SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 8 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 10 September 2026.

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Match the following social reform organisations with their respective founders. Social reform organisations | Their founders a) Brahmo Samaj | i. Swami Vivekanand b) Ramakrishna Mission | ii. Atmaram Pandurang c) Prarthana Samaj | iii. Raja Ram Mohan Roy d) Arya Samaj | iv. Dayananda Saraswati

(a)a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
(b)a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii
(c)a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv
(d)a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Take the printed table one row at a time.

a) Brahmo Samaj → iii, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Calcutta, 1828
b) Ramakrishna Mission → i, Swami Vivekanand, 1897
c) Prarthana Samaj → ii, Atmaram Pandurang, Bombay, 1867
d) Arya Samaj → iv, Dayananda Saraswati, Bombay, 1875

That reads a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv, which is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i — a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i hands the Ramakrishna Mission to Raja Ram Mohan Roy and the Arya Samaj to Vivekananda. The b-pair alone kills it.
(b)
a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii — a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii makes the Brahmo Samaj Vivekananda's and the Ramakrishna Mission Atmaram Pandurang's. Both founders land on the wrong body.
(d)
a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i — a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i gets Prarthana Samaj right, then gives the Brahmo Samaj to Dayananda Saraswati and the Arya Samaj to Vivekananda. The a-pair decides it.

Concept

Nineteenth-century reform bodies are asked as founder, city and year triples, and a match item collapses as soon as one pair is certain.

Fix the two Bengal bodies first: Brahmo Samaj, Calcutta 1828, Raja Ram Mohan Roy — and Ramakrishna Mission, 1897, Swami Vivekananda, founded after Ramakrishna Paramahamsa's death and named for him.

Then the two western ones: Prarthana Samaj, Bombay 1867, Atmaram Pandurang — and Arya Samaj, Bombay 1875, Dayananda Saraswati, author of the Satyarth Prakash.

The stem is an image rather than text: a legible two-column table listing the four organisations against four founders. Each option offers one complete pairing of the two columns, so only one pair has to be checked to eliminate most of them.

Key facts

Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Sabha at Calcutta in 1828, which became the Brahmo Samaj.
Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897.
Atmaram Pandurang founded the Prarthana Samaj at Bombay in 1867.
Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875.

Study next

Founders, cities and years of the nineteenth-century reform organisationsThe Brahmo Samaj after Ram Mohan Roy: Debendranath Tagore and Keshab Chandra SenThe Arya Samaj programme: Vedic authority, shuddhi and the Satyarth Prakash

Common traps

Checking all four pairs when one certain pairing already eliminates three options.
Attaching the Ramakrishna Mission to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa himself. It was founded by his disciple Vivekananda, after his death.

The same pairs also arrive as single-line questions. The Brahmo Samaj's founder was asked on 18 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.3, and the Prarthana Samaj's on 09 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.22.

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