Questions

The Speaker of the sixth Lok Sabha who later became the President of India was _____ .

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The purpose of education is

The ratio of the ages of man and his wife is 4:3. After 4 years, the ration will be 9:7. If at the time of marriage, the ratio was 5:3, how many years agowere they married?

Find the odd word/letters/number pair from the given alternatives.

If X2+4y2+z2-4x-2z+5-0, then find the value of y15+x5z14

Ghatotkacha (who ruled in the years 290–305 B.C.) was a king from which dynasty?

A Unitary form of government is that in which all the powers are concentrated in the hands of

The salt concentration (measured as salinity in parts per thousand), is less than ______ % in inland waters.