UPSC conducted the
Assisstant Provident Fund Commissioner Exam on January 10 2016. The
forms for the exam were filled in July 2015 & the exam was held in
January 2016. The syllabus consisted of very trivial topics like Indian
History, Culture, Environment, Geography, Labour Laws, Industrial
Relations, Accountancy, Polity, Statistics etc but the majority of
questions asked were from Maths followed by Science and computers,
english with History & Polity covering only a few questions in the
paper. The aspirants were left surprised after finding very low GS
questions and less time to solve the maths questions.
Here
we present to you the answer to the question paper. We cannot assure
that the answers are 100% correct but we have tried to compile the most
appropriate answer. Kindly treat as only a reference until UPSC releases
the answer key.
1. ‘I gave him a piece of my mind’?
Ans: (d) scolding
2. ‘blue blood’?
Ans: (c) An aristrocat
3. ‘He was hoist by his own petard’.
Ans: (a) He had problems as a result of his own plans to hurt others
4. ballad?
Ans: (c) A popular story or folktale in verse
5. Plagiarism
Ans: (d) it is presenting the work of someone else as one’s own
6. Rivalry between the two clans has become water under the bridge means?
Ans: (b) a thing of the past
7. Consider the sentence:
“the teacher gave me the book”
1 2 3 4 5 6
Where the words are numbered for convenience of reference. Consider also the insertion of a
single word ‘only’ into this sentence to indicate a desired emphasis. Where shall this word be
inserted if the emphasis is to be……..
(i) On the recipient
(ii) On the uniqueness of the item given
(iii) On the giver
Ans: (b) (i)between 3-4, (ii) between 5-6, (iii) before 1
8. ‘didactic’?
Ans: (b) moral lesson
9. ‘ the message of peace and brotherhood permeated the address……..’
‘permeate’?
Ans: (b) ,spread all over
10. Arrange :
1 Einstein was
2 Although a great scientist
3 Weak in arithmetic
4 Right from his school days
Ans: (b) 2, 1, 3 and 4
11. Chronological sequence?
First battle of Panipat
Vietnam war
French revolution
First gulf war
World war I
Ans: (d) 1, 3, 5, 2, 4
12. A branch of Scholarship that flourished in Europe ……..
Ans: (d) Antiquarianism
13. ‘Stridhana’
Ans: (d) 1 & 3 only
14. Number of states and UTs in India
Ans: (c) 29 and 7 (recently added tilangana)
15. Western Ghats?
Ans: (d) because rest three are correct, only last one is not verified
16. Ayodhya ?
Ans: (c) Saryu
17. The Khilafat committee accepted Mahatma Gandhi’s suggestion..
Ans: Allahabad
18. KIP….
Ans: (d) diaspora youth to promote awareness…
19. What is the perimeter for the figure shown below?
Ans: 44
20. Special Economic Zones (SEZ) ….
Ans: (d) promote investment from domestic and foreign sources
21. 6th century BCE Ganas or Sanghas
(a) 1,2 & 3 only
22. Chronological sequence
1. Decline in the export of Indian cotton
2. Cotton boom in india
3. Civil war in America
Ans: (b) 2,3,1
23. Differences between the private insurance programmes and the social insurance programmes?
1. Adequacy vs Equity
2. Voluntary vs mandatory participation
3. Contractual vs statutory rights
4. Funding
Ans: (b) 3 and 4
24. ‘Unbalanced Growth’ ….
Ans: (b) fixed labour supply
25. National telecom policy 2012
Ans :(d) all are correct
26. MDG fixed by UNO?
Ans: (a) halving extreme poverty and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS
27. ‘carbon footprint’
Ans: (d) the amount of GHGs produced by our day to day activities
28. Bharat Ratna award
Ans: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
29. ‘Green Revolution’
Ans: (c) assured Irrigation
30. Apartheid?
Ans: (d) racial segregation
31. Transportation has the highest elasticity?
Ans: (a) Air
32. Expansionary monetary policy ?
Ans: (a) raises the level of income but lowers the rate of interest.
33. In a medium sized township, immigration is an additional 20%………
Ans: (d) 92610
34. “The problem of rupee”
Ans: (d) Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
35. Sequence of tributaries fo the river ganga from west to east?
Ans: (a) Yamuna, Ghaghara, son, gandak and kosi
36. 2 circles of radii r1 and r2, the area of bigger circle is…..
Ans: (d) 35 cm
37. Numbers a1, a2, a3, a4, a5…….a24 are in AP…..
Ans: (d) 900
38. Under the constitution of India, which of the following statements are correct…?
Ans: (d) 1, 2, and 3 only
39. Govt ownership in PSU diluted
Ans: (c) disinvestment
40. The right to free and compulsory education Act, 2009
Ans: (d) 6-14 years
41. PM is a member of the Rajya Sabha…
Ans: (d) He will not be able to vote in his favour in the event of a no-confidence motion
42. basic premises for developing the Indian constitution
Ans: (a) GoI Act 1935
43. Malimath Committee (2003)
Ans: (b) criminal justice system in India
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