TPSC Placement Paper

Tripura Public Service Comission Previous Year Question Paper

1. Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India at present?
A) B.Y. Reddy 
B) C. Rangarajan
C) Bimal Jalan 
D) D. Subbarao

2. Match List-I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List-I
a) Sirpi
b) Gnana Koothan
c) Erode Thamizh Anban
d) Puviyarasu
Codes:
a b c d
A) 2 3 1 4
B) 4 3 1 2
C) 1 2 4 3
D) 3 1 2 4

3. Which of the following is considered as a non-economic activity?
A) Teaching in a class 
B) Patient attended by a doctor
C) Mother taking care of her child 
D) travelling in a bus

4. Positron was discovered by
A) Rutherford 
B) Dirac
C) Madam Curie 
D) Chadwick

5. Floppy disk is a / an
A) storage device 
B) input device
C) output device 
D) input-output device

6.If the actual value of an item is 415 and its estimated value is 400, the absolute error is
A) -15 
B) 15
C) 0.0375 
D) -0.0361

7. Where were the ancient paintings discovered first in Tamil Nadu?
A) Keelvalai 
B) Chittanavasal
C) Mallapadi 
D) Panaimalai

8. The expansion of HDI is
A) Hindi Development Institute 
B) Human Development Index
C) Human Development Investment
D) None of these

9. Hydrogen Bomb is based on the principle of
A) nuclear explosion 
B) nuclear fusion
C) nuclear fission 
D) slow reaction

10. A source program is the program written in ……. Language
A) English 
B) Symbolic
C) High level 
D) Machine

11. The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 8 and their difference is 115. The larger number is
A) 66 
B) 46
C) 184 
D) 96

12. Conversion of information to data will be in the form of
A) integers 
B) rounded to 2 decimals
C) fractions 
D) any of these

13. Conversion of information to data will be in the form of
A) integers 
B) rounded to 2 decimals
C) fractions 
D) any of these

16. Match List-I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List-I
a) Ka. Na. Subramanyan
b) Ashoka Mithran
c) Sa. Kandasamy
d) Si. Su. Chellappa
Codes:
a b c d
A) 2 3 1 4
B) 1 2 4 3
C) 4 1 2 3
D) 3 4 1 2.

17. During the Second Five-year Plan period, the planners worked out the capital output ratio at
A) 1:5:1 
B) 5:4:1
C) 2:3:1 
D) 4:3:7

18. The unit of capacitance is
A) coulomb 
B) farad
C) ohm 
D) gram

19. A collection of related data, that is, having a similar purpose is called as
A) database 
B) Record
C) structure 
D) all of these

20. In which year was Panchayat Raj System inaugarated in India?
A) 1950 
B) 1959
C) 1952 
D) 1962

21. Match List-I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List-I
a) Caldwell
b) Veeramamunivar
c) Ziegenbalg
d) H.A. Krishna Pillai
Codes:
a b c d
A) 1 3 4 2
B) 1 2 3 4
C) 3 4 2 1
D) 3 4 1 2

22. Upanishad refers to
I. Sitting nearby devotedly
II. End of the Vedas
III. The Jnana section
IV. Basis of Astika Darsanas
Of these
A) I alone is correct 
B) I and II are correct
C) II, III and IV are correct 
D) all are correct

23. The 1919 Act brought Diarchy
A) at provinces 
B) at districts
C) at center 
D) None of these

24. Narayana Guru belonged to
A) Tamil Nadu 
B) Karnataka
C) Kerala 
D) Andhra Pradesh

25. If selling price of 16 items is same as the cost price of 20 items, then there is a
A) loss of 20% 
B) loss of 25%
C) gain of 20% 
D) gain of 25%