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SSC Stenographer Previous Year Questions
Directions for Questions 1-2: Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. India’s most adored writer Ruskin Bond, was born in Kasauli. Bond spent his early childhood in Jamnagar and Shimla. At the age of ten, Ruskin went to live at his grandmother’s house in Dehradun after his father’s death that year from jaundice. Ruskin was raised by his mother and stepfather. He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1950 after winning several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short stories, “Untouchable”, at the age of sixteen in 1951.He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher. After getting it published, Bond used the advance money to pay the sea passage to Bombay and settle in Dehradun. Since 1963 he has lived as a freelance writer in Mussorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand and lives with his adoptive family in Landour, Mussorie’s Ivy Cottage, which has been his house since 1980. About what he likes the most about his life, he said, “That I have been able to write for so long. I started at the age of 16 or 17 and I am still writing. If I were not a professional writer who was getting published I would still write.” In his essay, “On being
an Indian”, he explains his Indian identity, “Race did not make me one. Religion did not make me one. But history did. And in the long run, it’s history that counts.”
SSC Stenographer Question No: 1
In 1980, Ruskin Bond settled in Mussorie, what do you think was his age by then?
Option A : 29
Option B : 39
Option C : 45
Option D : Cannot be determined
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Option C: 45
SSC Stenographer Exam Question No: 2
According to Ruskin Bond, why is he an Indian?
Option A : Because his parents in always lived in India
Option B : Because he has a history with India.
Option C : Because he owns a house in India.
Option D : Because he was raised by his step-father, an Indian Hindu.
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Option D: Because he was raised by his step-father, an Indian Hindu.
Directions for Questions 3-7: Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.
Women and children constitute around 70% of India’s people and are the critical foundation for national development – at present and in the future. Sustained inclusive growth must begin with children and women- breaking an intergenerational cycle of inequity and multiple deprivations faced by women and girls, as related to poverty, social exclusion, gender discrimination and under nutrition. This intergenerational cycle of multiple deprivation and violence faced by girls and women is reflected in the adverse and steeply declining child sex ratio among children under 6 years of age which reached an all-time low of 918 girls for every 1000 boys in 2011. Discrimination against the girl child is also evident in other forms of gross neglect and gender-based violence after birth – infancy, early childhood and adolescence in aspects of unequal access to health, nutrition, care and education. Ending of gender based inequities, discrimination and violence is stated as priority in the Twelfth Plan, and improvement in the adverse and steeply declining child sex ratio is recognized as an overarching Monitorable Target of the Twelfth Plan for Women and Children. Another key Monitorable Target of the Twelfth Plan is the reduction in the levels of under nutrition among children by half. It is envisaged that improved child nutrition will also enable the achievement of optimal learning outcomes in education and gender equality. In this context, NAVDISHA – A National Thematic Workshop on Best Practices in Women and Child Development was organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India and the Government of Haryana at Panipat, Haryana from 20 to 21 January 2015.
SSC Stenographer Previous Year Paper Question No: 3
What is NAVDISHA?
Option A : A National Thematic Workshop.
Option B : A movement to fight for the rights of woman.
Option C : Best Practice in Women and Child Development.
Option D : Twelfth Plan for Women and Children.
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Option D: Twelfth Plan for Women and Children.
SSC Stenographer Question No: 4
Sustained inclusive growth ______________.
Option A : must focus on women
Option B : must begin with children and women
Option C : must eradicate discrimination against the girl child
Option D : must lay foundation for national development
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Option B: must begin with children and women
SSC Steno Previous Year Paper Question No: 5
The girl child and male child ratio in India ______________.
Option A : is evident for everyone to see
Option B : is a reason behind gender inequalities
Option C : reached an all-time low in 2011
Option D : has now begun to increase in favor of a girl child
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Option D: has now begun to increase in favor of a girl child
SSC Stenographer Question No: 6
What is the target of the Twelfth Plan for Women and Children?
Option A : Taking care of infancy, early childhood and adolescence in kids.
Option B : To manage health, nutrition, care and education.
Option C : Providing right education to the kids all across the nation.
Option D : Improvement in the adverse and steeply declining child sex ratio.
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Option C: Providing right education to the kids all across the nation.
Stenographer Exam Question No: 7
How will the reduction in the levels of under nutrition among children by half help?
Option A : Improved child nutrition will also enable the achievement of optimal learning outcomes.
Option B : It will improve girl child and male child ratio.
Option C : It will help addressing the issues like infant mortality and sudden infant death syndromes.
Option D : It will help children in speaking their mind.
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Option C: It will help addressing the issues like infant mortality and sudden infant death syndromes.
Directions for Questions 8-12: Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.
In India the coconut sector plays a secant role in poverty alleviation and employment generation especially among the weaker sections of the society. The industry provides livelihood to about more than 10 million farm families. Among the major coconut growing states in India, Kerala has the longest history of coconut cultivation. Other major coconut growing states are Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. These four states together account for about 90 per cent of the
coconut production in India. The share of Kerala alone comes to about 45 per cent. Kerala’s economy is 2 dependent on coconut to a significant extent. Nearly 15 per cent of the state’s annual income is derived from the coconut sector. Among the traditional coconut based industries, maximum labour potential exists in coir industry. Coir, the versatile fiber, besides providing employment to a large number of women, earns foreign exchange of more than 25 crores annually by export of various coir products. The different stages of coir processing like retting, defibering, spinning and packing are mostly labour intensive. In Kerala around 4 lakhs people are employed in coir industry, of which nearly 80 per cent are women workers. Copra making is another coconut based traditional industry in Kerala. It is a labour oriented small- scale industry. Most of the copra making units are adopting traditional methods of copra processing. There are about 12000 copra making units in India spread over the southern states of which about two thirds are concentrated in Kerala. Coconut oil extraction industry or simply ‘coconut oil industry’ is another major traditional component of the coconut sector. The prices of raw coconuts and copra in Kerala are determined mainly by the demand for coconut oil. Toddy tapping is yet another traditional area where about 1.20 lakhs Keralites are employed. It is also a labour intensive coconut based industry.
SSC Stenographer Previous Year Question No: 8
Which state has the longest history of coconut cultivation?
Option A : Tamil Nadu
Option B : Goa
Option C : Kerala
Option D : Karnataka
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Option C: Kerala
Stenographer Previous Year Paper Question No: 9
In which industry does the maximum labour potential does exists?
Option A : Coir Industry
Option B : Oil Industry
Option C : Cocoa Industry
Option D : Copra Industry
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Option D: Copra Industry
SSC Stenographer Previous Year Question No: 10
Why is coconut sector very important in our country?
Option A : It keeps Keralites employed.
Option B : It plays a secant role in poverty alleviation and employment generation.
Option C : It keeps country traditional.
Option D : It earns foreign exchange of more than 25 crores.
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Option D: It earns foreign exchange of more than 25 crores.
SSC Stenographer Question No: 11
Which are the most labour intensive stages of coir processing?
Option A : Tapping
Option B : Oil Extraction
Option C : Copra Making
Option D : Retting, defibering and spinning
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Option D: Retting, defibering and spinning
SSC Stenographer Question No: 12
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
Option A : Out of total coconut production in India, the share of Kerala alone comes to about 45 per cent.
Option B : The prices of raw coconuts and copra in Kerala are determined mainly by the demand for coconut oil.
Option C : Nearly 15 per cent of the Kerela’s annual income is derived from the coconut sector.
Option D : The industry provides livelihood to about more than 10 billion farm families.
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Option D: HISTORY
Directions for Questions 13 – 20 : In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Ragging refers to an act that _______ the dignity of a person. There have been many _______ of physical and psychological injury due to ragging is colleges and educational institutions. Nowadays, it has been turned to a _______ to students and their guardians at the time of admission to Engineering, Polytechnic and Medical colleges. The _______ of ragging offer an argument for it as an _______ to make the students fit for the future _______ for existence. Various evil forms of ragging are in practice in professional colleges. The reports of incidents of raging in some of the reputed professional colleges and educational institutions are quite _______. It is a matter of _______ that even though ragging has been criticized for decades, we still come across such incidents of _______ torture. As a result, many students give up their studies and go back home, some lose their mental balance, and some are seriously injured. Indeed, ragging has become a _______ affair in the institutions of higher learning, especially in professional colleges. It seems to be a survival of medieval barbarism. The press draws our notice to this cruel practice.
SSC Steno Previous Paper Question No: 13
refers to an act that _______ the
Option A : violates
Option B : supports
Option C : initiates
Option D : relates
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Option C: initiates
Stenographer Question No: 14
many _______ of physical
Option A : punishments
Option B : rewards
Option C : complaints
Option D : complements
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Option D: complements
SSC Stenographer Paper Question No: 15
Nowadays, it has been turned to a _______ to students
Option A : disaster
Option B : hell
Option C : nightmare
Option D : opportunity
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Option B: hell
Stenographer Previous Year Question No: 16
The _______ of ragging offer an argument
Option A : agitators
Option B : opponents
Option C : critics
Option D : supporters
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Option D: supporters
Stenographer C and D Question No: 17
as an _______ to make
Option A : ordeal
Option B : pleasure
Option C : aid
Option D : association
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Option C: aid
SSC Stenographer Question No: 18
the future _______ for existence.
Option A : consequence
Option B : struggle
Option C : connection
Option D : reference
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Option C: reference
SSC Stenographer Last Year Paper Question No: 19
institutions are quite _______.
Option A : Relieving
Option B : Forgiving
Option C : Alarming
Option D : Interacting
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Option B: Forgiving
SSC Stenographer Group C and D Question No: 20
It is a matter of _______ that
Option A : pride
Option B : honor
Option C : growth
Option D : shame
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Option D: shame
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