India · Punjab Public Service Commission · civil-service · unverified source
Written exam and interview. Pattern unverified.
Recruitments of 418 posts (2022), 300 posts (2024) and 405 posts (result 2025).
Official source: https://www.ppsc.gov.in/
Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.
1. In a multi-cut oat fodder crop in north India, the first cut is usually taken at about:
C. 50-60 days after sowing
Multi-cut oats are first cut at roughly 50-60 days, leaving enough stubble to regrow; the regrowth is cut later or left for seed. At 15-20 days there is too little bulk and regrowth is weak; waiting for hard dough or 150 days leaves no time for a second cut in the rabi season.
Fodder Production & Grassland Management · Cereal fodder crops
2. Fasciola gigantica differs from F. hepatica mainly in that it:
D. Is longer, with less distinct shoulders, and uses Radix-group snails in tropical regions
F. gigantica is the tropical liver fluke of Africa and Asia; it lives in the bile ducts like F. hepatica but uses larger aquatic lymnaeids. Rumen location describes amphistomes; separate sexes describe schistosomes; mites transmit Moniezia.
General Veterinary Parasitology & Helminthology · Trematodes: Fasciola
3. Canine leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania infantum is transmitted biologically by:
A. Phlebotomine sandflies (Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia)
Phlebotomine sandflies are the biological vectors of Leishmania. Blackflies (Simulium) are a common wrong choice because they are also small biting Nematocera, but they transmit Onchocerca and Leucocytozoon.
Veterinary Entomology & Acarology · Flies
4. The principal mode of transmission of Trypanosoma evansi among camels and horses in India is:
B. Mechanical transmission by tabanid flies and Stomoxys
T. evansi does not develop in its vector; blood on the mouthparts of interrupted feeders such as Tabanus and Stomoxys carries it between hosts. Tsetse are absent from India and carry the nagana trypanosomes cyclically; triatomine faeces transmit T. cruzi.
Veterinary Protozoology · Trypanosoma and surra
5. The 'golden period' for a traumatic wound, traditionally quoted, is about:
D. 6 to 8 hours
Traditionally 6 to 8 hours is the interval before contaminating bacteria multiply to infective numbers. It is a guide only; 3 to 5 days refers to delayed primary closure, not to the golden period.
General Veterinary Surgery · Wounds
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