SSC MTS Previous Year Paper (Held on: 7 Oct 2021 Shift 3)

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

I rang up an old friend of mine but she doesn’t pick out the phone.

Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.

Fear of closed spaces

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

Since India has started doing well in hockey it had once again become a popular sport.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

FRIEND

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

CLEAR

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segments in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute them, select ‘No substitution required’.

The lockdowns has give many parents and grandparents the opportunity to share some of my nostalgic memories with their children and grandchildren.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

There was many people who voted for him.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

In India, people of all religions and castes live together and they are______ in spite of cultural differences.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

Remember that where there is a______ there is a way.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

How time flies!

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Raining cats and dogs

Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.

One who leaves one's country to settle in another

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

FOWL

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

ICONIC

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

Sumit has decided to brought his car for the picnic

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

Going by the current pace of work, I _______ think this will finish by Sunday.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

The teacher was very_______. She never let anyone play pranks in her class.

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

People are slowly returning to their normal routine after opening up of the lockdown.

select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are standing in a queue.

i. T is just behind P.

ii. V is just in front of Q, who is not the last person.

iii. S is between P and R.

iv. There is one person between T and Q.

Who is the last person in the queue?

Which figure will replace the question mark (?) in the following figure series?

Four girls A, B, C and D, and four boys P Q, R and S, are sitting around a round table facing the centre.

i. No two girls or boys are sitting next to each other.

ii. Q is sitting to the immediate left of B.

iii. S is sitting between A and D and is facing R.

Who is sitting between P and R?

As 'Cataract' is related to 'Ophthalmology', in the same way 'Neurosis' is related to '_______'.

The sequence of folding a piece of paper and the manner in which the folded paper has been cut is shown in the figures below. How would the paper look when unfolded?

If NATURE is coded as MCQYMK, then how would CREST be coded?

If PAYMENT is coded as 7174552, then how would YOUNGER be coded?

Select the option that is related to the third letter-cluster in the same way as the second letter-cluster is related to the first letter-cluster.

SPIKE : QRHDL :: JINGO : ?

Which two signs should be interchanged to make the given equation correct?

8 + 6 × 4 ÷ 2 - 10 = 6

Three statements are followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. Assuming the statements to be true even if they do not conform to real-world knowledge, decide which of the conclusion(s) logically follows/follow from the statements.

Statements

1. All managers are employees.
2. All seniors are managers.
3. Some seniors are pensioners.

Conclusions:

I. Some pensioners are employees.

Il. Some managers are pensioners.

III. All employees are seniors.

Seven different coloured books are kept one after the other.

i. The RED book is just on the top of the ORANGE book.

ii. The BLUE book is between the GREEN and the YELLOW books.

iii. The VIOLET book is between the GREEN and the BLACK books.

iv. There are as many books between the GREEN and the RED books as there are between the BLACK and the BLUE books.

If the YELLOW book is on the top, which book is exactly in the middle?

Which number will replace the question mark (?) in the following number series?

3, 7, 22, 45, 136, ?, 820

If PEARS is coded as 101 and CAT is coded as 49, then how would MEAL be coded?

Select the number-pair in which the two numbers are related in the same way as the two numbers of the pair given below.

11 : 72

‘Water’ is related to ‘Filter’ in the same way as ‘Film’ is related to ‘______'.

Select the Venn diagram that best illustrates the relationship among the following classes.

Females, Relatives, Uncles

Two statements are followed by two conclusions numbered | and II. Assuming the statements to be true even if they do not conform to real-world knowledge, decide which of the conclusion(s) logically follows/follow from the statements. 

Statements:

1. All hostels are buildings.
2. Some buildings are palaces.

Conclusions:

I. Some palaces are hostels.

Il. No palace is a hostel.

Select the option in which the given figure is embedded (rotation is NOT allowed).

Which letter-cluster will replace the question mark (?) in the following series?

BDF, HKN, PRT, VYB, DFH, ?

Choose the set of numbers that is similar to the following set.

{12, 18, 6}

If the signs - and + are interchanged, then which of the following equations would be correct?

If HOARDING is coded as NGQZHCFM, then how would TREATISE be coded?

Select the mirror image of the figure, when the mirror is placed on the right side of the figure.

Select the option figure, which when placed in the blank space of the figure marked ‘X’, would complete the pattern.

Which number will replace the question mark (?) in the following number series?

2, 3, 6, 10, 17, ?

The total number of students in class A and B is 72. The number of students in A is 40% more than that in B. The average marks of students in B are 50% more than that of students in A. If the average marks of all the students in A and B are 58, then what are the average marks of students in A?

If the annual rate of simple interest increases from 8% to \(12\frac{1}{2}\)%, a person’s yearly income increased by Rs. 639. The principal amount (in Rs) is:

A raw data is in ascending order, i.e. 3, 4, 7, x, x + 1, 12, 13, 15 . If the median of  This data is  9.5, then x is equal to:

The ratio of the speeds of two trains is 5 : 8. If the second train runs 600 km in 4 hours, then the speed of the first train (in km/h) is:

\(\frac{\frac{3}{7}+1\frac{2}{3}\times 6 - \left(3 \frac{1}{2}\div \frac{3}{5} \ \text{of} \ \frac{7}{9}\right) \ \text{of} \ \frac{2}{3}}{\frac{1}{7} \left(4 \div \frac{1}{5} \ \text{of} \ 10 \right)-3}\)

A sum of money is distributed among P, Q, R and S in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 : 6, respectively. If R gets Rs. 500 more than P, then the sum of all their shares (in Rs) is:

The sum of the cost prices of two bikes is Rs. 50,000. The first bike was sold at a profit of 20% and second bike at a loss of 20%. If the selling prices are the same, what is the cost price (in Rs) of the second bike?

If the length of a rectangle is increased by 40%, what would be the percentage decrease (correct to one place of decimal) in the width to maintain the same area?

There are three positive numbers. If the average of any two of them is added to the third number, the resulting sums are 154, 148 and 132. The sum of the original three numbers is: 

A sum of money doubled itself at a certain rate of compound interest in 10 years. In how many years will it become eight times?

When x is subtracted from each of 21, 22, 60, and 64, the numbers so obtained in this order are in proportion. What is the mean proportional between (x + 4) and (\(\frac{x}{2}\) - 1)?

The marked price of an article is Rs. 5,450. If a person earns a profit of 15% after allowing a discount of 15%, then the cost price (in Rs) (correct to the nearest integer) of the article is:

The ratio of boys and girls in a school is 35 : 39. If the average of boys and girls in the school is 740, then the number of boys in the school is:

If the radius of a circle is increased by 23%, then by what percentage will its area increase?

If the HCF of two numbers is 6 and LCM of the same two numbers is 54, then the square root of the product of these numbers is:

Study the following graph that shows the number of boys and girls who appeared for the Class X examination in a school XYZ, in different years.

What is the ratio of the total number of girls who appeared in 2012 and 2015 to the total number of boys who appeared for the class X examination in 2012 and 2013?

Study the following graph that shows the number of boys and girls who appeared for the Class X examination in a school XYZ, in different years.

The total number of girls who appeared in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 is what percentage less than the total number of boys who appeared in all the five years? (correct to one decimal place)

When an article is sold for Rs. 388, there is a loss of 3%. What is the selling price (in Rs.) of the article, if it is sold at a gain of 18%?

The value of 0.2 ÷ 0.025 + 39 + 0.92 ÷ 0.2 ×  5 - 4.9 ÷ 0.07 is:

‘A’ can complete a work in 15 days and ‘B’ can complete the same work in 20 days. Working together, in how many days will they complete 70% of the same work?

A tank is 25 m long, 12 m wide and 6 m deep. The cost (in Rs) of plastering its walls and bottom at Rs. 10 per m² is:

'A' can complete 40% of a work in 6 days, while ‘B’ can complete the work in \(7\frac{1}{2}\) days. If they work together, then in how many days will the work be completed?

A car travels a distance of x km at a speed of \(5\frac{5}{9}\) m/sec and returns at 5 m/sec to the starting point. If the total time taken by the car is \(7\frac{3}{5}\) hours, then the value of (x + 3) is:

Study the following graph that shows the number of boys and girls who appeared for the Class X examination in a school XYZ, in different years.

The average of the number of boys who appeared in 2011, 2013, and 2015 is what percentage less than the number of girls who appeared in 2014?

In a constituency, 60% of the voters are males and the rest are females. 40% of the males are illiterate and 25% of the females are literate. By what percentage is the number of illiterate males more than that of literate females?

Which of the following cricketers was described as ‘Mr. Incredible’ by the captain of the England Test Cricket team in July 2020?

Part _______ of the Constitution of India provides for freedom of trade and commerce with in the country.

The_______ is celebrated at Shilpgram in February every year.

Which of the following was NOT included in the definition of ‘children’ by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007?

Which of the following is NOT an Olympic event?

Which of the following is NOT a part of the hind-brain?

All acids generate_______ gas on reacting with metals.

About 50% of the______ Basin lies in Maharashtra.

The absolute refractive index of_______is 2.42.

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

The Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up in the year______.

'Boy : Tales of Childhood’ is an autobiographical book by_______.

India's average exponential growth rate (population) for the period 2001-2011 was______% per annum.

National Waterway-1 of India covers:

Which of the following dams is located in Madhya Pradesh?

Rathwa ni Gher is a dance performed on the occasion of______ by the Rathwa tribe of Gujarat.

Which Indian state recorded the highest GST revenue collection for December 2019?

Which of the following palaces is located in Thiruvananthapuram?

Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya is credited with popularising the slogan '______'.

Gandhiji delivered the famous 'Do or Die’ speech on ________.

_______succumbed to injuries inflicted on him during a peaceful demonstration against the Simon Commission.

Which microorganism among the following causes Cholera?

Which of the following environmentalists was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2015?

'PENCIL' is an acronym for______ an electronic portal launched by the Government of India in September 2017.

The ‘Clean Note Policy’ was announced by the Reserve Bank of India in the year________.