What was the literacy rate of Bihar in the Census of 2011?
- A.47.0 per cent
- B.54.3 per cent
- C.61.8 per cent
- D.74.0 per cent
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 61.8 per cent. The Census of 2011 recorded Bihar’s literacy rate as 61.8 per cent, the lowest among the states of India, with 71.2 per cent for men and 51.5 per cent for women. The gap of nearly twenty percentage points between the sexes explains why the state built so many schemes around school girls.
Option A, 47.0 per cent, is close to Bihar’s figure in the Census of 2001, so it is the previous decade rather than this one. Option B, 54.3 per cent, is a number between the two Censuses and is placed here to catch a student who remembers that the rate rose sharply but not by how much. Option D, 74.0 per cent, is close to the all India literacy rate of the Census of 2011, not the figure for Bihar, and a paper often pairs the two to see whether the candidate can tell the state from the country. Keep 61.8 for Bihar and 74 for India.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Magadh University
- B.Patna University
- C.Lalit Narayan Mithila University
- D.Nalanda Open University
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It was set up on 1 October 1917 as an examining and affiliating university for the province of Bihar and Odisha, and it is the oldest university in the state as well as one of the oldest in the country.
Read the full explanation →According to the Census of 2011, which district of Bihar had the highest literacy rate?
- A.Patna
- B.Rohtas
- C.Munger
- D.Purnia
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In the Census of 2011 Rohtas, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Shahabad region, recorded the highest literacy rate among the districts of Bihar, ahead of Patna and Munger, which came next.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Institute of Management in Bihar is located at which place?
- A.Patna
- B.Bodh Gaya
- C.Muzaffarpur
- D.Rajgir
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Read the full explanation →Patna Medical College, the oldest medical college of Bihar, was opened in 1925 under which name?
- A.Temple Medical School
- B.Prince of Wales Medical College
- C.Bihar Medical College
- D.Rajendra Medical College
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The institution opened in 1925 under that name and was renamed Patna Medical College after independence; its hospital is still among the largest in eastern India and the oldest teaching hospital of the state.
Read the full explanation →The Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences at Agamkuan, Patna, is a centre of research on which disease?
- A.Tuberculosis
- B.Malaria
- C.Kala-azar
- D.Leprosy
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The institute at Agamkuan in Patna works under the Indian Council of Medical Research and is the national centre for research on kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, the disease whose heaviest Indian burden lies in the plains of north Bihar.
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