Section : Verbal Ability

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Section : Verbal Ability

DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it. Question No. : 1

Some 2,400 years ago, in 399 BCE, Athens put Socrates on trial. The charge was impiety, and the trial took place in the People’s Court. Socrates, already 70 years old, had long been a prominent philosopher and a notorious public intellectual. Meletus, the prosecutor, alleged that Socrates had broken Athenian law by failing to observe the state gods, by introducing new gods, and by corrupting the youth.

Meletus, as prosecutor, and Socrates, as defendant, delivered timed speeches before a jury of 501 of their fellow citizens. There is no dispute about the basic facts of the trial of Socrates. It is less obvious why Athenians found Socrates guilty, and what it might mean today. People who believe in both democracy and the rule of law ought to be very interested in this trial. If the takeaway is either that democracy, as direct self-government by the people, is fatally prone to repress dissent, or that those who dissent against democracy must be regarded as oligarchic traitors, then we are left with a grim choice between democracy and intellectual freedom.

But that is the wrong way to view Socrates’ trial. Rather, the question it answers concerns civic obligation and commitment. The People’s Court convicted Socrates because he refused to accept that a norm of personal responsibility for the effects of public speech applied to his philosophical project. Socrates accepted the guilty verdict as binding, and drank the hemlock, because he acknowledged the authority of the court and the laws under which he was tried. And he did so even though he believed that the jury had made a fundamental mistake in interpreting the law.

The conventional wisdom maintains that the impiety charge against Socrates was a smokescreen, that politics motivated his trial. Just four years earlier, a democratic uprising had overthrown a junta that ruled Athens for several tumultuous months. Meletus’ prosecution speech at the trial likely urged the citizens of Athens to focus on Socrates’ long association with members of this vicious and anti-democratic junta.

In his influential interpretation The Trial of Socrates (1988), the US journalist-turned-classicist I F Stone saw this trial as an embattled democracy defending itself. In Stone’s view, Socrates had helped to justify the junta’s savage programme of oligarchic misrule and was a traitor. More commonly, Socrates is seen as a victim of an opportunistic prosecutor and a wilfully ignorant citizenry. In truth, politics is indispensable to understanding the trial of Socrates, but in a slightly more sophisticated way. Seeing Socrates as the paradigm of the autonomous individual, as a simple martyr to free speech, is wrong. Athenian political culture and, specifically, the civic commitments required of Athenian citizens are essential to understanding the trial. Socrates’ own commitments to his city influenced the trial’s course, and those commitments were core parts of Athenian political culture, shaping the relationship between public speech and responsibility. Indeed, the actions of Socrates, Meletus and the jury must be understood in the context of the Athenians’ emphasis on the role of the responsible citizen in the democratic state, on their ideal of civic responsibility. Thus it is a story, in many ways, of civic engagement, in some respects far removed from the politics of recognition that characterise contemporary US debates.

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A) Socrates was unfairly persecuted for expressing his views.

B) There is more to the trial of Socrates than the theory of his unfair persecution.

C) Socrates did not curry favour with those in power to escape his punishment. D) none of the above

A) to showcase how individuals and state are embroiled in contentious issues with one another. B) to highlight the repercussions of taking a particular approach.

C) to elicit reaction to a new approach to problem concerning personal ethics. D) to debunk a popular interpretation of a particular event in history.

A) Socrates acted contrary to democratic principles by supporting the junta.

B) Socrates' trial was a democracy's fight against its opposition. C) Both (1) and (2) D) Neither (1) nor (2)

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It is clear from the information given in the passage that:

Question No. : 2

The primary purpose of the author of the passage is:

Question No. : 3 According to Stone:

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. : 4

1. Though it is, admittedly, rather vague, and the phenomena it is employed to describe extremely diverse, it does express a prevailing sentiment at century's end that our lives are increasingly influenced by forces which have transcended borders, and which, precisely because of their scope and power, are changing, irreversibly, life on this planet.

2. Such a term is globalization.

3. However, trends are regularly observed and named, and these new terms become "buzz words" in the lexicons of governments, academia and the media.

4. All levels of society are being reshaped by this process: the individual may find her/his livelihood threatened or identity thrown into question; localities and whole regions are forced to recreate themselves or die in the face of new economic forces’ and nation-states themselves experience steadily decreasing freedom of action and ever closer ties to each other.

5. The pace of global change is extremely rapid, and even those trained to track and analyze it have difficulty keeping up with new developments.

Question No. : 5

1. Even while Americans’ trust in mass media continues to plummet, journalists enjoy a kind of heroic fame that would baffle their British counterparts.

2. A whole genre of film exists in the US celebrating the heroism of journalists, from All the President’s Men to Good Night, and Good Luck.

3. In Britain, probably the most popular depiction of journalists came from Spitting Image, where they were snuffling pigs in pork-pie hats.

4. Whereas in Britain journalists are generally viewed as occupying a place on the food chain somewhere between bottom-feeders and cockroaches, in America there remains, still, a certain idealisation of journalists, protected by a gilded halo hammered out by sentimental memories of Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

5. Television anchors and commentators, from Rachel Maddow on the left to Sean Hannity on the right, are lionised in a way that, say, Huw Edwards, is, quite frankly, not.

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A) 2 B) C) D)

A) 3 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. : 6

1. For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism and the force would be applied by the working class, either at the ballot box or on the barricades.

2. Capitalism, it turns out, will be abolished by creating something more dynamic that exists, at first, almost unseen within the old system, but which will break through, reshaping the economy around new values and behaviours; I call this postcapitalism. 3. The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above.

4. The lever would be the state and the opportunity would come through frequent episodes of economic collapse.

Question No. : 7

1. Yes, it’s taken for granted that creating is hard, but also that it’s somehow fundamentally unserious.

2. In the popular imagination, artists tend to exist either at the pinnacle of fame and luxury or in the depths of penury and obscurity — rarely in the middle, where most of the rest of us toil and dream.

3. But the elevation of the amateur over the professional trivializes artistic accomplishment and helps to undermine the already precarious living standards that artists have been able to enjoy.

4. They are subject to admiration, envy, resentment and contempt, but it is odd how seldom their efforts are understood as work.

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A) Reverent B) Scornful C) Inexpressive D) Measured

A) Epigram B) Eulogy C) Epitaph D) Epithet

A) he had the ability to simplify complex matters. B) he possessed a rare combination of wit and insight C) he had the ability to cut through chaff and deliver relevant insights D) all of the above

A) civility of expression of a certain group B) stock phrases of a certain group C) insincere talk and jargon of certain individuals D) none of the above

Alex Cockburn, who has just died, was a couple of years behind me at school. He was bright, amusing, intelligent, iconoclastic, scruffy, and seemed inseparable from Miles Kington. They were in different houses but went together like Fortnum & Mason, Edrich and Compton, Auden and Isherwood. I didn’t know either well – you didn’t know younger boys well, even in your own house, and neither was in mine. Miles became a friend later, and once remarked that he had always been a bit in awe of Alex, even a little afraid of him. At school we met occasionally at a so-called Highbrow Society run by one of the Modern Languages masters, where someone read a paper and others discussed it. But I didn’t even realise that Alex was Claud Cockburn’s son. If I had, I would, in defiance of convention, have sought him out, because at the age of 18 I loved the first of Claud’s autobiographical books, In Time of Trouble. It is still good, but not as good as it seemed then. That said, the chapter “Ribbentrop dislikes me” remains a gem.

Later Alex and I corresponded occasionally, very occasionally, but I can’t say he was a friend. So I find myself wondering why the news of his death leaves me feeling sad. Partly, I suppose, it’s just the thought "there’s another one gone", but mostly it’s because I admired and relished his journalism, even when I didn’t agree with what he was saying. Mind you, I agreed more often than not, because he had that rare and precious ability to cut through the cant of politicians and the high-minded. He had no time for the Great and Good, though in his own way he was both great and good, without capital letters. His online magazine Counterpunch was wonderfully stimulating. What’s more, all the adjectives I applied to him when he was a boy still seemed to fit him.

He was comparable to Christopher Hitchens, with whom he was for a long time a friend, before Hitchens came out in favour of the Iraq war. They were both good, but I always thought Alex the better writer, because Hitchens played to the gallery and was a show-off, while Alex didn’t and wasn’t. Cancer has killed them both, and both met it bravely by all accounts, but it was in character that Hitchens played out his long and painful last months very publicly, while Alex, though, like Hitchens, writing to the very end, chose, it seems, to keep his condition from even friends and colleagues. All his readers will think the world a duller place, now that he has been silenced.

The tone of the author towards Alex Cockburn can be said to be:

Question No. : 9

The passage can be labelled as a/an:

Question No. : 10

The author of the passage, more often than not, agreed with Alex Cockburn as:

Question No. : 11

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A) Hitchens and Cockburn were fairly similar individuals.

B) Hitchens and Cockburn, though comparable, were not similar individuals.

C) Hitchens and Cockburn both suffered from a similar ailment. D) Both (2) and (3)

A) be concerned about one’s work than one’s appearance. B) be concerned about one’s appearance than one’s work. C) be more concerned about delivering the actual message than about impact.

D) be more concerned about impact rather than delivering the actual message.

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A) 2 B) C) D) Question No. : 12

It can be deduced from the passage that:

Question No. : 13

What does the phrase ‘played to the gallery’ means?

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. Sentences A and H are fixed. Decide on the proper order for the numbered sentences and key in this sequence of six numbers as your answer.

Question No. : 14

A. The archetypal co-operation game is the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

1. In other words, mutual co?operation (saying nothing) provides a higher reward than mutual defection (ratting on your partner), but the best reward comes from defecting while your partner tries to co?operate with you, while the lowest pay?off comes from trying to co?operate with your partner while he stabs you in the back.

2. The most obvious evolutionarily stable strategy in this game is simple: always defect.

3. If only one takes the bait, he gets a reduced prison sentence while the other gets a longer one.

4. If your partner co?operates, you exploit his naïveté, and if he defects, you will still do better than if you had co?operated. 5. But if both take it, neither gets a reduction.

6. Imagine that two prisoners, each held in isolation, are given a chance to rat on the other. H. So there is no possible strategy that can defeat the principle ‘always act like an untrusting jerk’.

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. : 15

1. For today's embattled humanities, the sciences have come to stand for the antithesis of what is now understood to constitute the content and values of a liberal education, namely: the cultivation of the intellectual and artistic traditions of diverse cultures past and present, the assertion of the generalist's prerogatives over those of the specialist, and the defense of non-utilitarian values as preparation for civic engagement in the cause of the commonweal.

2. The term "liberal education" derives from the seven medieval artesliberales(rhetoric, grammar, logic, astronomy, music, geometry and arithmetic), the knowledge necessary to a free man, by which was usually meant an adult, property-owning male who exercised the rights of citizen in the polity and pater familias in the household.

3. Some of you may be mentally re-parsing my title to something more like "Can Liberal Education Be Saved from the Sciences?"

4. In contrast, what are currently known as the STEM disciplines"science, technology, engineering and mathematics"stand for knowledge that is presumed universal and uniform, for narrow specialization and, above all, for applications that are useful and often lucrative.

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A) supporter of equality B) supporter of inequality C) supporter of justice D) supporter of impropriety

A) Indifferent B) Toadying C) Haughty D) Cynical

A) science B) military C) government D) the masses themselves

There is one fact which should make an impression upon every person of conscience, upon all who have at heart a concern for human dignity and justice; that is, for the liberty of each individual amid and through a setting of equality for all. That is the fact that all of the intelligentsia, all of the great applications of science to the purpose of industry, trade and to the life of society in general have thus far profited no one, save the privileged classes and the power of the State, that timeless champion of all political and social iniquity. Never, not once, have they brought any benefit to the masses of the people. We need only list the machines and every workingman and honest advocate of the emancipation of labour would accept the justice of what we say. By what power do the privileged classes maintain themselves today, with all their insolent smugness and iniquitous pleasures, in defiance of the all too legitimate outrage felt by the masses of the people? Is it by some power inherent in their persons? No - it is solely through the power of the State, in whose apparatus today their offspring hold, always, every key position (and even every lower and middle range position) excepting that of soldier and worker. And in this day and age what is it that constitutes the principle underlying the power of the State? Why, it is science. Yes, science - Science of government, science of administration and financial science; the science of fleecing the flocks of the people without their bleating too loudly and, when they start to bleat, the science of urging silence, patience and obedience upon them by means of a scientifically organised force: the science of deceiving and dividing the masses of the people and keeping them allays in a salutary ignorance lest they ever become able, by helping one another and pooling their efforts, to conjure up a power capable of overturning States; and, above all, military science with all its tried and tested weaponry, these formidable instruments of destruction which 'work wonders' and lastly, the science of genius which has conjured up steamships, railways and telegraphy which, by turning every government into a hundred armed, a thousand armed Briareos, giving it the power to be, act and arrest everywhere at once -has brought about the most formidable political centralisation the world -has ever witnessed.

Who, then, will deny that, without exception, all of the advances made by science have thus far brought nothing, save a boosting of the wealth of the privileged classes and of the power of the State, to the detriment of the well-being and liberty of the masses of the people, of the proletariat? But, we will hear the objection; do not the masses of the people profit by this also? Are they not much more civilised in this society of ours than they were in the societies of bygone centuries?

The author of the passage refers to the State as a:

Question No. : 17

The tone of the author of the passage can be said to be:

Question No. : 18

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1. By admitting Zagreb, the EU will send out a signal to the other Balkan states that it attaches a high premium on cooperation with the Hague tribunal which is adjudicating the war crimes of the 1990s

2. Democracy, market economy, and rule of law are among the eligibility criteria for EU membership.

3. The potential of such a step to bring closure to historic wrongs and build reconciliation among Balkan countries that are torn by bloody ethnic strife cannot be exaggerated.

4. This is of particular relevance to Serbia, whose position on Kosovo's 'independence' has pushed back its ambitions for EU membership.

5. Abolition of the death penalty is also a precondition for admission, and this reform perforce imparts a rational and humane aspect to the administration of criminal justice.

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

Question No. : 20

Thomas More's Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a 'conspiracy of the rich'. Such men, the book announces, are 'greedy, unscrupulous and useless'. There are a great number of noblemen, More complains, who live like drones on the labour of others. Tenants are evicted so that 'one insatiable glutton and accursed plague of his native land' may consolidate his fields. Monarchs, he argues, would do well to swear at their inauguration never to have more than 1,000lbs of gold in their coffers.

1. Thomas More's Utopia is driven by the appalling conditions is society and More is pained to see the state of society

2. Thomas More's Utopia is an uncommon work from a person of privilege who challenges society's way of working and protecting privilege

3. Thomas More's Utopia is rare as a work that takes up the cudgels against its own and leads the crusade for reform 4. Thomas More's Utopia is a rare work that advocates for the rights of the poor and is decidedly left-centric in its approach

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A) highlights how scientists are morally superior B) objectively states how science is related to moral development C) probingly explores the possible relationship between science and morality

D) wishes to ensure that sufficient thought is given to explore the relationship between science and morality DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Question No. : 21

Can science make you good?

Of course it can’t, some will be quick to say—no more than repairing cars or editing literary journals can. Why should we think that science has any special capacity for moral uplift, or that scientists—by virtue of the particular job they do, or what they know, or the way in which they know it—are morally superior to other sorts of people? It is an odd question, maybe even an illogical one. Everybody knows that the prescriptive world of ought—the moral or the good—belongs to a different domain than the descriptive world of is.

This dismissal may capture the way many of us now think about the question, if indeed we think about it at all. But there are several reasons why it may be too quick.

First, there are different ways of understanding the question, and different modern sensibilities follow from the different senses such a question might have. Some ways of understanding it do lead to the glib dismissal, but other ways powerfully link science to moral matters. Here are just a few of the ways we might think about the relationship between science and virtue, about whether aspects of science have the power to make us good:

Is there something about what scientists know that makes them better people than the normal run of humankind? Are different sorts of scientists—physicists, mathematicians, engineers, biologists, sociologists—more or less virtuous? And do some sorts of scientific expertise count as moral expertise?

Are scientists recruited from a section of humankind that is already better than the norm?

Is there something scientists know that, were it widely shared with non-scientists, would make the rest of us better? Or is there something about how scientists come to their knowledge—call it the scientific method—that would make the practices of non-scientists better, were they to master it? Would wide application of the scientist’s way of knowing make our society fairer, more just and flourishing?

Is there something about scientists that qualifies them to intervene in social and political affairs and make decisions about all sorts of things, including, but not confined to, the social uses of their knowledge? Is a philosopher-king, or a scientist-politician, an anomaly, an absurdity, or a highly desirable state of affairs? Would a world governed by scientists be not only more rational but also more just?

The ideas and feelings informing the tendency to separate science from morality do not go back forever. Underwriting it is a sensibility close to the heart of the modern cultural order, brought into being by some of the most powerful modernity-making forces. There was a time—not long ago, in historical terms—when a different “of course” prevailed: of course science can make you good. It should, and it does.

A detour through this past culture can give us a deeper appreciation of what is involved in the changing relationship between knowing about the world and knowing what is right. Much is at stake. Shifting attitudes toward this relationship between is and ought explain much of our age’s characteristic uncertainty about authority: about whom to trust and what to believe.

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A) There was a time when science was thought to have a positive impact on one's morality B) Modern society faces issues in terms of which authority to trust and what to believe

C) Most ways of understanding the question that scientists are morally superior to other sorts of people leads to summary dismissal of the said thought

D) All people may not regard the question that scientists are morally superior to other sorts of people as logical

A) The Virtue of Scientific Thinking B) The Immutability of Scientific Thinking C) The Worth of Scientific Thinking D) The Value of Scientific Thinking

A) I & II B) II & III C) All of the above D) None of the above

A) Scientists, armed with their knowledge, possibly possess the capability to lead to a more equitable world. B) Scientists, even though limited in their understanding of the world, have the power to use their knowledge in a

meaningful way.

C) Scientists, with their innate and in-born superiority, are capable of leading us to a more virtuous world. D) Both (a) and (c)

A) scientists may prescribe one thing but do another

B) there is a difference between how the world ought to be and how it is. C) prescriptions of life do not match the descriptions of life D) all of the above Question No. : 22

Which, out of the following options, is incorrect according to the information given in the passage?

Question No. : 23

An apt title for the passage could be:

Question No. : 24

It can be inferred from the passage that a philosopher-king or a scientist-politician is: I. something which is not the norm

II. something which is absurd

III. something which is highly desirable

Question No. : 25

One of the schools of thoughts which analysis the relationship between science and virtue thinks that:

Question No. : 26

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1. The result of our system is that there is a great waste of ability: a boy or girl of wage-earning parents may be of first-rate capacity in mathematics, or music, or science, but it is very unlikely that he or she will have a chance to exercise this talent. 2. Higher education, at present, is mainly, though not entirely, confined to the children of the well-to do.

3. And since education is, in the main, controlled by the State, it has to defend the status quo, and therefore must, as far as possible, blunt the critical faculties of young people and preserve them from "dangerous thoughts"

4. Moreover, education, at least in England is still infected through and through with snobbery; in private and elementary schools consciousness of class is imbibed by the pupils at every moment of their life.

5. It sometimes happens, it is true, that working-class boys or girls reach the university by means of scholarships, but as a rule they have had to work so hard in the process that they are worn out and do not fulfill their early promise.

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

Question No. : 28

Exhaustion is a vague and forgiving concept. Celebrities say they're suffering from it when they go to rehab and don't want to admit to depression or addiction. You can attribute your low mood or your short temper to exhaustion, and it can mean anything from "had a couple of bad nights' sleep" to "about to have a nervous breakdown". It also seems like a peculiarly modern affliction. Relentless email, chattering social media, never-ending images of violence and suffering in the news, the lingering effects of the financial crisis, and looming environmental catastrophe: Who's going to blame you if you confess to having had enough of it all? Anna Katharina Schaffner's Exhaustion: A History opens with the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. He cited deteriorating physical and mental strength as a major factor in his decision to step down, and Schaffner teasingly holds him up as an emblem of our age, exhausted by the demands placed upon him.

1. Exhaustion has been used as a cover for ages by those who wish to hide their inadequacies behind this innocuous term. 2. The term exhaustion has not been done justice and has been used in ways in which it was never intended to be used. 3. The wide variety of contexts in which in the term exhaustion has been used does not necessarily mean that it is valid argument to cover for other human inadequacies.

4. The term exhaustion has been used in multiple contexts and in modern times, the term has been used a cover for other conditions.

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A) The author regards Oriental civilization to be majorly subtends to the Europeans one B) The author regards Western civilization to be majorly predominant over the Oriental one C) The author regards Western civilization to be a cut above the Oriental one

D) The author regards Western civilization to be domineering the Oriental one

Civilization is a continuous movement"hence there is a gradual transition from the Oriental civilization to the Western. The former finally merges into the latter. Although the line of demarcation is not clearly drawn, some striking differences are apparent when the two are placed in juxtaposition. Perhaps the most evident contrast is observed in the gradual freedom of the mind from the influences of tradition and religious superstition. Connected with this, also, is the struggle for freedom from despotism in government. It has been observed how the ancient civilizations were characterized by the despotism of priests and kings. It was the early privilege of European life to gradually break away from this form of human degradation and establish individual rights and individual development. Kings and princes, indeed, ruled in the Western world, but they learned to do so with a fuller recognition of the rights of the governed. There came to be recognized, also, free discussion as the right of people in the processes of government. It is admitted that the despotic governments of the Old World existed for the few and neglected the many. While despotism was not wanting in European civilization, the struggle to be free from it was the ruling spirit of the age. The history of Europe centres around this struggle to be free from despotism and traditional learning, and to develop freedom of thought and action.

Among Oriental people the idea of progress was wanting in their philosophy. True, they had some notion of changes that take place in the conditions of political and social life, and in individual accomplishments, yet there was nothing hopeful in their presentation of the theory of life or in their practices of religion; and the few philosophers who recognized changes that were taking place saw not in them a persistent progress and growth. Their eyes were turned toward the past. Their thoughts centred on traditions and things that were fixed. Life was reduced to a dull, monotonous round by the great masses of the people. If at any time a ray of light penetrated the gloom, it was turned to illuminate the accumulated philosophies of the past. On the other hand, in European civilization we find the idea of progress becoming more and more predominant. The early Greeks and Romans were bound to a certain extent by the authority of tradition on one side and the fixity of purpose on the other. At times there was little that was hopeful in their philosophy, for they, too, recognized the decline in the affairs of men. But through trial and error, new discoveries of truth were made which persisted until the revival of learning in the Middle Ages, at the time of the formation of new nations, when the ideas of progress became fully recognized in the minds of the thoughtful, and subsequently in the full triumph of Western civilization came the recognition of the possibility of continuous progress. Another great distinction in the development of European civilization was the recognition of humanity. In ancient times humanitarian spirit appeared not in the heart of man nor in the philosophy of government. Even the old tribal government was for the few. The national government was for selected citizens only. Specific gods, a special religion, the privilege of rights and duties were available to a few, while all others were deprived of them. This invoked a selfishness in practical life and developed a selfish system even among the leaders of ancient culture. The broad principle of the rights of an individual because he was human was not taken into serious consideration even among the more thoughtful. If he was friendly to the recognized god he was permitted to exist. If he was an enemy, he was to be crushed. On the other hand, the triumph of Western civilization is the recognition of the value of a human being and his right to engage in all human associations for which he is fitted. While the Greeks came into contact with the older civilizations of Egypt and Asia, and were influenced by their thought and custom, they brought a vigorous new life which gradually dominated and mastered the Oriental influences. They had sufficient vigor and independence to break with tradition, wherever it seemed necessary to accomplish their purpose of life.

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A) Oriental people, philosophers and intelligentsia in general did not have the acumen required to evolve the ideas of progress with regards to political and social life.

B) Oriental people, philosophers and intelligentsia in general did not have the will that was required to evolve the ideas of progress with regards to political and social life.

C) Oriental people, philosophers and intelligentsia in general did not focus in the direction required so that they could evolve the ideas of progress with regards to political and social life.

D) Oriental people, philosophers and intelligentsia in general did not have the wisdom required to evolve the ideas of progress with regards to political and social life.

A) In ancient times, humanitarian spirit was absent in the orient.

B) In ancient times, the philosophy of government was not refined enough to cater to the non-selfish goals of man. C) In ancient times, the selfish goals of man blinkered the thinking of the times.

D) In ancient times, the rights of an individual were overlooked by the government, though they were acknowledged in certain contexts.

A) the Oriental civilization is juxtaposed against the Western one.

B) the Oriental civilization moves towards the Western one, ultimately coalescing with it. C) the Oriental civilization and the Western one move towards one another.

D) the Oriental civilization, as juxtaposed with the Western one, develops striking differences with it over a period of time.

A) place side by side for comparison B) superimpose one on another C) contradict one with another D) merge one with another

A) in ancient times, humanity did not exist B) in ancient times, humanitarian aspects were often neglected C) humanity came into being with the coming up of Western civilization D) Both (a) and (c)

Question No. : 30

According to the information given in the passage, it can be deduced that:

Question No. : 31

The author would agree with the statement that:

Question No. : 32

It can be inferred from the passage that:

Question No. : 33

In the given context of the passage, the word 'juxtaposition' means:

Question No. : 34

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A) 350 B) 370 C) 300 D) 190

A) 125 B) 130 C) 120 D) 140 Section : DI & Reasoning

DIRECTIONS for the question: Study the table/s given below and answer the question that follows. Question No. : 35

Brain tree school has organized a festival where 4 stalls - Selfie stall, Puppet stall, Snack stall & Tattoo stall has been displayed by teacher for students. Each student who has attended the festival has gone to at least one of the four stalls. Also following observations are made:

No. of students of age more than 6 years who went to

the stall

No. of students of age more than 3 years but not more than 6 years who went to the

stall

No. of students of age not more than 3

years, who went to the stall No. of people who went to only that stall Selfie stall 50 110 90 100 Puppet stall 30 60 110 40 Snack stall 40 50 60 30 Tattoo stall 30 70 70 20

What is the minimum possible number of students who have attended the festival?

Question No. : 36

the stall

stall

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A) 150 B) 170 C) 210 D) 220

A) 280 B) 340 C) 300 D) 290

A) 18 B) C) D) Question No. : 37

the stall

stall

The number of students of age not more than 6 years, who attended the festival is at least:

Question No. : 38

the stall

stall

The number of students who went to exactly two of the four stalls is at the most

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows. Question No. : 39

A standard deck of playing cards is taken. These cards are arranged in 3 piles such that: 1. Pile number 1 has three times as many black cards as red cards.

2. Pile number 2 has three times as many red cards as black cards. 3. Pile number 3 has twice as many black cards as red cards.

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A) 1 B) C) D)

A) 2 B) C) D)

A) 4 B) C) D)

Mr. Fal-Phool Kumar likes to buy fruits and flowers. But he has a peculiar way of buying them. He buys a mango every alternate day, a banana once every 3rd day and a cherry once in 15 days. He also buys a lily once every 9th day, a marigold once a week and a sunflower once every 5th_{day. He buys all 6 of them on 16}th_{june 2007.}

On which of the following dates will he end up buying all fruits on the same day again? (write the correct option) 1. 14th September 2007 2. 15th September 2007 3. 16th September 2007 4. 17th September 2007

Mr. Fal-Phool Kumar likes to buy fruits and flowers. But he has a peculiar way of buying them. He buys a mango every alternate day, a banana once every 3rd day and a cherry once in 15 days. He also buys a lily once every 9th day, a marigold once a week and a sunflower once every 5th_{day. He buys all 6 of them on 16}th_{june 2007.}

When will he buy all flowers again on the same day? (write the correct option)

1. 25th April 2008 2. 26th April 2008 3. 27th April 2008 4. 07th March 2009

Mr. Fal-Phool Kumar likes to buy fruits and flowers. But he has a peculiar way of buying them. He buys a mango every alternate day, a banana once every 3rd day and a cherry once in 15 days. He also buys a lily once every 9th day, a marigold once a week and a sunflower once every 5th day. He buys all 6 of them on 16th june 2007.

When will he buy mango, banana, marigold and sunflower on the same day again? (write the correct option) 1. 9th January 2008 2. 10th January 2008 3. 11th January 2008 4. 12th January 2008

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A) He may or may not enjoy carrom B) Ravi enjoys Basketball C) Ravi doesn't enjoy Football D) Ravi enjoys cricket

A) Basketball B) Cricket C) Polo D) Hockey

A) She enjoys cricket B) She may or may not enjoy football C) She doesn't like hockey D) None of these DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows. Question No. : 43

There is a sports club which includes members with a varied taste in sports. Some of those who enjoy basketball also enjoy cricket.

Those who enjoy cricket dislike carrom.

Some of those who enjoy cricket also enjoy football. All those who enjoy carrom also enjoy hockey. Some of those who enjoy hockey also enjoy cricket. Some of those who enjoy football dislike carrom. All those who enjoy hockey also enjoy volleyball.

All those, who like polo also like basketball but dislike volleyball. Ravi enjoys hockey. Which of the following must be true?

All those, who like polo also like basketball but dislike volleyball.

Amod is a national player of hockey. He may also enjoy any of the following games except:

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A) Some of those who like polo also enjoy volleyball B) All who like cricket dislike hockey

C) Some of those who like basketball also like carrom D) None of those who like hockey dislike football

A) Rs. 200,000 B) Rs. 80,000 C) Rs. 130,000 D) Rs. 90,000

Based on the information, which of the following statements may be true regarding the members of the club?

After 15 years in the IT industry, Harinarayan set up his own institute for IT training. In December 2008, he got a 4-month contract for training the employees of ABC Inc, beginning February 2009. He committed 10-hour days for the contract and billed ABC Inc. Rs. 2500 per day, with remuneration paid at the end of every month. In January 2009, he bagged a 5-month contract for training the employees of PQR Inc., also beginning February 2009. Harinarayan again committed 10-hour days for the contract, but billed PQR Inc. Rs. 2000 per day. For both organizations, a month was made up of four weeks and a week had five working days.

Since ABC Inc. and PQR Inc. were located in the same building, Harinarayan decided to juggle both contracts in such a way that he would train the employees for part of the day and get them to work on assignments for the rest of the time, so that he could conduct training in the other assignments for the first two weeks of each month for PQR Inc. For the next two weeks of the month, he reversed the hours spent on training and assignments. For example, during the first two weeks of February, Harinarayan spends 6 hours training the employees of PQR Inc. and gives them assignments for the next 4 hours so that he can utilize this time for training the employees of ABC Inc. The employees of ABC Inc. would be working on assignments for the other 6 hours.

The following table gives the partition of 10 hours for training and assignments for company ABC. February March April May June

Training 6 3 7 2 10

Assignments 4 7 3 8 0

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A) Rs. 1,000 more B) Rs. 9,000 less C) Rs. 10,000 more D) Rs. 20,000 less

A) Rs. 87,000 B) Rs. 217,500 C) Rs. 84,000 D) Rs. 150,000

A) if the information contained in any one statement alone is sufficient to answer the question, but the information contained in the other statement is not

B) if the information contained in either statement alone is sufficient to answer the question C) if the information contained in both statements togerher is sufficient to answer the question

D) if even the information contained in both statements togerher is not sufficient to answer the question Question No. : 48

With the new financial year starting in April 2009, ABC Inc. revised the contract rates with Harinarayan so that he would be paid Rs. 300 per hour of teaching and Rs. 100 per hour of assignments. PQR Inc. revised its rates so that Harinarayan would be paid Rs. 400 per hour of teaching and Rs. 150 per hour of assignments. What is the change in Harinarayan's income for April and May vis-a-vis the earlier rates?

Question No. : 49

Had the revised rates mentioned in the previous question been implemented for the entire duration of both contracts, what would be Harinaryan's average income for the period February to June from the contracts with ABC Inc. and PQR Inc.?

DIRECTIONS for the question: The question below is followed by two statements marked I and II. Mark as your answer. Question No. : 50

What is the value of the 4-digit natural number N?

I. N when divided by 8, 12, 24 and 36 leaves remainders 5, 9, 21 and 33 respectively. II. N is a multiple of 7.

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A) 132 B) C) D)

A) 3 B) C) D)

A) 51 B) C) D)

The table below gives the number of students in M.B.B.S Course in a college in the years 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16. The M.B.B.S course takes 6 years to complete (5 + one year of internship). The course has years from 1st to 6th and students are admitted only in the 1st year and students leave the college only if they pass the 6th year. Every year the students who pass the annual exams are promoted to the next year while students who fail have to study in the same year the next year also.

Year 2014 - 15 2015 - 16 1st 126 141 2nd 108 123 3rd 150 108 4th 141 150 5th 129 138 6th 135 147

It is known that 114 students passed out of 6th year in the year 2014 - 15. How many students joined the college in the year 2015 - 16? (in numerical value)

Question No. : 52

In how many years did exactly six students fail in the exam in the year 2014 - 15? (in year)

Question No. : 53

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A) 5 B) C) D)

A) 11 km B) 12 km C) 16 km D) 14 km

The following table gives the information of the marks scored by three top scorers of the colleges A, B, C, D and E. For each college, the percentage of combined scores obtained by the top three scorers is given in the last row. In any college, every person has to score at least one mark and no two persons got the same marks.

Persons College A B C D E P 64 59 48 Q 86 55 54 R 56 60 42 S 54 61 50 T 48 40 66 % score 75 80 87.5 831/₃ 85

The marks of each of the given persons in each of the given colleges is a natural number. For each of the given persons, two values are calculated viz, median value and deviation value. Median value is the value that occurs in the middle if the marks obtained by a particular person in the given colleges are written in the ascending order. Deviation value is the difference between the highest marks and lowest marks obtained by a person in the given colleges.

At most how many persons can simultaneously have the deviation value of 50 or more? (in numerical value)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Go through the graph and the information given below and answer the question that follows. Question No. : 55

The following diagram shows a square area, 10 km - 10 km. The grid lines show a road network where the roads are spaced 1 km apart. The shaded region P is a pond that can be crossed by boat from and at only the three points shown. Roads around the pond cannot be walked upon. People can walk through as well as along the sides of the garden shown by the shaded region G. The paths around the shaded regions X, Y and Z cannot be walked upon; however the corners of each of these regions can be traversed.

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A) less than 5 B) 5 C) 6 D) more than 6

A) Rs. 31.50 B) Rs. 32.00 C) Rs. 39.90 D) Rs. 24.23

A) 48.75 B) 52.50 C) 60.00 D) 67.50

A) Mr. Chatur B) Mr. Devansh C) Mr. Avinash D) Mr. Bhuvnesh Question No. : 56

If the paths along the sides of the garden cannot be walked upon, how many different paths of minimum length can a person take to travel from point A to point B?

Question No. : 57

If it cost Rs. 2.25, Rs. 3.25 and Rs. 2.00 respectively to travel 1 km by road, along the garden and by boat across the pond respectively, what is the minimum cost incurred in travelling from point A to point B?

Directions for the question : Answer the questions based on the following information. Question No. : 58

The marks obtained by the students in Physics, English, Chemistry and Maths are represented on a square grid ABCD. Each side of the grid is 10 cm. Maximum marks for each of the subjects are 100.

What is the approximate average score in Maths?

Four single fathers went to a special party (only for fathers, their sons and daughters) held at New Delhi. Fathers (Mr. Avinash, Mr. Bhuvnesh, Mr. Chatur & Mr. Devansh), each with one son (Eklavya, Farukh, Gopal & Harsh not in any particular order) and a daughter (Ishita, Jyoti, Kamini & Lovely not in any particular order), went on introducing themselves & their children to all. Later, during the course of discussion, the teenagers started chatting about their age and parental upbringing. Following information was shared:

I. Oddly all the children’s age was the square of a positive integer and no two girls were of the same age. II. Only Mr. Bhuvnesh had twins (a son & a daughter).

III. Harsh & Lovely are the siblings whose sum of ages is the lowest: 13. While the maximum sum of ages of any two siblings was 32.

IV. The eldest boy was 25 years old while the minimum age for the girls was just 4 years. V. The maximum possible difference between the ages of two siblings was for Eklavya & Ishita.

VI. Also, the son of Mr. Avinash was younger than Mr. Bhuvnesh’s daughter but older than the son of Mr. Devansh. Who is the father of Lovely?

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A) Eklavya is the son-in-law of Mr. Avinash B) Lovely is the daughter-in-law of Mr. Bhuvnesh C) Gopal is the brother-in-law of Farukh D) None of the above

A) Mr. Avinash B) Mr. Bhuvnesh C) Mr. Avinash or Mr. Bhuvnesh D) None of the above

A) Son of Mr. Chatur B) Son of Mr. Avinash C) Son of Mr. Devansh D) Son of Mr. Bhuvnesh

A) Mandar B) Shashi C) Reena D) None of these

A) Two of the friends who did not gift electronic items, received electronic items in return

B) Piyu gifted the jacket and Shashi gifted the I-Pod C) Shashi neither gifted nor did he receive an electronic item D) The person who gifted the cell phone received the calculator in return

Question No. : 60

If the son of Mr. Bhuvnesh marries the daughter of Mr. Avinash, then which of the following is true?

Question No. : 61

If it is known that Gopal & Kamini are twins; Then who is the father of Farukh & Jyoti?

Question No. : 62

Who is the eldest boy at the party?

Five friends, Amol, Mandar, Piyu, Shashi and Reena attended Sagar’s birthday party, where they partook of the sumptuous snacks and dinner. Each of the five friends gifted Sagar a different article – a fountain pen, a cell phone, a shirt, a jacket and an I-Pod – and Sagar, in return, gifted each of them a different article – a video game, a sweater, a perfume, a calculator and a pair of sunglasses. The following is additional information about the gifts given by the friends and the gifts received from Sagar. (i) Amol gifted the shirt and received the video game in return.

(ii) Shashi did not gift the I-Pod but received the perfume in return.

(iii) Mandar did not gift an electronic item and received the calculator in return.

(iv) The person who gifted the jacket received the sweater in return and Reena received the pair of sunglasses. Who among the following gifted the jacket?

Question No. : 64

(iv) The person who gifted the jacket received the sweater in return and Reena received the pair of sunglasses. Which of the following statements is true?

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A) Piyu – Fountain Pen – Sunglasses B) Shashi – I-Pod – Perfume C) Reena – I-Pod – Sunglasses D) None of these

A) Only one friend whose name does not start with a vowel, received an electronic item in return

B) The friend whose name appears last in alphabetical order, gifted an electronic item and received a non-electronic item in return

C) In alphabetical order, the friend who gifted the I-Pod appears before at least two other friends

D) The friend whose name in alphabetical order appears in the middle neither gifted nor received an electronic item

A) 95% B) 115% C) 104% D) 84% Question No. : 65

(iv) The person who gifted the jacket received the sweater in return and Reena received the pair of sunglasses. Which of the following is the correct combination of friend, article gifted and article received in return?

Question No. : 66

(iv) The person who gifted the jacket received the sweater in return and Reena received the pair of sunglasses. Which of the following is false?

Section : Quantitative Ability

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option. Question No. : 67

Ramu mixes 2 litres of mineral water costing Rs. 15 per litre with 18 litres of milk that he bought for Rs. 900. After selling 2 litres of this mixture to Shamu, Ramu adds tap water so that the ratio of milk to tap water is 9:10. If tap water is free and Ramu claims to sell at cost, what is his profit?

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A) 30% < x < 40% B) 31% < x < 40% C) 33.33% < x < 40% D) 32.25% < x < 40%

A) 10 B) 15 C) 16 D) 18

A) – 3 B) – 1 C) 0 D) 2

A) Odd B) Even C) Prime D) None

A) 20 B) C) D)

A) 2/3 B) 1/3 C) 3/4 D) Cannot be determined

An alloy of copper and aluminum has 40% copper. An alloy of Copper and Zinc has Copper and Zinc in the ratio 2: 7. These two alloys are mixed in such a way that in the overall alloy, there is more aluminum than Zinc, and copper constitutes x% of this alloy. What is the range of values x can take?

The average age (in years) of a class is twice the number of students in the class. A student, X leaves the class and the average age is still twice the number of students in the class. Now another student Y leaves the class and the average is still the twice the number of students in the class. If the ratio of the ages of X and Y is 19 : 17, then find the average age of the class, if one more student Z of age 16 years leaves the class.

If f(x) = x5 − x4 − x2 − x, and a, b, c are the roots of the cubic equation x3 − x2 − 1 = 0, then what is the sum of f(a), f(b) and f(c)?

Let N be the number of ordered pairs (x,y) of integers (positive, negative, or zero) such that x2 + xy + y2 ≤ 2007, then N is

In a class, if 50% of the boys were girls, then there would be 50% more girls than boys. What percentage of the overall class is girls? (in numerical value)

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A) 65/3 B) 55/3 C) 25/3 D) None of these

A) 2/3 B) 1/6 C) 1/3 D) Both 1 and 2

A) 810810 B) C) D)

A) 17 and 18 B) 18 and 19 C) 41 and 42 D) 42 and 43

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

A) 263,498 B) 230,850 C) 198,000 D) 233,168

If a, b and c are real numbers such that a + b + c = 25 and ab + bc + ca = 75, what is the largest value that a can have?

The HCF and LCM of two integers a and b are x and y such that xy = 54. Also the HCF and LCM of ka and ℓb, where k and ℓ are integers, is 18. Therefore b/a can be:

A man works in a building located 7 blocks east and 8 blocks north of his home. He reaches his office and then walks to a supermarket located 2 blocks east and 4 blocks north of his home. If all the streets in the rectangular pattern are available to him for walking and he always takes the shortest route, how many different routes can he take to go from his house to the supermarket via his office? (in numerical value)

A page is torn from a booklet. After this is done, the sum of the page numbers on the remaining pages is 1000. What are the page numbers on the page which was torn?

A, B, C are decimal numbers with MOD (x) = x truncated to the nearest integer less than or equal to x. If p = MOD (A + B + C) and q = MOD (A) + MOD (B) + MOD (C), then the maximum value that p – q can attain is

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A) B) C) D)

A) 13 B) 19 C) Both 1 and 2 D) None of these

A) 16 km/hr B) 18 km/hr C) 20 km/hr D) 24 km/hr

A) 4 km/h B) 5 km/h C) 6 km/h D) 7 km/h

A) 12:30 pm B) 12:11 pm C) 1:12 pm D) 1:30 pm

5-digit integers are formed by using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 exactly once. What is the sum of the last two digits of the sum of all the integers formed? (in numerical value)

A triangle number counts the objects that can form an equilateral triangle. For example 6 is a triangle number:

Given that p is prime, for what value of p is (8p +1) a triangle number?

Tom and Jerry left New York simultaneously towards New Jersey. Speed of Tom is 15 km/hr and the speed of Jerry is 12 km km/hr. Half an hour later, Spike started from New York towards New Jersey on the same road in the same direction. After some time he overtook Jerry and 90 min further, he overtook Tom. What is Spike’s speed (in kmph)?

There are 2 signals on SB Road, which are 1 km apart and are always out of sync with each other. A pedestrian is trying to measure her walking speed by counting the number of spurts of opposing traffic that she sees as she walks the distance between the two signals. She sees traffic spurts coming in every 50 s. She knows that the signal is timed to turn on every 60 s. If the traffic is moving at 30 km/h, then what speed is she walking at?

A water tank is in the shape of an inverted right circular cone. The tank is standing on horizontal ground on its vertex. The axis of the conical tank is perpendicular to the horizontal surface of ground. The height of the tank is 3 m. The tank is completely filled with water, and the volume of the water is 27 L. There are three outlet taps, one at the bottom, second at a height of 1 m, and the third at a height of 2 m. The rate of outflow of each of the three taps is 1 L/min. If all the three taps are opened simultaneously at 12 noon, at what approximate time will the tank get completely empty?

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A) 9704 B) C) D)

A) B) C) D)

A) √31 m B) 8 + 2√14 m C) 10√2 + √31 m D) Cannot be determined

t₁, t₂,t₃, ...,t_n-1, t_n is a sequence such that t₁=2 & t_n = t_n-1 +2n - 2 for n ≥ 2.Find t₉₉. (in numerical value)

From a solid iron right circular cone of base radius 2 cm, a hemisphere of diameter 2 cm and centre coinciding with the centre of the base is scooped out. The resultant object is then dropped into a right circular cylinder of inner diameter 6 cm and height 10 cm. Water is then poured into the cylinder to fill it up to the brim. If the height of the cone is 5 cm, what is the volume of the water poured into the cylinder?

Let ABCD be a square and let P be a point on segment CD such that DP: PC = 1: 2. Let Q be a point on segment AP such that ∠BQP = 900. Then the ratio of the area of quadrilateral PQBC to the area of the square ABCD is

Manoj and Akhilesh are two non-identical twins. Both of them own plots of square shape in the Peer Moshalla Colony. Manoj's house has a land area double in size to that of Akhilesh's house. Manoj's house is designed as a cubical house with the roof in the shape of a square Pyramid having slant height 9 m. Akhilesh built his house in the shape of a cylinder of height 8 m topped up by a right circular conical roof of diameter 10 m. What is the height of Manoj’s house (Given each person covers the maximum possible land area while building house)?

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A) 2 B) C) D)

A) 6.66 ft B) 9 ft C) 12 ft D) 13.33 ft

A) 16.66% B) 33.33% C) 25% D) 66.66%

A shopkeeper bought an article for Rs.1000 and marked its price as Rs.2160. He gave three successive discounts of a%, b% and c%, where a + b + c = 50. If he made a profit of x% finally, how many of the following ranges contain values which are NOT possible values of x? (in numerical value)

(i) 6 < x < 10 (ii) 14 < x < 20 (iii) 20 < x < 24 (iv) 25 < x < 26

The headlights of a car which are at 2 ft distance from each other form a cone of light each. These cones of lights intersect each other at some distance. Two smaller cones vertically opposite to each other are formed at this point of intersection; the one towards the car is darker while the one on the other side is brighter than the original light of each headlights, the radius of the smaller being ½ a foot. If at a distance of ten feet from the car the volume of the darker cone is 8 times the brighter one, to what distance does the darker cone extend ?

Ravi wants to build a digester for a biogas plant on a rectangular plot of dimensions 28.8 ft. × 15.7 ft. so that a third of the height of the digester is below ground. The digester is in the form of a cylinder, with height ¼ of its diameter, surmounted by a hemispherical dome and has volume 792 cu. ft. The earth that is dug out is spread evenly across the remainder of the field. (π = 3.14)

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A) 50000 B) C) D)

A) 2cm B) 2.5cm C) 2.25cm D) 3cm

A) 2.17 B) 6.73 C) 4.76 D) 12.44

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

A manufacture sells an article to a wholesale dealer at a loss of 20%. The wholesale dealer sells it to a shopkeeper at a profit of 25% and the shopkeeper sells it to a customer for Rs. 45000 at a loss of 10%. Then, the cost price of the article to the manufacture is (in Rs.)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Mark the best option: Question No. : 94

In a rectangle of size 7 cm by 14 cm, quarter circles of radius 7 cm are drawn at each of the 4 vertices. What is the area of the rectangle which is not covered by any of the circles (in cm2)?

DIRECTIONS for the question : Solve the following question and mark the best possible option. Question No. : 95