Welcome to your 9th August MCQ
Q1. With respect to Tax-GDP ratio in India, consider the following statements:
- It is a representation of the size of the government's tax revenue expressed as a percentage of the GDP.
- A higher tax to GDP ratio means a better financial position of the country.
- In India, it is around 10-11% of GDP and stayed at that level for the last 20 years.
Which of the statements given above are correct?Deselect Answer
Q2. With reference to the Live-fire exercises, consider the following statements:
1. Live-fire exercises are exercises primarily used by military personnel, in which live ammunition is used to create training conditions that are as close to real combat scenarios as possible.
2. During live-fire training, soldiers are placed in simulated combat situations and are given the opportunity to use their weapons and equipment.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?Deselect Answer
Q3. Buoyancy of tax refers to:
Q4. Consider the following statements with respect to Coral reefs
- Soft corals extract calcium carbonate from seawater to build corals whereas hard corals attach themselves with existing coral exoskeletons.
- Hard corals are the engineers of reef ecosystems and the coral cover is measured by determining the increase in the hard corals.
- Corals prepare their own food with the help of reactive oxygen produced by zooxanthellae.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?Deselect Answer
Q5. With reference to the Taiwan’s “porcupine doctrine”, consider the following statements:
1. The “porcupine doctrine”, which was proposed in 2008 by US Naval War College research professor William S Murray.
2. It is a strategy of asymmetric warfare focused on fortifying a weak state’s defenses to exploit the enemy’s weaknesses rather than taking on its strengths.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?Deselect Answer
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