Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists.
List - I (State)
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Rajasthan
C. Nagaland
D. Madhya Pradesh
List - II (Highest Peak)
1. D

Question

Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists.
List - I (State)
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Rajasthan
C. Nagaland
D. Madhya Pradesh
List - II (Highest Peak)
1. Dhupgarh
2. Doddabetta
3. Guru Shikhar
4. Saramati

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Correct — D, A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1. Tamil Nadu (A) is topped by Doddabetta (2), about 2,637 m, the highest point of the Nilgiri Hills, just outside Ooty. Rajasthan (B) is topped by Guru Shikhar (3), about 1,722 m, near Mount Abu in Sirohi district — the highest peak of the entire Aravalli Range. Nagaland (C) is topped by Saramati (4), about 3,826 m, in Kiphire district right on the Indo-Myanmar border, the tallest of the Naga Hills. Madhya Pradesh (D) is topped by Dhupgarh (1), about 1,352 m, at Pachmarhi in the Satpura Range — and it topped undivided Madhya Pradesh as well, since nothing in the part that became Chhattisgarh reaches that height. Only option (d) makes all four of these pairings.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The first half is right — Tamil Nadu with Doddabetta and Rajasthan with Guru Shikhar — but it then swaps the last two, handing Dhupgarh to Nagaland and Saramati to Madhya Pradesh. Dhupgarh is a Satpura summit at Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh, and Saramati sits on the Nagaland–Myanmar frontier; at about 3,826 m it is more than twice Dhupgarh's height and could not belong to a peninsular state.  (b) Every pair is wrong. It gives Tamil Nadu Guru Shikhar and Rajasthan Doddabetta — reversing the Aravalli peak and the Nilgiri peak — and then also reverses Nagaland and Madhya Pradesh. Guru Shikhar is an Aravalli summit near Mount Abu, so it cannot belong to a southern state.  (c) This is the intended trap. It correctly gives Nagaland Saramati and Madhya Pradesh Dhupgarh, but reverses the first two, pairing Tamil Nadu with Guru Shikhar and Rajasthan with Doddabetta. A candidate who is sure of the two easier pairs and careless about the first two will mark it. Doddabetta is a Nilgiri peak in the Dravidian south; Guru Shikhar belongs to the Aravallis of Rajasthan.

Concept: Each of these four peaks is the high point of a different Indian relief unit. Doddabetta belongs to the Nilgiris, the knot where the Western and Eastern Ghats meet. Guru Shikhar tops the Aravallis, one of the oldest fold mountain systems on earth, now worn down to a residual range. Dhupgarh tops the Satpuras, the block mountains between the Narmada and Tapi rift valleys. Saramati belongs to the Naga Hills of the Purvanchal — the young, folded Indo-Myanmar arc that is an eastward extension of the Himalayan orogeny, which is why it towers over the three peninsular summits.

State PCS 2025 Q67 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2025 Q67 — Geography PYQ with Answer