Assistant Director, Federal Secretariat Past Paper 2009 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: predictor

Education is a strong predictor of poverty status, since higher attainment is associated with a lower probability of entering poverty.

Correct Answer: revealed

The study revealed that the largest group of street children in Karachi work as coolies.

Correct Answer: maintain

The Earth constantly tries to maintain a balance between the energy it receives from the Sun and the energy it emits back to space.

Correct Answer: impacts

Climate change is already having impacts on animal and plant species throughout the United States.

Correct Answer: associated

Higher educational attainment of the household head is associated with a lower probability of entering poverty.

Correct Answer: pretended sadness

Crocodile tears are pretended sadness, tears shed without genuine feeling.

Correct Answer: unfeelingly

The book keys in cold blood to unfeelingly, although deliberately is a near-synonym, since the phrase means acting without feeling.

Correct Answer: cheerless and depressed

To be in the blues is to be cheerless and depressed, as the students were on hearing the examination would not be postponed.

Correct Answer: to give great importance to trifles

To make a mountain of a molehill is to give great importance to trifles.

Correct Answer: in danger

When the honour of the team was at stake, it was in danger, so the captain played with determination.

Correct Answer: caught in the act of committing the crime

To be caught red handed is to be caught in the act of committing the crime.

Correct Answer: made a sorry figure

To cut a sad figure is to make a sorry figure, a poor impression in a first performance.

Correct Answer: unduly under control

To keep someone under his thumb is to keep them unduly under control.

Correct Answer: am angry

To have a bone to pick with someone is to have a grievance against them, here expressed as being angry.

Correct Answer: cheated

To wipe someone's nose is to cheat or deceive them, as the cashier did with false bills.

Correct Answer: detachment and seclusion

Professors in their ivory towers live in detachment and seclusion from the real needs of students.

Correct Answer: perplexed

To be at sea is to be perplexed, not knowing what course of action to take.

Correct Answer: harp upon a question that has been settled

Flogging a dead horse is harping upon a question that has already been settled.

Correct Answer: to take for granted

To beg the question is to take for granted the very point that needs proving.

Correct Answer: to be in a good mood

The book keys to keep one's temper to being in a good mood, the closest offered option to remaining calm.

Correct Answer: Volga

The Volga is the longest river of Europe.

Correct Answer: Tropic of Cancer

On June 21, the sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer, the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.

Correct Answer: Turkey

The Altinkaya Dam is located in Turkey, on the Kizilirmak river.

Correct Answer: Albania

Of the countries offered, Albania is in the continent of Europe; Algeria and Libya are in Africa and Venezuela in South America.

Correct Answer: Australia

Australia is the smallest continent of the world area-wise.

Correct Answer: Siberian

Coniferous forests are found in the Siberian, or taiga, climate.

Correct Answer: Antarctica

Antarctica is the icy continent, almost entirely covered by ice.

Correct Answer: 170 km

Of the lengths offered, 170 km is the closest to the Suez Canal's length, and the book keys it so.

Correct Answer: Quetta and Chaman

The Khojak Pass is located between Quetta and Chaman.

Correct Answer: Pacific Ocean

Chile has its longest shore along the Pacific Ocean.

Correct Answer: California

Death Valley is located in California, USA.

Correct Answer: Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga is the third largest mountain peak in the world, after Everest and K2.

Correct Answer: January

The earth is closest to the Sun in January, at perihelion.

Correct Answer: 32.5%

According to the 1998 census, the urban population of Pakistan was 32.5% of the total population.

Correct Answer: January, 2003

The Ghauri missile was handed over to the Pakistan Army for full operational use in January 2003.

Correct Answer: An Ammunition Depot

The OJRI Camp was an ammunition depot, the site of the 1988 Rawalpindi explosion.

Correct Answer: Nehru-Report

The Nehru Report rejected the demand of separate electorates.

Correct Answer: 1938

The book keys Jinnah receiving the title Quaid-e-Azam to 1938; some sources cite 1937.

Correct Answer: Col. Elahi Bakhsh

The Last Days of Quaid-e-Azam was written by Col. Elahi Bakhsh.

Correct Answer: Sindhi

Sindhi is the oldest regional language of Pakistan among those offered.

Correct Answer: 1530-1556

Humayun reigned from 1530 to 1556, with the interruption of Sher Shah Suri's rule.

Correct Answer: Both (A) and (B)

The fatwa of Jihad in 1857 is attributed to both Maulvi Ahmed Saeed and Maulana Fazal Haq Khair abadi.

Correct Answer: 1601

The Dutch United East India Company was chartered in 1602, so 1601 is the closest year offered.

Correct Answer: Rangoon

After the failure of the War of Independence, Bahadur Shah Zafar was tried, deposed and deported to Rangoon in Burma.

Correct Answer: Humayun

Humayun died in 1556 after falling down the stairs of his library.

Correct Answer: Troposphere

The troposphere is the nearest part of the atmosphere to the earth.

Correct Answer: Albert Einstein

The special theory of relativity was proposed by Albert Einstein.

Correct Answer: Laws of Motion and laws of Gravitation

Isaac Newton gave the laws of motion and the law of gravitation.

Correct Answer: Alloy

A mixture of two metals is called an alloy.

Correct Answer: 8 minutes 20 seconds

Light takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the earth from the Sun.

Correct Answer: Spiral

The shape of our Milky Way galaxy is spiral.

Correct Answer: Neptune

Neptune is the coldest planet of the Solar System by average temperature.

Correct Answer: Radius

The radius is a bone of the arm (forearm); the femur is the thigh bone and the patella the kneecap.

Correct Answer: Brain

The book keys the least radiosensitive organ offered to the brain, retained as a key-only item.

Correct Answer: Vastus externus

The vastus externus (vastus lateralis) is a thigh muscle; the biceps is an arm muscle.

Correct Answer: Pain

An analgesic is taken to relieve oneself of pain.

Correct Answer: Removal of urea and other nitrogenous wastes from blood

The key function of the kidneys is the removal of urea and other nitrogenous wastes from the blood.

Correct Answer: 46

A human body cell contains 46 chromosomes.

Correct Answer: Atlas

The atlas is the neck bone, the first cervical vertebra supporting the skull.

Correct Answer: Reproduction

Reproduction is not a function of the liver; blood-sugar regulation, blood storage and detoxification are.

Correct Answer: Rome

The Colosseum, an amphitheatre, was built in Rome.

Correct Answer: Jabir bin Hayyan

The Composition of Alchemy is written by Jabir bin Hayyan.

Correct Answer: Abu Ali Sina

The book Al Qanun Fi Tib, the Canon of Medicine, is written by Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna).

Correct Answer: Bangladesh

BIMAN is the airline of Bangladesh.

Correct Answer: Access time

The time required for a computer to locate and transfer data is called access time.

Correct Answer: Keyboard

A keyboard is the device which encodes characters by the depression of keys.

Correct Answer: Memory

The area inside a computer frame and auxiliary storage where data and instructions are stored is called memory.

Correct Answer: Chip

A chip is an extremely small piece of silicon on which integrated circuits are placed.

Correct Answer: H.H. Aiken

H.H. Aiken developed the Harvard Mark I, the book's keyed first digital computer, although other machines also claim the title.

Correct Answer: Leo

LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office, was a first-generation computer, the book's keyed answer.

Correct Answer: 22 years

If the son is 22, the father is 46; in two years they are 24 and 48, so the father's age is twice the son's.

Correct Answer: Rs. 1123.60

Rs. 1,000 at 12% compounded half yearly becomes 1000 x 1.06 squared = Rs. 1,123.60 after one year.

Correct Answer: 16 years

Six years ago Khalid and Sadaf were 12 and 10 (ratio 6:5); Sadaf is 16 at present, and four years hence they are 22 and 20 (ratio 11:10).

Correct Answer: 20 years

Six years ago the father was 40 and the son 8 (sum 48, father five times son); the son is 14 now and 20 after six more years.

Correct Answer: 2

The book keys this defective item to 2, although the stated identity holds for every positive number.

Correct Answer: 342

The sequence falls by 42, then 40, so the next fall is 38: 380 minus 38 is 342, and 342 minus 36 is 306.

Correct Answer: 2 per cent of 200

Ten per cent of twenty is 2 and twenty per cent of ten is 2, totalling 4, which is 2% of 200, the book's keyed answer; 20% of 20 is also 4.

Correct Answer: 84

Inner lateral area 30 pi, outer lateral area 40 pi, and the two annular ends 14 pi, total 84 pi, so k is 84.

Correct Answer: 20

Thirty children per column in 16 columns is 480 children, which form 480 / 24 = 20 columns of 24.

Correct Answer: 46

For 46, ten times the number is 460 and five times the reversed number plus the digit sum is 5 x (64 + 10) = 370, a difference of 90.

Correct Answer: 10

The chance of passing Mathematics is 54% / 60% = 90%, so the chance of failing it is 10%.

Correct Answer: 32

With 16 boys and 16 girls, eight girls leaving leaves 8 girls and 16 boys, twice as many boys, so the initial total is 32.

Correct Answer: 5 cm

A rectangle of length 10 cm and perimeter 30 cm has width (30 - 20) / 2 = 5 cm.

Correct Answer: It is not possible to compare A and B as the data provided is inadequate

Since A = (x - y)(x + y) = 10(x - y) and x - y is unknown, it is not possible to compare A and B from the data given.

Correct Answer: 0.0026

0.26 divided by 100 is 0.0026.

Correct Answer: 5000

5,448 rounded off to the nearest 1,000 is 5,000.

Correct Answer: 144 m squared

With breadth 6 m and length 19 m, the perimeter is 50 m and the area is 114 square metres.

Correct Answer: 7/1339

From two mixed packs (104 cards, 8 Jacks), the probability of two Jacks is (8/104) x (7/103) = 7/1339.

Correct Answer: 48 cm squared

A rectangle 16 cm by 3 cm has area 48 square centimetres.

Correct Answer: 260 km

The book keys this defective item to 260 km, although the computed midpoint distance is 250 km, which is not offered.

Correct Answer: 3

A male is wrapped in three sheets for burial (kafan).

Correct Answer: Mosque

Zakat funds cannot be used to build mosques; zakat must reach the eligible recipients, not mosque construction.

Correct Answer: Bukhari and Muslim

Sahihain means the two Sahih collections, Bukhari and Muslim.

Correct Answer: 2 AH

Jihad became mandatory in 2 AH.

Correct Answer: Muzdalifa valley

Masha'ar-ul-Haram is the Muzdalifa valley, the sacred monument of the Hajj.

Correct Answer: Hazarat Sumaya (RA)

Hazrat Sumayya (RA) was the first martyr in Islam.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Khadija (RA)

Hazrat Khadija (RA) was the first woman to embrace Islam.

Correct Answer: Kissing Hajre Aswad

Istelam is kissing the Hajre Aswad (Black Stone).

Correct Answer: Hazrat Usman (RA)

Hazrat Usman (RA) collected the Quranic verses in one standard place, the book's keyed answer.

Correct Answer: 114

The Quran contains 114 Surahs.