Kerala Civil Judge Mains 2019 Question Paper

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Kerala Judicial Service Main (Written) Examination 2019

KERALA JUDICIAL SERVICE MAINS

PAPER I: GENERAL ENGLISH

Duration: 3 Hours

Total Marks: 100

I. Essay

1. Write an essay of about 300 words on any two of the following: (15 × 2 = 30)

(a) Abrogation of Article 370 and the Kashmir conundrum.

(b) Kerala as a tourist destination.

(c) “Cunning dodgers, porous law and the collusive bureaucracy have rendered the

honest citizen spineless and tongueless.” Do you agree?

(d) Politics of communication: the muzzled media, the muffled truth and the warped

news.

(e) The forlorn plight of God’s Own Country.

(f) Monsoon fury: benign nature’s vengeful “Me-Too” cry.

II. Use the following idioms and phrases in sentences (1 × 6 = 6)

Take cognizance of.

Play fast and loose.

Hold fast to.

Tongue in cheek.

Bring to book.

Locus standi.

III. Identify the misspelt word in each set and correct it (1 × 6 = 6)

Depridation, bodacious, remedial, irredeemable.

Succor, rescession, corral, simile.

Serendipitous, punctilious, cerenade, cuisine.

Nebullous, zealot, scurrility, lesion.

Necropsy, scavenge, scenario, dissimilate.

Timult, rapacious, rabid, reticent.