Bangladesh Bank Post Name: Officer Exam Date: 25 – 05– 2001
Total Questions: 80
1) A person has Tk. 950 notes consisting of Tk. 500, 100, 50 and 10. How many notes should at least be in Tk. 50?
- A: 1
- B: 2
- C: 5
- D: None of these
2) A book sells for Tk. 65. This price gives the seller a profit 30% on his cost. What will be the new selling price if he cuts his profit to 10% of the cost?
- A: 55
- B: 50
- C: 45
- D: None of these
3) A Tk. 30,000 prize is to be divided among three employees in the ratio of 2:3:5. What is the value of the smallest share?
- A: 9,000
- B: 7.500
- C: 6,000
- D: 4,500
4) What a number divided by 50 gives 3.6%?
- A: 1.8
- B: 18
- C: 180
- D: None of these
5) Eight telephone poles are each 15 feet apart. What is the distance, in feet, from the first to the last pole?
- A: 60
- B: 85
- C: 105
- D: 120
6) A clock loses(falls behind) 10 minutes each day. How many days will take to reach a point where the clock will indicate the correct time?
- A: 36
- B: 72
- C: 120
- D: None of these
7) There are 20 members on a football squad. In electing a captain and a co-captain, how many different outcomes of the election is possible?
- A: 760
- B: 380
- C: 190
- D: none
8) X’s marks are 70,90,65,85 and 75. What marks he must get on the next test to raise her average to 80?
- A: 80
- B: 85
- C: 90
- D: 95
9) Out of 7,500 applications for a recruitment test, 1500 failed to appear for the test. What percent of the total applicants did appear for the test?
- A: 25
- B: 50
- C: 75
- D: 80
10) In a cricket tournament 30,000 tickets were sol(D) Onefourth of the tickets were sold at Tk. 30 each, 1/3 were sold at Tk. 25 each, and the remaining tickets were sold at Tk. 20 each. How many tickets were sold at Tk. 20 each?
- A: Onefourth of the tickets were sold at Tk. 30 each, 1/3 were sold at Tk. 25 each, and the remaining tickets were sold at Tk. 20 each. How many tickets were sold at Tk. 20 each?
- B: 10,000
- C: 12,000
- D: 12,500
11) If A:B = 5:4 and A:C = 6:5 then C:B = ?
- A: 24:25
- B: 25:24
- C: 3:2
- D: None of these
12) What value of x satisfies to equation x-2 = 2-x?
- A: 2
- B: 1
- D: -2
13) A jar contains red balls and green balls in the ratio 3:1.If the jar contains only the two types of balls, which of the following can not be the number of balls in the jar?
- A: 96
- B: 80
- C: 72
- D: 54
14) A 40-meter long rope is cut into two unequal pieces. If one piece is 18 meter longer than the other, what is the length (in meter) of the shorter piece?
- A: 10
- B: 11
- C: 18
- D: None of these
15) When 4 is added to 1/2 of a number, the result is 14.What is the number?
- A: 10
- B: 15
- C: 20
- D: 25
16) Three workers can do a job in 12 days. Two of the workers work twice as fast as the third.How long would it take one of the faster workers to do the job himself?
- A: 24
- B: 30
- C: 32
- D: None of these
17) A motorist must complete 180- mile trip is 4 hours. If he averages 50 miles an hour for the first three hours of the trip, how fast must(in terms of mile per hour)he travel in the last hour?
- A: 30
- B: 32
- C: 40
- D: None of these
18) How much interest will Tk. 1,000 earn in one year at an annual rate of 8% if interest is compounded every 6 months?
- A: 82.4
- B: 82.0
- C: 81.6
- D: 80.0
19) A man travels a certain distance at a rate of 20 miles an hour and returns at the rate of 30 miles an hour. What is the average speed?
- A: 24
- B: 25.5
- C: 25
- D: None of these
20) If the sum of A and B is 40, and if C= 32, what is the average value of A, B and C?
- A: 24
- B: 26
- C: 28
- D: 30
21) If x= 10, which of the following has the minimum value?
- A: 2-x
- B: x/2
- C: 2/x
- D: (2-x)(2-x)
22) A water reservoir is 1/5th full and requires 20 liters more to make it 3/5th full. What is the capacity of the reservoir?
- A: 40
- B: 50
- C: 60
- D: None of these
23) Which is the smallest fraction?
- A: 5/13
- B: 18/36
- C: 16/31
- D: 4/12
24) Which of the following is divisible by 2 and 7?
- A: 365
- B: 362
- C: 361
- D: None of these
25) If a car travels 20 meters in a second, what is it speed(in kilomeers) per hour?
- A: 44
- B: 66
- C: 88
- D: None of these
26) 1+2+3+………+100 what?
- A: 5050
- B: 5055
- C: 5060
- D: None of these
27) What is the area of square ( in sq.meter)if its perimeter is 40 meter?
- A: 10
- B: 100
- C: 200
- D: None of these
28) When 120 guests take seat in an auditorium, only 3/4 of the seats occupied What is the total number of seats in the auditorium?
- A: 160
- B: 180
- C: 190
- D: 200
29) The average weight of 3 friends is 33 kg. None of the friend’s weights less than 31 kg. What can be the maximum weight of any three friends?
- A: 37
- B: 35
- C: 33
- D: 32
30) One million two thousand and two is written as —
- A: 10,2002
- B: 1,002,002
- C: 100,202
- D: None of these
31) 7 is 5% of what number?
- A: 128
- B: 156
- C: 140
- D: 240
32) Forest area of Bangladesh comprises of-percent of total land in Bangladesh.
- A: 12
- B: 16
- C: 20
- D: 25
33) Which Asian country is included in OPEC?
- A: Brunei
- B: India
- C: Indonesia
- D: Irac
34) WWW stands for —
- A: World Women's Welfare
- B: World Wide Web
- C: Who What When
- D: World Wide Wonders
35) In which year did Bangladesh become a member of Commonwealth?
- A: 1975
- B: 1974
- C: 1973
- D: 1972
36) Who is the Head of the Govt. in Bangladesh?
- A: Prime Minister
- B: President
- C: Speaker
- D: Chief of Justice
37) Which Ministry has the responsibility of price controls in Bangladesh?
- A: Commerce
- B: Planning
- C: Finance
- D: LRRD
38) Name of the Canal/strait joining the Red Sea with the Mediteranean Sea is
- A: Panama
- B: Suez
- C: Kiel
- D: None of these
39) In which type of account we should deposit our money in order to earn higher rate of return?
- A: Current
- B: Savings
- C: Fixed deposit
- D: Home savings account
40) Bank’s functions do not include da
- A: acceptance of deposit
- B: giving loans
- C: trading
- D: transfer of funds
41) The Bangla calendar date of historic Ekushey February is ___ bat
- A: 8th Falgoon
- B: 9th Magha
- C: 31st Poush
- D: 29th Magh
42) Where IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) is located?
- A: Gazipur
- B: Bangkok
- C: Manila
- D: Maldip
43) Which is an investment bank in the public sector?
- A: BSRS
- B: BSB
- C: ICB
- D: none of these
44) Which organization will be replaced by WTO?
- A: ESCAP
- B: ADB
- C: GATTO
- D: UNIDO
45) A ‘CBA’ represents a
- A: Employers
- B: Officers
- C: Workers
- D: all of these
46) Head Office of WHO is located in —
- A: Paris
- B: New York
- C: Geneva
- D: None of these
47) How many centimeters make a meter?
- A: 20
- B: 30
- C: 50
- D: 100
48) What is Reuters?
- A: A club
- B: A TV station
- C: A news agency
- D: A magazine
49) Who introduced Bengali New Year (Beginning from 1st Baishakh)?
- A: Akbar
- B: Sher Shah DP
- C: Lakhan Sen
- D: Sultan Mahmood
50) Which is not a UN Organization?
- A: CARE
- B: UNDP
- C: ILO
- D: WFP
51) DSE operates under the direct control of –
- A: Ministry of Commerce
- B: FBCCI
- C: SEC
- D: Bangladesh Bank
52) Which statesman received Nobel Prize for literary work?
- A: Nixon
- B: Stalin
- C: Churchill
- D: Roosevelt
53) Sir Isaac Newton was a
- A: scientist
- B: philosopher
- C: traveler
- D: physician
54) Which is the smallest?
- A: meter
- B: centimeter
- C: kilometer
- D: decimeter
55) The length of a cricket pitch is –
- A: 20 yards
- B: 22 yards
- C: 24 yards
- D: 30 yards
56) What is the percent rate of population growth in Bangladesh?
- A: 2.0%
- B: 1.7%
- C: 1.5%
- D: 0.98%
57) Money mainly serves as a —
- A: medium of exchange
- B: means of barter
- C: means of hoarding
- D: none of these
58) The smallest administrative unit in the cities of Bangladesh is –
- A: Upazillah
- B: Thana
- C: Ward
- D: none of these
59) Which organization or agency is directly responsible for controlling money supply in Bangladesh?
- A: Ministry of Finance
- B: Sonali Bank
- C: Bangladesh Bank
- D: Ministry of Planning
60) Instruction: Which of the following is correct?
- A: He does not know nothing.
- B: He knows not nothing.
- C: He knows nothing.
- D: All of them are correct.
61) The word ‘ecological’ is directly related to
- A: demography
- B: atmosphere
- C: environment
- D: None of these
62) Instruction: Which of the following is correct?
- A: Each of the students are good.
- B: Each of the students is good.
- C: Each of the student is good.
- D: All of the students is good.
63) Instruction: Which of the following is correct?
- A: He is as good as mine
- B: He is as good as me
- C: He is as good as myself
- D: He is as good as I
64) Instruction: Which of the following is correct?
- A: Yesterday, he has gone home.
- B: Yesterday, he did gone home.
- C: Yesterday, he had gone home.
- D: Yesterday, he went home.
65) ____ is essential when you send a telegram; you are charged for every word.
- A: Gravity
- B: Clarity
- C: Honesty
- D: Brevity
66) Instruction: Which of the following is correct?
- A: He is in the temper.
- B: He is in temper.
- C: He is tempered.
- D: He is in a temper.
67) The number of parts of speech in English grammar is
- A: 2
- B: 4
- C: 6
- D: 8
68) When a person is ‘in deep water’ she/he is—
- A: profound
- B: busy
- C: in trouble
- D: confused
69) The tense of a verb is related to—
- A: time
- B: place
- C: person
- D: degree
70) A noun that names a general class of persons, place or things is a
- A: proper noun
- B: general noun
- C: perfect noun
- D: common noun
71) Words that join noun or pronoun objects to other words in the sentence are called
- A: conjunction
- B: adverb
- C: preposition
- D: adjectives
72) A sentence is a group of a words that expresses a complete
- A: fragment
- B: thought
- C: predicate
- D: paragraph
73) Which one is plural?
- A: Each
- B: Someone
- C: Anyone
- D: None of these
74) The meaning of the word ‘adverse’ is
- A: hostile
- B: dangerous
- C: unique
- D: favorable
75) The opposite of the word ‘flexible’ is
- A: obese
- B: tough
- C: rigid
- D: breakable
76) The meaning of the word ‘unruly’ is
- A: discord
- B: compliance
- C: disobedient
- D: disciplined
77) The opposite of the word ‘wide’ is –
- A: long
- B: broad
- C: large
- D: narrow
78) The word ‘wild’ means –
- A: mild
- B: feeble
- C: untamed
- D: angry
79) Now it is ten o’clock____my watch.
- A: form
- B: by
- C: at
- D: of
80) He was absent _____ last week.
- A: from
- B: for
- C: ever
- D: since
Time: 60s |
Correct: 0 |
Wrong: 0