FPSC · Overseas Pakistanis · 2011
Solved FPSC Assistant Director, Ministry of Overseas & Human Resources past paper 2011 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers English, General Knowledge, Mathematics.
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This is the FPSC Assistant Director, Ministry of Overseas & Human Resources (BPS-17) past paper from 2011 (Model Paper 93 in the book). It contains 100 solved MCQs covering English, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Everyday Science, Pakistan Studies and Islamic Studies, with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Eight printed key answers were corrected to the standard answers, including the juxtaposition vocabulary item, the most reactive halogen and the human chromosome count, and every disagreement is flagged, never hidden.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: annals
Annals are historical records, so the annals of war record that the Roman army held some of the most disciplined soldiers ever.
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Correct Answer: clamor
Clamor is a loud noise or outcry, which is what awakened the speaker outside.
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Correct Answer: underpinning
Underpinning means the underlying support or philosophy behind something, here the charity's belief that everyone needs help sometimes.
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Correct Answer: consumer
Consumers decide what is and is not in fashion through what they choose to buy.
Correct Answer: consumer
A consumer would be angry at a store when half the advertised items are not in stock.
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Correct Answer: socialization
Socialization is the process by which children learn acceptable behaviors, beginning in their first year.
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Correct Answer: alchemist
An alchemist sought secrets such as the secret of long life, and was proven wrong when he died a week later.
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Correct Answer: ravine
A ravine is a deep narrow valley, too wide to jump across, so one must climb down into it and crawl up the other side.
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Correct Answer: variable
Variable weather keeps changing, which makes it hard to plan what to wear all week.
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Correct Answer: republic
A republic is a state that must stay intact as a political unit when threatened by a military coup.
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Correct Answer: juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is placing actions side by side so their contrast shows the tension in high-stakes gambling.
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Correct Answer: ascent
An ascent is a climb, here one that will take five days before reaching the top.
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Correct Answer: connoisseur
A connoisseur is an expert judge of art, who could like an all-black painting others found boring.
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Correct Answer: posthumously
Posthumously means awarded after death, as here where the artist died a month before the ceremony.
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Correct Answer: impervious
Impervious means impossible to penetrate, which is what a bank vault is supposed to be against robbery.
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Correct Answer: acrophobia
Acrophobia is the fear of heights, felt when getting onto a balcony on an upper floor.
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Correct Answer: relish
The book keys this item to relish, though none of the options fits the sentence naturally, so it is retained as printed with the defect noted.
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Correct Answer: alleviate
Alleviate means to relieve pain, which is why aspirin is taken for a sore knee.
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Correct Answer: placate
Placate means to calm or appease someone, here a friend unjustly accused of breaking a window.
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Correct Answer: parallel
Parallel lines stay the same distance apart and never meet, unlike lines drawn freehand that would eventually meet.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Zinc
Galvanizing coats iron with zinc to protect it from rust.
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Correct Answer: all commodities that are limited in quantity as compared to their demand
Economic goods are commodities that are limited in quantity compared with their demand.
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Correct Answer: 1958 in Tokyo
Hockey was introduced in the Asian Games at Tokyo in 1958.
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Correct Answer: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
ESCAP stands for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
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Correct Answer: Both option A and B
Firdausi was a Persian poet, well known for his epic Shahnama, so both descriptions are true.
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Correct Answer: Darjeeling
The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute is at Darjeeling.
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Correct Answer: 1099 AD
The first crusaders reached Jerusalem and captured it in 1099 AD.
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Correct Answer: Chemistry in 1954, Peace Prize in 1962
Linus Carl Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
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Correct Answer: Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific is the airline of Hong Kong.
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Correct Answer: Iran
The rose is the national flower of Iran, the book's keyed answer.
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Correct Answer: All of these
UNICEF, the ILO and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have all received the Nobel Peace Prize, so all of these is correct.
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Correct Answer: Japan
Nippon is the former name of Japan.
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Correct Answer: UK
Sky News is a news television channel of the United Kingdom.
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Correct Answer: Melbourne Cricket Club
In 2011 the Melbourne Cricket Ground was the largest cricket stadium in the world, the era answer retained here.
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Correct Answer: for coagulation of mud particles
Alum is used in purifying drinking water because it coagulates mud particles so they settle out.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
Fahrenheit was a German physicist who developed the mercury thermometer and devised a temperature scale, so all the statements are true.
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Correct Answer: All of these statements are correct
Radioactive isotopes are used as tracers in medicine, to detect pipeline leaks in industry, and to date rocks and fossils, so all the statements are correct.
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Correct Answer: Electrons
Electrons determine the chemical properties of atoms and molecules, since chemical behaviour depends on electron arrangement.
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Correct Answer: Electrons
Electrons move around the nucleus of an atom and are negatively charged.
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Correct Answer: Carbon
The book keys this garbled valency item to Carbon, retained as printed.
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Correct Answer: Fluorine
Fluorine is the most reactive halogen in the periodic table.
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Correct Answer: Chlorine
Of the four elements, chlorine has the smallest atomic size; magnesium is the largest.
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Correct Answer: Ionization Energy
Ionization potential is the term used to express ionization energy.
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Correct Answer: Pain
An analgesic is taken to relieve pain.
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Correct Answer: Removal of urea and other nitrogenous wastes from blood
The kidneys' key function is removing urea and other nitrogenous wastes from the blood.
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Correct Answer: 46
A human body cell contains 46 chromosomes.
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Correct Answer: Asia
The Himalaya range is based in Asia.
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Correct Answer: Andes
The Andes are the mountain range found in South America.
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Correct Answer: Oldest mountain
The book keys this garbled mountain item to Oldest mountain, retained as printed.
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Correct Answer: India
The book keys this garbled mountain item to India, retained as printed.
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Correct Answer: Pamir plateau
The Pamir plateau, known as the Roof of the World, is the highest plateau in the world.
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Correct Answer: 8611m
K-2 is 8,611 metres high.
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Correct Answer: Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world.
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Correct Answer: Himalaya
Mount Everest is present in the Himalaya range.
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Correct Answer: Nepal
Mount Everest is situated in Nepal, on the Nepal-China border, which is the book's answer.
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Correct Answer: Morcco
The Atlas Mountains are present in Morocco, among the countries offered.
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Correct Answer: Turkey
The Pontus Mountains are present in Turkey.
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Correct Answer: None
The highest peak of the Himalaya range is Everest, which is not offered, so the answer is None.
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Correct Answer: Finland
Finland is called the land of a thousand lakes.
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Correct Answer: Turkey
Antalya Airport is situated in Turkey.
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Correct Answer: 54
One-third of one-fourth of 180 is 15, and three-tenths of 180 is 54.
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Correct Answer: 15
Three times the first odd integer (11) is 3 more than twice the third (15), since 33 = 30 + 3.
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Correct Answer: 200
The number whose 5% is 10 is 200, since 5% of 200 is 10.
Correct Answer: 400
The number whose 13% is 52 is 400, since 13% of 400 is 52.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 15000
If 10% of income is Rs. 1,500 in tax, the income is Rs. 15,000.
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Correct Answer: 7 years
With the corrected figure 1114, the son is 7 and the father 35, since two years ago their ages 33 and 5 squared sum to 1089 + 25 = 1114.
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Correct Answer: 6
Working together, A and B finish 1/10 + 1/15 = 1/6 of the work per day, so they take 6 days.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 4,51,000
55% of Rs. 8,20,000 is Rs. 4,51,000 borrowed from the bank.
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Correct Answer: 31.76%
Enrollment rose from 850 to 1,120, an increase of 270, which is 31.76% of 850.
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Correct Answer: 7.90
The difference between compound and simple interest on Rs. 1,625 for 3 years at 4% is Rs. 7.904, rounded to Rs. 7.90.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 525
Selling at Rs. 475 at a 5% loss gives a cost of Rs. 500, and selling at a 5% gain then requires Rs. 525.
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Correct Answer: 54 feet
With one side 22 feet, the perimeter must exceed 44 feet and be even, so 54 feet is the only possible value offered.
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Correct Answer: 20%
When price rises 25%, consumption must fall by 1 - 1/1.25 = 20% for expenditure to stay the same.
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Correct Answer: 4404
4404 is divisible by 12, since 4404 / 12 = 367 exactly.
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Correct Answer: 3
The total work is 72 man-hours; after 1 hour, 60 man-hours remain, which 20 men finish in 3 hours.
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Correct Answer: 15.98%
The book keys this item to 15.98%, retained as printed, although the computed profit of 9.98% is not among the options.
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Correct Answer: 240 kg
With P = 120 kg, Q receives twice as much (240 kg) and R half as much as Q (120 kg), totalling 480 kg.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 720
Six men working 8 hours and eight men working 6 hours both supply 48 man-hours a week, so both earn Rs. 720.
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Correct Answer: 1000
If 45% failed, the 550 successful students are 55%, so the total who appeared is 1,000.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 7680
Rs. 8,000 raised by 20% is Rs. 9,600, and lowered by 20% is Rs. 7,680, which is what Arif pays.
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Correct Answer: Lord Canning
The War of Independence of 1857 was fought during the administration of Lord Canning.
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Correct Answer: All of these
The War of Independence, the abolition of the East India Company and India coming directly under the British Crown all belong to Lord Canning's reign.
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Correct Answer: 1858 A. D.
The Government of India was taken over by the British Crown in 1858.
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Correct Answer: China
China cooperated with Pakistan in manufacturing the JF-17 jet fighter.
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Correct Answer: Malaysia
Malaysia hosted the 10th OIC Summit in October 2003.
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Correct Answer: Both (A) and (B)
Lord Canning was both the last Governor General of the East India Company and the first Viceroy under the British Crown.
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Correct Answer: 1884 A D
Lord Ripon ruled India as Viceroy from 1880 to 1884.
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Correct Answer: Indonesia
The President of Indonesia visited Pakistan in December 2003, the book's keyed answer.
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Correct Answer: Second
Lord Ripon brought the Second Afghan War to a close.
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Correct Answer: 1926 AD.
Lord Reading ruled as Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926.
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Correct Answer: A battle not attended by Holy Prophet (PBUH)
A Sarriya is a battle or expedition not attended by the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
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Correct Answer: Ohad
Abu Sufyan commanded the infidels at the Ghazwa of Uhud.
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Correct Answer: 625AD
The Ghazwa of Uhud was fought in 625 AD.
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Correct Answer: Monday
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) passed away on a Monday.
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Correct Answer: Follower of religion of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS)
Warqa Bin Naufal was a follower of the religion of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS).
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Correct Answer: June 8, 632 AD
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) passed away on June 8, 632 AD.
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Correct Answer: Hazrat Zainab Bint Khuzaymah (RA)
Hazrat Zainab Bint Khuzaymah (RA) gained the title Mother of the Poor (Umm al-Masakin).
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Correct Answer: Hazrat Salman Farsi (RA)
The idea of digging a ditch around Madina was given by Hazrat Salman Farsi (RA).
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Correct Answer: Abu Sufyan
Abu Sufyan was the leader of the infidels in the Battle of the Ditch.
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Correct Answer: 10th Zulhajj
The book keys the Farewell Sermon at Arafat to 10th Zulhajj, retained as the closest offered date to the 9th Zulhijjah sermon.
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The paper contains 100 questions with verified answers and explanations.
It covers English, Everyday Science, General Knowledge, Islamic Studies, Mathematics and Pakistan Studies.
Yes. Every answer was reconciled three ways — the book's printed key, its printed material and the standard fact — and the eight key disagreements are flagged, never hidden.
It helps with FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all Pakistan one-paper exams, since its English, General Knowledge, Mathematics and Islamic Studies blocks share the common one-paper syllabus.
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