RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 2024 PYQs

Concept: The Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) tracks coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity.

1. Together these eight industries carry about 40.27% weight in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).
2. Refinery products have the largest weight among them, fertilisers the least.

Yaad rakhein: 8 core industries ≈ 40% of IIP.

Answer: (B) 40%

Concept: The RBI Act, 1934 was amended in 2016 to give a statutory basis to flexible inflation targeting.

1. A six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was constituted in 2016 (first meeting October 2016) to fix the repo rate.
2. The target is 4% CPI inflation with a band of 2% to 6%.

Yaad rakhein: MPC: 2016, 6 members, target 4% ± 2%.

Answer: (B) 2016

Concept: A .txt file is a plain-text file.

1. Notepad is the basic text editor in Windows; it saves files as .txt by default.
2. Calculator does calculations, Paint makes images (.png, .bmp) and Windows Media Player plays audio/video.

Yaad rakhein: .txt → Notepad; .bmp/.png → Paint.

Answer: (D) Notepad

Concept: The Indus system includes Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej (the five rivers of Punjab).

1. Sutlej, Ravi and Jhelum are tributaries of the Indus.
2. Godavari is a peninsular river rising at Trimbakeshwar (Maharashtra) and flowing into the Bay of Bengal – not part of the Indus system.

Trick: Indus tributaries: 'JCRBS' – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej.

Answer: (B) Godavari

Concept: The Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards (GAISA) 2025 was held in New Delhi.

1. Its venue was Bharat Mandapam, the convention centre at Pragati Maidan complex.
2. Bharat Mandapam also hosted the G20 Leaders' Summit in 2023.

Yaad rakhein: Big Delhi summits of recent years (G20, GAISA) → Bharat Mandapam.

Answer: (D) Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

Concept: In May 2025 Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the permanent campus of National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Nagpur.

1. The campus is being built at Mouza Chicholi in Kamptee tehsil of Nagpur district, Maharashtra.
2. NFSU (headquartered at Gandhinagar, Gujarat) is the world's first university dedicated to forensic science.

Yaad rakhein: NFSU Nagpur campus = Chicholi, Kamptee.

Answer: (A) Mouza Chicholi, Kamptee tehsil, Nagpur district

Concept: The Brundtland Commission report 'Our Common Future' (1987) defined sustainable development.

1. It is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
2. Unrestricted industrialisation or maximising profit from resources harms future generations, so they are wrong.

Yaad rakhein: Sustainable = Present needs + Future safe (Brundtland, 1987).

Answer: (D) Development that meets present needs without compromising future generations

Concept: The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is given by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (UAE).

1. In 2025 Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami was named 'Cultural Personality of the Year'.
2. He is known for novels like Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore.

Yaad rakhein: Sheikh Zayed Cultural Personality 2025 = Haruki Murakami (Japan).

Answer: (B) Haruki Murakami

Concept: Madhya Pradesh reached a major urban-transport milestone in 2025 with foreign-funded metro projects.

1. The Indore Metro started commercial operations on its priority corridor in May 2025.
2. The Bhopal and Indore metro projects are co-financed by foreign lenders such as the European Investment Bank, an example of Indo-foreign collaboration.

Yaad rakhein: MP 2025: Indore Metro begins service – foreign (EIB) co-funded.

Answer: (C) Madhya Pradesh

Concept: LUPEX (Lunar Polar Exploration Mission) is a joint mission of ISRO (India) and JAXA (Japan).

1. It aims to study water/ice in the permanently shadowed polar regions of the Moon.
2. JAXA provides the launch vehicle and rover; ISRO provides the lander.
3. Shukrayaan is a Venus mission; Chandrayaan-4 is a sample-return mission.

Yaad rakhein: ISRO + JAXA + Moon pole = LUPEX (also called Chandrayaan-5).

Answer: (B) Lunar Polar Exploration Mission

Concept: In 2022, excavations at Mayiladumparai (Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu) gave the oldest Iron Age date in India.

1. Radiocarbon dating placed iron use there around 2172 BCE.
2. This pushed back the start of the Iron Age in South India; later finds at Sivagalai (also Tamil Nadu) gave even older dates.

Yaad rakhein: Oldest Iron Age (2022) = Mayiladumparai, Tamil Nadu.

Answer: (B) Tamil Nadu

Concept: Midnight's Children (1981) was written by Salman Rushdie.

1. It tells the story of India's independence through Saleem Sinai, born at the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, using magical realism.
2. It won the Booker Prize (1981) and later the 'Booker of Bookers'.
3. Vikram Seth wrote A Suitable Boy; Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things.

Yaad rakhein: Midnight's Children = Rushdie = Booker 1981.

Answer: (D) Salman Rushdie

Concept: The Taiga is the boreal forest belt of the northern hemisphere (Canada, Scandinavia, Siberia).

1. Climate: long, very cold winters and short, cool summers.
2. Vegetation: coniferous evergreen trees such as pine, fir and spruce with needle-shaped leaves.
3. Cactus is found in hot deserts; dense tropical vegetation in equatorial regions.

Yaad rakhein: Taiga = cold + conifers (pine, fir, spruce).

Answer: (B) Cold climate with coniferous forests

Concept: In May 2025, Andhra Pradesh signed an agreement with IBM and TCS to set up the 'Amaravati Quantum Valley Tech Park'.

1. It is being built in Amaravati, the capital region of Andhra Pradesh.
2. It will host IBM's Quantum System Two with a 156-qubit processor, among the largest in India.

Yaad rakhein: Quantum Valley = Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh capital).

Answer: (D) Amaravati

Concept: Terminal-3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, was inaugurated in July 2010.

1. It was built before the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi.
2. It was designed to handle about 34–40 million passengers a year and was then among the largest terminals in the world.

Yaad rakhein: IGI T3 = 2010 (Commonwealth Games year).

Answer: (A) 2010

Concept: A flower has four whorls: calyx (sepals), corolla (petals), androecium and gynoecium.

1. Androecium = the male part, made of stamens (anther + filament), produces pollen.
2. Gynoecium (pistil: stigma, style, ovary) is the female part.
3. Sepals and petals are non-essential (accessory) whorls.

Trick: Andro = man (male); Gyno = woman (female).

Answer: (C) Androecium

Concept: Yakshagana is a traditional theatre form of coastal Karnataka.

1. It combines dance, music, dialogue, colourful costumes and make-up, mostly on Ramayana and Mahabharata themes.
2. Tamil Nadu's folk theatre is Therukoothu; Gujarat's is Bhavai.

Yaad rakhein: Yakshagana – Karnataka; Therukoothu – TN; Bhavai – Gujarat.

Answer: (B) Karnataka

Concept: The Second Schedule of the Constitution deals with emoluments, allowances and privileges.

1. It covers the President, Governors, Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Chairman and Deputy Chairman, judges of Supreme Court and High Courts, and the CAG.
2. Third Schedule = forms of oaths; Seventh = Union, State, Concurrent lists; Ninth = laws protected from judicial review (added 1951).

Yaad rakhein: 2nd Schedule = Salaries; 3rd = Oaths.

Answer: (B) Second Schedule

Concept: Article 371A gives special provisions for Nagaland (added by the 13th Amendment, 1962).

1. No Act of Parliament on Naga religious or social practices, Naga customary law and procedure, civil and criminal justice under customary law, or ownership and transfer of land applies to Nagaland unless its Legislative Assembly decides so.
2. 371B = Assam, 371C = Manipur, 371G = Mizoram.

Trick: 371A → Nagaland; 371G → Mizoram.

Answer: (B) Nagaland

Concept: The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the decision-making body of the WHO, meeting every May in Geneva.

1. On 20 May 2025 the 78^th WHA adopted the world's first WHO Pandemic Agreement.
2. It aims at better prevention, preparedness and fair sharing of vaccines and medicines in future pandemics.

Yaad rakhein: Pandemic Agreement = 78^th WHA, May 2025.

Answer: (C) 78^th World Health Assembly