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Post NameINSPECTOR
DepartmentLEGAL METROLOGY
Question Paper Code074/2016
Date of Test27 May 2016
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOMR Examination
Total Questions100
1
The Constituent Assembly firstly summoned in Constitution Hall. Which is recently known as :
Answer
B. Central Hall of Parhament
2
Which articles of Indian Constitution deals about citizenship?
Answer
C. Article 5-11
3
The Untouchability Offence Act passed by Indian parliament in:
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A. 1955
4
The Right to Information Act came to exist on: .
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D. 2005 — Oct. 12
5
The first Echo Tourism Centre in India :
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B. Thenmala
6
‘Veenapoov’ of Kumaranasan firstly published in : |
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D. Mithavadi
7
The Newspaper Al-Ameen was started by :
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A. Muhammed Abdul Rahman
8
The headquarter of Kerala Sahitya Akkadami transferred from Thiruvananthapuram to Thrissur in : “
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C. 1967
9
Who was inaugurated Kerala Sangeetha Nadaka Akkadami in 1958?
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C. Jawaharlal Nehru
10
Whois regarded as ‘John of Arch’ of Kerala?
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A. Akkamma Cheriyan
11
The real name of Brebmanania Siva Yogi :
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B. Karatt Govinda Menon
12
Who got the ‘Njanapita Award’ of 2014?
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C. Balachandra Nomade
13
Who wrote the first biography of Sree Narayana Guru?
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C. Moorkoth Kumaran
14
The Association formed by Poykayil Yohannan :
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D. PRDS
15
Who was the first Non-Brahmin man who ring the temple bell of Guruvayoor Temple?
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A. P. Krishna Pillai
16
‘Atmanutapam’ written by :
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C. Markuriakose Elias Chavara
17
Who is regarded as ‘Kerala Hemingway”? '
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A. M.T. Vasudevan Nair
18
Who is called the Legal Adviser of Indian Government?
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A. Attorni General
19
The first women speaker of Lok Sabha, Meerakumar was elected from which constituency?
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B. Sasaram
20
The aim of ‘Rajiv Awaz Yojana’ :
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C. Slum free India
21
The expression which indicates the units of a physical quantity in terms of fundamental units is :
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B. dimensional equation
22
The maximum permissible error in a difference z = x − y is:
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A. Δz = Δx + Δy and Δz/z = (Δx + Δy)/(x − y)
23
The threshold frequency corresponds to the wavelength of radiation incident on certain metal with work function 3.31 × 10⁻¹⁹ J is: (h = 6.62 × 10⁻³⁴ Js)
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C. λ = 6000 Å
24
Which of the following schemes does not produce lasing action? |
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A. Two level
25
A person sitting inside a car is safe because : |
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B. The electric field inside the car is zero
26
The differential form of Gauss's theorem is:
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C. ∇·E = ρ/ε₀
27
Change in entropy when 0.2 kg water falls in temperature from 360 K to 340 K is:
Answer
Question Cancelled
28
The Mayer's relation is:
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A. Cₚ − Cᵥ = R
29
At terminal velocity, the acceleration of the body is:
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D. zero
30
The velocity of the particle is given by the relation v = at² + bt + c. The dimension of a, b and c are :
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A. (LT⁻³, LT⁻², LT⁻¹)
31
The Young's modulus Y = MgL/πr²l, it is given that L = 2.890 m, M = 3.00 kg, g = 9.81 m/s², r = 0.041 cm, l = 0.087 m. The possible percentage of error is:
Answer
C. 6.360%
32
Of the five spectrum series of hydrogen, which one lies in ultraviolet region?
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B. Lyman series
33
A quarter wave plate produces a path difference of :
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A. Al4
34
The force F experienced by a moving charge with speed v in electric and magnetic field is:
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D. F = q[E + (v × B)]
35
The frequency of oscillation of charging LCR circuit is:
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B. f = (1/2π)√(1/LC − R²/4L²)
36
The dimension of scattering cross section is that of :
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C. area |
37
The work done in blowing a bubble of surface tension T, having radius r is:
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C. 8πr²T
38
If I is the moment of inertia, ω is the angular velocity and m is the mass of a rotating body then kinetic energy is
Answer
B. K = 1/2 Iω²
39
In CE amplifier emitter current = 6 mA, base current = 0.1 mA, then current gain is:
Answer
A. 59
40
A galvanometer having 30 divisions and a current sensitivity of 20 pA/div and it has a resistance of 25 9. To convert it into an ammeter up to | amp, the shunt required is :
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D. 0.1050 0
41
The additional term introduced by Maxwell to remove the inconsistency of Ampere’ law is :
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C. & dE/dt
42
The efficiency of a network when it transfer maximum power to the load is :
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B. 50%
43
Skieter, the dog weighs exactly 36.5 kg. When weighed on a defective scale he weighed 38 kg. The percentage of error in measurement of defective scale to the nearest tenth is :
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A. 4.1%
44
When a plane polarised light incident on a rotating analyser, in one complete rotation one finds :
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D. two brightness and two complete extinction
45
Sky is blue because of : |
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B. Rayleigh scattering |
46
Which of the logic gate is repreeented by the following combination? A ‘ Y B ; |
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C. c) AND
47
A uniform electric field pointing in positive y direction exists in a region. Let A be the origin, B be the point on x axis at x = 2 cm and C be the point on y axis at y = 2 cm, the potential at the points A, B and C satisfy:
Answer
D. Vₐ > V꜀
48
A cricket ball is thrown at a speed of 28 m/s in a direction 30° above the horizontal, the distance from the thrower to the point where the ball returns to the same level is:
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B. 69 m
49
The escape velocity of a body depends on :
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D. the height of the location from where it is projected
50
The unit of power of lens is:
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A. dioptre
51
The dimension of gravitational field intensity is :
Answer
A. : EES
52
The wavelength of light, when the angle of minimum deviation is 30° for the second order and the number of lines per cm of the grating is 5000, is:
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Question Cancelled
53
The spherical aberration of the lens can be minimised :
Answer
D. all ofthese
54
A bullet of mass 0.04 kg moving with a speed of 90 m/s enters a heavy wooden block and stopped after distance of 60 cm. The retardation of the bullet is:
Answer
A. −6750 m/s²
55
The percentage in the measurement of mass and velocity is 1% and 2% respectively. Then the percentage error in kinetic energy is :
Answer
B. 5%
56
The measured value of a quantity is 75.5 and the expected value is 80.0. Then the relative — error is:
Answer
B. 5.6%
57
Which property of zener diode is used to regulate supply voltage? |
Answer
C. The zener voltage is independent of the current through the diode
58
The density of atmosphere at sea level is 1.29 kg/m®. Assume that it does not change with altitude, the atmosphere extended up to :
Answer
A. 8km
59
The least count of screw gauge is given by :
Answer
C. pitch / number of division on head scale
60
In Newton’s ring experiment the diameter of m‘ ring changes from 1.2 cm to 1 cm when the air space between the lens and the plate is replaced by some transparent liquid. The refractive index of the liquid is :
Answer
B. 1.44 :
61
How one can prepare a p-type conducting polymer from polyacetylene?
Answer
Question Cancelled
62
The fact that differentiate a conducting polymer from a conventional metallic conductor is : |
Answer
D. in conducting polymers the conductance increases with increase in temperature
63
Monomer unit of Neoprene is:
Answer
A. Chloroprene
64
Find out the odd one among the following polymers : Polyethylene, Polystyrene, Teflon, Nylon 6,6
Answer
D. Nylon 6,6
65
Which one of the following is a method for the preparation of carbon nanotubes? | |
Answer
D. All the above
66
What is the hybridisation of carbon in carbon nanotube?
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C. sp”
67
Which of the following is related with carbon nanotubes?
Answer
D. All the above
68
Which one of the following is an example for a thermosetting plastic?
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D. Bakelite
69
The parameter which is measured experimentally in a bomb calorimeter is :
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Question Cancelled
70
The process inside a bomb calorimeter is assumed to be : |
Answer
C. adiabatic
71
Beer-Lambert law shows deviation of higher concentrations because : |
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B. intermolecular interactions becomes significant at higher concentrations
72
A substance which absorbs the wavelengths at the red end of the visible spectrum appears :
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B. blue
73
The internal standard used in proton NMR spectroscopy to calibrate chemical shift is :
Answer
C. Tetramethy! silane
74
Unit of chemical shift is :
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D. ppm
75
Paper chromatography is an example for : | |
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C. Partition chromatography
76
In a chromatography experiment the distance travelled by the solvent measured is 10 cm. If the distance travelled by the sample is 5 cm, what is the R, -value of the sample? | 10 5 |
Answer
B. Tr
77
An X-ray diffraction pattern is a plot of :
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C. 2 against intensity
78
Which one of the following is correct about TGA (Thermogravimetric analysis)? |
Answer
D. It is a plot of percentage weight loss against temperature and helps to find out decomposition temperature of a sample A 11 074/2016 [P.T.O.] rrr ———————— EE _
79
Which one of the following is correct about DTA
Answer
C. It is a plot of AT against temperature and provides information about the exothermic and endothermic events happening in a sample
80
Which one of the following is correct about TEM (Transmission electron microscopy)?
Answer
D. Options
81
Aand Bcan do a piece of work in 12 days; Band C can do it in 20 days while C and A can do it in 15 days. In how many days will they all working together can finish the work?
Answer
B. 10daya
82
Inacertain code BADE is coded as 12 and BYE is coded as 32. Then how will GOOD be coded in the same language?:
Answer
A. 41
83
The angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock when the time is 30 minutes past 4’O clock :
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C. 45 degree
84
If the new year day (1* January) of the year 2013 was a Tuesday then which year immediately after 2013 will have new year day Tuesday iteelf?
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C. 2019
85
The area of a triangle is 216 cm* and its sides are in the ratio 3:4:5. The perimeter of the triangle is :
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D. 72cm
86
A person incurs a loss of 5% by selling a watch for Rs. 1,140. At what price should the watch be sold to earn a profit of 5%?
Answer
A. 1260
87
The next term in the series 1, 3, 7, 15, dl, ... 18: |
Answer
B. 63
88
Ifa man travels at the rate of 40 Km/hr he misses the fight by 11 minutes and if he travels at the rate of 50 Km/hr he reaches the airport 4 minutes earlier. The distance travelled by him to reach the airport is : :
Answer
B. - 50 Km
89
When simplified the expression es a ines rae for any natural number is : 2
Answer
A. 10n
90
Ifa certain sum of money amounts to Rs. 1,008 in 2 years and to Rs. 1,164 in 3+ years at a | certain simple interest rate the amount deposited (Principal) is Rs. -
Answer
C. 800 *
91
If x² + 2xy + 2y² = 1, then dy/dx at the point where y = 1 is equal to:
Answer
D. 0
92
The value of [|x-3| dx is equal to: 0
Answer
B. 9 .
93
How many four digit numbers ‘abed’ exist such that a is odd, b is divisible by 3, cis even and dis prime?
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C. c) 400 |
94
The system of linear equations 3x + y − z = 2, x − z = 1, 2x + 2y + αz = 5 has a unique solution when:
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D. α ≠ 2
95
If |[2a, x₁, y₁], [2b, x₂, y₂], [2c, x₃, y₃]| = abc/2 ≠ 0, then area of the triangle whose vertices are (x₁/a, y₁/a), (x₂/b, y₂/b) and (x₃/c, y₃/c) is:
Answer
D. 1/8
96
∫[√(5 + x²)/x⁴] dx is equal to:
Answer
C. −1/15 (1 + 5/x²)³ᐟ²
97
The radius of a cylinder increasing at the rate 5 cm/sec in such a way that the volume remains as a constant. When radius is 5 cm and height is 3 cm, the rate of change of height | with respect to time 1s :
Answer
B. -—6 cm/sec
98
The area of the curve y = sin x between x = 0 and x = π is :
Answer
Question Cancelled
99
A ball is thrown vertically upwards with an initial velocity of 128 ft/sec and the ball's height after t seconds is given by S(t) = 128t − 16t². At what time the velocity is 48 ft/sec?
Answer
B. 2.5 sec
100
If sum of two numbers is &, then the minimum value of the sum of their cubes is :
Answer
C. 7

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