UPSC Prelims GS Mock Tests – Chapter 2: Mock Test 1 – Standard Level (100 MCQs)

Consider the following pairs:

I. Junagadh inscription – Rudradaman

II. Allahabad pillar inscription – Chandragupta II

III. Hathigumpha inscription – Kharavela

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

The Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India was set up in:

Organisms whose body temperature and osmotic concentration change with those of their surroundings, because they cannot maintain a constant internal environment, are called:

Consider the following statements:

I. The cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952.

II. Cheetahs brought from Namibia were released in Kuno National Park in September 2022.

III. Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary received cheetahs in 2025.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. Brahmi was written from left to right.

II. Kharosthi was written from right to left.

III. James Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about India's disaster risk profile:

I. About 59 per cent of the land is prone to earthquakes.

II. Over 40 million hectares are prone to floods.

III. About 68 per cent of the cultivable area is prone to drought.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Buddhist councils:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which of the following pairs of monuments and builders are correctly matched?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

The Eight Degree Channel separates:

Which of the following pairs of projects and rivers are correctly matched?

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Consider the following pairs of painting traditions and States:

I. Phad – Rajasthan

II. Cheriyal – Telangana

III. Pithora – Odisha

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the criteria for horizontal devolution of the Sixteenth Finance Commission:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

The 'Pashupati' seal of the Harappan civilisation was found at:

The fundamental duty to develop the scientific temper was added to the Constitution by the:

Arrange the following in chronological order:

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), applied from 25 May 2018, is a law of:

Consider the following pairs of hazards and agencies:

I. Naming of tropical cyclones over the north Indian Ocean – India Meteorological Department

II. Avalanche forecasting – Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment

III. Monitoring of glacial lakes – India Meteorological Department

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

In the Delhi Sultanate, the ariz-i-mamalik was in charge of:

Under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018, a person is declared a fugitive economic offender by:

Under the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000), an organised criminal group must consist of at least:

Consider the following statements about the Monetary Policy Committee:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Jan Aushadhi Kendras, run under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, mainly sell:

Which one of the following is a nitrogen-fixing bio-input?

Consider the following pairs of reservoirs and States:

I. Isapur – Maharashtra

II. Kangsabati – Odisha

III. Pong – Himachal Pradesh

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about Scheduled Castes:

I. The list of Scheduled Castes for a State can be changed only by Parliament by law.

II. Persons professing Sikhism were included among Scheduled Castes in 1956.

III. Persons professing Buddhism were included among Scheduled Castes in 1990.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, where an establishment has more than one trade union, a union is recognised as the sole negotiating union if it has the support of at least what share of the workers on the muster roll?

Which of the following pairs of Vedanta schools and teachers are correctly matched?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Arrange the following trade unions in the order in which they were founded:

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016, the governing body of the National Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority is chaired by the:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The demand for a Giffen good rises when its price rises.

Statement-II: For a Giffen good, the negative income effect of a price rise is larger than the substitution effect.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

The UNDP policy paper 'Governance for Sustainable Human Development', which defined governance as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs, was issued in:

Malware that secretly records a user's keystrokes in order to steal passwords and other data is called a:

Consider the following statements about the Fifth Schedule:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Pangong Tso, a high-altitude lake shared with Tibet, lies in which part of India?

Which of the following are listed in Article 51A of the Constitution?

I. To vote in public elections

II. To develop the scientific temper

III. To pay taxes

IV. To safeguard public property

How many of the above are listed?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In the usual risk equation of disaster management, which one of the following reduces risk?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the contiguous zone extends up to 12 nautical miles from the baseline.

Statement-II: Under the same Convention, the territorial sea extends up to 12 nautical miles from the baseline.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is known mainly for the mining of:

The Mekong River enters the sea through its delta in:

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the highest penalty for a breach can be up to:

The nodal agency for landslides in India is:

The seventh draft notification on the Western Ghats Eco-Sensitive Area (27 July 2026) proposes an area of about:

Consider the following pairs:

I. Article 371A – Nagaland

II. Article 371G – Goa

III. Article 371J – Karnataka

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about State Councils of Ministers:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

How many of the following are used as nitrogen-fixing biofertilisers?

I. Rhizobium

II. Azolla

III. Trichoderma

Select the correct answer:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: In the rainy season, the Tonle Sap river in Cambodia reverses its flow and the Tonle Sap lake grows much larger.

Statement-II: In the monsoon months the Mekong rises so high that its water is pushed back up the Tonle Sap river into the lake.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

Consider the following statements about the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Charter Act of 1813:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: In amensalism, one species is harmed and the other is unaffected.

Statement-II: In commensalism, both the interacting species benefit.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

How many of the following States have tribal areas administered under the Sixth Schedule?

I. Assam

II. Manipur

III. Tripura

IV. Arunachal Pradesh

Select the correct answer:

How many of the following are flow variables?

I. Money supply

II. National income

III. Fiscal deficit

IV. Foreign exchange reserves

Select the correct answer:

Among the Khasi, the khatduh is:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: In tropical latitudes, the western parts of the oceans are warmer than the eastern parts.

Statement-II: In temperate latitudes, the eastern parts of the oceans are warmer than the western parts.

Statement-III: In tropical latitudes, warm currents flow along the western margins of the oceans and cold currents along the eastern margins.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

The term 'glocalisation' was popularised in sociology by:

The permanent secretariat of BIMSTEC is located at:

Consider the following pairs of leaders of the Revolt of 1857 and their areas:

I. Kunwar Singh – Bihar

II. Khan Bahadur Khan – Bareilly

III. Maulvi Ahmadullah – Kanpur

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Under the Unified Pension Scheme, in force from 1 April 2025, the assured pension after full service is:

The oldest of the central armed forces under the Ministry of Home Affairs is the:

In the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, 'Foreign affairs; all matters which bring the Union into relation with any foreign country' is:

Consider the following statements about the Government of India Act, 1935:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The Indian Councils Act, 1909 gave Muslims separate electorates.

Statement-II: S. P. Sinha became the first Indian member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in 1909.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The Vosges and the Black Forest are fold mountains.

Statement-II: Block mountains are formed when blocks of the crust are raised or lowered along faults.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

India's 58th tiger reserve, notified in 2025, is:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, bamboo is treated as minor forest produce.

Statement-II: The Forest Rights Act gives forest dwellers the right of ownership of minor forest produce.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

In a welfare scheme, an exclusion error means that:

The Fifteenth Finance Commission was chaired by:

Consider the following statements:

I. The 2018 amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act made bribe-giving a specific offence.

II. Section 17A requires prior approval before an inquiry into decisions taken by a public servant in official functions.

III. The Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2014 is in force.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following pairs of terms and the scientists linked with them:

I. Ecology – Ernst Haeckel

II. Ecosystem – Arthur Tansley

III. Competitive exclusion – Justus von Liebig

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

MAHASAGAR, announced in 2025, builds on India's earlier SAGAR vision of 2015, which was first set out in:

Which one of the following works of Kalidasa is a poem and not a play?

Consider the following pairs of evacuation operations and countries:

I. Operation Ganga – Ukraine

II. Operation Kaveri – Sudan

III. Operation Ajay – Israel

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about the National Capital Territory of Delhi:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

How many big cat species does the International Big Cat Alliance, launched at Mysuru in 2023, cover?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The High-Level Working Group on the Western Ghats headed by K. Kasturirangan proposed declaring about how much of the region as ecologically sensitive?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: When the RBI buys government securities in the open market, liquidity in the banking system rises.

Statement-II: In an open market purchase, the RBI pays banks money in exchange for securities.

Statement-III: An open market purchase reduces the reserves that banks hold with the RBI.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

Consider the following pairs of protected areas and species:

I. Gahirmatha – olive ridley turtle

II. Bhitarkanika – saltwater crocodile

III. National Chambal Sanctuary – gharial

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Which of the following were developed or launched by the National Payments Corporation of India?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

In 2025, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research announced the release of:

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Arrange the following bodies in the order in which they were set up:

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Consider the following pairs of foreign travellers and the courts or kingdoms they described:

I. Nicolo Conti – Devaraya I

II. Abdur Razzaq – Devaraya II

III. Afanasy Nikitin – Krishnadevaraya

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about the G20:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following pairs of volcanoes and countries:

I. Taal – Philippines

II. Paricutin – Mexico

III. Etna – Greece

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of national missions and their launch years:

I. National Supercomputing Mission – 2015

II. Deep Ocean Mission – 2021

III. IndiaAI Mission – 2019

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

The duty of a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to a child between six and fourteen years was added by the:

Consider the following pairs of indices and the bodies that publish them:

I. Worldwide Governance Indicators – World Bank

II. Corruption Perceptions Index – Transparency International

III. Good Governance Index – NITI Aayog

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: A digital signature shows whether an electronic document has been altered after signing.

Statement-II: A digital signature is created with the signer's public key.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

C. P. Radhakrishnan, who became Vice-President of India in September 2025, is the:

Consider the following statements about the planets:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Reserve Bank of India:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. The Mountbatten Plan was announced on 3 June 1947.

II. Referendums were held in the North-West Frontier Province and Sylhet.

III. Lord Mountbatten was the last Governor-General of independent India.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The Battle of Colachel (1741) was fought between: