Arrange the Maharashtra Bhushan Award recipients in an appropriate order – (Ascending order) if the year in which they got the prize, oldest first and newest last. A. Ram Sutar B. Appasaheb Dharmadhikari C. Ashok Saraf D. Asha Bhosale
This MPSC previous-year question is drawn from MPSC Group B Combined Pre 2026 (English). It belongs to the Current Affairs section and is reproduced here in English exactly as it appeared in the official Maharashtra Public Service Commission paper, along with the four options, the official Set A answer key and a compact explanation of why the correct option is correct.
Correct answer: D
Explanation
The examiner has marked option D. Arranged oldest-to-newest by the year they received the Maharashtra Bhushan Award, the recipients line up as D, B, C, A. Fixing the earliest awardee first makes the ascending chain fall into place.
Why this question matters
Questions of this type recur almost every year across MPSC Group B, Group C, PSI and Gazetted Civil Services prelims because current affairs carries a high, stable weightage in the syllabus. Practising the original paper wording — rather than paraphrased mock questions — is the fastest way to internalise MPSC's option-framing style and the specific way its examiners plant trick choices.
How to attempt this in the exam
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Subject-specific tip
Tip for Current Affairs: convert every rolling item you encounter into a four-field notebook — the event, the date, the primary actor and the associated body. Revising that notebook in the final fortnight is far more efficient than re-reading monthly magazines.
Current Affairs — the two-window strategy
MPSC Current Affairs questions come from two windows: (a) the previous twelve months of national and international events; and (b) the last five years of static current affairs — awards, appointments, sports championships, summit locations, government-of-India schemes launched. The rolling window covers new laws, budgets, indices, treaties and headline events; the static window covers the sedimented facts that no longer move but must still be memorised. Almost every MPSC paper draws about 60 percent of current-affairs items from the rolling window and 40 percent from the static window.
For the rolling window, the two authoritative sources are the Press Information Bureau (pib.gov.in) daily bulletin and the annual Economic Survey; supplement with the monthly Yojana and Kurukshetra magazines. For the static window, focus on: Nobel laureates by year and category, Padma awardees split by field, national sports achievements (Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Cups), Prime-Minister and President appointments across democracies, and G20 / G7 / BRICS / SCO summit venues.
Our GK 2025-26 Marathon on the Topic Wise practice tab curates the top 500 rolling-window items across the last six months in five-question sets — precisely calibrated to how MPSC frames these items. Aspirants who finish the Marathon typically report a 4–6 mark uplift on the current-affairs section of their next mock.
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