IRMA Question Paper
IRMA Question Paper
Directions for questions 1 to 60: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
1. Which of the following statements are not true about paddy cultivation?
(1) The average temperatures are between 22°c to 32°c.
(2) Heavy rainfall of 150 to 200 cms is needed.
(3) Black soils are the best for paddy cultivation.
(4) Alluvial loams are the most Ideal soils.
(5) West Bengal is the highest paddy Producing state in the country.
4. The recommendations for Minimum support prices of crops are made by ____
(1) NAFED (2) TRIFED (3) APMC
(4) ACPC. (5) Ministry of Agriculture.
13. There is one telephone for every ____ people, presently in India?
(1) 30 (2) 300 (3) 3000
(4) 30,000 (5) 1000
19. The first Indian state to have its Human Development Report prepared is
(1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Madhya Pradesh
(3) West Bengal (4) Rajasthan
(5) Uttar Pradesh
22. In which of the following cities the Residential office of Asian Development
Bank located . . .
(1) Mumbai (2) New Delhi (3) Kolkata
(4) Chennai (5) Hyderabad
23. Which of the following Indian States has the lowest infant mortality rate?
(1) Kerala (2) Rajasthan
(3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Karnataka
(5) Tamil Nadu
24. Increase in net RBI credit for central government happens in case of
(1) Budgetary deficit (2) Revenue deficit
(3) Monetised deficit (4) Fiscal deficit
(5) None of the above
27. Which of the following is the apex organization of Industrial finance in India?
(1) BIFR (2) IDBI (3) RBI
(4) ICICI (5) IFCI
29. The imaginary lines which connect places of equal rainfall are
(1) Isobars (2) Isopleths (3) Isonephs
(4) Isohytes (5) Isotherms
30. Barren Island East of Andaman is . . .
(1) An Active Volcano
(2) A place inhabited by Cannibals
(3) The place where cellular jail is located
(4) Southern most point of the sub continent
(5) None of the above
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Directions for questions 1 to 60: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
34. Which of the following country is known as the “The Land of the Living Fossils”
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(1) Africa (2) Australia (3) Asia
(4) Europe (5) Antarctica
35. The area under cultivation is decreasing at the fastest rate in the case of . . .
(1) Rice (2) Wheat (3) Sugarcane
(4) Tea (5) Jute
40. The organization which collects and publishes the latest information about
agricultural markets
(1) Food corporation of India.
(2) Central Statistical Organisation
(3) Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
(4) Planning Commission.
(5) National Institute of Rural Development.
42. Which of the following countries is the largest importer of Indian textiles . . .
(1) UK (2) Germany (3) France
(4) Russia (5) USA
43. Who was awarded the Fisher Black Award in January 2003 for his contribution
to Financial Economics?
(1) Raghuram Rajan (2) Ravi Batra
(3) Amartyasen (4) Y V Reddy
(5) Ranga Rajan
44. Which of the following is a country for which India waived the loans under the
‘India Development Initiative?
(1) Tanzania (2) Nicaragua (3) Zambia
(4) Ghana (5) All of the above
45. Y Vengugopal Reddy who succeeded Bimal Jalan as the Governor of RBI,
served which international institution before he took over as RBI head . . .
(1) World Bank (2) IMF (3) WTO
(4) UNO (5) ADB
46. Which was the first five year plan to give importance to Human resources?
(1) Eighth five year plan (2) Fifth five year plan
(3) Sixth five year plan (4) Third five year plan
(5) Fourth five year plan
48. Which of the following desirable effect results because of rotation of crops . . .
(1) Higher pest resistance
(2) Increase in fertility of soil
(3) Increase in the protein content of the yield
(4) Decrease in the use of pesticides
(5) Lower moisture content of the yield.
50. The practice of growing more than one crop in the same field is known as
(1) collective farming (2) mixed farming
(3) rotation of cultivation (4) Jhum cultivation
(5) shifting cultivation
56. The name of the first postal stamp to be issued in India was . .
(1) Black penny (2) Blue penny
(3) Red penny (4) Scinde Dawk
(5) Red hawk
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Directions for questions 1 to 60: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
1. Which of the following is the greatest source of power production in India?
(1) Thermal power (2) Hydro Electric power
(3) Atomic power (4) Wind power
(5) Tidal power.
7. The venue of the world seed congress held on June 9 2003, was _______
(1) Delhi (2) Hyderabad (3) Bangalore
(4) Chennai (5) Lucknow
9. The venue of United Nations Sponsored ‘The Third World Water Forum’ was
____
(1) Tokyo (2) Kyoto (3) Helsinki
(4) Mumbai (5) Toronto.
12. The Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award is given for _____
(1) Wild life conservation
(2) Wild life Perpetuation
(3) Literary Excellence
(4) Woman Poets
(5) Tribal Entrepreneurs
13. The ‘Green Oscars’ given in the field of sustainable Energy are alternatively
known as ___
(1) Ashley Awards for sustainable Energy
(2) Ashden Awards for sustainable Energy
(3) Asha Awards for sustainable Energy
(4) Asahi Awards for sustainable Energy
(5) Chipko Awards for sustainable Energy
14. Rajendra Keshavlal who received the 37th Bharatiya Jnanpith Award wrote in
____
(1) Hindi (2) Marathi (3) Gujarati
(4) Bengali (5) Sanskrit
20. Which of the following Industrial regions of India is often compared to ‘Rhur
region of West Germany’
(1) The Hooghly Belt.
(2) The Madurai-Coimbatore – Bangalore region.
(3) The Chota Nagpur Region.
(4) The Ahmedabad – Baroda Region.
(5) The Mumbai – Poona belt.
21. Which of the following is not taken into account in the Human Development
Index?
(1) Life Expectancy
(2) Per Capita Income
(3) Extent of Urbanisation
(4) Literacy rate and Education
(5) Sanitation facilities
22. India was ranked ____ in the UN Human Development Index in 2003.
(1) 124 (2) 118 (3) 121
(4) 127 (5) 137
23. Which of the following chemicals is used in creating artificial rains?
(1) Silver Bromide
(2) Silver Nitrate
(3) Silver Iodide
(4) Sodium Thiosulphate
(5) Hydrogen peroxide
24. Which of the following agencies main objective is to assist and evaluate rural
Welfare programmes ____
(1) CAPART
(2) NABARD
(3) DRDA
(4) Regional Rural Banks
(5) None of these
27. To check the fluctuation in prices of, Tea, Tobacco, Coffee, Rubber, the
government is planning to Establish ___
(1) Price Variation fund
(2) Price Fluctuation Fund
(3) Price stabilisation fund
(4) Price vagary fund
(5) Stabilised Crop fund
28. The target year as per the National Health policy 2002 for the Eradication of
leprosy is ___
(1) 2005 (2) 2007
(3) 2010 (4) 2020
(5) 2008
30. Processing of which of the following oil seeds yields maximum amount of
edible oil ____
(1) Mustard (2) Sun flower
(3) Groundnut (4) Niger seed
(5) Rape seed
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31. The state which ranks first in milk production in India is ___
(1) Uttar pradesh (2) Punjab
(3) Haryana (4) Rajasthan
(5) Maharashtra
32. Agriculture price Commission and Indian Food Corporation were constituted in
the year . . .
(1) 1967 (2) 1969 (3) 1965
(4) 1951 (5) 1959
34. The institution which is referred to as ‘soft loan window’ of the World Bank
(1) IDA (2) IFC (3) IBRD
(4) IMF (5) None of these
36. Farmers holding upto one hectare of land are called as ____ in India.
(1) Poor farmers (2) Subsistence farmers
(3) Marginal farmers(4) Middle class farmers
(5) Affluent farmers
37. Which of the following Industries is the most labour intensive in India . . .
(1) Cotton Industry
(2) Iron and Steel Industry
(3) Jute Industry
(4) Cement Industry
(5) Food processing Industry
40. The quorum of women needed for making a ‘working group’ under DWCRA
programme is . . .
(1) 25 (2) 5 (3) 7 (4) 10 (5) 15
41. Centre for Wind Energy Technology [C-WET] has been set up at
(1) Bhubaneshwar (2) Chennai
(3) Kolkata (4) Mumbai
(5) Ahmedabad
42. The organization which conducts front line agricultural extension and
education programmes is
(1) NCERT (2) ICRISAT (3) ICRA
(4) ICAR (5) NABARD
43. The number of Regional Rural Banks operating presently in our country is
(1) 196 (2) 1096 (3) 10096
(4) 1006 (5) 1296
48. The wing of the world bank whose main function is to ensure financial support
to private sector in developing countries is
(1) IDA (2) IFC (3) IBRD
(4) IDE (5) IMF
53. As per the EXIM policy 2003-04 the targeted share of India trade in Global
trade is __ by 2007.
(1) 2% (2) 3% (3) 1%
(4) 5% (5) 2.5%
54. The percentage of Ethanol in Ethanol mixed petrol sold in some states from
January, 1, 2003 is
(1) 5% (2) 2% (3) 3% (4) 4% (5) 7%
57. The targeted level of reduction in infant Mortality rate in the 10th plan is
(1) 20 per thousand (2) 45 per thousand
(3) 50 per thousand (4) 35 per thousand
(5) 40 per thousand
59. Exports of which of the following Handicrafts Fetch maximum Export revenue
(1) Ivory goods (2) Gems and Jewellery
(3) Brass goods (4) Leather goods
(5) Sandalwood products
60. Which of the following sectors has the highest amount of disguised
unemployment in India?
(1) Services (2) Agriculture
(3) Industry (4) Transport
(5) Manufacturing Sector
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