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SSC CGL Polity – Mock Test 1 – Tier I Style – 25 questions, subject: Indian Polity & Governance. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.

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1.  
The August Offer of 1940, which accepted that framing India's constitution was mainly the job of Indians, was made by Viceroy:

Correct Answer: C [Linlithgow]

Explanation:

August Offer 1940 – Lord Linlithgow.

2.  
Which of these was NOT one of the four Chief Commissioners' provinces that sent a member to the Constituent Assembly?

Correct Answer: D [Manipur]

Explanation:

The four: Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg, British Baluchistan – one seat each.

3.  
The Constituent Assembly's sub-committee on Fundamental Rights was chaired by:

Correct Answer: A [J. B. Kripalani]

Explanation:

FR sub-committee – Kripalani; Minorities – H.

4.  
The original English text of the Constitution was hand-written by:

Correct Answer: B [Prem Behari Narain Raizada]

Explanation:

Calligraphy – P. B. N. Raizada; illustrations – artists led by Nandalal Bose.

5.  
An 'effective majority' (a majority of all the then members of the House) is needed to remove the:

Correct Answer: D [Speaker of the Lok Sabha]

Explanation:

Effective majority – removal of the Vice-President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman.

6.  
The phrase 'procedure established by law' in Art. 21 was borrowed from the constitution of:

Correct Answer: B [Japan]

Explanation:

Procedure established by law – Japan (the USA has due process).

7.  
Part IXB of the Constitution, dealing with co-operative societies, covers Articles:

Correct Answer: A [243ZH–243ZT]

Explanation:

IX = 243–243O, IXA = 243P–243ZG, IXB = 243ZH–243ZT.

8.  
Himachal Pradesh became a full State on:

Correct Answer: C [25 January 1971]

Explanation:

HP 25 January 1971; Haryana 1 November 1966; Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya 21 January 1972.

9.  
Which change of name took effect in 2011?

Correct Answer: C [Orissa to Odisha]

Explanation:

Odisha 2011; Uttarakhand 2007; Puducherry 2006; Karnataka 1973.

10.  
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, marking Gandhi's return from South Africa, is observed on:

Correct Answer: D [9 January]

Explanation:

9 January – Gandhi returned to India in 1915.

11.  
In I. R. Coelho (2007), the Supreme Court held that laws placed in the Ninth Schedule are open to review if inserted after:

Correct Answer: A [24 April 1973]

Explanation:

24 April 1973 – the date of Kesavananda Bharati.

12.  
Under Art. 13(3), the word 'law' for the purposes of Part III includes:

Correct Answer: B [a custom or usage having the force of law]

Explanation:

Art. 13(3)(a); Art. 13(4) excludes amendments under Art.

13.  
The right to a speedy trial was read into Art. 21 in:

Correct Answer: B [Hussainara Khatoon (1979)]

Explanation:

Speedy trial – Hussainara Khatoon; livelihood – Olga Tellis; clean water/air – Subhash Kumar; education – Unni Krishnan.

14.  
In Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018), the Supreme Court struck down the offence of:

Correct Answer: C [adultery (s. 497 IPC)]

Explanation:

Joseph Shine 2018 – s. 497; Shreya Singhal 2015 – s.

15.  
The 1999 committee on putting the Fundamental Duties of citizens into practice was headed by:

Correct Answer: A [Justice J. S. Verma]

Explanation:

Verma Committee 1999; Swaran Singh Committee (1976) recommended the duties.

16.  
The National Commission for Women, set up under a 1990 Act, came into being in:

Correct Answer: D [1992]

Explanation:

NCW Act 1990; NCW set up in 1992.

17.  
Unlike the Governor, the President can grant a pardon for a sentence passed by:

Correct Answer: D [a court martial]

Explanation:

Art. 72(1)(a); the Governor (Art.

18.  
In Shamsher Singh v. State of Punjab (1974), a seven-judge bench held that the President and the Governors:

Correct Answer: A [act on the aid and advice of their Ministers]

Explanation:

Shamsher Singh (1974) – constitutional heads act on advice.

19.  
Which of the following pairs of Prime Ministers were both members of the Rajya Sabha when they first became Prime Minister?

Correct Answer: B [Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh]

Explanation:

Indira Gandhi (1966) and Manmohan Singh (2004); I.

20.  
The Supreme Court held that a non-member cannot be appointed Minister again and again without getting elected in:

Correct Answer: C [S. R. Chaudhuri v. State of Punjab (2001)]

Explanation:

S. R. Chaudhuri (2001) – the six-month rule cannot be repeated.

21.  
The passage of the Aadhaar Act as a Money Bill was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018 in:

Correct Answer: A [K. S. Puttaswamy (Aadhaar)]

Explanation:

Puttaswamy (Aadhaar) 2018; Rojer Mathew (2019) referred the Money Bill question to a larger bench.

22.  
An MP's freedom from arrest in civil cases covers the session and the period before and after it of:

Correct Answer: D [40 days]

Explanation:

40 days before and after (CPC s.135A); not for criminal cases.

23.  
In Raja Ram Pal (2007), the Supreme Court upheld the power of the Houses of Parliament to:

Correct Answer: C [expel their members]

Explanation:

Raja Ram Pal (2007) – expulsion of MPs (cash-for-query) upheld.

24.  
The Railway Budget, presented separately from 1924 on the Acworth Committee's advice, was merged with the General Budget in:

Correct Answer: B [2017]

Explanation:

Merged in 2017, the year the Budget moved to 1 February.

25.  
A State Legislative Assembly may have not more than 500 and not fewer than:

Correct Answer: C [60 members]

Explanation:

Answer: 60 members. Art. 170(1).

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