English-Sentence Correction (Unsolved) for Practice

1.        A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation.

(A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them

(B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them

(C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians, basing them

(D) of the North American Indians and their development of advanced full-year calendars based（E）

(E) that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based

2.        A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump（A）

(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

3.        A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the 1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and it was only the second published by an American woman.

(A) it was only the second published by an American woman

(B) it was only the second that an American woman published

(C) the second one only published by an American woman

(D) the second one only that an American woman published（E）

(E) only the second published by an American woman

4.        A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of sitting to close to large jet engines for long periods of time.

(A) a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

(B) a consequence from sitting for long periods of time too near to large jet engines

(C) a consequence which resulted from sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

        (D) damaged from sitting too near to large jet engines for long periods of time

(E) damaged because they sat too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

5.        A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom.

(A) that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom

(B) that some Blacks return to the African land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him

(C) that some Blacks return to Africa which was the land which symbolized the possibility of freedom to him

(D) some Black’s returning to Africa which was the land that to him symbolized the possibility of freedom（A）

(E) some Black’s return to the land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him, Africa

Static GK- SAARC Countries

Member Country	Capital	President	Prime Minister	Currency
Afghanistan	Kabul	Mohammad Ashraf Ghani		Afghani
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Abdul Hamid	Sheikh Hasina	Taka
Bhutan	Thimpu	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Tshering Tobgay	Ngultrum and Indian Rupee
India	New Delhi	Ram Nath Kovind	Narendra Modi	Indian Rupee
Maldives	Malé	Abdulla Yameen		Maldivian Rufiyaa
Nepal	Kathmandu	Bidhya Bhandari	Sher Bahadur Deuba	Nepalese Rupee
Pakistan	Islamabad	Mamnoon Hussain	Shahid Khaqan Abbasi	Pakistani Rupee
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte	Maithripala Sirisena	Ranil Wickremesinghe	Sri Lankan Rupee

Source: Wikipedia

Current Affairs October 22, 2017

Dear SH Aspirants,
Study Daily Current Affairs and stay updated as well as prepare for General Awareness section of bank exams. It's time to gear up your preparations for IBPS RRB PO Mains and with the daily dose of current affairs, you can easily prepare G.A and score well.

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Kandla Port gets green nod to develop Rs 1,176 crore smart city
Government-owned Kandla Port Trust has received environment clearance for setting up a smart industrial port city in Kutch, Gujarat 
About Smart Port Cities to be developed by Kandla Port Trust:
i. As per the proposal, smart industrial port cities will be set up at two separate sites in Gandhidham city, (in Kutch district of Gujarat).
ii. These industrial port cities would house about 35,700 residential flats, schools and parks, and would generate jobs for more than 60,000 people.
iii. Cost for setting up these industrial port cities is estimated at Rs. 1176 crore.
iv. One smart port city will be set up on 580 acres of land whereas the other will be spread across an area of  850 acres.
v. It is to be noted that Kandla Port Trust has been recently renamed as Deendayal Port by the Union Ministry of Shipping.

PM launches development initiatives in Vadodara
On October 22, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a visit to Vadodara, Gujarat. During the course of this visit, he launched following development initiatives:

i. PM dedicated to the nation, the Vadodara City Command Control Centre; New Head Office Building of the Bank of Baroda and Waghodiya Regional Water Supply Scheme.
ii. He laid the foundation stones of an integrated transport hub, regional water supply schemes, housing projects, and a flyover. 
iii. He also laid foundation stone for the capacity expansion of the Mundra-Delhi petroleum product pipeline, and a greenfield marketing terminal project of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), at Vadodara. 
iv. Beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban, as well as Rural) were handed over the keys to the houses by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Hirasar Greenfield Airport Project in Gujarat gets Green Clearance
Union Environment Ministry has given green clearance for a greenfield airport project at Hirasar, located about 28 km from Rajkot in Gujarat.
About Hirasar Greenfield Airport Project:
i. Gujarat State Government had proposed to build the Hirasar Greenfield Airport, as the existing airport in Rajkot is small and the earlier plan to extend the current runway could not be carried out as it involved high land cost.
ii. Hirasar Greenfield Airport Project will be developed by Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Ltd (GSAICL).
iii. Estimated project cost is over Rs 1400 crore
iv. The airport will be built on an area of 1025.54 hectare. 96.48 per cent of the land for this project is government land.
v. On completion, this airport will not only boost trade and tourism but will also generate around 1000 direct and indirect employment opportunities.

Quantative Apptitude for IBPS PO/RRB Mains

Directions (Q1- Q2): The following questions are accompanied by three statements (A) or (I), (B) or (II), and (C) or (III). You have to determine which statements(s) is/are sufficient/necessary to answer the questions. 

Q1. What is the value of a two–digit number?

A. The sum of the digits is 5. 

B. The difference of the squares of the digits is 15. 

C. The difference of their digits is 3. 

(a) A and B together are sufficient 

(b) B and C together are sufficient

(c) C and A together are sufficient

(d) Any one pair of A and B, B and C or C and A is sufficient

(e) A, B and C together are necessary 

Q2. What is the perimeter of a rectangular field? 

I. The area of the field is 2400 sq.metres. 

II. The diagonal of the field is 50 metres. 

III. The ratio between the length and the breadth of the field is 3 : 2. 

(a) All I, II and III together are required 

(b) Any two of I, II and III are sufficient 

(c) Only I and II are required 

(d) Only II and III are required 

(e) None of these 

Q3. Ashutosh calculates his profit percentage on the selling price whereas Hitesh calculates his profit on the cost price. They find that the difference of their profit is Rs. 135. If the selling price of both of them are the same, and Ashutosh gets 30% profit and Hitesh gets 25% profit, then find their selling price. 

(a) Rs. 1250

(b) Rs. 1150

(c) Rs. 1450

(d) Rs. 1350

(e) none of these

Q4. Sandesh got Rs 6000 as his share out of the total profit of Rs 9000 which he and Sanket earned at the end of one year. If Sandesh invested Rs 20000 for 6 months, whereas Sanket invested his amount for the whole year, the amount invested by Sanket was 

(a) Rs 60000

(b) Rs 10000

(c) Rs 40000

(d) Rs 5000

(e) None of these

Q5. Avanish and Bikas entered into the partnership with Rs 700 and Rs 600 respectively. After 3 months Avanish withdrew 2/7of his stock but after 3 months more he put back 3/5 of what he had withdrawn. The profits at the end of the year are Rs 726, how much of this should Avanish receive? 

(a) Rs 633

(b) Rs 336

(c) Rs 663

(d) Rs 366

(e) None of these

Important Revolutions In India: Static Awareness

Dear Readers,

We are providing you the Static GK Material that will help you learn some important static facts in a slow and steady manner. Just go through the below table because it contains all the important dams of India and you may find question related to this in the upcoming exams.

Important Revolutions in India

Computer Awareness for IBPS RRB/ IBPS PO/ IBPS CLERK/ RBI ASSISTANT

Dear Readers,

Q1. Functions of keys F1, F2 and F3 are _____________ respectively.

(a) activating menu bar, search and renaming selected icon

(b) search, reboot and activating menu bar

(c) activating help, renaming selected icon and search

(d) reboot, activating help and refresh

(e) activating help, reboot, renaming selected icon

Q2. Which of the following describe router functions?

(a) Packet switching

(b) Packet filtering

(c) Internetwork communication

(d) Path selection

(e) All of the above

Q3. Which among the following computer network usually spans a city or a large campus?

(a) LAN

(b) DAN

(c) MAN

(d) WAN

(e) None of these

Q4. Name the input device from the given options, that cannot be used to work in MS Office?

(a) Scanner 

(b) Mouse 

(c) Keyboard 

(d) Joy stick 

(e) All of the above 

Q5. Which type of virus is generally scripted into common application programs like Excel and Word to infect the other documents and spreads to the other parts when the application is running?

(a) Macro Viruses

(b) File infector virus

(c) Resident Viruses

(d) Boot virus

(e) Worms

Puzzle/Syllogism New Pattern for IBPS RRB/ IBPS PO/ IBPS CLERK/ RBI ASSISTANT

Dear Readers,

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

There are nine Teachers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I. All of them like different colour viz. Orange, Brown, Violet, Yellow, Cream, Pink, White, Black and Red but not necessarily in the same order. They all are living on a different floor. The ground floor is numbered one and so on up to top floor is numbered nine. Only three teachers live between I and one who likes Red, both are living on odd numbered floor but none of them are living either top floor or bottom floor. F, G and E do not like Violet. Only one teacher lives between I and A, who likes Black. There is only one teacher lives between H and C, who likes Cream. D likes Orange and lives on the even numbered floor. There is only one teacher lives between the floor on which the teacher who likes Red and the one who likes Brown. B likes White and lives immediately below on the floor on which A lives. E does not live immediately above or below on the floor on which C lives. E does not live on first floor. There are as many as teacher lives between E and one who likes Brown and between G and the one who likes Yellow. Only two teachers live between I and H, who likes Pink.