West Bengal Police SI (Prelims) 26 Aug 2018 Official Paper (Previous Year Paper)

​Which of the following waves is used for telecommunication?

‘Fear of heights’ is termed as:- 

The present ages of three persons in proportions 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago, the sum of their ages was 56 Find their present ages (in years).

‘A’ can do a work in 10 days, ‘B’ in 12 days and ‘C’ in 15 days. They started doing work together but after 2 days of starting of work, ‘A’ left and 4 days before completion, ‘C’ left the work, In how many days work was finished ?

Sycom Mirabai Chanu is associated with which sport?

How much time will be taken by a 100 metre long train, moving at a speed of 30 km/hr, to pass a man standing at a station ?

A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours. After half the tank is filled, three more similar taps are opened, What is the total time taken to fill the tank completely ?

NABARD is associated with :-

Which of the following Notes of India is printed by the Government of India ?

In case a President of India dies while in office, the Vice President can act as President for a period of :-

Which CPMF/CAPF guards the India-China border ?

MATCH = OCVEJ, then SCORE = ?

Which of the following Amendment, amended the Preamble of Indian Constitution?

2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can finish it in 8 days. Number of days taken by 2 men and 1 boy to finish it will be:-

The HCF and LCM of two different numbers both greater than 13, are 13 and 273 respectively. Then the sum of the numbers is:-

In a certain code language, A is written as C, B is written as D, C is written as E and so on up to Z. How is CHIKMAGALUR written in that code ?

The oldest High Court in India is the _________.

Rafael Nadal, a legendary Tennis player is a national of :-

Which of the following countries participated in ‘Varuna, 2018’, a joint Naval Exercise on the Arabian Sea?

Tea worth Rs. 126 per kg and Rs. 135 per kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1 : 1 : 2. If the mixture is worth Rs. 153 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg was:-

In an examination 17% of the candidates failed in Bengali and 18% in English. If 5% failed in both Bengali and English, the percentage of those who passed in both the subjects is:-

The type of mirror used in the head lamps of cars is the:-

Match the following rivers with the districts of West Bengal:-

Who among the following personalities has won the ‘Global Women’s Leadership Award, 2018’ ?

Which is the code name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ?

Arrange the following in meaningful sequence:-

1. Consultation
2. Illness
3. Doctor
4. Treatment
5. Recovery

The meaningful sequence is:-

The subject relating to studies of Fossils is :-

On dividing 43628 by a certain number the quotient and the remainder are 76 and 536 respectively. Find the divisor.

Find the length of the bridge, which a train 130 metre long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds.

Who among the following became a member of the ‘Din-i-ilahi’ ?

The only planet of the solar system which rotates from east to west is :-

During a certain year, Gandhiji’s birthday falls on Sunday. On which day will be Christmas in that year ?

If ‘+’ means ‘-‘, ‘-‘ means ‘ב, ‘÷‘ means ‘+’ and ‘ב means ‘÷’, then 10 × 5 ÷ 3 – 2 + 3 = ?

Which day is celebrated as ‘International Yoga day? 

A sum of money triples itself, the rate of simple interest being 5% per annum. What is the time period ? 

The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 : 2, If 20% of the boys and 30% of the girls are scholarship holders, then what is the percentage of students who do not get scholarship ?

Under which Article can the Indian Constitution be amended ?

The sum of two numbers is 25 and their difference is 13. Find their product.

Consider the following years :

1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2100, 2200, 2300, and 2400

How many leap century years are there in the above ?

Pointing to a photograph, Suresh said ”she is the only daughter of my grandfather’s only son.” How is Suresh related to the person in the photograph ?

In India, which State was first reorganized on the basis of language ?

Who among following is the Chief Election Commissioner of India during  2018?

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was associated with:-

With which sports “Formula-1” is associated ?

Find the number of triangles in the given figure:-

Khudiram Bose made an attempt on life of Judge Kingsford with help of:-

Pulitzer Prize, 2018 was awarded to:-

If in a mirror a clock shows time as 12 : 40, then the real time is:-

In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs ?

Which symbol will be on the face opposite to the face with symbol * ?

The average of three numbers is 77. The first number is twice of the second one and second number is twice of the third number. Find the three numbers.

The science dealing with the study of phenomena at very low temperature is known as:-

Insects responsible for transmitting diseases are called:-

The mark price of a sewing machine is Rs. 800. The shopkeeper allows successive discounts of 15% and 10%. What is the selling price of the sewing machine?

Among five boys, B is taller than A, but not as tall as D. C is taller than E, but shorter than A. Who is the tallest in the batch ?

Which of the following countries not a member of ‘BRICS’ ?

A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it takes 4 hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the boat and speed of the water current respectively?

Who among the following is known for his work on Medicine during the Gupta period?

Which instrument is used to measure the depth of ocean ?

The human skull is made up of ______ number of bones.

Sardar Sarovar Dam, the biggest dam in India, is on river:-

A number is doubled and 9 is added. If the resultant is trebled it becomes 75. What is the number?

In a row of 18 children, Raju is seventh from the left. If Moti exchanges his positions with Raju, Raju will be fifteenth from the left. What is Moti’s present position from the right ?

65 litres water-contaminated milk was in a barrel where ratio between milk and water was 10 : 3. In that solution how much litre of water is to be mixed to get the ratio between milk and water as 8 : 5 ?

Who has been chosen as the ‘best actor’ in the 65^th National Film Awards’ 2018 ?

The sum of a two-digit number and the number obtained by reversing the order of its digit is 121 and the difference of the digits is 3 (10^th place digit > Unit place digit). The number is:-

Which state is the ‘Sugar Bowl’ of India ?

Radha is younger to Sunita but elder than Rita. Rita is elder than Geeta. Shyam is elder to Rita but younger to Radha. Who is the youngest of all ?

Match the following classical dance forms with States of India:-

Which river originates from Amarkantak of Madhya Pradesh ?

Which of the following Indian States will be the second State to have a State Flag after Jammu & Kashmir, if approved by the Centre?

Which among the following led to Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?

What is ‘Bhabha Kabach’ ?

Cannes Film Festival is held in:-

The latitude that runs through the middle of India is:-

Simplify \(9 \div \left[ {8\frac{1}{5} - \left{ {1\frac{3}{4} \div \frac{3}{4} + \left( {6 - 3\frac{3}{5} + 1\frac{2}{3}} \right)} \right}} \right]\)

Find the odd one out:-

One morning Uday and Vishal were talking to each other face to face at a crossing. If Vishal’s shadow was exactly to the left of Uday, which direction was Uday facing ?

Which of the following becomes India’s first $ 100 billion IT company $?

What will be the LCM of 8, 24, 36 and 54 ?

Who discovered the Polio Vaccine ?

Damodar river originates from:-

‘Jallikattu’, is a sport, popular in:-

Who is the immediate right of C ?

Who is second to the left of C ?

Which of the following is the correct position of B with respect of H ?

i. Second to the right

ii. Fourth to the right

iii. Third to the left

iv. Second to the left

Which of the following pair of persons has first person sitting to the right of the second person ?

Who sits between G and D ?

Who wrote “The Argumentative Indian” ?

Which one of the following diagrams indicates the best relation between Travellers, Train and Bus ?

A grocer has a sale of Rs. 6,435, Rs. 6,927, Rs. 6,855 Rs. 7,230 and Rs. 6,562 for 5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he gets an average sale of Rs. 6,500 ?

Rs. 700 is divided among Ram, Shyam and Jadu so that Ram receives half as much as Shyam and Shyam half as much as Jadu. What will be Jadu’s share ?

The ‘Bandhan Express’, passenger train runs between:-

From the following 4 numbers, select that one which does not conform to the others:-

125, 64, 216, 81

The percentage increase in the area of a rectangle, if each of its sides is increased by 20% is:-

A man walks 3 km northwards and then turns left and goes 2 km. He again turns left and goes 3 km. Then he turns right and walks straight. In which direction he is walking now ?

The book, “A Century is not enough” is written by:-

Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix:-

Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it ?

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