Bihar Judicial Service General English Question Paper 2023 PDF

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  • Conducted By BPSC
  • Maximum Marks 100
  • Duration 3 Hours
  • Languages English

Exam Details

Detail Information
Examination Bihar Judicial Service Competitive Examination
Conducting Body BPSC
Paper General English
Subject General English
Duration 3 Hours
Maximum Marks 100
Question Type Mixed

This document contains the General English paper for the Bihar Judicial Service Competitive Examination, conducted by BPSC. The paper, dated 2023, allows 3 hours to complete and is worth a maximum of 100 marks. It features a mix of question types, including passage comprehension, letter writing, and précis writing, designed to assess candidates' English language proficiency. Aspirants preparing for the Bihar Judicial Service exam can use this paper to understand the format, difficulty level, and key areas tested.

Major Topics Covered

  • Passage Comprehension
  • Letter Writing
  • Précis Writing
  • English Language Proficiency

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Instructions

  • Read the passage given below and answer any four of the questions that follow : 5 \times 4 = 20 To collect photographs is to collect the world.
  • Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store.
  • Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern.
  • Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.
  • To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.
  • It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and, therefore, like power.
  • A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, is supposed to have engendered that surplus of Faustian energy and psychic damage needed to build modern, inorganic societies.
  • But print seems a less treacherous form of leaching out the world, of turning it into a mental object, than photographic images, which now provide most of the knowledge people have about the look of the past and the reach of the present.
  • What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings.
  • Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.
  • Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out.
  • They age, plagued by the usual ills of paper objects; they disappear; they become valuable, and get bought and sold; they are reproduced.
  • Photographs, which package the world, seem to invite packaging.
  • They are stuck in albums, framed and set on tables, tacked on walls, projected as slides.
  • Newspapers and magazines feature them; cops alphabetize them; museums exhibit them; publishers compile them.
  • For many decades the book has been the most influential way of arranging (and usually miniaturizing) photographs, thereby guaranteeing them longevity, if not immortality-photographs are fragile objects, easily torn or mislaid-and a wider public.
  • The photograph in a book is, obviously, the image of an image.
  • But since it is, to begin with, a printed, smooth object, a photograph loses much less of its essential quality when reproduced in a book than a painting does.

Questions (page 2)

Q1.

(a) Photographs have been used by other media too. Which of them have been mentioned in the passage?

(b) How are paintings and drawings different from photography?

(c) In what relation does a photograph stand with the photographer?

(d) Why does the author feel that the printed words have harmed the society?

(e) What does the word 'doctored', appears in the second paragraph, mean?

(f) What would be an appropriate title of the passage?

Q2.

(a) Write a letter to your sister who has just shifted to a new city for her job. Try to give her strength and motivate her so that she doesn't feel away from home. Inform her that you are sending gifts from home with this letter.

(b) Write an application to the Municipal Corporation of your city to bring forth lack of streetlights in your area. Mention the difficulties that people in your society are facing and why streetlights are important.

Q3. Write a précis of the passage given below. Reduce the passage to one-third of its length and give a suitable title :

(passage) There is hardly anything that shows the shortsightedness or capriciousness of the imagination more than travelling does. With change of place we change our ideas; nay, our opinions and feelings. We can by an effort indeed transport ourselves to old and long-forgotten scenes, and then the picture of the mind revives again; but we forget those that we have just left. It seems that we can think but of one place at a time. The canvas of the fancy is but of a certain extent, and if we paint one set of objects upon it, they immediately efface every other. We cannot enlarge our conceptions, we only shift our point of view. The landscape bares its bosom to the

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Frequently asked questions

What is the name of the exam?

The exam is the Bihar Judicial Service Competitive Examination.

Which paper is this?

This is the General English paper.

Who conducts the Bihar Judicial Service Competitive Examination?

The examination is conducted by BPSC (Bihar Public Service Commission).

What is the maximum marks for the General English paper?

The maximum marks for the General English paper is 100.

What is the time allowed for the General English paper?

The time allowed for the General English paper is 3 Hours.

What is the paper code for this General English paper?

The paper code is 15/CBL/M-2023-04.

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