Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

In your birthday suit

1. Not wearing any clothes

2. A suit which covers one’s entire body

3. Birthday celebrations

4. A suit which is designed for only
birthday functions

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

An original model from which later forms are developed.

1. Ancestor

2. Manuscript

3. Prototype

4. Descendant

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A secret or disguised way of writing

1. Symbol

2. Cipher

3. Emblem

4. Puzzle

🔍 Feasible /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/ (adjective)

📝 Meaning: Possible to do.

📌 Examples:
1. It's not feasible to complete the entire project in just two days.
2. The engineers came up with a feasible solution to reduce energy consumption.
3. While the idea is creative, it may not be feasible given our current budget.

Autobiographies of Some Famous Personalities

Autobiographies of Some Famous Presidents & Prime Ministers

• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam - Wings Of Fire
• A.P.J Abdul Kalam - My Journey : Transforming Dreams into Actions
• Barack Obama - Dreams from my Father
• Benazir Bhutto - Daughter of Destiny
• Dr. Manmohan Singh - Changing India
• Inder Kumar Gujral - Matters of Discretion
• Jawaharlal Nehru - An Autobiography : Toward Freedom
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - India Wins Freedom
• Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
• Rajendra Prasad - Athma Katha

Autobiographies of Some Famous Sportsmen and Athletes

• Abhinav Bindra - A Shot At History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
• Kapil Dev - Sraight From The Heart
• Mary Kom - Unbreakable
• Milkha Singh - The Race of my Life
• Mushtaq Ali - Cricket Delightful
• P.T Usha - Golden Girl
• Sachin Tendulkar - Playing it my Way
• Sania Mirza - Ace against Odds
• Sourav Ganguly - A Century Is Not Enough
• Sunil Gavaskar - Sunny Days
• Usain Bolt - Faster Than Lightning
• Vishwanathan Anand - Mind Master
• Yuvraj Singh - The Test of My Life

Autobiographies of Some Famous Artists

• Anupam Kher - Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly
• Dilip Kumar - The Substance and the Shadow
• James Brown - The Godfather of Souls
• Michael Jackson - Moon Walk
• Sonu Sood - I am no Messiah

Autobiographies of Some Other Personalities

• L.K. Advani - My Country My Life
• Baba Ramdev - My Life, My Mission
• Dalai Lama - Freedom In Exile
• Mahatma Gandhi - My Story Of Experiments with Truth
• Stephen Hawking - A Brief History Of Time
• Bhagat Singh - Why am I an Atheist
• Malala Yousafzai - I’m Malala

Borders/Boundary Lines

• Macmahon Line - India & China

• Line of Actual Control (LAC) - India & China

• Line of Control (LOC) - India & Pakistan

• Radcliffe Line - India & Pakistan

• Durand Line - Afghanistan & Pakistan

• Palk Strait - India & Sri Lanka

• Maginot Line - Germany & France

• Oder Neisse Line - Germany & Poland

• Hindenburg Line - Germany & Poland

• 17th Parallel - N.Vietnam & S.Vietnam

• 38th Parallel - N.Korea & S.Korea

• 49th Parallel - USA & Canada

UNION BUDGET 2025-26

Important One Liners

• Government to launch a 6-year “Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses” with focus on Tur, Urad and Masoor. NAFED and NCCF to procure these pulses from farmers during the next 4 years.

• A Makhana Board to be established in Bihar to improve production, processing, value addition, and marketing of makhana.

• The loan limit under the Modified Interest Subvention Scheme to be enhanced from ₹3 lakh to ₹5 lakh for loans taken through the KCC.

• A plant with annual capacity of 12.7 lakh metric tons to be set up at Namrup, Assam.

• Customized Credit Cards with ₹5 lakh limit for micro enterprises registered on Udyam portal, 10 lakh cards to be issued in the First year.

• A new scheme for 5 lakh women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes first-time entrepreneurs to provide term-loans upto ₹ 2 crore in the next 5 years announced.

• A National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management to be set up in Bihar.

• Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme announced to provide digital-form Indian language books for school and higher education.

• Greenfield airports announced in Bihar, in addition to the expansion of the capacity of Patna airport and a brownfield airport at Bihta.

• The FDI limit for the insurance sector to be raised from 74 to 100 per cent, for those companies which invest the entire premium in India.

• No personal income tax payable upto income of Rs 12 lakh (i.e. average income of Rs 1 lakh per month other than special rate income such as capital gains) under the new regime.

• This limit will be Rs 12.75 lakh for salaried tax payers, due to standard deduction of Rs 75,000.

• The limit for tax deduction on interest for senior citizens doubled from the present Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh.

• The annual limit of Rs 2.40 lakh for TDS on rent increased to Rs 6 lakh.

Chemical Name & Formula

Baking Powder - Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3)
Blue Vitriol - Copper Sulphate (CuSO4.5H20)
Bleaching Powder - Calcium Hypochlorite (CaOCl2)
Caustic Potash - Potassium Hydroxide (KOH)
Caustic Soda - Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
Chalk - Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Chloroform - Trichloromethane (CHCL3)
Dry Ice - Solid Carbondioxide (CO2)
Epsum - Magnesium Sulphate (MgSO4.7H2O)
Green Vitriol - Ferrous Sulphate (FeSO4.7H2O)
Gypsum - Calcium Sulphate (CaSO4.2H2O)
Laughing Gas - Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Magnesia - Magnesium Oxide (MgO)
Milk of Magnesia - Magnesium Hydroxide (Mg(OH)2)
Marsh Gas - Methane (CH4)
Mohr's Salt - Ferrous Ammonium Sulphate ((NH4)2SO4.FeSO4.6H2O)
Muriatic Acid - Hydrogen Chloride (HCl)
Plaster of Paris - Calcium Sulphate Hemihydrate (CaSO4.½H2O)
Quicklime - Calcium Oxide (CaO)
Rock Salt - Sodium Chloride (NaCl)
Sand - Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Salt Petre - Sodium Nitrate (NaNO3)
Slaked Lime - Calcium Hydroxide (Ca(OH)2)
Soda Ash - Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3)
Vinegar - Acetic Acid (CH2COOH)
Washing Soda - Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3.10H2O)
White Vitriol - Zinc Sulphate (ZnSO4.7H2O)

Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate expression and mark your response in the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Heath Robinson

1. Very complicated system or machine for doing a simple task

2. Treating everyone as enemy, when they are not

3. Sleeping all day, doing nothing

4. Very lazy person, slow in action

Select the correct idiom that can substitute the highlighted group of words in the given sentence.

You must not participate in the marathon this year without any training. It is an (unreal hope) on your part!

1. carrying coal to new castle

2. a pipe dream

3. a will-o’-the-wisp

4. to lose one’s temper

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

We realize that we are all in this together and (1)/ that pollution anywhere should be a global concern otherwise (2)/ there will only be more tunnels in the end of the tunnel. (3)/ No error (4)

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4