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State PSC Modern Indian History — practice questions

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Money words in hidingRead the answer and worked solution →Banking word huntRead the answer and worked solution →Narrow, broad or bankRead the answer and worked solution →Who does what with moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Run to the right termRead the answer and worked solution →RBI tools gate runRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the functions of moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the RBI's toolsRead the answer and worked solution →Narrow or broad moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Repo or reverse repoRead the answer and worked solution →From currency to broad moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Money and banking bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Catch the RBI's toolsRead the answer and worked solution →Money or not moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Reserve arithmeticRead the answer and worked solution →Knock out the money mythsRead the answer and worked solution →Money terms and meaningsRead the answer and worked solution →The three jobs of moneyRead the answer and worked solution →Money facts, true or falseRead the answer and worked solution →Odd one out in bankingRead the answer and worked solution →India won its independence on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →The sole purpose of British colonial rule was to reduce India to a supplier of:Read the answer and worked solution →Muslin, the world-famous cotton textile, had its origin in:Read the answer and worked solution →The finest variety of muslin was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Growth of aggregate real output in the first half of the twentieth century was less than:Read the answer and worked solution →The zamindari system of land settlement was implemented in the then:Read the answer and worked solution →The main interest of the zamindars was only to:Read the answer and worked solution →Which French traveller described seventeenth-century Bengal as richer than Egypt?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian-owned cotton textile mills were located in Maharashtra and:Read the answer and worked solution →The jute mills, dominated by foreigners, were concentrated in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Money words in hiding

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Grid
  1. RETRABCT
  2. ARLACBPI
  3. RUVNSEFS
  4. EREPOIEO
  5. DRNAAYSP
  6. NMATBFBE
  7. EMBKVPOD
  8. TSBMCNPG
Words to find
  1. BARTER
  2. FIAT
  3. REPO
  4. TENDER
  5. DEPOSIT
Instructions
Drag a straight line through each hidden money term.
_Source: syllabus Introductory Macroeconomics, Ch 3 'Money and Banking' (leec103)_

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Banking word hunt

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Grid
  1. LEVRESER
  2. IFKMGNSL
  3. QTIDERCT
  4. UKYUUBMM
  5. IACECEAN
  6. DSHSDNOB
  7. KNICNDFO
  8. TREDNELB
Words to find
  1. RESERVE
  2. BONDS
  3. LENDER
  4. LIQUID
  5. CREDIT
Instructions
Five banking terms hide in the grid. Drag straight lines to claim them.
_Source: syllabus Introductory Macroeconomics, Ch 3 'Money and Banking' (leec103)_

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Narrow, broad or bank

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Grid
    1. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      M-one
    2. Group
      Broad
      Item
      time
    3. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      coins
    4. Group
      Bank
      Item
      CRR
    1. Group
      Broad
      Item
      M-3
    2. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      coins
    3. Group
      Bank
      Item
      SLR
    4. Group
      Bank
      Item
      loans
    1. Group
      Bank
      Item
      CRR
    2. Group
      Broad
      Item
      time
    3. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      cash
    4. Group
      Broad
      Item
      term
    1. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      M-one
    2. Group
      Narrow
      Item
      cash
    3. Group
      Broad
      Item
      term
    4. Group
      Broad
      Item
      M-3
Groups
  1. Item
    Narrow
  2. Item
    Broad
  3. Item
    Bank
Instructions
Tap a tile, then a neighbour, to line up three of one family.
_Source: syllabus Introductory Macroeconomics, Ch 3 'Money and Banking' (leec103)_

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