ans. A

Hifikepunye Pohamba - Namibian President

Q.6 Match List-I & List-II & select the correct answers from the codes given below :

List-I

Personalities

a) Vinoo Mankad

B) Sunil Mittal

C) Uma Sharma

D) V. Kurian

List-II

Activities

1. Kathak dancing

2. Dairy development

3. Cricket

4. Telecom Industry

A) a-1,b-2,c-3,d-4

B) a-2,b-3,c-4,d-1

C) a-3,b-4,c-1,d-4

D) a-4,b-1,c-2,d-3

Ans. C

Q.7 Match List-I & List-II & select the correct answers from the codes given below :

List-I

Persons

a) Amrita Patel

b) Indra Nooyi

c) Sunita Narayan

d) Nandan Nilekani

List –II

Organisation

1. Information technology

2. Environment Science

3. Pepsi Co.

4. Dairy development

Codes:

A) a-1,b-4,c-2,d-3

B) a-2,b-1,c-3,d-4

C) a-2,b-3,c-4,d-1

D) a-4,b-3,c-2,d-1

Ans. D

Q.8 Consider the following names :

1. Amrita Sher Gill

2. Bikash Bhattacharjee

3. N.S. Bendre

4. Subodh Gupta

Who of the above is/are well known as artist (s) ?

A) Only 1

B) 1 & 4

C) 2,3,4

D) 1,2,3,4

Ans. C