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Common Errors Compilation

April 2018
SBI/IBPS/RBI/SSC

Prepared from
The Hindu, The Economist, Mint, Frontline & Business Line

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2nd Apr proportional to the size of vessels. (c)/

No Error (d)
1. The reasons to look at (a)/ legalising and 5. The government should focus on

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regulating (b)/ gambling is manifold.(c)/ developing (a)/ navigation, channel
No Error (d) operation and maintenance, (b)/ and
externally connectivity infrastructure.
2. In addition to revenue generation, (a)/ a (c)/ No Error (d)
legal and regular gambling (b)/ sector
will also help in creating (c)/ large-scale
employment opportunities.(d)/ No Error 5th Apr
3. Globally, wherever gambling (a)/ is 1. Some researchers have suggested (a)/
regulated, it has created (b)/ a massive that it may be this very flexibility (b)/
revenue for employment generation.(c)/ that helps humans outlearnt
No Error chimpanzees. (c)/ No Error (d)
4. Naysayers say that gambling (a)/ is not 2. The study was conducted (a)/ not on
morally correct (b)/ in the Indian humans, but on mice (b)/ navigated a
context.(c)/ No Error maze. (c)/ No Error (d)
5. They suggest that it is (a)/ responsible 3. This is perhaps why do many (a)/
with addiction, (b)/ loss of livelihoods researchers consistently caution that no
and bankruptcy. (c)/ No Error one (b)/ really knows how the brain
reorganizes as you learn new tasks.(c)/
3rd Apr No Error (d)

1. CA had the gumption (a)/ to call himself 4. The idea was investigate (a)/ how the
a (b)/technology firm. (c)/ No Error (d) activity in the brain changed (b)/ during
learning, enabling an improvement in
2. The controversy (a)/ is snowballing performance.(c)/ No Error (d)
across (b) the globe. (c)/ No Error (d)
5. While the injury did alter Gage’s
3. FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted personality and behaviour, (a)/ it also
(a)/ to few mistakes, (b)/ and is possibly underscored the brain’s ability and (b)/
underplaying the disaster. (c)/ No Error flexibility, or plasticity, to surviving
(d) accidents and function.(c)/ No Error

4. In his view, FB should organise (a)/

security on par with any defence
contractor, (b)/ and not running the
6th Apr
company like a college campus with
skimpy security.(c)/ No Error 1. As soon as the session started,(a)/ it
became clear that teaching at the school
5. There are (a)/ several lesson (b)/ to be (b)/ was going to adjust to the timings of
learnt.(c)/ No Error a nearby coaching centre. (c)/ No Error
(d)

2. In fact, daily attendance (a)/ at the

4th Apr coaching centre were mandatory
whereas (b)/ the ‘Utkrisht’ school was
1. Of late, the government (a)/ has made quite flexible. (c)/ No Error (d)
many (b)/ moves. (c)/ No Error (d)
2. Money for dredging (d)/ channels can be 3. When my friend’s daughter (a)/ came
(b) risen through multilateral finances. back home latter that afternoon, (b)/ I
(c)/ No Error (d asked her about the practical. (c)/ No
3. IWAI can pursue this by engaging (a)/ Error (d)
private dredgers through (b)/ perform-
based contracts. (c)/ No Error (d) 4. At the given time, the teacher asks them
4. This may be devolved based (a)/ with (a)/ to write the practical (b)/ report in
sliding-scale rules (b)/ inversely the mandated notebook. (c)/ No Error (d)

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5. When an inspector shows up at the (a)/ 11th Apr
school, the practical notebooks have
been(b)/ ready for inspection. (c)/ No 1. Dedication, competence and welfare of

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Error (d) people, which determine (a)/ the
enriching and (b)/ growth of a nation,
verily (c)/ rest upon enlightened
leadership.(d)/ No Error (e)
9th Apr
2. Everyone should think to (a)/ his
1. As of today, as many (a)/ as 19,316 profession in the (b)/ larger social,
schools in India and 211 schools (b)/ in national (c)/ and global perspective.(d)/
25 other countries follow CBSE No Error (e)
curriculum. (c)/ No Error (d)
3. A manager endowed with (a)/ exemplary
2. It’s easier to circulate (a)/ a leak paper leadership should discuss the (b)/
through WhatsApp (b)/ than to subject with our team to (c)/ generate
photocopy it or to copy by hand.(c)/ No full-fold understanding in them.(d)/ No
Error (d) Error (e)

3. The CBSE denied (a)/ the news, passing 4. Productivity of any employee (a)/ cater to
it on (b)/ as rumour. (c)/ No Error (d) society, (b)/ employee families being (c)/
its constituents.(d)/ No Error (e)
4. These are relevant doubt (a)/ that may
be in the minds (b)/ of every parent and 5. An enlightened leader’s (a)/ articulation
student. (c)/ No Error (d) redresses mind (b)/ resistance and
clears (c)/ intellect’s confusion.(d)/ No
5. Nobody can know the question (a)/ Error (e)
paper distribution logistics (b)/ and their
strengths and weaknesses (c)/ better
than the CBSE, not even the police. (d)/ 12th Apr
No Error (e)
1. Resilient people are able (a)/ of utilising
their skills and strengths (b)/ to cope
and recover (c)/ from a variety of
10th Apr problems and challenges.(d)/ No Error
(e)
1. The indigenous Indians had named (a)/the
Falls Ongniaahra or ‘thunder of water’, (b)/ 2. Many meltdowns can be avoided (a)/ by
and that’s what (c)/ it came to be called widening our (b)/ understanding of that
Niagara.(d)/ No Error (e) education (c)/ actually should
2. The Niagara remains (a)/ an attractive involve.(d)/ No Error (e)
destination, (b)/ whether the weather (c)/ is
harsh and comfortable.(d)/ No Error (e) 3. It is unfortunate that so many people
3. External circumstances don’t seem (a)/ to (a)/ either blames themselves for
effect the Niagara’s (b)/ intrinsic quality of everything that goes wrong, (b)/ or
staying (c)/ true to her nature(d)/No Error (e)
blame others and external
4. We could take a boat that sailed (a)/ us circumstances (c)/ for all that is not
along the waterfalls, and briefly even behind
okay in their lives.(d)/ No Error (e)
it, and (b)/ our tomato red rain coats
protected us by the (c)/ perennial spray of
water that seemed to follow us all over the 4. Resilience people clearly understand
place. (d)/No Error (e) that it’s a waste (a)/ of time and energy
5. Gazing out at the ancient water body, (a)/ I to be preoccupied with (b)/ regret or
could not help (b)/ to wonder why this nursing old wounds, or (c)/ caught up in
cavernous,(c)/ dangerous leftover of the Ice thoughts of revenge and retribution.(d)/
Age attracts human daredevilry(d)/ No Error No Error (e)
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5. It is important to know that (a)/ 4. To question scientific established

resilience involves the capacity (b)/ to frameworks (a)/ we must educate
see things as they are, without denying ourselves on the issue (b)/ and work

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(c)/ any pain or sadness.(d)/ No Error (e) within the triangular structure (c)/ to
show up inaccuracies or deficiencies.(d)/
No Error (e)
5. When societies take positions against
13th Apr (a)/ the consensus of science, for
perceived (b)/ economic or ideological
1. When we justify our opinion, judgements gains, they put themselves (c)/ on risk of
(a)/ and habits, we are actually certain failure in the course of time.(d)/
resurrecting (b)/ our own notions, No Error (e)
inhibitions, (c)/ habits and opinions to
people.(d)/ No Error (e)
17th Apr
2. The best way to come out of (a)/ guilt
and fear is to pray and try (b)/ to behave 1. In the years to come, (a)/ Chawla would
with other as you (c)/ want them to eventually become (b)/ completely blind,
behave with you.(d)/ No Error (e) and much the (c)/ same fate await
Romero.(d)/ No Error (e)
3. If you suppress your
2. It was a similar first diagnosis for (a)/
imperfection, without realising, (a)/ it
Romero when he managed to spot only
will always be in your subconscious,
five (b)/ of the 10 lines he was reading
waiting to surface (b)/ in the time of
(c)/ during a routine optometric test at
weakness,(c)/damaging your systems
school.(d)/ No Error (e)
and deterring growth.(d)/ No Error (e)
3. Romero ran a few laps with him, (a)/ and
4. If you are not celebrating (a)/ human was left amazed in his (b)/ perseverance,
life, what’s (b)/ the use to have (c)/ a despite (c)/ swollen feet and fatigue.(d)/
lovely family, education, or money?(d)/ No Error (e)
No Error (e)
4. Romero pursued a successful private (a)/
5. The only sin (a)/ we commit (b)/ is that practice an attorney,(b)/ followed by a
we don’t(c)/celebrate life enough.(d)/No stint (c)/ with General Electric.(d)/ No
Error (e) Error (e)

5. While the children were away (a)/ at their

mother’s, (b)/ Romero thought himself
16th Apr (c)/ into depression.(d)/ No Error (e)

1. The CEO’s husband, Deepak Kochhar, is

being investigated (a)/ for windfall gains
from his association with businessman 18th Apr
(b)/ Venugopal Dhoot, whose struggling
(c)/ Videocon group is a large debtor for 1. India’s financial market regulators are (a)/
ICICI.(d)/ No Error (e) often accused to focus (b)/ too much on the
industries they regulate, (c)/ while turning a
2. The bank has argued (a)/ that Kochhar blind eye to the plight of consumers.(d)/ No
had no obligation to disclose her (b)/ Error (e)
brother-in-law’s involving because he
isn’t defined (c)/as a relative under the 2. The Indian stock market has been (a)/ the
law.(d)/No Error (e) victim of high skewed growth in recent years
(b)/ with derivative trades now amounting to
3. The only way to challenge (a)/ the 15 times (c)/ the trading in cash
scientific consensus of the day is to markets.(d)/ No Error (e)
applying (b)/ the method above with
higher standards and evaluate (c)/ the 3. A discussion paper by SEBI (a)/ noted that
equity derivative volumes leapfrogged nine
validity of the existing consensus.(d)/ No
times (b)/ in the last 10 years, (c)/ while
Error (e) cash volumes don’t even double.(d)/ No Error
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exports to a trillion dollar mark.(c)/ No
4. Market knowledge or trading skills (a)/ Error (d)
cannot be acquired through (b)/ earnings or
textbooks; they (c)/ come from real-world

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4. Better delivery of infrastructure, (a)/
experience.(d)/ No Error (e) education and essential services (b)/
would create a large number of jobs and
5. Precise and quantifiable (a)/ scheme growth.(c)/ No Error (d)
mandates with (b)/ penalties over
deviation(c)/can ensure truthful labelling.
5. Dr Devi Shetty proposes that we should
(d)/ No Error (e)
convert India’s 600 district (a)/ hospitals
as medical nursing (b)/ and paramedical
schools to train 5 million doctors, nurses,
and paramedics to meeting the global
19th Apr requirement.(c)/ No Error (d)

1. I was the first woman in (a)/ my family

to be lucky (b)/ enough to get into (c)/
higher education and women issues.(d)/
23rd Apr
No Error (e)
1. The Ministry has asserted that above(a)/
1.75 lakh crore of cash lies in reserves,
2. We in India can be (a)/ accused of a (b)/ which may now be deployed to meet
typical "bystander" (b)/ approach of the demand. (c)/ No Error (d)
watching things (c)/ happening without
getting involved.(d)/ No Error (e)
2. On its part, the Reserve Bank of India
(a)/ has claimed there is cash enough in
3. Members in the audience had (a)/ its (b)/ vaults, but it has ramped up the
several comments and examples about printing of all notes. (c) / No Error (d)
(b)/ the lethargy of Indians to volunteer,
(c)/ especially when there was 3. At the same time, it blamed the
danger.(d)/ No Error (e) shortages (a)/ on logistical issues of
replenish ATMs and (b)/ said it is
4. Many at the meeting (a)/ echoed the idea moving more cash to regions that
that (b)/we enjoyed watching(c)/ witnessed high cash withdrawals.(c)/ No
sensational scenes without lift a Error (d)
finger.(d)/No Error (e)
4. That a plan to re-introduce 1,000 notes
5. In India an award-winning video (a)/ was later junked didn’t help; or did
production house named Curley Street the (b)/ difference in the sizes of the new
(a)/ is in the process of creating notes. (c)/ No Error (d)
awareness (b)/ programmes for (c)/ how
to intervene and prevent sexual
harassment.(d)/ No Error (e)
24th Apr
20th Apr 1) An estimate of water used (a)/ to grow
rice and wheat, measured (b)/ in cubic
1. The skill and labour-intensive products metres per tonne, show that India uses
group can (a)/ absorb part of surplus more than what, say, China does. (c)/
people from (b)/ the agriculture or No Error (d)
informal sector. (c) No Error (d)
2) In the case of cotton, the figures (a)/
2. Flexible labour laws (a)/ are an essential present an even more staggering (b)/
(b)/ precondition for the large-scale contrast: 8,264 cubic metres for India,
manufacturing. (c)/ No Error (d) against 1,419 against China. (c)/ No
Error (d)

3. New manufacturing operations (a)/ will 3) Combined with distortions (a)/ in

allow India to become part of few (b)/ procurement subsidies, (b)/ water stress
global value chains and helped in raising due to such use is inevitable. (c)/ No
Error (d)

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5. Competitiveness is not just (a)/ a outcome of

4) On the monsoon as a whole, (a)/studies operating efficiency (b)/ but also (c)/ costs of
indicate (b) a change of the pattern since inputs, logistics, energy and land.(d)/ No Error
(e)

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1950. (c)/ No Error (d)

5) There is an increase in daily average (a)/

rainfall since 2002, barring some of the 27th Apr
worst El Niño years, (b)/ likely due to
higher land temperatures and cool 1. The demands and interests of (a)/ inter-
oceans. (c) No Error (d) personal equality and inter-group
equality (b)/ would have coincided
precisely if (c)/ populations were
25th Apr homogeneous.(d)/No Error(e)

1) Shale gas and oil are unconventionally (a)/ 2. A theory of equality which abolishes
natural resources found at 2,500-5,000 m contradiction (a)/ to deny a crucial
(b)/ below the earth’s surface, as compared aspect of (b)/ empirical reality must be
to conventional crude oil found at 1,500 m. deemed (c)/ to be a poor theory.(d)/ No
(c)/ No Error (d) Error (e)
2) The process of extracting shale oil (a)/ and
gas requires deep vertical drilling (b)/ 3. The difference in question is (a)/ what in
followed by horizontal drill. (c)/ No Error (d) jurisprudence is often referred (b)/ to as
the difference (c)/ between formal and
3) Because of it’s benefits, (a)/ shale gas is substantive equality.(d)/ No Error (e)
being perceived by some (b)/ as a ‘saviour’ of
humanity. (c)/ No Error (d) 4. The most elegant (a)/ distinction I have
been encountered (b)/ is the one drawn
4) Fracking seems (a)/ an attractive tool, (b)/ (c)/ by the late Harvard jurist and
both politically to economically. (c)/ No
Error(d)
philosopher Ronald Dworkin.(d)/ No
Error (e)
5) To gain such benefits, the government (a)/
introduced a policy on shale gas and (b)/ oil 5. For many people, affirmative action is
in 2013, permitting national oil companies to (a)/ founded in a (b)/ flaw and
engage in fracking. (c)/ No Error (d) contradictory (c)/ notion of equality.(d)/
No Error (e)

26th Apr 30th Apr

1. Globally, India stands out with (a)/ growth in 1. Wishful thinkers would see this (a)/ as a
excess of 7 per cent and (b)/ wide accepted ripe situation for deriving (b)/ the
forecasts (c)/ of up to 8 per cent.(d)/ No Error
maximum technology transfer by playing
(e)
(c)/ one contender to the others.(d)/ No
2. A sustained growth rate below double-digit is
Error (e)
not likely (a)/ to address either job creation
needs (b)/ or the possibility to raising (c)/ 2. There are at least four broad reasons
people out of underemployment.(d)/ No Error (a)/ why policymakers across the world
(e) (b)/ should be worried (c)/ about rising
global debt and its consequences.(d)/ No
3. The downtrend in private investment (a)/ must Error (e)
recover (b)/ to increase (c)/ value-generating
capacities.(d)/ No Error (e)
3. The risk of a political backlash (a)/ from
4. A beginning could make by (a)/ a critical
the middle class cannot rule (b)/ out in
assessment of the overall risk of (b)/ doing case oil prices keep (c)/ climbing—
business vs. pure business risk, on the basis feeding into general inflation.(d)/ No
that (c)/ the entrepreneur commits no wilful Error (e)
transgressions.(d)/ No Error (e)

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4. The fact that the RFI has widened the 3. C. Off – in place of – on
scope of (a)/ the aircraft from a single- 4. A. Doubts – in place of – doubt
engine to include (b)/ a twin-engine has 5. C its – in place of – their

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been changed (c)/ the texture of the
competition.(d)/ No Error(e)
10th Apr
Answers
1. (c) how – in place of – what
2. (d) or – in place of – and
2nd Apr 3. (b) affect – in place of – effect
4. (c) from – in place of – by
1. C. Are – in place of – is 5. (c) wondering – in place of – to wonder
2. b. Regulated – in place of – regular
3. C. Avenue – in place of – revenue
4. D. No Error
5. b. For – in place of – with 11th Apr
1. (b) enrichment – in place of - enriching
2. (a) of – in place of - to
3rd Apr 3. (c) his – in place of - our
4. (b) caters – in place of - cater
1.B. it self – in place of – himself 5. (b) mind’s – in place of – mind
2. No Error
3. B. A few – in place of – few
4. C. Run – in place of – running
5. b. Lessons – in place of – lesson 12th Apr

4th Apr 1. (b) to utilise – in place of – of utilising

2. (c) what – in place of – that
1. No Error 3. (b) blame – in place of – blames
2. C. Raised – in place of – risen 4. (a) Resilient – in place of – Resilience
3. C. Performance – in place of – perform 5. (e) No Error
4. b. On – in place of – with
5. C. External – in place of – externally
13th Apr

5th Apr 1. (d) about – in place of - to

2. (c) others – in place of - other
1. C. Outlearn – in place of – outlearnt 3. (e) No Error
2. C. Navigating – in place of – navigated 4. (c) of having – in place of- to have
3. A. Remove do 5. (e) No Error
4. A. Add to after was
5. C. Survive – in place of – surviving
16th Apr

6th Apr 1. (d) to – in place of - for

2. (c) involvement – in place of – involving
1. C. To be adjusted – in place of – to adjust 3. (b) apply – in place of - applying
2. B. Was – in place of- were 4. (a) scientifically – in place of – scientific
3. B. Later – in place of – latter 5. (d) at – in place of – on
4. No Error
5. B. To be – in place of – been
17th Apr

9th Apr 1. (d) awaits – in place of - await

2. (c) to read – in place of – reading
1. C. Use ‘the’ before CBSE 3. (b) at – in place of - in
4. (b) add as before an
2. B. Leaked – in place of – leak 5. (e) No Error

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1. (b) of focussing – in place of - to focus 1. C. shows – in place of – show

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2. (b) highly – in place of – high 2. C. for – in place of – against
3. (d) didn’t – in place of - don’t 3. D. No Error
4. (e) No Error 4. C. in – in place of – of
5. (c) for – in place of – over 5. C. cooler – in place of – cool

19th Apr 25th Apr

1. (d) women’s – in place of – women 1. A. Unconventional – in place of-
2. (d) happen – in place of - happening unconventionally
3. (e) No Error 2. C. Drilling – in place of – drill
4. (d) lifting – in place of - lift 3. A. Its – in place of – it’s
4. C. And – in place of – to
5. (c) on – in place of - for
5. D. No Error

20th Apr 26th Apr

1. No Error
1. (c) widely – in place of – wide
2. C. Remove the
2. (c) of – in place of – to
3. C. help – in place of – helped 3. (e) No Error
4. No Error 4. (a) could be made – in place of - could
5. C. meet – in place of – meeting make
5. (b) an- in place of - a

23rd Apr
27th Apr
1. A. over – in place of - above
2. B. Enough cash – in place of – cash 1. (c) coincide – in place of - have coincided
enough 2. (b) by denying – in place of - to deny
3. B. Replenishing – in place of – replenish 3. (e) No Error
4. B. Nor – in place of - or
4. (b) have – in place of - have been
5. (c) flawed – in place of - flaw

30th Apr
1. (d) against – in place of – to
2. (e) No Error
3. (b) be ruled – in place of – rule
4. (c) remove been

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