Clarification sought from NPSC on answer keys
Clarification sought from the NPSC to some of the answer keys published in the Local newspapers. There seem to some blatantly erroneous answers given by the Commission, which I feel is extremely important for the NPSC to rectify. It is expected on the part of the expert committee to be constituted by the NPSC to sagaciously and assiduously do in depth research from verifiable sources including the Internet to get the correct answers to all the questions. The following are some of the contentious Questions and Answers of Booklet series B.
1. Question no 1: Pointing to a woman in a photograph a man says, “ Her mother’s mother is the mother of my father”. How is the man related to the woman in the photograph?
Ans: None of the options are correct.
Explanation; Since the man happens to be the first cousin of the woman in the photograph from his father’s side, the correct answer should be PATERNAL COUSIN and not maternal cousin (option B). The woman in the photograph is the man’s father’s niece. Since the question asked is “how is the man related to the woman in the photograph” and not how is the woman related to the man? Any relationship that we share from our father’s side is PATERNAL. Had the questioned asked been the former ie, how is the woman related to the woman than the answer would have been Maternal cousin. But that was not the given question.
2. Question no 52: Six Girls are sitting in a circle facing to the centre. They are P Q R S T. T is not between Q and S but some other one. P is next to the left of V. R is the 4th to the right of p. Which of the following is true?
Correct Answer is Option D and not C.
Explanation: P is to the left of V, meaning V is sitting on the right of P. R is 4th to the right of P, meaning R is sitting 4 places on the right of P, and hence P is second right of R (since there are only six girls sitting in a circle).
3. Question no 53. India ranks ____ place in cow milk production.
Correct answer is Option A (1st) and not D
4. Question no 71. Which of the following is applied to wasp bite?
Correct Answer is Option D and not C
Explanation: Baking soda (sodium bi carbonate) and lime are both applied for a bee sting and not wasp sting. As a first Aid step, a large amount of vinegar is applied on the area of the body in order to negate the affects of the venom of a wasp sting.
5. Question no 99 : Find the number of rectangles in the given figure
Correct Answer: None of the options are correct
Explanation: In the given figure only 10 possible rectangles can be formed. JKON, OPLM, HDGE, ACHD, AGFB, BCFE, JKFD, HBON, QPDB, HLMF
6. Question no 101, Slumdog millionaire won Oscars in the year
Correct Answer is Option D (2009) and not C
Explanation; Slumdog won the Oscars on 23rd feb 2009, they won the best motion picture and best director along with 6 other awards in different categories.
7. Question no 131: Small pox is an example of ____ disease?
Correct answer is Option B (epidemic) and not C (pandemic)
Explanation; Epidemic is a widespread Occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. Where as Pandemic is of a disease widespread over a whole country or a large part of the world. Even though smallpox is an infectious disease it is not widespread all over the world. Most of the developed as well as the developing countries have now eradicated the disease and hence it is not widespread. But however it remains highly infectious and occurrence is restricted to certain pockets across the world.
8. Question no 141. When the value of exports exceed the value of imports, it is termed as
Correct Answer is Option A (favourable balance of trade) and not C
Explanation: When the value of exports is more than the value of imports than that obviously means a country is enjoying a favourable balance of trade and not the other way round. An unfavourable balance of trade is when a country’s value of imports is more than the value of exports. If the value of exports exceeds the value of imports is termed as unfavourable balance of trade than all the countries of the world prefer to import in lieu of exporting.
9. Question no 169: The system of panchayati Raj involves ;
Correct Answer is Option A (village, block and district level) and not C
Explanation; Panchayati raj system in India involves, at the Village level ie, Gram sabha, Block level ie panchayat samiti, and at the district level ie, Zilla parishad.
10. Question no 183. Reforms of the banking sector were based on the recommendation of ?
Correct Answer is Option A (Narasimham committee) and not B
Explanation: Narasimham committee was appointed by the Govt of India in 1998 to suggest measures to improve the banking sector in the country.
Chelliah committee was appointed to suggest measures for Tax reforms.
Chumben
On email
NPSC answer
keys error
This write -up is to point out some few errors found in the answer keys published by the NPSC The answers here are of the Test Booklet series (A).
Q.99. The answer should be option (D), 2009 and not option (C) 2008. 2008 was the year in which the movie was released i.e Slumdog Millionaire and 2009 was the year in which it won the Oscar Award
Q.138. This question is highly debatable and I would like the Commission to refer to an expert to re-evaluate the answer printed.
Q.139. The answer should be option (B) Tiger and not (D) Panther as printed. Check out the R.B.I insignia its so obvious or google it.
Q.144. The answer should be option (A) and not (C). When the value of exports exceeds the value of imports, how can it be unfavourable balance of trade. It can only be favourable balance of trade; the commission can check any good economics books.
Q.181. It should be option (A) the village, block and district and not option (C) the village, district and state levels.
Q.183. None of the given options given has the right answer, there are only ten rectangles. For this question marks should be given to all candidates. Some had no choice but to tick one or the other options due to confusion, while some didn't tick any since the options given were all wrong.
Q.189. Option (D) healthy eco-communities is wrong, it should be option (B) Healthy religious communities.
Coming to Q. 107, what the NPSC printed is correct i.e option (A) To increase national Income and not option (D) to increase standard of living, as pointed out by some candidates. The First Plan aimed at building the economic base of the country, only in the following plans did the government focused on the other aspects like the standard of living, social justice and economic inequality.
Had the answer keys not been published in the papers, I’m sure for the past few years i would've never passed the Prelims Exam. Thanks to The NPSC for publishing the answer keys, it should continue to do so. But am just so surprised at the incompetency of those who are preparing the questions, how can errors continue even after it has been pointed out for the past two years. The Commission which recruits the elite is expected to maintain very high standards, this is ridiculous. We the candidates find it no fun to hurl rotten tomatoes at the Commission, trust us its no fun but we are given with no choice. As pointed out earlier the Commission should continue printing the answer keys in the future.
Clarification sought from the NPSC to some of the answer keys published in the Local newspapers. There seem to some blatantly erroneous answers given by the Commission, which I feel is extremely important for the NPSC to rectify. It is expected on the part of the expert committee to be constituted by the NPSC to sagaciously and assiduously do in depth research from verifiable sources including the Internet to get the correct answers to all the questions. The following are some of the contentious Questions and Answers of Booklet series B.
1. Question no 1: Pointing to a woman in a photograph a man says, “ Her mother’s mother is the mother of my father”. How is the man related to the woman in the photograph?
Ans: None of the options are correct.
Explanation; Since the man happens to be the first cousin of the woman in the photograph from his father’s side, the correct answer should be PATERNAL COUSIN and not maternal cousin (option B). The woman in the photograph is the man’s father’s niece. Since the question asked is “how is the man related to the woman in the photograph” and not how is the woman related to the man? Any relationship that we share from our father’s side is PATERNAL. Had the questioned asked been the former ie, how is the woman related to the woman than the answer would have been Maternal cousin. But that was not the given question.
2. Question no 52: Six Girls are sitting in a circle facing to the centre. They are P Q R S T. T is not between Q and S but some other one. P is next to the left of V. R is the 4th to the right of p. Which of the following is true?
Correct Answer is Option D and not C.
Explanation: P is to the left of V, meaning V is sitting on the right of P. R is 4th to the right of P, meaning R is sitting 4 places on the right of P, and hence P is second right of R (since there are only six girls sitting in a circle).
3. Question no 53. India ranks ____ place in cow milk production.
Correct answer is Option A (1st) and not D
4. Question no 71. Which of the following is applied to wasp bite?
Correct Answer is Option D and not C
Explanation: Baking soda (sodium bi carbonate) and lime are both applied for a bee sting and not wasp sting. As a first Aid step, a large amount of vinegar is applied on the area of the body in order to negate the affects of the venom of a wasp sting.
5. Question no 99 : Find the number of rectangles in the given figure
Correct Answer: None of the options are correct
Explanation: In the given figure only 10 possible rectangles can be formed. JKON, OPLM, HDGE, ACHD, AGFB, BCFE, JKFD, HBON, QPDB, HLMF
6. Question no 101, Slumdog millionaire won Oscars in the year
Correct Answer is Option D (2009) and not C
Explanation; Slumdog won the Oscars on 23rd feb 2009, they won the best motion picture and best director along with 6 other awards in different categories.
7. Question no 131: Small pox is an example of ____ disease?
Correct answer is Option B (epidemic) and not C (pandemic)
Explanation; Epidemic is a widespread Occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. Where as Pandemic is of a disease widespread over a whole country or a large part of the world. Even though smallpox is an infectious disease it is not widespread all over the world. Most of the developed as well as the developing countries have now eradicated the disease and hence it is not widespread. But however it remains highly infectious and occurrence is restricted to certain pockets across the world.
8. Question no 141. When the value of exports exceed the value of imports, it is termed as
Correct Answer is Option A (favourable balance of trade) and not C
Explanation: When the value of exports is more than the value of imports than that obviously means a country is enjoying a favourable balance of trade and not the other way round. An unfavourable balance of trade is when a country’s value of imports is more than the value of exports. If the value of exports exceeds the value of imports is termed as unfavourable balance of trade than all the countries of the world prefer to import in lieu of exporting.
9. Question no 169: The system of panchayati Raj involves ;
Correct Answer is Option A (village, block and district level) and not C
Explanation; Panchayati raj system in India involves, at the Village level ie, Gram sabha, Block level ie panchayat samiti, and at the district level ie, Zilla parishad.
10. Question no 183. Reforms of the banking sector were based on the recommendation of ?
Correct Answer is Option A (Narasimham committee) and not B
Explanation: Narasimham committee was appointed by the Govt of India in 1998 to suggest measures to improve the banking sector in the country.
Chelliah committee was appointed to suggest measures for Tax reforms.
Chumben
On email
NPSC answer
keys error
This write -up is to point out some few errors found in the answer keys published by the NPSC The answers here are of the Test Booklet series (A).
Q.99. The answer should be option (D), 2009 and not option (C) 2008. 2008 was the year in which the movie was released i.e Slumdog Millionaire and 2009 was the year in which it won the Oscar Award
Q.138. This question is highly debatable and I would like the Commission to refer to an expert to re-evaluate the answer printed.
Q.139. The answer should be option (B) Tiger and not (D) Panther as printed. Check out the R.B.I insignia its so obvious or google it.
Q.144. The answer should be option (A) and not (C). When the value of exports exceeds the value of imports, how can it be unfavourable balance of trade. It can only be favourable balance of trade; the commission can check any good economics books.
Q.181. It should be option (A) the village, block and district and not option (C) the village, district and state levels.
Q.183. None of the given options given has the right answer, there are only ten rectangles. For this question marks should be given to all candidates. Some had no choice but to tick one or the other options due to confusion, while some didn't tick any since the options given were all wrong.
Q.189. Option (D) healthy eco-communities is wrong, it should be option (B) Healthy religious communities.
Coming to Q. 107, what the NPSC printed is correct i.e option (A) To increase national Income and not option (D) to increase standard of living, as pointed out by some candidates. The First Plan aimed at building the economic base of the country, only in the following plans did the government focused on the other aspects like the standard of living, social justice and economic inequality.
Had the answer keys not been published in the papers, I’m sure for the past few years i would've never passed the Prelims Exam. Thanks to The NPSC for publishing the answer keys, it should continue to do so. But am just so surprised at the incompetency of those who are preparing the questions, how can errors continue even after it has been pointed out for the past two years. The Commission which recruits the elite is expected to maintain very high standards, this is ridiculous. We the candidates find it no fun to hurl rotten tomatoes at the Commission, trust us its no fun but we are given with no choice. As pointed out earlier the Commission should continue printing the answer keys in the future.
Kevi K Angami
H.no 89,
Residency Colony,
Dimapur, Nagaland
Rectification sought from the Secretary NPSC
Supplementing the earlier appeal dated 3rd August 2011, made by Lima and Meren to NPSC, we would also like to draw the kind attention of the NPSC towards few more wrong answers detected from the Answer Keys of NCS, NPS and Allied Services (P) Exam, 2011.The correct answers for the questions where the NPSC has committed mistakes in the Booklet Series-B are as follows:-
1. (Q.79) The networks which connect systems within a local area network is:
Ans:- MAN stands fro Metropolitan Area Network, whereas LAN stands for Local Area Network. Accordingly,the correct answer should be (C ) LAN, and not(A) MAN (ref. Manorama Year Book).
2.(Q.95) Jamnanagar in Gujarat is known for which industry?
Ans:- (A)Cotton textile and not (B) Woolen textile (ref.NCERT Textbook in geography for class XII).
3.(Q.99) find the number of rectangles in the given figure.
Ans:- The accurate answer according to the given figure is 10 which is not given among the four alternatives .Therefore, equal marks should be allotted to all the deserving candidates.
4.(Q.122) As India is a secular country, its Government cannot:
Ans:- (C) give grants to religious institutions, and not (E) ban things done in the name of religion that violate the rights of some citizens (ref.D.D.Basu).
Much has been written in the past and is being written today on the inefficiently of the NPSC but unfortunately ,it is felt that so much more is still left to be done .We, as aspirants take this exam with utmost seriousness because a margin of 0.50 mark difference could decide the fate of a candidate’s qualification or disqualification for the next stage of examination .The NPSC as the higher recruiting agency of the State is therefore requested to rectify the errors and the deserving candidates be awarded marks accordingly.
Mhao, Yanpothung & Aremo
Appeal to Chief Minister
Honorable sir,
We the Educated Unemployed Youths hailing from Mon District would like to bring our grievances to your high authority for kind intervention and necessary action .We have successfully completed the Entrepreneurship Training Programme and have also submitted the required documents and quotations months ago. But even to this day there is no information regarding the distribution of funds. As such on enquiry to the office, we were responded that there is no information from the higher authority; therefore we are forced to bring to your knowledge of this issue. Hence ,we believe and look forward for your immediate action as early as possible because we depend on this opportunity for self employment and thereby sustain ourselves.
Wangting,
Takyong,
Angel,
Menlei,
Hondong,
Phongkai,
Chingjei,
Sunday,
Leangh,
Puman.
