Railway Recruitment Board, Guwahati Supervisor Permanent Way(P-Way) Examination Held on 17-04-2005
Directions (Q. 1 to 5) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on it.
A critical appraisal of elementary education unmistakably points to the recognition that he answer size of the present monolithic system creates an environment of anonymity for the teachers and the individual schools, in which any kind of defaulter creativity fails to come to notice. The present approach to teaching which lays emphasis only on attendance and memorizing can neither retain nor enrich the pupils. Improvement in teaching-learning processes cannot be brought about in an utterly unsatisfactory physical environment. There is an urgent need to measure performance on the basis of enrolment retention. Girls and children of poor and illiterate families need special remedial programmes. To motivate teachers in rural areas, their emoluments, housing need and other perquisites must be determined as realistically as the measures for disciplining the defaulters and recalcitrants amongst them. An obligation should be placed upon all development agencies functioning at the grass-root level to lend support to elementary education, because through it only, new ideas, behavioural patterns and values can become internalized and rooted deeply in the personality of the coming generation. Last but not the least, the attainment levels and objectives of elementary education should be fixed, keeping in view the fact that for a large percentage of children, formal education will cease after the completion of this stage.
1. The performance of teachers and institutions must be judged on the basis of
(a) enrolment of students in class I
(b) getting boys and girls from poor families
(c) how well the needs of rural teachers are being taken care of by the administration
(d) how satisfactory is the retention of students in the school
2. ‘Monolithic’ as referred to in the above paragraph stands for
(a) having different systems of education in individual states
(b) a massive and uniform system
(c) fully controlled by the Government
(d) an undemocratic system
3. While developing programmes for elementary education, the most important factor that must receive special attention is that
(a) this will be the terminal stage for a vast majority
(b) most of the students come from poor families
(c) the teachers must be well taken care of
(d) voluntary agencies must also be involved
4. The above monolithic system suffers from some major deficiencies which are :
(a) There is no recognition of the individual teacher
(b) The schools have no individuality
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Neither (a) nor (b)
5. Following are the deficiencies of the system of elementary education except
(a) It lays too much emphasis on memorization
(b) The physical environment of the school is not conductive to good learning
(c) Teachers initiative is too much emphasized
(d) Both teachers and students are depersonalized.
Directions (Q. 6 to 10) : Find out the appropriate words to fill up the blanks.
The cities are …. (6) … up with urban unemployment steadily growing. Very probably there is an equal measure of … (7) … in the country-side. The poorest quarter of the population in development lands … (8) … being left almost entirely behind in the vast … (9).. of the modern technological society. The ‘marginal men’, the ultimate strugglers for survival on the … (10) … of farm and city, may number more than two billion.
6.
(a) piling
(b) filling
(c) growing
(d) developing
7.
(a) worklessness
(b) shortage
(c) imbalance
(d) employment
8.
(a) believes
(b) condemns
(c) suffers
(d) endeavours
9.
(a) struggle
(b) surface
(c) transformation
(d) abundance
10.
(a) fringes
(b) ground
(c) environment
(d) background
Directions (Q. 11 to 15) : Study the following table carefully to answer the questions that follows.
11. If the cost of product per thousand tons in 1998 was Rs 1.8 lakhs, what was the cost of average sales for the given states in that year?
(a) Rs 786000 lakhs
(b) Rs 786 lakhs
(c) Rs 7860 lakhs
(d) Rs 78600 lakhs
12. What was the percentage increase in total sales in 2003 from 1998? (rounded off to nearest integer)
(a) 19
(b) 20
(c) 16
(d) 17
13. Total sales in the year 2000 were what percent of the total sales in the year 2003? (rounded off to two digits after decimal).
(a) 93.63
(b) 92.65
(c) 106.80
(d) 93.23
14. For which of the following years, the percentage increase/decrease in sales from the previous years was highest for state ‘E’?
(a) 1999
(b) 2000
(c) 2001
(d) 2002
15. Approximately, what was the ratio between average sales of states B and C respectively?
(a) 31 : 25
(b) 26 : 31
(c) 26 : 29
(d) 29 : 26
Directions (Q. 16 and 17) : In these questions. question-mark ‘?’ can be replaced by one of the four given alternatives. Choose the correct one.
16. 
(a) L10
(b) K15
(c) K8
(d) J15
17. 
(a) 14
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 17
Directions (Q. 18 to 20) : Study the figure given below to answer the questions that follows.
18. How many squares are there in the figure?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 8
19. If all the independent triangles in the figure were coloured in such a way that two nearby triangles with a common side will not be of the same colour, what is the minimum number of colours required?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
20. Count the number of triangles in the figure
(a) 22
(b) 23
(c) 28
(d) 19
Directions (Q. 21 to 24) : Of the five students A, B, C, D, and E two are good in studies, one is average and two are poor. Four of them play volleyball and all these two play tennis also. One student plays four games, another cricket only and the rest play two games each. The one who plays four games is poor in studies while the other who plays tennis and volleyball is average in studies. A is good in studies and p lays football and volleyball, while E who plays only one game, is poor in studies. C plays hockey and volleyball and B plays two games only.
Now answer these questions based on the above statements.
21. Which game does D not play?
(a) Cricket
(b) Football
(c) Hockey
(d) Tennis
22. What games does B play?
(a) Cricket, Tennis
(b) Cricket, Volleyball
(c) Volleyball, Tennis
(d) Hockey, Tennis
23. Besides A, who is good in studies?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
24. Which game does E plays?
(a) Cricket
(b) Hockey
(c) Tennis
(d) Volleyball
25. A girls swings on a swing in a sitting position. Then she swings in a standing position. The periodic time taken by the pendulum will be
(a) less
(b) more
(c) will depend on the height of the girl
(d) no change
26. Who is the only Indian player playing for international football club?
(a) I.M. Vijayan
(b) Baichung Bhutia
(c) Pargat Singh
(d) Dhanraj Pillai
27. On the well-known Chitranchal hill in Guwahati, there is a temple of
(a) Ugratara
(b) Navgarh
(c) Umananda
(d) Dhirgheshswari
28. From which of th e following books has the National Song ‘Vande Matram’ been taken?
(a) Durgesh Nandini
(b) Kapal Kundala
(c) Anand Math
(d) None of these
29. Chapcharkut, Mimkut and Thalfavangkut are the main festivals of
(a) Nagaland
(b) Mizoram
(c) Manipur
(d) Meghalaya
30. Which of the following is the smallest continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Australia
(c) Europe
(d) Africa
31. For which one of the following processes is the capillary action not the main cause
(a) Absorption of ink
(b) Rising of underground water
(c) Water drop falling on cotton cloth
(d) Water reaching in plants from the root to the leaves
32. The only swimming national garden of the world Keibul Lamjao National Park’ is situated in
(a) Manipur
(b) Mizoram
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Nagaland
33. Which of the following is the author of ‘Life Divine’?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Nirmal Chandra
34. The … tribes of Assam celebrate the Baikho festival during the spring season in order to propitiate the Goddess of wealth ‘Baikho’.
(a) Rabha
(b) Boro
(c) Chutia
(d) Dimasa
35. Which is the longest railway bridge in India?
(a) Saraighat (Brahmaputra)
(b) Dehri-o-Sone (Sone)
(c) Bridge over Godavari
(d) Nara-Narayan Setu (Brahmaputra)
36. The birth place of the Vaishnav reformer of Assam, Sri Sankardeva is
(a) Bordowa
(b) Moran
(c) Dhubri
(d) None of these
37. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer u sing the codes given below the list
List-I (Original Name)
(i) Lakshminath Bezbaruah
(ii) Rajani Kanta Bordoloi
(iii) Amiyo Kumar Das
(iv) Hem Chandra Barua
List-II (Epithet)
(1) Tyagvir (2) Rasaraj
(3) Agni Kavi (4) Upanyas Samrat
(5) Loknayak
(a) (i) – 2; (ii) – 3; (iii) – 1; (iv) – 5
(b) (i) – 2; (ii) – 4; (iii) – 5; (iv) – 1
(c) (i) – 4; (ii) – 1; (iii) – 2; (iv) – 5
(d) (i) – 2; (ii) – 5; (iii) – 4; (iv) – 1
38. Which one of the following does at T remote control units use to operate a TV set?
(a) Light waves
(b) Sound waves
(c) Micro waves
(d) Radio waves
39. ‘Truth, Godliness and Beauty’ is the motto of :
(a) Department of Tourism
(b) All India Radio
(c) Indian Railways
(d) Doordarshan
40. To explore the dazzling world of Assam Silk, one should visit
(a) Sarthebari
(b) Sualkuchi
(c) Barpeta
(d) Sibsagar
41. In Assam, “The City of Blood” (as a result of the great mythological war bought between Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva) is
(a) Majuli
(b) Guwahati
(c) Tezpur
(d) Dibrugarh
42. World’s fourth highest waterfalls, which is located in Cherrapunjee of Meghalaya, is
(a) Nohkailikai Falls
(b) Nohsngithiang Falls
(c) Dainthlen Falls
(d) Spread Eagle Falls
43. Which of the following is not the recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Puraskar?
(a) Abhinav Bindra
(b) Rajya Vardhan Singh
(c) Anjali Ved Pathak
(d) Anju Bobby George
44. Which of the following was the greatest scientist, engineer, mathematician, scholar, artist, sculptor and music composer?
(a) Pablo Picasso
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Einstein
(d) Leonardo da Vinci
45. CRY stands for :
(a) Childhood Research and Youth
(b) Child Relief and Youth
(c) Child Relief and Youth
(d) Child Relief and Younger
46. When did the first split in Indian National Congress take p lace?
(a) 1905
(b) 1906
(c) 1907
(d) 1908
47. Ascorbic acid is the chemical name of which Vitamin?
(a) Vitamin ‘A’
(b) Vitamin ‘B’
(c) Vitamin ‘C’
(d) Vitamin ‘D’
48. The world Environment day is observed on
(a) 5th December
(b) 5th October
(c) 5th June
(d) 6th June
49. Who gave the double helical model of DNA?
(a) Leonhawk
(b) Shalk
(c) Watson and Crick
(d) Dalton
50. Who was the chief guest at the Republic Day, in the year 2004 :
(a) Kasim Utteem
(b) Abdul Aziz Bouteflika
(c) Luiz Ivacio Lula de Silva
(d) Olusegun Obasanjo
51. 
(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(d) 
52. Five horses are in race, Mr. A selects two of the horses at random and bets on them. The probability that Mr. A selected the winning horse is :
(a) 3/5
(b) 1/5
(c) 2/5
(d) 4/5
53. During adiabatic compression of a gas, its temperature
(a) becomes zero
(b) falls
(c) remains constant
(d) rises
54. The real number x when added to its inverse gives the minimum value of the sum at x equal to
(a) 1
(b) −1
(c) −2
(d) 2
55. Air in a cylinder is suddenly compressed by piston, which is then maintained at the same position. After sometime, the
(a) pressure remains the same
(b) pressure will increase
(c) pressure may increase or decrease
(d) pressure will decrease
56. The median of a set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest 4 observations of the set is increased by 2, then the median of the new set
(a) is decreased by 2
(b) is two times the original median
(c) remain the same as that of the original set
(d) is increased by 2
57. The waves that cannot be polarized are
(a) longitudinal waves
(b) light waves
(c) electromagnetic waves
(d) transverse waves
58. A superconductor exhibits perfect
(a) ferromagnetism
(b) ferrimagnetism
(c) diamagnetism
(d) paramagnetism
59. One red, three white and two green flags are arranged in a row in such a manner that no two adjacent flags are of the same colour. The flags at the two ends of the line are also of different colours. In how many ways can the above said flags be arranged?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 10
(d) 12
60. If the sum of the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + b + c = 0 is equal to the sum of the squares of their reciprocals, then a/c, b/a and c/b are in
(a) geometric progression
(b) harmonic progression
(c) arithmetic-geometric progression
(d) arithmetic progression
61. When a particle executes linear simple harmonic motion, its kinetic energy is maximum at
(a) every point on its path
(b) the mean position
(c) half distance from its mean position
(d) the extreme positions of its swing
62. Find out the statement which is not true?
(a) UV radiations are used for sterilization of water
(b) Shortest wavelength UV radiations are beneficial to living tissues while longer wavelengths UV are harmful
(c) UV radiations have wavelengths extending from 200 nm to 400 nm
(d) Sun is a natural source of VU radiations
63. Light can propagate in vacuum, because light is associated with
(a) gravitational field
(b) electric field
(c) magnetic field
(d) both (b) and (c)
64. Germanium crystal doped with equal number of phosphorus and antimony atoms in
(a) A p-type semi-conductor
(b) A super conductor
(c) An intrinsic semi-conductor
(d) An n-type semi-conductor
65. At what angle the hands of a clock are inclined at 15 minutes past 5?
(a) 72.5°
(b) 67.5°
(c) 64°
(d) 58.5°
66. If the forward voltage in a diode is increased, the width of the depletion region
(a) fluctuates
(b) does not change
(c) decreases
(d) increases
67. The trigonometric equation sin−1 x = 2 sin−1 a, has a solution for
(a) all real values
(b) |a| < 1/2
(c) |a| ≥ 1/√2
(d) none of these
68. A college has raised 75 percent of the amount it needs for a new building by receiving an average donation of Rs 600 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent 60 percent of the people, the college will ask for donations. If the college is to raise the exactly the amount need for the new building, what would be the average donation from the remaining people to be solicited?
(a) Rs 300
(b) Rs 250
(c) Rs 400
(d) Rs 500
69. A convex lens forms a real image of an object for its two different positions on a screen. If height of the image in both the cases be 8 cm and 2 cm, then height of the object is
(a) 4 cm
(b) 16 cm
(c) 2 cm
(d) 8 cm
70. Seven bells ring at intervals of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 0 and 12 minutes respectively. They started ringing simultaneously at 6.00 in the morning. How many more times would all seven bell ring simultaneously till 5.00 in the evening of the same day?
(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 12
(d) 18
71. The day on March 5 of a year is the same day on what data of the same year?
(a) August 5
(b) October 5
(c) November 5
(d) December 5
72. Find out the statement which is true
(a) Both fission and fusion produce same amount of energy per atom as well as per unit mass
(b) The energy released per unit mass is more in fusion and that per atom is more in fission
(c) The energy released per atom is more in fusion than in fission
(d) The energy released per unit mass is more in fission than in fusion
73. A body released from a great height falls freely towards earth. Another body is released from the same height exactly one second later. The separation between the two bodies, two seconds after the release of the second body, is
(a) 19.6 m
(b) 4.9 m
(c) 24.5 m
(d) 9.8 m
74. When two equal resistances are connected in parallel to the poles of a cell negligible internal resistance, the power developed is P. When the same resistances are connected in series across the same cell, the power developed will be
(a) P/2
(b) 4P
(c) P/4
(d) P
75. ‘x’ and ‘y’ are both negative and 
then which of the following is true?
(a) If y < − 1, then x > −1
(b) If y < −1, then x > −1 and x > y
(c) x > −1
(d) x > y
76. Which number will come in place of question mark (?)
(a) 72
(b) 27
(c) 36
(d) 63
77. Two strings of the same material and of same length have their tensions in the ratio 4 : 1 and their radii in the ratio 2 : 1. The ratio of their fundamental frequencies is
(a) 4
(b) 1/2
(c) 1
(d) 2
78. The lines 2x – 3y = 5 and 3x – 4y = 7 are diameters of a circle having area as 154 sq. units. Then the equation of the circle is
(a) x2 + y2 + 2x – 2y = 47
(b) x2 + y2 – 2x + 2y = 47
(c) x2 + y2 – 2x + 2y = 62
(d) x2 + y2 + 2x – 2y = 62
79. The load versus elongation graph for four wires of the same materials is shown in the figure below. The thinnest wire is represented by the line
(a) OC
(b) OD
(c) OA
(d) OB
80. The number of real solutions of the equation x2 – 3|x| + 2 = 0 is
(a) 4
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 2
81. A tuning fork makes 256 vibrations per second in air. When velocity of sound is 330 m/s, then wavelength of tone emitted I s
(a) 1.11 m
(b) 0.56 m
(c) 1.29 m
(d) 0.89 m
82. Two stones are projected from the top of a cliff h m high, with the same speed u so as to hit the ground at the same spot. If one of the stones is projected horizontally and the other is projected at an angle of θ to the horizontal then tan θ equals
(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(d) 
83. Two twin brothers leave a group of students, thereby increasing the average age of the group by one year. If prior to their leaving, the sum of the ages of all the students of the group was 360, which of the following could be the age of each of the twins and original number of people in the group respectively?
(a) 10, 18
(b) 12, 25
(c) 12, 18
(d) 10, 6
84. The function 
is
(a) an odd function
(b) a periodic function
(c) neither an even nor an odd function
(d) an even function
85. The vectors 
are the sides of a triangle ABC. The length of the median through of A is
(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(d) 
86. The sum of the series 
is equal to
(a) loge 2 – 1
(b) loge 2
(c) loge (4/e)
(d) 2loge 2
87. The resistance of an incandescent lamp is
(a) smaller when switched on
(b) greater when switched off
(c) the same whether it is switched off or switched on
(d) greater when switched on
88. A square of side a lies above the x-axis and has one vertex at the origin. The side passing through the origin makes on angle α(0 < α < π/4) with the positive direction of x-axis. The equation of its diagonal not passing through the origin is
(a) y (cos α + sin α) + (sin α – cos α) = a
(b) y(cos α + sin α) + x(sin α + cos α) = a
(c) y(cos α + sin α) + x(cos α – sin α) = a
(d) y(cos α – sin α) – x(sin α – cos α) = a
89. A car moving with a speed of 40 km/h can be stopped by applying brakes in 2 meters. If the same car is moving with a speed of 80 km/h, the minimum stopping distance is
(a) 4 m
(b) 8 m
(c) 2 m
(d) 6 m
90. The velocity-time graph of a body consists of straight line passing through the origin and inclined with x-axis. The body is moving with a
(a) uniform acceleration
(b) uniform velocity
(c) variable acceleration
(d) zero acceleration
91. The dual nature of light is exhibited by
(a) diffraction and reflection
(b) reflection and refraction
(c) diffraction and photoelectric effect
(d) refraction and interference
92. A monkey is climbing up a bamboo pole. In three seconds it goes up by 4 ft. and in the next second, it slides down by 2 ft. If the pole is 18 ft high, how long will the monkey take to reach the top?
(a) 36 seconds
(b) 30 seconds
(c) 32 seconds
(d) 31 seconds
93. A stone of mass 1 kg tied to the end of a string of length 1 m, is whirled in a horizontal circle, with a uniform angular velocity of 2 radian/sec. Tension of the string is
(a) 2 N
(b) 0.5 N
(c) 4 N
(d) 1 N
94. The solution of the differential equation 
(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(d) 
95. If 2x + 1 + 2x + 3 = 2566 then the value of x is
(a) 12
(b) 11
(c) 8
(d) 6
96. If x, y, z are in GP and x + 3, y + 3, z + 3 are in H.P., then :
(a) y = 5
(b) y = 1
(c) y = 2
(d) y = 3
97. Which one of the following is least?
(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(d) 
98. If 
then b is equal to
(a) −6
(b) 6
(c) −11
(d) 11
99. If 
, then the value of 
is
(a) 1.63
(b) 1.59
(c) 1.43
(d) 1.29
100. x + 2 is a common factor of expression (x2 + ax + b) and (x2 + bx + a). The ratio a/b is equal to :
(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 1
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