KERALA PSC ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER EXAM MODEL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2015
Part V : Facts About India
Part VI: Facts About Kerala
Part VII: Constitution of India and Civil Rights
Part IX:Social Welfare Schemes and Measures
PSC Repeated Questions
1. The total number of villages in Kerala
(a) l820
(b) 1420
(c) 1452
(d) 991
2. The total length of the coastline of Kerala
(a) 480 kms
(b) 830 kms.
(c) 580 kms.
(d) 500 kms
3. Yakshagana is a dance drama from….
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Chennai
4. Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana aims at helping…
(a) Women
(b) Youth of the weaker sections
(c) Educated unemployed urban youth
(d) Handicapped people
5. –––––– Vitamin is also known as Thiamine
(a) Vitamin A
(b) Vitamin E
(C) Vitamin B
(d) Vitamin C
6. Genes are located in ….
(a) Blood
(b) Tissues
(c) Chromosomes
(d) Spleen
7. Otology is the study of ….
(a) Lung diseases
(b) Mouth diseases
(c) Diseases of the ear
(d) Brain diseases
8. …………is a substance which acts like a fuel in driving the body
(a) Protection
(b) Vitamin
(c) Carbohydrates
(d) Minerals
9. Pedology is the study of….
(a) Child diseases
(b) Skin
(c) Soil
(d) Habitats
10. The study of the production of better offspring by the careful selection of parents is called….
(a) Genetics
(b) Cryogenics
(c) Eugenics
(d) Chronobiology
11. A welfare state has a moral obligation to provide welfare services especially to….
(a) All sections of the society
(b) The women
(c) To the weaker sections of the community
(d) The children and the sick people
12. The Community Development programme was started in…
(a) 1950
(b) 1959
(c) 1952
(d) 1956
13. The term Scheduled Castes came into being instead of the term ‘Suppressed Classes’ since the enactment of….
(a) Census Report of 1921
(b) 1961 Census Report
(c) The Government of India Act 1935
(d) The Constitution of India
14. The term ‘Untouchables’ was used to refer to the Depressed Castes by….
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(d) William Bentinck
15. ………… makes any type of discrimination against the Scheduled castes in public places etc. punishable
(a) Government of India Act 1935
(b) The Constitution of India
(c) The Untouchability Offence Act 1955
(d) 1921 Census Report
16. ….. is a scheme aimed at providing free housing to people of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste.
(a) Prime Minister’s Gramodaya Yojana
(b) Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana
(c) Indira AwasYojana
(d) Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
17. The Panchayat Raj Act aims at….
(a) The centralization of power
(b) Distribution of grants
(c) Decentralized planning
(d) Improvement of Infrastructure
18. Most members of delinquent juvenile gans are….
(a) Paranoid
(b) Psychopaths
(c) Mentally retarded
(d) Neurotic
19. One of the symptoms of social disorganisation is ……………..
(a) Constitutional Amendments
(b) Family planning
(c) Conflict of mores and institutions
(d) Family disorganisation
20. The first country in the world to launch the National Family Planning Programme in 1951 is…..
(a) USA
(b) Indonesia
(c) India
(d) China
21. The Employees State Insurance Scheme is based on…
(a) The Constitution of India
(b) The Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1923
(c) The report of Prof. Adarkar and the I.L.O. conventions
(d) The report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India in 1923
22. The Welfare Scheme for children known as I.C.D.S. (Integrated Child Development Services Scheme) was initiated
by….
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Rajiv Gandhi
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) Lal Bahadur Shasthri
23. NORAD is an agency which assists the welfare programmes for the….
(a) Physically handicapped persons
(b) Mentally retarded children
(c) SC/ST women and widows
(d) AIDS victims
24. When sociologists refer to slum mentality, they mean
(a) Poverty
(b) Unemployment
(c) Increasing Lethargy manual inefficiency and antisocial outlook
(d) Violence
25. The common name of a village sociologically imply…
(a) Patriotism
(b) Ethnocentrism
(c) Community sentiment
(d) Sectional loyalty
Answers:-
1.(c) 2.(c) 3.(c) 4.(c) 5.(c) 6.(c) 7.(c) 8.(c) 9.(c) 10.(c)
11.(c) 12.(c) 13.(c) 14.(c) 15.(c) 16.(c) 17.(c) 18.(b) 19.(c) 20.(c)
21.(c) 22.(c) 23.(c) 24.(c) 25.(c)
