TEST YOUSELF FOR 72ND BPSC- 50 HIGH PRIORITY QUESTIONS

General Studies Mock Test Series 2026

50 High-Yield Questions (Bihar Special, Polity, Geography, and Science). Select your answers to instantly reveal the correct option and explanation. Click “Calculate Final Score” at the bottom to evaluate your performance with standard negative marking.

1. With reference to Census-2011 data of Bihar, which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

2. On which date did the Bihar Reorganisation Bill, 2000, receive the final assent of the President of India?

3. A Gram Panchayat in Bihar is generally constituted for an area with a population of approximately how many people?

4. Before Sher Shah Suri moved the capital to Patna, which city was the primary center of Afghan power and administration in Bihar?

5. Who was elected as the Chairman of the Patna Municipality following the 1923 elections?

6. Which organisation did Pir Mohammad Munis establish after the Champaran Satyagraha?

7. On the morning of 11 August 1942, the arrest of which senior freedom fighter in Patna sparked widespread student protests leading to the Secretariat march?

8. What primary political demand did Jagjivan Ram make before the Hammond Commission in 1935?

9. Which specific group of crops is most successfully grown in the Tal region of Bihar?

10. Darbhanga and Madhubani districts, famous for Makhana and fish culture, fall under which Agro-Climatic Zone of Bihar?

11. In which specific cultural region of Bihar is the Madhushravani festival primarily celebrated?

12. Manjusha art is primarily a sequential narrative based on which folk legend?

13. At which specific location in Rajgir was the First Buddhist Council held shortly after the Mahaparinirvana of Buddha?

14. According to Megasthenes, the administration of Pataliputra was managed by six boards. How many members were assigned to each of these municipal boards?

15. In which district does the Bagmati River enter Bihar from Nepal?

16. In which one of the following elections is the option of NOTA not applicable?

17. Which one of the following States has the same number of seats in the Rajya Sabha as Bihar?

18. The concept of the modern Welfare State is generally traced to the social security measures introduced for the first time in which country?

19. Consider the following features of the Basic Structure of the Constitution:

1. Welfare State
2. Dignity of the Individual
3. Integrity of the State
4. Parliamentary Privileges enjoyed by MLA/MP

Which of the above have been held by the Supreme Court to be part of the Basic Structure?

20. Consider the following statements regarding the Eighth Schedule:

1. The Eighth Schedule presently contains 22 officially recognized languages.
2. Kokborok is one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule.

21. Consider the following statements regarding the CAG:

1. The CAG audits and reports on all expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India.
2. The CAG controls the issue and receipt of money from the Consolidated Fund of India.
3. The CAG audits and reports on expenditure of all bodies and authorities substantially financed from Union or State revenues.

22. Consider the following statements regarding Committees on Panchayati Raj:

1. Balwant Rai Mehta Committee recommended a three-tier Panchayati Raj system.
2. Ashok Mehta Committee recommended creation of the post of District Development Commissioner.
3. G.V.K. Rao Committee recommended creation of a two-tier structure.
4. L.M. Singhvi Committee recommended constitutional status for Panchayati Raj Institutions.

23. Consider the following statements regarding Courts of Record:

1. The Supreme Court is a Court of Record.
2. Every High Court is also a Court of Record.
3. Every Subordinate Court is a Court of Record.

24. The landmark case M.C. Mehta v. Union of India is best known for expanding the scope of:

25. Which of the following is NOT a protection guaranteed under Article 20?

26. Assertion-Reason: Chronic alcoholics and Vitamin B1

Assertion (A): Chronic alcoholics are highly susceptible to severe neurological complications associated with Vitamin B1 deficiency.
Reason (R): Alcohol consumption significantly enhances the capacity of the small intestine to absorb water-soluble B-complex vitamins.

27. A patient has sunlight-exposed skin lesions, recurring diarrhoea and mild memory lapses. Which vitamin deficiency causes this triad?

28. Consider the following biological statements:

1. Yellow bone marrow in shafts of long bones produces RBCs continuously throughout adulthood.
2. Adjacent cranial bones are joined by immovable fibrous joints.
3. Cartilage is more pliable than bone because its matrix is rich in chondroitin salts rather than hard calcium salts.

29. Assertion-Reason: Ball-and-socket joints

Assertion (A): The human shoulder and hip are ball-and-socket joints allowing wide rotational movement in multiple planes.
Reason (R): Ball-and-socket joints are synovial joints characterised by a fluid-filled synovial cavity that minimises friction.

30. What is a stack of individual membrane-bound thylakoid discs inside a plant chloroplast called?

31. Which type of RNA is most abundant, making up about 80% of cellular RNA and forming the structural and catalytic core of ribosomes?

32. What is the primary physiological mechanism that drives opening of stomatal pores during daytime?

33. Why does the storage life of fresh fruits increase significantly in cold storage?

34. Which chemical neurotransmitter is stored in synaptic vesicles and released at the neuromuscular junction to trigger skeletal muscle contraction?

35. Who first isolated nucleic acid from white blood cell nuclei and named it “nuclein”?

36. Which strait connects the Andaman Sea with the South China Sea and lies between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra?

37. Consider the following statements regarding the Isthmus of Panama:

1. It is a narrow strip of land connecting North America and South America.
2. The Panama Canal connects the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean via the Caribbean Sea.
3. The Panama Canal uses locks primarily because the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are at markedly different sea levels.

38. Consider the following statements:

1. Igneous rocks are formed directly by cooling and solidification of molten magma or lava.
2. Sedimentary rocks are typically formed under high temperature and pressure acting on pre-existing rocks.
3. Metamorphic rocks may be derived from pre-existing igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rocks.

39. Assertion-Reason: Fossils in sedimentary rocks

Assertion (A): Sedimentary rocks frequently contain fossils of plants and animals.
Reason (R): Sedimentary rocks are formed through gradual deposition and compaction of sediments at relatively low temperature and pressure at or near Earth’s surface, allowing organic remains to be preserved.

40. The Brahmaputra river is known by which name while flowing through Tibet?

41. The source of the Indus River lies close to which of the following in Tibet?

42. Consider the following statements:

1. Himalayan drainage rivers are largely perennial because they receive water from melting snow/glaciers and monsoon rainfall.
2. Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus basins together account for the largest share of India’s total river basin area.

43. Consider the following statements regarding insolation:

1. Insolation varies with latitude mainly because of changing angle of incidence of solar rays.
2. Earth’s rotation causes daily/diurnal variation in insolation.

44. Assertion-Reason: Earth’s heat balance

Assertion (A): Despite unequal receipt of insolation at different latitudes, Earth as a whole neither continuously heats nor continuously cools during a year, maintaining an overall heat balance.
Reason (R): Surplus heat from tropical/equatorial regions is continuously transferred towards heat-deficient higher latitudes through atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.

45. The Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted at which COP?

46. Match the COP sessions with host city and key outcome.

A. COP26
B. COP27
C. COP28
D. COP29

1. Baku – New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance
2. Glasgow – Glasgow Climate Pact
3. Dubai – Conclusion of first Global Stocktake
4. Sharm el-Sheikh – Agreement to establish a Loss and Damage Fund

47. Consider the following statements regarding tropical deciduous forests:

1. They are also called monsoon forests and shed leaves for about six to eight weeks during the dry summer.
2. Sal is characteristic of moister tropical deciduous forests, while teak is more characteristic of drier tropical deciduous forests.

48. Match Forest Type with Characteristic Region/Feature.

A. Montane Forests
B. Littoral and Swamp Forests
C. Thorn Forests and Scrub
D. Tropical Evergreen Forests

1. Deltaic regions such as Sundarbans, dominated by salt-tolerant mangroves
2. Semi-arid north-western India receiving under about 70 cm rainfall
3. Succession of forest types with increasing altitude in Himalayas
4. Western Ghats and north-eastern hills, dense multi-layered canopy with negligible dry season

49. The Golden Quadrilateral highway project connects which four major cities?

50. Consider the following statements regarding NHAI:

1. It was constituted under the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988.
2. It functions under the administrative control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

By Harsha

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