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WB Postman Mail Guard Exam - English
Duration: 120 · Questions: 100 · Max Marks: 100 · Language: 3
General Knowledge
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Yojna a weekly journal
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Kurukshetra a journal on rural development is published by
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Devaluation of a currency means
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In India rural incomes are generally lower than the urban incomes, which of the following reasons account for this
1. a large number of farmers are illiterate and know little about scientific agriculture
2. prices of primary products are lower than those of manufactured products
3. Investments in agriculture has been low when compared to investment in industry
1. a large number of farmers are illiterate and know little about scientific agriculture
2. prices of primary products are lower than those of manufactured products
3. Investments in agriculture has been low when compared to investment in industry
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Which of the following programmes aims at the promotion of savings among rural women
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The Turkish Commander who conquered Bihar and Bengal was :
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Bengal passed from the Palas to the control of a new dynasty, the Senas. Where did the Senas come from?
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A Pala king who has been immortalised in popular Bengali traditions, folk songs and ballads , is :
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How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANLINESS’ each of the which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?
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Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
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If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the second, the third, the sixth and the eight letters of the word FRAGMENT using each only once, which of the following will be the third letter of that word ? If no such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give ‘Y’ as the answer.
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Which letter in this alphabet is the eighth letter to the right of the letter and which is tenth letter to the left of the last but one letter of the alphabet ?
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If the third alphabet of each of the words is changed to the next alphabet in the English alphabetical series, which of the following will form a meaningful English word?
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West Bengal has____ministrativedivisions.
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The capital of the ancient bengal
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Temperature can be expressed as derived quantity in terms of
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Which of the following is not a synthetic fibre:
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Which one of the following is not contained in Portland cement ?
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Which of the following contain enzymes for cellular respiration ?
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Which one among the following nutrients is a strctural
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Which city is the host of the second edition of ‘The Africa-India Field Training Exercise’ AFINDEX-2023 ?
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‘New India Literacy Programme’ will be implemented as which type of scheme ?
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Which state/UT recently released the ‘Lake Development Programme’ ?
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A ‘Space System Design Lab’ has been recently inaugurated in which state/UT ?
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India recently signed a ‘Defence Cooperation Agreement’ with which European country ?
Mathematics
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The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4% and 6% is Rs. 3. The ratio of the two selling prices is:__________ ?
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Which of the following numbers is irrational ?
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356 x 936 – 356 x 836 = ?
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Arrange in descending order: 5/8, 7/10, 3/4
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What is (3^{4} times 9^{2}) ?
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If 34X-2 = 729, then find the value of X.
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Convert 0.6 into fraction ?
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The no. plate of a bus had peculiarity. The bus number was a perfect square. It was also a perfect square when the plate numbers were reversed. The bus company had only five hundred buses numbered from 1 to 500. What was the number ?
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If a and b are positive integers, such that ab = 125, then (a-b)a+b-4 = ?
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If x*y = x2 + y2 – xy, then value of 9*11 is
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Which is greater ?
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If sum of two numbers is 42 and their product is 437, then find their difference.
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Write the 44000 in Roman numerals
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Convert 0.0909… into fraction ?
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What is (98 times 102) ?
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Chemistry but not in Physics.
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Physics or Maths but not in Chemistry.
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What is the percentage of persons who read all the three papers ?
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What is the percentage of persons who read only two papers?
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What is the percentage of persons who read only one paper ?
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What is the percentage of persons who read only A but neither B nor C ?
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If A and B are any two sets, then what is A á´– (A á´— B) equal to ?
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40% of the people read newspaper X, 50% read newspaper Y and 10% read both the papers. What percentage of the people read neither newspaper ?
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The passengers who like only coffee is greater than the passengers who like only lassi by
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The percentage of passengers who like both tea and lassi but not coffee, is
English
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I go to Madurai by —– Vaigai Express
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Have the car stolen!
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The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.
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I had to stop all my work to complete this project.
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They have published the names of all the successful candidates.
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The Finance Department has ……………a centralized online databank system for all statutory government bodies to …………an eye on their assets and liabilities.
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Assets
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Affidavit
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Hollow
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Cosset
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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Read sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The sentences are In three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.
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To sleep with the fishes
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To free someone or something form a constraint or difficulty.
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Liquids forming a homogeneous mixture when added together
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Shooting fish in a barrel
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What does the phrase ‘knew no bounds’ mean ?
Hindi Language
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शुद्ध वर्तनी का चयन कीजिए
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शुद्ध वर्तनी का चयन कीजिए
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वर्तनी की दृष्टि से सही शब्द है?
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निम्नलिखित में से शुद्ध छांटिए?
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शुद्ध शब्द नहीं हैं?
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शुद्ध वर्तनी है -
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शुद्ध वर्तनी है -
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किस क्रमांक में सभी शुद्ध हैं?
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'उज्वल' शब्द का शुद्ध रूप है ?
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निम्नलिखित प्रश्न में चार वैकल्पिक वर्तनियाॅ दी गई है?
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निम्नलिखित प्रश्न में चार वैकल्पिक वर्तनियाॅ दी गई है?
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निम्नलिखित प्रश्न मे चार वैकल्पिक वर्तनियाॅ दी गई है?
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'पृथ्वीराज रासो' किस काल की रचना है ?
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हिन्दी की उत्पत्ति किस भाषा से हुई है?
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राजभाषा आयोग के प्रथम अध्यक्ष थे ?
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तुम्हारा यह कथन मात्र अतिश्योक्ती है।
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बहिष्कार
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नाविक
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दिगम्बर
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निराशा
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मनोरथ
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यद्यपि
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तिरस्कार
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स्वार्थ
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जगदीश