General Science and Ability Past Paper 2019

A vitamin table opens the General Science and Ability past paper 2019. Q.2 asks candidates to match deficiency diseases — poor night vision, bleeding gums, rickets, beri-beri, anaemia — to the right vitamins, then explains how cholesterol and arterial fat harm the heart. The paper presses current worries: chemical fertilizers, rising CO2 in the atmosphere, and ozone depletion. Q.3 separates vaccines from antibiotics, and Q.4 asks whether mammals always lay eggs and names the ones that do. Section-II, the ability section in this year’s naming, sets a timing puzzle where three sounds coincide at midnight, hens and rabbits counted by heads and legs, polygon types, a code language, and a piano recital ordering puzzle.

What this paper contains

  • Part-II — attempt four questions, two from each section; each question carries 20 marks (the file opens at Part-II; the printed split is 20 MCQs and 80 descriptive)
  • Section-I Q.2 — Vitamins and deficiency diseases, cholesterol and the heart, chemical fertilizers, CO2 in the atmosphere
  • Section-I Q.3 — Renewable and non-renewable energy, optic fibres, hurricanes and cyclones, vaccines and antibiotics
  • Section-I Q.4 — Forests and the economy, biotechnology, egg-laying mammals, the Sun’s gravity
  • Section-I Q.5 — Ozone depletion, types of network, dangers of casual antibiotic use, chemical bonds
  • Section-II Q.6–Q.8 — Timing and pipe puzzles, percentage sums, measures of central tendency, ratio shares, polygons, a code language, a recital ordering puzzle, sets
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