OPSC ASO Question Papers with Answers 2015–2022 (Free PYQs)
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Every OPSC ASO paper, 2015 to 2022, word for word, with the answer, why each option is right or wrong, the trap and a hint. Free.
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Papers in this course
- 2022 paper (Advt. No. 26 of 2021-22): General Awareness, Reasoning, Mathematics, English, Odia
- 2019 paper (Advt. No. 10 of 2018-19): General Awareness, Reasoning, Mathematics, English, Odia
- 2016 paper, Special Recruitment (Advt. No. 06 of 2015-16): General Awareness, Reasoning, Mathematics, English
- 2015 paper (Advt. No. 08 of 2012-13): General Awareness, Reasoning, Mathematics, English
The year is when the exam was held; OPSC often holds an exam a year or more after the advertisement.
Every question is copied word for word from the paper OPSC published on its website.
On every card
- The answer, and why each option is right or wrong
- The trap OPSC set, and a hint that doesn't give the answer away
- An exam angle with related facts OPSC could ask next
- Where a fact has changed since the exam, what is true now
About the answers
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Question papers
- OPSC ASO 2022 question paper with answers (400 questions)
- OPSC ASO 2019 question paper with answers (400 questions)
- OPSC ASO 2016 question paper with answers (300 questions)
- OPSC ASO 2015 question paper with answers (300 questions)
What's inside
- Start here
- General Awareness — 400 cards
- Current Affairs: National — 16 cards
- Current Affairs: International — 15 cards
- Current Affairs: Odisha — 1 cards
- Indian Polity and Constitution — 41 cards
- Modern India and Freedom Struggle — 32 cards
- Ancient and Medieval India — 15 cards
- Odisha History, Art and Culture — 15 cards (free preview)
- Geography: World — 24 cards
- Geography: India and Odisha — 31 cards
- Indian Economy and Budget — 32 cards
- Science and Technology — 56 cards
- Environment and Ecology — 24 cards
- Defence — 17 cards
- Institutions and Organisations — 28 cards
- Sports — 13 cards
- Awards, Books and Persons — 27 cards
- General Awareness: Miscellaneous — 13 cards
- Reasoning and Mental Ability — 200 cards
- Number Series — 12 cards
- Alphabet Series — 16 cards
- Coding-Decoding — 17 cards
- Direction Sense — 10 cards
- Blood Relations — 10 cards
- Ranking and Order — 16 cards
- Arithmetic Reasoning — 9 cards
- Age Problems — 7 cards
- Analogy and Classification — 21 cards
- Syllogism and Statements — 2 cards
- Calendar and Clock — 6 cards
- Non-verbal Series — 8 cards
- Mirror and Water Images — 14 cards (free preview)
- Cubes and Dice — 22 cards
- Figure Counting and Grouping — 18 cards
- Embedded Figures — 6 cards
- Reasoning: Miscellaneous — 6 cards
- Mathematics — 200 cards
- Number System and Simplification — 34 cards
- Percentage, Profit and Loss — 8 cards (free preview)
- Ratio, Proportion and Averages — 8 cards
- Simple and Compound Interest — 3 cards
- Time, Work and Speed — 7 cards
- Algebra — 58 cards
- Geometry — 3 cards
- Mensuration — 27 cards
- Trigonometry — 1 cards
- Statistics — 19 cards
- Probability — 32 cards
- English Language — 400 cards
- Error Spotting — 23 cards
- Fill in the Blanks — 97 cards
- Sentence Improvement — 8 cards (free preview)
- Tenses and Verbs — 83 cards
- Synonyms — 17 cards
- Antonyms — 18 cards
- Idioms and Phrases — 26 cards
- One-word Substitution — 16 cards
- Spelling — 5 cards
- Sentence Rearrangement — 8 cards
- Comprehension — 32 cards
- Voice and Narration — 14 cards
- English: Miscellaneous — 53 cards
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ — 200 cards
- ବ୍ୟାକରଣ — 132 cards
- ଭ୍ରମ ସଂଶୋଧନ — 23 cards (free preview)
- ପ୍ରତିଶବ୍ଦ ଓ ବିପରୀତ ଶବ୍ଦ — 45 cards
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Which is not correct ?
- (a) Odisha was conquered by the British in 1803.
- (b) Odisha was ruled by the Marathas at the time of conquest.
- (c) Odisha was ceded to the East India Company by the Treaty of Argaon.
- (d) Odisha’s conquest was effected by Richard Wellesley.
Answer: (C) Odisha was ceded to the East India Company by the Treaty of Argaon.
- (C) ✓ (the wrong statement) Argaon was a battle (29 November 1803), where Arthur Wellesley beat the Bhonsle army. The cession came by the Treaty of Deogaon (17 December 1803), in which Raghuji Bhonsle II of Nagpur gave up Cuttack and Balasore.
- (A) ✗ True: British troops took Puri in September and Barabati Fort, Cuttack, in October 1803.
- (B) ✗ True: coastal Odisha had been under the Bhonsle Marathas of Nagpur since 1751.
- (D) ✗ True: it was part of Governor-General Richard Wellesley's Second Anglo-Maratha War.
The trap: Argaon and Deogaon sound alike and are only weeks apart. The battle came first; the treaty transferred the land.
When did Gandhiji address a public meeting at Cuttack during the Non-cooperation Movement ?
- (a) January 24, 1921
- (b) March 23, 1921
- (c) March 27, 1921
- (d) August 3, 1921
Answer: (B) March 23, 1921
- (B) ✓ On his first visit to Odisha, Gandhi reached Cuttack on 23 March 1921, invited by Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das. The same day he addressed a huge public meeting on the bed of the Kathajodi river, on non-cooperation, Swaraj and Hindu–Muslim unity.
- (A) ✗ In January 1921 he had not yet come to Odisha.
- (C) ✗ His Cuttack meetings were on 23 and 24 March. He spoke at Bhadrak on 25 March, was on the Puri leg by 27 March, and spoke at Berhampur on 29 March.
- (D) ✗ 3 August 1921 has no link with the Cuttack visit.
The trap: 27 March is close. The big Cuttack meeting came on the day he arrived, 23 March.