Exam Details
| Subject | general studies | |
| Paper | paper 2 | |
| Exam / Course | civil services main | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | union public service commission | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | 2006 | |
| City, State | central government, |
Question Paper
General Studies Paper II 2006
1. Write about any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
US policy on Iran’s nuclear programme
Terrorism: Source in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Crippling the King in Nepal
2. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Simla Agreement
India-Isarel cooperation in the field of agriculture
Pakistans’s role in Sri Lanka
Indo-US military cooperation
Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty
3. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Contribution of the NRIs to GCC countries
Future of Indians in Fiji
Indians in the House of Lords, UK
Contribution of Indians in Silicon Valley
Exodus of persons of Indian origin from Uganda
4. Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words): 30
Discuss the importance of world Trade Organization to Indian economy in the light of various opportunities and challenges at the global level.
Describe the main sources of Industrial finance in India. How could India be benefitted from recent developments in International finance?
5 . Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
Discusse the role of public sector during the post-reform period of Indian economy.
Examine the effects of globalization on poverty removal in India.
What are the implications of gender disparities in India?
6. Answer the following (in about 20 words each): 2×15=30
What is Phillips curve
What is Hundi
What is twin defict
What is the main difference between free trade area and common market
What is forward currency market
What is offshore currency market
What is Laffer curve
What are Eurobonds
What is disguised unemployment
What are nifty and the nifty junior
What is Agri-Trade
What is CEMA bloc
What is rolling settlement
What is the difference between Green Box subsidies and Blue Box subsidies
What are non- factor service in India’s balance of payment
7. Write about any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
G-5 Summit in Russia
Expanding role of Amnesty International
Role of European Parliament
8. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Trade through Nathu La Pass
Outer Space Treaty
Withdrawal of Japanese Troops from Iraq
Maastricht Treaty
Cuba and Castro
9. Write about the following, by expanding and explaining the objectives (in about 20 words each 2×5=10
ICJ
INTELSAT
IBRD
WMO
WHO
10. Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words): 30
Justify with necessary logic “Biological clean-up methods can be cheaper than the conventional physical and chemical pollution treatments”.
Explain how Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have revolutionized modern technology.
11. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
What do you understand by optical Computing? Why is optical Computing envisaged to have much better performance than that of electronic Computing?
Write a note on ‘Bio-refinery versus-Fossil fules.’
What are normal osmosis and reverse osmosis? Why has reverse osmosis become popular in India today?
12. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
What do you understand by a ‘search engine’ in computing?
Expand the following:
AD
CAM
CIM
Explain what is Thin Film Memory in computers.
Write a short note on ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
Who are called ‘Hackers’ in computer world?
13. In an opinion survey regarding a proposed civil measure to be introduced, altogether 2878 persons took part of which 1652 were males. 1226 persons voted against the proposal of which 796 were males.1425 persons voted for the proposed measure. 156 females were undecided in their opinion.
Put the above information in a neat statistical table. From the table, calculate-
the percentage of males among those voting for the proposal;
The percentage of those voting for the proposal among the males.
Present the following information using a suitable diagram:
State Percentage of Literates (2001 Census)
Male Female Overall
Kerala 94.20 84.86 90.72
Maharashtra 86.27 67.51 74.27
Tamil Nadu 82.33 64.55 79.47
West Bengal 77.58 60.22 69.22
14. From the following frequency distribution of 260 housewives of a locality according to their TV- watching habit-
draw the grap of cumulative frequencies of less than type:
Hours per week watching TV Number of housewives
5-9 13
10-14 39
15-19 60
20-24 75
25-29 42
30-34 27
35-39 4
Total 260
Estimate using the above graph-
the median of the distribution;
Number of housewives spending at most 18 hours per week watching TV.
The following table shows the average percentage of family expenditure, as also percentage increase in price in 2005 compared to 2000, for the major heads of expenditure for the urban middle class families in a State in India. Calculate the percentage increase in cost of living for this segment of population in 2005 compared to 2000:
Head of of family increase in price in price
expenditure expenditure in 2005 compared to
000
Food 25 32
Clothing 18 25
Fuel Electricity 16 30
House Rent 15 20
Miscellaneous 26 45
Total 100 —
15. Answer all the question: 2×4=8
A union leader complained: that the owners of this factory have adopted a policy of gradually decreasing the wages of its workers is amply evident from the fact that the average monthly wage of the workers has dropped down to Rs. 2,530 in January, 2006 from Rs 2,570 in January, 2005. Comment on the Validity of the argument.
As high as 45% of the under-5 children, brought to the outdoor clinics of 4 major State-run hospitals in Kolkata last year, were found to be victims of malnutrition. Incidence of malnutrition among the under children in the city must, therefore, be alarmingly high. Explain why you support the argument, or disagree with it.
In a community support project, the average grants (in Rs) received by the male and the female beneficiaries were 5,200 and 5,800 respectively, while the average grant received by all the beneficiaries was 5,560. What percentage of beneficiaries were females?
The amounts of rainfall (in mm) in a town on 10 consecutive days are as follows:
8.5, 6.8, 3.2, 4.8, 10.5, 76.2, 9.4, 1.2
Use a suitable measure to throw light on the central tendency of the data.
1. Write about any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
US policy on Iran’s nuclear programme
Terrorism: Source in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Crippling the King in Nepal
2. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Simla Agreement
India-Isarel cooperation in the field of agriculture
Pakistans’s role in Sri Lanka
Indo-US military cooperation
Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty
3. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Contribution of the NRIs to GCC countries
Future of Indians in Fiji
Indians in the House of Lords, UK
Contribution of Indians in Silicon Valley
Exodus of persons of Indian origin from Uganda
4. Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words): 30
Discuss the importance of world Trade Organization to Indian economy in the light of various opportunities and challenges at the global level.
Describe the main sources of Industrial finance in India. How could India be benefitted from recent developments in International finance?
5 . Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
Discusse the role of public sector during the post-reform period of Indian economy.
Examine the effects of globalization on poverty removal in India.
What are the implications of gender disparities in India?
6. Answer the following (in about 20 words each): 2×15=30
What is Phillips curve
What is Hundi
What is twin defict
What is the main difference between free trade area and common market
What is forward currency market
What is offshore currency market
What is Laffer curve
What are Eurobonds
What is disguised unemployment
What are nifty and the nifty junior
What is Agri-Trade
What is CEMA bloc
What is rolling settlement
What is the difference between Green Box subsidies and Blue Box subsidies
What are non- factor service in India’s balance of payment
7. Write about any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
G-5 Summit in Russia
Expanding role of Amnesty International
Role of European Parliament
8. Write about the following (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
Trade through Nathu La Pass
Outer Space Treaty
Withdrawal of Japanese Troops from Iraq
Maastricht Treaty
Cuba and Castro
9. Write about the following, by expanding and explaining the objectives (in about 20 words each 2×5=10
ICJ
INTELSAT
IBRD
WMO
WHO
10. Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words): 30
Justify with necessary logic “Biological clean-up methods can be cheaper than the conventional physical and chemical pollution treatments”.
Explain how Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have revolutionized modern technology.
11. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15×2=30
What do you understand by optical Computing? Why is optical Computing envisaged to have much better performance than that of electronic Computing?
Write a note on ‘Bio-refinery versus-Fossil fules.’
What are normal osmosis and reverse osmosis? Why has reverse osmosis become popular in India today?
12. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2×5=10
What do you understand by a ‘search engine’ in computing?
Expand the following:
AD
CAM
CIM
Explain what is Thin Film Memory in computers.
Write a short note on ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
Who are called ‘Hackers’ in computer world?
13. In an opinion survey regarding a proposed civil measure to be introduced, altogether 2878 persons took part of which 1652 were males. 1226 persons voted against the proposal of which 796 were males.1425 persons voted for the proposed measure. 156 females were undecided in their opinion.
Put the above information in a neat statistical table. From the table, calculate-
the percentage of males among those voting for the proposal;
The percentage of those voting for the proposal among the males.
Present the following information using a suitable diagram:
State Percentage of Literates (2001 Census)
Male Female Overall
Kerala 94.20 84.86 90.72
Maharashtra 86.27 67.51 74.27
Tamil Nadu 82.33 64.55 79.47
West Bengal 77.58 60.22 69.22
14. From the following frequency distribution of 260 housewives of a locality according to their TV- watching habit-
draw the grap of cumulative frequencies of less than type:
Hours per week watching TV Number of housewives
5-9 13
10-14 39
15-19 60
20-24 75
25-29 42
30-34 27
35-39 4
Total 260
Estimate using the above graph-
the median of the distribution;
Number of housewives spending at most 18 hours per week watching TV.
The following table shows the average percentage of family expenditure, as also percentage increase in price in 2005 compared to 2000, for the major heads of expenditure for the urban middle class families in a State in India. Calculate the percentage increase in cost of living for this segment of population in 2005 compared to 2000:
Head of of family increase in price in price
expenditure expenditure in 2005 compared to
000
Food 25 32
Clothing 18 25
Fuel Electricity 16 30
House Rent 15 20
Miscellaneous 26 45
Total 100 —
15. Answer all the question: 2×4=8
A union leader complained: that the owners of this factory have adopted a policy of gradually decreasing the wages of its workers is amply evident from the fact that the average monthly wage of the workers has dropped down to Rs. 2,530 in January, 2006 from Rs 2,570 in January, 2005. Comment on the Validity of the argument.
As high as 45% of the under-5 children, brought to the outdoor clinics of 4 major State-run hospitals in Kolkata last year, were found to be victims of malnutrition. Incidence of malnutrition among the under children in the city must, therefore, be alarmingly high. Explain why you support the argument, or disagree with it.
In a community support project, the average grants (in Rs) received by the male and the female beneficiaries were 5,200 and 5,800 respectively, while the average grant received by all the beneficiaries was 5,560. What percentage of beneficiaries were females?
The amounts of rainfall (in mm) in a town on 10 consecutive days are as follows:
8.5, 6.8, 3.2, 4.8, 10.5, 76.2, 9.4, 1.2
Use a suitable measure to throw light on the central tendency of the data.