A full-length mock test for the UPSC Combined Recruitment Test for
Vice Principal and Principal, Directorate of Education, Delhi. 120
questions on the measured shape of the 11 December 2022 paper, scored on the real
formula, every answer explained afterwards. This one is free to sit.
GK & current affairs · Management/Finance · Digital literacy · Schemes
Q61–Q120
60
Measurement & Evaluation · Policy · Child-rights law
Composition, counted item by item
Not a target — the actual split of the 120 questions in this
paper, counted from the paper itself.
Cluster
Questions
Marks
Share
Measurement, Evaluation & Statistics
35
87.5
29.2%
English & Hindi language
20
50
16.7%
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude
20
50
16.7%
Education policy & schemes
20
50
16.7%
Education & child-rights law
11
27.5
9.2%
GK, polity & current affairs
9
22.5
7.5%
Management & Financial administration
3
7.5
2.5%
Digital literacy
2
5
1.7%
Question formats
The real paper is mostly not plain single-correct, and neither is this one.
Format
Questions
Plain single-correct
51
Multi-statement ("how many are correct")
45
Statement-I and Statement-II
13
Match the following
8
Assertion and Reason
2
Data sufficiency
1
How to sit it
Sit this first, about eight weeks out. It is pitched at the real paper's difficulty and its job is diagnostic — to tell you honestly where you stand.
One sitting, two hours, phone face down. A mock taken in pieces measures nothing. Mark every question you guessed.
Score it with the real formula — `2.5 × correct − (2.5/3) × wrong`. The number that matters is not what you knew; it is what you *kept* after the penalty.
Then read every explanation, including for the questions you got right. Each item names the trap it was built on and the chapter that teaches it, so a wrong answer converts straight into a revision instruction.
What your score means
Raw score / 300
Reading
220+
Ahead of the curve. Protect it with revision-sheet passes; do not chase new material.
190–219
On target. The 200–225 band is the reasoned estimate for a comfortable General-category interview call.
150–189
Close. Your marks are almost certainly leaking through negative marking rather than ignorance — check your wrong-answer count against your guess count.
Below 150
Go back to chapters, not to more mocks. A second mock before revision teaches nothing the first did not.
Score bands are our reasoned estimate. UPSC publishes no cut-off
for this recruitment, and nobody who tells you one has it.
Three questions from this paper, solved
Every one of the 120 items is written this way —
the answer, and why each of the other three options is wrong.
Q72
Consider the following statements:
Statement-I: A child aged between 16 and 18 years who is alleged to have committed a heinous offence may be tried as an adult by the Children's Court.
Statement-II: In such a case the Juvenile Justice Board first conducts a preliminary assessment of the child's mental and physical capacity to commit the offence, his ability to understand its consequences and the circumstances in which the offence was allegedly committed.
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
(a) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, and Statement-II is the correct explanation of Statement-I.
(b) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, but Statement-II is not the correct explanation of Statement-I.
(c) Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect.
(d) Statement-I is incorrect, but Statement-II is correct.
Answer (a).
Both statements are correct and the second is the mechanism that makes the first possible: transfer to the Children's Court happens only after the Board's preliminary assessment, which must be completed within three months. Even after transfer, no child may be sentenced to death or to life imprisonment without the possibility of release.
Trap: ch06 — a heinous offence is one carrying a minimum punishment of seven years or more; the 16–18 provision applies to that category alone, not to serious (minimum above 3 and up to 7 years, or maximum above 7 years without a 7-year minimum) or petty (up to 3 years) offences.
Q97
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below:
List-I (Instance)
List-II (Scale of measurement)
A. The ranks awarded by the judges to the ten finalists of an inter-house debate
1. Nominal
B. The time, in minutes, a student takes to complete a paper
2. Ordinal
C. The marks obtained in a Class X examination
3. Interval
D. Code numbers given to the four houses of a school
4. Ratio
Code:
(a) A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
(b) A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1
(c) A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2
(d) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
Answer (a).
Ranks carry order without equal intervals — the gap between the first and second debater need not equal the gap between the second and third — so this is ordinal. Time taken has a true zero and permits ratios (40 minutes is twice 20) — ratio. Marks have equal intervals but an arbitrary zero (zero marks is not zero knowledge) — interval. House code numbers are labels that could be swapped without loss — nominal.
Trap: ch01 — marks, and the raw count of correct answers, are interval: zero on a test is not zero ability. Ratio needs a true zero of the attribute itself — time, height, weight, age.
Q69
Consider the following statements:
1. A test that is highly reliable is necessarily valid.
2. The validity coefficient of a test cannot exceed the square root of its reliability coefficient.
3. Reliability, unlike validity, is not specific to the purpose for which the test is used.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer (b).
Statement 1 reverses the rule: a test cannot be valid unless it is reliable, but a reliable test need not be valid — a scale that reads five kilograms heavy every time is perfectly reliable and wholly invalid. Statement 2 is the ceiling result (√r_xx, the index of reliability). Statement 3 is correct: validity must always be stated for a purpose; reliability is a property of the scores for a given group.
Trap: ch01 — treating reliability and validity as interchangeable, and assuming that a test valid for one purpose is valid generally, are the first and eighth documented errors of that chapter.
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