ISRO Office & Jr.Personal Assistant Exam Sample Question Paper : Indian Space Research Organization

Organisation : ISRO/ Indian Space Research Organization
Exam : Office Assistant & Jr.Personal Assistant
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Subject : General English and General Studies

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Post Of Office & Jr.Personal Assistant Exam Sample Question Paper :

Paper –| : General English and General Studies :
Part- A – General English (Descriptive type)
Part-B – General Studies (Objective type)

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Instruction :
** The question paper is in the form of test booklet.
** A separate OMR answer sheet is provide to all candidates for answering Part-A (objective type) and Part-B. –
** A separate answer booklet is provided to all candidates for answering Part-A (Descriptive type). Answer to be written by pen only.
** Each objective question is provided with a text and figures wherever applicable with multiple answers a), b), c) and d) which includes One Correct answer.

** Refer answer sheet instructions and use HB pencil for answering all the objective type questions.
** A objective questions carry 1 mark each and descriptive type questions 10 marks each.
** Multiple answers for a question will be regarded as wrong answer.
** Although the test stresses on accuracy more than speed, it is important for you to use your time as effectively as possible.
** Do not waste time on questions which are too difficult for you. Go on to other questions and come back to the difficult ones later

Part- A – General English :
Directions: (1-2) In each of the following questions, select from amongst the four alternatives, the word most opposite in meaning of the word given in capitals
1. LIVELY
a) Simple
b) Weak
c) Dull
d) Angry

2. Indadvertent
a) Adequate
b) Available
c) Sluggish
d) Intentional

Directions: (3-5). In each of the following sentences, out of the given alternatives, choose the one which is closest to the opposite in meaning of the italicized word
3. Mr Khanna is held in high esteem by the residents of the colony
a) revere
b) hatred
c) disdain
d) notoriety

4. The last show of the concert at the Ritz Theatre was a fiasco
a) triumph
b) victory
c) fruitful
d) success

5. The gatekeeper ought to be more vigilant these days
a) inresponsible
b) ignorant
c) careless
d) innocent

Directions: (6-7) Each of the following questions consists of a word which is spelt in four different ways. Choose the spelling that is correct
6. a) Enormous
b) Enormus
c) Enarmos
d) Enermous

7. a) Temperament
b) Temporament
c) Temparament
d)Temporument

Directions: (8-9) Select the one that is different from the rest of the three in the Following;
8. a) College
b) Teachers
c) Job
d) examination.

9. a) Money
b) Payment
c) Receipt
d) Value

Directions: (10-11) Four words have been written out of which three are correctly spelt and one is wrongly spelt. Find the wrongly spelt word out of the four responses. –
10. a) tailor
b) doctor
c) scutpter
d) fitter

11. a) eminent
b) iminent
c) eloquent
d) exuberan

Directions: (12-13) In each of the following questions you are given a related pair of words or phrases in capital letters. Each pair is followed by four pairs of words or phrases. Choose the pair which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed by the original pair –
12. THIEF : POLICE
a) Patient : Doctor
b) Customs: Trades
c) Mouse : Cat
d) Cow : Bull

13. BRONZE : COPPER
a) Haemoglobin : Iron
b) Steel : Iron
c) Water: Hydrogen
d) Ozone : Oxygen

Directions: In questions 14 to 15, choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word in bold.
14. Leap
a) immerse
b) fall
c) sink
d) plunge

15. Celibacy
a) divorce
b) misogyny
c) matrimony
d) chastit

In the following questions four 4.
One could tell by his cheerfulness and alternatives are given for idioms/ politeness that he was trying to MEND phrases in Capital.
1.Choose the one HIS FENCES which best expresses the of
a) Make peace with a person the idiom/phrase given in Capital.
b) Removing fences lying in his way It is foolish to SPLIT HAIRS over this
c) Creating problems for others issue as it is difficult to arrive at a
d) Showing undue importance conclusion whether the door is half-open or half-closed.

2. Aryabhatta was BY LONG ODDS the
(a) Raise hair in blowing wind greatest astronomer and mathematician
(b) Make petty distinctions
(c) Argue at a loud voice
(b) Most decidedly

3. Choose the word closest in meaning :
We should not waste, time In to the given word, from among the unnecessary arguments. It is wisely said options :
That One Should Make Hay While The Sun Shines.
(a) Cut grass during the day
(b) Boat about one’s achievements
(C) Respect
(d) Take advantage of the opportunit

4. The Government has rightly HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD by coming down heavily on the black-marketeers, with the result that prices have started
(a) Separate
(b) Abandon
(c) Forgo
(d) Disintegrate