NTS · Nab · 2012
Solved NTS Assistant (NAB) past paper 2012 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for NTS, FPSC, PPSC and all one-paper exams. Covers Law, English, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Everyday Science.
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The NTS General Knowledge paper for Assistant, NAB, from 2012 (Model Paper 51) contains 100 MCQs — 40 on Law (PPC, CrPC, CPC and narcotics provisions) plus English, Mathematics, General Knowledge, Everyday Science, Geography, Pakistan Studies and History — with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Six printed key errors were corrected to the standard answer (viz-a-viz, the early British colonies in North America, laissez-faire, bajra calcium, District Court revision under CPC section 115(2), and criminal action as the ordinary remedy for public nuisance), and 14 further items are flagged with notes, including the defective qisas item, the narcotics bands, and key-only law items.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: Hysteria
Hysteria is a psychological condition, not a contagious disease, unlike typhoid, measles and influenza.
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Correct Answer: Dynamite
Alfred Nobel is associated with the invention of dynamite.
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Correct Answer: Starch
Starch is the essential dietary constituent keyed here, as a carbohydrate food source.
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Correct Answer: Ground nut
Groundnut has the maximum protein among the foods offered.
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Correct Answer: Fats
Fats give the maximum energy in metabolic process, about 9 kilocalories per gram against about 4 for proteins and carbohydrates.
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Correct Answer: Hugo de vires
The theory of mutations was given by Hugo de Vries.
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Correct Answer: Bajra
Bajra (pearl millet) has the highest calcium content among the grains offered.
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Correct Answer: Immune
The AIDS virus destroys the immune system of the human body.
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Correct Answer: Pluto
Pluto was dropped from the list of planets in 2006.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Franz Viehbock
Franz Viehbock was the first Austrian in space, flying in 1991.
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Correct Answer: Dirk Fremont
Dirk Frimout (printed Dirk Fremont) was the first Belgian in space, flying in 1992.
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Correct Answer: China
China won both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics team finals at Beijing 2008.
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Correct Answer: North America
The British Empire's early 17th-century colonies were founded in North America, beginning with Jamestown in 1607.
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Correct Answer: Canada, India
Canada and India are the regions keyed here as won by Britain from France in the 18th century.
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Correct Answer: Battle of Samugarh
Aurangzeb defeated Dara Shikoh at the Battle of Samugarh in 1659 and became Emperor of India.
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Correct Answer: Uprising
Intifada means uprising.
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Correct Answer: Capt James Cook
Captain James Cook charted the New Zealand coasts and discovered New South Wales.
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Correct Answer: New York
The headquarters of the United Nations Organisation are located at New York.
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Correct Answer: Kammalesh Sharma
Kamalesh Sharma was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth (2008-2016).
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Correct Answer: Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by Edward Gibbon.
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Correct Answer: Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Abdul Ahad Mohmand was the first Afghan to go into space.
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Correct Answer: BMX Motocross
BMX Motocross (BMX racing) became an Olympic sport for the first time in 2008.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: Myanmar
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, belonged to Myanmar.
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Correct Answer: Indus
The Indus is the longest river of Pakistan.
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Correct Answer: Capt. Raja Sarwar
Captain Raja Sarwar was the first recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider.
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Correct Answer: Hafeez Kardar
Hafeez Kardar was the first captain of the Pakistan cricket team.
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Correct Answer: Shamma Khalid
Shamma Khalid (Shama Khalid) was appointed the first governor of Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009.
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Correct Answer: Anwar Saddat
Anwar Sadat, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1978, was the first Muslim to get a Nobel Prize.
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Correct Answer: Vatican
Vatican City, with only a few hundred residents, is the least populous city offered.
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Correct Answer: Angel Falls
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world.
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Correct Answer: Tropic of Cancer
On 21 June the sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer.
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Correct Answer: Albania
Albania is the country in the continent of Europe among those offered.
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Correct Answer: Australia
Australia is the smallest continent of the world area-wise.
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Correct Answer: Amazon
The Amazon is the largest river of the world by discharge.
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Correct Answer: Tokyo
Tokyo is the most populous city of the world among those offered.
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Correct Answer: Monaco
Monaco is the most densely populated city (city-state) among those offered.
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Correct Answer: Venezuela
The world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, is situated in Venezuela.
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Correct Answer: Orally
Viva voce means orally, by word of mouth.
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Correct Answer: None of them
Viz-a-vis means face to face, or in relation to, so none of the offered phrases fits.
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Correct Answer: None of these
Laissez-faire means leaving things alone, with no state interference, so none of the offered phrases fits.
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Correct Answer: Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare.
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Correct Answer: impregnable
That which cannot be attacked or taken by force is impregnable.
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Correct Answer: secretive
Furtive means secretive.
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Correct Answer: voluntary
Gratuitous means voluntary, given free without payment.
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Correct Answer: placate
To change hostility into friendship is to placate.
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Correct Answer: deltiology
Deltiology is the study of picture postcards.
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Correct Answer: of
Ignorance of law is no excuse.
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Correct Answer: with
The forest is infested with beasts.
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Correct Answer: of
Do not despair of failures in life.
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Correct Answer: down
The watch has run down.
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Correct Answer: 20
An amount doubling in 5 years at simple interest earns 100 percent in 5 years, a rate of 20 percent.
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Correct Answer: 20
E scored 20 runs: with E as x, the five scores sum to 3x + 120 = 180, so x = 20.
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Correct Answer: 9%
Y is 10 percent less than X, since (0.80Z - 0.72Z) / 0.80Z = 10 percent.
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Correct Answer: 3
Three people read both French and English: 7 + 8 + 3 - 15 = 3.
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Correct Answer: 20
Twenty percent watched neither: 100 - (65 + 40 - 25) = 20 percent.
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Correct Answer: 15
The son is 15 years old: 3s - 5 = 4(s - 5) gives s = 15.
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Correct Answer: 50 years
The father is 50 years old: the elder son is 25 and the father twice that.
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Correct Answer: 12
There are 12 girls: 24 boys in total, two-thirds of 36 students, leaving 12 girls.
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Correct Answer: 45
Forty-five passengers entered in the beginning: 30 men and 15 women.
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Correct Answer: 48% of the total members own only one car each.
Forty-eight percent of the total members own only one car each: 20 percent own two cars, 32 percent own three, leaving 48 percent with one.
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Correct Answer: Honesty and without deception
Good faith means honesty and without deception.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
An appellate court has all of the stated powers: to determine a case finally and remand it, frame issues, and take additional evidence.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
The High Court may revise on all the stated grounds: jurisdiction not vested, jurisdiction not exercised, or jurisdiction exercised illegally or with material irregularity.
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Correct Answer: Revision
Under section 115(2) of the CPC, a District Court may exercise the revisional power over a subordinate court's case where no appeal lies.
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Correct Answer: beneficiary
A person who receives benefits from a trust is known as a beneficiary.
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Correct Answer: A corporation's rules and regulations
By-laws are a corporation's rules and regulations.
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Correct Answer: Offenders and Loafers
Sections 54, 55 and 109 of the CrPC are keyed here for offenders and loafers (arrest and security for good behaviour).
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Correct Answer: The heirs of the victim, according to his personal law
In case of qatl, the wali is the heirs of the victim, according to his personal law.
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Correct Answer: If the offender is a close related to the victim.
Qatl-i-amad is not liable to qisas where the offender is a close relation (ancestor) of the victim, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
The value of daman is determined by the court keeping in view all of the stated factors: treatment expenses, loss or disability, and anguish suffered.
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Correct Answer: One twentieth of the diyat
The arash for causing itlaf of a tooth is one-twentieth of the diyat.
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Correct Answer: Extendable to one hundred Rupees
The fine in case of punishment of affray is extendable to one hundred rupees.
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Correct Answer: All of the above
Gratification is taken in all of the stated meanings: pecuniary terms, estimable in money, and monetary gains.
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Correct Answer: Simple imprisonment extendable to one year with/without fine
Taking gratification for exercising personal influence with a public servant is punishable with simple imprisonment extendable to one year, with or without fine.
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Correct Answer: Simple imprisonment extendable to one year with fine or both.
A public servant who disobeys the law with intent to cause injury is punishable with simple imprisonment extendable to one year, with fine or both.
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Correct Answer: 1/4 of the imprisonment which is maximum fixed for the offence
The limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine, where imprisonment and fine are awardable, is one-fourth of the maximum imprisonment fixed for the offence.
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Correct Answer: For the act done
When an act is abetted and a different act is done, the abettor is liable for the act done.
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Correct Answer: All above mentioned
Injury denotes any harm illegally caused to a person in body, mind, reputation or property — all of the above mentioned.
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Correct Answer: Criminal action
A public nuisance is a criminal offence, so its ordinary remedy is criminal action (prosecution).
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Correct Answer: Declaratory decrees
Decrees whose purpose is merely the declaration of a right, conferring no new rights or compensation, are called declaratory decrees.
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Correct Answer: Seven years and shall also be liable to fine
For a quantity over 100 grams up to one kilogram, imprisonment may extend to seven years, with a fine.
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Correct Answer: Death or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years and shall also be liable to fine which may be up to one million rupees
For a quantity over one kilogram up to ten kilograms, the term in the keyed option is imprisonment extending to fourteen years, with a fine up to one million rupees.
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Correct Answer: Imprisonment for life
Imprisonment for life is among the punishments for quantities exceeding ten kilograms, which may attract death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of not less than fourteen years.
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Correct Answer: Circumstantial Evidence
Indirect evidence that implies something occurred but does not directly prove it is circumstantial evidence.
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Correct Answer: Defamation
Publication of a statement injuring a person's reputation is termed defamation.
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Correct Answer: Being tried twice for the same offence
Double jeopardy is being tried twice for the same offence.
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Correct Answer: Felony
A serious crime punishable by incarceration for a year or more is termed a felony.
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Correct Answer: a & b
An appeal lies from an original decree and from an ex-parte decree, but not from a consent decree — so (a) and (b).
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Correct Answer: Pleader
A pleader is a person entitled to appear and plead for another in court, including an advocate and an attorney of a High Court.
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Correct Answer: Investigation
Investigation includes all proceedings under the Code for the collection of evidence by a police officer or a person authorised by a Magistrate.
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Correct Answer: Judicial Proceeding
A judicial proceeding includes any proceeding in which evidence is or may be legally taken on oath.
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Correct Answer: Pakistan Penal Code
All offences under the Pakistan Penal Code are investigated, enquired into, tried and otherwise dealt with under the Code.
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Correct Answer: Provincial Government
The Provincial Government may divide a district into sub-divisions and alter their limits.
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Correct Answer: Provincial Government
The Provincial Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division and appoint its judge.
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Correct Answer: Plaintiff
A person from or through whom an applicant derives his right to apply is keyed here as the plaintiff.
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Correct Answer: Heirs of deceased
Where there is no executor or administrator, the creditor may proceed against the heirs of the deceased, as keyed.
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Correct Answer: Imprisonment for ten years or with fine
The punishment keyed here for rape, in the older formulation, is imprisonment for ten years or with fine.
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Correct Answer: Cannabis
Cannabis plant means any plant of the genus Cannabis.
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Correct Answer: Erythroxylon
Coca bush means the plant of any species of the genus Erythroxylon.
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Correct Answer: Federal Government
Under section 49 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act 1967, nuclear energy, mineral oil and natural gas are the property of the Federal Government.
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Verified from the official paper / published solved paper — every answer rechecked before publishing.
Questions
100 questions, all published: Law (40), English (13), Mathematics (10), General Knowledge (10), Everyday Science (9), Geography (9), Pakistan Studies (6) and History (3).
Mostly Law — PPC, CrPC and CPC provisions, qisas/daman/arash, and narcotics punishments — plus English vocabulary and prepositions, Mathematics, General Knowledge, Everyday Science, Geography, Pakistan Studies and History.
Yes. Every answer was checked three ways — the book's printed Answer Key on p.228, the book's own wording, and the standard fact — with six key errors corrected (Q17 viz-a-viz, Q18 North America, Q21 laissez-faire, Q24 bajra, Q64 revision, Q79 criminal action) and 14 retained-with-note flags.
Its Law, General Knowledge, Mathematics, English and Geography content is shared with NTS, FPSC, PPSC, CSS MPT and other one-paper exams, so it is useful practice for all of them.
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