Central Armed Police Forces (ACs) Examination 2025 — General Studies, Essay & Comprehension (Previous Year Paper)

Importance of Cyber Security in the world of digital information

Cultural diplomacy and world peace

Impact of climate change on Indian agriculture

Women’s health : A journey of resilience and empowerment

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Cryptocurrency : A threat to world trade

A nuclear weapon is a deterrent to warfare

The use of artificial intelligence is unavoidable today

Rapid growth of old age homes in India

Deportation of illegal migrants

Attempt a précis of the given passage in one-third of its length. Write, as far as possible, in your own words. The précis should be attempted only on the précis sheets.

Passage: In order to understand what religion means by the love of God, it is necessary first to distinguish the two kinds of love signified by the Greek words eros and agape. Eros is “desiring love,” love that is evoked by the desirable qualities of the beloved. This love is evoked by and depends upon the loveableness of its objects. He loves her because she is pretty, charming, cute. She loves him because he is handsome, manly, clever. Parents love their children because they are their children. However, when religion speaks of God’s love for mankind, it employs a different term, agape. Unlike eros, agape is unconditional and universal in its range. It is given to someone, not because she or he has special characteristics, but simply because that person is there as a person. The nature of agape is to value a person in such ways as actively to seek his or her deepest welfare and fulfillment. It is in this sense that religion speaks of God’s love for mankind. When it is said, for example, that “God is love” or that “God so loved the world...,” the word used is agape and its cognates. God’s universal love for human creatures, a love not rooted in their virtue or in what they have deserved but in God’s own nature as agape, is the basis for that side of theistic religion that knows God as the final succor and security of a person’s life: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” For the ultimate of grace is believed to be also the ultimate of power, the sovereign love which guarantees our final fulfillment and well-being. The infinite divine love also gives rise to that side of religious experience in which God is known as claiming the total obedience of a person’s life. God is thought of as “Lord” and “King” as well as “Father.” The divine commands come wi...

What sort of a state system existed prior to Westphalia ?

What core principles did the treaty of Westphalia draw up ?

How did Westphalia facilitate the growth of international relations ?

How did the birth of the American nation and the French Revolution lend credibility to the treaty of Westphalia ?

How was international law conceptualized for the first time ?

We elected him the captain of the team. (Change the voice)

He is so weak that he cannot stand. (Rewrite the sentence using ‘too ... to’)

She ___________ (live) in the colony since 2011. (Use the correct tense)

Some of the people are not acquainted ___________ the norms of the society. (Use correct preposition to fill in the blank)

What time does this train get ___________ London ? (Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition)

He said to me, “I don’t believe you.” (Change into indirect speech)

He has completed his work last Monday. (Use the correct form of the verb)

He wore a gaudy dress. (Rewrite using question tag)

He lost his balance ___________ fell off the bicycle. (Supply the appropriate conjunction)

We must eat. We cannot live. (Combine the two sentences into a simple sentence)

Break down (Write a sentence using the phrase to bring out its meaning clearly)

Look after (Write a sentence using the phrase to bring out its meaning clearly)

Bear upon (Write a sentence using the phrase to bring out its meaning clearly)

Stand by (Write a sentence using the phrase to bring out its meaning clearly)

Enter into (Write a sentence using the phrase to bring out its meaning clearly)

All that glitter is not gold. (Correct the sentence without making unnecessary changes)

I asked him to look into the dictionary. (Correct the sentence without making unnecessary changes)

Unless he does not apologise, he should not be allowed to sit in the class. (Correct the sentence without making unnecessary changes)

He liked you better than he likes me. (Correct the sentence without making unnecessary changes)

One of my friends are very rich and prosperous. (Correct the sentence without making unnecessary changes)