TNPSC Group 1 Preliminary Exam Question Paper

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1. The Avogadro number is
A) 6.00 x 1024
B) 6.023 x 1023
C) 6.054 x 1022
D) 6.504 x 1022
2. Viscous force is directly proportional to
A) Temperature gradient
B) Mass gradient
C) Velocity gradient
D) Charge gradient
3. The South American country that suffered due to earthquake in 2010 was
A) Argentina
B) Chile
C) Brazil
D) Libya
4. According to the Economic Survey of India (2007-08), the birth rate in Tamil Nadu state is
A) 16.2
B) 18.4
C) 15.3
D) 10.6
5. The structure observed by Robert Hooke in plant cells was
A) Protoplasm
B) Cell wall
C) Nucleus
D) Tracheids
6. How many pairs of cranial nerves are present in shark fishes?
A) 8
B) 10
C) 12
D) 14

7. When the basis of classification is according to location or place, the classification is called
…………………… classification
A) Quantitative
B) Geographical
C) Qualitative
D) Chronological
8. The oxidation number of Fe in K3[Fe(CN)6] is
A) 2
B) 3
C) 1
D) 4
9. The ray which does not affect the photographic plate is
A) Alpha ray
B) Beta ray
C) Gamma ray
D) none of these
10. Who among the following said that Buddha's character and teaching made him 'The Light not of Asia
only but of the World'?
A) Sir Edwin Arnold
B) Mrs. Rhys Davids
C) Dr. Radhakrishnan
D) H. G. Wells
11. Cisternae, Thylakoid and Cristae are located at …….., ………. And …….. respectively.
A) Mitochondria, Ribosomes, Chloroplast
B) Golgi body, Chloroplast, Mitochondria
C) Ribosomes, Chloroplast, Mitochondria
D) Chromosomes, Thylakoid, Mitochondria
12. Which of the following is Natural rubber?
A) Polyester
B) Polyamide
C) Polyisoprene
D) Polysaccharide
13. Who is the only Indian and the First non-American head of the Academy of Astronautics (IAA)?

A) Madhavan Nair
B) Dhoni
C) Ravi Sastri
D) Kapil Sibal
14. Who coined the party name 'Indian National Congress'?
A) Ranade
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) W. C. Banerjee
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
15Data verbalized on a continuum scale like excellent, good, fair and poor are known as
A) Raw data
B) Ratio data
C) Interval data
D) Ordinal data
16. The new agricultural technology can best be described as
A) land augmenting
B) labour augmenting
C) labour displacing
D) both land and labour augmenting
17. Three capacitors each of capacitance 9 pf is connected in series and is connected to 120 V supply. The
potential difference across each capacitor is
A) 20 V
B) 40 V
C) 60 V
D) 90 V
18. A can do a piece of work in 80 days. He alone works at it for 20 days and then B alone finished the
remaining work in 36 days. In how many days can A and B together complete the work?
A) 25 days
B) 30 days
C) 35 days
D) 40 days
19. The average of 25 results is 18. The average of first twelve of them is 14 and that of last twelve is 17.
The thirteenth result is
A) 87

B) 78
C) 67
D) none of these
20. A girl started walking from her house. She first walked for 3 km towards east, then she turned towards
north and moved 4 km in that direction. How far is the girls away from her house?
A) 3 km south
B) 3 km north
C) 5 km west
D) 5 km north-east
21. The end product of fermentation of molasses of sugarcane by yeast is
A) Pyruvate
B) Phenol
C) Lactic acid
D) Ethyl alcohol
22. The year ………………. Was celebrated by the General Assembly of the UNO as International Year for
Human Rights.
A) 1964
B) 1966
C) 1968
D) None of these
23. Who won the latest Presidential elections in Sri Lanka?
A) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
B) Mahindra Rajapakse
C) Kumaratunge
D) Dissanayake
24. The tomb at Sessaran was built by
A) Humayun
B) Sher Shah
C) Akbar
D) Babar
25. The famous leader of Narmada Bachao Andolan is
A) Sunil Agarwal
B) Rajesh Khanna

C) Medha Patkar
D) K. C. Cherian
26. Species Plantarum was authored by
A) Hutchinson
B) Carolus Linnaeus
C) Engler and Prantl
D) Bentham and Hooker
27. The yellow colour of urine of the Vertebrates is due to
A) Urochrome
B) Melanin
C) Uric acid
D) Cholesterol
28. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan was implemented during the period
A) 2005-2010
B) 2002-2007
C) 2007-2012
D) 2006-2011
29. Which one among the following South Asian countries has the highest population density?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Nepal
D) Sri Lanka
30. Ashoka patronised
A) Jainism
B) Saivism
C) Buddhism
D) Vaishnavism
31. Who among the following computed National Income on the basis of Scientific method?
A) Prof. Mahalanobis
B) Dr. K.N.Raj
C) Dr. V.K.R.V.Rao
D) Dr. Vakil

32. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Surface temperatures of the oceans are controlled by warm and cold currents.
Reason (R): Warm currents raise the temperature whereas cool currents lower down the temperature.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given below:
A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
33. Ring or horse shoe shaped coral reefs are called
A) Atoll
B) Barrier reef
C) Fringing reef
D) none of these
34. Match List I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
a) Glucose 1. Biopolymer
b) Serodiagnosis 2. Reducing sugar
c) Electrophoresis 3. Separation technique
d) Nucleic acid 4. HIV test
A) a2, b4, c3, d1
B) a1, b3, c4, d2
C) a1, b2, c3, d4
D) a4, b3, c2, d1
35. As per RTI the competent authority of Lok Sabha is the
A) Chairman
B) Prime Minister
C) Chief Secretary
D) Speaker
36. Who authored the book 'A Better India A Better World'?
A) N.R.Narayana Murthy
B) Indra Sinha
C) Rajiv Sikri
D) Jaswant Singh

37. A current of 8 A flows through 10 turn coil of a tangent galvanometer having a diameter of 16 cm. The
field on the center of the coil is
A) 2.5 A-turn/m
B) 25 A-turn/m
C) 100 A-turn/m
D) 250 A-turn/m
38. Which of the following is wrongly matched?
A) Microsporangial serus - Anther
B) Microspore - Pollen grain
C) Megasporophyll - Ovule
D) Microsporophyll - Stamen
39. Veeranam Project to bring water from Veeranam to madras was started by Chief Minister
A) M.Karunanidhi
B) M.g.Ramachandran
C) Jayalalitha
D) O.Panner Selvam
40. The Indian Post and Telegraph department issued postage stamp in hour of V.O.Chidambaram Pillai in
the year
A) 1971
B) 1972
C) 1973
D) 1974
41. Nobel Laureate 2009 in Chemistry is awarded to Venkataraman Ramakrishanan for his work on
A) Hypsochrome
B) Ribosome
C) Chromatogram
D) Auxochrome
42. Fast Breeder Test Reactor is at
A) Trombay
B) Kaiga
C) Kudankulam
D) Kalpakkam
43) Who is the Chairman of 12th Finance Commission?

A) C.Rangarajan
B) K.C.Pant
C) Kelkat
D) Madhavan Ravindra
44. Which of the following Amendment Acts inserted the word 'Secular' in the Preamble of the Constitution
of India?
A) 41st Amendment Act, 1976
B) 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
C) 43rd Amendment Act, 1977
D) 44th Amendment Act, 1979
45. The Chairperson and other members of State Human Rights Commission are appointed by the
A) Governor
B) Chief Minister
C) Home Minister
D) none of these
46. Tamil Calendar is based on the movement of
A) Moon
B) Saturn
C) Sun
D) Mars
47. Match List I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
a) Justice Party 1. Periyar E. V. R
b) Dravida Kazhagam 2. Singaravelu Chettiar
c) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 3. T. M. Nair
d) Communist Party 4. C. N. Annadurai
A) a1, b3, c4, d2
B) a4, b1, c3, d2
C) a3, b1, c4, d2
D) a2, b1, c3, d4
48. Tamil Sangam was supposed to be held at
A) Uraiyur
B) Kanchi

C) Madurai
D) Vanji
49. Who was the Prime Minister of India when Tashkent Agreement was signed?
A) Jawarlal Nehru
B) Lal Bahadur Shastri
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Rajiv Gandhi
50. The Constituent Assembly completed its work of constitution making on
A) 16th May, 1946
B) 9th December, 1948
C) 26th November, 1949
D) 26th January, 1950
51. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): RBC cells are found in the blood which carry oxygen.
Reason (R): Haemoglobin pigments are involved in carrying the oxygen.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given below:
A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
52. Land is a
A) man-made resource
B) non-renewable natural resource
C) renewable natural resource
D) all of these
53. Consider the following statements:
I. Cholesterol is a fertilizer.
II. Protein is amphoteric in nature.
III. Whale myoglobin has disulphide bond.
IV. Entropy of the universe increases.
Of these statements:
A) II alone is correct
B) II and IV are correct

C) III, IV and II are correct
D) All are correct.
54. Emerald Dam is located in
A) Coimbatore
B) Ooty
C) Erode
D) Salem
55. The Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution speaks about
A) functions of the Chief Minister
B) functions of Panchayati Raj
C) duties of District Collector
D) functions of the Parliament
56. Who received the Nobel prize for the work on genes that control the sense of smell?
A) Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans
B) Niels Jerne and Georges Kohler
C) Richard Axel and Linda Buck
D) Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen.
57. Opsonin was discovered by
A) Jules Bordet
B) christian Gram
C) Almroth Wright
D) Louis Pasteur
58. The recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award during 2005 was
A) Dev Anand
B) Mrinal Sen
C) Lata Mangeshkar
D) Shyam Benegal
59. Which is the best selling book sold over 10 million copies written by Dr.Kenneth Blanchard, the
Management Guru?
A) You Can Win
B) Maximum Power
C) One Minute Manager
D) 10 Minute MBA

60. The Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana was launched in
A) 2006
B) 2007
C) 2008
D) 2009
61. Heliocentric theory according to which sun is supposed to be fixed and the planets go around the sun
was proposed by
A) Galileo
B) Newton
C) Ptolemy
D) Copernicus
62. The growth rate of population in India as per 2001 census is
A) 3%
B) 2.50%
C) 1.90%
D) 1.50%
63. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given hills from the north to south?
A) Nallamalai, Nilgiris, Javadhi, Anaimalai
B) Anaimalai, Javadi, Nilgiris, Nallamalai
C) Nallamalai, Javadhi, Nilgiris, Anaimalai
D) Anaimalai, Nilgris, Javadhi, Nallamalai.
64. The Annamalai University at Annamalainagar was founded in
A) 1909
B) 1919
C) 1929
D) 1949
65. The focal length of two lenses in contact is given by
A) F = f1 -f2
B) F = f1 f2
C) F = f1 + f2
D) 1/F=1/f1+1/f2
66. Which one of the following statements is correct?

A) Parliament has power to amend any part of the Constitution of India
B) Parliament has no power to amend Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of India
C) Parliament cannot amend the Directive Principles of State Policy
D) Parliament cannot amend the Federal Principles embodied in Constitution of India
67. Which of the following countries is not a member of ASEAN?
A) Vietnam
B) Brunei
C) Bangladesh
D) Myanmar
68. Position effect is the result of
A) translations
B) inversions
C) transcriptions
D) deletions
69. Triple vaccine is administered to a newborn child to immunize it against
A) Whooping Cough, Tetanus and Measles
B) Whooping Cough, Tetanus and Diphtheria
C) tetanus, Diphtheria, Measles and Rubella
D) Tetanus, Diphtheria, Smallpox and Rubella
70. An example of addition co-polymer is
A) Buna-s
B) PVC
C) Neoprene
D) Glyptal
71. Natural gas is a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons. What is the main important gas available in that?
A) Oxygen (O2)
B) Nitrogen (N2)
C) Methane (CH4)
D) Carbon dioxide (CO2)
72. A moving coil galvanometer can be converted into an ammeter by connecting
A) a low resistance in parallel with a galvanometer
B) a high resistance in parallel with a galvanometer a
C) high resistance in series with a galvanometer

D) a low resistance in series with a galvanometer
73. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
A) Right to Equality - Fundamental Duty
B) Right to Information - Transparent and Responsible Government
C) To promote equal justice - Fundamental Right
D) To abide by the Constitution - Directive Principles of State Policy
74. Biodiesel is obtained from which plant?
A) Mango
B) Bamboo
C) Jatropha
D) Ficus
75. The Directive Principles of State Policy is incorporated in the Article………… the Constitution of India.
A) 19-21
B) 14-16
C) 36-51
D) 24-28
76. Rubella virus causes
A) Smallpox
B) Measles
C) Chickenpox
D) Influenza
77. The policy RBI follows for control of inflation is
A) increase in Repo rate and CRR
B) decrease in Repo rate and increase in CRR
C) decrease in Repo rate and CRR
D) decrease in bank rate
78. Which one of the following statements is correct?
A) Finance Commission is constituted by the President every four years
B) Finance Commission has one Chairman and four other members
C) K.C. Pant was the Chairman of 11th Finance Commission
D) Finance Commission Report is submitted to the Planning Commission

79. Dantidurga established which kingdom?
A) Chalukyas of Badami
B) Chalukyas of Kalyani
C) Chalukyas of Vengi
D) Rashtrakuta Dynasty
80. 1/1.2 - 1/2.3 + 1/3.4 - 1/4.5 + … +
A) 2 log 2 -1
B) − 2 log 2 -1
C) 2 log 2 + 1
D) − 2 (log 2 +1)
81. Study of the interrelations between the individual plant and its environment is called
A) Synecology
B) Ecosystem
C) Autecology
D) Biodiversity
82. The ages of Ravi and Raja are in the ratio 5 : 12. After 6 years, the ratio of their ages will be 8 : 15.
What is the difference between their ages?
A) 14 years
B) 16 years
C) 12 years
D) 13 years
83. Construction of a dam for drinking water at Hogenekkal is main issue of contention between
A) Tamil Nadu and Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
C) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
D) Karnataka and Kerala
84. Leprosy is caused by
A) Mycobacterium leprae
B) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
C) Corynebacterium diphtheria
D) Varicella zoster
85. Who was the first woman Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
A) Janaki Ramachandran

B) Jayalalitha
C) Mamata Banerjee
D) Mayawati
86. Choose the statement(s) connected with Marudhu Brothers.
Marudhu Brothers:
I. Ruled Sivaganga area
II. Siruvayal & Kalayarkovil were their strongholds
III. Took refuge in Panchalam Kurichi
IV. They were executed by the British in 1801.
Of these statements:
A) I alone is correct
B) II alone is correct
C) I, II and IV are correct
D) I, III and IV are correct
87. The National Rural Employment Programme was implemented in Tamil Nadu in the year
A) 1980
B) 1990
C) 1970
D) 1960
88. The famous Ethnobotanist in India is
A) V. M. Meher-Homji
B) R. P. S. Katwal
C) S. K. Jain
D) S. S. Bhojwani
89. The reaction that takes place in a Daniel cell is
A) Cu + Hg → Cu.Hg
B) Zn° + Cu → Zn2 + Cu°
C) Cu2+ + 2Ag → Cu° + 2Ag+
D) 3Fe2 + Cr6+ → 3Fe3 + Cr3+
90. SONAR is mostly used by
A) Doctors
B) Engineers
C) Navigators
D) Astronauts

91. Traditions affirm that a Buddhist Council assembled at ………….. In the year of Buddha's death
A) Vaisali
B) Pataliputra
C) Saranath
D) Rajagriha
92. What is the correct value of x = cos Ѳ satisfies x2 - 3x + 2 = 0?
A) 1
B) 0
C) -1
D) π
93. Article 263 deals with provisions with respect to
A) Union Public Service Commission
B) Election Commission of India
C) Inter-State Council
D) Finance Commission.
94. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
A) Central Vigilance Commission - Kripalani Committee
B) Father of All India Services - Sardar Vallabhai Patel
C) Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement - Dr.Rajendra Prasad
D) Union Public Service Commission - A.M.Khusru.
95. Agricultural holding tax was recommended by
A) John Mathai Committee
B) Bhoothalingam Committee
C) Wanchoo Committee
D) Raj Committee
96. Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) Scheme aimed at
A) Providing loan assistance
B) Providing houses at free of cost
C) Providing transport facilities
D) none of these
97. The LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation) model of development was introduced in 1991
by the Finance Minister

A) Dr. Manmohan Singh
B) Shri P. Chidambaram
C) Shri Pranab Mukherjee
D) Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao
98. Which commodity forms the single largest item of India's import?
A) Capital goods
B) Food and allied products
C) Gold
D) Oil (fuel)
99. The leader who attended all the Three Round Table Conferences was
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Subhash Chandra Bose
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
E) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
100 Where in India is the Asia's largest optical telescope installed?
A) Darjeeling - West Bengal
B) Kodaikanal - Tamil Nadu
C) Mahabaleshwar - Maharastra
D) Kavalur- Tamil Nadu
101. The shape of the graph drawn between ln p1 versus 1/T for an intrinsic semiconductor is pl -
resistivity, T - temperature)
A) Straight line
B) Circle
C) Parabola
D) Ellipse
102. One gene and one enzyme hypothesis was put forth by ………….. In …………………..
A) Beadle and Tatum, E.coli
B) Beadle and Tatum, Neurospora
C) Jacob and Monad, Neurospora
D) Jacob and Monad, E.coli
103. The hormone which brings about characteristic changes in male at puberty is called
A) Androgen

B) FSH
C) Adrenaline
D) Testosterone
104. Which of the following is correctly matched?
A) TNT - Fertilizer
B) Gasoline - Petrochemical
C) Potassium sulphate - Explosive
D) Cement - Molecular Crystal
105. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Article 32 deals with the right to Constitutional Remedies, without which the Constitution
would be a nullity.
Reason (R): Article 32 provides the right to move the Supreme Court by appropriate proceeding for the
enforcement of Fundamental Rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
Now select you answer according to the coding scheme given below:
A) (A) is true, but (R) is false
B) (A) is alone is true
C) (R) is alone is true
D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
106. In Tamil Nadu the Legislative Assembly was established in the year
A) 1935
B) 1937
C) 1947
D) 1952
107. Tamil Nadu is noted for the industrial cluster of
A) textiles
B) chemicals
C) jewellery and gems
D) glass
108. Apex Court judgement delivered with regard to Open University degree, that bench comprised
A) Justice S. B. Sinha and Justice Mukundaram Sharma
B) Justice Mohan and Justice K. G. Balakrishnan
C) Justice S. H. Kapadia and Justice Altamar Kabir
D) None of them
109. Satyartha Prakash was written by
A) Raja Rammohan Roy
B) Debendranath Tagore
C) Keshab Chandra Sen
D) Dayanand Saraswati


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