Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 5)

The US Constitution vests executive power in a President for a four-year term, removable only by impeachment.

Women, SC/ST members and persons in custody are listed groups. A general-category person must pass the income test.

Rule 316B covers complaints about unethical conduct of a member that the Speaker refers to it.

The correct answer is 29 November 2021. The Bill was introduced and passed in both Houses that day. It repealed the three farm laws passed in September 2020. Memory hook: introduced and passed on one day.

The correct answer is the 101st Amendment Act, 2016. The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014 became that Act after the States ratified it. The 122nd is the Bill number, not the Act number. Memory hook: Bill 122, Act 101.

The correct answer is Article 3. It lets Parliament alter the name of any State. The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill used it in 2026. It needs no amendment under Article 368. Memory hook: Article 3 changes names and borders.

The correct answer is Six months. Article 85(1) says six months shall not intervene between the two. So Parliament must meet at least twice a year. The three-session pattern is only a convention. Memory hook: six months, twice a year.

The Act makes a creche compulsory at 50 or more employees, with four visits a day.

The 26 weeks are for the first two children. A third child brings 12 weeks.

The correct answer is the National Exit Test (NExT). The Act makes it a common final-year examination that also grants the licence to practise. It also applies to anyone with a foreign medical qualification. NEET is the uniform entrance test for undergraduate and postgraduate super-speciality courses. Memory hook: exit test opens the PG door.

The correct answer is Medical Assessment and Rating Board. No person may start a new medical college, begin a postgraduate course or add seats without its prior permission. The Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Boards set standards. The Ethics and Medical Registration Board keeps the National Register. Memory hook: rating board gives the permit.

Article 395 repeals the 1947 and 1935 Acts and the enactments amending the 1935 Act. It leaves out the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act, 1949.

Shatrughan Chauhan (2014) held that unexplained delay violates Article 21.

It is a ground to commute death to life imprisonment.

Article 72(1) gives the President power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions.

It also covers suspending, remitting or commuting a sentence.

The Court held that there can be no estoppel against the Constitution.

Its provisions are conceived in public interest and serve a public purpose.

Justices Bhagwati and Subba Rao held that no right in Part III can be waived.

They saw no reason to import American ideas.

Justice S. K. Das took a different view.

All the Judges agreed the settlement was void under Article 14.

Chief Justice Das and Justice Kapur held that the right to equality could not be waived.

The five-judge bench held courts cannot fix timelines. It also said there is no deemed assent.

The reference asked if a law under Article 3 was enough or an Article 368 amendment was needed.

The Court said the collegium should include the Chief Justice of India and the four seniormost puisne judges.

Clause (2) refers to disputes under the proviso to Article 131. The Court shall report its opinion.

Article 282 grants flow mainly through Centrally Sponsored Schemes. The Commission has no role in them.

Article 150 deals with the form of accounts.

The President prescribes the form on the advice of the CAG.

State reports go to the Governor.

The Governor has them laid before the State Legislature.

Union reports go to the President.

The answer is it ignores degrees of harm, or its purpose clashes with constitutional values. These are the two limbs in the 2024 judgment. Why the others fail: The Court does not judge wisdom. Majority size and executive-only scope are not the test. Memory hook: harm degrees and constitutional values.