UPSC Prelims GS Mock Tests – Chapter 9: Mock Test 8 – Advanced Level (100 MCQs)

India has NOT ratified which one of the following ILO Conventions?

Consider the following statements:

I. A State Government can declare a national park under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

II. Grazing of livestock is not permitted inside a national park.

III. Biosphere reserves in India are designated by the Union Government, and some of them are also in UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

IV. India's first national park was set up in 1936 as the Hailey National Park, now the Jim Corbett National Park.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following pairs of tools and uses:

I. Restriction enzymes – cut DNA

II. DNA ligase – join DNA pieces

III. Gel electrophoresis – separates DNA by size

IV. PCR – copies DNA inside living cells

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs:

I. SEWA – 1972

II. Kudumbashree – Tamil Nadu

III. SHG–bank linkage by NABARD – 1992

IV. Malegam Committee – NBFC-MFIs

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of drone categories under the Drone Rules, 2021: I. Nano drone – up to 250 g

II. Micro drone – more than 250 g, up to 5 kg

III. Small drone – more than 2 kg, up to 50 kg

IV. Large drone – more than 150 kg

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Which one of the following landforms is formed by deposition from groundwater?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The Supreme Court upheld the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls on 27 May 2026.

Statement-II: The Special Intensive Revision began with Bihar in 2025.

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

Consider the following programmes and years:

I. Drought Prone Areas Programme – 1973

II. Desert Development Programme – 1977–78

III. Atal Bhujal Yojana – 2019

IV. PMKSY – 2010

How many of the above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs about the Eighth Schedule:

I. 21st Amendment – Sindhi

II. Original Constitution – 14 languages

III. 92nd Amendment – Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali

IV. 96th Amendment – Odia

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs:

I. Beveridge Report – 1942

II. Twenty Point Programme – 1975

III. JAM trinity – Economic Survey 2016–17

IV. Universal Basic Income – Economic Survey 2014–15

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of crops and leading producing States:

I. Jowar – Maharashtra

II. Jute – West Bengal III. Groundnut – Gujarat

IV. Tea – Keralam

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about 1946:

I. The Cabinet Mission Plan was announced on 16 May 1946.

II. The Interim Government headed by Nehru took office on 2 September 1946.

III. The RIN mutiny began on HMIS Talwar at Bombay on 18 February 1946.

IV. The Constituent Assembly was to have 389 members under the Cabinet Mission Plan.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about India and the Maldives:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which of the following Articles were added to Part IV of the Constitution by the 42nd Amendment, 1976?

In Alembic Pharmaceuticals v. Rohit Prajapati (2020), the Supreme Court held that:

Consider the following statements about drought:

I. A meteorological drought is a rainfall deficiency of more than 25 per cent.

II. A deficiency of 26–50 per cent is moderate drought.

III. A deficiency of more than 50 per cent is severe drought.

IV. Drought is declared by the Union Government.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about emergency provisions:

I. A National Emergency must be approved by Parliament within one month.

II. President's Rule must be approved within two months.

III. One-tenth of the members of the Lok Sabha can demand a special sitting to disapprove an emergency.

IV. A Financial Emergency was proclaimed in 1991.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following:

I. Plasmids

II. Viruses

III. Agrobacterium

IV. DNA ligase

How many of the above are used as vectors to carry a gene into a host?

Consider the following pairs of rulers and their measures or events:

I. Ghiyasuddin Tughluq – Tughlaqabad

II. Muhammad bin Tughluq – transfer of the capital to Daulatabad, 1327

III. Firuz Tughluq – diwan-i-kohi

IV. Sikandar Lodi – Battle of Panipat, 1526

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs:

I. DNA double helix, 1953 – Watson and Crick

II. First recombinant DNA, 1973 – Cohen and Boyer

III. PCR, 1983 – Kary Mullis

IV. CRISPR-Cas9 as an editing tool, 2012 – Doudna and Charpentier

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Security Council:

I. The Security Council was enlarged from 11 to 15 members in 1965.

II. Its non-permanent members are elected for three years.

III. A decision on a substantive matter needs nine votes with no veto by a permanent member.

IV. India has been a non-permanent member eight times, most recently in 2021–22.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Thirteen of India's 18 biosphere reserves are in UNESCO's World Network.

Statement-II: The Cold Desert reserve was added to the network in 2025.

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

Consider the following pairs:

I. Genome – all the DNA of an organism

II. Proteome – all the mRNA

III. Metabolome – all the small molecules

IV. Epigenome – changes in the DNA sequence

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

I. The UN Charter was signed on 26 June 1945.

II. It came into force on 24 October 1945.

III. The UN had 51 original members.

IV. The UN now has 193 members.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about fiscal management:

I. Ad hoc Treasury Bills were ended from 1 April 1997.

II. Food subsidy was brought on budget from 2021-22.

III. The N.K. Singh Committee proposed a fiscal deficit of 3 per cent with an escape clause of 0.5 percentage point.

IV. The FRBM Act was passed in 2003.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about crops in India:

I. Wheat needs about 50–75 cm of rain.

II. Maize grows best at about 21–27 °C.

III. Bt cotton was approved in 2002.

IV. The Yellow Revolution began in 1986.

How many of the above statements are correct?

With reference to the effects of a proclamation of National Emergency under Article 352, which one of the following statements is correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1920) gave the word "robot".

II. Turing's paper of 1950 proposed the Turing Test.

III. NITI Aayog's National Strategy for AI (2018) used the slogan #AIForAll.

IV. UNESCO adopted its Recommendation on AI Ethics in 2021.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about India's power sector:

I. Non-fossil sources held over 54 per cent of India's installed power capacity on 31 July 2026.

II. Solar capacity was 164.59 GW on 31 July 2026.

III. Wind capacity was 58.14 GW on 31 July 2026.

IV. Nuclear capacity was larger than wind capacity.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about EIA:

I. India's EIA Notification of 2006 was issued under the Environment (Protection) Act.

II. Category A projects are appraised by the Expert Appraisal Committee of the MoEFCC.

III. Category B2 projects need no EIA and no public hearing.

IV. The public hearing is held by the State Pollution Control Board within 45 days.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following pairs:

I. Citizen's charter – United Kingdom, 1991

II. Sevottam – 2010

III. First Right to Services law – Madhya Pradesh, 2010

IV. Directorate of Public Grievances – 1988

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs:

I. FASAL – 2007

II. Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre – 2012

III. Kisan Call Centres – 2004

IV. mKisan – 2016

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

I. The Fifteenth Finance Commission set aside 20 per cent of disaster funds for mitigation.

II. Recovery and reconstruction get 30 per cent of the total disaster fund, within the 80 per cent response fund window.

III. "Build back better" is priority 4 of the Sendai Framework.

IV. The NAPCC of 2008 has eight missions.

How many of the above statements are correct?

In the RBI's measures of money supply, broad money (M3) is equal to M1 plus:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Mission LiFE was launched in 2022.

Statement-II: The Green Credit Programme was notified in 2023 under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

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

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: A member of an All India Service cannot be dismissed by an authority subordinate to the one that appointed him.

Statement-II: Article 311(1) gives this protection to members of the civil services of the Union, the All India Services and the civil services of a State.

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

Arrange the following in chronological order:

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Global mean sea level rose by about 0.20 m between 1901 and 2018.

Statement-II: Thermal expansion of sea water raises sea level.

Statement-III: The melting of land ice – glaciers and ice sheets – raises sea level.

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

Consider the following pairs of tributaries and main rivers:

I. Wardha – Krishna

II. Koyna – Krishna

III. Bhavani – Godavari

IV. Sabari – Mahanadi

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Which one of the following Gupta rulers is known from his own inscription to have turned back the Hunas?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Governor:

I. A Governor takes the oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court.

II. A Governor must be at least 35 years old.

III. A Governor resigns by writing to the President.

IV. A Governor can pardon a sentence passed by a court-martial.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following pairs of fishing grounds and ocean conditions:

I. Grand Banks – meeting of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current

II. Peru – Humboldt upwelling

III. Namibia – Kuroshio Current

IV. Japan – Benguela Current

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about the life of the Buddha:

I. The Buddha left home at the age of 29.

II. He attained enlightenment at the age of 35.

III. He died at the age of 80.

IV. His traditional dates are c. 563–483 BCE.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about heat waves:

I. A heat wave is declared at 40 °C in the plains with a departure of 4.5 °C from normal.

II. An actual temperature of 45 °C is a heat wave.

III. An actual temperature of 47 °C is a severe heat wave.

IV. The Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan was launched in 2013.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

If reserve money (M0) is ₹50 lakh crore and broad money (M3) is ₹300 lakh crore, the money multiplier is:

Consider the following pairs about Indian painting:

I. Mughal school – Mir Sayyid Ali and Abd al-Samad

II. Ustad Mansur – birds and animals

III. Guler – Nainsukh

IV. Basohli – soft, lyrical style

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The Gupta era is reckoned from 319–20 CE.

Statement-II: Chandragupta I married the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi.

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

Consider the following pairs about social security schemes:

I. Atal Pension Yojana – entry age 18–40

II. PM-SYM – pension of ₹3,000 a month

III. PMJJBY – age 18–60

IV. PMSBY – age 18–60

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following countries:

I. Mauritius

II. Bangladesh

III. Maldives

IV. Myanmar

How many of the above are members of the Colombo Security Conclave?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Foreign portfolio investors sold more than ₹3 lakh crore of Indian equities in 2026 up to 12 October.

Statement-II: A strong dollar and higher US bond yields make emerging-market equities less attractive to foreign investors.

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

Which one of the following rivers of Asia drains into the Pacific Ocean?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. India has been the world's largest milk producer since 1998.

II. The NDDB was set up in 1965.

III. Operation Flood began in 1970.

IV. National Milk Day is observed on 26 November.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. The Tashkent Declaration of January 1966 was mediated by Kosygin.

II. Lal Bahadur Shastri died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966.

III. The Simla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972.

IV. Major Shaitan Singh won the Param Vir Chakra at Asal Uttar.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements:

I. PMAY-G was launched on 20 November 2016.

II. The Jal Jeevan Mission aims at 55 litres per person per day.

III. The Swachh Bharat Mission began on 2 October 2014.

IV. PMUY was launched at Ballia on 1 May 2016.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following pairs of Directive Principles:

I. Article 40 – village panchayats

II. Article 43B – cottage industries

III. Article 48A – protection of monuments

IV. Article 44 – early childhood care

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of shrinking lakes and countries:

I. Aral Sea – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

II. Lake Urmia – Iran

III. Lake Poopó – Peru

IV. Lake Faguibine – Mauritania

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about Indian scripts and languages:

I. The Sharada script is associated with Kashmir.

II. Vatteluttu was a rounded script of the Tamil and Kerala regions.

III. Odia was declared a classical language in 2014.

IV. Tamil was the first language to be declared classical, in 2004.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about MSME classification:

I. A micro enterprise has investment up to ₹2.5 crore and turnover up to ₹10 crore.

II. A small enterprise has investment up to ₹25 crore and turnover up to ₹100 crore.

III. A medium enterprise has investment up to ₹125 crore and turnover up to ₹500 crore.

IV. These limits apply from 1 April 2025.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Home Rule movement:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements about the UN:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one of the following Peninsular rivers is the longest?

Consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Under the Mughals, a jagir was:

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: In Minerva Mills (1980), the Supreme Court held that the harmony between Parts III and IV is a basic feature.

Statement-II: In Champakam Dorairajan (1951), the Supreme Court held that Fundamental Rights prevail over Directive Principles.

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

Consider the following pairs:

I. Quantum communication – keys that reveal eavesdropping

II. Quantum sensing – navigation without GPS

III. Quantum materials – superconductors and topological materials

IV. Quantum computing – classical bits

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of protected areas and species:

I. Kanha – hard-ground barasingha

II. Bhitarkanika – estuarine crocodiles

III. Little Rann of Kutch – Asiatic lion

IV. Eravikulam – one-horned rhinoceros

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Drinking water supply is mainly a State responsibility.

Statement-II: Water is entry 17 of the State List.

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

Consider the following pairs of breeds:

I. Gir – milch breed

II. Kangayam – draught breed

III. Murrah – buffalo

IV. Hallikar – milch breed

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of landforms and agents:

I. Cirque – glacier

II. Barchan – wind

III. Uvala – groundwater in limestone

IV. Tombolo – running water

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs:

I. Industrial Policy Resolution, 1956 – "Economic Constitution"

II. National Manufacturing Policy, 2011 – 15 per cent share of manufacturing

III. PLI schemes, 2020 – 24 sectors

IV. MRTP Act – 1991

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs of Mughal officials and their duties:

I. Mir bakhshi – military and the mansabdars

II. Mir saman – the royal household and karkhanas

III. Sadr – religious grants

IV. Muhtasib – finance and revenue

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: India hosted the 18th BRICS summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 12–13 September 2026.

Statement-II: India holds the BRICS chair in 2026.

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

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: After the 2001 earthquake, Gujarat used owner-driven reconstruction.

Statement-II: MISHTI, launched in 2023, is about mangrove plantation.

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

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: The Ministry of Cooperation was created in 2014.

Statement-II: Amul was set up in 1946.

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

Consider the following statements about linguistic States:

Which of the statements given above are correct?

In India's system for regulating genetically modified organisms, the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation (RCGM) functions under:

Arrange the following in chronological order:

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Consider the following pairs:

I. Limits to Growth – 1972

II. Brundtland Report – 1987

III. Rio+20 – 2002

IV. Millennium Development Goals – 2000

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

In India, which one of the following is issued by the Government of India and not by the Reserve Bank of India?

Consider the following pairs of persons and their link with the Buddha:

I. Anathapindika – the Jetavana monastery

II. Mahaprajapati Gautami – the first Buddhist nun

III. Prasenajit – king of Magadha

IV. Udraka Ramaputra – the Buddha's first disciple

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following pairs about India and Sri Lanka:

I. Sirimavo–Shastri Pact – 1964

II. Kachchatheevu agreement – 1974

III. Maritime boundary agreement – 1976

IV. India–Sri Lanka Accord – 1987

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

I. During El Niño the trade winds weaken and the eastern Pacific warms.

II. The Southern Oscillation is a see-saw of pressure between Tahiti and Darwin.

III. In a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, the western Indian Ocean is warmer.

IV. La Niña comes with weak trade winds.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Which one of the following rivers rises at Multai in the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh?

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Only the Lok Sabha can force the revocation of a National Emergency.

Statement-II: A resolution disapproving the emergency needs a special majority of the Lok Sabha.

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

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Interest payments take about 40 per cent of the Union's revenue receipts.

Statement-II: Interest payments are a part of revenue expenditure.

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

Consider the following statements:

Statement-I: Human insulin can be made in bacteria.

Statement-II: Recombinant DNA technology can move a gene from one species into another.

Statement-III: Insulin is a steroid hormone.

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

Consider the following pairs of protected areas and sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act:

I. National park – section 35

II. Wildlife sanctuary – section 18

III. Community reserve – section 36C

IV. Tiger reserve – section 38V

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?