Can you provide me the previous year Kerala Circle Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam question paper as my cousin needs it for preparation?

The syllabus of Kerala Circle Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam question paper is as follows:

Postal / Sorting Assistant Exam Syllabus

The recruitment exam consists of two papers. Those are
Paper 1 : Aptitude Test
Paper 2 : Computer / Typing Test

Paper 1 - Aptitude Test : This test is of 100 marks. This test consists of four sections. Each section consists of 25 questions which are of 25 marks. Those are, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Reasoning & Mental Ability and English Grammar.

Kerala Circle Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam general knowledge question paper

The previous year Kerala Circle Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam question paper as your cousin needs it for preparation is as follows:
PART I : ENGLISH
(For questions 1 to 5 : Find the one that best fits in the black space)
1. The traders assured the government that …………………………………the
prices by five percent.
(a) they would reduce
(b) there would be reduction
(c) they reducing
(d) their reduction
2. The Supreme Court ……………………………….banks employing musclemen
for making recoveries
(a) came down heavily on
(b) came on heavily down
(c) down came on heavily
(d) on heavily came down
3. Development of public infrastructure…………………………..mono poly of the
public sector
(a) no longer
(b) is no longer the
(c) the longer is not
(d) is longer the
4. Forty-five minutes after the kids………………………………………⠀¦..their cruise
in the reservoir tragedy struck
(a) embarked into
(b) embarked at
(c) embarked on
(d) embarked up
5. …………………………………………†¦â€¦..decades of hiccups, the Tehri Dam
project was dedicated to the nation.
(a) Overcame
(b) Overcome
(c) Overcoming
(d) To be overcome
(Questions 6-10: These questions are based on the text given below. You
need to substitute the numbers appearing in the text with the most
appropriate of the options given. Needless to say, your substitutions must
keep the text meaningful. Against each question number, options for
substituting the same number in the text are given.)
As water becomes…………..6……………scare, national conflicts are expected to
rise Industry, agriculture and citizens are in competition for the resource that is
so desparately needed for further development. National tensions cover the
distribution of water can quickly………7………..into discord between groups
dependent on a shared resource. Water tensions are brewing overshared
rivers and basins in many countries around the world. Over two hundred
bodies of water are shared by two or more countries. …………..8…………over
water is plaguing states in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the South East
Asia. …………….9………………..particular concern for this case is the dispute
between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, two states in India, over ……….10………to
the River Cauvery.
6. (a)incorrigibly
(b)increasingly
(c)indecisively
(d)indelibly
7. (a)escalate
(b)espouse
(c)estimate
(d)evict
8. (a)Stride
(b)Style
(c)Strike
(d)Suction
9. (a)On
(b)Over
(c)In
(d)Of
10. (a)assess
(b)access
(c)assert
(d)Assent
PART II : MATHEMATICS
11. Find out a simpler form of 48/72
(a) ¾
(b) 2/4
(c) 2/3
(d) 2/5
12. The length of a hall is 20 feet and the width 12 feet. Find out the cost of
a wall-to-wall carpet for this hall at the cost of Rs.5 per square feet.
(a) Rs.2400
(b) Rs.1200
(c) Rs.600
(d) None of the above.
13. Two successive discounts of 10% and 30% is equivalent to a single
discount of
(a) 37%
(b) 28%
(c) 40%
(d) None of the above
14. The surfare area of a cube is 96 cm2 . What is its volume?
(a) 96 cm3
(b) 64 cm3
(c) 121 cm3
(d) None of these
15. The ratio of the monthly income to the savings of a family is 9:2. If the
monthly income of the family is Rs.2700, what is the monthly expenditure?
(a) Rs.600
(b) Rs.1800
(c) Rs.2100
(d) None of the above.
16. If six cubes, each of 10cm edge, are joined end to end, what will be the
surfare area of the resulting solid?
(a) 3600 cm2
(b) 350 cm2
(c) 2600 cm2
(d) None of the above
17. A path of uniform width runs all around the inside of a rectangular field
measuring 36 m by 30 m and occupies 360 sq.m. What is the width of the
path?
(a) 12m
(b) 3m
(c) 10m
(d) 20m
18. A clock shows the time as 30 minutes past two. What is the angle
between the minute-hand and the hour-hand?
(a) 900
(b) 1200
(c) 1050
(d) None of the above
19. Sector-wise expenditure of an office is shown in the given figure, where
measures of central angles are shown. What is the percentage of expenditure
on telephone?
Others
360 Electricity
Stationery
720 1440
Telephone
(a) 40%
(b) 30%
(c) 60%
(d) 70%
20. What is the perimeter of the rectangle ABCD when AD=6 and BD=10 as
shown in the figure
A B
6 10
D C
(a)24
(b)28
(c)32
(d)30
PART III:GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
21. Which is the telephone number announced in India’s Railway Budget 07-
08 for accessing rail information from anywhere anytime?
(a) 100
(b) 101
(c) 102
(d) 139
22. Who has recently taken over as the Secretary-General of the United
Nations Organisation?
(a) Lee Se Ben
(b) Ban Ki moon
(c) Asha-Rose Migiro
(d) Rodrigo Rato
23. What was the January 2007 landmark judgement of the Supreme Court
of India on the ninent schedule of the constitution?
(a) Any law included in the nineth schedule is beyond the scope of judicial
review
(b) There can be no blanket immunity from judicial review of laws instead in
the nineth schedule
(c) No newly enacted law can be included in the ninenth schedule.
(d) Parliament has no power to insert laws in the nineth schedule.
24. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of poet-lyricist P.Bhaskaran, who
passed away recently?
(a) He was a freedom fighter, who was imprisoned in 1942
(b) He made his directorial debut with Neelakuyil along with
RamuKariyat
(c) He never won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
(d) Alliyambalkadavil is one of the popular songs he penned.
25. Which state gets the highest share of water as per the Cauvery Water
Dispute Tribunal’s final award?
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Karnataka
(d) Pondicherry
26. Under ONE INDIA ONE RATE scheme of Speed Post what is the RATE at
present?
(a) Rs.25
(b) Rs.25 plus service tax
(c) Rs.35
(d) None of the above
27. Which of the following services of India Post books parcels without any
specific weight limit?
(a) Speedpost
(b) Express parcel post
(c) Logistics Post
(d) Retail Post
28. India Post has a facility for placing a standing order with a philatelic
bueau for supply of stamps. What is it called?
(a) Stamp Supply Order
(b) Stamp Supply Account
(c) Philatelic Deposit Account
(d) None of the above
29. Name of the arrangement in which a post office keeps a person’s mail
until he or she goes to collect it, used especially when somebody is travelling?
(a) Traveller’s mail
(b) Poste restante
(c) Post – it
(d) Mail exchange
30. Which of the following services is NOT offered at present by post offices
in India?
(a) Sale of Public Service Commission application forms
(b) Acceptance of filled-up passport application forms
(c) Overseas remittance of money from India through WesternUnion
(d) Advertisement on postal stationery
31.Which of the following statements on the wildlife of India is NOT CORRECT?
(a) Endemism in the India reptilian fauna is higher than endemism in Indian
birds
(b) Asoka forbade the killing of animals for sport
(c) Western Ghats is one of the bio-diversity hot-spots in the world.
(d) Lion-tailed macaque is an endemic species of conservation significance
in the Western Himalaya.
32. With which animal is the work of conservationist ValmikThapar
associated?
(a) Tiger
(b) Lion
(c) Shark
(d) Monkey
33. What is Lady’s Slipper?
(a) A vulture
(b) A fruit bat
(c) an orchid
(d) A forest owlet
34. Which of the following correctly describes the habitat of Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve?
(a) Tropical evergreen forest broken by large areas of grasslands.
(b) Confluence of temperate alpine forests with a mix of oak and conifers.
(c) Dense mangrove forests with several rivers, creeks and estuaties
(d) Semi-arid and thorn forest with small patches of grassland.
35. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Allah Octavian Hume?
(a) He founded the Indian National Congress
(b) He was an ornithologist
(c) He started a quarterly journal Stray Feathers
(d) He was a hunter and tracker of man-eating tigers.
36. What is a car with a sloping door at the back that opens upwards called?
(a) Saloon
(b) Hatchback
(c) Sedan
(d) Station Wagon
37. Which part of an aircraft stores goods?
(a) Flap
(b) Hold
(c) Aileron
(d) Cowling
38. Which of the following abbreviations is used for sizes of things especially
clothes?
(a) DJ
(b) XL
(c) CV
(d) ID
39. Which of the following provides essential security for a computer
network?
(a) Firewall
(b) Fire screen
(c) Fireguard
(d) Fire line
40. What is liveware?
(a) Misspelled, it must be live wire.
(b) Software embedded into the hardware.
(c) The users working on the computer system.
(d) A computer in perfect working condition.
PART IV : REASONING AND CLERICAL ABILITY
(Questions 41-50 are based on the date on Kerala given in the table below)
District Area (Sq.Km) Population
Alappuzha 1,256 2,105,349
Ernakulam 2,408 3,098,378
Idukki 5,019 1,128,605
Kannur 2,997 2,412,365
Kasargod 4,992 1,203,342
Kollam 2,491 2,584,118
Kottayam 2,203 1,952,901
Kozhikode 2,345 2,878,498
Malappuram 3,548 3,629,640
Palakkad 4,480 2,617,072
Pathanamthitta 2,642 1,231,577
Thiruvananthapuram 2,192 3,234,707
Thrissur 3,032 2,975,440
Wayanad 2,132 786,627
41. Which is the least populous district?
(a) Wayanad
(b) Idukki
(c) Kasargod
(d) Kottayam
42. Areawise, which are the smallest district?
(a) Alappuzha, Kollam and Kottayam
(b) Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Kollam
(c) Alappuzha, Wayanad and Thiruvananthapuram
(d) Alappuzha, Wayanad and Ernakulam
43. Which is true of the population density of Ernakulam district?
(a) More than 1000 per sq.km.
(b) Less than 800 per sq.km
(c) 900 per sq.km
(d) More than 2000 per sq.km.
44. How many district have population of less than a million?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) None
45. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
(a) Geographical size of Thiruvananthapuram district is closer to that of
Kottayam District than to any other district.
(b) Population density of Palakkad district is less than that of Alappuzha
district
(c) Population density of Ernakulam district is more than that of Wayanad
district.
(d) The smallest district is the least populous
46. Area of Idukki district is larger than the combined area of which of the
following districts?
(a) Kannur and Kasargod
(b) Palakkad and Pathanamthitta
(c) Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur
(d) Alappuzha and Wayanad
47. Which of the following group of districts is arranged in the ascending
order of population size?
(a) Kasargod, Kollam, Kottayam, Alappuzha
(b) Kollam, Kasargod, Alappuzha, Kottayam
(c) Alappuzha, Kasargod, Kottayam, Kollam
(d) Kasargod, Kottayam,Alappuzha, Kollam
48. How many districts have an area of more than 4000 sq.km?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) One
(d) None
49. What is the population density of the combined area of the districts of
Alappuzha and Ernakulam?
(a) More than 1000
(b) More than 2000
(c) Less than 500
(d) Between 500 and 800
50. Which of the following statements is correct?
(a) Kollam district has more population than Kottayam district
(b) Malappuram district has less population compared to Kozhikode
(c) Area wise Pathanamthitta district is larger than Palakkad district
(d) Population density of Kerala is more than 3000 per sq.km