UPSC CDS 1 2024 Unofficial Answer Key (Available): All Sets Questions with Answers

Serial Number

Question

Answer

1.

• Identify which word class the underlined word belongs to.
  1. She sings much better than I do.
  2. The Story was all in the dailies
  3. What made you choose the one rather than the other?
  4. Smoking is injurious to health.
  5. There is still some water in the bottle.

1. Adverb
2. Noun
3. Participle
4. Pronoun
5. Determiner

• Prepositions & Determiners
  1. I'm fed up ___ you.
  2. We had a discussion ___ the project.
  3. She is capable ___ winning the race.
  4. Her first novel has been translated ___ many languages.

1. with
2. about
3. of
4. to

• Synonyms
  1. Winning the World Cup was the most exhilarating moment for the India Cricket Team
  2. The hotel rooms have dingy walls.
  3. Keshav planned the event with fastidious care.
  4. Justice prevailed and the murdered was decapitated.
  5. Her left leg was paralyzed due to her debilitating disease.

1. thrilling
2. hazy
3. meticulous
4. beheaded
5. crippling

• Usage of Paired Words
  1. Compliment and Complement
  2. Stationary and Stationery
  3. Deify and Defy
  4. Complaisant and Complacent
  5. Enquiry and Inquiry

1. Compliment means to praise and complement means to blend well with
2. Deify means to conquer upon the status of god and defy means to oppose
3. Stationery means writing and office supplies and stationary means immobile.
4. Complaisant means eager to please and complacent means overconfident.
5. Enquiry means to investigate and inquiry means to seek information.

• Adaptation of Borrowed Words
  1. Aplomb
  2. Condign 
  3. Gastronomy
  4. Incommunicado
  5. Expatriate

1. Self-confidence.
2. Punishment appropriate to wrongdoing
3. Art of fine food and eating
4. Not wanting to or able to communicate.
5. Resident outside country of citizenship.

• Antonyms
  1. She accepted the prospect of her medical treatment with equanimity.
  2. He had been vehement in opposing the idea.
  3. He indulges in nefarious activities.
  4. When he was born his family was indigent.
  5. All of us are living in turbulent times.

1. agitation
2. subdued
3. admirable
4. affluent
5. tranquil

• Idioms and Phrases
  1. Walking on Eggshells
  2. Elephant in the room
  3. Feather your own nest
  4. Neither fish nor fowl
  5. The ship has sailed

1. Careful not to offend or upset others.
2. The obvious problem that is being avoided.
3. To make money for oneself by way of dishonest means.
4. Neither this or that
5. The opportunity has passed.

• Use of Phrasal Verbs
  1. She was advised by her coach to ___ to form if she wanted to do well in the tournament.
  2. The boisterous crowd ____ with its merry-making even amidst pouring rain.
  3. She said goodbye and ____ along the road.
  4. The team reported that they had ___ the contract with tooth and comb before forwarding its recommendation.
  5. The goons ___ the unsuspecting victims when the latter walked into the dark alley.

1. get back
2. carried on
3. tripped off
4. pored over
5. set upon

• Fill in the Blanks
  1. I shall not be going to the theatre ___.
     • if it may snow
     • if it snow
     • if it snows
     • if snowed
  2. ___ than a hundred passengers were killed in the recent train accident.
     • Less
     • No less
     • Fewest
     • No fewer
  3. Each of these paintings ___ made by a famous painter.
     • are
     • is
     • be
     • should
  4. This is an are of ____ dense population.
     • extremely
     • totally
     • tangeitally
     • languidly
  5. Reading ability in young children ____ by speech disorders.
     • effected
     • affected
     • is effected
     • is affected

1. if it snows
2. No less
3. are
4. extremely
5. is affected

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Question

Answer

1.

Which of the following indicators is/are used to observe the monetary transmission mechanism in the economy

Weighted Average Lending Rate, Weighted Average Domestic Deposit Rate, 1 Year Median MCLR

• High, thin, puffy, white clouds of ice crystals that look like ripples.
• They appear between 20,000 and 40,000 feet above Earth's surface.
• One of its types is called the mackerel sky because the clouds resemble large fish scales especially when coloured pink at sunset.

• Silk Manufacture
• Iron and steel industries
• Cotten textile
• Woolen Manufacture

1. GDP Deflator captures the average price of an unchanging basket of commodities that constitutes the GDP of a country.
2. GDP Deflator can be used to calculate the real GDP of a country but not the inflation rate.

1. RBCs
2. Eosinophils
3. Platelets
4. Monocytes

1. A price index captures the change in the average price of a constant basket of commodities.
2. If the price index takes values 100, 110, and 121 in three consecutive years respectively, then the inflation rates in the 2nd and 3rd year are 10% and 21% respectively.

1. Most of India's reserves is held in the form of foreign currency.
2. There is no cost of holding foreign currency as reserves by a nation.

1. The market mechanism over-produces a good that generates a positive externality.
2. A cap and trade of pollution permits can be used by the government to achieve the social optimum.
3. The optimal amount of subsidy in the case of an activity that produces a positive externality is the difference between social benefit and private benefit at the optimum.
4. Tragedy of Commons is an example of a negative externality.

1. Reserves
2. Currency
3. Time deposits
4. Demand deposits

1. Chambers of heart
2. valves in veins
3. aorta and main arteries
4. valves of heart

1. ribozyme
2. lipase
3. lysozyme
4. isomerase

1. fats
2. proteins
3. ribose sugars
4. carbohydrates

1. Flavi-ribo virus
2. Adenovirus
3. Vaccinia virus
4. Nipah virus

1. Nilgiri
2. Achanakmar-Amarkantak
3. Seschalam
4. Agasthyamali

1. Justice P.N. Bhagwati
2. Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman
3. Justice K.S. Puttaswamy
4. Justice Anil R. Dave

1. Dhaka
2. New Delhi
3. Male
4. Perth

1. Myanmar
2. Manipur
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Chhattisgarh

1. Varanasi & Prayagraj
2. Indore & Surat
3. Prayagraj & Indore
4. Surat & Varanasi

1. Heckler
2. T91
3. Tikka
4. Ugram

1. 0.5 MeV
2. 900 MeV
3. 100 GeV
4. 1000 GeV

1. CFC
2. CH₄
3. N₂O
4. Water Vapour

1. broken down membranes
2. enzymes
3. acidic fluids
4. waste metabolites

1. MgO
2. P₄O₁₀
3. Na₂O
4. Al₂O₃

1. Hexadecane
2. Heptadecane
3. Octadecane
4. Nonadecane

1. Copper and H₂
2. Iron and H₂
3. Zinc and H₂
4. Nickel and H₂

1. Buddha with Chauri-bearers on either side
2. Shiva as Yogi-Dakshinamurti
3. Yakshi Kali
4. Parshvanatha with snake-hood on lion-throne

1. Axiom Station
2. International Space Station
3. Galileo
4. Voyager 1

1. Cobalt
2. Iron
3. Silver
4. Ferric Chloride

1. Let it be kept on the table in a room where there is no fan, no air conditioner
2. Let it be kept in a room with AC set at a temperature around 23^oC and a ceiling fan (or table fan) operating at slow speed.
3. Let it be kept in a bowl of water with the ceiling fan (or table fan) operating at full speed
4. Let it be kept in a bowl of water at room temperature only

Serial Number

Question

Answer

1.

Is xy positive?

1. x = ³√0.19683
2. y = ³√x

Yes

1. 20%
2. 40%
3. 75%
4. 100%

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

1. 12
2. 16
3. 18
4. 20

1. INR 175.25
2. INR 152.25
3. INR 76.25
4. INR 24.25

1. 10
2. 17
3. 21
4. 37

1. 96/7 cm
2. 24/7 cm
3. 24 cm
4. 32 cm

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

1. 3
2. 4
3. 6
4. 7

1. 6
2. 5
3. 4
4. 2

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

1. 15
2. 12
3. 4
4. 3

1. 91
2. 90
3. 13
4. 12

1. 2
2. 3
3. 37

1. 45
2. 90
3. 400
4. 500

Specifications 

English 

GK 

Mathematics 

Maximum marks

100

100

100

Marks for the correct answer

+1 mark for each correct option

+1 mark for each correct option

+1 mark for each correct option

Negative marking

-0.33 marks for each wrong answer

-0.33 marks for each wrong answer

-0.33 marks for each wrong answer