Free · past papers · answers included
Questions from RRB, NTPC, Group D and JE past papers. Tap an option to check it instantly — every question shows the correct answer, and most carry the explanation the paper gave.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Correct option: C — who ever
Who ever The phrase “The only one” suggests that we are referring to a person, and we need a relative pronoun ‘who ever’ to connect the clause ‘shattered their monotony by his visits.’ Hence, ‘who ever’ is the most appropriate answer.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Correct option: A — arcane
arcane ‘Arcane’ means mysterious and known only to a few people. The given sentence states that those unfamiliar with the saga are bound to be mystified by the more arcane plot twists. Hence, ‘arcane’ is the most appropriate answer.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Correct option: A — arousal
arousal ‘Arousal’ means the feeling of being excited. The given sentence states that our breathing rate can change almost instantaneously in response to stress or arousal. Hence, ‘arousal’ is the most appropriate answer.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Correct option: B — sanction
sanction ‘Sanction’ means to give official permission for something. The given sentence states that the issue of fairness was for consideration at the hearing to sanction scheme. Hence, ‘sanction’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
In contemporary cities, public spaces are increasingly curated as zones of consumption rather than participation. Parks, plazas, and even sidewalks are redesigned to favor commercial aesthetics over communal engagement. Benches are replaced with branded kiosks, and open areas become sites for controlled leisure. This transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a (1) _______ shift in how collectivity is imagined. Citizenship, once enacted through shared spaces, is now mediated by transactional encounters. The architecture of inclusion has given way to the infrastructure of surveillance, where access is contingent on purchase and behavior is continuously monitored. The public realm, in this sense, becomes an algorithmic frontier—its openness filtered through predictive analytics. Here, design serves not freedom but compliance, sculpting movement and interaction through invisible boundaries of data. What was once civic has become (2) _______: a landscape choreographed by capital and coded authority. This spatial economy thrives on the illusion of choice. Visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are (3) _______ by unseen architectures of control—cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. The result is a paradoxical urbanism: participation through permission, freedom through framing. The democratic ideal of the city thus demands rethinking. To reclaim its publicness is to resist its commodification—to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as (4) _______ for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Only then can space resume its ethical function: to host difference without domination, and movement without (5) _______.
Correct option: B — paradigmatic
paradigmatic ‘Paradigmatic’ means representing the fundamental change in the way something is understood. The given passage states that this transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a paradigmatic shift in how collectivity is imagined. Hence, ‘paradigmatic’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
In contemporary cities, public spaces are increasingly curated as zones of consumption rather than participation. Parks, plazas, and even sidewalks are redesigned to favor commercial aesthetics over communal engagement. Benches are replaced with branded kiosks, and open areas become sites for controlled leisure. This transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a (1) _______ shift in how collectivity is imagined. Citizenship, once enacted through shared spaces, is now mediated by transactional encounters. The architecture of inclusion has given way to the infrastructure of surveillance, where access is contingent on purchase and behavior is continuously monitored. The public realm, in this sense, becomes an algorithmic frontier—its openness filtered through predictive analytics. Here, design serves not freedom but compliance, sculpting movement and interaction through invisible boundaries of data. What was once civic has become (2) _______: a landscape choreographed by capital and coded authority. This spatial economy thrives on the illusion of choice. Visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are (3) _______ by unseen architectures of control—cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. The result is a paradoxical urbanism: participation through permission, freedom through framing. The democratic ideal of the city thus demands rethinking. To reclaim its publicness is to resist its commodification—to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as (4) _______ for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Only then can space resume its ethical function: to host difference without domination, and movement without (5) _______.
Correct option: C — privatized
privatized ‘Privatized’ means turned from a public or communal space into one controlled by private or commercial interests. The given passage states that what was once civic has become privatized. Hence, ‘privatized’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
In contemporary cities, public spaces are increasingly curated as zones of consumption rather than participation. Parks, plazas, and even sidewalks are redesigned to favor commercial aesthetics over communal engagement. Benches are replaced with branded kiosks, and open areas become sites for controlled leisure. This transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a (1) _______ shift in how collectivity is imagined. Citizenship, once enacted through shared spaces, is now mediated by transactional encounters. The architecture of inclusion has given way to the infrastructure of surveillance, where access is contingent on purchase and behavior is continuously monitored. The public realm, in this sense, becomes an algorithmic frontier—its openness filtered through predictive analytics. Here, design serves not freedom but compliance, sculpting movement and interaction through invisible boundaries of data. What was once civic has become (2) _______: a landscape choreographed by capital and coded authority. This spatial economy thrives on the illusion of choice. Visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are (3) _______ by unseen architectures of control—cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. The result is a paradoxical urbanism: participation through permission, freedom through framing. The democratic ideal of the city thus demands rethinking. To reclaim its publicness is to resist its commodification—to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as (4) _______ for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Only then can space resume its ethical function: to host difference without domination, and movement without (5) _______.
Correct option: A — regulated
regulated ‘Regulated’ means controlled or directed through hidden systems or mechanisms such as surveillance or design. The given passage states that visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are regulated by unseen architectures of control —cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. Hence, ‘regulated’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
In contemporary cities, public spaces are increasingly curated as zones of consumption rather than participation. Parks, plazas, and even sidewalks are redesigned to favor commercial aesthetics over communal engagement. Benches are replaced with branded kiosks, and open areas become sites for controlled leisure. This transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a (1) _______ shift in how collectivity is imagined. Citizenship, once enacted through shared spaces, is now mediated by transactional encounters. The architecture of inclusion has given way to the infrastructure of surveillance, where access is contingent on purchase and behavior is continuously monitored. The public realm, in this sense, becomes an algorithmic frontier—its openness filtered through predictive analytics. Here, design serves not freedom but compliance, sculpting movement and interaction through invisible boundaries of data. What was once civic has become (2) _______: a landscape choreographed by capital and coded authority. This spatial economy thrives on the illusion of choice. Visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are (3) _______ by unseen architectures of control—cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. The result is a paradoxical urbanism: participation through permission, freedom through framing. The democratic ideal of the city thus demands rethinking. To reclaim its publicness is to resist its commodification—to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as (4) _______ for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Only then can space resume its ethical function: to host difference without domination, and movement without (5) _______.
Correct option: D — laboratory
laboratory ‘Laboratory’ means a space for testing new ideas, expressions, or forms of civic engagement. The given passage states that to reclaim its publicness is to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as laboratory for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Hence, ‘laboratory’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
In contemporary cities, public spaces are increasingly curated as zones of consumption rather than participation. Parks, plazas, and even sidewalks are redesigned to favor commercial aesthetics over communal engagement. Benches are replaced with branded kiosks, and open areas become sites for controlled leisure. This transformation signals not mere urban evolution but a (1) _______ shift in how collectivity is imagined. Citizenship, once enacted through shared spaces, is now mediated by transactional encounters. The architecture of inclusion has given way to the infrastructure of surveillance, where access is contingent on purchase and behavior is continuously monitored. The public realm, in this sense, becomes an algorithmic frontier—its openness filtered through predictive analytics. Here, design serves not freedom but compliance, sculpting movement and interaction through invisible boundaries of data. What was once civic has become (2) _______: a landscape choreographed by capital and coded authority. This spatial economy thrives on the illusion of choice. Visitors believe they roam freely, yet their paths are (3) _______ by unseen architectures of control—cameras, sensors, and behavioral scripts. The result is a paradoxical urbanism: participation through permission, freedom through framing. The democratic ideal of the city thus demands rethinking. To reclaim its publicness is to resist its commodification—to reimagine the plaza not as marketplace, but as (4) _______ for dissent, dialogue, and encounter. Only then can space resume its ethical function: to host difference without domination, and movement without (5) _______.
Correct option: D — exclusion
exclusion ‘Exclusion’ means the condition of being denied access or participation in shared public spaces. The given passage talks about the ethical function to host difference without domination and movement without exclusion. Hence, ‘exclusion’ is the most appropriate answer.
In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Urban wilderness, often dismissed as peripheral or accidental, constitutes a lexicon of latent ecologies. Overgrown lots, cracked pavements, and neglected waterways do not merely represent neglect; they inscribe a narrative of persistence, encoding resilience as (6) ____. These vegetative anomalies challenge the prescriptive order of urban planning, proposing instead an indeterminate rhythm that is both anarchic and generative. The wild, in this framing, is not chaos, but a dense articulation of ecological syntax. Its language manifests through tangled vines and fractured asphalt, resisting the hegemony of manicured parks. To present such wilderness as merely picturesque is to engage in epistemic (7)_____—turning survival and resilience into superficial display. What is celebrated as renewal often entails displacement, where biodiversity is sacrificed to recreational imaginaries and “green infrastructure” becomes a euphemism for controlled intervention. To perceive these spaces critically is to cultivate (8)_____—an attentiveness to life that thrives beyond human calculation. These terrains demand interpretive patience, where fallen trees and seasonal wetlands become loci of inquiry and wonder. Yet wilderness defies containment. It is not mere landscape, but ontological surplus—a presence that eludes categorization. Policy cannot domesticate it; architecture cannot tame it. It persists, liminal and instructive, as a (9)_____grammar inscribed upon urban peripheries. The city’s wilds are not neglected. They are semiotic punctuations—interruptions in the metropolitan narrative that insist on recognition not as absence, but as ecological (10) _____.
Correct option: B — continuity
continuity ‘Continuity’ means the state of being continuous or unbroken over time. The given passage states that overgrown lots, cracked pavements, and neglected waterways encode resilience, signaling not mere neglect but a continuity in ecological persistence. Hence, ‘continuity’ is the most appropriate answer.
Page 289 of this set has 10 questions on it.
