UPSC Insta–DART (Daily Aptitude and Reasoning Test) 30 Jan 2026
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Considering the alarming importance of CSAT in UPSC CSE Prelims exam and with enormous requests we received recently, InsightsIAS has started Daily CSAT Test to ensure students practice CSAT Questions on a daily basis. Regular Practice would help one overcome the fear of CSAT too.We are naming this initiative as Insta– DART – Daily Aptitude and Reasoning Test. We hope you will be able to use DART to hit bull’s eye in CSAT paper and comfortably score 100+ even in the most difficult question paper that UPSC can give you in CSP-2021. Your peace of mind after every step of this exam is very important for us.
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• Question 1 of 5 1. Question We are witnessing a dangerous dwindling of biodiversity in our food supply. The green revolution is a mixed blessing. Over time farmers have come to rely heavily on broadly adapted, high yield crops to the exclusion of varieties adapted to the local conditions. Monocropping vast fields with the same genetically uniform seeds helps boost yield and meet immediate hunger needs. Yet high-yield varieties are also genetically weaker crops that require expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In our focus on increasing the amount of food we produce today, we have accidentally put ourselves at risk for food shortages in future. Which among the following is the most logical and critical inference that can be made from the above passage? (a) In our agricultural practices, we have become heavily dependent on expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides only due to green revolution (b) Monocropping vast fields with high-yield varieties is possible due to green revolution (c) Mono-cropping with high-yield varieties is the only way to ensure food security to millions (d) Green revolution can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run Correct Correct Answer: D Explanation: Green revolution has increased the use of chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. This can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run. Incorrect Correct Answer: D Explanation: Green revolution has increased the use of chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. This can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run.
#### 1. Question
We are witnessing a dangerous dwindling of biodiversity in our food supply. The green revolution is a mixed blessing. Over time farmers have come to rely heavily on broadly adapted, high yield crops to the exclusion of varieties adapted to the local conditions. Monocropping vast fields with the same genetically uniform seeds helps boost yield and meet immediate hunger needs. Yet high-yield varieties are also genetically weaker crops that require expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In our focus on increasing the amount of food we produce today, we have accidentally put ourselves at risk for food shortages in future.
Which among the following is the most logical and critical inference that can be made from the above passage?
• (a) In our agricultural practices, we have become heavily dependent on expensive chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides only due to green revolution
• (b) Monocropping vast fields with high-yield varieties is possible due to green revolution
• (c) Mono-cropping with high-yield varieties is the only way to ensure food security to millions
• (d) Green revolution can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run
Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Green revolution has increased the use of chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. This can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run.
Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Green revolution has increased the use of chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. This can pose a threat to biodiversity in food supply and food security in the long run.
• Question 2 of 5 2. Question Some people believe that leadership is a quality which you have at birth or not at all. This theory is false, for the art of leadership can be acquired and can indeed be taught. This discovery is made in time of war and the results achieved can surprise even the instructors. Faced with the alternatives of going left or right, every soldier soon grasps that a prompt decision either way is better than an endless discussion. A firm choice of direction has an even chance of being right while to do nothing will be almost certainly wrong. The author of the passage holds the view that (a) leadership can be taught through war experience only (b) leadership can be acquired as well as taught (c) the results of training show that more people acquire leadership than are expected (d) despite rigorous instruction, very few leaders are produced Correct Correct Answer: B Incorrect Correct Answer: B
#### 2. Question
Some people believe that leadership is a quality which you have at birth or not at all. This theory is false, for the art of leadership can be acquired and can indeed be taught. This discovery is made in time of war and the results achieved can surprise even the instructors. Faced with the alternatives of going left or right, every soldier soon grasps that a prompt decision either way is better than an endless discussion. A firm choice of direction has an even chance of being right while to do nothing will be almost certainly wrong.
The author of the passage holds the view that
• (a) leadership can be taught through war experience only
• (b) leadership can be acquired as well as taught
• (c) the results of training show that more people acquire leadership than are expected
• (d) despite rigorous instruction, very few leaders are produced
Correct Answer: B
Correct Answer: B
• Question 3 of 5 3. Question The Arctic’s vast reserves of fossil fuel, fish and minerals are now accessible for a longer period in a year. But unlike Antarctica, which is protected from exploitation by the Antarctic Treaty framed during the Cold War and is not subject to territorial claims by any country, there is no legal regime protecting the Arctic from industrialization, especially at a time when the world craves for more and more resources. The distinct possibility of ice-free summer has prompted countries with Arctic coastline to scramble for great chunks of the melting ocean. Which one of the following is the most important implication of the passage? (a) India can have territorial claims in the Arctic territory and free access to its resources. (b) Melting of summer ice in the Arctic leads to changes in the geopolitics. (c) The Arctic region will solve the world's future problem of resource crunch. (d) The Arctic region has more resources than Antarctica. Correct Correct Answer: B Explanation: Except option 2, all explain the narrower theme of the passage but we should chose the basic theme on which passage is talking about. Hence, Option B is the right answer. Incorrect Correct Answer: B Explanation: Except option 2, all explain the narrower theme of the passage but we should chose the basic theme on which passage is talking about. Hence, Option B is the right answer.
#### 3. Question
The Arctic’s vast reserves of fossil fuel, fish and minerals are now accessible for a longer period in a year. But unlike Antarctica, which is protected from exploitation by the Antarctic Treaty framed during the Cold War and is not subject to territorial claims by any country, there is no legal regime protecting the Arctic from industrialization, especially at a time when the world craves for more and more resources. The distinct possibility of ice-free summer has prompted countries with Arctic coastline to scramble for great chunks of the melting ocean.
Which one of the following is the most important implication of the passage?
• (a) India can have territorial claims in the Arctic territory and free access to its resources.
• (b) Melting of summer ice in the Arctic leads to changes in the geopolitics.
• (c) The Arctic region will solve the world's future problem of resource crunch.
• (d) The Arctic region has more resources than Antarctica.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Except option 2, all explain the narrower theme of the passage but we should chose the basic theme on which passage is talking about.
Hence, Option B is the right answer.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Except option 2, all explain the narrower theme of the passage but we should chose the basic theme on which passage is talking about.
Hence, Option B is the right answer.
• Question 4 of 5 4. Question Directions (4-7) Read the passage and answer the question based on it. On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos , Spain , with less than a hundred crew members to discover a new route to Asia. After spending a difficult time at sea, the party sighted land early on the morning of October 12, 1492. They set foot on an island in the Bahamas which they named Al Salvador. Columbus presumed that the indigenous people were Native Indians as he was under the mistaken belief that he had set foot on Indian soil. Probably some 10 million American Indians were natives to the land before the large-scale inhabitation by Europeans and subsequent annihilation of Native Americans started. However, it took more than a hundred years after Columbus discovered America for the Europeans to finally take the momentous decision to make the New World their home. The Native Americans actually welcomed the pale-skinned visitors primarily out of curiosity than anything else. They were fascinated by the steel knives and swords, fire spewing cannons, brass and copper utensils, etc. that these visitors brought with them. Eventually, cultural differences erupted. The natives could not stomach the arrogance of the newcomers and the scant respect they paid to nature. The European settlers viewed every resource — plants, animals, and people as something to be commercially exploited. The native Indians were vastly outnumbered in the wars that ensued. The resistance they put up never proved enough to stop the European settlers. The nomadic lifestyle of the Indians, the relatively unsophisticated weapons at their disposal, the unwillingness of some of their own people to defend themselves, and the diseases of the white men — all contributed to the virtual elimination of their race. Some of the diseases brought by Europeans from their overcrowded cities that decimated the natives were: small pox, plague, measles, cholera, typhoid, and malaria. These deadly diseases, to which most natives had developed no resistance, devastated many tribes between 1775 and 1850. America was named after an Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the Northern parts of South America in 1499 and 1500 and later announced to the world about the discovery of a new continent. The primary purpose of the passage is to (a) Disprove the notion that America was named after Columbus (b) Provide a snapshot of the discovery of America and the early years of settlements. (c) Explain how the Europeans eliminated the native Americans in their own land (d) Discuss how the process of colonization of America started. Correct Correct Answer: B Explanation: The primary purpose of the passage is to give a brief account of the discovery of America and the early years of settlement. Incorrect Correct Answer: B Explanation: The primary purpose of the passage is to give a brief account of the discovery of America and the early years of settlement.
#### 4. Question
Directions (4-7)
Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos , Spain , with less than a hundred crew members to discover a new route to Asia. After spending a difficult time at sea, the party sighted land early on the morning of October 12, 1492. They set foot on an island in the Bahamas which they named Al Salvador. Columbus presumed that the indigenous people were Native Indians as he was under the mistaken belief that he had set foot on Indian soil. Probably some 10 million American Indians were natives to the land before the large-scale inhabitation by Europeans and subsequent annihilation of Native Americans started. However, it took more than a hundred years after Columbus discovered America for the Europeans to finally take the momentous decision to make the New World their home. The Native Americans actually welcomed the pale-skinned visitors primarily out of curiosity than anything else. They were fascinated by the steel knives and swords, fire spewing cannons, brass and copper utensils, etc. that these visitors brought with them. Eventually, cultural differences erupted. The natives could not stomach the arrogance of the newcomers and the scant respect they paid to nature. The European settlers viewed every resource — plants, animals, and people as something to be commercially exploited. The native Indians were vastly outnumbered in the wars that ensued. The resistance they put up never proved enough to stop the European settlers. The nomadic lifestyle of the Indians, the relatively unsophisticated weapons at their disposal, the unwillingness of some of their own people to defend themselves, and the diseases of the white men — all contributed to the virtual elimination of their race. Some of the diseases brought by Europeans from their overcrowded cities that decimated the natives were: small pox, plague, measles, cholera, typhoid, and malaria. These deadly diseases, to which most natives had developed no resistance, devastated many tribes between 1775 and 1850. America was named after an Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the Northern parts of South America in 1499 and 1500 and later announced to the world about the discovery of a new continent.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
• (a) Disprove the notion that America was named after Columbus
• (b) Provide a snapshot of the discovery of America and the early years of settlements.
• (c) Explain how the Europeans eliminated the native Americans in their own land
• (d) Discuss how the process of colonization of America started.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
The primary purpose of the passage is to give a brief account of the discovery of America and the early years of settlement.
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
The primary purpose of the passage is to give a brief account of the discovery of America and the early years of settlement.
• Question 5 of 5 5. Question From the passage we can infer that in comparison to the Europeans, Native Americans were (a) Careless about their environment (b) A very unhealthy lot (c) More respectful of nature (d) Ignorant about sanitation Correct Correct Answer: C Explanation: From the third paragraph, we can make out that they were more respectful of nature. Incorrect Correct Answer: C Explanation: From the third paragraph, we can make out that they were more respectful of nature.
#### 5. Question
From the passage we can infer that in comparison to the Europeans, Native Americans were
• (a) Careless about their environment
• (b) A very unhealthy lot
• (c) More respectful of nature
• (d) Ignorant about sanitation
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
From the third paragraph, we can make out that they were more respectful of nature.
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
From the third paragraph, we can make out that they were more respectful of nature.
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