Exam Details
| Subject | general studies | |
| Paper | paper 2 | |
| Exam / Course | civil services main | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | union public service commission | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | 2010 | |
| City, State | central government, |
Question Paper
Civils Mains GS 2010
PAPER II
1. Answer the following in notmore than 250
words each: 20 × 2 40
Critically examine the implications of the disintegration of the Soviet Union on India’s security and strategic perspectives. What further responses would you suggest in India’s foreign policy to accommodate these implications?
Evaluate India’s approach towards meeting the country’s growing energy demands. Compare the success of this approachwith that of another Asian giant which has perhaps the fastest growing energy demands.
2. Answer any FOUR of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 4 48
Howfar have Japan’s principles of Hikaku San Gensoku impacted bilateral tieswith India?
Assess the contributions of Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean.
Doyou agree with the view that Israel is a ‘natural ally’ of India?
Bring out the FDI and employment implications of China being a manufacturing hub and India a services hub?
Have the Uruguay Round negotiations and the resultant Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement helped in resolving trade conflicts arising out of variations in different nations’ IPR regimes? Also list the steps taken by India to conform to TRIPS.
Examine the recent developments towards the solution of the Bangladesh- Myanmar maritime boundary dispute. What implications do these have for India?
3. Answer any EIGHT of the following in not
more than 50 words each 5 × 8 40
Compare and contrast the role of the IMF with that of theWorld Bank.
What are themajor capacity-building and reconstruction projects being undertaken by India in Afghanistan?
Bring out the significance of GDI and GEMas components of the UN’s Human Development Report (HDR). Comment on India’s relative rankings with regard to HDI and GDI.
What is ‘Round Tripping’ in the context of FDI inflow, andwhy has it been in the news recently in the case of India?
Comment on the reason for the recent hike in visa processing fees for certain categories of US visas. What is the likely impact of this hike on India?
In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), distinguish between ‘Annex I’ and ‘Annex II’ countries.
Highlight the role of the Indian peacekeeping contingent as part of MONUSCO.
List the salient features of the Riyadh declaration and the bilateral agreements between India and Saudi Arabia signed earlier this year.
Comment on the reasons for the recent economic crisis in the so-called ‘PIGS’ countries of Europe.
4. Answer any TWO of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 2 24
Examine the opportunities for a lasting West Asia peace solution in the context of the ‘historic’ talks started in September 2010.
Has the February agreement between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement been more successful in ending the strife in Darfur than the Abuja peace agreement of 2006 Evaluate.
Comment on the present status of the BiologicalWeapons Convention (BWC). What important issues, do you think, need to be taken up at the seventh review conference of the BWC scheduled for 2011?
5. Answer any FOUR of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 4 48
Bring out the applications of computer models in studying climate changes, with special reference to the Community Earth SystemModel (CESM).
What is phytoremediation Discuss its applications.
Explain and differentiate among ‘Plasma’, ‘LCD’ and ‘LED’ television technologies.
What is ‘cloud computing’? Bring out its essential features and list its advantages and limitations.
Discuss the applications of nanotechnology in the health care sector.
6. Comment on any THREE of the following
in notmore than 50 words each: 5 × 3 15
Rotterdam Convention
TheMaviMarmara incident
Significance of the Kampala declaration of the International Criminal Court
Trial chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and its recent verdict.
7. Comment on any SIX of the following in
not more than 50 words each 5 × 6 30
MRSA infection
HRP-2M Choromet
Maglev vehicles
Super absorbent polymers
Ginkgo biloba
CARTOSAT-2B
Various generations of mobile phone technology
8. Who/What is the above and why have it been in the news recently? (Your answer should be in a sentence or two only): 3 × 8 24
Craig Venter
Shahran Amid
Wolfram Alpha
‘Dreamliner’ aircraft
Blue gene project
‘Predator’ drones
‘Deepwater Horizon’ incident
ACTN 3 gene
9. The distribution of rent of 150 residential
houses surveyed in a locality is as follows
Rent in Rs. Number of Houses
101-150 10
151-200 18
201-250 27
251-300 35
301-350 30
351-400 16
401-450 8
451-500 6
Find The percentage of houses having rent
higher than ‘ 300.
The percentage of houses having rent
more than 1 250 but less than Z 401.
Workout the trend values by any suitable
method fromthe following data showing
the number of murders (in thousand) in
a country for the years 1985-1995.
Year 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Murders 19.0 20.6 20.1 20.7 21.5 24.7
Year 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Murders 24.7 23.8 24.5 23.3 21.6
The data on the total investment on
different heads under the eighth five year
plan are shown below
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If the total proposed outlay on different
heads is rs. 4,34,100 crores at 1991-92
prices, obtain separately the proposed
outlay on each of the heads and make an
overall comment.
Represent the following data through a
suitable diagram:
Region ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’
Married Criminals 95 80 63 32
Unmarried Criminals 72 25 41 26
10. Data on flight arrivals from several cities for two airlines are shown below for the last sixmonths.
Table Citywise “ontime and delayed
flights” for airlines A and B
Airline A Airline B
Ontime Delayed Ontime Delayed
City I 497 62 694 117
City II 221 12 4840 415
City III 212 20 383 65
City IV 503 102 320 129
City V 1841 305 201 61
It is known that City II was mostly sunny andCityVwasmostly foggy during the six month period of data collection. Compare the performance of the two airlines A and B over the cities, in terms of percentage of delayed flights. What is your conclusion when the data on all the cities are combined.
The arithmeticmean of two observations is 127.5 and their geometric mean is 60. Find the two observations and their harmonic—mean.
The following table shows the number of bushels of wheat and corn produced in a farm during the years 1950-1960. Express the yearly number of bushels of wheat and corn as percentages of total annual production. Graph the percentages by suitable bar charts and comment.
Year No. of bushels No. of bushels
of wheat of corn
1950 200 75
1951 185 90
1952 225 100
1953 250 85
1954 240 80
1955 195 100
1956 210 110
1957 225 105
1958 250 95
1959 230 110
1960 235 100
Following are the maximum daily temperature recorded in a week in a particular city
38, 40, 36, 35, 30, 32, 34
During that week the average maximum daily temperature in another city was 92°F Determine which city on the average, has higher maximum daily temperature during that week.
PAPER II
1. Answer the following in notmore than 250
words each: 20 × 2 40
Critically examine the implications of the disintegration of the Soviet Union on India’s security and strategic perspectives. What further responses would you suggest in India’s foreign policy to accommodate these implications?
Evaluate India’s approach towards meeting the country’s growing energy demands. Compare the success of this approachwith that of another Asian giant which has perhaps the fastest growing energy demands.
2. Answer any FOUR of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 4 48
Howfar have Japan’s principles of Hikaku San Gensoku impacted bilateral tieswith India?
Assess the contributions of Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean.
Doyou agree with the view that Israel is a ‘natural ally’ of India?
Bring out the FDI and employment implications of China being a manufacturing hub and India a services hub?
Have the Uruguay Round negotiations and the resultant Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement helped in resolving trade conflicts arising out of variations in different nations’ IPR regimes? Also list the steps taken by India to conform to TRIPS.
Examine the recent developments towards the solution of the Bangladesh- Myanmar maritime boundary dispute. What implications do these have for India?
3. Answer any EIGHT of the following in not
more than 50 words each 5 × 8 40
Compare and contrast the role of the IMF with that of theWorld Bank.
What are themajor capacity-building and reconstruction projects being undertaken by India in Afghanistan?
Bring out the significance of GDI and GEMas components of the UN’s Human Development Report (HDR). Comment on India’s relative rankings with regard to HDI and GDI.
What is ‘Round Tripping’ in the context of FDI inflow, andwhy has it been in the news recently in the case of India?
Comment on the reason for the recent hike in visa processing fees for certain categories of US visas. What is the likely impact of this hike on India?
In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), distinguish between ‘Annex I’ and ‘Annex II’ countries.
Highlight the role of the Indian peacekeeping contingent as part of MONUSCO.
List the salient features of the Riyadh declaration and the bilateral agreements between India and Saudi Arabia signed earlier this year.
Comment on the reasons for the recent economic crisis in the so-called ‘PIGS’ countries of Europe.
4. Answer any TWO of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 2 24
Examine the opportunities for a lasting West Asia peace solution in the context of the ‘historic’ talks started in September 2010.
Has the February agreement between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement been more successful in ending the strife in Darfur than the Abuja peace agreement of 2006 Evaluate.
Comment on the present status of the BiologicalWeapons Convention (BWC). What important issues, do you think, need to be taken up at the seventh review conference of the BWC scheduled for 2011?
5. Answer any FOUR of the following in not
more than 150 words each 12 × 4 48
Bring out the applications of computer models in studying climate changes, with special reference to the Community Earth SystemModel (CESM).
What is phytoremediation Discuss its applications.
Explain and differentiate among ‘Plasma’, ‘LCD’ and ‘LED’ television technologies.
What is ‘cloud computing’? Bring out its essential features and list its advantages and limitations.
Discuss the applications of nanotechnology in the health care sector.
6. Comment on any THREE of the following
in notmore than 50 words each: 5 × 3 15
Rotterdam Convention
TheMaviMarmara incident
Significance of the Kampala declaration of the International Criminal Court
Trial chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and its recent verdict.
7. Comment on any SIX of the following in
not more than 50 words each 5 × 6 30
MRSA infection
HRP-2M Choromet
Maglev vehicles
Super absorbent polymers
Ginkgo biloba
CARTOSAT-2B
Various generations of mobile phone technology
8. Who/What is the above and why have it been in the news recently? (Your answer should be in a sentence or two only): 3 × 8 24
Craig Venter
Shahran Amid
Wolfram Alpha
‘Dreamliner’ aircraft
Blue gene project
‘Predator’ drones
‘Deepwater Horizon’ incident
ACTN 3 gene
9. The distribution of rent of 150 residential
houses surveyed in a locality is as follows
Rent in Rs. Number of Houses
101-150 10
151-200 18
201-250 27
251-300 35
301-350 30
351-400 16
401-450 8
451-500 6
Find The percentage of houses having rent
higher than ‘ 300.
The percentage of houses having rent
more than 1 250 but less than Z 401.
Workout the trend values by any suitable
method fromthe following data showing
the number of murders (in thousand) in
a country for the years 1985-1995.
Year 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Murders 19.0 20.6 20.1 20.7 21.5 24.7
Year 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Murders 24.7 23.8 24.5 23.3 21.6
The data on the total investment on
different heads under the eighth five year
plan are shown below
src='./qimages/861-9c.jpg'>
If the total proposed outlay on different
heads is rs. 4,34,100 crores at 1991-92
prices, obtain separately the proposed
outlay on each of the heads and make an
overall comment.
Represent the following data through a
suitable diagram:
Region ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’
Married Criminals 95 80 63 32
Unmarried Criminals 72 25 41 26
10. Data on flight arrivals from several cities for two airlines are shown below for the last sixmonths.
Table Citywise “ontime and delayed
flights” for airlines A and B
Airline A Airline B
Ontime Delayed Ontime Delayed
City I 497 62 694 117
City II 221 12 4840 415
City III 212 20 383 65
City IV 503 102 320 129
City V 1841 305 201 61
It is known that City II was mostly sunny andCityVwasmostly foggy during the six month period of data collection. Compare the performance of the two airlines A and B over the cities, in terms of percentage of delayed flights. What is your conclusion when the data on all the cities are combined.
The arithmeticmean of two observations is 127.5 and their geometric mean is 60. Find the two observations and their harmonic—mean.
The following table shows the number of bushels of wheat and corn produced in a farm during the years 1950-1960. Express the yearly number of bushels of wheat and corn as percentages of total annual production. Graph the percentages by suitable bar charts and comment.
Year No. of bushels No. of bushels
of wheat of corn
1950 200 75
1951 185 90
1952 225 100
1953 250 85
1954 240 80
1955 195 100
1956 210 110
1957 225 105
1958 250 95
1959 230 110
1960 235 100
Following are the maximum daily temperature recorded in a week in a particular city
38, 40, 36, 35, 30, 32, 34
During that week the average maximum daily temperature in another city was 92°F Determine which city on the average, has higher maximum daily temperature during that week.