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ANSWER KEYS WITH EXPLANATION FOR GS COMPREHENSIVE TEST-1

Q. Ans. Explanation
1. D 1. While FRESCO is applied as an integral part of wet wall, the MURAL
paintings are applied on the dry wall.
2. While the Bhimbetka paintings are not an example for Mural paintings,
the Ajanta paintings are an example of Fresco paintings.
3. While lime and water are important in FRESCO paintings, egg, yolk, oil,
etc. are used in the MURAL paintings.

2. D 2. Section 10A, RPA, 1951. Such disqualification is effective for 3 years

from the date of the order of EC.
3. An Executive act of remission does not interfere with or alter the judicial
sentence. It affects only the execution of the sentence.

3. C 1. The break-up of the continents opened up new shallow water ecosystems

along the new continental margins, thereby allowing more organisms to
occupy more diverse niches.
2. The magnetic field blocks out high-energy gamma rays from the Sun,
which are dangerous to life.

4. C
5. C Rs. 20,000 Crore for the bank will come from the shortfall in the
achievements of the priority sector lending (PSL) targets which is a non-
budgetary support. In future, the government plans to provide another Rs.
3,000 crore to the bank from the budget to create a Credit Guarantee
corpus for guaranteeing loans being provided to the micro enterprises.
6. B 1. The Nalanda University was established by Kumaragupta.
2. Dharmapala established the Vikramashila University.
3. Ghatikas played crucial role in imparting education in the South India.

7. D Certiorari lies to quash the decision which goes beyond jurisdiction,

whenever a body of persons:
(a) Having legal authority

(b) To determine questions affecting rights of the subject

(c) Having the duty to act judicially

It is part of supervisory jurisdiction of the superior court.

8. D
9. B
10. D
11. B 1. It is done for every four years and started in 2006

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2. It is based on the Double Sampling Technique while the earlier
estimates were on the basis of the Pugmark technique
3. Wildlife Institutes of India, based in Dehradun, is conducting the
census of tigers in the country.
12. C No change has been made by RBI in terms of percentage of PSL (18%) to
agriculture.
13. A Mars Express is the mission of European Space Agency.

14. A In the southern oceans, he Indian Ocean has far more plastic particles and
mars than the South Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans together.

15. B
16. D Subsidies are a part of government expenditure. So, its reduction will
directly reduce fiscal deficit and with lower government borrowing, control
inflation. With a given level of resources with the government, less subsidies
will get transformed into more investment. But, if such subsidy cut is
happening at the level of Public Distribution System, for instance by
reducing coverage, it might threaten food security as well.
17. D
18. C
19. B The Nairobi International Convention is on the Removal of Wrecks. It was
adopted by an International Conference held in Kenya in 2007. The Nairobi
International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks entered into force in
April 14, 2015. The Convention places strict liability on owners for locating,
marking and removing wrecks deemed to be a hazard and makes state
certification of insurance, or other form of financial security for such liability,
compulsory for ships of 300 giga tones and above. It also provides state
parties with a right of direct action against insurers.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted on 22nd March 1989 by
the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Basel, Switzerland, in response to a
public outcry following the discovery, in the 1980s, in Africa and other parts
of the developing world of deposits of toxic wastes imported from abroad.
The Convention entered into force in 1992.
The Minamata Convention of Mercury is a global treaty to protect human
health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.
20. D
21. A
22. A Demand for money is inversely related to interest rate (and has no specific
relation with ICOR). Therefore, decrease in such demand would mean that
at each interest rate, less money is being demanded for speculative
purposes. With given money supply, it would push market interest rate
downwards reflecting above change.
23. D (1) National Park is an example of in-situ conservation method

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(2) National Parks are constituted as per the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972
(3) Both the state and the central governments are authorized to declare an
area as a national park.
24. A 3. Jurists are eligible for appointment only as a judge of Supreme Court.
Similar provision was introduced in Article 217 by the 42nd Amendment, but
removed by the 44th Amendment.

25. B
26. B
27. C
28. A
29. C The shield areas of the Earths continental crust are more suitable as they
are tectonically stable, and have gneissic rocks that have high strength and
have lower heat flow.

30. C
31. D IBRD and IDA are institutions of World Bank while IFC, MIGA and
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) together
with World Bank constitute World Bank Group.

32. B
33. D
34. D
35. C
36. D Financial Repression is a term for weakness in financial structure of the
banks. One reason for that comes from assets side which means due to
factors like higher SLR and PSL obligations, banks are not able to get
potential profits from their assets.
Another reason from liability side is through inflation discouraging savings
as it does not allow the banks to create enough credit as their deposits have
been lower.
37. B Both 1 and 2 are correct.

38. D
39. B
40. D
41. D National treatment is an important principle of WTO which requires no
discrimination between the imported and domestically produced goods once
these compete with each other in the domestic market.

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42. C
S.No. National Water Details
Way
1. NW-1 a. It is located on the Ganga river
b. It connects Haldia and Allahabad
c. Length: 1620 km
2. NW-2 a. It is located on the Brahmaputra river
b. It connects Sadiya to Dhubri
c. Length: 891 km
3. NW-3 a. Also known as the West Coast Canal
b. It consists of West Coast Canal,
Champakara Canal and
Udyogamandal Canal
c. Runs from Kollam to Kottapuram
d. Length: 205 km
4. NW-4 a. It passes through canals, tanks and
river Godavari along with the Krishna
river
b. Connects Kakinada (Andhra
Pradesh) and Pondicherry
c. Length:1095 km
5. NW-5 a. It passes through the Brahmani
River, East Coast Canal, Matai river
and Mahanadi River
b. Connects Orissa to West Bengal
c. Length: 623 km
6. NW-6 a. It is proposed on the Barak river
b. Connects Lakhimpur and Bhanga in
the North East
c. Length: 121 km
43. C Transaction demand for money means the demand for the purpose of
regular transactions, which directly depends on the income level of the
consumer. Speculative demand looks into amount of money held which can
maximise the return from financial markets. It is dependent on interest rates.
44. B
45. D
46. C It is a concept used by the Finance Commission while making decisions
related to transfers to States.
47. B
48. C
49. C
50. A Amber Box subsidies given by a country need to be reduced only if given
beyond De-minimis Level given by the value of 5% of Agricultural
Production in the developed & 10% of Agricultural Production in the

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developing countries.
51. B Dark energy is the invisible vacuum in space that tends to accelerate the
expansion of universe.

52. A
53. C
54. B
55. B The aforesaid two rivers are the Krishna and the Godavari
56 D
57 D
58 C
59 C
60 D Under-recoveries are calculated as difference between selling price of
refined oil in the market and the Import Parity Price of refined oil i.e. notional
price assuming that what price the oil-marketing companies would have
paid had they imported the refined oil (including both international price &
custom duties and transportation cost etc.).
61 B
62 C
63 C
64 D
65 B
66 A
67 D The concept is based on the argument that if property rights are not well-
defined and certain resource is available to a large number of people freely
they tend to over-exploit the resource.
68 D
69 C
70 A
71 A GDP growth rate can approximately be given as a ratio of the Savings rate
and ICOR.
72 A
73 A
74 D
75 D
76 C 1. RTE Act, 2009
2. NREGA, 2005
3. RTI, 2005
4. STOTFD (RFR) Act, 2006
77 C Contractionary Monetary Policy leads to lower GDP & Per capita income
growth leading to lower import demand thus controlling depreciation.
Devaluation will worsen depreciation further.
78 C Salt Law was the LEAST oppressive of all the colonial laws.

79 B Rotavac is a vaccine for Rotavirus infection which causes Diarrhea.

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80 A Fetch is the distance of open water across which the wind can blow without
interruption.

81 D
82 D
83 C
84 B Anabaena is a cyanobacteria.

85 A
86 C
87 C
88 C
89 B Peptic ulcer is caused by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori.

90 A
91 A
92 C Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis.
93 A
94 A
95 C
96 C
97 C
98 D
99 A
100 B

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