Practice Test

Q1) Statement :
The company 'X' has decided to give 10 % increase in salary to its employees from next month.
Courses of action :
(I) The accounts department will have to prepare new salary statement for all employees before due date.
(II) Employees' association should ask for more rise in the salary considering the market condition. Show Answer

Q2) Statement :
The meteorological department has predicated good monsoon this year for the tenth consecutive year and this will result in good crop yield.
Courses of action :
(I) The Government should off-load the stores before harvesting.
(II) The Government should provide chemical fertilisers to farmers immediately. Show Answer

Q3) Statement :
Most of the development plans develop in papers only.
Courses of action :
(I) The incharges should be instructed to supervise the field-work regularly.
(II) The supply of paper to such departments should be cut short. Show Answer

Q4) Statement :
The cinema halls are incurring heavy loss these days as people prefer to watch movies in home on TV than to visit cinema halls.
Courses of action :
(I) The cinema halls should be demolished and residential multistorey buildings should be constructed there.
(II) The cinema halls should be converted into shopping malls. Show Answer

Q5) Statement :
The alert villagers should be provided sophisticated weapons.
(II) The villages should be rewarded for their courage and unity. Show Answer

Q6) Statement :
There was waterlogging in the major part of the city due to heavy rain during past few days and the people residing in those areas were forced to shift to other areas.
Courses of action :
(I) The Government should arrange food and shelter for the displaced people.
(II) The fire brigade should be put on high alert to cope with the situation. Show Answer

Q7) Statement :
The 'M' State Government has decided henceforth to award the road construction contracts thorugh open tenders only.
Courses of action :
(I) The 'M' state will not be able to get the work done swiftly as it will have to go through tender and other procedures.
(II) Henceforth the quality of roads constructed may be far better. Show Answer

Q8) Statement :
Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.
Courses of action :
(I) The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction.
(II) Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition. Show Answer

Q9) Statement :
The proposed strike by the transporters would paralyse day-to-day life of the people.
Courses of action :
(I) City administrators should engage the transporters successfully in negotiations on their demands in order to pre-empt their strike.
(II) City administrators should arrange for alternative public transportation system during the strike. Show Answer

Q10) Statement :
ABC Ltd. company has decided to launch free education up to class X for the children of its employees from June 2000.
Courses of action :
(I) The company should reduce its other expenditures to save money for the plan.
(II) The company will have to prepare details for the execution of the plan. Show Answer

Q11) Statement :
The meteorological department has issued a notification forecasting less rainfall during next year's monsoon.
Courses of action :
(I) The farmers should be advised to be ready for the eventuality.
(II) The Government should make arrangement to provide water to the affected areas. Show Answer

Q12) Statement :
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $ 285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.
Courses of action :
(I) India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.
(II) India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies. Show Answer

Q13) Statement :
There are more than 200 villages in the hill area of Uttar Pradesh which are severely damaged due to cyclone and it causes an extra burden of Rs 200 crore on State Government for relief and rehabilitation work.
Courses of action :
(I) People of hill area should be shifted to other safer places.
(II) State Government should ask more financial support from Central Government. Show Answer

Q14) Statement :
Orissa and Andhra pradesh have arranged in principle to set up a joint control board for better control, management and productivity of several inter-state multipurpose projects.
Courses of action :
(I) Other neighbouring states should set up such control boards.
(II) The proposed control board should not be allowed to function as such joint boards are always ineffective. Show Answer

Q15) Statement :
A recent study shows that children below five years die in the cities of the developing countries mainly from diarrhoea and parastic intestinal worms.
Courses of action :
(I) Government of the developing countries should take adequate measures to improve the hygienic conditions in the cities.
(II) Children below five years in the cities of the developing countries need to be kept under constant medication. Show Answer

Q16) Statement :
Footpaths of a busy road are crowded with vendors selling cheap items.
Courses of action :
(I) The help of police should be sought to drive them away.
(II) Some space should be provided to them where they can earn their bread without blocking footpaths. Show Answer

Q17) Statement :
There has been a significant droop in the water level of all the lakes supplying water to the city.
Courses of action :
(I) The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation.
(II) The Government should appeal to all the residents through mass media for minimum use of water. Show Answer

Q18) Statement :
Suicides are on the rise among youths, particularly due to unemployment.
Courses of action :
(I) A committee should be made to find out the main cause of the rise in cases of suicide.
(II) People should be discouraged from indulging in love affairs and encouraged to get self-employed.
(III) Parents of wards should be instructed to nurse their wards if they observe that their wards are facing critical circumstances. Show Answer

Q19) Statement :
Indian railways are absolutely dependent on government subsidies and lack concentration on transportation activities.
Courses of action :
(I) A committee should be constituted to look into the matter.
(II) Railways should explore new areas to generate revenues.
(III) Railways should concentrate on hiving off non-core activities such as design and manufacture of rolling stock, construction, housing etc. to private sectors. Show Answer

Q20) Statement :
The chairman of the car company announced in the meeting that all trials of its first product - the new car model 'M'-are over and company plans to launch its car in the market after six months.
Courses of action :
(I) The network of dealers is to be finalised and all legal, financial and other matters in this connection will have to be finalised shortly.
(II) The company will have to make plan for product other than car.
(III) Material, managerial and other resources will have to be in the fine tune to maintain production schedule. Show Answer

Q21) Statement :
The deputy Mayor of city 'Z' has proposed to install a plant of mineral water and to supply citizens mineral water bottles at Rs 6 per litre as against Rs. 10 per litre being sold by local private companies.
Courses of action :
(I) The local private companies of city 'Z' will have to close their operation.
(II) The Corporation of city Z will have to provide for losses in this project in its budget.
(III) The tap water scheme of city Z will have to be stopped. Show Answer

Q22) Statement :
The Minister said that the teacher are still not familiarised with the need, importance and meaning of population education in the higher education system.
They are not even clearly aware about their role and responsibilities in the population education programme.
Courses of action :
(I) Population education programme should be included in the college curriculum.
(II) Orientation programme should be conducted for teachers on population education. Show Answer

Q23) Statement :
Financial stringency prevented the state Government from paying salaries to its employees since April this year.
Course of action:
(I) The state Government should immediately curtail the staff strength by at least 30 %.
(II) The state Government should reduce wasteful expenditure and arrange to pay the salaries of its employees. Show Answer

Q24) Statement :
One of the problems facing the food processing industry is the irregular supply of raw material. The producers of raw material are not getting a reasonable price.
Courses of action :
(I) The government should regulate the supply of raw material to other industries also.
(II) The government should announce an attractive package to ensure regular supply of raw material for food processing industry. Show Answer

Q25) Statement :
The officer Incharge of a Company had a hunch that some money was missing from the safe.
Courses of action :
(I) He should get it recounted with the help of the staff and check it with the balance sheet.
(II) He should inform the police. Show Answer

Q26) Statement :
The Government has decided not to provide financial support to voluntary organisations from the next Five-year Plan and has communicated that all such organisations should raise funds to meet their financial needs.
Courses of action :
(I) Voluntary organisations should collaborate with foreign agencies.
(II) They should explore other sources of financial support. Show Answer

Q27) Statement :
The Government has decided not to provide financial support to voluntary organisations from the next Five-year Plan and has communicated that all such organisations should raise funds to meet their financial needs.
Courses of action :
(I) Voluntary organisations should collaborate with foreign agencies.
(II) They should explore other sources of financial support. Show Answer

Q28) Statement :
If the retired professors of the same Institute are also invited to deliberate on restructuring of the organisation, then their contribution may be beneficial to the institute.
Courses of action :
(I) Management may seek opinion of the employees before calling retired professors.
(II) Management should involve experienced people for the systematic restructuring of the organisation. Show Answer

Q29) Statement :
Youngsters are often found staring at obscene posters.
Courses of action :
(I) Children should be punished and penalised if they are found doing so.
(II) Any display of such material should be banned. Show Answer

Q30) Statement :
In one of the worst accidents on railway level crossing, fifty people died when a bus carrying them collided on to a running train.
Course of Action :
(I) The train driver should immediately be suspended.
(II) The driver of the bus should be tried in court for negligence on his part.
(III) The railway authority should be asked to man all its level crossings. Show Answer

Q31) Statement :
There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season.
Courses of Action :
(I) The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase.
(II) In future, the police should take adequate precaution to avoid recurrence of such situation during the festival season.
(III) The known criminals should be arrested before any such season.
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Q32) Statement :
A mass mortality of shrimps in ponds on the entire andhra coast has recently been reported due to the presence of a virus.
Courses of Action :
(I) The water of the ponds affected should immediately be treated for identifying the nature of the virus.
(II) The catching of shrimps from the ponds should temporarily be stopped.
(III) The fisherman should be asked to watch for the onset of such phenomenon in nature. Show Answer

Q33) Statement :
The world will have to feed more than 10 billion people in the next century of whom half will be in Asia and will eat rice as their staple.
Courses of Action :
(I) More funds should immediately be allocated for rice research to help ensure adequate supplies.
(II) The people in Asia should be encouraged to change their food habit.
(III) The rice should be grown in countries outside Asia to meet the demand. Show Answer

Q34) Statement :
If the faculty members also join the strike, then there is going to be a serious problem.
Courses of Action :
(I) The faculty members should be persuaded not to go on strike.
(II) Those faculty members who join the strike should be suspended.
(III) The management should not worry about such small things. Show Answer

Q35) Statement :
Drinking water supply to New Bombay has been suspended till further orders from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board following pollution of Patalganga river, caused by discharge of effluents from some chemical industries.
Courses of Action :
(I) The industries responsible for discharging effluents into the river should be asked to close down immediately.
(II) The river water should immediately be treated chemically before resuming supply.
(III) The Pollution Control Board should check the nature of effluents being discharged into the river by industries at regular intervals. Show Answer

Q36) Statement :
The department of Education has recommended that the primary level admission to Government and Government-aided schools should be done purely by random selection and not by admission tests. This is necessitated as the number of admission seekers are much more than the available seats.
Courses of Action :
(I) The Government should instruct the private schools also to follow the same practice.
(II) The Government should set up an independent body to regulate the primary level admissions.
(III) The schools should be asked to select students only from those who stay in the neighbouring areas of the school. Show Answer

Q37) Statement :
The vehicular traffic has increased so much in the recent past that it takes two hours to travel between the city and the airport during peak hours.
Courses of Action :
(I) Non-airport bound vehicles should not be allowed to pay on the road connecting the city and the airport.
(II) The load of vehicular traffic should be diverted through various link roads during peak hours.
(III) The departure and arrival of flights should be regulated so as to avoid congestion during peak hours. Show Answer

Q38) Statement :
Due to cancellation of a huge export order for not adhering to the time frame, the company is likely to get into incurring losses in the current financial year.
Courses of Action :
(I) The officer-in-charge of the production should be immediately suspended.
(II) The goods manufactured for the export order should be sold to other party.
(III) The company should change its machinery to maintain the time frame. Show Answer

Q39) Statement :
A devastating earthquake has ravaged the city killing hundreds of people and rendering many more homeless.
Courses of Action :
(I) The entry of outsiders into the city should be stopped.
(II) The civic administration should immediately make alternate temporary housing arrangement for the victims.
(III) The affected people should immediately be shifted to a safer place. Show Answer

Q40) Statement :
The army has been alerted in the district following floods triggered
by incessant rains.
Courses of Action :
(I) Relief to flood-affected people should be arranged.
(II) Supply of food articles should be arranged.
(III) Adequate medical facilities should be arranged. Show Answer

Q41) Statement :
Higher disposal costs encourage those who produce waste to look for cheaper ways to get rid of it.
Courses of Action :
(I) The disposal costs should be made higher.
(II) The disposal costs should be brought down.
(III) A committee should be set up to study the details in this respect. Show Answer

Q42) Statement :
Most of the development plans develop in papers only.
Courses of Action :
(I) The officials should be instructed to supervise the field.
(II) The supply of paper to such departments should be cut short. Show Answer

Q43) Statement :
A large number of engineering graduates in the country are not in a position to have gainful employment at present and the number of such engineers is likely to grow in the future.
Courses of Action :
(I) The government should launch attractive employment generation schemes and encourage these graduates to opt for such schemes to use their expertise and knowledge effectively.
(II) This happened due to proliferation of engineering colleges in the country and there by lowered the quality of the engineering graduates. Those colleges which are not equipped to import quality education should be closed down. Show Answer

Q44) Statement :
The police department has come under a cloud with recent revelations that at least two senior police officials are suspected to have been involved in the illegal sale of a large quantity of weapons from the state police armoury.
Courses of Action :
(I) A thorough investigation should be ordered by the State Government to bring out all those who are involved in the illegal sale of arms.
(II) State police armoury should be kept under Central Government's controls. Show Answer

Q45) Statement :
The Committee has criticized the Institute for its failure to implement a dozen of regular programmes despite an increase in the staff strength and not drawing up a firm action plan for studies and research.
Courses of Action :
(I) The broad objectives of the Institute should be redefined to implement a practical action plan.
(II) The Institute should give a report on reasons for not having implement the planned programmes. Show Answer

Q46) Statement :
The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.
Courses of Action :
(I) To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality.
(II) The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits so that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased Show Answer

Q47) Statement :
Some serious blunders were detected in the accounts section of a factory.
Courses of Action :
(I) An efficient team of auditors should be issued to all the employees involved in the irregularity. Show Answer