RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 2024 PYQs

Concept: A private sector company is owned and run by private individuals/companies, not by the government.

1. TISCO (Tata Iron and Steel Company, now Tata Steel) was founded in 1907 at Jamshedpur by the Tata group – a private company.
2. SAIL and ONGC are Central Public Sector Enterprises; Indian Railways is run directly by the Ministry of Railways.

Yaad rakhein: SAIL (steel) vs TISCO (steel): same industry – SAIL is government, TISCO is Tata (private).

Answer: (B) TISCO

Concept: Articles 371 to 371J give special provisions to certain States.

1. Article 371A (13th Amendment, 1962) protects Nagaland's religious and social practices, Naga customary law and procedure, and ownership and transfer of land and its resources.
2. No Act of Parliament on these matters applies to Nagaland unless its Legislative Assembly so decides.
3. Sikkim – 371F, Mizoram – 371G, Manipur – 371C.

Yaad rakhein: 371A = Nagaland, 371C = Manipur, 371F = Sikkim, 371G = Mizoram.

Answer: (C) Nagaland

Concept: During the 1857 revolt the British forces near Delhi faced stiff resistance from rebels and villagers.

1. On 6 August 1857, Lieutenant Colonel Tytler telegraphed his Commander-in-Chief: 'Our men are cowed by the numbers opposed to them and the endless fighting. Every village is held against us, the zamindars have risen to oppose us.'
2. This line is quoted in the NCERT history textbook to show how widespread popular support for the rebels was.
3. Lambton (Great Trigonometrical Survey), Cornwallis (1790s) and Clive (1750s–60s) belong to other periods.

Yaad rakhein: 1857 telegram about 'every village held against us' – Tytler.

Answer: (C) Lieutenant Colonel Tytler

Concept: ASCII is a character-encoding standard that gives every letter, digit and symbol a number.

1. ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
2. Standard ASCII uses 7 bits, so it has 128 codes (0–127); e.g. 'A' = 65, 'a' = 97.

Yaad rakhein: 'A' = 65, 'a' = 97, '0' = 48 – favourite follow-up facts.

Answer: (A) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Concept: WTT (World Table Tennis) Contender events are international table-tennis tournaments.

1. In April 2025 India's Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won the mixed doubles title at WTT Contender Tunis 2025 (Tunisia).
2. It was a notable international mixed-doubles title for the Indian pair.

Yaad rakhein: Manush–Diya → Tunis (Tunisia), April 2025.

Answer: (B) WTT Contender Tunis 2025

Concept: Liquid (household/commercial) bleach is a dilute aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, $\text{NaOCl}$.

1. Commercial bleaching solution is only a few per cent $\text{NaOCl}$ by mass; the standard textbook value is about 3.62%.
2. Values like 10.85% belong to concentrated industrial solutions, not ordinary commercial bleach.

Yaad rakhein: Bleach liquid = $\text{NaOCl}$ in water, roughly 3–6%; ~3.62% is the standard figure.

Answer: (A) 3.62%

Concept: Paramhansa Mandali was an early secret reform society of western India.

1. It was founded in Bombay in 1840 (by Dadoba Pandurang and associates) to work for the abolition of caste.
2. Members ate food cooked by lower castes in secret meetings to break caste rules; it also supported widow remarriage.

Yaad rakhein: Paramhansa Mandali – 1840 – Bombay – anti-caste.

Answer: (D) Bombay

Concept: India is developing an indigenous light tank for high-altitude areas such as Ladakh.

1. Zorawar, developed by DRDO with L&T, completed high-altitude firing trials (above 4,200 m) in December 2024.
2. Arjun is a main battle tank; Bhishma (T-90) and Vijayanta are older/heavier tanks.

Yaad rakhein: Zorawar is named after General Zorawar Singh, who led campaigns in Ladakh and Tibet.

Answer: (B) Zorawar

Concept: The India Justice Report (IJR) ranks States on police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

1. IJR 2025 found that Sikkim and Telangana have the highest share of women judges in their High Courts – 33% each.
2. Overall, women remain a small minority of High Court judges in India.

Yaad rakhein: IJR 2025 – women HC judges 33%: Sikkim & Telangana.

Answer: (C) Sikkim and Telangana

Concept: In Windows, new items on the desktop are created from the desktop's right-click (context) menu.

1. Right-click an empty area of the Desktop → New → Folder.
2. A 'New folder' appears; type a name and press Enter.
3. The taskbar menu and Settings have no 'New Folder' command.

Yaad rakhein: Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + N creates a new folder in File Explorer/Desktop.

Answer: (D) Right-click Desktop → New → Folder

Concept: Population distribution depends mainly on physical (geographical) and economic factors.

1. Climate, soil fertility and topography directly decide where people can farm and live – plains with fertile soil are densely populated.
2. Official language is an administrative/cultural matter; it does not directly decide where people settle.

Yaad rakhein: Geography factors (relief, climate, soil, water) = direct; language = not.

Answer: (A) Official language

Concept: Part II (Articles 5–11) of the Constitution deals with citizenship at its commencement.

1. Article 6 gives citizenship rights to certain persons who migrated to India from Pakistan.
2. Article 7 covers persons who migrated to Pakistan and later returned.
3. Bangladesh did not exist in 1950, so it cannot be the answer.

Yaad rakhein: Art 5 – domicile, Art 6 – migrants from Pakistan, Art 7 – migrants to Pakistan.

Answer: (C) Pakistan

Concept: Pith is the central core of a dicot stem (and of monocot roots) made of soft parenchyma cells.

1. Pith cells are large, thin-walled, spongy parenchyma that store food and help move nutrients.
2. Cortex lies outside the vascular tissue; metaxylem conducts water; stele is the whole central vascular cylinder.

Yaad rakhein: Centre of stem = pith (soft, spongy, storage).

Answer: (A) Pith

Concept: Part VIII (Articles 239–242) of the Constitution deals with Union Territories.

1. Article 239: every UT is administered by the President through an Administrator.
2. Article 1 defines India as a Union of States; Article 262 is about inter-State river water disputes.

Yaad rakhein: UT = Part VIII = Art 239; Delhi special status = Art 239AA.

Answer: (D) Article 239

Concept: 12,000 T20 runs (all T20 matches combined) is a rare milestone.

1. In April 2025, during IPL 2025, Rohit Sharma completed 12,000 runs in T20 cricket.
2. He became only the eighth player in the world – and the second Indian after Virat Kohli – to reach this mark.

Yaad rakhein: Kohli was the first Indian to 12,000 T20 runs; Rohit the second.

Answer: (C) Rohit Sharma

Concept: The 'State of the World's Nursing' report reviews the global nursing workforce.

1. The 2025 edition was released by the World Health Organization (WHO), with the International Council of Nurses, around International Nurses Day (12 May 2025).
2. The previous edition appeared in 2020; ILO, World Bank and UNICEF do not publish it.

Yaad rakhein: Health workforce report → WHO.

Answer: (D) World Health Organization (WHO)

Concept: In mountains, vegetation changes with altitude – these are montane forests.

1. At higher altitudes of the Himalayas (about 3,000–3,600 m) silver fir, juniper, pine, birch and rhododendrons are found.
2. Tropical thorn forests have acacia, cactus; littoral forests have mangroves.

Yaad rakhein: Birch + rhododendron = high Himalaya = montane.

Answer: (C) Montane forests

Concept: The Visuddhimagga ('Path of Purification') is a classic Theravada Buddhist text in Pali.

1. It was written by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century CE in Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura).
2. Nagarjuna and Aryadeva were Madhyamaka (Mahayana) thinkers; Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharmakosha.

Yaad rakhein: Visuddhimagga – Buddhaghosa – Sri Lanka – Theravada.

Answer: (C) Buddhaghosa

Concept: The First Five-Year Plan (1951–56) was based on the Harrod–Domar model and focused on agriculture.

1. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, also Chairman of the Planning Commission, presented the First Five-Year Plan to Parliament on 9 July 1951.
2. Sardar Patel was Deputy PM, Rajendra Prasad was President.

Yaad rakhein: Planning Commission chairman = PM; first PM = Nehru.

Answer: (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

Concept: The Navy ordered 16 Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASW SWC): 8 from GRSE and 8 from Cochin Shipyard.

1. Arnala, the first of the eight GRSE-built ASW SWCs, was delivered to the Indian Navy on 8 May 2025.
2. Kamorta, Kadmatt and Kiltan are older Project-28 ASW corvettes.

Yaad rakhein: Arnala is named after Arnala fort near Vasai, Maharashtra.

Answer: (A) Arnala