Assistant in Services and General Administration MCQs Past Paper 2020
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
FOR POST OF ASSISTANT BPS-16 (2020)
SERVICES & GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
REGULAR BASIS
19-RC/22/2020
Test Date: 12 Dec 2021
The answers of questions marked with * are subject to change with time
NOTE: Each question carry 1 mark, 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer
TIME ALLOWED: 90 MINS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
01. My father was so poor _____.
A. To get medical help for my mother
B. That he cannot buy food for us
C. That he could not buy food for us*
D. To send me to school
02. The sum of the squares of two positive integers is 100 and the difference of their squares is 28. The sum of the numbers is:
A. 12
B. 13
C. 14
D. 15
Let the two numbers be x and y
(x2 + y2) = 100 . . . (i)
(x2 – y2) = 28 . . . (ii)
Adding both the equations
x2 + x2 + y2 – y2 = 100 + 28
2x2 = 128
x2 = 128 / 2
x2 = 64
x = 8
Put the value of x in one of the above equations to calculate the value of y.
Hence y = 6
Sum of both numbers = 6 + 8 = 14
03. Whose birth year is 150 AH, when Imam Abu Hanifa died:
A. Imam Malik ibn Anas
B. Imam Shafi’i
C. Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
D. Imam Bukhari
04. Pakistan needs how many votes from FATF members to exit from grey list?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 14
D. 16
05. One of the following words means ‘A person who causes trouble’.
A. Oblivious
B. Nuisance
C. Traditionalist
D. Eccentric
06. ‘Daughter of the East’ is written by:
A. Fatima Bhutto
B. Benazir Bhutto
C. Nusrat Bhutto
D. Bilawal Bhutto
07. There are twice as many boys as there are girls. If 30% of the boys and 45% of the girls failed in the exams then what percentage of the class passed the exams?
A. 35%
B. 40%
C. 65%
D. 52%
Let the number of girls = x
So the number of boys = 2x
Total students = x + 2x = 3x
Percentage of boys failed = 30%
Number of boys failed = 0.3 × 2x = 0.6x
Percentage of girls failed = 45%
Number of girls failed = 0.45 × x = 0.45x
Total students failed = 0.6x + 0.45x = 1.05x
Total students passed = 3x – 1.05x = 1.95x
Percentage of passed students = 1.95x ÷ 3x × 100
= 0.65 × 100 = 65%
08. Feral means:
A. Well-planned
B. Overweight
C. Wild
D. Handsome
09. Car batteries use _____ that reacts with lead plates to generate electricity.
A. Nitric acid
B. Sulphuric acid
C. Hydrochloric acid
D. Acetic acid
10. Pakistan’s ideology is based on the ideas of:
A. Theocracy
B. Democracy
C. Islam
D. Monarchy