Thursday 29 December 2011

APPSC Group-1 Prelims Previous Questions

1. The hill ranges between Narmada and Tapti rivers are

1. Aravalli          2. Vindhya          3. Kalmur           4. Satpura


2. The Land of Thousand lakes is in

1. England          2. Finland        3. Canada           4. Korea


3. The violent and destructive tropical cyclones in China and Japan are known as

1. Hurricanes    2. Tornadoes        3. Typhoons    4. Willy-willies


4. 'Stalagmites and Stalactites' are the landforms formed due to

1. Wind              2. Glaciers              3. Rivers           4. Ground water


5. Jurala Project is situated in the district of

1. Mahaboobnagar                       2. Nalgonda


3. Adilabad                                         4. Nizamabad


6. Oil deposits in the oceans are generall, confined to

1. Ocean trenches                              2. Continental shelf


3. Continental slope                           4. Ocean deeps


7. Find out the Great Ice Age in the following:

1. Cambrian and Archaeozoic           2. Silurian and Deconian


3. Miocene and Holocene                  4. Pleistocene and Pliocene


8. The scale used to find out the hardness of mineral is

1. Mercalli scale                                   2. Beaufort's scale


3. Mohs scale                                    4. Rossi-Forel scale


9. Mahabharat Range is in

1. Nepal          2. Bhutan           3. Maharashtra          4. Jammu and Kashmir


10. One day in Chennai, the high tide occurs at 8:00 am. The next day it will occur at

1. 8:13 am        2. 8:26 am        3. 8:56 am               4. 8:52 am


11. In which year was the 20-point Economic Programme introduced by Smt. Indira Gandhi ?

1. 1974              2. 1975              3. 1982                    4. 1983


12. Who invented the Theory of Surplus Value ?

1. Adam Smith    2. Ricardo        3. Hegel               4. Karl Marx


13. The founder of Telengana Praja Samithi was

1. K. Chandra Sekhar Rao                2. M. Chenna Reddy


3. A. Narendra                                   4. T. Anjaiah


14. The State takes steps to organize Village Panchayats as per Constitution of India under

1. Article 39          2. Article 41          3. Article 40          4. Article 42


15. The first chairman of the Planning commission of India was

1. Jawaharlal Nehru                     2. Lal Bahadur Shastri


3. K.C. Pant                                          4. G.L. Nanda


16. Find out the missing letters in the following series; OIL, GLO, JOR, ?

1. XAD              2. GJM                3. MRU                4. PSV


17. If 25 + 13 = 22 and 70 + 26 =30, what will be 26 + 13 = ?

1. 20                  2. 24                    3. 36                     4. 45


18. What is the ratio between the volumes of a cylinder and a cone of the same height and base ?

1. 3:1                 2. 1:2                    3. 1:4                    4. 2:1


19. Q is the brother of R, P is the son of Q, T is the brother of S, S is the daughter of R. Who are the cousins of P ?

1. R and Q        2. R and T          3. S and T            4. S and Q


20. If A is to the South of B and C is to East of B, in what direction is A with respect to C ?

1. North-East    2. North-West    3. South-East    4. South-West

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