SSC MTS 2023 Official Paper (Held On: 14 Sept 2023 Shift 3) (Previous Year Paper)

A square and a rhombus have the same base and the rhombus is inclined at 45°, then what will be the ratio of the area of the square to the area of the rhombus?  

If A ∶ B ∶ C = 3 ∶ 4 ∶ 5, then \(\rm \sqrt{A^2+B^2}:\sqrt{C^2-B^2}{}\) is:

The ratio of two numbers is 3 ∶ 4. If the sum of these two numbers is 70, then what is their LCM? 

What is the amount (in Rs.) due on a sum of money Rs. 12,500 after one year if the compound interest is payable half-yearly at 12% per annum? 

A sum at simple interest of 5.5% per annum amounts to Rs. 7,503 in 4 years. Find the sum (in Rs.).

In what ratio should rice worth Rs. 140 per kg and Rs. 90 per kg be mixed so that & mixture of two qualities of rice may become worth Rs. 110 per kg? 

30 men can complete a work in 10 days. They started working and after six days, 10 more men joined them. In how many days will the total work be completed? 

What is the value of the following expression? 

\(\frac{[27-(6\div3)\times4]+18}{84-8\div4\times8-2}\)

In what ratio should coffee powder costing Rs. 500 per kg be mixed with coffee powder costing Rs. 750 per kg so that the cost of the mixture is Rs. 600 per kg? 

The salaries of P and Q together amount to Rs. 6,40,000. P and Q save 60% and 40%, respectively, of their individual salaries. If their expenditures are the same, then what is the ratio of P's salary to Q's salary?  

A 228 m long train is running at 125 km/h. In what time (in seconds), will it pass a man running at 17 km/h in the same direction in which the train is going? 

Find the fourth proportional of 12³⁵, 3¹² and 4¹².

Smita is faster than Pihu. Smita and Pihu each walk 48 km. The sum of their speeds is 14 km/hr, and the sum of times taken by them is 28 hours. What is Smita’s speed? 

Arin alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and Selvi alone can do the same in 8 days. Arin and Selvi undertook to do it for Rs. 7,200. With the help of Kevin, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to Kevin?  

A man goes from his house to a vegetable market at the speed of 15 km/h and walked back at the speed of 10 km/h. If the whole journey took 2 hours 30 minutes, find the distance from his house to the vegetable market (in km), 

A closed wooden box measures externally 10 cm long, 8 cm broad and 6 cm high. If the thickness of the wood is 0.5 cm, then the volume of wood required is:  

A factory owner earns 12% on the product manufactured by him. The shopkeeper earns 10% profit on the same item. If shopkeeper sells the product for Rs. 98.56, then the cost price of the product for the factory owner is Rs. ____, 

study the given graph and answer the question that follows. 

How many students obtained more than 125 marks?

The Pie chart below shows the expenditures (in lakh Rs.) of a country on various sports during a particular year, Study the graph carefully and answer the questions given below it. 

The total expenditure on tennis, football and cricket taken together is what per cent (rounded off to 1 decimal place) more or less than the total expenditure on golf, swimming and basketball taken together?

If a loss is \(\frac{1}{8}^{th}\) of the selling price, then the loss percentage is:

Which figure should replace the question mark (?) if the following figure series were to be continued? 

Select the combination of letters that when sequentially placed in the blanks of the given series, will complete the series 

W _ X _ X X W _ X _ _ X

What should come in place of '?' in the given series? 

19 40 103 292 859 ?

What should come in place of '?' in the given series?

18 41 110 ? 938 2801 8390

14 is related to 57 following a certain logic. Following the same logic, 22 is related to 89 . To which of the following is 52 related to, following the same logic? 

What should come in place of ? in the given series based on the English alphabetical order?

BSL, EUM, HWN, KYO, ?

BNFT is related to FRJX in a certain way based on the English alphabetical order. In the same way, JOEA is related to NSIE. To which of the following is HERK related to, following the same logic?  

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, You have to decide which conclusion's logically follows from the given statements.

Statements:

All buckets are plastic.

Some plastic are spoons.

All spoons are forks.

Conclusion I: Some plastic are buckets

Conclusion II: Some plastics are forks.

What should come in place of '?' in the given series?

20 104 524 2624 13124 ?

What should come in place of ? in the given series based on the English alphabetical order?

ZHS, YER, XBQ, WYP, ?

Meena, Saroj, Goldy, Priti, Poonam and Baby are sitting around a circular table facing the centre.

Meena sits to the immediate left of Saroj. Goldy sits 3^rd to the right of Saroj. Priti sits 2^nd to the left of Goldy. Poonam sits to the immediate right of Goldy.

Who sits 2^nd to the left of Baby?

5 is related to 20 following a certain logic. Following the same logic, 7 is related to 26. To which of the following is 2 related to, following the same logic? 

If 11^th June 1987 is Thursday. then what will be the day of the week on 4^th Dec 1989? 

In a certain code language, ‘how are you’ is coded as 'aj ts el’ and 'show them how’ is coded as 'wn el pd’. How is 'how' coded in the given language?  

select the correct mirror image of the given figure when the mirror is placed at MN as shown below.  

What will come in the place of '?' in the following equation, if '+' and '-' are interchanged and '×' and '÷' are interchanged?

37 - 18 ÷ 6 + 325 × 25 = ?

What will come in place of '?' in the following equation, if '-' and '×' are interchanged and '+' and '÷' are interchanged?

7 + 7 × 3 - 4 ÷ 5 = ?

Read the given statement(s) and conclusions carefully. Assuming that the information given in the statements is true, even if it appears to be at variance with commonly known facts, decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the statement(s).

Statements:

All the trucks are flies.

Some scooters are flies. 

Conclusions:

(I) All trucks are scooters.

(II) Some scooters are trucks.

In a certain code language, ‘FLOWERY' is coded as 'FYREWOL' and ‘LINGUIST' is coded as ‘LTSIUGNI'. What is the code for 'MANIFEST' in the given code language? 

select the option figure in which the given figure (X) is embedded as its part (rotation is NOT allowed). 

Which of the following Indian playback singers received the Bharat Ratna in 2001?

Which of the following cricket players wrote the autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’?

 In which city is the India Gate situated?

Who authored the book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ in 1901, which was highly critical of the economic impact of British Rule?

The efforts of Malayalam poet Vallathol Narayana Menon and dancer and guru Kalyanikutty Amma brought back and gave a new life to the dance form ____________.

Where was All Indian Muslim League formed in 1906? 

Which of the following writers wrote the autobiography ‘Truth, Love and a Little Malice’?

In 2023, a three-day All-India Taekwondo Championship was organized in _________ to mark 50 years of Korea-India diplomatic relations.

The outward remittances under the Reserve Bank of India’s ____________ made a strong comeback in the first quarter of FY23 as Indians increased spending on international travel, maintenance of close relatives and gifts.

The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) scheme provide loans up to ________ to the non-corporate, non-farm small and micro entrepreneurs. (As of April 2023)

What is the primary cause for the highest precipitation in India? 

The ____________ maestros who revived the art form in the late 1940s include Kelucharan Mohapatra and Raghunath Dutta. 

The Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award 2022 was conferred upon Guru Niranjan Rout and Guru Ramahari Das for their contribution to the fields of ________ dance and music 

Which of the following is true about disposable income in relation to personal income?

Which of the following best describes the process of calorimetry?

Which Article of the Constitution of India provides early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years?

Which of the following is NOT a constitutional body?

Vitamin B1 deficiency causes which nutritional disorder that causes problems with peripheral nerves and wasting?

According to the National Multidimensional Poverty Index of NITI Aayog 2021, which of the following states has less than 1% multidimensionally Poor of its total population?

According to the Hindu calendar, Holi is celebrated on __________.

Who was the music director of the famous song “Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon” sung by Lata Mangeshkar? 

In which type of forests are wild donkeys and camels found in India?

Which Indian sprinter bagged two gold medals, one each in the men's 100 and 200- metre races at the Flanders Cup 2023 athletics meet?

Who became the first Indian javelin ace to win the gold at the Zurich Diamond League?

Which curve examines the relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of money wage changes?

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

When I was in high school / I participated in several extracurricular activities / such as the debate team and the school newspaper / which help me developed my communication and writing skills.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

The rise in temperature is playing havoc with India’s rainfall which is pertinent for India’s agriculture sector.

Select the most appropriate idiom to fill in the blank.

Sameera has been in ________ since she got selected for a highly paid job at a multinational company.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined segment in the given sentence.

I hope you break a leg at your performance tonight!

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Winning the championship was a dream come true for the team, but being awarded the MVP trophy was _________

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.

We requested grandmother to extend her visit.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

Simon is afraid of closed space.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Magnificent

The sentence given below contains some spelling errors. Select the option that has the correct spellings.

Appliications of subjects like Physiks and chemmistry in our dayly life also have higher visibelity than those of Biology.

Parts of the given sentence have been underlined. One of them contains an error. The underlined parts are given as options with some changes. Select the option that correctly rectifies the error.

The weather is cold tonight than it was yesterday.

Select the option that correctly rectifies the underlined spelling error in the given sentence.

Little children are afraid to go to school because of the agrassive seniors who tend to bully them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The scratches on her hands were clear signs of domestic violence, ______ and said that she got scratched by barbed wire fencing.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

Rahul’s sister says that my brother is the best dancer in the city.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No improvement required’.

A wonder in the plant kingdom, the Great Banyan Tree of the AJC Bose Botanical Garden at Shibpur in Howrah, occupies a unique position in the world records.

Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. Select the option that contains an error.

The cholera is a frightful disease.

The sentence given below has spelling errors. Select the sentence without spelling errors.

Knowledge and awareness about my own self has to preceede my knowledge of things other than me.

Select the most appropriate idiom to fill in the blank.

If Peter said he would get that book for you, he will do it. He always ________.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

It has raining very hard and he has a very large umbrella to keep off the rain-drops.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word in the given sentence.

Shiya had more grit than her other siblings.

The following sentence has been divided into four parts. Identify the part that contains an error.

(A) The twins are / (B) often told that / (C) they are resembling / (D) each other.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1. 

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3. 

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4. 

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.