WBCS (Executive) 2015 Prelims Previous Year Paper

Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
The singer was not in voice.

Fill in the blank with the correct word:
_______ his illness, he attended the function.

Direction: Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.
The stream was ______ by the waterfall.

Direction: Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.
A _______ Star was seen in the sky.

'Puts one in mind' means

'Book' may be used with

Choose the correct meaning of the word from the alternatives given below:
Genre

Put in a correct Participle in the blank space
Mary ______, we were freed from anxiety.

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below.
The crowd felt stupefied by the lecture.

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below:
The silence of the children was sinister.

'Hand and glove' means

Use suitable auxiliary verb to fill in the blank space:
Mother says you ______ to go to the market at once.

Fill in the space with an Infinitive:
_____ ______ fault is easy

There was a _____ on the midnight train. (Insert correct phrasal verb)

Insert correct adverb phrase in the blank space:
Do this in a short time, in a ______ manner.

Insert proper preposition in the sentence:
He hinted _____ some loss of treasure.

Fill in the blank with the correct word:
You had better ______ permission.

Fill in with relative pronoun the blank space below:
Who ______ saw her did not pity her?

Fill in with relative pronoun the blank space below:
The sun, ______ rays give life to the earth, was regarded by the ancients as a god.

Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
No one dare call in question his honesty.

'Approval' may be expressed by the following Interjection:

A person on the verge of death of an illness is:

An endocrinologist deals with:

A stoic person can:

Insert proper prepositions/pronouns in the sentence:
Here is the watch _______ you asked _______.

Identify the Mughal painter not mentioned by Abul Fazl?

Pitts India Act was passed in which year?

In which of the following plans did India experience two successive wars?

In which year did the Cabinet Mission come to India?

In a class of 60 where boys are twice that of girls, Ram ranked 17th from the top. If there are 9 boys ahead of Ram, how many girls are after him in the rank?

Which language was replaced by English as the official language for the government of India in 1835?

The first plan holiday in independent India covered the period?

What was the effective date of the partition of Bengal?

Between whom and when was the Treaty of Bassein signed?

'Stammering' is to 'Speech' as Deafness is to _______

The New Agricultural Strategy was introduced in India in the decade of?

During the uprising of 1857, which part of India was largely unaffected?

When and where was the 'Gadar Party' founded?

If the sequence of the alphabets is reversed, which of the following would be the $13\text{th}$ letter from your left?

When was the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act passed?

An economy may be analytically classified into?

Who passed the 'Vernacular Press Act'?

What should come in the place of (?) in the given series?
ACE, FGH, ?, PON

The major difference between the moderates and the extremists in the Congress session of 1907 was regarding?

Paint : Artist :: Wood : ?

The minimum age for being eligible to vote in the Indian Elections was reduced from $21\text{years}$ to $18\text{years}$ in the decade of -

Who among the following was not associated with the Home Rule movement?

When the Muslim League was established?

acme : mace :: alga : ?

Which of the following institutions of India is the chief advisory body on the distribution of tax revenue between the Centre and the States?

Who introduced the system of Civil Service?

In a certain code 'CONTRIBUTOR' is written as 'RTNOCIROTUB'. How is 'PROHIBITION' written in that code?

The credit co-operative institution at the village level is called-

Who was the defence lawyer at the INA trials of 1946?

Who was Titumir? The leader of

If 'CAT' and 'BOAT' are written as 'XZG' and 'YLZG' respectively in a code language, how is 'EGG' to be written in the same language?

Peasant farming means?

Who introduced the railways and telegraphs in India?

If water is called black, black is called tree, tree is called blue, blue is called rain, rain is called pink and pink is called fish in a certain language, then what is the colour of sky called in that language?

NABARD is associated with

Who was referred to by Lord Mountbatten as the "one man frontier army"?

Name one book written by Swami Vivekananda.

A man walks $3\text{km}$ northwards and then turns left and goes $2\text{km}$. He again turns left and goes $3\text{km}$. He turns right and walks straight. In which direction is he walking now?

Which of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857?

If the rural landlord also supplies rural credit to the tenants, it is called

When did the Dandi March take place?

Three of the following four are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

The first Maratha War took place during the tenure of

Industrial credit is available from

One morning after sunrise Bikram and Shailesh were standing in a lawn with their back towards each other. Bikram's shadow fell exactly towards left-hand side. Which direction was Shailesh facing?

Tattwabodhini Sabha was founded by?

Who was the founder of the Indian Association?

Three of the following four are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

In an examination Raj got more marks than Moti but not as many as Meena. Meena got more marks than Ganesh and Rupali. Ganesh got less marks than Moti but his marks are not the lowest in the group. Who is second in the descending order of marks?

When was the 'Azad Hind Fauj' formed?

The author of 'Kadambari' was

If there were no atmosphere, the earth would have been

Which English Governor-General of India was murdered by a convict in the Andaman Islands?

When did the Jalianwalabagh Massacre take place?

If EARTHQUAKE is coded as MOGPENJOSM then EQUATE will be coded as

If COUNTRY is coded in a certain way as EMWLVPA, ELECTORATE will be coded in the same manner as

'Pencil' is to 'Write' as 'Knife' is to

2014 Nobel award in Physics is associated with the invention of which type of LED?

The Lucknow Pact (1916) was signed by

The solar cooker works on the same principle as

Geographical concentration of industries generates

Who was the founder Commander of the Indian National Army (INA)?

Hydraulic press is based on

The Arya Samaj at Bombay was founded in

Pointing to a photograph of a girl, Rajan said "She has no sister or daughter but her mother is the only daughter of my mother." How is the girl in the photograph related with Rajan's mother?

LED stands for:

The upper House of the State Legislature is called?

Gandhiji's famous comment 'A post dated cheque on a crashing bank' was delivered during the visit of

At what temperature, Celsius and Fahrenheit readings will be same?

Who was the founder of the 'Indian Independence League'?

An application was received by an inward clerk in the afternoon of a weekday. Next day he forwarded it to the table of the senior clerk, who was on leave that day. The senior clerk next day evening put up the application to the desk officer. The desk officer studied the application and disposed of the matter on the same day, i.e., Friday. Which day was the application received by the inward clerk?

${\text{Mg}}^{2+}$ is isoelectronic with

The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is

Who was known as the Liberator of the Press?

A flight to Mumbai leaves every 5 hours. At the information counter I learnt that the flight took off 25 minutes before. If the time now is 10:45 a.m., what is the time for the next flight?

Fill in the missing letter in the following series:
$$\text{S, V, Y, B, ?}$$

What should come in the place of question mark in the following series?
$$\text{3, 8, 6, 14, ?, 20}$$

Select the correct option that will fill in the blank and complete the series.
$$\text{AOP, CQR, EST, GUV, ?}$$

When a ball is taken from the equator to the pole of the earth:

The Indian Peninsula is surrounded by water on:

The slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was raised by:

The compound that cannot be kept in a glass vessel because it reacts with glass is:

Babloo ranked $16^{\text{th}}$ from the top and $29^{\text{th}}$ from the bottom among those who passed an examination. $6$ boys did not participate in the competition and $5$ failed in the examination. How many boys were there in that class?

West Bengal has international boundaries on:

How many grams of $\text{NaOH}$ are needed to make $100\text{mL}$ of a $0.5\text{M}$ solution of $\text{NaOH}$? (Atomic weight: $\text{Na}=23$, $\text{O}=16$, $\text{H}=1$)

The Railway Budget of India is:

Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

The North flowing rivers of West Bengal are:

Chemically Aspirin is:

Select the one which is different from the other three.

The most important reason for the construction of the Farakka Barrage was:

Who was the main inspirator of the Young Bengal Movement?

In which layer of the atmosphere does ozone act as a UV radiation shield?

Maithripala Sirisena served as the President of which country?

The difference in time between Kolkata and London is:

Transfer of pollen from anther to the stigma of the same flower is referred to as:

Who is called a traditional modernizer?

The capital of West Bengal is located close to the:

The Pyrimidine bases in DNA are:

Who was the first President of the Swarajya Party?

West Bengal gets most of its rainfall from the:

The Muslim League joined the Interim Government in:

Which one of the following is a natural auxin?

A 'Mouza' in the Indian census refers to a:

Which of the following gets its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

During cell division, DNA synthesis takes place in:

The attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo took place in January, 2015 in:

Dry farming is possible because of:

In a monohybrid cross by Mendel, when a pure tall plant was crossed with a dwarf plant, all the $F_1$ progeny were tall because of:

The book by Hillary Clinton released in June, 2014 is titled:

The Simon Commission was appointed for:

Indian Standard Time is calculated along a line of longitude passing through:

One of the characteristics of the atmosphere of prebiotic primitive earth was the:

World Cancer Day is observed annually across the world on:

Partition of Bengal was withdrawn in

With which sport is the name of Armando Colaso associated?

Cerebral Malaria is caused by

The Chairperson of India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) since 19th January, 2015 is

The real name of Gulzar, the noted poet and lyricist, is

Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?

"Natural Selection" is the theory promulgated by

Cotton is best grown on black lava soils called.

What is the rank of India in the recently released Global Gender Gap Report 2014?

The first phase of the 16th Lok Sabha Elections had started from

Topographical sheets are produced by the Survey of India office with headquarters at

The local self-government of Kolkata is

In the 2001 census, Madhya Pradesh has been bifurcated into

Coal mine disasters in West Bengal are due to

The Kundakulam Nuclear Power Plant, that started commercial production in 2014 is located in -

The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha enjoys the rank of a -

Satellites provide information about

The most superior industrial coal of West Bengal is of

In which year the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?

The National Bal Swachchhta Mission was launched by the Government of India on

Coal, Petroleum and Natural Gas are examples of

How many private commercial banks were nationalized in 1969?

Who was appointed the new Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board on 28th October, 2014 for a three year term?

Petroleum Refineries in India mostly have

The term of office of a Rajya Sabha member is

The Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee that submitted its final report to the Supreme Court in November, 2014 had been constituted to conduct inquiry into-

Tamil Nadu is the only state with more than one major port because

The monetary policy of India is framed by-

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who passed away in April, 2014, had got the Nobel Prize in 1982, in

Who wrote the autobiography "One Life is not enough"?

Social Forestry scheme promotes ____________

The Swachchh Bharat Mission was launched by the Prime Minister of India in 2014 on the occasion of the birth anniversary of -

The system of Indian democracy is ____________

The first five year plan in India was introduced in the year -

In 2014, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2013 was given to

The one rupee currency notes of India are issued by

'Tasar' silk fibre is produced by

Theory of Plate Tectonics explains

Heavy industrialization was introduced in India in the -

One turn of DNA helix measures

A bill of a state legislature becomes an Act when

An area will be described as urban if it has ____________

Phenotypic ratio of Mendelian Dihybrid cross is __________

The first woman Chairperson of the State Bank of India appointed in 2013 was

The total number of medals won by India in the 2014 Commonwealth Games was :

Cranial nerves in mammals are

The EXIM Bank of India deals with

Which among the following is the most densely populated Indian state according to the 2011 census?

Where was the ancient port of Indus Valley Civilization situated?

The first Indian to be appointed as Chief Economist of the World Bank in September, 2012 is -

The first female bishop of the Church of England is _____________

Marginal workers are people with ____________

Which of the following was a Buddhist genealogical text?

In the Tripuri session whom did Subhas Bose defeat to become the Congress President?

On 16th February, 2015, a civil nuclear cooperation agreement was reached between India and which of the following country?

Which among the following sultans of the Slave dynasty was not a slave?

Where was the 45 th International Film Festival of India organized in 2014?

Green Revolution was confined to

During whose rule was the Zabt system of revenue settlement introduced?

When the Pakistan Resolution was formally passed?