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MPPSC Mains 2021: previous year questions

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Paper-I

  1. Very Short Answer Questions (3 marks each)Write your answer →
  2. What is Kaumudi Mahotsava?Write your answer →
  3. Who was Sutradhayksha?Write your answer →
  4. Who was Shri Harsha Seeyak?Write your answer →
  5. Who was Khawajatash?Write your answer →
  6. Who was Chand Bibi?Write your answer →
  7. What was Ameeni Aayog?Write your answer →
  8. What is Bakashta?Write your answer →
  9. Who was Hridyanath Kunjaru?Write your answer →
  10. What was Bhartiya Swatantra Bill?Write your answer →
  11. Who was Karmvir?Write your answer →
  12. What is Barman Mela?Write your answer →
  13. What was Jaijakbhukti?Write your answer →
  14. Who was Tukoji Rao III Holkar?Write your answer →
  15. Who was Dost Mohammad Khan?Write your answer →
  16. Short Answer Questions (5 marks each)Write your answer →
  17. Write a short note on the Great Bath.Write your answer →
  18. Discuss “Three Rinas” in Indian Culture.Write your answer →
  19. What is “Diwan-E-Kohi”? Discuss it.Write your answer →
  20. Write a short note on the Treaty of Salbai.Write your answer →
  21. Write a short note on the Sannyasi Revolt.Write your answer →
  22. What is “Servants of India Society”?Write your answer →
  23. What do you know about Raja Bakhtawar Singh?Write your answer →
  24. What do you know about “Chitrakoot”?Write your answer →
  25. Discuss the Treaty of Mandsaur.Write your answer →
  26. What do you know about Maharaj Raghuraj Singh?Write your answer →
  27. Long Answer Questions (11 marks each)Write your answer →
  28. Discuss the political organization during the Rigveda period.Write your answer →
  29. Discuss the “Dhamma” of Ashoka.Write your answer →
  30. Throw light on Mughal-Sikh relations from Guru Nanak to Guru Govind Singh.Write your answer →
  31. Discuss the administrative system of Shivaji.Write your answer →
  32. What was the nature of the Revolt of 1857? Is it correct to call it the first freedom struggle?Syllabus: Reactions of Indians against British Colonial RuleWrite your answer →
  33. What do you mean by the Indian Renaissance of the 19th century? Discuss its causes.Write your answer →
  34. Throw light on the non-cooperation movement in the Mahakaushal region.Write your answer →
  35. Describe the main features of folk painting of Nimad and Malwa.Write your answer →
  36. Evaluate the personality and contribution of Ahilyabai Holkar.Write your answer →
  37. Evaluate the contribution of Shankar Shah and Raghunath Shah in the freedom movement of 1857.Write your answer →
  38. Mount Kilimanjaro mountain is situated in which continent?Write your answer →
  39. What is the epicenter of an earthquake?Write your answer →
  40. What is a Tornado? In which countries are they mainly found?Write your answer →
  41. Why is the vast area of the Malwa Plateau flat?Write your answer →
  42. The Barak River is the main river of which two States of India?Write your answer →
  43. What is El Nino?Write your answer →
  44. Why is the Narmada River called the lifeline of Madhya Pradesh?Write your answer →
  45. Which physical region of Madhya Pradesh is the most extensive and important from the point of view of forests?Write your answer →
  46. Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh is famous for which mineral deposits?Write your answer →
  47. What is the hydrological cycle?Write your answer →
  48. What is Water Resource Management?Write your answer →
  49. Name two major earthquakes that occurred after 1950 in Peninsular India with state, place, and year.Write your answer →
  50. What is meant by Remote Sensing?Write your answer →
  51. Write the definition of vector data in GIS.Write your answer →
  52. What is the Global Positioning System (G.P.S.)?Syllabus: GPS (Global Positioning System): Basic concepts of GPS and its applicationsWrite your answer →
  53. Why was the Aral Sea called a ‘Dying Saline Lake’?Write your answer →
  54. How does a volcano form?Write your answer →
  55. Give a brief description of the Luni River.Write your answer →
  56. How can we conserve the minerals of India?Write your answer →
  57. Write a short note on the ‘Diamond Mining Project’ in Madhya Pradesh.Write your answer →
  58. Under which scheme has the Ministry of Tribal Affairs given benefits to particularly vulnerable tribal groups of Madhya Pradesh, and what are the criteria for identifying them?Syllabus: 2.3 Demography of India and M.P., Tribes of Madhya Pradesh with…Write your answer →
  59. What is arsenic, and what are its various sources?Write your answer →
  60. Differentiate between hazards and disasters.Write your answer →
  61. Name the applications of Remote Sensing for Earth Resource Management.Write your answer →
  62. What are the applications of geo-spatial information?Write your answer →
  63. Describe glacial erosional landforms.Write your answer →
  64. Describe the topographies created by volcanic eruption.Write your answer →
  65. Describe the regional division of the Himalayas.Write your answer →
  66. Describe the national water grid.Write your answer →
  67. Describe the physical features of the Malwa Plateau.Write your answer →
  68. Mention the problem of soil erosion in Madhya Pradesh.Write your answer →
  69. Describe the major pollutants of water.Write your answer →
  70. Mention the National Policy of Disaster Management.Write your answer →
  71. Discuss the meaning and benefits of remote sensing.Write your answer →
  72. Mention the function of the control division of G.P.S. and describe its use.Write your answer →

Paper-II

  1. Write five elements of the Preamble to the Constitution of India.Write your answer →
  2. What are any four aspects of liberty described in the Indian Constitution?Write your answer →
  3. Explain the basic rationale behind the Directive Principles of State Policy.Syllabus: and Directive principles of state policyWrite your answer →
  4. Write any two methods of recruitment by the Union Public Service Commission.Syllabus: Union Public Service CommissionWrite your answer →
  5. What are the two major categories of activities of NITI Aayog?Write your answer →
  6. Write four determining factors of voting behavior.Write your answer →
  7. Write three salient features of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act.Write your answer →
  8. What are the major advantages of self-help groups?Write your answer →
  9. Describe the various dimensions of the role of media in elections.Write your answer →
  10. Which are the four objectives of humankind narrated by Deendayal Upadhyaya?Write your answer →
  11. Explain the economic ideas of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.Write your answer →
  12. Bring out any two basic elements of New Socialism propounded by Ram Manohar Lohia.Write your answer →
  13. Write names of any three branches of Public Administration as a discipline.Write your answer →
  14. Name any two factors affecting the span of control.Write your answer →
  15. Write any two advantages of delegation.Write your answer →
  16. How is judicial activism different from judicial overreach? Explain.Write your answer →
  17. Indian federalism is moving from cooperative federalism to competitive federalism. Comment.Write your answer →
  18. Indian politics marks a shift from politicization of caste to casteization of politics. Explain.Syllabus: Role of caste, religion, class, ethnicity, language and gender in…Write your answer →
  19. Do you think coalitions are the key characteristics of party politics at the Centre and the States? Discuss.Write your answer →
  20. Discuss the functions of the Competition Commission of India.Write your answer →
  21. What are the key limitations of the National Human Rights Commission?Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  22. "Social democracy is the major basis of political democracy." Discuss with reference to the vision of Babasaheb Ambedkar.Write your answer →
  23. Describe the key characteristics of integral humanism advocated by Deendayal Upadhyaya.Write your answer →
  24. What is bounded rationality? What role does it play in decision-making?Write your answer →
  25. How is New Public Administration different from New Public Management?Syllabus: Administration and Management:- Meaning, nature and significance…Write your answer →
  26. Write a critical note on the Indian Constitution.Write your answer →
  27. State the difference between Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Rights.Syllabus: Conceptual elements:- Objectives, fundamental rights and duties…Write your answer →
  28. What is the significance of the Union Public Service Commission? Describe the suggestions for its reform.Syllabus: Union Public Service CommissionWrite your answer →
  29. Define political party and point out the main features of the party system in India.Write your answer →
  30. What are the functional domains of the Central Vigilance Commission? Throw light on the key points of the Whistle Blower Protection Act.Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  31. What is meant by representation? Describe the different forms of the proportional representation system.Write your answer →
  32. What kind of society has been conceptualized by Ram Manohar Lohia for the establishment of social justice in the special conditions of India? Discuss in detail.Write your answer →
  33. "Jayaprakash Narayan’s view on democracy is closely linked to the ideals of Socialism and Sarvodaya." Explain this statement.Write your answer →
  34. Explain the significance of Public Administration. Is Public Administration an art or science? Answer with suitable arguments.Syllabus: Administration and Management:- Meaning, nature and significance…Write your answer →
  35. Explaining the characteristics of development administration, discuss the problems of development administration in India.Write your answer →

Paper-III

  1. A wave of wavelength 0.6 cm is produced in air and it travels at a speed of 300 m/s. Will it be audible?Write your answer →
  2. Define Curie temperature.Write your answer →
  3. Why is steel used for making permanent magnets?Write your answer →
  4. What is a Chemical Bond?Write your answer →
  5. Write the chemical formula of bleaching powder.Write your answer →
  6. What is Galvanization?Write your answer →
  7. Define the cell.Write your answer →
  8. What are the main components of food?Write your answer →
  9. What are the main functions of root hair in plants?Write your answer →
  10. What is done in phishing or e-mail spoofing?Write your answer →
  11. What is the usual format of an e-mail address?Write your answer →
  12. Android, Fedora, Windows, and iOS are names of what?Write your answer →
  13. Write the equation x = 2y in the form ax + by + c = 0, and find out the values of a, b, and c.Write your answer →
  14. Multiply 3/5 by 35.Write your answer →
  15. What is the formula to find the class mark of a class interval?Write your answer →
  16. Explain the definition of Yoga.Write your answer →
  17. Write a short note on the World Health Organization (WHO).Syllabus: World Health Organization:- Objectives, Structure, Functions and ProgrammesWrite your answer →
  18. The Government of India has included which traditional systems of health care in the Ministry of Ayush?Write your answer →
  19. Where is the Centre for Advanced Technology located? Who is the scientist associated with this?Write your answer →
  20. What is the main contribution of Scientist Prafulla Chandra Roy?Write your answer →
  21. When did Remote Sensing work start in India?Syllabus: History of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing in IndiaWrite your answer →
  22. As per the COP-26 conference, when will India achieve ‘Net Zero’ carbon emission target?Write your answer →
  23. Full form of ‘TERT’ is?Write your answer →
  24. What is a ‘Bio-fuel cell’?Write your answer →
  25. Define environmental ethics.Write your answer →
  26. Give three names of Environmental Acts.Write your answer →
  27. Describe the major environmental issues.Write your answer →
  28. Define Geology.Write your answer →
  29. What is the maximum age of the Earth?Write your answer →
  30. What is an Index Fossil?Write your answer →
  31. The mass of a motorcyclist together with the motorcycle is 90 kg. Calculate the increase in kinetic energy if the speed increases from 6.0 km/h to 12 km/h.Write your answer →
  32. What are the three modes of heat transfer?Write your answer →
  33. Write three differences between mixtures and compounds.Write your answer →
  34. What is the Activity Series? Explain.Write your answer →
  35. What is respiration? What are the main respiratory organs in organisms?Write your answer →
  36. Write a short note on the testes of mammals.Write your answer →
  37. What is the function of input and output devices of a computer? Give two examples of each.Syllabus: Memory, Input and Output Devices, Storage Devices, Software and…Write your answer →
  38. What are the benefits to citizens using “DigiLocker”?Write your answer →
  39. Shyam’s father’s age is 5 years more than three times Shyam’s age. Shyam’s father is 47 years old. Find Shyam’s age.Write your answer →
  40. Two players, Sita and Geeta, play a table tennis match. It is known that the probability of Sita winning the match is 0.59. What is the probability of Geeta winning the match?Write your answer →
  41. Write a short note on the Ayushman Bharat Programme of the Government of India.Write your answer →
  42. Explain the “Family Planning” programme of India.Write your answer →
  43. What is cloning? Explain briefly.Write your answer →
  44. Describe in brief the Geo-stationary satellite.Write your answer →
  45. What are the main reasons behind the energy crisis?Write your answer →
  46. What are the factors affecting the nature of the wind while establishing a wind energy plant?Write your answer →
  47. Describe the concept of energy subsidy and give an example of a natural ecosystem.Write your answer →
  48. Describe the traditional water pollution control policy.Write your answer →
  49. What is Cataclastic Metamorphism?Write your answer →
  50. Describe oil traps.Write your answer →
  51. Define in detail about entropy.Write your answer →
  52. Explain the pH scale in detail.Write your answer →
  53. Describe the structure of the thyroid gland, its hormone, and related disorders.Write your answer →
  54. Why are language translators required in computers? What are the different types of translators in computing systems?Write your answer →
  55. The digits of a two-digit number differ by 3. If the digits are interchanged and the resulting number is added to the original number, we get 143. What can be the original number?Write your answer →
  56. Explain the National Immunization Schedule in table (chart) form.Write your answer →
  57. Describe the uses of Biotechnology in the health sector.Syllabus: BiotechnologyWrite your answer →
  58. Write the hypothesis and objectives of the “Madhya Pradesh Renewable Energy Policy-2022.”Write your answer →
  59. Describe the environmental education and awareness programs in India.Syllabus: Environmental EducationWrite your answer →
  60. Describe Primary Sedimentary structures in detail.Write your answer →

Paper-IV

  1. Section A - Very Short Answer Type Questions (20x2=40)Write your answer →
  2. Explain the Buddhist theory of ‘Idam Pratyayata’.Write your answer →
  3. According to Plato, which ‘idea’ coordinates all the ideas?Write your answer →
  4. Which Greek philosopher finds ‘Knowledge’ as the prime base of morality?Write your answer →
  5. "He is One and Onkar formed, Adi Purush and Akal." Who thinks so?Write your answer →
  6. Point out the three components of the evolution process of Sri Aurobindo.Write your answer →
  7. Write the definition of Attitude.Write your answer →
  8. Define Aptitude.Write your answer →
  9. Define Orthodox.Write your answer →
  10. Define Empathy.Write your answer →
  11. Write the definition of Emotional Intelligence proposed by Mayer & Salovey.Write your answer →
  12. What is required for Ethical Governance to work?Write your answer →
  13. How are Ethics and Integrity associated with each other?Write your answer →
  14. What is Ethical Reasoning?Write your answer →
  15. What do you mean by Moral Dilemma?Write your answer →
  16. What is the origin of the word "Conscience"?Write your answer →
  17. Where is the oldest mention of Corruption found?Write your answer →
  18. In which decade is corruption supposed to have increased to the maximum?Write your answer →
  19. Who are the Whistleblowers?Write your answer →
  20. What may be the main cause of Corruption?Write your answer →
  21. Is an economic offense considered Corruption?Write your answer →
  22. Section B - Short Answer Type Questions (8x5=40)Write your answer →
  23. Discuss the purport of ‘Socialism’ according to Swami Vivekananda.Write your answer →
  24. Discuss Aristotle's ‘Golden Mean’ principle.Write your answer →
  25. Write about the importance of Impartiality in Civil Services.Write your answer →
  26. Write the meaning of Emotional Intelligence and the characteristics of an Emotionally Intelligent Person.Write your answer →
  27. What is the importance of Transparency in Administration? Explain.Write your answer →
  28. What is the meaning of “Government” in the All India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968?Write your answer →
  29. How can Corruption be classified?Write your answer →
  30. Introduce the United Nations Convention on Corruption.Write your answer →
  31. Section C - Long Answer Type Questions (4x20=80)Write your answer →
  32. Discuss Sankaracharya’s view of the theory of Vivartavada.Write your answer →
  33. Describe the meaning and causes of Individual differences.Write your answer →
  34. How can effective ethical standards in Government and Civil Services be implemented? Discuss in detail.Write your answer →
  35. Describe the Preamble of the United Nations Convention on Corruption.Write your answer →