2017 Bull CAT 10

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Test Name 2017 Bull CAT 10 Total Questions 100 Total Time 180 Mins

Section Name No. of Questions Time limit Marks per Question Negative Marking
Verbal Ability 34 1:0(h:m) 3 1/3
DI & Reasoning 32 1:0(h:m) 3 1/3
Quantitative Ability 34 1:0(h:m) 3 1/3

Section : Verbal Ability

DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 1
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others. (Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time , and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

It can be said that the primary purpose of the author of the passage is:

A)to defend the ban on Burqa and how it is actually beneficial

B)to defend libertarian interpretation of liberalism and how it is required by the system
C)to highlight the need of libertarian interpretation of liberalism and how it is the need of the hour
D)to highlight how the straight-jacket libertarian interpretation of liberalism may not work on occasions.
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 2
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others. (Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time , and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

In the context of the passage, 'xenophobia' means:

A)a fear reflecting racism B)a fear of foreigners or strangers C)a fear of non-conventional constituents of a society
D)all of the above
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 3
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others. (Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time, and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

The author of the passage uses which of the following to prove his point:

A)clever didacticism B)indirect suppositions C)manipulative extrapolations D)analytical argumentation

DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 4
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others. (Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time, and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

According to the author of the passage, the libertarian view is essentially :

I. a one sided interpretation that misses out the role of non-state actors in soceity.
II. a viewpoint based on an assumption that may not be true in all situations.
III. assuming an overarching view of autonomy that may not exist in reality.

Identify the correct statements from above.

A)I & II B)II & III C)I & III D)All of the above

DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 5
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others.(Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time, and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

According to the author of the passage, some of the arguments for banning the burqa are:

I. Picayune
II. Imprudent
III. Intolerant

A)I & II B)II & III C)I & III D)All of the above
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 6
Bans on wearing the burqa and other face-covering religious garb (such are under consideration or recently passed in several
European countries) fall under a class of restrictions by government on the free choice of individuals over private matters. They
thus have the appearance of being illiberal, of disrespecting people's natural rights to manage their own affairs in general, and
to follow their own plan of life in particular. In fact, it is possible to justify such a ban in liberal terms. But not just any kind of
ban will do.

Political debate about the burqa in the west is dominated by an unfortunate bigotry, a species of moral foolishness antithetical
to liberalism. I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because it causes vitamin D deficiency (lack of
sunshine), because people will try to rob banks dressed in burqas, because this is alien to our face-to-face culture, and so on.
Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).

Yet it seems to me that there are in fact plausible liberal arguments for banning the burqa (and various other things, such as
addictive drugs), which focus on the harms that the burqa may do to the personal autonomy of particularly vulnerable women
and girls. This line of reasoning is of course inconsistent with the libertarian interpretation of liberalism, in terms of the sanctity
of individual liberty from the depredations of government restrictions, unless there is evidence that you are using your liberty
to harm others in some significant way. The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather narrowly: The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others.(Mill, On Liberty)

The narrowness of the libertarian view has two dimensions. First, libertarians presume that people are already and always
rational, and thus that their desires and opinions reflect their autonomous will. Yet while this is a good 'respectful' normative
stance to take to other people in general, it is false in its particulars. We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least
some of the time, and that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or
drug addicts).

Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be defended against is the government (vertical
power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state actors, such as religious communities and
families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives. This is made particularly significant by the vulnerability
of the development of personal autonomy. While the capability to reason autonomously about one's values and plan of life is
essential to the idea of the human person in a teleological sense, this does not mean that it is 'natural' in a biological sense.
Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal parenting and education) and that may be
constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting and education).

Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to subjugate citizens (the particular concern
of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for example, of their unchosen entanglement
in oppressive social relationships. In such cases well-designed government interference can be autonomy enhancing. Turning
back to the case of the burqa, feminists have argued that wearing it makes women socially dysfunctional and undermines their
rational autonomy, and that it is even designed to do so. Women who wear the burqa have difficulty functioning adequately in
society, since it imposes severe constraints on employment and general social interactions, and even things like eating in
public. They are artificially separated - segregated - from other people (even other burqa wearers), and this seems to be exactly
how the garment is supposed to work.

According to the author of the passage:

I. personal autonomy is subject to government restrictions only when the welfare of others is at stake.
II. libertarians and liberals proffer similar views.
III. people need to be protected from oppression through unwanted social relationships.

A)I & II B)II & III C)I & III D)All of the above
DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the most appropriate summary for the paragraph and write the key for most appropriate
option.

Question No. : 7

If you still think 2008 and the financial crisis changed everything, still think of it as a progressive triumph, think again. Instead of
the brave new world of reformed finance, what's been created in the US is something close to a perfect world, policy-wise, for
the plutocrats. The biggest rewards have come from an economic policy, backed by the Federal Reserve and the administration,
that has maintained ultra-low interest rates. This has forced investors into the market, at the expense of middle-class savers,
particularly the elderly. The steady supply of bond purchases has essentially given free money to those least in need and most
likely to do damage to everyone else. The results make a mockery of the Democrats' attempts to stoke populist sentiments. In
this recovery, the top 1% gained 11% in their incomes while the other 99% experienced, at best, stagnant incomes. As one
writer at the Huffington Post put it: "The rising tide has lifted fewer boats during the Obama years " and the ones it's lifted have
been mostly yachts."

1. Post the financial crises of 2008, plutocrats have found renewed strength with the help of the government and have
managed to offset the heavy losses they suffered
2.Post the significant financial crises of 2008, the US financial world and administration has cleverly manipulated the context
and ensured that those who not deserve any help get the maximum possible aid
3.In a post-crises scenario, the US financial world and administration has belied expectations by continuing profligate measures
of the past
4.In a post 2008 financial crises scenario, the US financial world and administration has cleverly managed to run an agenda that
actually helps those who do not need help, and does not get rid of malice of the financial world it was supposed to

A)4 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for question: Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a
meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Question No. : 8

1. Innocence insisted on too strenuously is tantamount to guilt.

2. But it's precisely the problem; the fact that human evil is predictable does not make it excusable.
3. It's human nature to want to believe in the rightness of our own actions and intentions.
4. Nor does fobbing off the evil on singularly evil individuals like Hitler or bin Laden or Cheney.

A)1 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form
a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.

Question No. : 9

1. After healthcare professionals noted the recipe contained 10 times the safe amount of vitamin A for babies, putting kids at
risk of death, the book was last week put on hold.
2. Then, on Saturday, Evans appeared at Melbourne Town Hall to sell the paleo diet.
3. Pan Macmillan on Monday reportedly dropped the book, but Evans will go ahead and self-publish it digitally.
4. Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans planned to publish a 'paleo diet' cookbook for children, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way,
that encouraged parents to feed infants with a baby formula concoction made from bone broth.
5. He reportedly told the crowd that he's 'not going to be silenced' and encouraged them to try his broth anyway.
(write the answer key)

A)41253 B) C) D)
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 10
It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid
movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within
the steel trunks that hold our travellers' reports.

Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable
facts which are full of contradictions and subject to incessant change. They have the elusive mystery and fluidity of life. We
cannot define to ourselves what we are as a whole, because we know too much; because our knowledge is more than
knowledge. It is an immediate consciousness of personality, any evaluation of which carries some emotion, joy or sorrow,
shame or exaltation. But in a foreign land we try to find our compensation for the meagreness of our data by the compactness
of the generalisation which our imperfect sympathy itself helps us to form. When a stranger from the West travels in the
Eastern world he takes the facts that displease him and readily makes use of them for his rigid conclusions, fixed upon the
unchallengeable authority of his personal experience. It is like a man who has his own boat for crossing his village stream, but,
on being compelled to wade across some strange watercourse, draws angry comparisons as he goes from every patch of mud
and every pebble which his feet encounter.

Our mind has faculties which are universal, but its habits are insular. There are men who become impatient and angry at the
least discomfort when their habits are incommoded. In their idea of the next world they probably conjure up the ghosts of their
slippers and dressing-gowns, and expect the latchkey that opens their lodging-house door on earth to fit their front door in the
other world. As travellers they are a failure; for they have grown too accustomed to their mental easy-chairs, and in their
intellectual nature love home comforts, which are of local make, more than the realities of life, which, like earth itself, are full of
ups and downs, yet are one in their rounded completeness.

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man.
We go to strange lands and observe; we do not live there. We hardly meet men: but only specimens of knowledge. We are in
haste to seek for general types and overlook individuals. When we fall into the habit of neglecting to use the understanding
that comes of sympathy in our travels, our knowledge of foreign people grows insensitive, and therefore easily becomes both
unjust and cruel in its character, and also selfish and contemptuous in its application. Such has, too often, been the case with
regard to the meeting of Western people in our days with others for whom they do not recognise any obligation of kinship.

It has been admitted that the dealings between different races of men are not merely between individuals; that our mutual
understanding is either aided, or else obstructed, by the general emanations forming the social atmosphere. These emanations
are our collective ideas and collective feelings, generated according to special historical circumstances.

In the context of the passage, the author is primarily concerned with:

A)exposing the archetypical biases of the Western man about others in the world.
B)highlighting the thoughts of men when they travel, and how these might be insufficient to describe the landscape they
travel to.
C)proving that most men are not good travelers and suffer from prejudices that help them establish a blinkered vision of
the place they are travelling to
D)pointing out that all men may not observe and communicate the unbiased appraisals of the places they travel to, as they
might be affected by their our prejudicial understanding of the world.
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 11
It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid
movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within
the steel trunks that hold our travellers' reports.

Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable
facts which are full of contradictions and subject to incessant change. They have the elusive mystery and fluidity of life. We
cannot define to ourselves what we are as a whole, because we know too much; because our knowledge is more than
knowledge. It is an immediate consciousness of personality, any evaluation of which carries some emotion, joy or sorrow,
shame or exaltation. But in a foreign land we try to find our compensation for the meagreness of our data by the compactness
of the generalisation which our imperfect sympathy itself helps us to form. When a stranger from the West travels in the
Eastern world he takes the facts that displease him and readily makes use of them for his rigid conclusions, fixed upon the
unchallengeable authority of his personal experience. It is like a man who has his own boat for crossing his village stream, but,
on being compelled to wade across some strange watercourse, draws angry comparisons as he goes from every patch of mud
and every pebble which his feet encounter.

Our mind has faculties which are universal, but its habits are insular. There are men who become impatient and angry at the
least discomfort when their habits are incommoded. In their idea of the next world they probably conjure up the ghosts of their
slippers and dressing-gowns, and expect the latchkey that opens their lodging-house door on earth to fit their front door in the
other world. As travellers they are a failure; for they have grown too accustomed to their mental easy-chairs, and in their
intellectual nature love home comforts, which are of local make, more than the realities of life, which, like earth itself, are full of
ups and downs, yet are one in their rounded completeness.

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man.
We go to strange lands and observe; we do not live there. We hardly meet men: but only specimens of knowledge. We are in
haste to seek for general types and overlook individuals. When we fall into the habit of neglecting to use the understanding
that comes of sympathy in our travels, our knowledge of foreign people grows insensitive, and therefore easily becomes both
unjust and cruel in its character, and also selfish and contemptuous in its application. Such has, too often, been the case with
regard to the meeting of Western people in our days with others for whom they do not recognise any obligation of kinship.

It has been admitted that the dealings between different races of men are not merely between individuals; that our mutual
understanding is either aided, or else obstructed, by the general emanations forming the social atmosphere. These emanations
are our collective ideas and collective feelings, generated according to special historical circumstances.

The example of the village stream is used by the author to prove:

I. In comparison to the world, how insular Western men are.

II. How insular habits of the mind can lead us to form biased conclusions.
III. How men, when placed in inconvenient circumstances, can form rigid conclusions on the basis of that limited evidence.
(Select the statements that answer the question above)

A)I & II B)II & III C)I & III D)All of the above
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 12
It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid
movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within
the steel trunks that hold our travellers' reports.

Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable
facts which are full of contradictions and subject to incessant change. They have the elusive mystery and fluidity of life. We
cannot define to ourselves what we are as a whole, because we know too much; because our knowledge is more than
knowledge. It is an immediate consciousness of personality, any evaluation of which carries some emotion, joy or sorrow,
shame or exaltation. But in a foreign land we try to find our compensation for the meagreness of our data by the compactness
of the generalisation which our imperfect sympathy itself helps us to form. When a stranger from the West travels in the
Eastern world he takes the facts that displease him and readily makes use of them for his rigid conclusions, fixed upon the
unchallengeable authority of his personal experience. It is like a man who has his own boat for crossing his village stream, but,
on being compelled to wade across some strange watercourse, draws angry comparisons as he goes from every patch of mud
and every pebble which his feet encounter.

Our mind has faculties which are universal, but its habits are insular. There are men who become impatient and angry at the
least discomfort when their habits are incommoded. In their idea of the next world they probably conjure up the ghosts of their
slippers and dressing-gowns, and expect the latchkey that opens their lodging-house door on earth to fit their front door in the
other world. As travellers they are a failure; for they have grown too accustomed to their mental easy-chairs, and in their
intellectual nature love home comforts, which are of local make, more than the realities of life, which, like earth itself, are full of
ups and downs, yet are one in their rounded completeness.

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man.
We go to strange lands and observe; we do not live there. We hardly meet men: but only specimens of knowledge. We are in
haste to seek for general types and overlook individuals. When we fall into the habit of neglecting to use the understanding
that comes of sympathy in our travels, our knowledge of foreign people grows insensitive, and therefore easily becomes both
unjust and cruel in its character, and also selfish and contemptuous in its application. Such has, too often, been the case with
regard to the meeting of Western people in our days with others for whom they do not recognise any obligation of kinship.

It has been admitted that the dealings between different races of men are not merely between individuals; that our mutual
understanding is either aided, or else obstructed, by the general emanations forming the social atmosphere. These emanations
are our collective ideas and collective feelings, generated according to special historical circumstances.

It can be inferred from the passage that:

A)Travelling has been made easy in the modern day world with the help of innovations that the world has seen.
B)Western people do not generally recognize any obligation of kinship when they travel.
C)Travelling can be fruitful to form opinions of the world when the traveller dissolves himself in his reference frame rather
than simply commenting on it.
D)Both options 1 and 3
DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the most appropriate summary for the paragraph.

Question No. : 13

The year 2013 was one of the ten hottest on record. So was 2010. So were 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, and 1998. Last
year, with its polar vortex and biting winter, seemed to bring relief to North America. Except it also brought temperatures of
over 120F to Australia, massive flooding to Malaysia, and the third harrowing year of drought to California. As it turns out,
2014 was the hottest single year since meteorologists started measuring in 1850. By now, weve raised the average global
temperature a little less than one degree Celsius since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The best predictions suggest
that we will raise it somewhere between four and six degrees by 2100. With the heat will also come side effects: fiercer and
more frequent storms, droughts, acidifying oceans, melting glaciers, and the loss of species. And the bad news is, thats not
even the bad news. Each drought, each megastorm, each scorching summer puts a strain on the complex systems that provide
us with water, food, and power and that keep disease and disorder at bay. These systems can often endure a single crisisone
Sandy, one Katrina. The problem is what happens when the Sandys and Katrinas start coming back to back, piling up on each
other. Thats when the money runs out, the electricity goes off, and everyone starts wondering where to find water. If true
catastrophe arrives, it will not come gradually but, as the historian Nils Gilman writes, as a series of radical discontinuitiesa
series of bewildering oh shit events. Welcome to the future. Oh shit.

1. The sequence of events, leading to global warming, and then in turn being caused by global warming, is going to intensify in
the coming time, leading to true catastrophe
2. The increase in the temperature of the planet is being accompanied by disturbing events and these will increase in the future,
all piling up to finally lead to a catastrophe for the planet
3. True catastrophe is going strike planet earth shortly and this be exacerbated by the series of oh shit events that are going
ravage the earth
4. The ultimate fate of earth now is firmly resides in the actions of man and whether these can be changed to avoid the series of
oh shit events that are going to wreck havoc on the planet in the coming time

A)2 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the most appropriate summary for the paragraph and write the key for most appropriate
option.

Question No. : 14

Can I have my brain back now? I enjoyed the Olympics, and my impression is that most Britons did so too. Holidaying at home,
I noticed people in pubs and shops delighting in unusual celebrities and unusual challenges, especially from the Paralympians.
With Bradley Wiggins' success in the Tour de France and Andy Murray's in New York, it made for a satisfying summer of sport.
Yet I saw nothing to justify the hysteria, the sobbing with joy and weeping with ecstasy, of the London media and politicians.
The grasping for national pride and pseudo-psychological significance exaggerated the event and cheapened the athletes'
achievement.

1. Despite the British summer being one of unprecedented athletic success, the ensuing celebrations, pronouncements and
hysteria have been a damn squib
2.Despite the summer bringing in a lot of success for British athletes, the reaction to the complete set of events has not been
up to the mark
3. Even though the summer has been one of terrific success for British athletes, the over the top celebrations and hullabaloo
have been over the top and devalue actual achievement
4.Even though the summer has been one of unprecedented achievement for British athletes, the hullabaloo associated with it
is completely unjustified

A)3 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 15
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.
A suitable title for the passage is:

A)How free market ideology perverts the vocabulary of democracy?

B)How politicians pervert the vocabulary of democracy?
C)How neo-liberal ideology perverts the vocabulary of democracy?
D)How free market ideology adjuncts the vocabulary of democracy?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 16
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.

The author of the passage, at some point or the other in the passage, has been critical of:

I. governments
II. corporations
III. political leaders

A)I & II B)II & III C)III & IV D)All of the above

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 17
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.

The words 'rhetoric' and 'punitive' mean (in the respective order given):

A)purple prose and burdensome B)hyperbole and penal C)magniloquence and crippling D)bragging and austere

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 18
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.

According to the author of the passage, the relationship between the strength of corporations and governments is:

A)directly proportional B)inversely proportional C)directly pro rata D)both (A) and (C)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 19
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.

According to the author of the passage:

A)there is not enough co-relative data to link personal freedom to the freedom of markets
B)there is sufficient reason doubt to the conjecture that free markets are an enabling factor in personal freedom
C)there is justifiable proof for the efficacy of free markets leading to personal freedom D)None of the above

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 20
Citizens of the United States are quite taken with the vocabulary of liberal democracy, with words such as freedom and
democracy, which conjure key democratic values and distance the nation from the Old World taint of oligarchy and
aristocracy. It is much less clear, however, that Americans are guided by democratic ideals. Or that ideology and propaganda
play a crucial role in concealing the large gap between rhetoric and reality.

In truth, the Old World systems have proved extremely difficult to shrug off. In their 2014 paper, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
Page argue that, as in an oligarchy, ordinary US citizens have no substantial power over policy decisions [and] little or no
independent influence on policy at all.

Moreover, the US regularly subscribes to a form of managerial aristocracy. In the current presidential race, Hillary Clinton
advertises her managerial expertise via the language of policy, while Donald Trump parades his via the language of business.
Neither language is democratic. Neither invites self-governance.

Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the
mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power? In my view, power cant explain why voters are so
enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic outcomes. Nor are Americans knowingly rejecting
democratic ideals. Instead, I see an anti-democratic ideology at work, inverting the meaning of democratic vocabulary and
transforming it into propaganda.

Consider the example of mass incarceration in the US. Black Americans make up around 13 per cent of the population, but
around 40 per cent of countrys ballooning prison population. Even if we assume, falsely, that black American crime rates justify
this disparity, why is the state so punitive? Shouldnt citizens instead be motivated to address the underlying socio-economic
conditions that lead to such dramatic differences in behaviour between equals?

In The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander argues that a national rhetoric of law and order has long justified mass
incarceration. President Richard Nixon used it to crack down on black Americans under the cover of an epidemic of heroin use;
this continued in the 1980s, as a merciless war on drugs whose victims were all too often black men. In the US, the ideology of
anti-black racism takes the view that blacks are violent and lazy, thereby masking the misapplication of the ideals of law and
order.

Compare the war on drugs to the current heroin crisis among middle-class white Americans, which has led to a national
discussion of the socio-economic distress facing this class. Law and order doesnt come into it. The new face of heroin is new
because, unlike the old face, it calls out for an empathetic response, rather than a punitive one.

But what is the flawed ideology masking the misapplication of democratic ideals? Lets bring it out by exploring the most
cherished US democratic ideal, the ideal of freedom popularly embodied in attacks on big government. Voters are
repeatedly told that big government is the primary source of coercion that limits freedom, which it certainly sometimes does,
as the Patriot Act reminds us. But corporations also limit civic freedom in significant ways.

For example, corporations are leading direct attacks on the freedom to collectively bargain. Via outsourcing, free trade
agreements allow corporations to move jobs to countries where labour is cheap; meanwhile, as a result of pressure from the
conservative non-profit Citizens United, corporations can fund political candidates, thereby increasing corporate control of
government. The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of what I will call a
free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial freedoms,
including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.

Why do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constrain their own freedoms by increasing the power of
corporations? Its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion.
When a corporation bans employees from expressing, outside of work, opinions it disapproves of, this is seen as a legitimate
protection of its economic interests. If workers have to sign non-disclosure contracts that silence them after they are employed
elsewhere, its accepted as the cost of doing business.

The contradictions here are telling. If our most basic freedoms are self-expression and choiceful action, then corporations
frequently limit our most basic freedoms. In liberal democratic theory, it is government that is regarded as the protector of such
rights. But its precisely because government is attacked in the name of freedom that corporations have vastly greater power to
constrain and shape it.

According to the author of the passage:

I. Power in the hands of few is the reason why people are shunning democratic ideals.
II. Americans do not understand the true meaning of democracy.
III. There is subtle manipulation by corporations which hands them significant control over the government.

A)I & II B)I & III C)Only I D)Only III

DIRECTION for the question: The six sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4,5 and 6) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of six numbers as your answer.

Question No. : 21

1. But all good things must come to an end and, to signal that lunch was over, I had to perform one final parting ritual: leaving
a tip.
2. But then I started to worry that my assumptions were out of date.
3. Post-prandial bliss is especially sweet when enjoyed in the shade of a sunlit restaurant terrace in Vernazza, a picturesque
village in Liguria, on Italy's northwestern coast.
4. Or perhaps not.
5. So I asked the waiter straight up about the local custom.
6. I was several days into my holiday and I realised that, contrary to my habit back home, I had not been tipping, since I
understood that it was not the Italian way.
(write the answer key)

A)314625 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form
a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.

Question No. : 22

1. Furthermore, he finds fault with those who dismiss the question because they think it unrealistic and because they think
humanely.
2. From a Deep Ecological perspective, thinking humanely is problematic insofar as doing so is human centered.
3. Ness is dissatisfied with the study's anthropocentric focus on human well-being and neglect of other living beings, and hence
rejects its numerical recommendations.
4. Ness seems here to conflate humaneness with human-centeredness, as though application of the ethics of human
interactions with each other (such as being kind) is anthropocentric.
5. Of course, if humaneness is merely kindness and compassion, it is not anthropocentric to reflect or act humanely.

A)31254 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a
coherent paragraph. Arrange them in the correct order.

Question No. : 23

1. The Arab Spring exhilarated many human rights activists and made many others very nervous that the bug could spread.
2. So the Internet has transformed politics, society, religion, culture and tradition, and is increasingly becoming the medium of
choice through which people work, socialize, get involved, associate, act, and express themselves globally.
3. While the Arab Spring was not an Internet or twitter revolution, it was probably the first historical example of the incredibly
crucial role that information technology can play in liberating people's voices, spreading them around the world, and
empowering others to take action.
4. These transformations have come with a range of problems and challenges not only for governments around the world, but
also for private and civil society actors.
5. The Internet knows few boundaries but exists of course in an international system, dominated by nation- states and their
corollary: national sovereignty.

A)31245 B) C) D)
Question No. : 24

DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Every political system is based on some code of ethics. The dominant ethics of mankinds history were variants of the altruist-
collectivist doctrine which subordinated the individual to some higher authority, either mystical or social. Consequently, most
political systems were variants of the same statist tyranny, differing only in degree, not in basic principle, limited only by the
accidents of tradition, of chaos, of bloody strife and periodic collapse. Under all such systems, morality was a code applicable to
the individual, but not to society. Society was placed outside the moral law, as its embodiment or source or exclusive interpreter
and the inculcation of self-sacrificial devotion to social duty was regarded as the main purpose of ethics in mans earthly
existence.
Since there is no such entity as society, since society is only a number of individual men, this meant, in practice, that the rulers
of society were exempt from moral law; subject only to traditional rituals, they held total power and exacted blind obedience
on the implicit principle of: The good is that which is good for society (or for the tribe, the race, the nation), and the rulers
edicts are its voice on earth.
A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a mans freedom of action in a social context. There is only one
fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a mans right to his own life. Life is a process of self-
sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action
which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the
fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)
The concept of a right pertains only to actionspecifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion,
coercion or interference by other men. Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positiveof his freedom to
act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no
obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.
The right to life is the source of all rightsand the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no
other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his
effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave. Bear in mind that
the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the
consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee
that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.
To violate mans rights means to compel him to act against his own judgment, or to expropriate his values. Basically, there is
only one way to do it: by the use of physical force. There are two potential violators of mans rights: the criminals and the
government. The great achievement of the United States was to draw a distinction between these twoby forbidding to the
second the legalized version of the activities of the first. Thus the governments function was changed from the role of ruler to
the role of servant. The government was set to protect man from criminalsand the Constitution was written to protect man
from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed against private citizens, but against the governmentas an explicit
declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

Excerpted from The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand.

What can be inferred about the way to transfer morality to a social system?

A)By changing back the role of the government to that of a ruler.

B)By ensuring that the task of the government is the protection of an individuals rights.
C)By inculcating a culture where moral behavior is rewarded. D)By ensuring everyone has the right to own objects.
Question No. : 25
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Every political system is based on some code of ethics. The dominant ethics of mankinds history were variants of the altruist-
collectivist doctrine which subordinated the individual to some higher authority, either mystical or social. Consequently, most
political systems were variants of the same statist tyranny, differing only in degree, not in basic principle, limited only by the
accidents of tradition, of chaos, of bloody strife and periodic collapse. Under all such systems, morality was a code applicable to
the individual, but not to society. Society was placed outside the moral law, as its embodiment or source or exclusive interpreter
and the inculcation of self-sacrificial devotion to social duty was regarded as the main purpose of ethics in mans earthly
existence.
Since there is no such entity as society, since society is only a number of individual men, this meant, in practice, that the rulers
of society were exempt from moral law; subject only to traditional rituals, they held total power and exacted blind obedience
on the implicit principle of: The good is that which is good for society (or for the tribe, the race, the nation), and the rulers
edicts are its voice on earth.
A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a mans freedom of action in a social context. There is only one
fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a mans right to his own life. Life is a process of self-
sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action
which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the
fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)
The concept of a right pertains only to actionspecifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion,
coercion or interference by other men. Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positiveof his freedom to
act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no
obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.
The right to life is the source of all rightsand the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no
other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his
effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave. Bear in mind that
the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the
consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee
that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.
To violate mans rights means to compel him to act against his own judgment, or to expropriate his values. Basically, there is
only one way to do it: by the use of physical force. There are two potential violators of mans rights: the criminals and the
government. The great achievement of the United States was to draw a distinction between these twoby forbidding to the
second the legalized version of the activities of the first. Thus the governments function was changed from the role of ruler to
the role of servant. The government was set to protect man from criminalsand the Constitution was written to protect man
from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed against private citizens, but against the governmentas an explicit
declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

Excerpted from The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand.
Out of the following, identify the ones advocated by the author:

I. Right to ones own life

II. Right to own objects
III.Right to property
IV. Right of moral sanction

A)I, II & III B)II, III & IV C)I & III D)I, III & IV
Question No. : 26
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Every political system is based on some code of ethics. The dominant ethics of mankinds history were variants of the altruist-
collectivist doctrine which subordinated the individual to some higher authority, either mystical or social. Consequently, most
political systems were variants of the same statist tyranny, differing only in degree, not in basic principle, limited only by the
accidents of tradition, of chaos, of bloody strife and periodic collapse. Under all such systems, morality was a code applicable to
the individual, but not to society. Society was placed outside the moral law, as its embodiment or source or exclusive interpreter
and the inculcation of self-sacrificial devotion to social duty was regarded as the main purpose of ethics in mans earthly
existence.
Since there is no such entity as society, since society is only a number of individual men, this meant, in practice, that the rulers
of society were exempt from moral law; subject only to traditional rituals, they held total power and exacted blind obedience
on the implicit principle of: The good is that which is good for society (or for the tribe, the race, the nation), and the rulers
edicts are its voice on earth.
A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a mans freedom of action in a social context. There is only one
fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a mans right to his own life. Life is a process of self-
sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action
which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the
fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)
The concept of a right pertains only to actionspecifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion,
coercion or interference by other men. Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positiveof his freedom to
act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no
obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.
The right to life is the source of all rightsand the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no
other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his
effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave. Bear in mind that
the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the
consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee
that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.
To violate mans rights means to compel him to act against his own judgment, or to expropriate his values. Basically, there is
only one way to do it: by the use of physical force. There are two potential violators of mans rights: the criminals and the
government. The great achievement of the United States was to draw a distinction between these twoby forbidding to the
second the legalized version of the activities of the first. Thus the governments function was changed from the role of ruler to
the role of servant. The government was set to protect man from criminalsand the Constitution was written to protect man
from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed against private citizens, but against the governmentas an explicit
declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

Excerpted from The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand.

Of the rights mentioned below, which one can be construed to be the most fundamental?

A)to highlight that this is the most fundamental right of all.

B)to showcase that it is a right that guarantees the ownership of the produce derived from ones efforts.
C)to draw attention to the fact that is not the right to an object.
D)to illustrate mans rights pertaining to the use and disposal of material objects.
DIRECTIONS for question: Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a
meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Question No. : 27

1. The dollar value of a Lunar land claim will only become big enough to be profitable when people can actually get to the land.
2. So Lunar land deeds can be offered for sale only after there is a transport system going back and forth often enough to
support a settlement and the land is actually accessible.
3. It would take a really large land claim to be worth that huge investment, of course, but there is an amazingly large amount of
land out there waiting to be claimed.
4. It will finally be understood to be land in the sky, not pie in the sky.
(write the answer key)

A)3 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a
meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

Question No. : 28

1. That is why a bee sting is quite painful and a massive attack by a swarm of bees sometimes has very heavy consequences:
200 to 300 simultaneous stings may cause the poisoning of the body, while 500 stings may have a fatal effect.
2. Naturally, it is not necessary that bees should actually sting the patient to introduce their venom into the body.
3. An angry bee attacks the, enemy", piercing its skin with its sting and injecting venom into the hole.
4. A bee's sting is jagged and intended for fighting chitin- covered insects.
5. When attacking a Human being, the bee cannot pull its sting out from his skin; it dies after stinging, but the muscles of its
internal organs continue to contract and inject ever new portions of venom into the wound.

A)2 B) C) D)
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 29
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

The primary purpose of the passage is:

A)showcase the impact of human actions on sociology

B)highlight the development of sociology and various contributory factors
C)outline the current self-centred approach of sociology
D)describe the empowering ability of sociology in terms of human behaviour
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 30
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

In the given context of the passage, the term social imagination is related to:

A)Mills understanding of how sociology worked

B)a rational structure adopted by individuals to understand themselves and the world around them C)both (1) and (2)
D)neither (1) nor (2)
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 31
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

As per the information given in the passage, which of the following is true?

I. Societal changes find a reflection sociology.

II. Sociology drives societal variations.
III. Sociology and society do not remain stagnant over time.

A)I & II B)II & III C)I & III D)All of the above
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 32
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A)sociology generally sticks to its core precepts and does not undergo major expansion in terms of its thought bank.
B)the ambit of sociology is not necessarily rigid and it sees expansion under the influence of the changes in the surrounding
world.
C)the role of science in sociology has not developed to its full capacity. D)the social world is not growing
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 33
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

Complete the following statement: Before the 1970s and 1980s, sociology, in its approach, was:

A)as humanistic as interpretatives B)was less humanistic in comparison to what is was in the 1970s and 1980s
C)was less interpretative in comparison to what is was in the 1970s and 1980s D)both (1) and (3)
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 34
Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to
develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity. Its subject matter ranges from the micro
level to the macro level. Sociology is a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional
focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have
included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. As much of what humans do fits under the category of social
structure or social activity, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic
activity, health disparities, and even the role of social activity in the creation of scientific knowledge. The range of social
scientific methods has also been broadly expanded. The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.

The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking. The important point to grasp is: society does
not remain unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., the industrial revolution, the
creation of empires, and the age of enlightenment of scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an
attempt to understand societal changes.

Some early sociological theorists were disturbed by the social processes they believed to be driving the change, such as the
quest for solidarity, the attainment of social goals, and the rise and fall of classes, to name a few examples. The founders of
sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability
to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of social issues. Mills proposed that: "What people need... is a quality
of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in
the world and of what may be happening within themselves. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the
larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals."

As Mills saw it, the sociological imagination could help individuals cope with the social world by helping them to step outside
of their personal, self-centric view of the world. In employing the sociological imagination, people are able to see the events
and social structures that influence behavior, attitudes, and culture.

The tone of the author of the passage can be labelled as:

A)speculative B)definitive C)illuminative D)graphic

Section : DI & Reasoning

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Question No. : 35
In a Young old society annual programme, five people named A, B, C, D & E participated in Tambola. They all draw Tambola
ticket from a bowl. All the tickets are of different colors.
Following facts are known about them:-
(i) Every persons age is a multiple of 10(in years). Their ages are distinct.
(ii) Oldest & youngest persons ages are 60 years & 20 years respectively.
(iii) Colors of their tickets are Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Grey.
(iv) Ticket Red is drawn by the oldest person & yellow ticket is drawn by the youngest person.

Also, Sum of ages of A & D is equal to twice the age of B. The age of the person whos ticket color is green is more than that of
the person whose ticket color is blue but less than that of the person whose ticket color is Grey. C & E are not the eldest &
youngest respectively. Bs age is more than A. At most 3 persons are younger than D & at least one person is younger than A.

What is the difference of sum of ages of (A & B) & (C & D)? (in numerical value)

A) B) C) D)

Question No. : 36

What is the sum of ages of those who has drawn yellow & grey ticket? (in numerical value)

A)70 B) C) D)
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Question No. : 37
Five students named Ankit, Kashish, Karan, Vishal and Priya are given scores based on the mistakes done in the exams
corresponding to subjects English, Hindi, Maths, Science GK. The score per student per subject is calculated as per below
approach.

For a given subject student with lowest number of mistake is identified. The difference of number 20 and the mistake is
calculated. The result is multiplied by 5 and the subsequent result obtained is the score for the student with the lowest number
of mistake in that subject. Likewise the student with second lowest number of mistake is identified. The result of difference of
20 and misttake is multiplied by 4. Similarly, the result of difference (20 and mistake) for the student with third lowest mistake
number is multiplied by 3, of that with second highest mistake is multiplied by 2 and of the person with highest number of
mistake is multiplied by 1.

The data for score of all these 5 students and 5 subjects is detailed below.

English Hindi Maths Science Gk

Ankit 32 18 6 35 3
Kashish 10 28 24 15 18
Karan 4 15 8 32
Vishal 50 10 35 24 45
Priya 18 4 2 3 10

It is also known that the exam for English was the easiest and the total score obtained by all students is 114.
The exam for Maths was difficult and total mistakes are 77.
Vishal was the topper of the class with score of 164.
Ankit ranked 4th in the class with the score of one less that of Kashish. Score of Karan in Hindi is four times the score of Priya in
GK.

How many mistakes did Karan make in Hindi? (in numerical value)

A)12 B) C) D)

Question No. : 38

How many more mistakes made by Priya and karan together than vishal and kashish together ?(in numerical value)

A)17 B) C) D)
DIRECTIONS for the question: Analyse the graph/s given below and answer the question that follows.

Question No. : 39
The table below shows the Revenue and Net Profit for different companies in 2006 and 2007 while the bar graph shows the
amount of taxes paid by these companies over the two years. Gross profit is calculated as Revenue less Operating Costs and
30% of Gross Profit is deducted as Taxes to arrive at Net Profit. All values are in Rs. Crore.

2006 2007
Revenue Net Profit Revenue Net Profit
Ambuja Cements 6274 2196 5704 1597
ACC 5984 1466 7189 2768
Birla Corporation 2049 717 1996 419
Chettinad Cement 1110 311 1322 370
Dalmia Cement 1692 651 1973 483
India Cements 3839 672 3554 498
Madras Cements 2905 1322 2335 736
Prism Cement 1021 250 722 152
Shree Cements 2440 512 3097 867
UltraTech Cement 6286 1760 7160 3007
Total 33600 9858 35052 10897

For all the companies together, the total Gross Profit over the two years was approximately what percent of the total Revenue
over the two years? (in percentage, the nearest integer)

A)43 B) C) D)
Question No. : 40

For how many companies did the Revenue increase from 2006 to 2007 but the Operating Cost decreased from 2006 to 2007?
(in numerical value)

A)2 B) C) D)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Go through the graph and the information given below and answer the question that follows.

Question No. : 41

If no student of DP1 failed in 2010, how many students of MYP4 failed in 2010?

A)20 B) C) D)

Question No. : 42

If no student of DP1 failed in 2010, what is the total number of students who failed in 2010? (in numerical value)

A)122 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 43

The University Department of Management Sciences is setting up a committee of four to revise the syllabus for the MBA
Programme for the next academic year. The committee is to be selected from amongst three Deans Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and
Dr. Joshi and four Professors Dr. Keskar, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar and Mr. Rane. The committee must comprise at least two
Deans. However, Dr. Chitale will not work with Dr. Keskar, who will not work with Dr. Palkar. Dr. Joshi refuses to be on the
committee if Mr. Rane is appointed to the committee.

If Dr. Palkar is on the committee, but Dr. Chitale is not, which of the following correctly lists the four members on the
committee?

A)Dr. Apte, Dr. Joshi, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar B)Dr. Apte, Dr. Joshi, Mr. Rane, Dr. Palkar
C)Dr. Joshi, Mr. Rane, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar D)Dr. Apte, Dr. Joshi, Dr. Keskar, Dr. Palkar
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Question No. : 44

The University Department of Management Sciences is setting up a committee of four to revise the syllabus for the MBA
Programme for the next academic year. The committee is to be selected from amongst three Deans Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and
Dr. Joshi and four Professors Dr. Keskar, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar and Mr. Rane. The committee must comprise at least two
Deans. However, Dr. Chitale will not work with Dr. Keskar, who will not work with Dr. Palkar. Dr. Joshi refuses to be on the
committee if Mr. Rane is appointed to the committee.

If Dr. Chitale and Dr. Palkar are appointed to the committee, which of the following cannot be true?

A)Dr. Apte and Mrs. Navale are also appointed to the committee
B)Dr. Apte and either Mrs. Navale or Mr. Rane are also appointed to the committee
C)Dr. Apte and Dr. Joshi are also appointed to the committee or Mrs. Navale and either Dr. Apte or Dr. Joshi are also
appointed to the committee
D)None of these

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Question No. : 45

The University Department of Management Sciences is setting up a committee of four to revise the syllabus for the MBA
Programme for the next academic year. The committee is to be selected from amongst three Deans Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and
Dr. Joshi and four Professors Dr. Keskar, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar and Mr. Rane. The committee must comprise at least two
Deans. However, Dr. Chitale will not work with Dr. Keskar, who will not work with Dr. Palkar. Dr. Joshi refuses to be on the
committee if Mr. Rane is appointed to the committee.

Which of the following statements is / are false?

I. Dr. Chitale and Dr. Joshi are never appointed to the committee together.
II. Dr. Joshi and Dr. Palkar are never appointed to the committee together.
III. Dr. Joshi and Mrs. Navale are never appointed to the committee together.

A)I only B)I and II only C)I and III only D)I, II and III

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Question No. : 46

The University Department of Management Sciences is setting up a committee of four to revise the syllabus for the MBA
Programme for the next academic year. The committee is to be selected from amongst three Deans Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and
Dr. Joshi and four Professors Dr. Keskar, Mrs. Navale, Dr. Palkar and Mr. Rane. The committee must comprise at least two
Deans. However, Dr. Chitale will not work with Dr. Keskar, who will not work with Dr. Palkar. Dr. Joshi refuses to be on the
committee if Mr. Rane is appointed to the committee.

If Dr. Keskar is appointed to the committee, which of the following correctly lists the other three members on the committee?

A)Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and Mrs. Navale B)Dr. Apte, Dr. Joshi and Mrs. Navale C)Dr. Joshi, Mrs. Navale and Mr. Rane
D)None of these
DIRECTIONS for the question: Study the table/s given below and answer the question that follows.

Question No. : 47
The table below shows data on milk production in various states in India, as compiled by the Association of Co-Operative
Dairies. While compiling the data, some of the values were missing. All values are in 1000 litres.

State/UT Cow Milk Buffalo Milk Goat Milk Total

Andhra Pradesh 8710 1 12088
Bihar 3661 2805 177 6643
Gujarat 3848 241 9817
Karnataka 3715 1675 58 5448
Kerala 2582 27 107 2716
Maharashtra 3571 293
Punjab 3074 6417 59 9550
Tamil Nadu 6189 779 6968
Uttar Pradesh 15549 22556
West Bengal 4303 223 146 4672
Others 16579 19869 2529 38977
All India 57770 4782

What is Indias total milk production (in thousand litres)?

A)117904 B)127905 C)137904 D)137905

Question No. : 48

Of the total cow milk production in India, approximately what percent is contributed by Maharashtra?

A)6 B)7 C)8 D)9

Question No. : 49

What approximately is Andhra Pradeshs contribution to the total milk production in India?

A)1/4thof the total B)1/5thof the total C)1/\8thof the total D)1/10thof the total

Question No. : 50

Which of the following is the closest ratio of Uttar Pradeshs goat milk contribution to the total goat milk production of India?

A)2/17 B)3/17 C)4/17 D)5/17

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Question No. : 51
It is placement season. The hopes are high in all the B-Schools across the country. The best students from 5 of the colleges
were asked to rate their B-Schools. After much deliberation, these 5 students came up with some significant results. 5 Colleges
were rated as 1 being the least favored and 5 being the most favored.

The particulars are provided as follows:-

1. NMI (B-School) was rated one less than the B-School where person whose last name was Kapur studied.
2. Only one B-school was rated 2 while two B-schools were rated 3 and two were rated 4 in the study.
3. Ms. Goyal(Surname) and Mr. Ajay(First Name) both studied at colleges that were rated 3 in the study.
4. Ms. Pathak(Surname) studied in IMT(B-School). IMT was not rated 4.
5. GIM(B-School) was rated 4 in the study. Swatis last name was not Jindal.
6. Anirudhs last name was Gupta but he didnt study in GIM. Neha whose last name was not Kapur, studied at ISB.
7. ISB (B-school) was rated higher than Ms. Ishitas (First Name) college, the college rated 3 was not IIS(B-School).

Which of the following statements is true?

A)Gupta studied in IIS B)Ajay studied in GIM C)Swati studied in IMT D)ISB was rated 4 in the study

Question No. : 52

Which college was rated 2 in the study?

A)ISB B)GIM C)IMT D)IIS or GIM

Question No. : 53

Who studied in ISB?

A)Swati B)Ishita C)Ajay D)Neha

Question No. : 54

What is Pathaks first name?

A)Ishita B)Anirudh C)Ajay D)Swati

Question No. : 55

What is Nehas last name?

A)Jindal B)Pathak C)Gupta D)Goyal

DIRECTIONS for the question: Go through the pie chart/s given below and answer the question that follows.

Question No. : 56

If in the actual results of the company, 20% of the revenue from the T.V. medium was from the Two-wheeler category, the
actual percentage share of the Print medium in the total revenue was approximately

A)21.7% B)22.4% C)23.6% D)25.4%

Question No. : 57

If the actual total revenue of the company is Rs. 450 crores and the revenue from the Two-wheeler category forms 16% of the
actual total revenue, the announced revenue from the T.V. medium is what percentage of the actual revenue from that
medium?

A)74.2% B)76.8% C)79.3% D)84.2%

Question No. : 58

If the actual revenue from the Internet medium is known, how many of the following statements, each when considered
independently along with the given information, will be necessary as well as sufficient to find the actual revenue from the
Brand Image category?
1. Actual revenue from the Outdoor medium in the Brand Image category.
2. Actual revenue from the Educational Institutions category.
3. Actual revenue from the T.V. medium in the Insurance category.
4. Actual revenue from the Internet medium in the Brand Image category.

A)0 B)1 C)2 D)3

Question No. : 59

The revenue from Educational Institutions forms what percent of the actual revenue from the TV medium?

A)40% B)50% C)45% D)Cannot be determined

Question No. : 60

Which of the following cannot be the actual percentage share of the revenue from any of the six categories?

A)15.4% B)22.4% C)26.3% D)9.7%

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Question No. : 61
In November, Charu would be working only five days a week Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On
each of these days, she will work in two shifts, the morning shift from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and the afternoon shift from 2:00
p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Each day, she will conduct exactly one session in the morning shift and exactly one session in the afternoon
shift from amongst ACT, CAT, GMAT and SAT. When conducting these sessions, Charu must ensure that:

She conducts CAT sessions in exactly three morning shifts.

If she conducts a CAT session on Monday, she does not conduct a CAT session on Tuesday.
She conducts ACT sessions in the afternoon shift on exactly two consecutive calendar days.
She conducts GMAT sessions in exactly one morning shift and exactly three afternoon shifts.
She conducts SAT sessions in exactly one morning shift.
On Saturday, she neither conducts an ACT session nor conducts a CAT session.

Which of the following sessions could Charu conduct on Wednesday?

A)SAT session in the morning shift and CAT session in the afternoon shift
B)ACT session in the morning shift and GMAT session in the afternoon shift
C)CAT session in the morning shift and ACT session in the afternoon shift
D)CAT session in the morning shift and SAT session in the afternoon shift

Question No. : 62

If Charu conducts a CAT session on Tuesday, when could she schedule GMAT sessions?

A)Morning shift on Monday and Saturday and afternoon shift on Friday and Saturday
B)Morning shift on Wednesday and afternoon shift on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
C)Morning shift on Wednesday and afternoon shift on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
D)Morning shift on Monday and afternoon shift on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
Question No. : 63

On which of the following pairs of days must Charu conduct GMAT sessions?

A)Monday and Saturday B)Tuesday and Friday C)Tuesday and Saturday D)Friday and Saturday

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Question No. : 64

In a Management school there were 70 students. Out of which 43 took marketing, 28 took finance, 18 took human resource, 20
took finance and Marketing, 12 marketing and human resource and 8 human resource and finance. 16 took only marketing.

What percent of students did not take any of the options?

A)22.86% B)23.75% C)29.23% D)None of these

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Question No. : 65

In a Management school there were 70 students. Out of which 43 took marketing, 28 took finance, 18 took human resource, 20
took finance and Marketing, 12 marketing and human resource and 8 human resource and finance. 16 took only marketing.

What is the ratio of students, who took human resource only to those who did not take any of the options?

A)1:6 B)3:16 C)18:3 D)None of these

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Question No. : 66

In a Management school there were 70 students. Out of which 43 took marketing, 28 took finance, 18 took human resource, 20
took finance and Marketing, 12 marketing and human resource and 8 human resource and finance. 16 took only marketing.

What percent of students took all the three options approximately?

A)14.14% B)8.23% C)19.2% D)None of these

Section : Quantitative Ability

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Question No. : 67

The arithmetic mean of 3 numbers is x. It falls by 2 if one of the numbers is excluded. It is also known that this number is the
largest of the 3. Given that all the numbers are positive integers, what is the maximum value that the middle number can take?

A)2x 5 B)2x 4 C)x + 4 D)Insufficient data

DIRECTIONS for the question:Mark the best option.
Question No. : 68

Given that |a| = a if a0,

- a if a < 0.
The graph of |x| + |y| = 1 will look like a

I. Circle II. Parallelogram III. Square IV. Rhombus

A)Only I is correct B)Only III is correct C)Only II and III are correct D)Only II, III and IV are correct

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Question No. : 69

A bank uses an encryption key generating program that uses two numbers of the current date as its source - the number
denoting the month (e.g., it is August, then the number is 8) and the date ( e.g., today is the 15th day of the month). The
encryption key is the hardest to crack if the two numbers are relatively prime. Password hackers run Trojan programs to try to
get the data on credit cards which are stored using this encryption program. Which month is the most vulnerable to Trojan
attacks out of the given options?

A)January B)April C)December D)July

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Question No. : 70

(2x + 3y) when divided by 5 gives remainder 2 and (3x + 2 y) when divided by 5 gives remainder 3. If x > y, what is the
remainder when x y is divided by 5? (in numerical value)

A)1 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 71

An aquarium and a fountain of circular shapes are built in a circular park of diameter 12 metres. The fountain and aquarium are
tangential to each other and also tangential to the circular park. The area of the park outside the aquarium and fountain is 4/9
of the area of the circular park. What is the difference between the radii of the fountain and the aquarium, if it is known that
their radii are integers?

A)6 B)0 C)2 D)4

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Question No. : 72

A ten " digit number is to be formed using all the digits from 0 to 9 such that the number is odd and all the even digits in the
number are at the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th positions from the left. How many such numbers can be formed (Repetition is not
allowed)?

A)9 109 B)32,65,930 C)14,400 D)11,520

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Question No. : 73

A) B) C) D)

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Question No. : 74

What is the remainder when 2223 + 1035 is divided by 45? (in numerical value)

A)8 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 75

A milk merchant buys certain number of cans full of milk. If he sells milk at Rs. 13 per litre, he gains Rs. 333. But if he sells milk
at Rs. 10 per litre, he loses Rs. 150. How many such cans did be buy, if the capacity of each can is 23 litres?

A)5 B)7 C)9 D)17

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Question No. : 76

C is a circle with centre at (1, 1). If C just touches another circle x2 + 4x + y2 6y 3 = 0 internally at exactly one point, what is
the radius of C?

A)4 5 B)4 C)23 D)7 + 4

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Question No. : 77

A bag containing 6 balls, has at least one blue and at least one white ball. It is not known whether the bag has balls of any
other colour/s. Two balls are drawn at random and it is found that one ball is blue and the other is white. What is the
probability that the bag contains 3 blue and 3 white balls?

A)12.5% B)6.66% C)50% D)33.33%

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Question No. : 78

In the figure below,  ABCD is a square of area 196cm2. Semicircles and isosceles triangles are drawn on the sides of the
square. The shaded region forms approximately what fraction of the total area of the figure?

A)3/8 B)1/2 C)2/9 D)3/4

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Question No. : 79

What is the remainder when is divided by 34?(in numerical value)

A)15 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 80

A chocolate manufacturing company received an order of 400 litres of dark brown chocolate and 360 litres of white milk
chocolate. It has two machines (X and Y) to make these chocolates. X takes 4 hours to make 16 litres of dark brown chocolate
and 3 hours to make 9 litres of white milk chocolate. Y takes 4 hours to make 12 litres of dark brown chocolate and 3 hours to
make 12 litres of white milk. If the company has to deliver the order in 93 hours, its delivery will be delayed by at least

A) B) C) D)

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Question No. : 81

Which of the following is the most appropriate range of values ofkfor which the lines 3x+y= 7 andkx 4y= 2 intersect in
the first quadrant?

A) B) C) D)

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Question No. : 82

My complete date of birth is represented as d/m/1976. Here, d, m and 1976 are the date, month and year of birth respectively.
Now d is multiplied by the highest possible value of date in a month and m is multiplied by the highest possible value of month
in a year. The sum of these two products is 487. What is the sum of my date and month of birth?

A)18 B)6 C)11 D)20

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Question No. : 83

A merchant sold an article at a profit of 40%. Had he bought the article for 20% less and sold it at a discount of 20%, he would
have gained Rs. 224. What was the merchants profit from the sale of the article?

A)Rs. 700 B)Rs. 280 C)Rs. 560 D)Rs. 980

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Question No. : 84

What is the remainder when 71 + 72 + 73 + 74 + ---------- + 715 is divided by 400? (in numerical value)

A)399 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 85

Two men P and Q purchased a grindstone 1 yard in diameter for Rs. 15, of which the first pays Rs. 8 and the other Rs. 7. If the
axle hole is 1 foot in diameter, how many inches of the radius may P grind down before sending it to Q?

Note: There are 36 inches in a yard.

A)7 B)9 C)5 D)3

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Question No. : 86

An ice cream company makes a popular brand of ice cream in a rectangular shaped bar 6 cm long, 5 cm wide and 2 cm thick.
To cut costs, the company has decided to reduce the volume of the bar by 20 %. The thickness will remain the same, but the
length and width will be decreased by the same proportion. The new length L will satisfy which of the following relationships?

A)5.5 < L < 6 B)5 < L < 5.4 C)4.5 < L < 5 D)4 < L < 4.5

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Question No. : 87

A)a B) C)a 2 D)
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Question No. : 88

Find the remainder when 22674 is divided by 73. (in numerical value)

A)2 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 89

A right circular cone has base radius r and height h. The cone lies on its side on a table. As the cone rolls on the surface of the
table without slipping, the point where the cone's base meets the table traces a circular arc centered at the point where the
vertex touches the table. The cone first returns to its original position on the table after making 17 complete rotations. What is
the value of the ratio h/r?

A)14 B)122 C)34 D)41

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Question No. : 90

Anshi has to attend a marriage so she starts moving towards the marriage palace directly from her office. After covering one-
fourth of the total distance to the palace, she realized that she will be late with this speed. So, she started walking further with
twice her original speed. When she has walked half the total distance, she further increases her speed to three times her initial
speed and walks for another one-fourth of the total distance. For the remaining distance, she increases her speed to four times
her initial speed. While coming back to her office, she covers the entire distance at her original speed. If Anshi walks for 2 hours
and 26 minutes in all, then for how much time does she walk at twice her original speed?

A)8 min B)24 min C)12 min D)Cannot be determined

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Question No. : 91

2n years ago, the age of Rajesh was one fourth the age of his father and n years ago, the age of Rajesh was one third that of his
father. If n years later, the sum of the ages of Rajesh and his father will be 80 years, then the difference in the ages of Rajesh
and his father is

A)20 years B)30 years C)35 years D)40 years

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Question No. : 92

Find the remainder when the sum 3100 + 3200 + 3300 + ..... + 310000 is divided by 26? (in numerical value)

A)16 B) C) D)
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Question No. : 93

An ant started walking eastwards at a speed of 2 metres per minute. If after every 4 minutes the ant reverses direction and
halves its speed, how far would the ant be from the starting point after 5 hours?

A) B) C) D)

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Question No. : 94

A container consists of 30 L of a mixture of A and B. The ratio of the volumes of A and B is 3 : 2. From this container 6 L of
solution is removed and replaced with C. The same process is repeated once more.

What is the amount of C in the solution at the end of the second operation?

A)4.8 L B)3.6 L C)10.8 L D)None of these

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Question No. : 95

If S = |a 2(b c) + b2(c a) + c2(a b)|, where, a, b and c are the sides of a triangle, which of the following is true about S?

A)S < abc B)S = abc C)S > abc D)S abc

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Question No. : 96

Sum of two or more consecutive +ve integers is 100. How many such sets are possible? (in numerical value)

A)2 B) C) D)

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Question No. : 97

What is the sum of the series 1/4 + 1/8 + 2/16 + 3/32 + 5/64 + 8/128 + 13/256 + 21/512 +

A)1/3 B)1/2 C)1 D)3/2

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Question No. : 98

Under given condition, the pressure of a definite mass of a gas varies inversely with volume and directly with the temperature
of a gas. If volume of gas reduced by 20% and temperature falls by 25% then the pressure will:

A)Reduce by 25/4% B)Increase by 15/4% C)Reduce by 25% D)Reduce by 8%

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Question No. : 99

In a family of three generations, Satish is married to Savita. They have one son Shyam who is married to Swati. Shyam has two
children named Siddhi and Sonu. In this family, the ages of wives are 5/6th of their husbands' ages respectively. Satish's age is
5/3rd of Shyam's age. One year ago, Siddhi's age was 1/3rd of her father's present age. Two years later, Sonu's age will be 1/3rd
of his mother's present age. If the sum of the ages of all the family members is 197, then find Savita's present age.

A)36 years B)60 years C)50 years D)Cannot be determined

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Question No. : 100

126 identical balls have to be distributed among 9 children standing in a row, in such a way that the first child gets atleast 2
balls, second gets atleast 4 balls, third gets atleast 6 balls and so on. In how many ways can it be done?

A)36C9 B)44C8 C)45C8 D)None of these

QNo:-1,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
The first reaction in this case is to select option 1 as the correct answer, but on close inspection you will see that that option 1 only
represents the partial answer to the question. Option 4 is the broader of the two options (which effectively includes option 1) and
provides the ideological element being pushed forward by the author of the passage.

QNo:-2,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
Refer to the lines: I have heard and read serious arguments for banning the burqa because..... this is alien to our face-to-face
culture, and so on. Such arguments are, ...... xenophobic (if not racist).
It is clear from the above that the author does not regard xenophobia and racism as the same. Also, option 2 represents the
dictionary definition for the term whereas option 3 reflects the actual meaning implied in the passage (the context wherein some
members of the community wear a burqa and this is objected to).

QNo:-3,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
In the given case, we cannot ascribe a negative description to the author of the passage as he clearly adopts a very rational and
logical approach, negating the viewpoints of others. There is only one option which does not have a negative bias, that is option 4.
QNo:-4,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
Statement I can be derived from the lines: Second, libertarians presume that the only source of oppression that needs to be
defended against is the government (vertical power). Yet we all know that the 'horizontal' subjugation of individuals by non-state
actors, such as religious communities and families, can also be a significant source of oppression in people's lives.

Statement II can be derived from the lines: We all know that everyone is less than fully rational at least some of the time (eg), and
that some people are dysfunctionally irrational much of the time (such as the severely mentally ill, or drug addicts).

Statement III can be derived from the lines: Autonomy is something that develops from childhood (hence the need for liberal
parenting and education) and that may be constrained or deformed (for example, by mental illness or certain forms of parenting
and education).

QNo:-5,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:- Refer to the line: Such arguments are, respectively, trivial, stupid, and xenophobic (if not racist).
The choices above are nothing else but simply synonyms for the above words.

QNo:-6,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Statement I can be derived from the lines: The libertarian thus takes Mill's 'harm principle' seriously, if rather
narrowly: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will,
is to prevent harm to others.

Statement II is clearly incorrect in the given case. Libertarians and liberals do not have the same views.

Statement III can be derived from the lines: Liberalism as a political doctrine utterly rejects the use of the apparatus of the state to
subjugate citizens (the particular concern of libertarians). But it also requires protecting people from subjugation as a result, for
example, of their unchosen entanglement in oppressive social relationships.

QNo:-7,Correct Answer:-4

Explanation:-
Option 4 is the best answer.
In this question, you need to carefully evaluate the options and identify the one which is most applicable in the given case:
Option 1: too strong an option; losses of plutocrats not mentioned.
Option 2: the paragraph does not mention maximum possible help to any particular group
Option 3: the paragraph does not mention that measures of the past have been continued
Option 4: this is the apt choice which highlights the significant points of the paragraph.

QNo:-8,Correct Answer:-1

Explanation:-
The rest three option are connected together and form a trio.The order will be 324. Statement 1 does not fit anywhere.
QNo:-9,Correct Answer:-41253

Explanation:-
The first thing you should be able to identify is athat the pair '25' is mandatory. Next, you need to identify the opening sentence.
You have two choices: statement 1 or 4. Statement 4 is clear opening sentence as it introduces the topic of the paragraph.
The next thing that you need to follow is the timeline of events. First the book was put on hold, the Evans held a public event on
Saturday and at last, Pan Macmillan dropped the book on Monday.

QNo:-10,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
Option D
Refer to the lines "It is an immediate consciousness of personality, any evaluation of which carries some emotion, joy or sorrow,
shame or exaltation. But in a foreign land we try to find our compensation for the meagreness of our data by the compactness of
the generalisation which our imperfect sympathy itself helps us to form. When a stranger from the West travels in the Eastern
world he takes the facts that displease him and readily makes use of them for his rigid conclusions, fixed upon the unchallengeable
authority of his personal experience. It is like a man who has his own boat for crossing his village stream, but, on being compelled
to wade across some strange watercourse, draws angry comparisons as he goes from every patch of mud and every pebble which
his feet encounter."

Thus option D is the prime concern of the author.

QNo:-11,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Option B
Statement I cannot be derived as no comparison is implied by the said example.
Statement II can be derived from the lines: Our mind has faculties which are universal, but its habits are insular.
Statement III can be derived from the lines: When a stranger from the West travels in the Eastern world he takes the facts that
displease him and readily makes use of them for his rigid conclusions, fixed upon the unchallengeable authority of his personal
experience.

QNo:-12,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
Option 3 can be inferred from the lines: The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult
for us to come into touch with man. We go to strange lands and observe; we do not live there. We hardly meet men: but only
specimens of knowledge. "When we fall into the habit of neglecting to use the understanding that comes of sympathy in our
travels."

Option 1 is simply a fact that is being repeated and is not an inference in the given case.
Option 2 is a partial fact picked from the passage that does not qualify as an inference.

QNo:-13,Correct Answer:-2

Explanation:-
In the given case, only option 2 captures the true essence of the passage. The passage predicts what is going to happen in the
future, on the basis of the present changes that are taking place on planet earth. The catastrophe the planet might face in the
future is because of the series of events it will go through and how these add up. This sentiment is best reflected by option 2.
Option 1 talks about a certain sequence of events. Though casually related with the passage, this is not directly stated in the given
paragraph.
Option 3 talks about the true catastrophe striking the planet shortly. This is clearly not mentioned in the passage.
Option 4 talks about the fate of earth resting in the hands of man. This is again something not mentioned in the paragraph.

QNo:-14,Correct Answer:-3

Explanation:-
You need to read each option very closely in order to identify the answer.
Option 1 is incorrect as damp squib means 'a situation or event which is much less impressive than expected'. Remember, the
celebrations have been over the top.
Option 2 is incorrect as the phrase 'not up to the mark' does not reflect the true nature of the celebrations and hysteria.
Option 3 is the correct answer as it reflects the actual situation and conveys the exact sentiment expressed by this line in the
paragraph: The grasping for national pride and pseudo-psychological significance exaggerated the event and cheapened the
athletes' achievement.
Option 4 is too extreme in nature. One, we do not know whether these achievements were unprecedented; second, we do not know
whether the hullabaloo is completely unjustified. The extreme nature of this option helps us rule it out.

QNo:-15,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:- Refer to the meanings of these two words:

Pervert: Change the inherent purpose or function of something/Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
inorderto mislead or deceive
Adjunct: Something addedto another thing but not an essential part of it
We can clearly see that pervert fits the given negative context of the passage.
Also, the primary subject of the passage is free market and how it is impacting democracy. This makes option 1 the correct answer.

QNo:-16,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:- The author of the passage criticizes all of the above stakeholders in the passage. Remember, the question quotes:
at some point or the other. This essentially means that there has to be at least one point of criticism in the passage. One point of
criticism for each of the above can be easily found.

QNo:-17,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- In the given case, the options are synonymous with the given words but the issue is that you need to identify the
meaning in the given context.
Here, rhetoric refers to the language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in
sincerity or meaningful content.
Punitive refers to unfair punishment.
Keeping these sentiments in mind, option 2 is the best answer in the given case.
QNo:-18,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- The answer can be derived from the lines: The weaker a government is, the more power corporations have over it.

QNo:-19,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- In this case, you just need to understand the meanings of the given options.
Refer to the lines: Voters concerned about government as opposed to corporate constraints on freedom are under the grip of
what I will call a free market ideology. According to that ideology, the world of capital is by its nature free. All other substantial
freedoms, including political freedom and personal freedom, are made possible by the freedom of markets.
The author clearly points out how the free markets are actually impacting personal freedom. This makes option 2 the correct
answer in the given case.

QNo:-20,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:- Statement I can be rejected from the lines: Why is there no outcry about these oligarchical and aristocratic
methods? Is it because plutocrats have power over the mechanisms of representation and repression? Is it, in short, about power?
In my view, power cant explain why voters are so enthusiastically voting for the very people who promise the least democratic
outcomes.
Statement II does not find a mention in the passage.
Statement III can be derived from the last four paragraphs of the passage.

QNo:-21,Correct Answer:-314625

Explanation:-
The opening sentence of the paragraph is statement 3. It provides general information about the location of the author and acts as
the most generic statement for the given group. Statement 1 then takes forward the topic of statement 3. Statement 4 is direct
link-up with statement 1. Statement 1 leaves us on the point that whether one should leave a tip and statement 4 contradicts that.
The next set of connected statements is 625. Statement 6 informs us about how the author is thinking about not tipping in Italy,
statement 2 then contradicts the point of view in statement 6 and statement 5 represents the action taken on the basis of
statement 2.

QNo:-22,Correct Answer:-31254

Explanation:-
Notice the words dissatisfied and furthermore in lines 3 and 1 respectively and the use of he is for Ness in line 1. These two
clues very clearly hint at 31as a logical combination.

Line 2 seeks to strike a conciliatory posture by conceding to the truth in Nesss statement and the idea is further balanced by the
idea in line 5. Line 4 seeks to clarify and sum up the apparent conflict present in the previous sentences, thus giving us 254 as a
logical trio.

QNo:-23,Correct Answer:-31245

Explanation:-
Note the word transformed in line B, which is an idea further picked by line 4 with these transformations. Thus the lines 2 and 4
given here form a logical pair (2-4). A range of problems and challenges alluded to in line 4 is further explained in line 5.
Therefore, the trio 2-4-5 are strongly inter-linked.
Further, line 3 talks of the Arab Spring in general, while line 1 offers some conclusions based on this development, thus yielding
the combine 3-1. Since line 2 begins with so, it is quite understandable that it should follow line 3 here. Therefore, the combination
3-1 should be followed by line 2.

QNo:-24,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Option 2. In the last para the author states that the governments job was reduced to that of a servant and that the Bill of Rights
was a declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
Hence the only task of the government was to protect individual rights.

QNo:-25,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
Option 3. The rights given in I and III are the only ones supported by the author. She does not say anything highlighted by option II
, and the one in IV does not exist.

QNo:-26,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Option 2. This is a question where you need to read the following lines very carefully: Bear in mind that the right to property is a
right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the consequences of producing or earning
that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it. It is the
right to gain, to keep, to use and todispose of material values.
If you go through these lines, you realize that option 2 is a paraphrase of these lines.

QNo:-27,Correct Answer:-3

Explanation:-
Statement 3 talks of the huge investment required to claim the enormously large land on the Moon while the rest of the lines
speak of just Lunar land claims.

QNo:-28,Correct Answer:-2

Explanation:- The paragraph talks about the mechanism of a bee sting. It explains that usually bees aim to attack insects. On
occasions when they attack a human being, they are not able to pull out their sting from our skin and this further exacerbates the
pain and poisoning. Hence 3-4-5-1 explains the impact of a bee sting on us.
Statement 2 is not part of this sequence. It seems to refer to the use of a bee sting to cure a patient. While this is a related
statement, it is not addressing the theme of the passage.
QNo:-29,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- In the given case, option 2 is the inclusive answer. It covers all the aspect of the passage. Remember, the passage
talks about the development of sociology and outlines how it took place. He goes on to take example and explain how this came
about.

QNo:-30,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Option 1 can be derived from the lines:The founders of sociology were some of the earliest individuals to employ
what C. Wright Mills labeled the sociological imagination: the ability to situate personal troubles within an informed framework of
social issues.
Option 2 can be derived from the lines:The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene
in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.

QNo:-31,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Statements I and III are correct. Refer to the lines: The important point to grasp is: society does not remain
unchanged over time. Sociology has its roots in significant societal changes (e.g., theindustrial revolution, the creation of empires,
and the age ofenlightenmentof scientific reasoning). Early practitioners developed the discipline as an attempt to understand
societal changes.
Statement II is incorrect as it reverses causation.

QNo:-32,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- Option 2 can be derived from the lines (and option 1 can be rejected using the same): Sociology has gradually
expanded its focus to such far-flung subjects as the study of economic activity, health disparities, and even the role of social
activity in the creation of scientific knowledge.
Option 3 can be rejected using the lines: The range of social scientific methods has also been broadly expanded.
Option 4 can be rejected using the lines: The social world is changing. Some argue it is growing; others say it is shrinking.

QNo:-33,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- You can deduce the answer from the lines: The "cultural turn" of the 1970s and 1980s brought more humanistic
interpretive approaches to the study of culture in sociology. Conversely, the same decades saw the rise of new mathematically
rigorous approaches, such as social network analysis.
It is clear from above sociology was not as humanistic as it was in the 70s and 80s.

QNo:-34,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- In the given case, the best word to describe the tone of the author is definitive. The author of the passage adopts a
descriptive style in the passage and the word that is closest to this sentiment is illuminative (which means tending to illuminate or
illustrate; throwing light; illustrative). Thus, the best answer is option 3.
QNo:-35,Correct Answer:-0

Explanation:- Since ages are distinct multiples of 10. So, ages are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. Direction (iv) says
60 years old has drawn red ticket
20 years old has drawn yellow ticket
Also, A + D = 2B.
So, possible combinations of (A, D, B) are (20, 60, 40), (30, 50, 40), (20, 40, 30), (40, 60, 50)
Since at most 3 persons are younger than D, his age can't be 60 also atleast one peron is younger than A. So his age can't be 20.
So only case left (30, 50, 40)
Also, ages wise, Grey > Green > Blue
So, Grey = 50, Green = 40, Blue = 30
Following table is possible:

Ages A B C D E
Red 60 X X X X
Blue 30 X
Green 40
Yellow 20 X X X X
Grey 50 X

So, E is the oldest, C is the youngest. Since A is not the youngest & D is not the eldest.
So, (A, D, B) (30, 40, 50)
Red 60 E
Blue 30 A
Green 40 B
Yellow 20 C
Grey 50 D

(A + B) (C + D) = (30 + 40) (20 + 50) = 0

QNo:-36,Correct Answer:-70

Explanation:- Since ages are distinct multiples of 10. So, ages are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. Direction (iv) says
60 years old has drawn red ticket
20 years old has drawn yellow ticket
Also, A + D = 2B.
So, possible combinations of (A, D, B) are (20, 60, 40), (30, 50, 40), (20, 40, 30), (40, 60, 50)
Since at most 3 persons are younger than D, his age can't be 60 also atleast one peron is younger than A. So his age can't be 20.
So only case left (30, 50, 40)
Also, ages wise, Grey > Green > Blue
So, Grey = 50, Green = 40, Blue = 30
Following table is possible:

Ages A B C D E
Red 60 X X X X
Blue 30 X
Green 40
Yellow 20 X X X X
Grey 50 X

So, E is the oldest, C is the youngest. Since A is not the youngest & D is not the eldest.
So, (A, D, B) (30, 40, 50)
Red 60 E
Blue 30 A
Green 40 B
Yellow 20 C
Grey 50 D

So required sum 20 + 50 = 70

QNo:-37,Correct Answer:-12

Explanation:- Let is consider score of English. There are two multiple of five i.e. 50 and 10.
Let is consider Vishal is a Topper with 50 marks. If he has done X number of mistakes than 5 (20 - x) = 50 x = 10.
Now 32 is a multiple of 4. So if Ankit has done Y number of mistakes than 4 (20 - x) = 32 x = 12.
If we apply the same logic, following table can be made which shows number of mistakes.

English Hindi Maths Science GK

Ankit 12 14 17 13 17
Kashish 15 13 14 15 14
Karan 16 12 15 16 12
Vishal 10 15 13 14 11
Priya 14 16 18 17 15

Therefore mistakes are 12.

QNo:-38,Correct Answer:-17

Explanation:- Let is consider score of English. There are two multiple of five i.e. 50 and 10.
Let is consider Vishal is a Topper with 50 marks. If he has done X number of mistakes than 5 (20 - x) = 50 x = 10.
Now 32 is a multiple of 4. So if Ankit has done Y number of mistakes than 4 (20 - x) = 32 x = 12.
If we apply the same logic, following table can be made which shows number of mistakes.

English Hindi Maths Science GK

Ankit 12 14 17 13 17
Kashish 15 13 14 15 14
Karan 16 12 15 16 12
Vishal 10 15 13 14 11
Priya 14 16 18 17 15

Mistakes of Priya and Karan =80+71=151

Mistakes of Vishal and Kashish=63+71=134
Difference= 151-134=17

QNo:-39,Correct Answer:-43

Explanation:-
Total net profit = (9858 + 10897) = 20,755
Total Gross Profit = 20755 * (100/70) = 29650.

Total revenue over the two years = (33600 + 35052) = 68,652

The required percentage is (29650 / 68652 ) * 100 = 43% (approx)

QNo:-40,Correct Answer:-2

Explanation:-
The revenues of ACC, Chettinad Cement, Dalmia Cement, Shree Cement and UltraTech Cement increased over the 2 years.
We can calculate the Op. Cost as Revenue (100 Net Profit)/70.
ACC: Op. Cost06 = 5984 (146600/70) = 3890. Op. Cost07 = 7189 (276800/70) = 3235.
Chet. Cem: Op. Cost06 = 1110 (31100/70) = 665. Op. Cost07 = 1322 (37000/70) = 793.
Dal. Cem: Op. Cost06 = 1692 (65100/70) = 762. Op. Cost07 = 1973 (48300/70) = 1283.
Shree Cem: Op. Cost06 = 2440 (51200/70) = 1708. Op. Cost07 = 3097 (86700/70) = 1858.
UltTech: Op. Cost06 = 6286 (176000/70) = 3771. Op. Cost07 = 7160 (300700/70) = 2864.
Thus, only 2 companies, ACC and UltraTech satisfy the given criteria.

QNo:-41,Correct Answer:-20

Explanation:-
MYP5 had 64 students in 2010. Since all the DP1 students in 2010 have passed, all the DP1 students in 2011 are MYP5 students
who passed in 2010. So, 64 - 56 = 8 MYP5 students failed in 2010.
There are 60 MYP5 students in 2011. Since 8 of these have failed in 2010, the remaining 60 - 8 = 52 students are those who
passed MYP4 in 2010. Since MYP4 had 72 students in 2010 and only 52 of them passed, 20 MYP4 students failed in 2010.
QNo:-42,Correct Answer:-122

Explanation:-
Since all 48 students of DP1 in 2010 have passed, the number of DP2 students in 2011 should have been 48. Since there are 54
DP2 students in 2011, it means that 54 - 48 = 6 DP2 students failed in 2010. Of the 64 MYP5 students in 2010, only 56 moved to
DP1 in 2011. So, 64 - 56 = 8 MYP5 students failed in 2010. MYP5 had 60 students in 2011, of which 8 students were those who
had failed MYP5 in 2010. So, the number of students who moved from MYP4 to MYP5 was 60 - 8 = 52. This means that of the 72
MYP4 students in 2010, 72 - 52 = 20 failed. MYP4 had 70 students in 2011, of which 20 students were those who had failed MYP4
in 2010. So, the number of students who moved from MYP4 to MYP5 was 70 - 20 = 50. This means that of the 84 MYP3 students
in 2010, 84 - 50 = 34 failed. MYP3 had 100 students in 2011, of which 34 students were those who had failed MYP3 in 2010. So,
the number of students who moved from MYP2 to MYP3 was 100 - 34 = 66. This means that of the 120 MYP2 students in 2010,
120 - 66 = 54 failed. Thus the total number of students who failed in 2010 was 6 + 8 + 20 + 34 + 54 = 122.

QNo:-43,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:- Amongst the Deans, if Dr. Chitale is not on the committee, then both, Dr. Apte and Dr. Joshi must be on the
committee. We already know that Dr. Palkar is on the committee. So, Dr. Keskar cannot be on the committee. Also, Since Dr. Joshi
is on the committee, Mr. Rane cannot be on the committee. This leaves us with Mrs. Navale, who must be on the committee.

QNo:-44,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
If Dr. Chitale and Dr. Palkar are on the committee, then Dr. Keskar cannot be on the committee. Now, if we can appoint at least
one of Dr. Apte and Dr. Joshi on the committee.
If Dr. Apte is appointed on the committee, then either of Mrs. Navale or Mr. Rane can be appointed on the committee. If Dr. Joshi is
appointed on the committee, then only Mr. Navale can be appointed on the committee. If Dr. Apte and Dr. Joshi are both
appointed on the committee, then Dr. Palkar is the only Professor on the committee. Thus, there are 4 different committees that
can be formed:
1 Dr. Chitale, Dr. Palkar, Dr. Apte, Mrs. Navale.
2 Dr. Chitale, Dr. Palkar, Dr. Apte, Mr. Rane.
3 Dr. Chitale, Dr. Palkar, Dr. Joshi, Mrs. Navale.
4 Dr. Chitale, Dr. Palkar, Dr. Apte, Dr. Joshi.

Since any of the first three answers choices could be true, the best answer is option 4.

QNo:-45,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
If Dr. Chitale and Dr. Joshi are appointed on the committee, then Dr. Keskar and Mr. Rane cannot be appointed on the committee.
The other two committee members could be any two from amongst Dr. Apte, Dr. Palkar and Mrs. Navale. So, statement I is false.
If Dr. Joshi and Dr. Palkar are appointed on the committee, then Dr. Keskar and Mr. Rane cannot be appointed on the committee.
The other two committee members could be any two from amongst Dr. Apte, Dr. Chitale and Mrs. Navale. So, statement II is false.
If Dr. Joshi and Mrs. Navale are appointed on the committee, then Mr. Rane cannot be appointed on the committee. The remaining
two members on the committee could be Dr. Chitale and Dr. Palkar or Dr. Chitale and Dr. Apte or Dr. Apte and Dr. Keskar or Dr.
Apte and Dr. Palkar. So statement III is false.
Since all the statements are false, the correct answer is option 4.
QNo:-46,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
If Dr. Keskar is appointed to the committee, then Dr. Chitale and Dr. Palkar cannot be appointed to the committee. Since we need
at least two deans on the committee, Dr. Apte and Dr. Joshi must be appointed to the committee. Now, because Dr. Joshi is on the
committee, we cannot have Mr. Rane on the committee. The fourth member of the committe must therefore be Mrs. Navale.

QNo:-47,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- Cow milk production in Andhra Pradesh is 12088 8710 1 = 3377 thousand litres.
Buffalo milk production in Gujarat is 9817 3848 241 = 5728 thousand litres.
Goat milk production in Tamil Nadu is 6968 6189 779 = 0 litres.
Goat milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 4782 1 177 241 58 107 293 59 0 146 2529 = 1171 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 22556 15549 1171 = 5836 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Maharashtra is 57770 3377 3661 3848 3715 2582 3074 6189 5836 4303 16579 = 4606
thousand litres.
Total milk production in Maharashtra is 4606 + 3571 + 293 = 8470 thousand litres.
Total buffalo milk production in India is 8710 + 2805 + 5728 + 1675 + 27 + 3571 + 6417 + 779 + 15549 + 223 + 19869 = 65353
thousand litres.
The total milk production in India is 57770 + 65353 + 4782 = 127905 thousand litres.
We have the complete table as follows:

State/UT Cow Milk Buffalo Milk Goat Milk Total

Andhra Pradesh 3377 8710 1 12088
Bihar 3661 2805 177 6643
Gujarat 3848 5728 241 9817
Karnataka 3715 1675 58 5448
Kerala 2582 27 107 2716
Maharashtra 4606 3571 293 8470
Punjab 3074 6417 59 9550
Tamil Nadu 6189 779 0 6968
Uttar Pradesh 5836 15549 1171 22556
West Bengal 4303 223 146 4672
Others 16579 19869 2529 38977
All India 57770 65353 4782 127905

Total milk production in India is 127905 thousand litres.

QNo:-48,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Cow milk production in Andhra Pradesh is 12088 8710 1 = 3377 thousand litres.
Buffalo milk production in Gujarat is 9817 3848 241 = 5728 thousand litres.
Goat milk production in Tamil Nadu is 6968 6189 779 = 0 litres.
Goat milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 4782 1 177 241 58 107 293 59 0 146 2529 = 1171 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 22556 15549 1171 = 5836 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Maharashtra is 57770 3377 3661 3848 3715 2582 3074 6189 5836 4303 16579 = 4606
thousand litres.
Total milk production in Maharashtra is 4606 + 3571 + 293 = 8470 thousand litres.
Total buffalo milk production in India is 8710 + 2805 + 5728 + 1675 + 27 + 3571 + 6417 + 779 + 15549 + 223 + 19869 = 65353
thousand litres.
The total milk production in India is 57770 + 65353 + 4782 = 127905 thousand litres.
We have the complete table as follows:

State/UT Cow Milk Buffalo Milk Goat Milk Total

Andhra Pradesh 3377 8710 1 12088
Bihar 3661 2805 177 6643
Gujarat 3848 5728 241 9817
Karnataka 3715 1675 58 5448
Kerala 2582 27 107 2716
Maharashtra 4606 3571 293 8470
Punjab 3074 6417 59 9550
Tamil Nadu 6189 779 0 6968
Uttar Pradesh 5836 15549 1171 22556
West Bengal 4303 223 146 4672
Others 16579 19869 2529 38977
All India 57770 65353 4782 127905

Maharashtras contribution to the total cow milk production in India is (4606 / 57770) 100 = 7.97% 8%.
QNo:-49,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:- Cow milk production in Andhra Pradesh is 12088 8710 1 = 3377 thousand litres.
Buffalo milk production in Gujarat is 9817 3848 241 = 5728 thousand litres.
Goat milk production in Tamil Nadu is 6968 6189 779 = 0 litres.
Goat milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 4782 1 177 241 58 107 293 59 0 146 2529 = 1171 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 22556 15549 1171 = 5836 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Maharashtra is 57770 3377 3661 3848 3715 2582 3074 6189 5836 4303 16579 = 4606
thousand litres.
Total milk production in Maharashtra is 4606 + 3571 + 293 = 8470 thousand litres.
Total buffalo milk production in India is 8710 + 2805 + 5728 + 1675 + 27 + 3571 + 6417 + 779 + 15549 + 223 + 19869 = 65353
thousand litres.
The total milk production in India is 57770 + 65353 + 4782 = 127905 thousand litres.
We have the complete table as follows:

State/UT Cow Milk Buffalo Milk Goat Milk Total

Andhra Pradesh 3377 8710 1 12088
Bihar 3661 2805 177 6643
Gujarat 3848 5728 241 9817
Karnataka 3715 1675 58 5448
Kerala 2582 27 107 2716
Maharashtra 4606 3571 293 8470
Punjab 3074 6417 59 9550
Tamil Nadu 6189 779 0 6968
Uttar Pradesh 5836 15549 1171 22556
West Bengal 4303 223 146 4672
Others 16579 19869 2529 38977
All India 57770 65353 4782 127905

Andhra Pradeshs contribution to the total milk production in India is (12088 / 127905) 100 = 9.45% 10% 1/10th.
QNo:-50,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Cow milk production in Andhra Pradesh is 12088 8710 1 = 3377 thousand litres.
Buffalo milk production in Gujarat is 9817 3848 241 = 5728 thousand litres.
Goat milk production in Tamil Nadu is 6968 6189 779 = 0 litres.
Goat milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 4782 1 177 241 58 107 293 59 0 146 2529 = 1171 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Uttar Pradesh is 22556 15549 1171 = 5836 thousand litres.
Cow milk production in Maharashtra is 57770 3377 3661 3848 3715 2582 3074 6189 5836 4303 16579 = 4606
thousand litres.
Total milk production in Maharashtra is 4606 + 3571 + 293 = 8470 thousand litres.
Total buffalo milk production in India is 8710 + 2805 + 5728 + 1675 + 27 + 3571 + 6417 + 779 + 15549 + 223 + 19869 = 65353
thousand litres.
The total milk production in India is 57770 + 65353 + 4782 = 127905 thousand litres.
We have the complete table as follows:

State/UT Cow Milk Buffalo Milk Goat Milk Total

Andhra Pradesh 3377 8710 1 12088
Bihar 3661 2805 177 6643
Gujarat 3848 5728 241 9817
Karnataka 3715 1675 58 5448
Kerala 2582 27 107 2716
Maharashtra 4606 3571 293 8470
Punjab 3074 6417 59 9550
Tamil Nadu 6189 779 0 6968
Uttar Pradesh 5836 15549 1171 22556
West Bengal 4303 223 146 4672
Others 16579 19869 2529 38977
All India 57770 65353 4782 127905

Uttar Pradeshs contribution to the total goat milk production of India is 1171 / 4782 = 24.48%. The closest answer choice is
option 3 as 4/17 = 23.52%.
QNo:-51,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
If we assume that NMI was rated 2, then IMT would be rated 3. Kapur, from statement 1, must be studying in IIS. Thereby, IIS
would be rated 3. But note that we already know that Ms. Goyal and Ajay both studied in colleges that were rated 3. Thus, our
premise is incorrect. NMI cannot be rated 2. This leads us to the conclusion that IMT was rated 2 while NMI was rated 3.
We can thus, obtain the following table:
Rating B School First Name Last Name
3 NMI Ajay Jindal
4 GIM Swati Kapur
2 IMT Ishita Pathak
4 IIS Anirudh Gupta
3 ISB Neha Goyal
Hence Gupta studied in IIS.

QNo:-52,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
If we assume that NMI was rated 2, then IMT would be rated 3. Kapur, from statement 1, must be studying in IIS. Thereby, IIS
would be rated 3. But note that we already know that Ms. Goyal and Ajay both studied in colleges that were rated 3. Thus, our
premise is incorrect. NMI cannot be rated 2. This leads us to the conclusion that IMT was rated 2 while NMI was rated 3.
We can thus, obtain the following table:
Rating B School First Name Last Name
3 NMI Ajay Jindal
4 GIM Swati Kapur
2 IMT Ishita Pathak
4 IIS Anirudh Gupta
3 ISB Neha Goyal

Hence IMT was rated 2 in the study.

QNo:-53,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
If we assume that NMI was rated 2, then IMT would be rated 3. Kapur, from statement 1, must be studying in IIS. Thereby, IIS
would be rated 3. But note that we already know that Ms. Goyal and Ajay both studied in colleges that were rated 3. Thus, our
premise is incorrect. NMI cannot be rated 2. This leads us to the conclusion that IMT was rated 2 while NMI was rated 3.
We can thus, obtain the following table:
Rating B School First Name Last Name
3 NMI Ajay Jindal
4 GIM Swati Kapur
2 IMT Ishita Pathak
4 IIS Anirudh Gupta
3 ISB Neha Goyal
Hence Neha studied in ISB.

QNo:-54,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
If we assume that NMI was rated 2, then IMT would be rated 3. Kapur, from statement 1, must be studying in IIS. Thereby, IIS
would be rated 3. But note that we already know that Ms. Goyal and Ajay both studied in colleges that were rated 3. Thus, our
premise is incorrect. NMI cannot be rated 2. This leads us to the conclusion that IMT was rated 2 while NMI was rated 3.
We can thus, obtain the following table:
Rating B School First Name Last Name
3 NMI Ajay Jindal
4 GIM Swati Kapur
2 IMT Ishita Pathak
4 IIS Anirudh Gupta
3 ISB Neha Goyal

Hence Pathaks first name is Ishita.

QNo:-55,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
If we assume that NMI was rated 2, then IMT would be rated 3. Kapur, from statement 1, must be studying in IIS. Thereby, IIS
would be rated 3. But note that we already know that Ms. Goyal and Ajay both studied in colleges that were rated 3. Thus, our
premise is incorrect. NMI cannot be rated 2. This leads us to the conclusion that IMT was rated 2 while NMI was rated 3.
We can thus, obtain the following table:

Rating B School First Name Last Name

3 NMI Ajay Jindal
4 GIM Swati Kapur
2 IMT Ishita Pathak
4 IIS Anirudh Gupta
3 ISB Neha Goyal

Hence Nehas last name is Goyal.

QNo:-56,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
QNo:-57,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-

QNo:-58,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
If only the actual total revenue from the Internet medium is known, it is possible to calculate all the values in all the four pie-
charts.
Hence, the announced values for all the four pie-charts will be known.
Now, these announced values will be the same as the actual values for all the segments mentioned across all the pie-charts, except
for Brand Image category in T.V. medium and hence for total T.V. medium and total Brand image category, which will be
wrong.Thus, unless any of these three values (actual values) are given, the actual value of the revenue from the Brand Image
category cannot be found. So, none of the four statements provides the required information. No such statements, hence answer is
0.

QNo:-59,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
The value of revenue from Educational Institutions will remain constant, but the value of revenue from the TV medium will change
according to the value by which it has been fudged. Since this value is not known, we cannot calculate the percentage. The best
answer is option 4.
QNo:-60,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
QNo:-61,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
On Saturday, Charu must conduct a SAT session in the morning shift and a GMAT session in the afternoon shift. If she conducts a
CAT session on Monday, then the other two CAT sessions are conducted on Wednesday and Friday, otherwise the three CAT
sessions are conducted on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The remaining morning shift would be a GMAT session. The two ACT
sessions could be conducted on Monday and Tuesday or on Tuesday and Wednesday and the other afternoon shifts would be
GMAT sessions.
Based on this, we have the following possibilities:

Mon Tue Wed Fri Sat

CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case I
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case II
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case III
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case IV
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case V
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VI
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case VII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VIII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case IX
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case X
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case XI
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case XII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT

On Wednesday, Charu can conduct a CAT session in the morning shift and an ACT session in the afternoon shift.
QNo:-62,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
On Saturday, Charu must conduct a SAT session in the morning shift and a GMAT session in the afternoon shift. If she conducts a
CAT session on Monday, then the other two CAT sessions are conducted on Wednesday and Friday, otherwise the three CAT
sessions are conducted on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The remaining morning shift would be a GMAT session. The two ACT
sessions could be conducted on Monday and Tuesday or on Tuesday and Wednesday and the other afternoon shifts would be
GMAT sessions.
Based on this, we have the following possibilities:

Mon Tue Wed Fri Sat

CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case I
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case II
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case III
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case IV
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case V
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VI
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case VII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VIII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case IX
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case X
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case XI
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case XII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT

If Charu conducts a CAT session on Tuesday, she can conduct GMAT sessions in the morning shift on Monday and afternoon shifts
on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
QNo:-63,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
On Saturday, Charu must conduct a SAT session in the morning shift and a GMAT session in the afternoon shift. If she conducts a
CAT session on Monday, then the other two CAT sessions are conducted on Wednesday and Friday, otherwise the three CAT
sessions are conducted on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The remaining morning shift would be a GMAT session. The two ACT
sessions could be conducted on Monday and Tuesday or on Tuesday and Wednesday and the other afternoon shifts would be
GMAT sessions.
Based on this, we have the following possibilities:

Mon Tue Wed Fri Sat

CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case I
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case II
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case III
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case IV
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case V
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VI
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
CAT SAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case VII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
CAT GMAT CAT CAT SAT
Case VIII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case IX
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case X
ACT ACT GMAT GMAT GMAT
SAT CAT CAT CAT GMAT
Case XI
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT
GMAT CAT CAT CAT SAT
Case XII
GMAT ACT ACT GMAT GMAT

Charu must conduct a GMAT session on Friday and Saturday.

QNo:-64,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-

Total number of students who took any of the subject = 16+15+5+3+5+7+3=54

Number of students who did not take any of these = 70-54=16

required %=

QNo:-65,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-

As shown the ratio is 3:16

QNo:-66,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-

Required % = 5/70 100 = 7.14%

QNo:-67,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-

QNo:-68,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-

If one takes equal scales on both axis, it will be a square. But we should remember that a square is also a rhombus and a
parallelogram.
[Definition of parallelogram: opposite sides are equal and parallel.
Definition of rhombus: parallelogram with all sides equal,
Definition of square: Rhombus with one angle as right angle. Hence 4th option.

QNo:-69,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
A month will be most vulnerable to attack if it has the least number of relatively prime dates. So out of the options we find that
December will be the most vulnerable as all the dates which are multiples of 2 or 3 or both will not be relatively prime with it. The
best answer is option 3.

QNo:-70,Correct Answer:-1

Explanation:-
(2x + 3y) = 5Q1 + 2 and (3x + 2y) = 5Q2 + 3. Subtracting the first expression from the second, we get (x y) = 5(Q2 Q1) + 1. In
other words, the remainder when (x y) is divided by 5 is 1.
Alternate solution: Assume 2x + 3y = 7 and 3x + 2y = 8. Solving these two equations, we get x y = 1. Thus the remainder when x
y is divided by 5 is 1.

QNo:-71,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
QNo:-72,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
The digits in the 1st, 3rd, 5th , 7th and 9th places are to be even or zero. The digits in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th places are odd
and can be placed in 5! Ways.
The digit in the 1st place can be selected in 4 ways, as zero cannot appear in the 1st place.
The digits in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th places can be selected in 4, 3, 2 and 1 ways respectively.
Therefore the total no of ways is 5!44! = 11520
Hence the answer is option D

QNo:-73,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-

QNo:-74,Correct Answer:-8

Explanation:-
Powers of 10 when divided by 45 will always leave a remainder of 10. When 221, 222, 223, 224 and 225 are divided by 45, the
remainders are 22, 34, 28, 31 and 7 respectively. In this manner, 2210 will leave remainder 49, which will reduce to 4. So, 2223 =
2210 2210 223 when divided by 45 will leave a remainder of 4 4 28 = 448. This can be further reduced to 43. So the
effective remainder will be 43 + 10 = 53 which can be further reduced to 8.

QNo:-75,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Solution: Let the number of cans that the milk merchant purchases be c.
So total quantity of milk = 23c litres.
If he sells milk for Rs. 13 per litre, he gains Rs. 333, CP = SP gain
=> CP = 23c 13 333 ......(1)
Also, if he sells milk at Rs. 10 per litre, he loses Rs. 150, CP = SP + loss
=> CP = 23c 10 + 150 ....(2).
Equating equations (1) & (2), we get, 23c 13 333 = 23c 10 + 150
=> c = 7.
Thus, the number of cans purchased is 7.

QNo:-76,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
We can rewrite the second circles equation as
(x + 2)2 + (y 3)2 13 3 = 0
Or (x + 2)2 + (y 3)2 = 16
So this is a circle with center (-2, 3) and radius = 4.

Now distance between the center points of the two circles is

{(-1 (-2))2 + (1 3)2 } = 5

So the radius of the first circle will be 4 5, since the circles are touching internally.

QNo:-77,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Suppose the bag contains B blue balls, W white balls and O balls of some other colour or colours. The bag contains at least one
blue and at least one white ball. So, the ordered possibilities (B, W, O) are (1,1,4), (2,1,3), (3,1,2), (4,1,1), (5,1,0), (1,2,3), (1,3,2),
(1,4,1), (1,5,0), (2,2,2), (3,2,1), (2,3,1), (3,3,0), (4,2,0) and (2,4,0). Of these 15 possibilities, there is only one case where the number of
blue and white balls is 3 each. Thus the required probability is 1/15 or 6.66%.

QNo:-78,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
Since we need to find a ratio, the side of the square is 14 so that the radii of the semicircles are 7 each. Area of the figure equals
the area of the square (196) and the area of the 4 semicircles (4 72)/2. So the area of the figure is 196 + 308 = 504. Each of the
triangles is an isosceles right triangle with side 7.2^1/2. The area of the shaded region equals the area of the four semicircles (308)
less the area of the four triangles (472^1/272^1/2)/4

So the area of the shaded region is 308 - 196 = 112. Thus the required ratio is 112/504 = 2/9.
QNo:-79,Correct Answer:-15

Explanation:-
45647 when divided by 34 leaves a remainder of 19. Subsequent powers of 45647, from 456471to 456478 when divided by 34 will
leave remainders of 19,21, 25, 33, 15, 13, 9 and 1 respectively.
So the remainder cycle has length 8. Since the sum of the 1st n squares is n(n + 1) (2n + 1) /6, we have 12 + 22 + 32 + ..... + 252 =
25 26 51 / 6 = 5525. So, we need to find the remainder when 456475525 is divided by 34. Now, 5525 = (8 690 + 5. So the
remainder when 456475525 is divided by 34 is the same as the remainder when 456475 is divided by 34 i.e., the remainder is 15.

QNo:-80,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-

QNo:-81,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
QNo:-82,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
The highest possible value of date and month in a calendar are 31 and 12 respectively.
So, 31d + 12m = 487 (i)
Since there is only one equation and number of variables is two, we cannot find the solution of this equation by normal method.
But, there is other information given in the question implicitly. The date can be any of the integers 1, 2, , 31 and the month can be
any of the integers 1, 2, , 12.
By combining this information with equation (i) we can find a unique solution.
Consider equation (i), when left hand side and right hand side of this equation is divided by 12, the remainders should be same.
(Note: we are taking 12 here, because 12 is the smaller coefficient).
Second term 12m will not give any remainder when divided by 12, and the remainder when 31d is divided by 12 will be same as
the remainder when 7d is divided by 12.
Also, the remainder when 487 is divided by 12 will be 7.
From L.H.S. (the remainder when 7d is divided by 12) = from R.H.S.
(the remainder when 487 is divided by 12)
The remainder when 7d is divided by 12 = 7.
New equation (7d - 7)/12 = 40-2d-m
To satisfy the above condition the minimum value of d could be 1. (Because when 7 is divided by 12 the remainder is 7 itself)
The corresponding value of m can be obtained by substituting d = 1 in equation (i).
When d = 1, m = 38
We have to discard this pair of (d, m), because the month of birth cannot be 38.
To find the other pair of values for d and m, we increase the value of d by 12 (the coefficient of m) and decrease the value of m by
31 (coefficient of d).
The other pair for (d, m) will be (13, 7), (25, 24) and so on.
Here also, we have to reject the second pair because month cannot be negative.
Therefore no other pair is possible, and only valid pair of date and month possible is d = 13 and m = 7.
My complete date of birth is 13/7/1976.
Sum of my date and month of birth = 13 + 7 = 20
Hence, option 4.

QNo:-83,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-

Hence the answer is option B

QNo:-84,Correct Answer:-399

Explanation:-
71 when divided by 400 leaves remainder 7;
72 when divided by 400 leaves remainder 49;
73 when divided by 400 leaves remainder 343 and 74 when divided by 400 leaves remainder 1.
The sum of these remainders is 400, i.e., (71 + 72 + 73 + 74) will leave no remainder when divided by 400.
This will be true of all powers of 7 in sets of 4 up to 712. Now, 713, 714 and 715 when divided by 400 will leave remainders 7, 49
and 343 respectively. The sum of these remainders is 399. Thus, (71 + 72 + 73 + ....... + 715) when divided by 400 will leave
remainder 399.

QNo:-85,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-

QNo:-86,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Present volume of the bar = l w t = 6 5 2 = 60 cm3.
If the volume is to be cut by 20 %, i.e., to 48 cm3 and thickness to remain the same viz., at 2 cm, it means that lw = 24 cm2.
A cut of 10 % in the length and width of the bar would lead to l w = 5.4 4.5 = 24.3 i.e. the cut should be a bit more than 10 %
in each of the length and width, which would lead to the new length being 5 < L < 5.4.
QNo:-87,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
(x + a) is the HCF of P(x) = x2 + px + q and
G(x) = x2 + kx + m
So, (x + a) is a factor of P(x) and G(x)
P(a) = G (a) = 0
(a) 2 + p(a) + q = (a)2 + k(a) + m
a2 pa + q = a2 ka + m
q m = a(p k) => (q m)/(p k) = a.
Alternate solution:
Take a = 3 and find values of p, q, k and m, such that - 3 is a factor in the 2 quadratic equations.
Then check the fraction with the options.

QNo:-88,Correct Answer:-2

Explanation:-

QNo:-89,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-

Consider the circular arc traced by the cone on the table. Its radius is the slant height of the cone.
Since the cone has radius r and height h, its slant height is (r2 + h2). Therefore, the circular arc traced by the cone has radius(r2
+ h2).
On the other hand, the base of the cone has circumference 2r. Since the base of the cone makes 17 complete revolutions before
making the circular arc into a complete circle, the circumference of the circular arc is 17(2r) = 34r.
Therefore, we have 34r = 2 (r2 + h2)
That is, 17r = (r2 + h2)
Squaring both sides, we have 289 r2 = r2 + h2 or h2= 288 r2 . Hence, h = 288r = 122 r. Therefore, h/r = 122.
QNo:-90,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-

QNo:-91,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:-
Let the present age of Rajesh and his father be R and F respectively.
2n years ago.
(F 2n) = 4(R 2n)
F = 4R 6n.........(1)
n years ago,
(F n) = 3(R n)
F = 3R 2n .......... (2)
(1) = (2)
4R 6n = 3R 2n
R = 4n
F = 3(4n) 2n = 10n
n years later , total age = (R + n) + (F + n) = 11n + 5n = 16n = 80 (given) n = 5
Difference in ages = 10n 4n = 6n = 30

QNo:-92,Correct Answer:-16

Explanation:-
There are a total of 100 terms.
The given sum can be written as
3.(33)33 + 32(33)66 + (33)100 + ...... + 3. (33)3333
Let 33 = x
f(x) = 3x33 + 9x66 + x100 + 3.x133 + 9.x166 + x200.........+ 3x3333
when this is divided by (x-1) i.e. 33 -1 the remainder is f(1)
remainder = 3 (1)33 + 9(1)66 +1 +.....+ 3(1)3333
= (3 + 9 + 1) 33 + 3
remainder of 13(33) + 3 when divided by 26 = 16
QNo:-93,Correct Answer:-D

Explanation:-
For the first 4 minutes, the ant's speed is 2 metres per minute and it walks 8 m East. For the next 4 minutes, the ant's speed is 1
metre per minute and it walks 4 m West. Continuing in this fashion, in subsequent 4 minute intervals, the ant walks 2 m East, 1 m
West and so on. The distances travelled by the ant are 8, -4, 2, -1, and so on, where the negative sign denotes that the ant has
walked in the opposite direction. These distances form a GP with first term 8 and common ratio = -1/2.

Thus, the distance travelled by the ant in 5 hours or 75 (4-minute) intervals is

QNo:-94,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-

QNo:-95,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-
We know that the difference between two sides of a triangle is always less than the third side. So, |a b| < c, |b c| < a and |c a|
< b. Multiplying the three expressions, we get |a b| |b c| |c a| < abc. Expanding the left hand side of the expression, we get
|abc ac2 b2c + bc2 a 2b + a 2c + ab2 - abc| = |a 2(b c) + b2(a c) + c2(b a)|. Since we are considering the absolute value, we
can rewrite the expression as S = |a 2(b c) + b2(c a) + c2(a b)| < abc. Hence option 1.

QNo:-96,Correct Answer:-2

Explanation:- Case I.
Let there be odd number of consecutive integers i.e. (2n+1) and their average be x (the middle integer) Then (2n+1)x = 100
2n+1 = 5, 25.
For 2n+1 = 5, x = 20. So, the sequence is 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
For 2n + 1 = 25, x = 4. Which is never possible. Because in that case, we have to take negative integers.

Case II.
Let there be even number of consecutive integers i.e. 2n & their average be x (which is half the integer)
Then 2nx =100

For n = 4, x = 12.5
For n = 20, x = 2.5; which is never possible. Because in that case, we have to take negative integers.
For n = 100, x = 0.5, rejected for the same reason.
Hence, there are exactly 2 set of positive integers.
QNo:-97,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:-
Let S= 1/4 + 1/8 + 2/16 + 3/32 + 5/64 + 8/128 + 13/256 + 21/512 +

(1 /2) S = 1/8 + 1/16 + 2/32 + 3/64 + 5/128 + 8/256 + 13/512 + 21/1024 +

Subtracting we get:

(1 /2) S = 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/32 + 2/64 + 3/128 + 5/256 + 8/512 + = 1/4 + 1/4 S

S=1

QNo:-98,Correct Answer:-A

Explanation:-

QNo:-99,Correct Answer:-C

Explanation:- Let Shyam's present age be x years. Satish's present age = 5/3x years
Swati is Shyam's wife and Savita is Satish's wife. Swati's age = 5/6x years and Savita's age = 25/18x.
One year ago, Siddhi was 1/3rd her father's present age.

Sonu will be 1/3rd of his mother's present age two years later.

Sum of ages of all the family members is 197.

QNo:-100,Correct Answer:-B

Explanation:- Minimum number of balls required = 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 18 = 90

These 90 balls can be given to the nine children in 1 way.
The remaining 126 - 90 = 36 balls can be distributed among the 9 children in 36 + 9 - 1C9-1 i.e., in 44C8 ways. [n non-distinct
things can be partitioned in to r distinct groups (some groups may be empty) in
n + r - 1C
r-1 ways].