Authored 100-question CAPF Paper I mock across all six areas with a separate answer key and one-line explanations, not verbatim PYQs
Authored practice, not a verbatim PYQ. This is a full-length CAPF Paper I style set of 100 single-correct MCQs spread across the six Paper I areas in roughly realistic proportion (Polity and Economy, History, Geography, General Science, Current Events, and General Mental Ability). The real Paper I has 125 questions in two hours with negative marking, so attempt this in about 95 minutes closed-book, deduct one-third of a mark for each wrong answer, then check the ****.
Section split: Polity Q1 to Q12, Economy Q13 to Q22, History Q23 to Q38, Geography Q39 to Q54, General Science Q55 to Q70, Current Events Q71 to Q84, General Mental Ability Q85 to Q100.
For year-sensitive facts (vacancies, ranks, current office-holders, exact rates) verify the latest official figure; the static facts here are the testable core.
Q3. Consider the following about the Preamble:
Q9. Assertion (A): A money bill cannot be introduced in the Rajya Sabha. Reason (R): The Rajya Sabha can only make recommendations on a money bill, which the Lok Sabha may accept or reject, within 14 days.
Q16. Consider the following about the Goods and Services Tax (GST):
Q35. Assertion (A): The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention without trial. Reason (R): The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 1919 took place during protests against the Rowlatt Act.
Q44. Consider the following rivers:
Authored practice, not a verbatim PYQ. Each entry gives the correct option and a one-line reason.
| Q | Ans | One-line explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (c) | The Constitution of India Bill, 1895 (Swaraj Bill), is the earliest demand for a written constitution by Indians. |
| 2 | (b) | Article 123 empowers the President to promulgate ordinances; Article 213 is the Governor's parallel power. |
| 3 | (a) | Only 1 and 2 are correct; the Preamble is not enforceable in a court. |
| 4 | (b) | Article 33 lets Parliament curtail Fundamental Rights of armed and public-order forces, directly relevant to the CAPFs. |
| 5 | (b) | The CAG holds office for 6 years or until 65 years of age, whichever is earlier. |
| 6 | (d) | The Fourth Schedule allocates Rajya Sabha seats to States and Union Territories. |
| 7 | (a) | Judicial review flows from Article 13 read with the writ jurisdictions under Articles 32 and 226. |
| 8 | (c) | UPSC is a constitutional body (Article 315); NHRC, CBI and NCW are statutory or executive bodies. |
| 9 | (b) | Both true, but R explains the procedure on money bills, not why they cannot start in the Rajya Sabha (Article 110). |
| 10 | (b) | The Speaker of the Lok Sabha certifies whether a bill is a money bill, and the decision is final. |
| 11 | (c) | The Seventh Schedule lists the Union, State and Concurrent Lists, dividing Union and State powers. |
| 12 | (a) | Article 124 establishes the Supreme Court of India. |
| 13 | (c) | GDP at market price equals GDP at factor cost plus net indirect taxes (indirect taxes minus subsidies). |
| 14 | (b) | The Office of the Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry publishes the WPI. |
| 15 | (b) | Repo is the rate at which the RBI lends short-term to banks against government securities. |
| 16 | (d) | All three are correct; GST came via the 101st Amendment, the Council is FM-chaired, and crude oil and potable alcohol are outside GST. |
| 17 | (a) | Fiscal deficit equals total expenditure minus total receipts excluding borrowings. |
| 18 | (b) | The National Statistical Office under MoSPI estimates national accounts including GDP. |
| 19 | (a) | Disinvestment is the Government selling part or all of its equity in a public sector enterprise. |
| 20 | (c) | MGNREGA guarantees 100 days of wage employment per rural household per financial year. |
| 21 | (b) | The RBI is the lender of last resort in the Indian banking system. |
| 22 | (b) | A current account deficit arises when imports of goods, services and transfers exceed the corresponding exports. |
| 23 | (b) | The Harappan script is written in boustrophedon style and remains undeciphered. |
| 24 | (a) | The Gayatri Mantra appears in the Rigveda, addressed to the deity Savitr. |
| 25 | (c) | Moggaliputta Tissa presided over the Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra under Ashoka. |
| 26 | (b) | The Allahabad Prashasti praising Samudragupta was composed by his court poet Harisena. |
| 27 | (a) | Iltutmish introduced the tanka and jital, Alauddin the market controls, Muhammad bin Tughlaq the capital transfer, and Firoz the Diwan-i-Khairat. |
| 28 | (b) | Guru Nanak (1469 to 1539) founded the Sikh tradition. |
| 29 | (c) | Akbar abolished the pilgrimage tax and the jizya early in his reign; Aurangzeb later re-imposed the jizya. |
| 30 | (a) | Plassey (1757) was fought against Siraj-ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal. |
| 31 | (b) | Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793. |
| 32 | (b) | The immediate trigger of 1857 was the greased Enfield cartridges rumoured to use cow and pig fat. |
| 33 | (b) | A O Hume founded the Indian National Congress in 1885; W C Bonnerjee was its first president. |
| 34 | (b) | Curzon's partition of Bengal took effect in 1905 and was annulled in 1911. |
| 35 | (b) | Both true, but R describes a related event, not the cause of the Act's detention provisions. |
| 36 | (b) | The Dandi Salt March of 1930 launched the Civil Disobedience Movement. |
| 37 | (b) | The Cabinet Mission, 1946, came to frame the transfer of power and a constitution-making body. |
| 38 | (b) | Dr Sachchidananda Sinha was the temporary (first) President of the Constituent Assembly; Rajendra Prasad was the permanent one. |
| 39 | (b) | The inner core is composed chiefly of iron and nickel (often called the NiFe layer). |
| 40 | (c) | An isobar joins places of equal atmospheric pressure. |
| 41 | (b) | The Coriolis force, arising from the Earth's rotation, deflects winds rightward in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| 42 | (b) | Nanda Devi is the highest peak entirely within India; Kanchenjunga lies on the India-Nepal border. |
| 43 | (b) | The Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 Indian States. |
| 44 | (b) | Of the listed rivers only the Narmada flows westward into the Arabian Sea. |
| 45 | (b) | The doldrums are the equatorial low-pressure belt of calm, rising air. |
| 46 | (b) | The Palk Strait separates India from Sri Lanka. |
| 47 | (b) | Black (regur) soil is most extensive over the Deccan Trap basalt region. |
| 48 | (b) | The southwest monsoon onsets over Kerala around the first week of June. |
| 49 | (d) | India's longest land border is with Bangladesh (about 4,096 km). |
| 50 | (b) | The Strait of Hormuz links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. |
| 51 | (a) | IST is based on 82° 30 minutes East passing near Mirzapur. |
| 52 | (c) | Wheat is a Rabi (winter-sown) crop; rice, maize and cotton are Kharif crops. |
| 53 | (b) | Warm ocean currents flow from lower (equatorial) latitudes towards higher latitudes. |
| 54 | (b) | The Siachen Glacier lies in the Karakoram Range. |
| 55 | (c) | The SI unit of electric current is the ampere. |
| 56 | (c) | Velocity is a vector (magnitude and direction); speed, mass and temperature are scalars. |
| 57 | (b) | Washing soda is sodium carbonate decahydrate, Na2CO3.10H2O. |
| 58 | (c) | Carbon dioxide is the largest single contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse warming. |
| 59 | (b) | A neutral solution has a pH of 7 at 25° Celsius. |
| 60 | (c) | The mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell, generating ATP. |
| 61 | (c) | Vitamin D is synthesised in the skin on exposure to ultraviolet sunlight. |
| 62 | (b) | Iodine deficiency causes goitre (enlargement of the thyroid). |
| 63 | (c) | The sky appears blue due to Rayleigh scattering of shorter (blue) wavelengths. |
| 64 | (b) | O negative blood is the universal donor for red cell transfusion. |
| 65 | (c) | Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis); the others are viral. |
| 66 | (c) | Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance. |
| 67 | (b) | RAM stands for Random Access Memory. |
| 68 | (c) | The iris controls the size of the pupil and thus the light entering the eye. |
| 69 | (b) | Photosynthesis is how green plants make food using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. |
| 70 | (c) | Coal is a non-renewable fossil fuel; solar, wind and tidal are renewable. |
| 71 | (b) | The UN headquarters is in New York City. |
| 72 | (b) | India is a founding member of BRICS (originally BRIC, 2009). |
| 73 | (c) | The HDI is published by the UNDP in its Human Development Report. |
| 74 | (b) | The Quad comprises India, the United States, Japan and Australia. |
| 75 | (c) | G20 economies together account for roughly 85 per cent of global GDP. |
| 76 | (b) | The BSF guards the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh international borders. |
| 77 | (c) | The ITBP is deployed along the India-China border. |
| 78 | (b) | The FATF sets standards to combat money laundering and terror financing. |
| 79 | (b) | The UPSC conducts the CAPF Assistant Commandants examination. |
| 80 | (b) | The International Court of Justice sits at The Hague in the Peace Palace. |
| 81 | (b) | The CISF secures industrial undertakings, airports and other critical installations. |
| 82 | (c) | The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is headquartered in Beijing. |
| 83 | (b) | The SSB guards the India-Nepal and India-Bhutan borders. |
| 84 | (b) | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10 December 1948. |
| 85 | (a) | Each letter shifts +1: M to N, O to P, O to P, N to O gives NPPO, which is option (a). |
| 86 | (b) | The series is n(n+1): 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, then 6 times 7 equals 42. |
| 87 | (b) | A is the brother of B and B is sibling of C; C is D's father, so A is D's uncle. |
| 88 | (b) | Day before yesterday Thursday means today is Saturday, so the day after tomorrow is Monday. |
| 89 | (a) | Marked 140 of cost, discount 25 per cent gives 105, a profit of 5 per cent. |
| 90 | (b) | Average of five consecutive even numbers is the middle one, 36, so the largest is 36 plus 4 equals 40. |
| 91 | (c) | Speed equals 150 metres per 15 seconds equals 10 m/s, which is 10 times 3.6 equals 36 km/h. |
| 92 | (c) | 20 per cent equals 50 gives the number 250, so 60 per cent equals 150. |
| 93 | (a) | "Grandfather's only son" is the man's father, so his daughter is the man's sister. |
| 94 | (c) | All others are prime; 14 is composite, so it is the odd one out. |
| 95 | (b) | Doubling in 8 years at simple interest means rate equals 100 divided by 8 equals 12.5 per cent. |
| 96 | (a) | Applying +2,+3,+4,+5,+6,+7 to C,A,N,D,L,E gives E,D,R,I,R,L, that is EDRIRL. |
| 97 | (a) | Let numbers be 3 × and 5x; (3x+9)/(5x+9) equals 3/4 gives × equals 3, so the smaller number is 9. |
| 98 | (a) | First letters go A,B,C,D,E and second letters go Z,Y,X,W,V, so the next pair is EV. |
| 99 | (a) | He ends 3 km east of start at the same north-south line, so the distance is 3 km. |
| 100 | (b) | The first ten natural numbers sum to 55, and 55 divided by 10 equals 5.5. |