Prepare for the BHEL Engineer Trainee (ET Electrical) recruitment examination with official previous years' solved question papers across Electric Circuits & Fields, Electrical Machines (Turbo-Generators, Synchronous & Induction Motors, Transformers), Power Systems (Generation, EHV Transmission, Grid Stability & Switchgear Protection), Control Systems, Power Electronics & HVDC Transmission, Electrical & Electronic Measurements, Analog & Digital Electronics, and General Engineering Aptitude.
Marking pattern: +1.00 positive, -0.25 (1/4th) negative marking (Official BHEL Engineer Trainee Computer-Based Test Scheme).
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
At an exhibition, one of the several taking place in Kolkata to mark 75 years of India's Independence, the organisers placed a bundle of postcards and a handful of pens on a large table and asked visitors to write down their family memories of that defining moment in history. What has emerged is a still-growing collection of heart-warming as well as heart-wrenching stories that may not be found in history books but are still a valuable part of history.
"My late grandfather's account of 15th August is rather funny," wrote Gangotri Chattopadhyay from Singur in her message. "A bunch of village kids with no money or resources stole a bunch of gamchha (thin cotton towel) and hoisted them on a bunch of sticks and ran through the rice fields, overjoyed about a free India. It is the spirit that counts." Ms. Chattopadhyay's is among the nearly 600 postcards that the DAG, or Delhi Art Gallery, has collected so far from its ongoing exhibition, 'March to Freedom', being held at the Indian Museum. The exhibition, showcasing 200 years of art, began on July 23 and will end on September 18. In one gallery, a poster asks: "Do you know what your parents were doing on August 15, 1947? What are your family memories or experiences from the time of India's independence?" The response has been unexpected, what with fresh blank postcards and pens at hand. Diyaa's family memories go back to a painful period before Independence - the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War - when her paternal grandmother, a little girl at the time, remembered the family eating rice with salt because everything else was unaffordable. The grandmother would narrate such stories "in the flicker of candlelight back when power cuts plagued Bengal in the early 2000s". At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much care people had taken to record their family stories. Like we had hoped, what emerges is the story of ordinary people who don't find a place in our history books but who grappled with the idea of becoming citizens of a new nation in myriad ways.
SubQuestion No: 46
Select the option that is the meaning of the word 'myriad' as it is used in the passage.
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
At an exhibition, one of the several taking place in Kolkata to mark 75 years of India's Independence, the organisers placed a bundle of postcards and a handful of pens on a large table and asked visitors to write down their family memories of that defining moment in history. What has emerged is a still-growing collection of heart-warming as well as heart-wrenching stories that may not be found in history books but are still a valuable part of history.
"My late grandfather's account of 15th August is rather funny," wrote Gangotri Chattopadhyay from Singur in her message. "A bunch of village kids with no money or resources stole a bunch of gamchha (thin cotton towel) and hoisted them on a bunch of sticks and ran through the rice fields, overjoyed about a free India. It is the spirit that counts." Ms. Chattopadhyay's is among the nearly 600 postcards that the DAG, or Delhi Art Gallery, has collected so far from its ongoing exhibition, 'March to Freedom', being held at the Indian Museum. The exhibition, showcasing 200 years of art, began on July 23 and will end on September 18. In one gallery, a poster asks: "Do you know what your parents were doing on August 15, 1947? What are your family memories or experiences from the time of India's independence?" The response has been unexpected, what with fresh blank postcards and pens at hand. Diyaa's family memories go back to a painful period before Independence - the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War - when her paternal grandmother, a little girl at the time, remembered the family eating rice with salt because everything else was unaffordable. The grandmother would narrate such stories "in the flicker of candlelight back when power cuts plagued Bengal in the early 2000s". At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much care people had taken to record their family stories. Like we had hoped, what emerges is the story of ordinary people who don't find a place in our history books but who grappled with the idea of becoming citizens of a new nation in myriad ways.
SubQuestion No: 47
Select the statement that is NOT true according to the passage.
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
At an exhibition, one of the several taking place in Kolkata to mark 75 years of India's Independence, the organisers placed a bundle of postcards and a handful of pens on a large table and asked visitors to write down their family memories of that defining moment in history. What has emerged is a still-growing collection of heart-warming as well as heart-wrenching stories that may not be found in history books but are still a valuable part of history.
"My late grandfather's account of 15th August is rather funny," wrote Gangotri Chattopadhyay from Singur in her message. "A bunch of village kids with no money or resources stole a bunch of gamchha (thin cotton towel) and hoisted them on a bunch of sticks and ran through the rice fields, overjoyed about a free India. It is the spirit that counts." Ms. Chattopadhyay's is among the nearly 600 postcards that the DAG, or Delhi Art Gallery, has collected so far from its ongoing exhibition, 'March to Freedom', being held at the Indian Museum. The exhibition, showcasing 200 years of art, began on July 23 and will end on September 18. In one gallery, a poster asks: "Do you know what your parents were doing on August 15, 1947? What are your family memories or experiences from the time of India's independence?" The response has been unexpected, what with fresh blank postcards and pens at hand. Diyaa's family memories go back to a painful period before Independence - the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War - when her paternal grandmother, a little girl at the time, remembered the family eating rice with salt because everything else was unaffordable. The grandmother would narrate such stories "in the flicker of candlelight back when power cuts plagued Bengal in the early 2000s". At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much care people had taken to record their family stories. Like we had hoped, what emerges is the story of ordinary people who don't find a place in our history books but who grappled with the idea of becoming citizens of a new nation in myriad ways.
SubQuestion No: 48
Select the phrase in the passage which means the same as 'critically important'.
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
At an exhibition, one of the several taking place in Kolkata to mark 75 years of India's Independence, the organisers placed a bundle of postcards and a handful of pens on a large table and asked visitors to write down their family memories of that defining moment in history. What has emerged is a still-growing collection of heart-warming as well as heart-wrenching stories that may not be found in history books but are still a valuable part of history.
"My late grandfather's account of 15th August is rather funny," wrote Gangotri Chattopadhyay from Singur in her message. "A bunch of village kids with no money or resources stole a bunch of gamchha (thin cotton towel) and hoisted them on a bunch of sticks and ran through the rice fields, overjoyed about a free India. It is the spirit that counts." Ms. Chattopadhyay's is among the nearly 600 postcards that the DAG, or Delhi Art Gallery, has collected so far from its ongoing exhibition, 'March to Freedom', being held at the Indian Museum. The exhibition, showcasing 200 years of art, began on July 23 and will end on September 18. In one gallery, a poster asks: "Do you know what your parents were doing on August 15, 1947? What are your family memories or experiences from the time of India's independence?" The response has been unexpected, what with fresh blank postcards and pens at hand. Diyaa's family memories go back to a painful period before Independence - the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War - when her paternal grandmother, a little girl at the time, remembered the family eating rice with salt because everything else was unaffordable. The grandmother would narrate such stories "in the flicker of candlelight back when power cuts plagued Bengal in the early 2000s". At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much care people had taken to record their family stories. Like we had hoped, what emerges is the story of ordinary people who don't find a place in our history books but who grappled with the idea of becoming citizens of a new nation in myriad ways.
SubQuestion No: 49
The kids hoisting gamchhas on sticks shows their:
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
At an exhibition, one of the several taking place in Kolkata to mark 75 years of India's Independence, the organisers placed a bundle of postcards and a handful of pens on a large table and asked visitors to write down their family memories of that defining moment in history. What has emerged is a still-growing collection of heart-warming as well as heart-wrenching stories that may not be found in history books but are still a valuable part of history.
"My late grandfather's account of 15th August is rather funny," wrote Gangotri Chattopadhyay from Singur in her message. "A bunch of village kids with no money or resources stole a bunch of gamchha (thin cotton towel) and hoisted them on a bunch of sticks and ran through the rice fields, overjoyed about a free India. It is the spirit that counts." Ms. Chattopadhyay's is among the nearly 600 postcards that the DAG, or Delhi Art Gallery, has collected so far from its ongoing exhibition, 'March to Freedom', being held at the Indian Museum. The exhibition, showcasing 200 years of art, began on July 23 and will end on September 18. In one gallery, a poster asks: "Do you know what your parents were doing on August 15, 1947? What are your family memories or experiences from the time of India's independence?" The response has been unexpected, what with fresh blank postcards and pens at hand. Diyaa's family memories go back to a painful period before Independence - the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Second World War - when her paternal grandmother, a little girl at the time, remembered the family eating rice with salt because everything else was unaffordable. The grandmother would narrate such stories "in the flicker of candlelight back when power cuts plagued Bengal in the early 2000s". At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much care people had taken to record their family stories. Like we had hoped, what emerges is the story of ordinary people who don't find a place in our history books but who grappled with the idea of becoming citizens of a new nation in myriad ways.
SubQuestion No: 50
"At first, I wondered whether people would respond thoughtfully to the prompt...."
What does 'prompt' in this sentence refer to?