OTEE Cheat Sheet 2026
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117 questions
135 min time limit
70% to pass
- What is 'Disinvestment' in the context of Indian economics? ā Selling government's stake in public sector enterprises
- Radar, Sonar, and Lidar all belong to which category? ā Remote sensing technologies
- A peer officer consistently takes credit for the work of shared subordinates. The most professionally appropriate response is to: ā Confront the peer directly and privately to address the behavior
- The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution are inspired by the Constitution of which country? ā Ireland
- Identify the type of sentence: Although it was raining, we went for a walk. ā Complex
- Premises: 'No coward can be a good officer. All good officers are respected.' Does it follow that 'No coward is respected'? ā No, a coward may still be respected for other reasons
- The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), the highest-ranking officer in the Indian Navy, holds which rank? ā Admiral
- A 40-liter solution is 20% salt. How many liters of water must be added to reduce the salt concentration to 10%? ā 40
- 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? ā 24
- The U.S. federal budget is divided into which two broad categories of spending? ā Mandatory and discretionary
- Which of the following sentences is free of dangling modifiers? ā After completing the march, the soldiers were overcome by exhaustion.
- A weather front that forms when a cold air mass advances and displaces warmer air is called a: ā Cold front
- From the data set {3, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21}, what is the range? ā 18
- MISSION is to OBJECTIVE as STRATEGY is to ? ā Plan
- Which desert is the largest in the world when both hot and cold deserts are included? ā Antarctic Desert
- Which international treaty prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons? ā Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
- A cubic storage container has sides of 4 meters. What is its volume in cubic meters? ā 64
- What is the meaning of the word 'VERBOSE'? ā Using more words than needed
- Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition: She is proficient __________ multiple languages. ā in
- In the scientific method, a hypothesis is best described as: ā A testable, falsifiable explanation for an observed phenomenon
- In the analogy SWORD : SCABBARD :: GUN : _____, which word best completes it? ā Holster
- Which word does NOT belong with the others? Discipline, Integrity, Honor, Negligence ā Negligence
- Which of the following sentences uses the passive voice? ā The report was reviewed by the manager.
- The Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth's land surface, borders which two countries? ā Jordan and Israel
- The Indian Navy's White Ensign (official naval flag) features which prominent cross on its white background? ā Cross of St. George
- The Indian Navy is organized into three operational commands. Where is the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command located? ā Visakhapatnam
- Identify the grammatical error in: 'The new recruits, along with their sergeant, was exhausted after the drill.' ā 'was' should be 'were'
- Choose the correct sentence: ā The weather was hot, and we decided to go swimming
- 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? ā 5 m/s²
- The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to which body of water, enabling direct sea travel between Europe and Asia? ā Mediterranean Sea
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