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.
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 after Chapters 1–3. Two-thirds of its measurement block needs a calculation or a directional judgement, so it tells you whether the numerical half of the exam is safe.
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.
Q79
Consider the following statements:
Statement-I: A selection test correlates 0.50 with its criterion; the test therefore accounts for one-quarter of the variance in the criterion.
Statement-II: A test whose reliability coefficient is 0.50 has one-half of its observed-score variance as true variance.
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 (b).
Both are correct, and the same figure 0.50 yields two different percentages because two different rules apply. A correlation must be squared for explained variance: 0.50² = 0.25, i.e. one-quarter. A reliability coefficient is already a ratio of true variance to observed variance and is read directly: 0.50 → one-half. Statement-II therefore cannot explain Statement-I.
Trap: ch01/ch03 — squaring the reliability coefficient, or reading a correlation directly, is a documented error in both chapters. Here the identical value 0.50 makes the point unmissable: whichever rule a candidate applies to both statements, one of them comes out wrong.
Q5
Read the following sentences:
I. The list of selected candidates has been displayed on the notice board.
II. Neither the clerk nor the peons were informed of the change.
III. Each of the candidates have been called for an interview.
IV. He is one of those teachers who always helps his students.
How many of the above sentences are grammatically correct?
(a) None
(b) Only one
(c) Only two
(d) Only three
Answer (c).
I and II are correct. In I the subject is list (singular), not candidates. In II, with neither…nor the verb agrees with the nearer subject, peons. III is wrong — Each takes a singular verb (has). IV is wrong — the relative who refers to teachers (plural), so it must read who always help their students.
Trap: ch10 — matching the verb to the nearest noun instead of the true subject is the chapter's documented error; that reflex marks I wrong, and the neither…nor rule in II is the one place where the nearest noun genuinely does govern the verb.
Q119
Consider the following statements:
Statement-I: Since the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act, 2019, a State Government may hold a child back in Class 5 or Class 8 if the child fails the re-examination.
Statement-II: The examinations held in Class 5 and Class 8 under the amended Section 16 are board examinations.
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 (c).
Statement-I is the current position — a regular examination, a re-examination within two months with remedial teaching, and detention permitted if the child still fails. Statement-II is wrong: these are regular school examinations, and Section 30's bar on board examinations until the completion of elementary education is intact.
Trap: ch06 — calling the Class 5 and Class 8 tests "board exams" is a documented error, and it is the natural over-reading once a candidate learns that no-detention is no longer absolute.
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11 full-length mock tests, both real 2022 papers solved, and
5,847 explained questions written for this exam.
