Name of the Organisation : Union Public Service Commission
Name of the Exam : Combined Geologist Exam
Year : 2015
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Subject : General English, Geology Paper – I,II, III, Hydrogeology
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UPSC Combined Geologist Exam Question Paper
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Model Questions
Geology
Part – I :
1. Describe the following in about 100 words each, with brief sketches, Wherever necessary : 10×5=50
(a) Weathering Index
(b) Vertical exaggeration in aerial photographs
(c) Harmonic folds
(d) Types of tectonics
(e) River terraces
(f) Active continental margin. –
(g) Retrograde evolution
(h) Krol formation
(i) Fossil recordv of vertebrates in Upper Siwalik
(j) Ecology of Radiolaria
Part – II
Section – A
2. (a) Give a detailed account of morphometric analysis of drainage basins and explain its significance. 15
(b) What do you understand by Digital Image Processing (DIP) ? Describe its application in mineral exploration. 15
3. Write notes on each of the following 5*6=30
(a) Glacial erosion and associated land forms
(b) Land forms associated with mature and old stage Df a river
(d) Speleothems and their utility
(e) Geostationary and Polar orbiting satellites
General English
Question Paper Specific Instructions :
Please read each o f the following instructiona carefully before attempting questions:
** There are SIX questions and all are to be attempted.
** The number o f marks carried by a question I part is indicated against it.
** Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
** Candidates are required to write clear, legible and concise answers and to adhere to word limits, wherever indicated. Failure to adhere to word limits may be penalized.
** Any page or portion o f the page left blank in the Question-cum-Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
Ql. Write an essay on any one o f the following topics in not less than 800 words: 30
(a) Books vs e-Books
(b) Sports bodies should be governed by Sports persons
(c) Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India
(d) Uses and Abuses of Sting operations in India
(e) Family and Globalization
Q2. Make a praise o f the following passage in about one>third of the original length, using your own word s : 30
Two principal forms of the constitution are known to history — one is called unitary and the other is federal. The two essential characteristics of a iinitary constitution are : (1) the supremacy of the central polity, and (2) the absence of subsidiary sovereign polities. On the contrary, a federal constitution is marked : (1) by the existence of a central polity and subsidiary politics side by side, and (2) by each being sovereign in the field assigned to it. In other words, federation means the establishment of a dual polity.
Q3. Write a paragraph in about 200 words on any one of the following expressions/statements:
(a) ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’
(b) One swallow does not make a summer.
(c) Discretion is the better part of valour.
(d) As you sow, so shall you reap.
(e) i f winter comes, can spring be far behind.’
Q4. Use the following words in sentences so as to bring out their meaning clearly. Do not change the form of the word. No credit will be given for a vague or ambiguous sentence. 2×5^10
(a) Prefatory
(b) Ostentatious
(c) Nemesis
(d) Expatriate
(e) Lascivious
Q5. Use the following idioms and phrasal verbs in sentences so as to bring
out their meaning clearly. 2*5^10
(a) make away with
(b) play fast and loose
(c) set off the hook
(d) eating humble pie
(e) square pegs in round holes
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