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Dear students,

31st May 2020 is the D-day for all civil service aspirants.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

This quote by Abraham Lincoln clearly sums up how one should prepare for that day. So before entering the battlefield alone should have enough practice. Our Prime Prelims Test series which shall enrich you to acquaint yourself with the pattern of CSE-2020, assess your abilities, rectify your mistakes and make you confident to appear on the examination day.

Our Prime Prelims Test Series follows the same approach as that adopted by UPSC. Our team of experts is quite enriched with the UPSC pattern and focal point of the questions and hence creates more chances for the aspirants to crack civil service examination by appearing our Test Series.

The key philosophy of our prelims TS is Evidence-based question making: The 3600 questions you face in our mocks have their relevance established in UPSC’s trend analysis. We focus on themes that are important as per UPSC so that we maximize your chances of questions overlap with the actual UPSC Prelims.

This Ancient and Medieval History test contains questions from the following themes:

Nothing speaks more than the facts itself rather than a mere jargon. Here is a list of 5 sample questions from the upcoming test which will help you in identifying the standards and approach we follow. (you can skip this if you want to attempt these directly in the test). 

Noone but only you can assess how it will help you in being the top percentile of aspirants. You have to practice ruthlessly and civils Daily provides you with a platform to hone your skills.

Q.1) Which of the following is an example of ‘Pigovian Tax’?

a. Tax on Diesel

b. Education Cess

c. Clean energy cess

d. Surcharge on income tax

Q.2) In the context of international trade, “Early Harvest” Package refers to which of the following?

a. A clause related to the Agreement on Agriculture under the World Trade Organization.

b. A pre-cursor to a Free Trade Agreement between two trading partners.

c. A subsidy mechanism given to the developing countries for trade in agriculture.

d. A transportation agreement signed between countries for the movement of goods.

Q.3) Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2018 is the latest flagship publication of:

a. World Bank (WB)

b. United Nations (UN)

c. International Monetary Fund (IMF)

d. World Economic Forum (WEF)

Q.4) The term ‘Kudumbashree’, often seen in the news refers to:

a. An initiative to change negative family and community attitudes towards the girl child in Telangana.

b. A World Bank project in India focused on the welfare of adolescent girls and young women.

c. An environmental movement demanding better protection of natural resources in India.

d. A women-oriented community-based poverty reduction programme being implemented in Kerala.

Q.5) With reference to the economy, the term “base effect” refers to:

a. a normalized average of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region.

b. impact of the rise in price level in the previous year over the corresponding rise in price levels in the current year.

c. a monetary policy strategy used by Central Banks for maintaining price level at a certain level.

d. the bonus brought by inflation to the borrowers.