Directions: Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete
1.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Question: Economics are a difficulty lot to please and are __________ impressed by either and increase in government
expenditure or a cut in taxes.
Always
Often
Seldom
Scarcely
Easily
2.
Directions: select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: The roads to hills _______ closed because of land slides.
a. Was
b. Is
c. Were
d. Be
3. Directions: select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: _______ we been lying to our parents about smoking?
a. Hadn’t
b. Couldn’t
c. Haven’t
d. Didn’t
4. Directions: select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: his coach tells me that he _________ in the league since he was sixteen years old.
a. Has played
b. Will be playing
c. Is playing
d. Has been playing
5. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: the 30-minute composition ends on __________ optimistic note, with cardiff’s voice singing __ _____haunting
lullaby written by miller.
The, a
A, a
The, the
An, a
An, the
6. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s)to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: Global warming refers to the rise in average global temperature ________ will eventually bring an end to humanity.
a.
b.
c.
d.
7.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Therefore
That
And
Those
Directions: in the question, a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicized part are given which may improve
the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.
Question: My first salary was a four figure salary which had been considered very good in those days.
a. Would be
b. That is
c. Which was
d. That has been
8. Directions: select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Question: In today’s ________ economy, people secured with appropriate job are also continuously haunted by the standing
fear of being jobless.
a. Sturdy
b. Relentless
c. Unstable
d. Robust
9. Directions: select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Question: generic
Standard
Brand
Specific
Individual
10. Directions: select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Question: Intrusion
a. Invasion
b. Retreat
c. Inflation
d. Defence
11. Directions: select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Question: NONCHALANT
a.
b.
c.
d.
keen
indifferent
concerned
handsome
12. Directions: improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the itlalicised part of the sentence.
Question: A registered marriage requires the signatures of four witnesses, two each from the bride’s side and the groom’s
side.
a. Supporters
b. Relatives
c. Spectators
d. Attestors
13. Direstions: Give the antonym for the underlined word, in the given blank.
Question: He was very healthy before he got sick. Now he is very _______.
a. Well
b. Weak
c. Uneasy
d. Strong
14. Select the option that is most nearly to the given word.
Question: CLARIFY (OPPOSITE)
A. Analyze
B. Simplify
C. Confuse
D. resolve
15. Directions: select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.
Question:STARTLED (OPPOSITE)
a.
b.
c.
d.
Amused
Relaxed
Endless
Astonished
16. Directions: Fill the blank with the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in bold.
Question: Anita was not happy with the bank’s interest rate policy. They offered a fixed rate on all loans while she wanted a
________ rate.
Moving
Floating
Free
Market
17. Directions: In the question each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the
beginning . the middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the
proper order for the four sentences.
Question: S1: MS. Parasuram started a petrol pump in Madras.
S6: Thus she has shown the way for many others.
P: A total of twelve girls now work at the pump.
R: They operate in two shifts.
S: the response wa good.
a. PQSR
b. SQPR
c. QSPR
d. PQRS
Passage for question:
SINCE the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of
horror. Experts are calling it "sanitised barbarism". Demographic trends indicate the country is fast heading towards a million female
foetuses aborted each year.
Although foetal sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offence in India, the practice is rampant. Private clinics with ultrasound
machines are doing brisk business. Everywhere, people are paying to know the sex of an unborn child. And paying more to abort the
female child. The technology has even reached remote areas through mobile clinics. Dr. Puneet Bedi, obstetrician and specialist in foetal
medicine, says these days he hardly sees a family with two daughters. People are getting sex determination done even for the first child,
he says.
Spreading like a virus
A recent media workshop on the issue of sex selection and female foeticide brought home the extent of the problem. Held in Ag ra in
February, the workshop was organised by UNICEF, Business Community Foundation, and the Centre for Advocacy and Research.
Doctors, social scientists, researchers, activists, bureaucrats, journalists told their stories of what they were doing to fight the problem.
If the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number of girls per thousand boys) less than 850; by 2001 it was 51
districts. Child rights activist Dr. Sabu George says foeticide is the most extreme form of violence against women. "Today a girl is several
times more likely to be eliminated before birth than die of various causes in the first year. Nature intended the womb to be a safe space.
Today, doctors have made it the most unsafe space for the female child," he says. He believes that doctors must be held responsible —
"They have aggressively promoted the misuse of technology and legitimised foeticide."
Researchers and scholars use hard-hitting analogy to emphasise the extent of the problem. Dr. Satish Agnihotri, senior IAS officer and
scholar who has done extensive research on the issue, calls the technology "a weapon of mass destruction". Dr. Bedi refers to it as
genocide: "More than 6 million killed in 20 years. That's the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust."
Related issues
Foeticide is also one of the most common causes of maternal mortality. The sex of the foetus can be determined only around 14-16 weeks.
This means most sex selective abortions are late. Abortion after 20 weeks is illegal in India. Donna Fernandes, Vimochana, a Bangalorebased NGO, says foeticide is related to a host of other social problems as varied as privatisation of medical education and dowry.
Karnataka has the highest number of private medical colleges. Healthcare turning commodity has led to terrifying consequences. Adds
Fernandes, "Wherever green revolution has happened foeticide has increased. With more landholdings and wealth inheritance dowry has
increased. Daughters are considered an economic liability. Today, people don't want their daughters to study higher — a more welleducated groom will demand more dowry."
Ironically, as income levels increase, sex determination and sex selection is increasing. The most influential pockets have the worst sex
ratios. Take Punjab for instance — 793 girls for every 1,000 boys against the national figure of 927. Or South Delhi — one of the most
affluent localities of the Capital — 760. According to Satara-based advocate Varsha Deshpande, small families have come at the cost of
the girl child.
In patriarchal States like Rajasthan where infanticide has existed for centuries, this new technology has many takers. Meena Sharma, 27,
television journalist from Rajasthan, who did a series of sting operations across four States last year, says, "Today, people want to pretend
they are modern and that they do not discriminate between a girl and a boy. Yet, they will not hesitate to quietly go to the next village and
get an ultrasound done."
Sharma was determined to expose the widespread malpractice. She travelled with pregnant women as "decoys" across four States and
more than 13,000 km to do a series of sting operations. She says more than 100 doctors of the 140 they met were ready to do a sex
selective abortion, some as late as the seventh month. "We were shocked at the greed we saw — doctors did not even ask why we wanted
to abort, far from dissuading us from doing so," she says.
What's the solution? Varsha Deshpande says the PCPNDT Act (Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques — Regulation and
Prevention of Misuse) is very well conceived and easy to use. "We have done 17 sting operations across Maharashtra and got action taken
against more than 25 doctors," says Varsha. She adds that other laws for violence against women such as dowry, domestic violence, rape,
put the control in the hands of the police which is biased. Therefore, even though the law exists, offenders get away. This law preventing
sex determination and sex selection is much easier to use, she says.
Regulating technology
Akhila Sivadas, Centre for Advocacy and Research, Delhi, agrees that the law is very well conceived and the need of the hour is legal
literacy to ensure the law is implemented. "The demand and supply debate has been going on for some time. Doctors say there is a social
demand and they are only fulfilling it. They argue that social attitudes must change. However, in this case supply fuels demand.
Technology will have to be regulated. Technology in the hands of greedy, vested interests, cannot be neutral. There is a law to prevent
misuse and we must be able to use it," she says. CFAR is currently partnering with local NGOs in six districts of Rajasthan to help ensure
implementation of the law.
On the "demand" side, experts such as Dr. Agnihotri argue that women's participation in workforce, having disposable incomes and making
a contribution to larger society will make a difference to how women are seen. Youth icons and role models such as Sania Mirza are
making an impact, he says.
Others feel there needs to be widespread visible contempt and anger in society against this "genocide" — "the kind we saw against the
Nithari killings," says Dr. Bedi. "Today nobody can say female foeticide is not their problem." Time we all did our bit to help save the girl
child. Time's running out.
18. Directions: select the correct answer option based on the passage.
Question: What does the word ‘sanitised’ imply in the first paragraph of the passage?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Unforgivable
Legitimate
Free from dirt
None of these
19. Directions: select the correct answet option based on the passage
Question: which “demand” does the author refer to, in paragraph 5?
a. Demand for principled doctors.
b. Demand for high income jobs for women
c. Demand for youth icons
d. Demand for sex determination and abortion
20. Directions: select the correct answet option based on the passage
Question: which of the two people mentoned in the passage suggest similar solution to the problem?
a. Dr. Agnihotri and Dr. George
b. Dr. Bedi and Dr. Agnihotri
c. Dr. george and Dr. Bedi
d. Dr. George and Ms. Sivadas.
21. Directions: select the correct answer option based on the passage
Question: What do you infer from the sentence in context
Of the passage- ‘India lives in several centuries at the same time”?
a. We are progressing in some areas and regressing in theh others
b. People from different countries are living in India
c. India has a diverse culture
d. Some people are modern while the others are traditional in approach
22. Directions: select the correct answer option based on the passage
India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage to progress and regress simultaneously.
As a nation we age by pushing outward from the middle--adding a few centuries on either end of the extraordinary CV.
We greaten like the maturing head of a hammerhead shark with eyes looking in diametrically opposite directions.
I don't mean to put a simplistic value judgment on this peculiar form of "progress" by
suggesting that Modern is Good and Traditional is Bad--or vice versa. What's hard to
reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. That applies not just to the
ancient/modern conundrum but to the utter illogic of what appears to be the current national enterprise. In the lane
behind my house, every night I walk past road gangs of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber-optic cables to
speed up our digital revolution. In the bitter winter cold, they work by the light of a few candles.
It's as though the people of India have been rounded up and loaded onto two convoys of trucks (a huge big one and a
tiny little one) that have set off resolutely in opposite directions. The tiny convoy is on its way to a glittering destination
somewhere near the top of the world. The other convoy just melts into the darkness and disappears. A cursory survey
that tallies the caste, class and religion of who gets to be on which convoy would make a good Lazy Person's
concise Guide to the History of India. For some of us, life in India is like being suspended between two of the trucks,
one leg in each convoy, and being neatly dismembered as they move apart, not bodily, but emotionally and
intellectually.
Fifty years after independence, India is still struggling with the legacy of colonialism, still flinching from the "cultural
insult." As citizens we're still caught up in the business of "disproving" the white world's definition of us. Intellectually
and emotionally, we have just begun to grapple with communal and caste politics that threaten to tear our society
apart. But meanwhile, something new looms on our horizon. On the face of it, it's just ordinary, day-to-day business. It
lacks the drama, the large-format, epic magnificence of war or genocide or famine. It's dull in comparison. It makes
bad TV. It has to do with boring things like jobs, money, water supply, electricity, irrigation. But it also has to do with a
process of barbaric dispossession on a scale that has few parallels in history. You may have guessed by now that I'm
talking about the modern version of globalization.
What is globalization? Who is it for? What is it going to do to a country like India, in which social inequality has been
institutionalized in the caste system for centuries? A country in which 700 million people live in rural areas. In which 80
percent of the landholdings are small farms. In which 300 million people are illiterate. Is the corporatization and
globalization of agriculture, water supply, electricity and essential commodities going to pull India out of the stagnant
morass of poverty, illiteracy and religious bigotry? Is the dismantling and auctioning off of elaborate public sector
infrastructure, developed with public money over the past fifty years, really the way forward? Is globalization going to
close the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged, between the upper castes and the lower castes,
between the educated and the illiterate? Or is it going to give those who already have a centuries-old head start a
friendly helping hand?
Is globalization about "eradication of world poverty," or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote-controlled and
digitally operated? These are huge, contentious questions. The answers vary depending on whether they come from
the villages and fields of rural India, from the slums and shantytowns of urban India, from the living rooms of the
burgeoning middle class or from the boardrooms of the big business houses. Today India produces more milk, more
sugar and more food grain than ever before. And yet, in March 2000, just before President Clinton's visit to India, the
Indian government lifted import restrictions on 1,400 commodities, including milk, grain, sugar, cotton, tea, coffee and
palm oil. This despite the fact that there was a glut of these products on the market.
As of April 1--April Fool's Day--2001, according to the terms of its agreement with the World Trade Organization, the
Indian government had to drop its quantitative import restrictions. The Indian market is already flooded with cheap
imports. Though India is technically free to export its agricultural produce, in practice most of it cannot be exported
because it doesn't meet the First World's "environmental standards." (You don't eat bruised mangoes or bananas with
mosquito bites or rice with a few weevils in it, whereas we don't mind the odd mosquito and the occasional weevil.)
Developed countries like the United States, whose hugely subsidized farm industry engages only 2 to 3 percent of its
total population, are using the WTO to pressure countries like India to drop agricultural subsidies in order to make the
market "competitive." Huge, mechanized corporate enterprises working thousands of acres of farmland want to
compete with impoverished subsistence farmers who own a couple of acres.
In effect, India's rural economy, which supports 700 million people, is being garroted. Farmers who produce too much
are in distress, farmers who produce too little are in distress and landless agricultural laborers are out of work as big
estates and farms lay off their workers. They're all flocking to the cities in search of employment.
"Trade Not Aid" is the rallying cry of the head men of the new Global Village, headquartered in the shining offices of
the WTO. Our British colonizers stepped onto our shores a few centuries ago disguised as traders. We all remember
the East India Company. This time around, the colonizer doesn't even need a token white presence in the colonies.
The CEOs and their men don't need to go to the trouble of tramping through the tropics, risking malaria, diarrhea,
sunstroke and an early death. They don't have to maintain an army or a police force, or worry about insurrections and
mutinies. They can have their colonies and an easy conscience. "Creating a good investment climate" is the new
euphemism for Third World repression. Besides, the responsibility for implementation rests with the local
administration.
Enron in India
The fishbowl of the drive to privatize power, its truly star turn, is the story of Enron, the Houston-based natural gas
company. The Enron project was the first private power project in India. The Power Purchase Agreement between
Enron and the Congress Party-ruled state government of Maharashtra for a 740-megawatt power plant was signed in
1993. The opposition parties, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, set up a howl
ofswadeshi (nationalist) protest and filed legal proceedings against Enron and the state government. They alleged
malfeasance and corruption at the highest level. A year later, when state elections were announced, it was the only
campaign issue of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance.
In February 1995 this combine won the elections. True to their word, they "scrapped" the project. In a savage, fiery
statement, the opposition leader L.K. Advani attacked the phenomenon he called "loot through liberalization." He more
or less directly accused the Congress Party government of having taken a $13 million bribe from Enron. Enron had
made no secret of the fact that in order to secure the deal, it paid out millions of dollars to "educate" the politicians and
bureaucrats involved in the deal.
Following annulment of the contract, the US government began to pressure the Maharashtra government. US
Ambassador Frank Wisner made several statements deploring the cancellation. (Soon after he completed his term as
ambassador, he joined Enron as a director.) In November 1995 the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra
announced a "renegotiation" committee. In May 1996 a minority federal government headed by the BJP was sworn in
at New Delhi. It lasted for exactly thirteen days and then resigned before facing a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
On its last day in office, even as the motion of no confidence was in progress, the Cabinet met for a hurried "lunch"
and reratified the national government's counterguarantee (which had become void because of the earlier "canceled"
contract with Enron). In August 1996 the government of Maharashtra signed a fresh contract with Enron on terms that
would astound the most hard-boiled cynic.
The impugned contract had involved annual payments to Enron of $430 million for Phase I of the project (740
megawatts), with Phase II (1,624 megawatts) being optional. The "renegotiated" power purchase agreement makes
Phase II of the project mandatory and legally binds the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) to pay Enron the
sum of $30 billion! It constitutes the largest contract ever signed in the history of India.
Indian experts who have studied the project have called it the most massive fraud in the country's history. The
project's gross profits work out to between $12 billion and $14 billion. The official return on equity is more than 30
percent. That's almost double what Indian law and statutes permit in power projects. In effect, for an 18 percent
increase in installed capacity, the MSEB has to set aside 70 percent of its revenue to pay Enron. There is, of course,
no record of what mathematical formula was used to "re-educate" the new government. Nor any trace of how much
trickled up or down or sideways or to whom.
But there's more: In one of the most extraordinary decisions in its not entirely pristine history, in May 1997 the
Supreme Court of India refused to entertain an appeal against Enron.
Today, everything that critics of the project predicted has come true with an eerie vengeance. The power that the
Enron plant produces is twice as expensive as its nearest competitor and seven times as expensive as the cheapest
electricity available in Maharashtra. In May 2000 the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Committee (MERC) ruled that
temporarily, until as long as was absolutely necessary, no power should be bought from Enron. This was based on a
calculation that it would be cheaper to just pay Enron the mandatory fixed charges for the maintenance and
administration of the plant that it is contractually obliged to pay than to actually buy any of its exorbitant power. The
fixed charges alone work out to around $220 million a year for Phase I of the project. Phase II will be nearly twice the
amount.
Two hundred and twenty million dollars a year for the next twenty years. Meanwhile, industrialists in Maharashtra
have begun to generate their own power at a much cheaper rate, with private generators. The demand for power from
the industrial sector has begun to decline rapidly. The MSEB, strapped for cash, with Enron hanging like an albatross
around its neck, will now have no choice but to make private generators illegal. That's the only way that industrialists
can be coerced into buying Enron's exorbitantly priced electricity.
In January 2001 the Maharashtra government (the Congress Party is back in power with a new chief minister)
announced that it did not have the money to pay Enron's bills. On January 31, only five days after an earthquake in
the neighboring state of Gujarat, at a time when the country was still reeling from the disaster, the newspapers
announced that Enron had decided to invoke the counterguarantee and that if the government did not come up with
the cash, it would have to auction the government properties named as collateral security in the contract.
But Enron had friends in high places. It was one of the biggest corporate contributors to President George W. Bush's
election campaign. US government officials warned India about vitiating the "investment climate" and running the risk
of frightening away future investors. In other words: Allow us to rob you blind, or else we'll go away.
Last June the MSEB announced that it was ending its agreement with the Dabhol Power Corporation, a joint venture
of Enron--which has the largest stake--General Electric and Bechtel. DPC ceased operations soon afterward, and is
pressuring the government to cover its debts. Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch petroleum group, TotalFinaElf and
Gaz de France are currently bidding to take over Enron, Bechtel and GE's collective stake in the plant in a "distress
sale."
Globalizing Dissent
Recently, globalization has come in for some criticism. The protests in Seattle and Prague will go down in history.
Each time the WTO or the World Economic Forum wants to have a meeting, ministers have to barricade themselves
with thousands of heavily armed police. Still, all its admirers, from Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan and A.B. Vajpayee (the
Indian Prime Minister) to the cheering brokers in the stalls, continue to say the same lofty things: If we have the right
institutions of governance in place--effective courts, good laws, honest politicians, participatory democracy, a
transparent administration that respects human rights and gives people a say in decisions that affect their lives--then
the globalization project will work for the poor as well. They call this "globalization with a human face."
The point is, if all this were in place, almost anything would succeed: socialism, capitalism, you name it. Everything
works in Paradise, a Communist State as well as a Military Dictatorship. But in an imperfect world, is it globalization
that's going to bring us all this bounty? Is that what's happening in India now that it's on the fast track to the free
market? Does any one thing on that lofty list apply to life in India today? Are state institutions transparent? Have
people had a say--have they even been informed, let alone consulted--about decisions that vitally affect their lives?
And are Clinton (or now Bush) and Prime Minister Vajpayee doing everything in their power to see that the "right
institutions of governance" are in place? Or are they involved in exactly the opposite enterprise? Do they mean
something else altogether when they talk of the "right institutions of governance"?
The fact is that what's happening in India today is not a "problem," and the issues that some of us are raising are not
"causes." They are huge political and social upheavals that are convulsing the nation. One is not involved by virtue of
being a writer or activist. One is involved because one is a human being.
If you're one of the lucky people with a berth booked on the small convoy, then Leaving It to the Experts is, or can be,
a mutually beneficial proposition for both the expert and yourself. It's a convenient way of shrugging off your own role
in the circuitry. And it creates a huge professional market for all kinds of "expertise." There's a whole ugly universe
waiting to be explored there. This is not at all to suggest that all consultants are racketeers or that expertise is
unnecessary, but you've heard the saying: There's a lot of money in poverty. There are plenty of ethical questions to
be asked of those who make a professional living off their expertise in poverty and despair.
For instance, at what point does a scholar stop being a scholar and become a parasite who feeds off despair and
dispossession? Does the source of your funding compromise your scholarship? We know, after all, that World Bank
studies are among the most quoted studies in the world. Is the World Bank a dispassionate observer of the global
situation? Are the studies it funds entirely devoid of self-interest?
Take, for example, the international dam industry. It's worth $32-$46 billion a year. It's bursting with experts and
consultants. Given the number of studies, reports, books, PhDs, grants, loans, consultancies, environmental impact
assessments--it's odd, wouldn't you say, that there is no really reliable estimate of how many people have been
displaced by big dams in India? That there is no estimate for exactly what the contribution of big dams has been to
overall food production in India? That there hasn't been an official audit, a comprehensive, honest, thoughtful, postproject evaluation, of a single big dam to see whether or not it has achieved what it set out to achieve? Whether or not
the costs were justified, or even what the costs actually were?
Cynics say that real life is a choice between the failed revolution and the shabby deal. I don't know...maybe they're
right. But even they should know that there's no limit to just how shabby that shabby deal can be. What we need to
search for and find, what we need to hone and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not
the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing
accountability. The politics of slowing things down. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing
certain destruction. In the present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent. It's India's
best export.
Question: what do you infer from the following lines-“In the lane behind my house, every night I walk past road gangs of
emaciated labourers digging a trench to lay fiber-optic cables to speed up our digital revolution. In the bitter winter cold, they
work by the light of a few candles.’?
a.
b.
c.
d.
india has a balanced mixture of both traditional and modern people
Progress is unbalanced
Digital revolution is very important for our economic growth
There is shortage of electricity in inida.
23. Directions: select the correct answer option based on the passage
Question: why does the response towards ‘Globalisation in India’ differ in different parts of India?
a.
b.
c.
d.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Due to different literacy levels
Due to religious diversity in india
It will not benefit all sections of the society
It may not have all the answers to India’s current problems
24. Directions: select the correct answer option based on the passage
Question: What does the phrase “cultural insult” imply?
a. People from one culture do not respect people from the other cultures
b. Disrespect of British towards Indian culture
c. White people’s definition for us
d. Ill-treatment at hands of British
25. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: the difference in the simple interest and compound interest on a principal of Rs. 10,00,000 in 3 years at 4% p.a is:
Rs. 4,000
Rs.5,000
Rs.4,864
Rs.4,500
26. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: what is the square of 7 1/2 , expressed as a mixed fraction?
a. 49 ½
b. 49 ¼
c. 56 ¼
d. 14 ¼
27. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: how many three digits numbers can be formed using 2, 3, 4 and 5, with none of the digits being repeated?
a. 25
b. 45
c. 24
d. 10
28. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
a.
b.
c.
d.
128
16
64
32
29. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: Aman had to do a multiplication problem. Instead of taking 70 as one of the multipliers, he took 106 by mistake. As
a result the product went up by 1,080. What is the new product?
a. 540
b. 1080
c. 2100
d. 3180
30. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: if abcd is divisible by 4, what cannot be the value of d?
a.
b.
c.
d.
0
4
8
2
31. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
a. 1
b. 0.477
c. 0.954
d. 0.523
32. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
a.
b.
c.
d.
4/7
7/4
11/3
4/11
33. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: which is the smallest number?
a. 1/12
b. 1/6
c. ¼
d. 1/3
34. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: Which number should be added to 3651 so that it can be divisible by 21?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
35. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: what will be the quotient when 25698.225 is divided by 21.542?
a. 1192.93
b. 119.293
c. 11929.3
d. 119293
36. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
37. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: A number X when divided by 13 leaves the remainder 12, what is the remainder when we divide X13 by 13:
a. 12
b. 0
c. 1
d. 10
e. 4
38. Directions: Choose the correct answer:
0
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
39.
0
1
2
3
None of the above
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: if 2X * 3Y=18 and 22X * 3Y = 36, the value of X is:
40.
41.
42.
a.
b.
c.
d.
43.
44.
a.
0
b.
1
c.
2
d.
3
e.
None of these
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: if log2(X+1) + log2X – log2(X+1) = 2, then value of X is equal to:
a. 4
b. 3
c. 2
d. 1
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: in a single throw of dice, what is the probability to get a number greater or equal to 4?
a. 1/3
b. 2/3
c. ½
d. None of these
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: If A rows 4 km upstream and 8 km downstream taking 2 hours each, what would be the speed of stream?
4 km/hr
3 km/hr
2 km/hr
1 km/hr
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
Question: 8 friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H are to be seated around a round table. Find the probability that A & B never sit next
to each other.
a. 2/7
b. 5/7
c. 3/8
d. 5/8
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
Question: A man earns Rs.24,000 p.m. He spends one-third of his income on personal expenditures. Half of the remaining
income is invested in a scheme at 15% interest p.a. After investing, half of what is left is invested in a scheme which gives
10% interest p.a. the remaining lies in a bank, where it earns an interest of 4% p.a. The effective rate of interest earned by
the man on his investments at the end of the year is:
a. 19%
b. 10%
c. 11%
d. 29%
e. 12.33%
Directions: Choose the correct answer:
The value of 74P2 is
a. 2,775
b. 150
c. 5,402
d. None of these
Directions: Choose the correct answer
Five friends Megha, Meghna, Mehak, Menka & Meenakshi are to be seated on a round table such that Megha never sits next
to Meghna. In How many ways is it possible?
a. 4!
b. 4! × 2
c. 3! × 2
d. 3!
Directions: Choose the correct answer
Mumbai Rajdhani takes 16 hours to reach Mumbai from Delhi while Swaraj express takes 20 hours. The ratio of the
speeds of two is:
a. 1 : 4
b. 4 : 5
c. 5 : 4
d. 3 : 2
Directions: Choose the correct answer
The simple interest earned on a certain amount is half of the amount, when money is invested for 8 years at the
rate of 5%. What is the principal?
a. Rs.3,000
b. Rs.1,000
c. Data inadequate
d. Rs.2,000
Directions: Choose the correct answer
A bag contains 10-paisa, 20 paisa and 25-paisa coins in the ratio 7 : 4 : 3. If the total value is Rs.902, the number of 25-paisa
coins in the bag is?
a. 120
b. 160
c. 280
d. 300
Directions: the question consist of a problem question followed by two statements I and II. Find out if the information given in
the statements is sufficient in finding the solution to the problem.
Question: Problem Question: Volume of the sphere can be calculated:
I)
If volume of the hemisphere is provided
II)
If surface area of the sphere is provided
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Statement I alone is sufficient
Statement II alone is sufficient
Both statements put together are sufficient
Both the statements even put together are not sufficient
Either of the statement is sufficient
51. Directions: the question consist of a problem question followed by two statements I and II. Find out if the information given in
the statements is sufficient in finding the solution to the problem.
Question: Problem Question: when is Mohit’s birthday?
Statements:
I)
He was born after 19th but before 25th september.
II)
He was born in a leap Year.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Statement I alone is sufficient
Statement II alone is sufficient
Both statements put together are sufficient
Both the statements even put together are not sufficient
Either of the statement is sufficient
52. Passage for Questions:
There are 4 questions on the same puzzle.
Answer the questions based on the information:
There are six teachers A, B, C, D, E AND F in a school. Each of the teachers teaches two subject, one compulsory subject.
And the other optional subject. D’s optional subject was History while three other have it as compulsory subject. E and F have
physics as one of their subject. F’s compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an optional subject of both C and E. History
and English are A’s subjects but in terms of compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse of those of D’s chemistry
is an optional subject of only one of the m. the only female teacher in the school has English as her compulsory subject.
Directions: Choose the Right answer:
Question: What is C’s compulsory subject?
a. History
b. Physics
c. Chemistry
d. English
e. Mathematics
53. Directions: Choose the Right answer:
Question: Disregarding which is the compulsory and which is the optional subject, who has the same two subject
combination as F?
a. A
b. B
c. E
d. D
e. NONE
54. Directions: Choose the Right answer:
Question: who is female member in the group
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
e. E
55. Directions: Choose the Right answer:
Question: Which of the following has same compulsory and optional subjects as those of F’s?
a. D
b. B
c. A
d. C
e. None
56. Passage for Questions:
In an auction of six televisions, one each of panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, LG, Onida, Samsung are required to be arranged
and placed on a circular table with the televisions facing outwards. If their positions on the circular table are marked 1to 6 in
clockwise direction. Arrange the 6 brands of televisions in accordance with the conditions proived below.
Samsung should stay adjacent to Onida, LG should not be adjacent to Philips, LG is to the right of Panasonic. Toshiba is at
position 5.
Directions: Answer the question based on the given information
Question: If Onida is at position 2, then whose stand will be at a position which is a multiple of 3 (i.e. 3 and 6) if all the
possible arrangements are considered?
57. Passage for Questions:
Directions: Answer the question based on the given information
Question: If Samsung is at position 1 and LG is not at position 4 then which brand of television is at position 6?
a. Panasonic
b. LG
c. Philips
d. Onida
58. Passage for Questions:
Directions: Answer the question based on the given information
Question: If Philips is to the left of Samsung, then the television of which brand is at position 3?
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
a. Onida
b. Panasonic
c. Samsung
d. LG
Passage for Questions
Directions: Answer the question based on the given information
Question: If LG is at position 4, then how many arrangements of the different brands of television of the different brands of
televisions are possible?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Select the right option from the given alternatives.
Question: AZP : ZAR : TXK :
a. UWL
b. SYM
c. SVN
d. VWL
Select the right option from the given alternatives.
Question: AIE : FNJ : KSO :
a. PWU
b. PXT
c. LYT
d. QXU
Directions: Decode the word(s) / pattern given in the question.
Question: If MATH can be coded as RFYM, what is the code for PHYSICS in that language?
a. UMDXNHX
b. UMDVNHV
c. UMDYNHY
d. UMDXHNX
Directions: select the right option from the given alternatives.
Question: Fan : Regulator : : Air Conditioner
a. Remote
b. Cable
c. Power
d. Stabilizer
Passage for Question:
There are 2 questions based on the same data. Answer the questions based on the given information:
Following are the conditions to appoint a distributor for Petroleum gas throughout Delhi. The applicant should:
a) Be an Indian by nationality
b) Be in the age group of 21 -50 years as on 5th September, 2008.
c) Be minimum matriculate or recognized equivalent.
d) Be a resident of Delhi for not less than 5 years immediately preceding the date of application.
e) Have family income of not more than 50,000 annually.
f) Not have any dealership in any oil company
g) Have no close relatives as a dealer / distributor of any oil company. However
h) Restrictions relating to annual income, would not beside applicable to persons working in corporations, owned or
controlled by state Government, but the case shall be referred to the managing director.
i) For unemployed graduates, conditions (vi) and (vii) may be waived
If a person belongs to SC/ST but is not a resident of Delhi, the case may be referred to the chairman.
Directions: Choose the right answer: Question: Bahadur Singh working in the state corporation is an Indian by Nationality and
is 23 years of age. He is a graduate and his annual income is Rs.60,000 per annum. He has been in Delhi for 7 years. He
does not himself nor has any of his relatives working as distributors or dealers in any oil company.
a. Applicant should be selected.
b. Applicant should not be selected
c. Insufficient Data
d. The case should be referred to the managing Director
e. The case should be referred to the Chairman
65. Passage for Question:
Directions: Choose the right answer:
Question: Cheena, an Indian resident of Mumbai, is a matriculate with family income of Rs. 20, 000 per annum. Her
date of birth is 15.3.85. She does not have any dealership in any oil company nor has any close relatives as dealer or distributor. She is a
SC candidate.
a. Applicant should be selected.
b. Applicant should not be selected
c. Insufficient Data
d. The case should be referred to the managing Director
e. The case should be referred to the Chairman
66. Directions: Choose the answer option that arranges the given set of words in the ‘most’ meaningful order. The words when
put in order should make logical sense according to size, quantity, occurrence of events, value, appearance, nature, process
etc.
Question: i.
Education
ii. Promotion
iii. Birth
iv. Retirement
v. job
a. 3, 1, 5, 4, 2
b. 3, 1, 5 ,2, 4
c. 3, 1, 2, 4, 5
d. 3, 1, 2, 5 , 4
67. select the right option from the given alternatives.
Question: Pointing to a lady, a man said, “she is the wife of my father’s only son”. How is the man related to the lady?
a. Brother
b. Cousin
c. Husband
d. Brother-in-law
Directions: Symbols #, / , % and > mean the following:
A # B means A is equal to B.
A/B means A is half of B.
A % B means A is less than B.
A > B means A is 20 percent of B.
using these symbols and taking the given statements as true, find out that which of the given conclusions are definitely true?
Question: Statements:
S > T, T # U and U /V
Conclusions:
I.
S%V
II.
S>V
a. Only I is true
b. Only II is true
c. Both are correct
d. None of these
68. select the right option from the given alternatives
Question: Siddharth and Murali go for jogging from the same point. Siddharth goes towards the east covering 4 km. Murali
proceeds towards the west for 3 km. siddharth turns left and covers 4 km and Murali turns to the right to cover 4 km. now
what will be the distance between siddharth and Murali?
a. 14 km
b. 6 km
c. 8 km
d. 7 km
e.
69. select the right option from the given alternatives
Question: A drives 10 km towards east and turns to the right hand and drives 3 km. then he drives towards west (turning at
his right) 3 km. he then turns to his left and drives 2 km. Finally he turns to his right and travels 7 km. how far is he from his
starting point and in which direction would he be?
a. 10 km, east
b. 9 km , North
c. 8 Km, west
d. 5 km, south
e. 3 km, south
70. Directions: Based on the given passage find out which of the statement can be inferred from the passage.
Question: Deepa Mehta’s Fire was under fire from the country’s self-appointed moral police. Their contention was that the
film was a violation of the Indian cultural mores and couldn’t be allowed to influence the Indian Psyche. According to them,
such films ruin the moral fabric of the nation, which must be protected and defended against such intrusions at all cost, even
at the cost of cultural dictatorship.
a. The assumption underlying the moral police’s critique of fire was that the Indian audience is vulnerable to all types of
influence.
b. The assumption underlying the moral police’s critique of fire was that the Indian audience is impressionable and must
be protected against ‘immoral’ influence
c. The moral police thinks it has the sole authority to pass judgment on films screened in India
d. None of these
71. Directions: Based on the given passage find out which of the statement can be inferred from the passage.
Question: European cars have traditionally been smaller and more fuel-efficient than their giant American cousins, but current
policy explicitly stresses eco-friendliness. For example, recent British legislation has linked taxation to CO2 emissions with the
lowest tax rate of 15 percent on the list price reserved for cars emitting less than 165 gms/km and rising by one per cent for each
5 gm increase in C02 levels.
a. The English are unconcerned about the environment and rules have to be imposed upon them for the maintenance of a clean
environment.
b. The lesser the list price of a car, the greater is its fuel efficiency and so lesser the tax on it
c. The more fuel efficient a vehicle is, the more eco-friendly it will be
d. Fuel sufficient does not necessarily correlate with eco - friendliness