Which of the following pairs is/are NOT correctly matched ? 1. National Voters Day (India) – 25 January 2. Constitution Day (India) – 27 January 3. Human Rights Day (World) – 29 January Select the correct answer from the code given below : Code :
- (a)1 and 2
- (b)2 and 3
- (c)Only 3
- (d)Only 1
Correct — B, 2 and 3. The question asks for the pairs that are NOT correctly matched, so read it as a hunt for errors rather than for truths. Pair 1 is right and must be left alone: National Voters' Day is observed in India on 25 January, and the date is not arbitrary — the Election Commission of India was constituted on 25 January 1950, one day before the Constitution came into force, and the Government adopted the Commission's foundation day as National Voters' Day from 2011 to enrol young citizens turning eighteen. Pair 2 is wrong. Constitution Day, Samvidhan Divas, falls on 26 NOVEMBER, not 27 January, because it was on 26 November 1949 that the Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution of India; the Government notified the observance in 2015, the 125th birth anniversary year of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, having marked the day earlier as Law Day. Pair 3 is wrong too. Human Rights Day is observed worldwide on 10 DECEMBER, not 29 January, the anniversary of the day in 1948 on which the United Nations General Assembly, meeting in Paris, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So the mismatched pairs are 2 and 3, which is option (b). There is a design tell worth noticing: the paper has parked all three dates in January, which is exactly the sort of clustering that should make you suspicious — two of India's and the world's best-known observances are not in January at all.
- (a)1 and 2 — It correctly convicts pair 2 but wrongly convicts pair 1. National Voters' Day genuinely is 25 January — the founding day of the Election Commission of India in 1950 — so pair 1 is one of the correctly matched pairs and cannot appear in the answer to a question asking which pairs are NOT correctly matched. The candidate who marks this has usually confused National Voters' Day with Republic Day on 26 January, which sits one day later.
- (c)Only 3 — This spots the Human Rights Day error but lets the Constitution Day error through. '27 January' is wrong twice over: Constitution Day is 26 November, and even the nearby January date a candidate might be half-remembering is 26 January, the date of commencement of the Constitution and of Republic Day, not the 27th. Two pairs are mismatched here, not one.
- (d)Only 1 — The exact inversion of the truth. It condemns the single pair that is correctly matched and clears the two that are wrong. A candidate reaches this by reading the question as 'which pair IS correctly matched' and then mis-transcribing, or by assuming that a January date attached to voters must belong to Republic Day. Whenever a NOT-matched question offers an option naming only one item, check the other two explicitly before accepting it.
Observance days are almost never chosen at random: each one commemorates a dated event, and the event is the memory hook. National Voters' Day, 25 January, marks the establishment of the Election Commission of India on 25 January 1950. Constitution Day, 26 November, marks the adoption of the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 — note that adoption on 26 November and commencement on 26 January 1950 are two different milestones, and the paper's January dates prey on the confusion. Human Rights Day, 10 December, marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948. Learn the anchoring event and the date follows; learn the date alone and it decays.
Two habits make this question routine. First, read the stem twice — 'NOT correctly matched' inverts everything, and a large share of the marks lost on this format are lost to candidates who solved the question correctly and then marked the complement. Second, treat clustering as evidence. When a pairs question puts every date in the same month, the setter is testing whether you know the real dates or are simply comparing the printed ones with each other. Here, checking each pair against its anchoring event settles it in seconds: Election Commission founded 25 January 1950, so pair 1 stands; Constitution adopted 26 November 1949, so pair 2 falls; UDHR adopted 10 December 1948, so pair 3 falls. Two mismatches, and the code that says 2 and 3 is (b).
- National Voters' Day — 25 January, the foundation day of the Election Commission of India (constituted 25 January 1950); observed nationally since 2011, chiefly to enrol citizens who have just turned eighteen
- Constitution Day (Samvidhan Divas) — 26 November, the day the Constituent Assembly adopted and enacted the Constitution in 1949; notified as an annual observance in 2015, and distinct from 26 January 1950, the date of commencement
- Human Rights Day — 10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948
- Dates that crowd the same corner of the calendar and are constantly interchanged in this format: 25 January National Voters' Day, 26 January Republic Day, 30 January Martyrs' Day, 24 April National Panchayati Raj Day
- The habit that solves the whole family of questions: attach every observance to the event it commemorates — a signing, an adoption, a founding — because the date is then recoverable instead of merely memorised
- Solving the question and then marking the complement. 'NOT correctly matched' means you must select the errors; the single most common loss on this format is a correct analysis mapped onto the wrong code
- Sliding Constitution Day into January because Republic Day is on 26 January. Adoption was 26 November 1949; commencement was 26 January 1950 — two dates, two occasions
- Assuming that if one printed date is obviously wrong the others must be right. Here two of the three are wrong, and option (c) exists precisely to catch the candidate who stops after finding the first error
UPPSC asks the observance calendar year after year, usually either as a straight 'X Day is celebrated on' single-fact question or, as here, as a NOT-correctly-matched pairs set in which the setter shifts a famous date by a few days or into the wrong month. UPSC rarely asks the bare date; it prefers to test the underlying event — what happened on 26 November 1949, or what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights actually contains.
Consider the following statements in respect of the Constitution Day : Statement-I : The Constitution Day is celebrated on 26th November every year to promote constitutional values among citizens. Statement-II : On 26th November, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India set up a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar to prepare a Draft Constitution of India. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
- (a) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I
- (b) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I
- (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect
- (d) Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct
Answer(c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect
Settles the very date UPPSC has moved. UPSC states plainly that Constitution Day is 26 November, and then tests whether the candidate knows what happened on that date — the Assembly adopted the Constitution in 1949; the Drafting Committee had been set up much earlier, on 29 August 1947. A candidate who has worked through this item cannot be tempted by the '27 January' printed in pair 2.
Consider the following: 1. Right to education. 2. Right to equal access to public service. 3. Right to food. Which of the above is/are Human Right/Human Rights under “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”?
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 1 and 2 only
- (c) 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(d) 1, 2 and 3
Supplies the document that pair 3's date commemorates. Human Rights Day is 10 December because the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on 10 December 1948, and this question tests what the Declaration actually guarantees. Learning the instrument is what makes its anniversary stick, which is exactly the technique this pairs question rewards.
'World Ozone Day' is celebrated on
- (a) 25th December
- (b) 21st April
- (c) 16th September
- (d) 30th January
Answer(c) 16th September
The same skill in its simplest form, and from the same commission. World Ozone Day is 16 September because the Montreal Protocol was signed on 16 September 1987 — again a date anchored to an event. UPPSC has asked the observance calendar in this direct form for years, and the 2025 paper simply bundles three such pairs together and inverts the stem.
Which of the following is known as "World Wetlands Day"?
- (a) 1 February
- (b) 2 February
- (c) 10 January
- (d) 15 January
Answer(b) 2 February
Shows the trap in miniature. All four options are dates within a few weeks of each other, so the question is decided entirely by whether you know the anchoring event — the Convention on Wetlands was signed at Ramsar on 2 February 1971. The 2025 question uses precisely the same tactic by parking three unrelated observances in a single month.
- practice — not a real PYQ
National Voters' Day is observed in India on 25 January because that date marks
- (a)the commencement of the Constitution of India
- (b)the foundation of the Election Commission of India
- (c)the first general election to the Lok Sabha
- (d)the enactment of the Representation of the People Act
Answer(b) the foundation of the Election Commission of India — the Commission was constituted on 25 January 1950, and its foundation day has been observed as National Voters' Day since 2011.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Human Rights Day is observed on 10 December every year to commemorate
- (a)the establishment of the United Nations Organisation
- (b)the entry into force of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- (c)the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly
- (d)the constitution of India's National Human Rights Commission
Answer(c) the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly — adopted in Paris on 10 December 1948.