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CGPSC Mains 2015: previous year questions

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Paper-3

  1. 2015 CGPSC Mains - Paper 3 (History, Constitution, and Public Administration)Write your answer →
  2. Mention any one archaeological site of the Indus Civilization situated in the northern region.Write your answer →
  3. Mention the four Buddhist Councils in chronological order, along with their locations.Write your answer →
  4. Describe the town administration of Pataliputra during the Mauryan period based on foreign evidence.Write your answer →
  5. "The policies of the East India Company led to the downfall of Indian artisans." Discuss.Write your answer →
  6. What was the role of A. O. Hume in the foundation of the Indian National Congress?Syllabus: Establishment of Indian National CongressWrite your answer →
  7. Who were Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki?Write your answer →
  8. How did Tatya Tope meet his end?Write your answer →
  9. What further divisions took place in the Brahmo Samaj after the demise of Raja Ram Mohan Roy?Write your answer →
  10. What was the main contribution of Queen Vasata?Write your answer →
  11. What was the achievement of Kalchuri ruler Ratnadeo I?Write your answer →
  12. Who, when, and from where was the newspaper Chhattisgarh Mitra published?Write your answer →
  13. Write a comment on the ‘Koi Revolt’ of Bastar.Write your answer →
  14. What is the importance of the Government of India Act, 1935?Write your answer →
  15. Explain the role of the Advocate General.Write your answer →
  16. Write a note on Article 356 of the Indian Constitution.Write your answer →
  17. Discuss the various levels of the Panchayati Raj Institutions.Write your answer →
  18. Define the Line Agency.Write your answer →
  19. Explain the nature of comparative public administration.Syllabus: Public Administration Meaning, Scope, Nature and ImportanceWrite your answer →
  20. What are the methods of legislative control over administration?Write your answer →
  21. What is the meaning of district administration?Write your answer →
  22. "The Nehru Report is an authentic expression of nationalism in Indian political history." Explain.Write your answer →
  23. Write a note on the progress of science during the Gupta period.Syllabus: Gupta Empire, Development of Art, Architecture, Literature & Science…Write your answer →
  24. What 11 demands did Mahatma Gandhi put before Viceroy Lord Irwin before launching the Civil Disobedience Movement?Write your answer →
  25. Describe the nature and character of the 1857 Revolt.Write your answer →
  26. Trace the conquest of Chhattisgarh by Samudragupta with evidence.Write your answer →
  27. Give an account of Mahatma Gandhi’s second visit to Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  28. What are the elements of cooperative federalism in the Indian Constitution?Write your answer →
  29. Discuss the role of Lokayukta in Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  30. What are the major instruments of cooperative federalism in India?Write your answer →
  31. On what grounds has Maslow’s theory of motivation been criticized?Write your answer →
  32. Analyze Kautilya’s Saptang Theory and its relevance in modern Indian politics.Write your answer →
  33. Write the contribution of Sardar Patel in the integration of princely states.Write your answer →
  34. Describe the ‘Sepoy Revolt’ that occurred in Raipur at the beginning of 1858 A.D.Write your answer →
  35. "Fundamental Rights given in the Indian Constitution are not absolute." Examine this statement.Write your answer →
  36. "Right to Information is a necessary condition for a successful and effective democracy." Discuss.Write your answer →
  37. Give a brief introduction to the rise of Shivaji. Evaluate his:Write your answer →
  38. (i) Tribal Movements in IndiaWrite your answer →
  39. (ii) Contribution of Birsa MundaWrite your answer →
  40. Define parliamentary democracy and analyze the relevance of the parliamentary model of government in India.Write your answer →
  41. What were the social characteristics of Chhattisgarh during the Kalchuri period?Write your answer →
  42. Give an account of the economy of Chhattisgarh during the Kalchuri period.Write your answer →
  43. What was the contribution of the Kalchuris in the field of architecture?Write your answer →
  44. What is decentralization? How far is it correct to say that Panchayati Raj Institutions in Chhattisgarh have achieved the goals of decentralization?Write your answer →
  45. Discuss the composition and functions of the National Judicial Appointment Commission. Explain the arguments in favor of and against it.Write your answer →

Paper-4

  1. Explain the effect of temperature, pressure, and concentration on the manufacture of ammonia.Write your answer →
  2. Write the structure and uses of Teflon polymer.Write your answer →
  3. Define alloy and give two examples.Write your answer →
  4. Define exothermic and endothermic reactions with suitable examples.Syllabus: Exothermic and endothermic reactionsWrite your answer →
  5. Explain Oersted’s experiment.Write your answer →
  6. What is meant by electrical potential? State whether it is a scalar or vector quantity.Write your answer →
  7. Write four properties of an ideal fuel.Write your answer →
  8. Mention two uses of a convex mirror.Write your answer →
  9. Define chromosome theory of heredity.Syllabus: Heredity and evolutionWrite your answer →
  10. What is CO₂ compensation point in photosynthesis?Write your answer →
  11. Where is the thyroid gland located in the human body? Describe the hormone secreted by it and its control.Write your answer →
  12. What are the advantages of using organic fertilizers over chemical fertilizers?Write your answer →
  13. Write the names of four high-level programming languages.Write your answer →
  14. What is the Mangalyaan mission?Write your answer →
  15. Write down the full form of the following: (i) USB (ii) HTTP (iii) PDF (iv) DPIWrite your answer →
  16. What are endemic species?Write your answer →
  17. What are Seed Banks?Write your answer →
  18. Define Global Warming.Write your answer →
  19. Define Biodiversity.Write your answer →
  20. What is bleaching powder? Give its preparation and uses.Write your answer →
  21. Write the chemical formula of baking soda and give its method of preparation with a chemical equation.Write your answer →
  22. What is meant by the power of accommodation of the eye? For normal vision, what is the distance of the far point and near point from the human eye?Write your answer →
  23. Mention four differences between a primary and a secondary cell.Write your answer →
  24. Describe briefly the mechanism of double fertilization found in plants.Write your answer →
  25. What is holozoic nutrition? What type of nutrition method is found in protozoans and spiders?Write your answer →
  26. What are the uses of IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) data in agriculture?Write your answer →
  27. Give a brief account of nuclear reactors.Write your answer →
  28. Describe the Red Data Book.Write your answer →
  29. Write about four reasons for biodiversity loss in hotspots.Write your answer →
  30. Describe the position of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals in the periodic table. Comment on the nature of their oxides and hydroxides. Explain the diagonal relationship between lithium and magnesium.Syllabus: Metals - Position of metals in the periodic table and general properties. MetalWrite your answer →
  31. Explain electric power and energy consumed in an electric circuit with their SI units. What is one kilowatt-hour (1 unit) of energy?Write your answer →
  32. Write about the sources and functions of any two of the following phytohormones: (i) Auxins (ii) Gibberellins (iii) CytokininsWrite your answer →
  33. Give a brief account of the INSAT satellite series.Write your answer →
  34. Explain the Green Family Concept in detail.Write your answer →
  35. Describe in detail four uses of a nuclear reactor.Write your answer →
  36. What is meant by cathode rays? How are they produced? Write six characteristics of cathode rays.Write your answer →
  37. Write notes on the following: (i) Reflex action and its mechanism (ii) C3 and C4 cycles in photosynthesisWrite your answer →
  38. Write a detailed account of the following: (i) Population Explosion and Family Welfare Programme (ii) Causes and hazardous effects of Earthquakes**Syllabus: Population explosion and Family Welfare ProgrammeWrite your answer →
  39. Give the laboratory method for preparing hydrogen gas. Describe the isotopes of hydrogen gas. Give the difference and uses of isotopes of hydrogen gas.Syllabus: laboratory method of preparing alcoholWrite your answer →
  40. Write names of two important ores of iron and describe its method of extraction with chemical equations.Write your answer →
  41. What do you mean by polymer and polymerization? Give the method of preparation and structure of the following: (i) Rubber (ii) PVC (iii) PolytheneWrite your answer →
  42. What do you mean by chemical equilibrium? Describe its characteristics. Explain the effect of pressure, temperature, and concentration on the equilibrium of the following reactions:(i) PCl₅ ⇌ PCl₃ + Cl₂(ii) 2SO₂ + O₂ ⇌ 2SO₃Syllabus: Fast and slow chemical reactionsWrite your answer →
  43. Describe pesticide resistance and its management.Write your answer →
  44. Give a brief account of supercomputers.Write your answer →
  45. Discuss in brief the National Policy on Science and Technology.Syllabus: National policy of science and technology and changes in the policy from time to timeWrite your answer →

Paper-5

  1. What is the meaning of ‘Indicative Planning’?Write your answer →
  2. How is ‘Unemployment’ measured in India?Write your answer →
  3. What do you understand by ‘Disposable Income’?Write your answer →
  4. What is meant by the ‘LPG Strategy’?Write your answer →
  5. Is population growth an obstacle to economic development? Explain.Syllabus: Role of Information Technology in Rural India, basic knowledge of…Write your answer →
  6. What is Green Accounting?Write your answer →
  7. What are the main objectives of Deen-Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushal Yojana?Write your answer →
  8. What are the functions of the National Development Council?Write your answer →
  9. Describe the location and physical characteristics of Samri Pat.Write your answer →
  10. What do you mean by Abujhmar?Write your answer →
  11. Write a distribution of scheduled tribe literacy in Chhattisgarh State.Write your answer →
  12. Describe the occupational structure of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  13. Which expenditures of the Chhattisgarh Government are committed and the principal components of revenue expenditure?Write your answer →
  14. What important changes have taken place in the literacy rate of slums in Chhattisgarh during the period 2001-2011?Write your answer →
  15. In which district of Chhattisgarh was the maximum number of ration cards distributed under the Food Security Act, 2012?Write your answer →
  16. What is Non-Plan Expenditure?Write your answer →
  17. What do you mean by the conservation of water resources?Write your answer →
  18. What is “Kisan Samriddhi Yojana”?Write your answer →
  19. State the Indira Gram Ganga Program in Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  20. Differentiate between ‘Physical Planning’ and ‘Financial Planning’.Write your answer →
  21. The failure of Government Enterprises can be solved through privatization. Comment on this statement.Write your answer →
  22. What are the main problems of Federal Finance in India?Write your answer →
  23. What are the main objectives of the ‘National Rural Livelihood Mission’? Explain.Write your answer →
  24. Describe the Mahanadi Irrigation Projects.Write your answer →
  25. Describe the forest resources of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  26. Explain the causes of the backwardness of Scheduled Tribe people.Write your answer →
  27. Give your opinion on the income inequality in Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  28. What are the small forest produce of Chhattisgarh?Write your answer →
  29. Explain the role of the Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh.Syllabus: Public Distribution System in ChhattisgarhWrite your answer →
  30. What are the recent trends in employment in India? Briefly discuss.Write your answer →
  31. Explain the duties and powers of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.Syllabus: Comptroller & Auditor-General of IndiaWrite your answer →
  32. Explain the location and physical features of the Maikal range in the Chhattisgarh region.Syllabus: GEOGRAPHY OF CHHATTISGARH– Physical featuresWrite your answer →
  33. Give your opinion on the budgetary policy of the Government of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  34. Explain the non-conventional energy resources in Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  35. Explain the status and challenges of the Bharat Nirman Yojana.Write your answer →
  36. Explain the state of the Government of Chhattisgarh in the year 2014-15 under the “Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act”.Write your answer →
  37. Describe the production and distribution of iron ore in Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  38. How does the RBI control inflation in the country? What steps have been taken in the last few years in this regard while maintaining reasonable growth?Write your answer →
  39. After 1991, explain the impact of liberalization in India.Write your answer →
  40. Describe the fiscal deficit and its effects on the Indian Economy.Syllabus: fiscal deficit and effects on the EconomyWrite your answer →
  41. Describe the drainage system of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →

Paper-7

  1. Is Philosophy the mother of all subjects?Write your answer →
  2. What are the ‘Triratnas’ according to Jain Philosophy?Write your answer →
  3. What are the external means of yoga practice?Write your answer →
  4. Is religion and philosophy complementary?Write your answer →
  5. What do you mean by Sanskritization?Write your answer →
  6. Clarify the concept of objectivity.Write your answer →
  7. What is social inequality?Write your answer →
  8. Differentiate between folkways and mores.Write your answer →
  9. In which place was the ‘Lingojatra’ celebrated last year? Write a short introduction to ‘Lingojatra’.Write your answer →
  10. Write the names of 10 musical instruments played by the Muria Tribe.Write your answer →
  11. Discuss the festivals related to agriculture among the Hill Korwas.Write your answer →
  12. What is the Bell Metal Art of Bastar?Write your answer →
  13. Why was late Dewadas Banjare famous?Write your answer →
  14. Who and when is the Karma dance performed?Write your answer →
  15. In Folk Ballads, whose story is sung in the Chandaini?Write your answer →
  16. For what reason is ‘Turturiya’ famous?Write your answer →
  17. What is ‘Jaitkham’?Write your answer →
  18. Write the name of any two famous National Parks of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  19. For what reason is the ‘Sirpur’ of Chhattisgarh famous?Write your answer →
  20. Why are the schools of Indian Philosophy divided into Astika and Nastika?Write your answer →
  21. What is Secularism?Write your answer →
  22. Clarify the concept of Anomie. What did Merton say about anomie?Write your answer →
  23. Elaborate on the role of law in social control.Write your answer →
  24. Write a note on ‘Shifting Cultivation’.Write your answer →
  25. With which tribe is ‘Dhoomkuriya’ associated? Write a short note.Write your answer →
  26. Write a short note on ‘Chakradhar Samaroh’.Write your answer →
  27. Provide a short description of the ‘Gaura festival’.Write your answer →
  28. Which place is known as the ‘Shimla of Chhattisgarh’? Why is it famous?Write your answer →
  29. What is the significance of ‘Hartalika’?Write your answer →
  30. Give a comparative account of Indian and Western Philosophy.Syllabus: comprative study of Indian and Western PhilosophyWrite your answer →
  31. Clarify the concept of socialization. Discuss its major agencies.Write your answer →
  32. Describe the major responsible factors for the low level of education among the tribes.Write your answer →
  33. Write a note on Chhattisgarhi folk theatre ‘Gammat’.Write your answer →
  34. Write a note on ‘Bastar Dussehra’.Write your answer →
  35. What is Philosophy? Explain the characteristics of Indian Philosophy.Write your answer →
  36. Discuss the forms of preferential marriage in tribes.Write your answer →
  37. Write an essay on any one primitive tribal group of Chhattisgarh.Write your answer →
  38. Give a detailed account of ‘RAHAS’.Write your answer →
  39. Explain the distinction between ‘Swarn Rahas’ and ‘Satnami Rahas’.Write your answer →
  40. What is social research?Write your answer →
  41. Elaborate on the aims of social research.Write your answer →
  42. What are the major problems of social research?Syllabus: Social Research and Techniques -Objective of Social Research, Use of…Write your answer →
  43. What is a Proverb? Explain the various forms of Chhattisgarhi proverbs—Idioms, Puzzles/Riddles, Singing—with 5 examples for each.Write your answer →