NTS · Nab · 2012
Solved NTS Junior Investigation Officer (NAB) past paper 2012 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for NTS, FPSC, PPSC and all one-paper exams. Covers Law, General Knowledge, English, Mathematics, Pakistan Studies.
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The NTS General Knowledge paper for Junior Investigation Officer, NAB, from 2012 (Model Paper 50) contains 100 MCQs — 40 on Law (PPC, CrPC and CPC provisions) plus General Knowledge, English, Mathematics, Pakistan Studies, Geography, Everyday Science and History — with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Five printed key errors were corrected to the standard answer (the cube-series non-member 256, the geometric-series 8th term 4,374, amendment of a party's own pleading, pleadings containing material facts, and the CPC section 16 forum for immovable property), and 20 further items are flagged with notes, including the defective Q37 stem, the five-year misappropriation term, and key-only law items.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: Hookworm
Hookworm larvae enter the body by penetrating the skin, typically through the soles of bare feet.
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Correct Answer: Tetanus
Tetanus germs (Clostridium tetani) enter the body through open wounds.
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Correct Answer: Ribosome
The ribosome is the part of the cell essential for protein synthesis.
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Correct Answer: Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are the urgent, readily available source of energy for athletes.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: K-2
K-2, at 8,616 metres above sea level, is the peak of that height.
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Correct Answer: Muztagh Pass
Muztagh Pass, at about 5,400 metres, is higher than Khunjerab Pass at 4,693 metres.
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Correct Answer: India and China
The McMahon Line is the border between India and China.
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Correct Answer: Liffey River
Dublin is situated on the bank of the River Liffey.
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Correct Answer: Congo River
The Congo River crosses the Equator twice on its course.
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Correct Answer: Rhine River
Bonn is situated on the bank of the River Rhine.
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Correct Answer: Asia
Asia is the largest continent by population in the world.
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Correct Answer: South Africa
Pretoria is a city in South Africa.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: Subsidiary alliance
Lord Wellesley greatly extended British dominion in India through the Subsidiary Alliance system.
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Correct Answer: Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Second Round Table Conference in 1931.
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Correct Answer: 28 members
NATO membership had risen to 28 members by 2012, after Albania and Croatia joined in 2009.
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Correct Answer: International Bank for Development
The World Bank's other name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
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Correct Answer: Barbados
Barbados is nicknamed the Land of the Flying Fish.
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Correct Answer: 1864
The Red Cross movement dates to Jean Henri Dunant's work, with the first Geneva Convention in 1864.
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Correct Answer: Switzerland
The Red Cross flag is the reverse of the flag of Switzerland, a red cross on white.
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Correct Answer: M.R. Kiani
The book keys M.R. Kiani as the author of 'Not the Whole Truth'.
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Correct Answer: October 4, 1957
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched on 4 October 1957.
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Correct Answer: David Living Stone
David Livingstone explored Zambia and discovered Victoria Falls in the 1852-73 period.
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Correct Answer: 1973
America launched its first space station, Skylab, in 1973.
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Correct Answer: UK
After the USA, the UK has won the most Nobel Prizes.
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Correct Answer: Neol Vandernotte (rowing)
Noel Vandernotte, aged 12 in rowing at the 1936 Olympics, was the youngest medallist offered.
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Correct Answer: Russia
The FSB is the intelligence agency of Russia.
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Correct Answer: London
Wimbledon, known for its lawn tennis courts, is in London.
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Correct Answer: Syria and Israel
The Golan Heights are disputed between Syria and Israel.
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Correct Answer: To the end
Ad finem means to the end.
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Correct Answer: Friend of court
Amicus curiae means a friend of the court.
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Correct Answer: out
The police drew out the truth from the thief.
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Correct Answer: with
Amna deposited five thousand rupees with the Bank of Alfalah, in the book's phrasing.
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Correct Answer: Invisible
A thing which cannot be seen is invisible.
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Correct Answer: pugnacious
Bellicose means pugnacious, warlike.
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Correct Answer: uncertain
Capricious means uncertain, changeable.
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Correct Answer: obsoleteness
Desuetude means obsoleteness, disuse.
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Correct Answer: of
He has disposed of his house.
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Correct Answer: to
He is averse to hard work.
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Correct Answer: to
He has recently taken to drinking.
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Correct Answer: to
I prefer death to dishonour.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: 25.40
One inch is equal to 25.40 millimetres.
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Correct Answer: 90
250% of 36 is 90.
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Correct Answer: 75%
720 out of 960 students is 75% studying arithmetic in their first year.
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Correct Answer: 1050
At 8% simple interest, interest of 84 in one year implies a principal of 84 / 0.08 = 1,050.
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Correct Answer: 2 kilometers
16 kilometres in 2 hours is 8 kilometres per hour, which is 2 kilometres every 15 minutes.
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Correct Answer: 6.46
Rounded to the nearest hundredth, 6.4562 is 6.46.
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Correct Answer: 256
In the cube series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, the next cubes are 216, 343, 512 and 1,000, so 256 is the number that is not in the series.
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Correct Answer: 9th
In the series 5, 10, 20, 40, doubling each time, 1,280 is the 9th term (5 x 2^8).
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Correct Answer: 4374
In the series 2, 6, 18, 54 with ratio 3, the 8th term is 2 x 3^7 = 4,374.
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Correct Answer: 120
The five distinct letters of ARISE can be arranged in 5! = 120 different ways.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 3310.13
Rs. 1,000 at the start of each year at 5% compound interest accumulates to 1,050 + 1,102.50 + 1,157.63 = Rs. 3,310.13 after 3 years.
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Correct Answer: Baluchistan
Baluchistan is the largest province of Pakistan by area.
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Correct Answer: Punjab library
The book keys the Punjab library as the biggest library found in Pakistan.
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Correct Answer: Islamabad-Lahore motorway
The Islamabad-Lahore motorway (M-2) was Pakistan's first motorway.
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Correct Answer: Zahid Hussain
Zahid Hussain was the first Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, serving from 1948.
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Correct Answer: Desert
Bahawalpur consists mostly of desert, the Cholistan desert.
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Correct Answer: Plain areas
Peshawar district and the major part of Mardan district consist of plain areas.
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Correct Answer: 1610 kilometers
The book's textbook figure for the total length of the Pak-India boundary line is 1,610 kilometres.
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Correct Answer: 1046 km
The total length of Pakistan's coastline is 1,046 kilometres.
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Correct Answer: A.K. Fazl-ul-Haq
A.K. Fazl-ul-Haq presented the Lahore Resolution on 23 March 1940.
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Correct Answer: Surety
A person's undertaking to be liable for another's default or non-attendance at court is a surety.
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Correct Answer: Accused
A person who has allegedly committed an offence is called the accused.
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Correct Answer: Alter it only in case of clerical error
A High Court, having given a judgment, can alter it only in case of a clerical error.
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Correct Answer: Imprisonment extendable to 3years or fine or both
The punishment for extortion is imprisonment extendable to three years, or fine, or both.
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Correct Answer: There are five or more than five person
A robbery becomes dacoity when five or more persons conjointly commit it.
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Correct Answer: Rigorous imprisonment which shall not be less than 5 years and not more than ten years and fine
The punishment for robbery is rigorous imprisonment of five to ten years and fine, as keyed in the book.
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Correct Answer: Rigorous imprisonment extendable to seven years and fine
Attempting to commit robbery is punishable with rigorous imprisonment extendable to seven years and fine.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
If murder is committed during dacoity, every member is punishable with death, life imprisonment, or rigorous imprisonment up to ten years, so all of the above.
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Correct Answer: Imprisonment extendable to five years or fine or both
Dishonest misappropriation of movable property is punishable with imprisonment or fine or both, as keyed; the PPC section 403 term itself is two years, not the five years printed in every option.
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Correct Answer: Confirmed by High Court
A sentence of death by Qisas or Tazir shall not be executed until confirmed by the High Court.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
Under section 9 of the Specific Relief Act, no suit may be brought against the Federal or a Provincial Government and no appeal lies from an order or decree in such a suit, so all of the above.
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Correct Answer: b & c
Under section 9, the court cannot appoint a receiver and cannot pass a decree for mesne profits prior to the suit, so both (b) and (c).
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Correct Answer: No action will lie
If a nuisance is legalised by statute, no action will lie, under the defence of statutory authority.
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Correct Answer: Appeal
An application to a higher court against a lower court's decision is keyed here as an appeal.
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Correct Answer: Award
The result of an arbitration hearing, or damages assessed by a court, is called an award.
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Correct Answer: Bail
A defendant released from custody until his next court appearance is on bail.
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Correct Answer: Amendment which a party desires in his own pleading.
Under CPC Order 6 Rule 17, a party amends his own pleading, not his opponent's.
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Correct Answer: As good-effectual as if it had been made personally.
Substituted service by order of the court is as good and effectual as if it had been made personally.
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Correct Answer: Material Facts
Under CPC Order 6 Rule 2, pleadings must contain material facts, not the evidence proving them.
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Correct Answer: a & b
Under CPC section 99, no decree is reversed or modified for an error or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case or the jurisdiction of the court, so (a) and (b).
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Correct Answer: a & b
Under CPC section 122, High Courts may make rules regulating their own procedure and the procedure of the civil courts subject to their superintendence, so (a) and (b).
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Correct Answer: First schedule
Under CPC section 122, the High Court may alter, annul or add to the rules in the First Schedule.
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Correct Answer: In the courts within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the property is situate
Under CPC section 16, a suit for immovable property is instituted in the court within whose local limits the property is situate.
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Correct Answer: Any portion of the property is situate
Where immovable property lies within the jurisdiction of different courts, the suit may be instituted in a court within whose jurisdiction any portion of the property is situate.
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Correct Answer: Two Judges
Confirmation of a death sentence by the High Court must be signed by two Judges.
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Correct Answer: 15 days
Under CrPC section 167, an accused may be detained in police custody by a Magistrate's order for 15 days.
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Correct Answer: Manner of recording evidence
Section 354 of the CrPC lays down the manner of recording evidence, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: Language of record of evidence
Section 357 of the CrPC speaks as to the language of the record of evidence, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: Rules as prescribed by High Court itself
The record of evidence in the High Court is according to the rules prescribed by the High Court itself.
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Correct Answer: A person be hanged by neck till he is dead
Under CrPC section 368, a death sentence directs that the person be hanged by the neck till he is dead.
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Correct Answer: Federal Government
The Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint an officer to perform the functions of Administrator of assets frozen or forfeited under the order.
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Correct Answer: Minister for Narcotics Control
The book keys the Minister for Narcotics Control as Chairman of the Policy Review Board.
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Correct Answer: Fourteen years but shall not be less than five years and shall also be liable to fine, which shall not be less than the prevailing value of the assets
Assets derived from narcotic offences are punishable with imprisonment up to fourteen years, not less than five years, and a fine not less than the prevailing value of the assets, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: Laches
Laches, unlike the law of limitation, is based on equity alone.
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Correct Answer: may be instituted, preferred or made on the day that the court reopens
Under the Limitation Act, where the limitation period expires on a day the court is closed, the suit, appeal or application may be made on the day the court reopens.
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Correct Answer: Most cases
Death-illness, as compiled under 'Al-Mafalla', is apprehended in most cases, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
A second appeal lies to the High Court on all the stated grounds: a decision contrary to law, failure to meet the standard of law, and an error or defect on the merits.
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Correct Answer: Estate
The term for a person's rights and assets in property is an estate.
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Correct Answer: Expert Witness
A person employed to give evidence on a subject in which he is qualified or has expertise is an expert witness.
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Correct Answer: Guarantor
A person who promises to pay for another if the person responsible defaults on a loan or hire-purchase agreement is a guarantor.
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Verified from the official paper / published solved paper — every answer rechecked before publishing.
Questions
100 questions, all published: Law (40), General Knowledge (14), English (12), Mathematics (11), Pakistan Studies (9), Geography (8), Everyday Science (4) and History (2).
Mostly Law — PPC offences and punishments, CrPC sections and CPC procedure — plus General Knowledge, English vocabulary and prepositions, Mathematics, Pakistan Studies, Geography, Everyday Science and History.
Yes. Every answer was checked three ways — the book's printed Answer Key on p.222, the book's own wording, and the standard fact — with five key errors corrected (Q56 cube series 256, Q58 geometric series 4,374, Q77 amendment of own pleading, Q79 pleadings material facts, Q83 CPC section 16 forum) and 20 retained-with-note flags.
Its Law, General Knowledge, Mathematics, English and Geography content is shared with NTS, FPSC, PPSC, CSS MPT and other one-paper exams, so it is useful practice for all of them.
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