APPSC Placement Paper

 Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Previous Year Placement Paper

1. In a certain code language, EMPHASIS is written as NDIOBRJR. How do you write CREATURE in that code ?
1) SBBDUTSD 
2) QBBDTUSD
3) DSDBSTSP 
4) SBDBUTDS

2. The list of languages proposed to be included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution does not contain.
1) Bodo 
2) Santhali 
3) Dogri 
4) Bhojpuri

3. Find out the pair of numbers that does note pair of numbers that does note pair of numbers that does note pair of numbers that does note pair of numbers that does not belong to the group for lack of common prop-
erty :
1) 34 - 43 
2) 62 - 71 
3) 55 - 62 
4) 83 - 92

4. If 8 x 9 = 2724,4 x 2 = 612 and 7 x 3 = 921, then 6 x 8 = ?
1) 1224 
2) 2418 
3) 1824 
4) 1215

5. The population of a town was 20,000 in 1944.It decreased by 10 percent during 1944 - 1954 but increased by 20 percent during 1954 -1964. What was the population like in 1964 ?
1) 24, 600 
2) 22,000 
3) 20,800 
4) 21,600

6. In one minute, 3/7 of a bucket is filled. The rest of the bucket can be filled in
1) 7/3 minutes 
2) 21 minutes
3) 4/3 minutes 
4) 2 minutes

7. Which of the following lakes is the deepest?
1) Baikal 
2) Mansarovar
3) Superior 
4) Victoria

8. Identify the odd one :
1) Jhoom 
2) Bewar 
3) Masha 
4) Bera

9. Which of the following countries does not produce pepper ?
1) Malaysia 
2) Singapore
3) India 
4) Indonesia

10. What is the old name of Iraq ?
1) Mesopotamia 
2) Persia
3) Turkmenistan 
4) Alexandria

11. Mount Everest is located in the
1) Middle Himalayas 
2) Outer Himalayas
3) Central Himalayas 
4) Lesser Himalayas

12. Which of the following is not a tributary of the river Narmada ?
1) Dudhi 
2) Purna 
3) Banjar 
4) Hiran

13. In all, how many international airports are there in India ?
1) 16 
2) 14 
3) 18 
4) 12

14. Which of the following states is not a habitat of the Kuki tribe in India ?
1) Manipur 
2) Assam
3) Nagaland 
4) Arunachal Pradesh

15. Which of the following cities experiences sunlight for the longest period during summer ?
1) Mumbai 
2) Srinagar 
3) Chennai 
4) Calcutta

16. India leads in the production of
1) meat 
2) pork
3) butter and ghee 
4) cheese

17. After Anantapur district, which is the next largest district in Andhra Pradesh, areawise?
1) Krishna 
2) Guntur
3) Mahaboobnagar 
4) Prakasam

18. What was the sex ratio of Andhra Pradesh during 1991 - 2001 ?
1) 983 
2) 933 
3) 960 
4) 978

19. Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Ltd. (ICICI) was the second all-India special industrial financial institution to be set up in the country in 1955. Which was the first ?
1) Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)
2) Small Industries Development Bank of India(SIDBI)
3) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI)
4) National Small Industries Corporation Ltd.(NSIC)

20. Which of the following states does not come under the jurisdiction of the Guwahati High Court ?
1) Assam 
2) Tripura 
3) Manipur 
4) Sikkim

21. How many times has Governor's rule been clamped in Andhra Pradesh so far ?
1) Four times 
2) Five times
3) Three times 
4) Twice

22. Which of the following famous cases, which came before the Supreme Court of India, is not related to the Right to Property ?
1) A. K. Gopalan us. the State of Kerala
2) Golaknath Case
3) Kesavananda Bharati Case
4) Minerva Mills Case

23. Which of the following states does not have a Legislative Council ?
1) Maharashtra 
2) Rajasthan
3) Karnataka 
4) Kerala

24. If the President of India wishes to resign from the post, to whom does he submit his letter of resignation ?
1) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
2) The Prime Minister
3) The Vice-President
4) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

25. Qutub-ud-Din Aibak, the founder of the Slave Dynasty in India was originally a slave of
1) Mahmud Ghazni
2) Shams-ud-Din Iltutmish
3) Mohammad Ghori
4) Ghyas-ud-Din Balban

26. As per the historic Uttaramerur Inscription,during whose period did village governments flourish in South India ?
1) The Pandyas 
2) The Pallavas
3) The Cheras 
4) The Cholas

27. Who was the founder of the Radhaswami Satsang, a sect born out of Sikkim in 1851?
1) Dayal Das 
2) Shiv Dayal Khatri
3) Ramtanu Lahiri 
4) Baba Balak Singh

28. Of the following newspapers published during the struggle for India's independence,which one was published in a vernacular language ?
1) Kesari 
2) Mahratta
3) Bengalee 
4) Anand Bazar Patrika

29. Identify the odd one :
1) Wilson College, Bombay
2) Christian College, Madras
3) Noble College, Masulipatnam
4) Mayo College, Ajmer

30. Which of the following was the most important pre-Congress nationalist organization,founded in the year 1876 by S. N. Banerji and Ananda Mohan Bose ?
1) Asiatic Society
2) Indian Association of Calcutta
3) British India Association
4) Bengal-British Indian Association