FPSC · Cabinet Division · 2004
Solved FPSC Assistant Director, Cabinet Division past paper 2004 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers English, General Knowledge, Mathematics.
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This is the FPSC Assistant Director, Cabinet Division (BPS-17) past paper from 2004 (Model Paper 98 in the book). It contains 100 solved MCQs covering English vocabulary and idioms, General Knowledge with a strong SAARC block, Mathematics, Everyday Science, Pakistan Affairs and Islamic Studies, with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Five printed key answers were corrected to the standard answers — the SIPA abbreviation, the highest population growth rate, the river of Mehrgarh, the month of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali's resignation and the end of Iskander Mirza's presidency — and every disagreement is flagged, never hidden.
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Correct Answer: One who believes that we can know nothing of things beyond material phenomena
An agnostic believes that nothing can be known about the existence of God or about things beyond material phenomena.
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Correct Answer: One who is opposed to idol-worship
An iconoclast is one opposed to idol-worship and to cherished beliefs and images.
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Correct Answer: Practice of being married to only one person at a time
Monogamy is the practice of being married to only one person at a time.
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Correct Answer: Policy of racial segregation
Apartheid was the policy of racial segregation in South Africa.
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Correct Answer: Branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of animals and plants
Morphology is the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of animals and plants.
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Correct Answer: Introductory part of literary-work
A prologue is the introductory part of a literary work.
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Correct Answer: Quality of using more words than needed
Verbosity is the quality of using more words than needed.
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Correct Answer: repaying in kind
To retaliate is to repay in kind.
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Correct Answer: sharpness and accuracy of judgment
Acumen is sharpness and accuracy of judgment.
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Correct Answer: rashness
Temerity is rashness, reckless boldness.
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Correct Answer: slander
Calumny is slander, the making of false defamatory statements.
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Correct Answer: shameless
Unabashed means shameless, showing no embarrassment.
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Correct Answer: under suspension
In abeyance means under suspension, temporarily held over.
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Correct Answer: partial likeness
An analogy is a partial likeness, a comparison between two things.
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Correct Answer: fixed sum paid annually
An annuity is a fixed sum paid annually.
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Correct Answer: stooped
To condescend is to stoop, to lower oneself to accept something.
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Correct Answer: helps to produce
Conducive means helping to produce something, favourable to it.
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Correct Answer: to have one's thoughts far away
To be lost in the clouds is to have one's thoughts far away, to daydream.
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Correct Answer: a bone of contention
An apple of discord is a bone of contention, a cause of strife.
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Correct Answer: to make a useless effort
To beat the air is to make a useless effort.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Foreign Ministers of the member States
The SAARC Council of Ministers comprises the foreign ministers of the member states.
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Correct Answer: Foreign Secretaries of the Member States
The SAARC Standing Committee comprises the foreign secretaries of the member states.
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Correct Answer: 6
The book keys 6 SAARC technical committees functioning at the paper's time.
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Correct Answer: SAARC Integrated Programme of Action
SIPA is the SAARC Integrated Programme of Action.
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Correct Answer: 16th January, 1987
The SAARC Secretariat was established at Kathmandu on 16 January 1987.
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Correct Answer: 1969
The Nobel Prize for Economics was introduced in 1969, when it was first awarded.
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Correct Answer: Giving no choice at all
Hobson's choice is giving no choice at all, take it or leave it.
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Correct Answer: 5
Five SAARC Regional Centres were established at the paper's time.
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Correct Answer: SAARC Documentation Centre
SDC is the SAARC Documentation Centre.
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Correct Answer: May, 1994
The SAARC Documentation Centre was established in New Delhi in May 1994, as keyed in the book.
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Correct Answer: Vitamin C
Scurvy is caused by deficiency of vitamin C.
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Correct Answer: Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
The Aral Sea is bounded by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Correct Answer: East
Walking west, then turning right to the north, then right again, you are heading east.
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Correct Answer: Oxygen
Oxygen, about 46% by weight, is the most abundant element in the earth's crust.
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Correct Answer: Lactometer
A lactometer is the instrument for testing the purity of milk.
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Correct Answer: Canada
Canada was the world's largest uranium producer at the paper's time.
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Correct Answer: Sea of Marmora
The Sea of Marmara lies between the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
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Correct Answer: Problem of ethnicity
The book keys the problem of ethnicity as the most dreadful issue facing the ECO states.
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Correct Answer: The clock placed at the British Parliament building
Big Ben is associated with the clock at the British Parliament building; strictly, it is the bell in the tower.
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Correct Answer: South Africa
South Africa was the world's largest gold producer at the paper's time.
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Correct Answer: San Francisco
The Golden Gate Bridge is located in San Francisco.
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Correct Answer: Post-Mortem examination of a body
An autopsy is a post-mortem examination of a body.
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Correct Answer: Pakistan
Pakistan had the higher population growth rate among the options in 2004, about 2% against India's about 1.6%.
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Correct Answer: Wealthy Class
Plutocracy is a form of government controlled by the wealthy class.
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Correct Answer: The process of writing dictionaries
Lexicography is the process of writing dictionaries.
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Correct Answer: Bolan River
The Mehrgarh site stands on the Bolan River.
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Correct Answer: Karakuram Range
Kilik Pass is situated in the Karakoram Range.
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Correct Answer: Sindh Sagar Doab
The land between the Indus and the Jhelum is the Sindh Sagar Doab.
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Correct Answer: Palestine
WAFA is the news agency of Palestine.
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Correct Answer: Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific is the airline of Hong Kong.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: Rs.15000
If Rs.1500 is 10% of income, the income is 1500 x 10 = Rs.15000.
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Correct Answer: 6
Working together they finish in 1/(1/10 + 1/15) = 6 days.
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Correct Answer: 8
One carton holds 10 x 12 = 120 cubes, so 960/120 = 8 cartons are needed.
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Correct Answer: 20 days
Halving the men doubles the time, so 8 men take 20 days.
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Correct Answer: 50%
Profit is (600 - 400)/400 = 50%.
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Correct Answer: 60%
Profit is (800 - 500)/500 = 60%.
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Correct Answer: 18
The book keys 18 for this series item, printed as 5, ?, 14, 10, 9, 7; the printed series follows no verifiable pattern.
Correct Answer: 19
The odd positions run 7, 10, 14, 19, rising by 3, then 4, then 5.
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Correct Answer: 232
The bracketed number is twice the difference of the outer numbers: (466 - 341) x 2 = 250, so (398 - 282) x 2 = 232.
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Correct Answer: 300
60 pages is 20% more than the second day's 50 pages, and 50 is 1/6 of the book, so the book has 300 pages.
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Correct Answer: 7
Each term is half the previous term minus 2: 172, 84, 40, 18, 7.
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Correct Answer: 80 days
Halving the men doubles the time, so 10 men take 80 days.
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Correct Answer: 3333.33
If Rs.500 is 15% of annual income, the income is 500/0.15 = Rs.3333.33.
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Correct Answer: Rs.1000
Loss is 8000 - 7000 = Rs.1000.
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Correct Answer: 5
The odd positions run 1, 2, 3 and the even positions 3, 5, 7, so the missing even term is 5.
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Correct Answer: 2
18800/470 = 40, and 40/20 = 2.
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Correct Answer: 4 1/2 hours
The first cyclist has an 18-mile head start and the second closes at 4 mph, so he catches up in 4.5 hours.
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Correct Answer: 15 minutes
Their combined rate is 1/30 + 1/45 + 1/90 = 1/15 of the pool per minute, so together they take 15 minutes.
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Correct Answer: Rs.3900
A chair costs Rs.200 and a table Rs.500, so 12 chairs and 3 tables cost 2400 + 1500 = Rs.3900.
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Correct Answer: 0
The bracket simplifies to b, so b - b = 0.
Subject 4
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Correct Answer: More for a sharp edge
The diffraction effect is more pronounced for a sharp edge.
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Correct Answer: Refraction
The book keys refraction for light entering a room in daytime.
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Correct Answer: Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska
Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska built the first electron microscope in 1931.
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Correct Answer: Karl Jansky
Karl Jansky first detected radio waves coming from space.
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Correct Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan led the first marine expedition to travel around the Earth; it was completed under Elcano after his death.
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Correct Answer: Charles Pathe
The book keys Charles Pathé as the film-pioneer answer for the first movie camera; Louis Le Prince's camera is not among the options.
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Correct Answer: Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby gave the concept of the first integrated circuit.
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Correct Answer: Silver
Silver is the best conductor of electricity among the options.
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Correct Answer: Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes was the first to determine the size of the earth correctly.
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Correct Answer: Kanada
Kanada, the ancient Indian philosopher, first gave the concept of the atom.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: 3rd April 1956
The book keys the Republican Party's formation by Dr. Khan Sahib to 3 April 1956.
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Correct Answer: 19th-May 1956
The book keys Fazal Elahi's election as Speaker of the Assembly to 19 May 1956.
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Correct Answer: 8th September 1956
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali resigned in September 1956, and 8 September is the closest offered date; Suhrawardy succeeded him on 12 September.
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Correct Answer: Constitution of 1956
Iskander Mirza took over as president on 23 March 1956 under the Constitution of 1956.
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Correct Answer: 27th October 1958
Iskander Mirza remained president until Ayub Khan removed him on 27 October 1958.
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Correct Answer: Abdur Rab Nishtar
The book keys Abdur Rab Nishtar as the successor as president of the Muslim League.
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Correct Answer: 309
The East Pakistan Assembly, the House in question, had 309 seats.
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Correct Answer: March 1957
The book keys Maulana Bhashani's resignation as Awami League president to March 1957.
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Correct Answer: December 1957
The book keys 'Operation Close Day' in East Pakistan to December 1957.
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Correct Answer: 1958
Deputy Speaker Shahid Ali died in 1958 of injuries suffered in a scuffle in the House.
Subject 6
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Correct Answer: Hazrat Usman (R.A)
Hazrat Usman (R.A) is Jami-i-Quran, the compiler of the Quran.
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Correct Answer: Thirty Years
The Pious Caliphate lasted about thirty years, from 632 to 661.
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Correct Answer: 9th Zil Hajjah
The gathering on Arafat during Hajj is made on 9 Zil Hajjah.
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Correct Answer: 26
25 prophets are named in the Quran; 26 is the closest offered answer, as keyed in the book.
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Correct Answer: 27 Rajab
The event of Miraj Sharif took place on 27 Rajab.
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Correct Answer: Surah Alaq
The first five verses revealed were those of Surah Al-Alaq.
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Correct Answer: 23 years
The revelation of the Holy Quran took 23 years to complete.
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Correct Answer: 632 AD
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) performed Hujjat-ul-Wada in 632 AD.
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Correct Answer: 6
Six Surahs are named after prophets: Yunus, Hud, Yusuf, Ibrahim, Muhammad and Nuh.
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Correct Answer: Tabuk
Tabuk was the last Ghazwa in which the Holy Prophet (PBUH) participated.
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The paper contains 100 questions with verified answers and explanations.
It covers English, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Everyday Science, Pakistan Studies and Islamic Studies.
Yes. Every answer was reconciled three ways — the book's printed key, its printed material and the standard fact — and the five key disagreements are flagged, never hidden.
It helps with FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all Pakistan one-paper exams, since its English, General Knowledge, Mathematics and Everyday Science blocks share the common one-paper syllabus.
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