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 10–12. Language and reasoning are the blocks candidates assume are free marks and then bleed on; this one is pitched a notch harder.
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.
Q3
Read the following sentences:
I. The quality of the answer scripts submitted by the two sections were disappointing.
II. Neither the Vice-Principal nor the senior teachers was informed of the inspection.
III. The committee has approved the proposal and is meeting again on Friday.
IV. She is not only a fine administrator but also teaches Mathematics with distinction.
How many of the above sentences are grammatically correct?
(a) None of the sentences
(b) Only one sentence
(c) Only two sentences
(d) Only three sentences
Answer (b).
Only III is correct — a collective noun acting as one body takes a singular verb (has approved… is meeting). I matches the verb to the nearest noun instead of the true subject quality, so it needs was. In II, with neither … nor the verb agrees with the nearer subject teachers, so were informed. IV breaks parallelism: not only is followed by a noun phrase but but also by a verb phrase; it must read "not only a fine administrator but also a distinguished teacher of Mathematics".
Trap: ch10 — "The quality of the answers were poor" is the chapter's own specimen of subject–verb attraction; IV is the parallelism fault candidates hear as emphatic and let pass.
Q110
With reference to Section 12(1)(c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, consider the following statements:
1. A private unaided school must admit at least 25 per cent of the strength of its entry-level class from children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups.
2. The school is reimbursed by the appropriate Government to the extent of its own per-child fee, whatever that fee may be.
3. Unaided minority institutions have been held to fall outside this obligation.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer (a).
Statement 1 states the obligation correctly — the intake is at the entry level and is a minimum of 25 per cent. Statement 3 is also correct: minority institutions, aided and unaided, were placed outside Section 12(1)(c) in Pramati. Statement 2 is the trap — reimbursement is capped at the per-child expenditure incurred by the State, or the school's actual charge, whichever is lower; a school charging above the State norm bears the difference itself.
Trap: ch06 — the reimbursement rule is remembered as "the government pays the fee", when the Act deliberately caps it at the lower of the two figures.
Q13
Read the following four statements, each given in the form of Direct speech and Indirect speech:
I. Direct speech: The Principal said, "Alas! Our best teacher has resigned."
Indirect speech: The Principal exclaimed with sorrow that their best teacher had resigned.
II. Direct speech: She said to me, "Where have you kept the attendance register?"
Indirect speech: She asked me where had I kept the attendance register.
III. Direct speech: The teacher said, "Water boils at one hundred degrees Celsius."
Indirect speech: The teacher said that water boiled at one hundred degrees Celsius.
IV. Direct speech: He said to the peon, "Do not open the gate."
Indirect speech: He forbade the peon not to open the gate.
In how many of the above statements is the Direct speech correctly expressed in the Indirect speech?
(a) None
(b) Only one
(c) Only two
(d) Only three
Answer (b).
Only I is right — an exclamation becomes "exclaimed with sorrow that…", the interjection disappears and has resigned backshifts to had resigned. II keeps the question word order; it must be "where I had kept". III backshifts a universal truth, which does not change: "water boils". IV doubles the negative — forbade already carries "not", so it is "forbade the peon to open the gate" (or "ordered him not to open").
Trap: ch10 — three separate documented errors in one item: question order retained, universal truth backshifted, and forbade … not to.
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