OTEE Cheat Sheet 2026

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117 questions
135 min time limit
70% to pass
  1. What is 'Disinvestment' in the context of Indian economics? → Selling government's stake in public sector enterprises
  2. Radar, Sonar, and Lidar all belong to which category? → Remote sensing technologies
  3. A peer officer consistently takes credit for the work of shared subordinates. The most professionally appropriate response is to: → Confront the peer directly and privately to address the behavior
  4. The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution are inspired by the Constitution of which country? → Ireland
  5. Identify the type of sentence: Although it was raining, we went for a walk. → Complex
  6. Premises: 'No coward can be a good officer. All good officers are respected.' Does it follow that 'No coward is respected'? → No, a coward may still be respected for other reasons
  7. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), the highest-ranking officer in the Indian Navy, holds which rank? → Admiral
  8. A 40-liter solution is 20% salt. How many liters of water must be added to reduce the salt concentration to 10%? → 40
  9. A cadet's age is three times his younger brother's age. In 8 years, the cadet will be twice his brother's age. What is the cadet's current age? → 24
  10. The U.S. federal budget is divided into which two broad categories of spending? → Mandatory and discretionary
  11. Which of the following sentences is free of dangling modifiers? → After completing the march, the soldiers were overcome by exhaustion.
  12. A weather front that forms when a cold air mass advances and displaces warmer air is called a: → Cold front
  13. From the data set {3, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21}, what is the range? → 18
  14. MISSION is to OBJECTIVE as STRATEGY is to ? → Plan
  15. Which desert is the largest in the world when both hot and cold deserts are included? → Antarctic Desert
  16. Which international treaty prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons? → Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
  17. A cubic storage container has sides of 4 meters. What is its volume in cubic meters? → 64
  18. What is the meaning of the word 'VERBOSE'? → Using more words than needed
  19. Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition: She is proficient __________ multiple languages. → in
  20. In the scientific method, a hypothesis is best described as: → A testable, falsifiable explanation for an observed phenomenon
  21. In the analogy SWORD : SCABBARD :: GUN : _____, which word best completes it? → Holster
  22. Which word does NOT belong with the others? Discipline, Integrity, Honor, Negligence → Negligence
  23. Which of the following sentences uses the passive voice? → The report was reviewed by the manager.
  24. The Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth's land surface, borders which two countries? → Jordan and Israel
  25. The Indian Navy's White Ensign (official naval flag) features which prominent cross on its white background? → Cross of St. George
  26. The Indian Navy is organized into three operational commands. Where is the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command located? → Visakhapatnam
  27. Identify the grammatical error in: 'The new recruits, along with their sergeant, was exhausted after the drill.' → 'was' should be 'were'
  28. Choose the correct sentence: → The weather was hot, and we decided to go swimming
  29. According to Newton's Second Law of Motion, if a net force of 30 N acts on a 6 kg object, what is its acceleration? → 5 m/s²
  30. The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to which body of water, enabling direct sea travel between Europe and Asia? → Mediterranean Sea