PPSC past papers for

Sub Inspector in Punjab

police
Held on 15/09/2019
 . A hockey team won 6 matches and
lost 8 matches, what will be the ratio?

• a) 6:8
b) 8:6
c) 3:7
d) 8:14
2. In PowerPoint select design can
be applied.
•
a) To current slide only
b) To all slide
c) To all the new presentation you create
d) All of these
 3. (25*10) / (5(6-4)2) =?

•
a) 200
b) 50
c) 25/2
d) 25
 4. Thomas Jefferson was the ——
—– of the United States.
•
a) 1st
b) 2nd
c) 3rd
d) 4th
 5. Complete the series 1, 1, 8, 4,
27, 9, ——-
•
a) 64
b) 20
c) 60
d) 24
 6. What is the name of
autobiography of Adolf Hitler?
•
a) Hope and Success
b) Mein Kamp
c) Das capital
d) Third beach
 7. If jack needs 2.5 pints of cream to
make a dessert, how many pints will
he need to make three desserts?

•
a) 7.5
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5.5
8. Ali can type at a speed of 25 words
per mint, how many words he can
type in one hours?

•
a) 1300
• b) 1200
• c) 1500
• d) 1475
 9. If the average arithmetic mean
of 8, 12, 15, 21, x and 11 is 17 then
what is x?
•
a) 3
b) 15
c) 17
d) 35
 10. LED stands for?
•
a) Laser Emitting Direction
b) Laser Exacting Diode
c) Light Exit Direction
d) Light Emitting Diode
 11. Which one number will complete
this series 8, 13, 10, 15, 12, 17, 14, —–

•
a) 19
b) 22
c) 16
d) 20
 12. The short cut key to close a
selected window is.
•
a) Alt + F4
b) Cntrl + F4
c) Alt + F5
d) Alt + F3
 13. How many Non-Muslims were
killed in Ghazwa-e-Badr?
•
a) 50
b) 60
c) 70
 14. Pakistan is located in
•
a) South Asia
b) East Asia
c) South East Asia
d) North East Asia
15. Sam bought a 12 pack of soda for
$5.40, how much did he pay per cane
of soda?

•
a) $0.54
b) $0.45
c) $2.22
d) $0.40
16. What was the capital of Japan
before tokyo?

•
a) Hiroshima
b) Osaka
c) Kyoto
d) Oldnawa
 17. In the Composition of the
earth, Aluminum is:

•
(a) 27.5%
(b) 20.3%
(c) 14.5%
(d) 8.1%
18. The deepest part of the Ocean
is:

•
(a) Vostok
(b) Puerto Rico Trench
(c) Mariana Trench
(d) Sundas Trench
 20) Which of the following is the
method by which data is converted
from a readable form to an encoded
version?
• Encryption

• 21) The Oldest searching engine

is:
• Alta Vista
 22) Chaudhry Rehmat Ali who
proposed the name of “Pakistan” is
buried in?
• Cambridge

• 23) The length and the breadth of a

rectangle are in the ratio of 3:1.I f
the breadth is 7 cm, then the
length of a rectangle is:
• 21
 24) A Hybrid computers:

• Both features of analog computers and digital

computers.

• 25) The Kabul River joins River

Indus near:
• Attock
26) Which type of exercise measures
upper body strength and endurance?

• Push ups

• 27) Solve 6.334×104=

• 𝟔𝟑𝟑𝟒𝟎
 28) A Computer application program
that display data arranged in Rows
and Columns is called a:
• Spreadsheet

• 29) Which of the following options

is not a valid PowerPoint‘s view?
• (a) Slide Show view (b) Slide Sorter view
• (c) Presentation view (d) Outline view
 30) ______ is wife of Hazrat
Muhammad (SAW) also known as
Umm al-Masakin:
• Zaynab bint Khuzayma

• 31) A patient requires a 30% decrease

in the dosage of his medication. His
current dosage is 340 mg. What will his
dosage be after the decrease?
• 238 mg
 32) Solve (𝟕𝟓𝟎𝟎)+(𝟏𝟐𝟓𝟎𝟓𝟎) =

• 7525

• 33) What is maximum size you

can apply for any character in
MS Word is:
• 1638
 34) GUI Stands for:
• Graphical user interface

• 35) if x= 3 then x3 = (3)3=

• 27
 36) “Leukemia” is a disease of:
• Blood

• 37) The 35: 84 in simplest form

is:
• 5: 12
38) To copy a picture of the screen
to the clipboard is used

• (a) Alt key

• (b) Shift key
• (c) print screen key
• (d) none of these
 39) ______ is used to transmit
digital data over telephone lines.
• Modem

• 40) CRT Technology is used in:

• Monitor
 41) Anguish synonym:
• Agony

• 42) In MS Excel, We cannot edit

contents of a cell by:
• (a) pressing a Alt key
 43) Pakistan lost to India in the final
of 2016 Asian Men’s Hockey
champion trophy. Where was the
final match played?
• Kuantan, Malaysia
 44) What is a terabyte?
• A) An optical storage medium capable of
storing vast amounts of information
• B) A multifunctional operating environment
• C) Flash memory
• D) Roughly a trillion bytes
 45) Solve √𝟏.𝟒𝟒 =

• 1.2

• 46) civil disobedience movement

against british started by:
• Mahatma Gandhi
47) 15 men were hired to plough a
piece of land in 10 days. How many
more men will be required to do the
same job in 3 days?
• 50
 48) RAM Stands for:

• Random Access Memory

• 49) PowerPoint presentations are widely used as

• A. Note outlines for teachers
• B. Project presentations by students
• C. Communication of planning
• D. All of above
 50) Astola Island is in:
• Pakistan

• 51) Which of the following fraction

is smallest?
• (a) 11/13
• (b) 9/11
• (c) 3/4
• (d) 5/7
(52) How are Human rights enforced?

• By interpreting legislation and common

law rules consistent with convention
rights

• (53) Solve √134

• = (134 )1/2= 132 = 169
 54) A common name of software
errors is:

• Bugs
55) 9 is 1/3 % of what number?
56) A solution of water and sugar
contains 10% sugar the solution
weight is 8kg when 2kg of water is
added to this solution the
percentage of sugar becomes?
• 8%
 57) find the similar relationship as
Threat : Insecurity

• A. Challenge : Fight
• B. Thunder : Lightning
• C. Clouds : Rain
• D. Disease : death
• Answer:
• A . Challenge : Fight
 58) Which shortcut key is used to
insert a new slide in the current
presentation?
• Ctrl + M
59) A is twice as good a workman as B
and together they finish a piece of
work in 18 days. In how many days
can A alone finish the work? Solution
Let B be x and

• Answer explained on next slide

 60) If you pay $22.90 for a DVD that
includes a 7% sales tax, what is the
price of the DVD before the sales tax?

• Solution:
• 7/100 * 22.90/1 = $1.60 off
• 22.90 - 1.60 =
• $21.30 originally OR ($21.40According to
PPSC option)
 61) who is the current mayor of
London?

• Sadiq Khan

• 62) Imran khan was recently sworn

in as Pakistan’s_____ prime
minister.
• 22nd
 64) The value of 1/3 of 24 is:

• 8

• 65) Length and width of a field are

in the ratio 5:3, if the width of the
field is 42m then its length is:
• 70m
66) Ayesha has three types of balls
red, green and blue, if there ratio
is 2:3:5. What precent of balls are
green.
• 30
• 67) Which type of computer
program would be used to design an
invitation card? (from given options)
• Desktop publishing
 68) Macintosh series of personal
computers was developed by which
of the following company? Apple

• Apple

• 69) The khudai khidmatgar

movement was started by?
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
 70) who was the chairman of the
boundary commission which
divided punjab and Bengal?

• (Cyril Radcliffe)
 71) Complete the series.
2,6,18,54,______

• (162)
72) If A's income is 25% less than B's
income then by what per. cent is B's
income more than that of A ?
 73) Shortcut key to switch to the
next window is:

• Alt + Tab

• 74) Who is called the father of

the computer?
• Charles Babbage
 75) X, 9, 25, 49, 81, 121. Find the
value of x.
• Ans is 1
• Taking square of odd numbers 1,3,5,7,9,11
 76) Total number of students in a
class is 95. If the total no girls in the
class is 45, then the ratio of total
number of boys to total number of
girls is:
77) What is capital of Japan before
Tokyo?
• Kyoto

• In, MS Excel, Which functions

automatically, totals a column or
row of values?
• SUM
 What is the missing number in the
series? 4, 6, 10, 18, _____, 66
• (34) By doubling the added numb each time (as 2 to
4,4 to 8,8 to 16,16 to 32)

• Which of the following is not a major

reason for an email bounce? (from given
options)

• Stale file handling

 The data transfer from one place to
another place is called?
• Data communication

• ________ is used as a disk

Scanner in Microsoft Windows?
• Disk cleanup
 Where is Bathsheba Beach
situated?

• Barbados

• A Program that can destroy all of

your computer programs:
• Virus
 Which among of the following that
convicted in Rawalpindi conspiracy
case?
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz
which of the following way cannot
be used to link excel worksheet
data to a word document.

• a. With the right drag method

• b. With a hyperlink
• c. With the copy and paste special
commands
• d. With the copy and paste buttons on the
standard toolbar.
 In Computing, NOS stands for:

• Network Operating System

• What is the percentage of 12 of

36 is?
• 33.33%
Dar-es-salaam is the major city of:

• Tanzania

• Which country was the first give

women the right to vote?
• New Zealand
 Statistical study of Human
Population is called?

• Demography