Postal Assistant Exam Sample Solved MCQ for General Knowledge

1. The author of the book "What Went Wrong" was _______________

A. Nelson Mandela
B. V.S. Naipal
C. Kapil Dev
D. Kiran Bedi

Ans: D

2. NMD-stands for _____________

A. National Missile Development
B. National Mineral Development
C. National Missile Defence
D. None of these.

Ans: C

3. The first Sikh war was brought to an end by the treaty of ___________

A. Lahore
B. Kandahar
C. Amritsar
D. Kabul

Ans: C

4. SMS, which is very popular these days, stands for ______________

A. Short Memory Service
B. Short Mobile Service
C. Short Mail Service
D. Short Message Service

Ans: D

5. Hormone involved in phototropism is _________

A. Vitamin
B. Kinetin
C. Auxin
D. Gibberellin

Ans: C

6. The Port that is located at Dolphin's Nose is ___________

A. Kandla
B. Tuticorin
C. Visakhapatnam
D. Paradip

Ans: C

7. Identify the manmade element

A. Calcium
B. Gold
C. Californium
D. Carbon

Ans: C

8. Indian National Congress was founded by _____________

A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. W.C. Banorjee
C. Allan Octavian Hume
D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ans: C

9. Who among the following has won the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century Award?

A. G.R. Vishwanath
B. Sunil Gavaskar
C. Kapil Dev
D. B.S. Chandrasekhar

Ans: C

10. In India, proclamation of emergency is done by the _____________

A. Prime Minister
B. President
C. Cabinet
D. Parliament

Ans: B

11. According to "India Vision 2020", India is trying to give full employment till 2020. Then how many employments should be created every year?

A. Ten Million
B. One Million
C. Two Million
D. Five Million

Ans: D

12. Which among the following is an international river?

A. Krishna
B. Mahanadi
C. Brahmaputra
D. Narmada

Ans: C

13. Which of the following cities has been declared "Model-E-Governance District"?

A. Patna
B. Hyderabad
C. Badodara
D. Pune

Ans: C

14. Which of the following taxes is the major source of the income of the Union Government?

A. Income Tax
B. Fringe Benefit Tax
C. Customs and Excise Duty
D. VAT

Ans: C

15. Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas is observed on which of the following day?

A. 9th October
B. 9th January
C. 9th March
D. 9th May

Ans: B

16. Which of the following is not included in the biometric identification?

A. Voice print and retina of ey
B. Fingerprint and palmprint
C. Height and Weight
D. Geometry of hand and rythem of typing

Ans: C

17. Which of the following is a rich source of iron?

A. Green Peas
B. Spinach
C. Carrot
D. Beetroot

Ans: C

18. Which of the following programmes has been implemented in all the districs of the country?

A. Navodaya Vidhyalay
B. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuthikaran Yoana
C. Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
D. National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

Ans: D

19.Who played the role of the Hockey Coach in the film Chak De India for which he was given the Award for Best Actor?

A. Aamir Khan
B. Salman Khan
C. Sharukh Khan
D. Abhishek Bachchan

Ans: C

20. Which of the following is the name of India's one of the major microfinance Institution?

A. Bantra
B. Spandana
C. Grameen
D. Compartamos

Ans: C

PA/SA Direct Recruitment exam postponed

PA/SA DIRECT RECRUITMENT EXAMINATION which was tentatively scheduled on 21st April 2013 (ie. Phase I which includes Kerala Circle) has been postponed to 12th May 2013.

 Apptitude Test (Paper I) is tentatively scheduled on 12-05-2013.

Admit card is/ will be despatched on 12-04-2013.

If you do/have not received the Admit Card by 27-04-2013 then you can download the admit card on line from the 29-04-2013.

 Also report any discrepancy (if any) in Admit Card data from 29-04-2013 using the link GENERATE ADMIT CARD.

Useful Facts about Nobel Prize

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established 
The Prize in Economics, as it is referred to by the Nobel  Foundation, was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Syeriges  Riksbank  in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary

Nobel Peace Prizein  Peace 2012
The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic 
Two Americans, Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, were Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic on Monday for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations

The  Indian  who  got  Nobel prize

Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross, born in Uttrakhand, , in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in 1902 for his work on  Malaria

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, born in  Mumbai , 1865 , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907

Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

C.V.Raman
C.V.Raman was born at Thiruvanaikaval, Tamil Nadu. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics n 1930 for the effect named after him.

Mother Teresa
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace -  1979 to Mother Teresa in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity

Amartya Kumar Sen  
Amartya Kumar Sen  who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 '"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a US Citizen.

Ten selected Questions from Civil Service Examination 2007

1.Which one  of  the  following  national  highways passes  through  Maharashtra , Chattisgarh,  and  Orissa
A NH  4
B NH  5
C  NH 6
D NH 7     

2. In  the human  body   which  structure  is  the  appendix   attached  to  ?
A  a  large intestine 
B   a  small  intestine
C  The  gall bladder
D   The  stomach       

3.Which  one  among  the  following  states of india   has  the  lowest  density  of population
A  Himachal  Pradesh 
B  Meghalya
C  Arunachal  Pradesh    
D  Sikkim

4.Which one  among  the  following  major  Indian  cities  is  most  eastward  located ?
A Hyderabad
B  Bhopal
C  Lucknow
D  Bangalore    

5.Who  among  the  following  started  the  newspaper  sh ome prakash  ? 
A   Dayanand Saraswati 
B   Ishwar  Chandra  Vidyasagar
 C   Raja ram  mohan  roy 
D  Surendra natha  banargee

6.Who  was  the  speaker  of  the  first  lok Sabha ? 
A  Hukam Singh
B  G  V  Mavalankar 
C  K M  Munshi
D U  N  Dhebar
7.Who  among the  following  is  considered  as the  inventor  world  wide  Web ( WWW)?
A  Edward  Kasner
B  Bill Gates
C Tim- Berners – Lee
D Vinod  Dham     

8.Which  one  of  the  following  is  another  name of   RDX?
A  Cyanohydrin
B  Dextran
C  Cyclohexane
D Cyclonite   

9.If  all  the  numbers  from  501 to  700   are  written  ,  What  is the  total  number of  times  does  the  digit   6  appear 
A  138
B 139
C  140
D 141    
  
10.Which  of  the following  types   of  light  are strongly  absorbed   by  plants?
A    Violet  and  Orange 
B  Blue  and  red
C  Indigo  and  Yellow
D  Yellow  and  Violet    

Syllabus for PA/ SA Examination Pattern

PART A
25 Questions  on  General  Knowledge , Question on  current  events, sports, history  , geography, basic economics, general  polity, Indian  constitution, science environment etc 25  marks

PART B
25 question s on  Mathematics  of matriculation standard which  may  cover number system , simplification , decimals  corrections  simple and  compound  interest , percentage  average , profit& loss , discount  menstruation  , time  & work and  time  & distance etc 25 Marks

PART C
25 questions  on  English covering  grammer( Prepositions adverbs, conjunction  , Direct/indirect  speech  , singular & Plural  tenses  , antonyms/synonyms  etc  25 Marks

PART D
25 questions  on  reasoning  and  analytical  ability 
25 marks

Computer/Typing   Test  (Paper II)

The  typing test shall be for a  duration  pf 30 minutes  (15 minutes  each  for typewriting and  data  entry )  consisting  of one  passage of 450 words in  English  or 375 words  in Hindi  to  be  typed  with   a minimum  speed  of  30/25 words  per minute  respectively &  data entry  of some  figures  and  letters each  carrying  marks  on  computers  . The  typing  test  and  test  of  data entry  will  be  conducted  computer  but do  not on  type  writer.

Holding PA/SA Direct Recruitment 2011-2012 - tentative schedule

Holding PA/SA  Direct  Recruitment for  the vacancies 2011 and  2012 - tentative  schedule

 The  examination  is  proposed  to  be  held  in  three  phases  with  dates as follows

Phase              Date of  examination
I                   April  21 2013

II                  May  05  2013

III                 May  19 2013

PC  CODE	Postal  Code	Phase	PC  CODE	Postal  Code	Phase	PC  Code	Postal  Code	Phase
16	Gujarat	I	12	Assam	II	15	Delhi	III
21	Kerala	I	23	Madhya Pradesh	II	17	Hariyana	III
22	Karnataka	I	14	Chattisgarh	II	18	HP	III
24	Maharashtra	I	20	Jarkhand	II	19	J& K	III
11	Andhra Pradesh	I	25	North  East	II	27	Punjab	III
29	Tamil Nadu	I	26	Odhisha	II	28	Rajasthan	III
			32	West Bengal	II	30	UP	III
						31	U K	III
						13	Bihar	III

SIXTEEN QUESTIONS FOR DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATION

1-----------  means anything transmittable by Post, whether Letter,  Paper, Parcel, or Package

Article

2.  Forward Postage is  not   chargeable  on a.  mis-sent article.

The above said statement is

True

3.   A  Packet  of   Newspapers consists of  ----  or  more  Newspaper   enclosed in one cover.

Two
4 . what is meant by  office of posting ?

Office which any article is first received from the sender


5  The privileges and powers of the Government in respect of Postal and cognate matters are dealt with in the------------------------------

 Indian Post Office Act

6   in which ministry directs the postal department?

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
7     --------------- and -----------------  are permanent invitee to the Postal board


The joint Secretary and Financial Advisor to the Department

8    In which  postal  circle    is headed by  Major General called Additional Director  General  

Base Circle  (for army postal service )
9   In which ratio is adopted  for selection of  army postal service 

Seventy five  percent  of staff is coming from  civil post office as deputation and remaining twenty five staff are selected  through the direct recruit
10 The Materials Management is  handled by   ------------   member of postal board

Member (D)
11   The Headquarters of the Postal Services Board, the Director-General and other officers of the Director General are at  Mumbai

The above said statement is 

False
12  . Any representation which is not an appeal should be designated as ---------------

    a petition
13   Any petition or copy thereof which is sent direct to the Director General or to any subordinate authority, instead of through the proper channel, will be filed, no notice of any kind being taken of it.

The above said statement is

True
14 Petitions, representations and applications addressed to the Director General
by persons who have left the Department, or whose services have been dispensed with or who have been dismissed or removed from service.
Then  what  is the ruling related with  submission  of petitions, representations and applications ?


All such communications must be submitted through the Head of the Circle or the Administrative
Office under whom the persons were last employed.

15   For other Subordinate Courts,--------- appointed by the State Govt. have been notified to appear on behalf of the Union of India and its officers under the Civil Procedure Courts.

The Govt. Pleaders
16  All ---------------- in the Posts Department who are fully conversant with the facts of the particular cases are the authorised persons by whom Plaints and Written Statements in Suits in any courts of civil jurisdiction by or against the Central Government can be signed and verified in respect of matters concerning the Posts Department.

Gazetted Officers

Previous Year Solved question paper

       Friends, here is the Previous Paper of Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant Exam held on 14th November 2010. Just download this pdf file to your systems and try to solve this on your own. Later check with the key provided at the end of the paper. Hope it helps you in getting good idea of the upcoming Postal / Sorting Assistants Exam. All The Best and Happy Reading.

Model Paper for Postal Assistant about Computers

1.  What does 'DOS' stands for
a) Disk Original System
b) Dynamic Operating System
c) Disk Operating System     (Ans)
d) Default Operating System
e) None of these

2.  Which of the following are functions of DOS 
1) Controlling the input and output operations
2) Controlling the input and output operations
3) Controlling the interaction between the user and the computer
a) Only (1)
b) Only (1) and (2)
c) Only (2) and (3)
d) All (1), (2) and (3)      (Ans)
e) None of these

3.  What do you understand by the term DOS
a) Downloading the System Program from the Internet
b) Down loading Operating Program from the Internet
c) The master control program of the computer which helps computer to manage the files
d) The program which helps computer to check the various peripheral devices
e) Both (c) and (d)      (Ans)

4.  What was the last version of MS-DOS that was released separately
a) 6.22     (Ans)
b) 6.0
c) 6.11
d) 5.0
e) none of these

5.  One of the following statements is  incorrect on MS-DOS
a) S-DOS is a command driven operating system
b) MS-DOS is a windows driven operating system    (Ans)
c) MS-DOS exhibits a system prompt which is normally represented as C:\>
d) MS-DOS is made up of external and internal commands
e) None of these

6.  Which of the following is not a usual file extension in DOS
a) .EXE
b) .BAT
c) .o   (Ans)
d) .class
e) None of these

7.  What do you understand by the term 'booting'
a) The process of starting the computer from the power-off position    (Ans)
b) Connecting the computer to the electric switch
c) Increasing the memory of the computer
d) The process of shut down the computer
e) None of these

8.  A bootable disk is ______________
a) a disk in the computer, which can be easily updated
b) a disk that contains all the system files of DOS    (Ans)
c) a disk loaded with the information from the internet
d) a disk loaded with all the software
e) None of these

9.  What is the difference between cold booting and warm booting
1) Cold booting uses a floppy for booting while warm booting uses hard disk for booting
2) Cold booting uses floppy is starting the computer from the power-off position and warm booting is the restarting the computer with CAD (Control+Alt+Delete) command or reset button when it hangs.
a) only (1)
b) Only  (2)    (Ans)
c) Both (1) and (2)
d) Either (1) or (2)
e) None of these

10.  Which file in MS-DOS contains internal commands that are loaded during booting process
a) CONFIG.SYS
b) MSDOS.SYS
c) IO.SYS
d) COMMAND.COM     (Ans)
e) None of these

11.  What is the name of the batch file that is automatically run when MSDOS is booted
a) CONFIG.SYS
b) CONFIG.BAT
c) AUTORUN.BAT    (Ans)
d) RUN.BAT
e) None of these

12.  One of the following statements on Internal commands is not true
a) At the time of booting, Internal commands are automatically loaded into memory
b) Internal commands are executed instantly without refering to disk
c) Internal commands are those that have been built into MS-DOS
d) All of these
e) None of these     (Ans)

13.  One of the following on External command is correct
a) External commands are stored onto disk in the form of a file
b) For executing these commands path must be set to DOS director
c) For executing external commands they must be first loaded memory 
d) All of the above
e) None of the above     (Ans)

14.  FAT stands for
a) File Activity Table
b) File Allocation Table      (Ans)
c) File Access Tape
d) File Accomodation Table

15.  The REN command in DOS is used to
a) change the name of the file       (Ans)
b) move the file from one location to another
c) delete a file and its contents
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

16.  The purpose of the MD command is to
a) create a directory       (Ans)
b) move a folder
c) make a database
d) All of the above
e) None of these

17.  The SCANDISK program
a) is a disk analysis and repair tool       (Ans)
b) make a database
c) scans disk and eliminate viruses
d) All of the above
e) None of these

18.  The function of DELTREE command is to
a) delete an entire directory that contains files, subdirectories or both files and subdirectories       (Ans)
b) pick similar named files from different directories and delete them automatically
c) delete and entire disk with complex directory and file structures so as to format the disk faster
d) All of the above
e) None of these

19.  One of the following statements is not true about DIR command
a) if the DIR command is used without parameters of switches, it displays the disk's volume label and serial number, one directory or filename per line, including the filename extension, the file size in bytes and data and time of the last modification of the file
b) used to display a list of the files and/or subdirectories in the specified path.

c) is to read the contents of a file      (Ans)
d) /P switch of DISKCOPY command is to
e) None of these

20.  The FILES command
a) can be issued from the system prompt-C:\>
b) assigns the amount of memory that is to be set aside for the file handlers     (Ans)
c) is to be issued only in AUTOEXEC.BAT files
d) All of the above
e) None of these

21.  The purpose of the FORMAT command is to
a) create a new root directory and file allocation table for the disk
b) locate and mark all  bad sectors on a disk
c) prepare a floppy disk for use with the MS-DOS
d) All of the above      (Ans)
e) None of these

22.  The purpose of the MOVE command is to
a) move one or more files to the location you gave         (Ans)
b) rename directories
c) both of the a and b
d) to move the text within file
e) None of the above listed

23.  The PATH command
a) specifies directories that MS-DOS is to search when trying to locate executable files     (Ans)
b) displays detailed technical specification of your disk drivers
c) displays the port address of all the installed ports and dynamically display the status of each port including the I/O ports
d) displays the information of adapters
e) None of these

24.  The PRINT command
a) can print in the background if you have an output device connected to one of your systems' serial or parallel ports.
b) is used to print a text file
c) both a and b mentioned above     (Ans)
d) to print all the files in the directory 
e) None of the above

25.  The REPLACE command
a) selectively copies files from a source file to the target disk
b) adds new files to the target disk if they are not already there
c) replaces the files target with more recent versions of files
d) All of the above       (Ans)
e) None of these

26.  The TREE command
a) is an external command
b) displays the structure of the directories or the disk in the specified drive         (Ans)
c) displays the true name of logical drives and directories
d) All of these   
e) None of these

27.  Which command in DOS is used to display the version of MSDOS  
a) VER       (Ans)
b) VERSION
c) VERSN
d) RESTORE
e) None of these

28.  Which among the following best tools for fixing errors on display  
a) CHKDSK
b) FIXDSK
c) FDISK
d) SCANDISK        (Ans)
e) None of these

29.  Which command displays the list of all previous command entered the user
a) DIR/ALL
b) COMMANDS/ALL
c) KEYDOS
d) DOSKEY       (Ans)
e) None of these

30.  VIRUS stands for
a) Very Important Record User Searched
b) Verify Interchanged Result Until Sources
c) Virtual Information Resources Under Search         (Ans)
d) Very Important Resource Under Size
e) None of these

31.  Which of the following file names are invalid in MSDOS 
a) MYFILE.DOS
b) CHECKS (1)
c) VERIFIED###3       (Ans)
d) QWERTY.1?
e) None of these

32.  Which one of the following DOS commands sends contents of the screen to an output device
a) BREAK
b) DISKCOPY
c) MORE        (Ans)
d) ASSIGN
e) None of these

33.  The DOS command, which cannot be executed with version 1 and
a) GRAPHICS
b) FIND
c) LABEL        (Ans)
d) MODE
e) None of these

34.  Which one of the following file names is invalid in DOS 
a) RT.BAT
b) LISTEN.BIN
c) RLUA.BAT        (Ans)
d) TALK.BAS
e) None of these

35.  Which one of the following DIR- commands lists a group of files
a) DIR INVOICE.BAS
b) DIR RESCUE.BAS
c) DIR PAY ROLL.BAS
d) DIR TOOL ? BAS       (Ans)
e) None of these

36.  Which one of the following is a valid DOS command
a) RENAMEA:SAMPLE:TEXT
b) LIST ???.???
c) RECOVER A:      (Ans)
d) LIST
e) None of these

37.  Which one of the following is an invalid command
a) DIR>>LIST>TCT
b) DIR>>LIST>TXT
c) DIR>>LPTI:      (Ans)
d) All of these
e) None of these

38.  Which one of the following is not an Internal DOS command
a) MORE
b) REN
c) DATE     (Ans)
d) CLS
e) None of these

39.  Which one of the following is not an internal DOS command
a) TIME     (Ans)
b) RD
c) FORMAT
d) TYPE
e) None of these

40.  Which one of the following is not an internal DOS command
a) TIME
b) RD
c) FORMAT     (Ans)
d) TYPE
e) None of these

41. Which one of the following is not an Internal DOS command
a) CLS
b) PROMPT      (Ans)
c) DEL
d) CHKDSKS
e) None of these

Questions on MS WORD

42.   What is MS Word
a) A game
b) An operating system.
c) Word Processing Software     (Ans)
d) Typing tuitor software

e) None of these

43.  Which of the following companies developed MS Office 2000 ?
a) Novell
b) Corel
c) Lotus
d) Microsoft      (Ans)
e) None of these

44.  MS-Word allows creation of ___ type of documents by default
a) .DOC     (Ans)
b) .WPF
c) .TXT
d) .DOT
e) None of these

45.  Which of the following is the word Processor in MS Office
a) Word pad
b) Word     (Ans)
c) Word perfect
d) Word Star
e) None of these

46.  Which of the following is not a part of a standard officer suit
a) File manager      (Ans)
b) Image editor
c) Database
d) Word Processor
e) None of these

47.  What word is used to describe the act of correcting something
a) Erase
b) Correcting
c) Edit      (Ans)
d) White out
e) None of these

48.  Outlook Express is a ________
a) E-mail Client
b) Schedular
c) Address Book
d) All of the above      (Ans)
e) None of these

49.  Which of the following is not a special program in MS-Office
a) Office Art
b) Clip Art
c) Word Art
d) Paint Art     (Ans)
e) None of these

50.  Which of the following are valid Minimum & Maximum zoom size MS-Office 
a) 10,100
b) 10,1000
c) 20,250
d) 10,500    (Ans)
e) None of these