Bank Probationary Officers’ Aptitude Test

Bank Probationary Officers’ Aptitude Test

Instructions:

1) Select one correct answer from the options given. Each correct answer carries one mark. Time: 15 minutes

2) Attempt each question without looking to the answers. Then compare your answers and evaluate yourself.

3) Scores: 22 to 25 answers: Excellent; 18 to 21 answers: good; <>

1) The President of NCAER and also the chairman of its governing body is

a) Nandan NIlekani

b) Bimal Jalan

c) Nasrayana Murthy

d) Dr Rangarajan

2. Which of the following companies is a subsidiary company of Tata Steel?

a) Videocon;

b) Vodafone;

c) Corus;

d) Mittal Steel

3. PFIZER is a giant corporate in the field of

a) Pharmaceuticals;

b) Information Technology;

c) Bio-Technology;

d) Virtual Technology

4. CIPLA is a corporate in the field of

a) Information Technology;

b) Cement

c) Pharmaceuticals;

d) Steel

5. The chairman of VAT Committee is

a) P Chidambara;

b) M N Vidyashankar

c) Asim Dasgupta

d) Ravi Kant

6. Which of these is a global rating agency?

a) CRISIL;

b) ICRA;

c) Standard & Poor’s;

d) Bank of England

7. Identify the company engaged in general insurance business.

a) ICICI Lombard;

b) ICICI Prudential;

c) Bajaj Allianz;

d) Max New York

8. Identify the company engaged in general insurance business.

a) ING VYSYA;

b) ICICI Prudential;

c) IFFCO-TOKIO;

d) Max New York

9.. Identify the company engaged in life insurance business.

a) New India Assurance

b) ING VYSYA;

c) Oriental Insurance

d) IFFCO-TOKIO;

10. Which trade union organisation has made a beginning to fight for techies’ rights?

a) CITU;

a) b)INTUC

b) Bharat Mazdoor Sabha;

c) Indian IT Industries’ Association

11. The acronym ITES refers to

a) IT Enabled Services;

b) IT Entertainment Services

c) Income Tax Exemption Scheme;

d) IT Exports Scheme

12. Which district in Karnataka has been declared as “100 percent financial inclusion district”

a) Bangalore Urban;

b) Gulbarga;

c) Raichur;

d) Davanagere

13 Who won the Celebrity Big Brother 2007 Reality Show?

a) Shilpa Shetty;

b) Rakhi Sawant;

c) Jade Goody,

d) Daniel Lloyd

14 PSLV stands for

a) Public Sector Light Vehicle;

b) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle;

c) Private Sector Light Vehicle;

d) Pure Services Lending Value

15 Name the US astronaut of Indian descent presently in the International Space Station

a) Kalpana Chawla;

b) Sunita Williams

c) Richard Gere;

d) Bipasha Basu

16. Founder of NASSCOM is

a) Narayana Murthy

b) Nandan Nilekani

c) Azim Premji

d) Bill Gates

17. Who is the author of the book “The God of Small Things”

a) Arundathi Nag

b) Arundathi

c) Arundathi Roy

d) Arundathi Shukla

18. Who is the author of “Difficult Authors”?

a) Manju Kapoor

b) Manjunath Kapoor

c) Manju Raikar

d) Manju

19. Who is the author of “ Train to Pakisthan”?

a) Khushwant Singh

b) Balbir Singh

c) A B Vajapayee

d) Gen Musharaff

20. The acronym RIDF stands for

a) Rural India Development Fund

b) Rural India Drawing Finance

c) Rural Infrastructure Development Fund

d) Rural Infrastructure Dissolution Fund

21 Which one of the following is not correct?

a) Kapil Saibal-Minister for Science and Technology

b) Ram Vilas Paswan—Minister for Urban Development

c) Prem Chand Gupta-Minister of Company Affairs

d) Sharad Power: Minister for Agriculture

22 . H R Bharadwaj is a minister for

a) Tourism and Culture

b) Earth Sciences

c) Company Affairs

d) Law and Justice

23 Who is the author of the book “The Great Indian Dream”

a) Arindam Choudhury

b) Sri Sri Sri Ravishankar

c) C K Prahlad

d) Vijay Govindarajan

24 “You can win” is written by

a) Dale Carneige

b) Shiv Khera

c) Stephen Covey

d) Nandan Nilekani

25 Pradip Khandwalla is the author of

a) The Second Eye

b) The Third Eye

c) The Fourth Eye

d) The Fifth Eye

Answers to Bank PO General Awareness-7

Q No	Ans	Q No	Ans	Q No	Ans
1	a	11	a	21	b
2	c	12	b	22	d
3	a	13	a	23	a
4	c	14	b	24	b
5	c	15	b	25	c
6	c	16	b
7	a	17	c
8	c	18	a
9	b	19	a
10	a	20	c