FPSC · Statistics Division · 2011
Solved FPSC Assistant, Statistics Division past paper 2011 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers General Knowledge, English, Mathematics.
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This is the FPSC Assistant, Statistics Division (BPS-16) past paper from 2011 (Model Paper 109 in the book). It contains 100 MCQs — General Knowledge, English, Mathematics, Everyday Science, Pakistan Studies and Islamic Studies — with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Five printed key answers were corrected to the standard answer, and three items carry retained-with-note flags where the book's taught answer differs from the strict fact or the printed item is defective.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: insulation
Liquid hydrogen is stored in double-walled vacuum-insulated (Dewar-type) tanks, where insulation plus the evacuated gap limits heat transfer.
Correct Answer: eligible
Countries that are also UN members are eligible to join the body in question.
Correct Answer: capital
Basic research builds the capital fund of scientific knowledge that applied researchers draw on.
Correct Answer: nomadic
Cereal farming on a large scale replaced a food-gathering nomadic existence with settled agriculture-based civilisation.
Correct Answer: snarling
A snarling wind is a fierce, growling wind that drove the boats home.
Correct Answer: energies, portraying
Professionals focus their energies on fulfilling responsibilities, not on portraying a particular image.
Correct Answer: thrive, suffer
In the modern world the selfish thrive while the conscientious suffer, which is why Johnson's quotation is said to hold good.
Correct Answer: awaits, equipoise
A period of joy awaits us, and such thinking maintains our equipoise — mental balance — and peace of mind.
Correct Answer: inherited, distinct
Living by inherited values, a person can be straightforward, honest and distinct.
Correct Answer: listen, trust
A counsellor listens attentively and sensitively to employees who trust him with their feelings.
Correct Answer: continuing, dizzying
Neglecting continuing education, a junior executive can quickly become obsolete in a world changing at dizzying rates.
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Correct Answer: theological
Ontology is presented as less theological and less supernatural than metaphysics, dealing with being and existence itself.
Correct Answer: agronomist
An agronomist works on crop and pasture production, so an agronomist boosting pasture seed yield fits the sentence.
Correct Answer: lards
To "lard" speech is to embellish it heavily, here with trade jargon.
Correct Answer: soar
Sales that keep rising like a runaway balloon soar.
Correct Answer: feasible
Leaving at four is not feasible when work ends at four-thirty.
Correct Answer: fortitude
It takes fortitude — strength of mind — to refrain from yelling under provocation.
Correct Answer: attune
Eyes attune to darkness: vision adjusts to the dark before one can find a seat.
Correct Answer: prerogative
Choosing the paint colour was Nick's prerogative, his right to decide.
Correct Answer: alleviate
John wanted nothing more than to alleviate, or relieve, the pain.
Correct Answer: Showing Respect
Respectful means showing respect.
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Correct Answer: Punish
The opposite of pardon — to forgive an offence — is to punish it.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Protozoa
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium protozoa, carried by the Anopheles mosquito; the mosquito is the vector, not the cause.
Correct Answer: Measles
Measles is a highly contagious disease spread from person to person.
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Correct Answer: McDowell's Challenge cup and World cup
The book's answer names the McDowell's Challenge Cup and the World Cup as cricket trophies.
Correct Answer: Table Tennis
The Corbillon Cup is the women's world team championship trophy in table tennis.
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Correct Answer: Hatf-I
Pakistan's first missile test on 11 February 1989 was Hatf-I, the country's first surface-to-surface missile.
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Correct Answer: Sindh
After Punjab, Sindh is the second most densely populated province of Pakistan.
Correct Answer: Baluchistan
Baluchistan, the largest province by area with a small population, is the most thinly populated province.
Correct Answer: Murree
Murree records the maximum annual rainfall among the places listed.
Correct Answer: Indus
Tarbela Dam is constructed on the Indus River.
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Correct Answer: Earth's gravitational pull
Escape velocity is the speed needed to escape the Earth's gravitational pull.
Correct Answer: Romer
Ole Romer first measured the velocity of light, from the eclipses of Jupiter's moons.
Correct Answer: low melting point
A fuse wire must melt quickly on overload, so it is made of a metal with a low melting point.
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Correct Answer: Both option A and B
GATT was both the 1947 agreement among non-communist nations to encourage tariff-free trade and the bargaining framework for trade concessions.
Correct Answer: Luxembourg
The General Secretariat of the European Parliament is in Luxembourg.
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Correct Answer: record business transaction
The primary function of accounting is to record business transactions.
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Correct Answer: United States military base in the Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia is a United States military base in the Indian Ocean.
Correct Answer: Baramula
The Kishanganga Dam is in the Baramulla region of Jammu and Kashmir.
Correct Answer: Royal observatory of Greenwich is in Copenhagen
The Royal Observatory is at Greenwich in London, not Copenhagen, so that statement is the wrong one.
Correct Answer: Karakoram Highway
The Silk Route is another name for the Karakoram Highway route through the mountains.
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Correct Answer: Mercury
Mercury, the innermost planet, is nearest to the Sun.
Correct Answer: Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
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Correct Answer: Maulvi Tameez ud Din
After the Quaid's death, Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan became President of the first Constituent Assembly.
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Correct Answer: Anwar Sadaat
Anwar Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, a year before Abdus Salam's 1979 Physics prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.
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Correct Answer: Dead Sea
The ancient village discovered in Israel lay under the mud of the Dead Sea.
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Correct Answer: All
Computers are attractive for their accuracy, reliability and speed — all three.
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Correct Answer: Orange
Oranges are a rich source of vitamin C.
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Correct Answer: 1913
Quaid-e-Azam joined the Muslim League in 1913.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: .000196
0.014 multiplied by 0.014 equals 0.000196; the printed operator is read as multiplication, since subtraction would give zero, which is not offered.
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Correct Answer: Rs.25
Loss is 200 minus 175, which is Rs.25.
Correct Answer: Rs.50
Loss is 350 minus 300, which is Rs.50.
Correct Answer: Rs.60
Loss is 100 minus 40, which is Rs.60.
Correct Answer: Rs.1000
Loss is 8000 minus 7000, which is Rs.1000.
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Correct Answer: 300
51 is 17% of 300, since 300 times 0.17 equals 51.
Correct Answer: 50%
Profit of Rs.200 on Rs.400 is 50%.
Correct Answer: 60%
Profit of Rs.300 on Rs.500 is 60%.
Correct Answer: 9.09%
Profit of Rs.4000 on Rs.44000 is 9.09%.
Correct Answer: 11.11%
Loss of Rs.10000 on Rs.90000 is 11.11%.
Correct Answer: 2000
60 is 3% of 2000, since 2000 times 0.03 equals 60.
Correct Answer: 700
35 is 5% of 700, since 700 times 0.05 equals 35.
Correct Answer: 20%
Loss of Rs.200 on Rs.1000 is 20%.
Correct Answer: 64%
Loss of Rs.1600 on Rs.2500 is 64%.
Correct Answer: 48.57%
The key's 48.57% is retained as the book's answer, although 20 out of 35 km is 57.14%, which is not among the printed options.
Correct Answer: 40%
20 out of 50 km is 40%.
Correct Answer: 1100
55 is 5% of 1100, since 1100 times 0.05 equals 55.
Correct Answer: 40.54%
150 out of 370 km is 40.54%, not the key's 30%.
Correct Answer: 60%
510 marks out of the 850-mark matriculation total is 60%.
Correct Answer: 59.33%
178 out of 300 is 59.33%.
Correct Answer: 25%
A rise from Rs.120 to Rs.150 is Rs.30 on Rs.120, a 25% increase.
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Correct Answer: one of them is concave and the other, convex and they are made of different materials
An achromatic doublet pairs a concave and a convex lens made of different materials so their dispersions cancel.
Correct Answer: directly proportional to the velocity of the wave inversely proportional to wave length and can be represented by a wave number
The propagation constant is proportional to the wave velocity divided by the wavelength, and is represented by the wave number.
Correct Answer: Energy
Lenz's law follows from the conservation of energy: the induced current opposes the change that produced it.
Correct Answer: linear momentum but not of mass and energy
Viscosity in gases is understood as transfer of linear momentum between layers, not of mass or energy.
Correct Answer: it has minimum surface energy
A liquid drop is spherical because a sphere has minimum surface energy for a given volume.
Correct Answer: the ice cube is lighter than water and heavier than alcohol
Ice is lighter than water so it floats, but heavier than alcohol so it sinks in alcohol.
Correct Answer: One part
About one-tenth of an iceberg's mass stays above the water surface.
Correct Answer: the force of gravity is less at the equator than at the poles
Gravity is weaker at the equator than at the poles, so an object weighs less at the equator.
Correct Answer: Air escaping from a punctured tyre feels cold
Air escaping from a punctured tyre feels cold because the expanding gas cools; boiling water stays at a fixed temperature.
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Correct Answer: F.W. Aston-1919
F. W. Aston discovered in 1919 that atoms of some naturally occurring elements are not exactly alike — the isotopes.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: November 1953
Muhammad Ali Bogra toured the United States in 1953, the year he became Prime Minister.
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Correct Answer: 1954
Pakistan joined SEATO in 1954, the year the treaty organisation was formed.
Correct Answer: 1955
Pakistan became a member of CENTO (the Baghdad Pact) in 1955.
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Correct Answer: 16th August 1953
Bogra discussed Kashmir with Nehru in Delhi on 16 August 1953.
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Correct Answer: 7th October 1953
The Bogra Formula was presented in the Constituent Assembly on 7 October 1953.
Correct Answer: 10th October 1954
PRODA was repealed by the Constituent Assembly on 10 October 1954.
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Correct Answer: 9 seats
In the March 1954 East Pakistan elections the Muslim League won only 9 of the 309 seats.
Correct Answer: 1954
Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad imposed Governor's Rule in East Pakistan in 1954.
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Correct Answer: May 1955
Gurmani appointed Abdul Hameed Dasti as Punjab Chief Minister, dismissing Feroz Khan Noon's government, in May 1955.
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Correct Answer: 14th October 1955
The One Unit scheme came into effect in Pakistan on 14 October 1955.
Subject 6
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Correct Answer: 100 or more Ayahs
Al-Mi'in (Al-Maeen) are the surahs containing 100 or more verses.
Correct Answer: Surah-Al-Taubah
Masjid Quba is mentioned in Surah Al-Taubah.
Correct Answer: (Sabiqun al-Awwalun)
The pioneers of Islam are titled As-Sabiqun al-Awwalun, the foremost ones.
Correct Answer: Surah Noor
The Ifk (slander) event is described in Surah An-Noor.
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Correct Answer: 40 Ahadith
Arbeen (Arbaeen) means forty, so the book contains 40 Ahadith.
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Correct Answer: Fiqh Hanafi
Fatwa Qazi Khan is an authentic fatwa collection of the Hanafi school.
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Correct Answer: Fay
Fadak was bestowed on the Holy Prophet as Fay — property acquired without fighting — not as war booty.
Correct Answer: Oh, morning danger
"Ya Sabahah" was the morning alarm cry, meaning "Oh, morning danger!"
Correct Answer: Ummayia bin Khalaf
Hazrat Bilal's master at the time he embraced Islam was Umayya bin Khalaf.
Correct Answer: Mina
The splitting of the moon occurred at Mina, according to tradition.
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Questions
The paper contains 100 MCQs, all 100 published, including five-option English vocabulary items and one three-option Everyday Science item as printed.
It covers General Knowledge (27 questions), English (22), Mathematics (21), Everyday Science (10), Pakistan Studies (10) and Islamic Studies (10).
Yes. Every answer was reconciled three ways — the book's printed key, the book's own material, and the standard fact — and five printed key answers were corrected where they disagreed with the standard answer.
Its General Knowledge, English, Mathematics and Pakistan Studies questions are equally useful for PPSC, NTS, CSS MPT and all other Pakistan one-paper exams.
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