1. India’s merchandise exports face a “middle-technology trap”. Which of the following best describes this challenge?

• India has completely lost its comparative advantage in both agriculture and services.
• India faces competition from low-cost economies in labour-intensive manufacturing while lagging behind advanced Asian economies in high-technology production.
• India is excessively dependent on high-technology imports but has no domestic consumer market.
• India has shifted entirely from manufacturing to services and therefore cannot participate in global trade.

2. Under the transitional framework, which of the following correctly describes the treatment of judicial academy training and supervised clerkship?

• One year of academy training and one year of supervised clerkship are each treated as equivalent to one year of Bar practice.
• Only supervised clerkship is treated as practice; academy training has no such equivalence.
• Two years of academy training are treated as equivalent to Bar practice.
• Neither academy training nor clerkship contributes towards practice equivalence.

3. Arrange the following stages of an OBPP transaction in the correct sequence:

1. Settlement through a recognised clearing corporation
2. Search and comparison of bonds
3. Order routing through the RFQ platform
4. Securities credited to the investor’s Demat account

• 2 ? 3 ? 1 ? 4
• 3 ? 2 ? 1 ? 4
• 2 ? 1 ? 3 ? 4
• 1 ? 2 ? 3 ? 4

4. Exercise Udara Shakti 2026 is a bilateral military exercise between:

• India and Indonesia
• India and Malaysia
• India and Singapore
• India and Vietnam

5. The “Ideal Victim” theory associated with criminologist Nils Christie primarily explains:

• how courts determine the quantum of compensation for victims
• how society tends to extend greater sympathy to victims who conform to conventional stereotypes of vulnerability and respectability
• why all victims of crime behave in the same manner
• how criminal liability is determined solely by the victim’s conduct