Rajasthan Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

The correct answer is A, Odisha. The Tropic of Cancer lies at 23 degrees 30 minutes north and crosses eight Indian states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram. Odisha is not one of them, because the whole of the state lies south of that parallel, its northern edge reaching only about 22 degrees 34 minutes north.

Option B, Jharkhand, is crossed in its Ranchi plateau belt, so it is one of the eight. Option C, Mizoram, is the easternmost of the eight states the line touches. Option D, Rajasthan, is crossed at its southern tip in Banswara district near Kushalgarh, which is the fact this chapter asks for; because the line only clips that corner, almost all of Rajasthan lies in the sub-tropical zone. Candidates who remember that Odisha is a tropical coastal state pick it as a state on the line, which is the trap here.