1. Right to Education in India is:

A. Directive Principle

B. Fundamental Right

C. Non-Judicial Right

D. Customary Right

2. Fifty-second Amendment Act of 1985 0f the Indian constitution dears with

A. Religion

B. Education

C. Defection

D. Defense

3. Who is present Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?

A. Najma Heptulla

B. Meira Kumar

C. Mohammad Hamid Ansari

D. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

4. Who is the author ofthe book Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence

A. Jaswant Singh

B. Yaswant Sinha

C. Nitin Gadkari

D. L.K.Advani

5. The Report of the Sachar Committee was about

A. Socio-economic status of Muslims

B. Centre-State relations

C. Food Security

D. Economic reforms

6. Women reservation bill providing for 33% reservation of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and State Legislatures was recently passed by

A. Lok Sabha

B. Rajya Sabha

C. Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

D. Parliament and a majority of State Legislature.

7. Match List-I (leaders) with List-II (movements/activities) and choose the correct answer from the options given below:


8. The 'metropolis-satellite' characterization ofstates is associated with
A. Corporatist approach
B. Institutionalism
C. State-Society approach
D. Dependency theory
9. Find the odd one out
A. Communist Party of India
B. Nationalist Congress Party
C. Mizo National Front
D. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
10. The procedure of amendment of the Constitution of India is similar to the procedure of amendment ofthe Constitution of
A. USA
B. South Africa
C. Canada
D. Switzerland
11. Globalization means
A. Increasing global coverage of current affairs by the media
B. IMF, World Bank domination of world economy
C. Free movement of capital and goods across national boundaries
D. USA becoming the sole super power in the world
12. Panch Sheel refers to an agreement between
A. India and Nepal
B. India and China
C. India and Pakistan
D. India and Sri Lanka
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13. India is not a member of
A.WTO
B. UN
C. SAARC
D.G-7
14. NSG stands for
A. National Service Group
B. National Study Group
C. Nuclear Suppliers Group
D. National Survey Group
15. The President ofPakistan is
A. Pervez Musharraf
B. Asif Zardari
C. Nawaz Sharif
D. Yusuf GHani
16. The eighth member to join SAARC is
A. Kampuchea
B. Vietnam
C. Afghanistan
D. Mauritius
17. The Minister ofExtemal Affairs in the Government of ofIndia is
A. Pranab Mukerjee
B. S.M. Krishna
C. Shashi Tharoor
D. Kapil Sibal
18. The President ofChina is
A. Wen Jiabao
B. HuJintao
C. Deng Xiaoping
D. Jiang Zemin
19. Who among the following received Bharat Ratna Award in the year 2008?
A. Sachin Tendulkar,
B. Satyajit Ray
C. Amartya Sen
D. Bhimsen Joshi
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Which of the following statements are true about the Governor of a State?
i. The executive power of the state is vested in him.
ii. He must have attained 35 years of age.
iii He holds office during the pleasure ofthe President.
iv.The grounds for his removal are laid down in the Constitution. ii, iv i,ii,iii ii, iii, iv ii, iii, iv

25 Which one ofthe following is not a statutory body?
A. Tariff Commission
B. Small-Scale industries Board
C. Unit Trust ofIndia
D. TungabhadraProject Board
26 The last stage in the process ofrecruitment is:
A. Appointment
B. Orientation
C. Placement
D. Probation
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Which is the highest level of the Panchayati Raj system in India?
A. Village Panchayat
B. Panchayat Samiti
C. Zilla Prishad
D. Block Samiti
28 WhichofthefollowingCabinetCommitteeis notchairedbythePrime
Minister?

A. Political Affairs Committee
B. Appointment Committee
C. Committee on Parliamentary Affairs
D. Economic Affairs Committee
29 The ideal ofpublic administration is:
A. Uniformity oftreatment
B. Political direction
C. Community service
D. Public responsibility
30 Who is the top ranking civil servant in India?
A. Chief Secretary
B. Home Secretary
C. Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
D. Cabinet Secretary
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Marks: 30
Read carefully the passages and answer the questions given below each passage.
Mention the correct answer (either C or in the brackets provided against each question.
Each passage carries 10 marks.· Each question carries 2 marks. 1/3rd of marks will be deductedfor every incorrect answer in this part.
Passage 1
On weekdays, they are Aditya, Anil, Firdaus, Adi and Manish studying or working but on weekends, they are the Highway Nawabs. Connected by a pure passion for riding and a spirit ofadventure, these youngsters hit the highways with their bikes and go on long rides, offthe beaten track.
"Just for the sake ofriding we commute to places. Weekends and holidays are just to get away from routine work and life and come back to refreshed,' Manish, who is into wealth management service. Why do they call themselves the Highway Nawabs? "We ride on the highways and the term "nawabs' connect us to Hyderabad" says Aditya who came to know ofthe group through Orkut. "Anyone, guys or girls, married or not is welcome to join us. He/she must follow the safety norms, like wearing a helmet, jeans, shoes," he says. The group has ventured to places like Vizag, Humpi, Araku, Srisailam, Medak etc. "We have covered 600-700 KIns in a day and we begin our ride from the Parade Grounds, Secunderabad," informs Aditya.
However, they have a pattern for riding. They have a leader and a sweeper. No one overtakes the leader, and the sweeper rides slowly at the end. If a bike breaks down on the way, everyone waits until it is repaired. Says Govardhan, ''riding helps us take a break from the madding city crowd and explore far flung areas and people, not on the web site, and pursue photography as well". Govardhan recalls one such visit to Naldurg, an abandoned fort in the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border, while Manish talks about a visit to Lonar near Aurangabad, which has the third largest crater in the world. Highway Nawabs, won an award at the annual Royal Enfield event called Rider Mania.
1. The youngsters go off to different places on weekends because they love:
A. Riding bikes
B. Cities C. Photography D. Forts
2) These youngsters come back from their visits:
A. Hungry B. Tired C. Annoyed D. Refreshed

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3. The 'Highway Nawabs" are
A. Bike riders
B. Web browsers
C. Hitchhikers
D. Wealth
4. List the sentences below in the correct order in which they occurred in time
a.
The youngsters followed safety rules like wearing a helmet and proper shoes

b.
They are connected by a spirit of adventure

c.
They won the award at the annual Royal Enfield event.

d.
They drove to far flung places like Naldurg and Lonar

A. B. C. D.


5. What is this passage about?
A. Today's youth and their passions
B. Motor bikes
C. Tourist places
D. Highways
Passage 2
Since 1990, with a view to shifting the focus from the traditional 'income-centred' accounting to 'people-oriented' programmes and policies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been publishing the annual Human Development Report focusing on the conceptual issues and policy strategies to tackle poverty and deprivation. One important component ofthe HDR is the Human Development Index which ranks countries on the basis ofthree basic capabilities: life expectancy, educational attainments, and economic standard ofliving.
In 2015, the human development approach initiated by Haq, Sen and other committed experts would have a quarter century of experience and history, coinciding with the target year ofthe United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Among the human development theorists and practitioners, there is already growing worry that the rhetoric ofhuman development does not reflect the reality ofhuman development indicators on the ground. The policy impact ofthe human development approach is much less in proportion to its huge political and public success. -
Politicians are quick to pick up the human rights and human development rhetoric. But
when it comes to policy decisions they are led by populism and short-term gains. Often
enough, taking human development seriously means more investments in social sectors
and public infrastructures, and in long-term goals that will enhance the health,
educational, employment and social capabilities ofpeople.
Also, the world today is in many ways a different place than when the human development approach was initially launched in 1990. Rising up to the challenges of globalization, technological innovations, rampant spread ofAIDS, climate change, global
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terrorism, human security, migration and so on, are vital to keep the human development movement robust and relevant.
There is, however, another related concern, the dilution ofthe theoretical richness of what the idea of human development as a whole stands for. People's well-being and freedom are influenced by a wide variety ofsocial, political, economic, legal and environmental factors. The HDI, which selects and concentrates on some ofthese elemental features, cannot but be limited in comparison to the complexities and richness ofthe actual human life.
The popular appeal and success ofthe HDI has, unfortunately, created the wrong impression in some circles that human development is just about education and health, and nothing more. The human development agenda in the future, according to Fukuda­Parr, should concentrate on other areas suchas political freedoms, human agency, participation, empowerment and collective action.
1. Human Development Index ranks
A. Individuals
B. Countries
C. Regions
D. Communities
2. According to the passage, the approach ofthe politicians to human development is not
A. Rhetorical
B. Short-term
C. Populist
D. Long-term
3. Which one of the following is not a component ofthe HDI?
A. Political freedoms
B. Life expectancy
C. Economic standard ofliving
D. Educational attainments
4. According to the passage, the HDI is
A. broad
B. impractical
C. narrow
D. irrelevant
5. In this passage, the author's central argument is
A. Aboutthe richness ofthe concept ofhuman development
B. Need for abandoning the concept of human development
C. That experts need to adopt a different set of capabilities to work out HDI
D. That politicians indulge in populism and rhetoric with regard to human development
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Passage 3
Activist Dorothy Height, described by President Obama as the "the godmother ofthe civil rights movement" passed away at the age of 98 years on April 20, 2010. Ms. Height, a pioneer ofthe 1960s movement in the United States ofAmerica, hadjoined historic marches with Martin Luther King Jr. She led the National Council ofNegro Women for 40 years from 1957 to 1997 as its President.
Ms.Height was born in Richmond, Virginia'. She was admitted to Barnard College in 1929, but upon arrival, she was denied entrance because ofan unwritten policy of admitting only two black students per year. Ms. Height's civil rights involvement began in 1933 when she took on a leadership role at the United Christian Youth Movement of North America. She devoted herselfto fighting the practice of lynching and she also pushed for desegregation wllled forces. As a teenager, Ms. IIeigt marched in New York's Times Square shouting, "Stop the lynching." She was also known for forceful statements urging immediate civil right reform: "Ifthe time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time," she was known to say, and "agitate, agitate, agitate," quoting the 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
She fought for equal rights for both African-Americans and women. She organized "Wednesdays in Mississippi" which brought together black and white women from the North and the South to create a dialogue ofunderstanding. American leaders regUlarly took her counsel. She encouraged the presidents ofAmerica to appoint African women to positions in government. In the mid 1960s she wrote a column entitled "A Woman's Word" for the weekly African-American newspaper.
Ms. Height continued to speak out on racial issues and civil rights even until her 90s. In more recent days she had argued that the sense of unity fostered by the 1963 marches had dissipated and in the 1990s civil rights movement was on the defensive with many African-American families still not economically secure. Ms. Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 from President Bill Clinton. She often got as much recognition for her speeches as for her bright, colourful hats. The musical play If This Hat Could Talk, based on her memoirs Open Wide The Freedom Gates, showcases her unique perspective of the civil rights movement.
1. The purpose of this passage is to tell us about:
A. Problems faced by the civil rights movement
B. Role played by Dorothy Height in the civil rights movement
C. President's Obama's tribute to Dorothy Height
D. Civil rights movements in the United States
2. According to this passage, who was the pioneer ofthe civil rights movement?
A. President Obama
B. Martin Luther King Jr.
C. Dorothy Height
D. Frederick Douglas
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3. Dorothy Height got much recognition because she
A. led the National Council ofNegro Women
B. was a civil rights activist
C. continued her fight in the final weeks ofher life
D. wore bright and colourful hats
4. The objective ofthe civil rights movement was to agitate for equal rights for
A. African-Americans
B. Christians
C. Political leaders
D. White women
5. What was the book written by Dorothy Height
A. IfThis Hat Could Talk
B. Open Wide The Freedom Gates
C. Wednesdays in Mississippi
D. A Woman's Word
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Part-C

Marks: 40
Answer any TWO ofthe following questions in about 500 words each in the space provided in this booklet itself
Each question carries 20 marks.
1.
What is a nation-state? Trace its origins and evolution with suitable examples?

2.
What is a coalition government? Write about the central governrrlent led by the United Progressive Alliance in India?

3.
What is regionalism? Describe the main factors that contribute to the growth ofregional movements in India.

4.
What is federalism? Examine the areas of tension in Centre-State relations in India.

5.
State ofthe powers ofthe president ofIndia. Compare them with those of the president ofthe United States ofAmerica.

6.
What are the salient features of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal? State criticisms against it.

7.
What is "Track-two diplomacy"? Examine its importance in the Context ofIndia-Pakistan relations?

8.
What is globalization? Give illustrations of economic and political dimensions of globalization.

9.
State the arguments in support of and opposition to reservation of seats

for women in legislatures. Which ofthese arguments, in your opinion, are justified?

10.
What are the main features of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional


Amendments? Examine the challenges faced by local bodies fot their effective functioning.
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