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Coding Decoding 01
Syllogism 13
English Language 49

Coding Decoding New Pattern

Direction (Q 1 – 5): Study the following information arrangement carefully and answer the questions
given below:
With a certain code language,
“The meeting adjourned abruptly” is written as “!e48” “@h08” “#b63” “$d80”
“Since India gained Internet” is written as “#n63” “-a35” “%i24” “%n24”
“Scientists have discovered bacteria” is written as “*a15” “#a63” “&c99” “&i99”
“Current economic scenario fine” is written as “#c63” “*i15” “#c63” “!u48”

1). What is the code for ‘gained’?

a) %i24
b) #n63
c) -a35
d) %n24
e) None of these

2). What is the code for ‘Since meeting fine’?

a) “*a15 !e48 *i15”
b) b) “%i24 @h08 *i15”
c) c) “%i24 !e48 *#c63”
d) d) “%i24 !e48 *i15”
e) None of these

3). What does “&c99 @i99 #n63 @h08” stand for?

a) sine India have fine
b) The scientists discovered internet
c) meeting gained the economic
d) current meeting have internet
e) Cannot be determined

4). What could be the code for ‘economic internet’?

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a) #n63 #c63
b) %i24 *a15
c) !e48 #n63
d) #c63 –a35
e) None of these

5). What is the code for ‘Current’?

a) #c63
b) *i15
c) @h08
d) #n63
e) !u48

Directions (Q. 6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions
In a certain code language
"Giving more emphasis are" is written as "BQ16+, UT12!, KL08&, NQ09*.
" Make works as interesting " is written as " IR08!, LP33&, VY15+, MW04*.
"Lazy and intolerant attitude " is written as "ZW09!, RA20*, UG16&, KD08#.
" Knowledge sharing must be " is written as " QB21!, XL08# , TC04&, JT27*.

6). What is the code for ‘Knowledge’ in the given code language?
a) QB21!
b) IR08!
c) JT27*
d) TC04&
e) XL08#

7). What is the code for ‘Giving attitude’ in the given code language?
a) BQ16+, MW04
b) UT12!, ZW09!
c) UT12!, RA20*
d) KL08&, UG16&
e) UT12!, UG16&

8). What may be the possible code for ‘more interesting knowledge’ in the given code language?
a) IR08!, KL08&, JT27*
b) LP33&, KL08&, BQ16+
c) ZW09!, VY15+, JT27*
d) LP33&, KL08&, JT27*
e) ZW09!, KL08&, JT27*

9). What may be the possible code for ‘be intolerant’ in the given code language?
a) TC04&, RA20*
b) QB21!, UG16&
c) XL08#, KD08#
d) QB21!, ZW09!
e) JT27*, ZW09!

10). What is the code for ‘works lazy’ in the given code language?
a) UG16&, LP33&
b) KD08#, VY15+

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c) ZW09!, IR08!
d) RA20*, MW04*
e) UG16&, LP33&

Directions (Q. 11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions
In a certain code language
" The World Bank report " is written as "%R18, &K05, #S16 , !Q14.
" This institution had founded " is written as "$D04 , *Q19, %R21, @K09 .
" From just telling consumers " is written as "#R14, !H12, &U15, %X19 .
" His good qualities include " is written as " *Q03 , $X01, #R15, !L19.

11). What is the code for ‘telling’ in the given code language?
a) %X19
b) &U15
c) #R14
d) *Q19
e) !H12

12). What is the code for ‘good bank’ in the given code language?
a) #R15, !Q14
b) &K05, #R15
c) %R18, *Q03
d) !L19, !Q14
e) #S16, $X01

13). What may be the possible word for ‘*Q03, #S16, #R14’ in the given code language?
a) report telling good
b) qualities from report
c) include consumers report
d) the good consumers
e) None of these

14). What may be the possible code for ‘institution hiring’ in the given code language?
a) %R21, #O12
b) *Q19, %L18
c) @K09, *N09
d) $D04, @K17
e) %R21, $J21

15). What is the code for ‘from world’ in the given code language?
a) #R14, %R18
b) #S16, %X19
c) !Q14, &U15
d) &U15, %R18
e) &K05, !H12

Directions (Q. 16-20): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions
In a certain code language
" The vehicle which is " is written as "%F56, &U06, #F12 , !J30.
" One should look for " is written as "$T12 , *F12, %M20, @F42.
" Seniors asked their directors " is written as "#U90, !T30, &U56, %F30 .

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" To construct shelters with " is written as " *U72 , $J20, #V90, !P06.
16). What is the code for ‘should’ in the given code language?
a) %M20
b) *F12
c) @F42
d) $T12
e) None of these
17). What is the code for ‘with vehicle’ in the given code language?
a) #V90, &U06
b) !P06, #F12
c) #V90, %F56
d) *U72, &U06
e) $J20, %F56
18). What may be the possible word for “!T30, %M20, *U72” in the given code language?
a) one asked with
b) to look directors
c) construct for seniors
d) look their shelters
e) None of these
19). What may be the possible code for ‘which one’ in the given code language?
a) $T12, #F12
b) *F12, !J30
c) %M20, &U06
d) @F42, #F12
e) %M20, %F56
20). What is the possible word for “&U56,$T12”in the given code language?
a) for seniors
b) asked one
c) look seniors
d) directors should
e) None of these
Direction (21-25):
Study the information below and answer the following question: In a certain code language,
‘Arrive today eagles later’ is written as 21*R, 6$A, 14$O, 25*A
‘Begin work faster table’ is written as 14$A, 17%O, 26*A, 22$E
‘Length error arrow burn’ is written as 6*E, 25$R, 22%U, 21$R
‘Trial better than wisdom’ is written as 14$R, 14%H, 22*E, 17*I
21). The code for the word ‘table’
a) 26*A
b) 17%O
c) 14$A
d) 22$ E
e) None of these
22). The code word 6$A for the word
a) Later
b) Arrive
c) Earlier
d) Today
e) Either 1 or 3
23). Find the code word for the word ‘Burn’?
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b) 22%U
c) 21$R
d) 6*E
e) Can’t be determined
24). According to the given code, what is the code for ‘M’?
a) 12
b) 8
c) 10
d) 7
e) Can’t be determined
25). By using the given code word, find the code word for ‘Better Luck Next Arrive’ ?
a) 22$E, 21$R, 6*U, 8%E
b) 8*E, 21*R, 22%E, 6%U
c) 22*E, 6%U, 8%E, 21*R
d) 21%R, 22$E, 6*U, 8%E
e) 6$U, 22*E, 8*E, 21%R

Direction (26 - 30):Study the following information to answer the given questions: In a certain code
language,
‘Most safety high level’ is written as ‘8*Y, 7?L, 6#H, 6%T
‘Made in India project’ is written as ‘9@T, 7!A, 6%E, 4!N’
‘Set list new home’ is written as ‘5*T, 6#E, 6?T, 5&W’
‘Large sale post interval’ is written as ‘6@T, 10!L, 7?E, 6*E’
(All the codes are two-letter codes only.)
26). The code for the word ‘Person’ is
a) 8*E
b) 6*N
c) 8@N
d) 6@E
e) None of these
27). The code ‘6*E’ denotes which of the following word?
a) Large
b) Set
c) Sale
d) Home
e) None of these
28). The code word of ‘Intend’ according to the given code is
a) 8!N
b) 6!D
c) 8!D
d) 6!N
e) None of these
29). ‘?’ denotes which letter of the given words?
a) P
b) M
c) L
d) S
e) H
30). According to the given code word, what will be the code for ‘Leave his much peace’?
a) 5@E, 3#S, 5?E, 3%H
b) 7@E, 5#S, 7?E, 6%H

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c) 9@E, 7#S, 7?E, 8%H
d) 9#E, 5#S, 5@E, 5%H
e) None of these

Direction (31-35): Study the information below and answer the following question: In a certain code
language,
‘Attend class daily good’ is written as 9$5, 24%9, 3$6, 24*3
‘Begin great any matter’ is written as 3&3, 8$9, 10*15, 14$4
‘Less error and fire’ is written as 10$7, 23%8, 9%14, 24&3
‘Tool better than screw’ is written as 16%22, 5$21, 10*4, 14%22

31. The code for the word ‘ great’

a) 3&3
b) 8$9
c) 10*15
d) 14$4
e) None of these
32. The code word ‘10$7’ for the word
a) Less
b) Error
c) And
d) Fire
e) None of these
33. According to the given code what will be the code for the word ‘Burst’?
a) 8*2
b) 6$2
c) 8$4
d) 6#4
e) None of these
34. According to the given code, what is the code for ‘Person’?
a) 12*16
b) 14*18
c) 12$16
d) 16#18
e) None of these
35. By using the given code word, find the code word for ‘Behave well after school’?
a) 14*19, 8$5, 18%23, 21*6
b) 18*21, 12$3, 18%22, 23*5
c) 15*19, 8$6, 14%27, 21*4
d) 16*21, 10$3, 16%25, 23*4
e) 18*23, 10$4, 16%27, 21*4

Direction (36-40): Study the following information to answer the given questions: In a certain code
language,
“ROSE MONKEY BASKET JUG” is written as ‘9#E, 31%Y, 26$T, 10@G’
“JOB RIGID BALL MUG” is written as ‘5@B, 16$L, 9#D, 10%G’
“MANGO BULB RABBIES JACKERS” is written as ‘6$B, 26#S, 20%O, 26@S’
“RABBIT JAMES BUG MACAQUE” is written as ‘26#T, 12%E, 24@S, 10$G’

36. The code for the word ‘RAIN’ is:

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b) 8*N
c) 18#N
d) 16$N
e) None of these
37. The code ‘9#E’ denotes which of the following word?
a) RAGA
b) REVERSE
c) RUPEE
d) RACE
e) None of these
38. Which of the following is the code for “Marker”?
a) 24%R
b) 26!R
c) 28!R
d) 24!R
e) None of these
39. Which of the following denotes @ symbol?
a) A
b) M
c) B
d) R
e) J
40. Which of the following is the code for ‘MOUNTAIN BIG ROOM JAPAN’ ?
a) 15@E, 13#S, 5?E, 13%H
b) 21%N, 6$G, 18#M, 20@N
c) 19@E, 17#S, 7?E, 18%H
d) 22%N, 10$G, 17#M, 19@N
e) None of these

Direction (41-45): Study the information below and answer the following question: – In a certain
code language,
‘CAT DONKEY FAN EARTH’ is written as “*1@7, !1&9, ~1@1, #0%3”
‘COW DULL FOREST ELBOW’ is written as “*2@0, #1%8, !0^8, ~1&4”
‘CAN DOORS FOUR ELEVEN’ is written as “~1^4, !1%4, *1@1, #0&8”
‘FAMILY CAR EAGER EGG’ is written as “#0@4, *1@5, ~1&9, #1%3”

41. Which of the following is the code for “FAMILY”?

a) ~1&9
b) *1@5
c) 10*15
d) 14$4
e) None of these
42. Which of the following denotes # symbol?
a) C
b) D
c) E
d) F
e) None of these
43. Which of the following denotes @ symbol?
a) C
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c) E
d) F
e) None of these
44. The code ‘~1^4’ denotes which of the following word?
a) DULL
b) CAT
c) FAN
d) FOUR
e) None of these
45. By using the given code word, find the code word for ‘FUN COOL EARLY DIESEL’?
a) #0!4, *1@5, ~4&9, #1%3
b) #2@4, *1&8, ~3&9, #1%9
c) #0@4, *0@5, ~2&9, #1%8
d) #2@4, *0@5, ~1&9, #1%6
e) #2%0, *0^8, ~1@1, !0&6

Directions (46-50): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given
below: In a certain code language,
‘Fortune favors the bold’ is written as 6O@, 10.5O*, 4.5H$, 9A*
‘Better late than never’ is written as 6A#, 7.5E%, 9E@, 6H$
‘Necessity is mother of invention’ is written as 3F^, 3S+, 9O!, 13.5E%, 13.5N+
‘Practice makes perfect’ is written as 7.5A!, 12R&, 10.5E&

46). What is the code for “Invention”?

a) 3F^
b) 13.5N+
c) 13.5E%
d) 9O!
e) Cannot be determined

47). How can the word “Nothing” be coded as in the above language?
a) 13.5N&
b) 12T$
c) 9G*
d) 10.5O%
e) None of these

48). What is the code for “Babu Plays badminton”?

a) 7.5L@, 6A&, 13.5A&
b) 10.5A@, 7.5A@, 13.5L@
c) 9.5B&, 4L&, 13.5D@
d) 13.5L@, 7A&, 10.5M&
e) None of these

49). What is the code for “found”?

a) 9O$
b) 10.5F%
c) 7.5O*
d) 10.5O@
e) None of these

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50). What is the code for “Thunderstorm”?
a) 18H$
b) 16T&
c) 21H%
d) 15U@
e) None of these

Answers with Explanation:

Direction (01 to 05):
The pattern for this coding is
1. Each symbol is denoted by number of words like
“For eight letter words is #
For six letter words is –“
2. Each alphabet is a second letter of the each word like
“For meeting – e
For have – a”
3. Each number is stands for total number of words square – 1 like
“bacteria – number of words = 8 = 8^2 – 1 = 64 - 1 = 63
adjourned - number of words = 9 = 9^2 – 1 = 81 – 1 =80”
1. c) 2. d) 3. b) 4. a) 5. e)

Direction (6-10):
The logic for all the above code is: There is count of total letter in the word is
If it is odd number multiply with 3 (are – 3 ×3 =09)
If it is even number multiply with 2 (must – 4 × 2 = 08)
And rest of the word include two letter and one symbol and can be anything.
6. c) 7. e) 8. d) 9. a) 10. b)

Direction (11 to 15):

The logic for all the above code is:
The letter denotes second letter of each word + 3
Like “From” – Second letter “R” + 3 = U
The number denotes the alphabet number of Third letter (1-26)
Like “The” – “E”- 05
And rest of the one symbol and can be anything.
11. e) 12.a) 13.c) 14.b) 15. d)

Directions (Q. 16-20):

The logic for all the above code is:
The letter denotes
If the last letter of the word is vowel +1
Like “the” – “e + 1” = F
If the last letter of the word is consonant +2
Like “for” – “r+2” = T
The number denotes the total number of words multiply with next number
Like “Which” – Number of words is 5
= 5 × 6 = 30
Like “Construct” – Number of words is 9
= 9 × 10 = 90
And rest of the one symbol can be anything.
16). c) 17). e) 18). d) 19). b) 20). a)

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Questions 21 – 25:
The logic for all the above code is:
Number that denotes 1st letter of the word: A-21, B-22, C-23, …, G-1,……, Z -20
Then the symbol is denoted with respect to no. of letters,
$ à 5 letter word; % à 4 letter word; * à 6 letter word
Next, second letter of the word will come.

21. Answer: c
Explanation:
Table à 14$A
T-14
$ – 5 letter word
A – Second letter of the word

22. Answer: a
Explanation :
Later – 6$A
L–6
5 letter word - $
Second letter of the word – A

23. Answer: b
Explanation :
Burn – 22%U
22 – B
% – 4 letter word
U – second letter

24. Answer: d
Explanation :
L =6, M = 6+1 = 7

25. Answer – c
Explanation :
Better Luck Next Arrive à 22*E 6%U 8%E 21*R

Question 26 – 30:
The logic for all the above code is:
The number denotes à No of letters + 2
Then, the symbol denotes particular letter,
I = !, M = %, L = ?, P = @, H = #, S = *, N = &
Then, last letter of the word will come.

26. Answer: c
Explanation : Person – 8@N
P–@
No of letters – 6+2 = 8
Last letter – N

27. Answer: c

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Explanation :
6*E’ – Sale
S denote *
E denote Sale end with E
6 denote à no of letter+2 = 4+2 = 6

28. Answer: c
Explanation : Intend à 8!D
I–!
D – Last letter of the word
Total no of letter 6 + 2 = 8

29. Answer: c
Explanation :
I =!,M = %, L = ?,P = @, H =#, S = *, N = &

30. Answer: b
Explanation :
Leave his much peace = 7@E, 5#S, 7?E, 6%H

Question 31 – 35:
The logic for all the above code is:
1. Z – 1, Y – 2, X – 3, ......., B – 25, A – 26  The number that represents last letter in the word + 1
2. The symbol with respect to the no. of letters in the word,
Three letter word = &
Four letter word = %
Five letter word = $
Six letter word = *
3. A – 1, B – 2, C – 3, ....., Y – 25, Z – 26  The number that represents the first letter in the word + 2.

31. Answer: b
Explanation : GREAT = 8$9
G = 7 in alphabet + 2 = 9
T = 7 in reverse order + 1 = 8 Five letter word = $

32. Answer: b
Explanation :
Error = 10$7
E = 5 in alphabet + 2 = 7
R = 9 in reverse order + 1 = 10
Five letter word = $

33. Answer: c
Explanation : Burst = 8$4
B = 2 in alphabet + 2 = 4
T = 7 in reverse order + 1 = 8
Five letter word = $

34. Answer: b
Explanation : Person = 14*18
P = 16 in alphabet + 2 = 18

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N = 13 in reverse order + 1 = 14
Six letter word = *

35. Answer: d
Explanation :
Behave well after school = 16*21, 10$3, 16%25, 23*4

Question 36 – 40:
The logic for all the above code is:
1) A – 1, B – 2, ...Z – 26  No. of letters + The number that represents last letter in the word
2) The symbol with respect to the corresponding 1st Letter of the word,
J=@, M=%, R=#, B=$
3) Last letter of the respective word

36. Answer: c
Explanation :
RAIN – 18#N R – #
No of letters – 4+(Alphabet order of N = 14) = 18 Last letter – N

37.Answer: d
Explanation :
“9#E”– RACE R – #
Last letter – E
No of letters – 4+(Alphabet order of E=5) = 9

38. Answer: a
Explanation :
M–%
Last letter – R
No of letters – 6+(Alphabet order of R=18) = 24

39. Answer: e
Explanation :
J=@, M=%, R=#, B=$

40. Answer: d
Explanation :
MOUNTAIN BIG ROOM JAPAN = 22%N, 10$G, 17#M, 19@N

Question 41 – 45:
The logic for all the above code is,
First Position – symbol denotes first letter,
F-~
C-*
E-#
D-!
Third Position – symbol denotes total number of words,
6 letter word – &
4 letter word – ^
3 letter word - @
5 letter word - %

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Second & Fourth position = Alphabet order of last letter – Number of letters = xy; Second position – x;
Fourth position – y.

41. Answer: a
Explanation :
First Position – symbol denotes first letter = (F-~)
Third Position – symbol denotes total number of words = (6 letter word – &)
Second & Fourth position = Alphabet order of last letter – Number of letters = (25 – 6) = 19; Second
position – 1; Fourth position – 9.

42. Answer: c
Explanation :
#  E.

43. Answer: e
Explanation :
@ = Three letter word

44. Answer: d
Explanation :
First Position – symbol denotes first letter = (F-~)
Third Position – symbol denotes total number of words = (4 letter word – ^)
Second & Fourth position = Alphabet order of last letter – Number of letters = ( 18 – 4) = 14; Second
position – 1; Fourth position – 4.

45. Answer: e
Explanation :
FUN COOL EARLY DIESEL = #2%0, *0^8, ~1@1, !0&6

Question 46 – 50:
The logic for all the above code is,
1. The number represents the total number of letters in the word multiplied by 1.5.
2. The Letter represents the second letter of the respective word.
3. The symbol represents the first letter of each word as shown:
!-M
$-T
*-F
%-N
@-B
#-L
^-O
+-I
&-P

46. b) 47. d) 48. e) Correct answer: 6A@, 7.5L&, 13.5A@ 49. c) 50. a)

Syllogism New Pattern

Direction (Q 1 – 10): In the following questions, only one Conclusion is given and five statements are
given as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be
at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.

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1). Conclusions:
Some mouse is not monitor.
Some keyboards are monitor.
a) Statements I:
Some screen is monitor.
No monitor is keyboard.
All keyboards are mouse.
b) Statements II:
All screens are monitor.
No monitor is keyboard.
Some keyboard is mouse
c) Statements III:
No screen is monitor.
No monitor is keyboard.
All keyboards are mouse
d) Statements IV:
All screens are monitor.
All monitors are keyboard.
No keyboard is mouse
e) Statements V:
Some keyboards are mouse.
All monitor is screen.
No keyboard is a screen.
2). Conclusions:
Some walls are not brick.
Some cement is not water.
a) Statements I:
Some brick are cement.
No cement is wall.
All walls are water.
b) Statements II:
All bricks are cement.
Some Cement is wall.
All walls are water.
c) Statements III:
No brick is cement.
All cement is wall.
No wall is water.
d) Statements IV:
No brick is cement.
No cement is wall.
All walls are water.
e) Statements V:
All walls are bricks.
Some wall is cement.
All waters are bricks.
3). Conclusions:
Some silver are platinum.
Some diamonds are silver.
a) Statements I:
All silver are gold.
Some gold are diamond.

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No diamond is platinum.
b) Statements II:
Some silvers are gold.
All gold are diamond.
All diamond is platinum.
c) Statements III:
All silvers are diamond.
No gold is silver.
Some diamond is platinum.
d) Statements IV:
All silvers are gold.
No gold is diamond.
All diamond is platinum
e) Statements V:
All platinum are silver.
Some gold is silver.
No gold is diamond.
4). Conclusions:
Some crows are not parrot.
Some crows are owl.
a) Statements I:
All parrot are owl.
No owl is crow.
Some crows are Dove.
b) Statements II:
Some parrots are owl.
Some owls are crow.
All crows are dove.
c) Statements III:
No parrot is owl.
All owls are crow.
Some crows are dove.
d) Statements IV:
All parrots are owl.
Some owl is Dove.
Some crows are dove.
e) Statements V:
All owls are Parrot.
All Parrots are crow.
All crows are dove.

5). Conclusions:
Some white are not brown.
Some maroon is brown.
a) Statements I:
All white are black.
All black is brown.
No brown is maroon.
b) Statements II:
Some white are black.
All black is brown.
All brown is maroon.
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Some black are white.
No black is brown.
No brown is maroon.
d) Statements IV:
All white is black.
No black is brown.
All brown is maroon
e) Statements V:
No white is black.
No black is brown.
No brown is maroon
6). Conclusions:
All Donald being Micky is a possibility.
All Tom being Jerry is a possibility.
a) Statements I:
All Donald is Jerry.
All Jerry is Micky.
No Micky is Tom.
b) Statements II:
Some Donald is Jerry.
No Jerry is Micky.
Some Micky is Tom.
c) Statements III:
Some Donald is Jerry.
Some Jerry is Micky.
No Micky is Tom.
d) Statements IV:
All Donald is Jerry.
No Jerry is Micky.
All Micky is Tom.
e) Statements V:
No Jerry is Tom.
Some Donald is Tom.
No Micky is Donald.

7). Conclusions:
Some Table is plastic.
Some plastic are bench
a) Statements I:
All Table are Chair.
All Chairs is bench.
Some benches are plastic.
b) Statements II:
All Table is Chair.
Some Chair is bench.
All benches are plastic.
c) Statements III:
No Table is Chair.
All Chairs are bench.
Some benches are plastic.
d) Statements IV:
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No bench is plastic
e) Statements V:
All Table is Chair.
All Chairs are bench.
All benches are plastic.
8). Conclusions:
Some dates are day.
Some years are day.
a) Statements I:
All day are month.
All month are year.
Some years are date.
b) Statements II:
Some days are month.
All month are year.
Some days are date.
c) Statements III:
All day are month.
Some month is year.
All year are date.
d) Statements IV:
All day are month.
All month are date.
Some years are date.
e) Statements V:
No year is day.
Some day is date.
Some date is month.
9). Conclusions:
Some teachers are not student.
Some lessons are classroom.
a) Statements I:
Some classroom is not student.
All classrooms are teacher.
All teachers are lesson.
b) Statements II:
All classrooms are teachers.
Some student is not classroom.
Some teacher is lesson.
c) Statements III:
All classrooms are student.
No student is teacher.
No teachers are lesson.
d) Statements IV:
some classrooms are student.
No student is teacher.
Some teachers are lesson
e) Statements V:
All students are classroom.
All classrooms are lessons.
All lessons are teachers.
10). Conclusions:
All windows being cot is a possibility.
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Some doors are not pillow.
a) Statements I:
Some pillows are window.
All windows are door.
No door is cot.
b) Statements II:
All pillows are window.
All windows are door.
Some door is cot.
c) Statements III:
All pillows are window.
No window is door.
Some door is cot.
d) Statements IV:
Some pillows are window.
Some window is door.
All doors are cot.
e) Statements V:
No window is door.
Some door is pillow.
Some pillow is cot.

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as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.
11). Conclusion:
No sketch is pencil;
Some pencils are scale.
a) Statements I:
Some pencils are sketch;
No sketch is scale;
Some scales are erasers.
b) Statements II:
Some sketches are Not pencils;
All pencils are scale;
No sketch is an eraser.
c) Statements III:
No pencil is a scale;
No scale is a sketch;
All sketches are erasers.
d) Statements IV:
No sketch is an eraser;
All pencils are erasers;
Some scales are pencil.
e) Statements V:
All pencils are scale;
All scales are sketch;
All sketches are erasers.

12). Conclusion:
Petals are definitely Not leaves;
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a) Statements I:
Some leaves are flowers;
All flowers are petals;
No root is a leave.
b) Statements II:
All flowers are root;
All roots are leaves;
No root is a petal.
c) Statements III:
All leaves are root;
All roots are flowers;
No root is a petals.
d) Statements IV:
Some leaves are petals;
All petals are flowers;
Some flowers are definitely Not root.
e) Statements V:
Some leaves are definitely Not petals;
All leaves are root;
Some petals are flowers.
13). Conclusion:
All blues are browns;
No brown is a green.
a) Statements I:
All blues are greens;
No green is a brown;
All browns are yellows.
b) Statements II:
No yellow is a green;
All browns are yellows;
All blues are greens.
c) Statements III:
All blues are yellows;
All yellows are browns;
No green is a brown.
d) Statements IV:
No brown is a yellow;
All blues are yellows;
Some greens are browns.
e) Statements V:
All greens are yellows;
All yellows are blues;
No blue is a brown.
14). Conclusion:
Some boats are definitely Not ships;
Some boats are woods.
a) Statements I:
No ship is paint;
Some paints are boats;
All woods are boats.
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All woods are paints.
c) Statements III:
All woods are ships;
No ship is a boat;
All boats are paints.
d) Statements IV:
All boats are ships;
All ships are woods;
All woods are paints.
e) Statements V:
No ship is paint;
All boats are ships;
All woods are paints.
15). Conclusion:
Some apples are definitely Not oranges;
No orange is a grape.
a) Statements I:
All grapes are bananas;
All bananas are oranges;
All oranges are apples.
b) Statements II:
No orange is a banana;
Some bananas are apples;
All grapes are bananas.
c) Statements III:
All apples are oranges;
Some apples are grapes;
No grape is a banana.
d) Statements IV:
No orange is a apple;
All bananas are grapes;
Some oranges are bananas.
e) Statements V:
No orange is a banana;
Some oranges are grapes;
All grapes are apples.
16). Conclusion:
At least Some foxes are lions.
All fox being lion is a possibility.
Some tigers are monkey.
a) Statements I:
All foxes are tigers.
Some lions are monkey.
No monkey is fox.
b) Statements II:
Some lions are fox.
Some monkeys are lions.
No tiger is a fox.
c) Statements III:
Some tigers are lion.
No lion is a fox.
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All monkeys are fox.
No tiger is a fox.
All lions are tigers.
e) Statements V:
All tigers are monkey.
Some lions are monkey.
Some lion is fox.
17). Conclusion:
Some numbers are Not vowels.
No vowel is a letter.
Some words are Not letters.
a) Statements I:
Some letters are vowel.
All words are numbers.
No vowel is word.
b) Statements II:
No letter is a word.
Some numbers are letters.
All vowels are words.
c) Statements III:
Some numbers are letter.
No letter is a word.
All number is a vowel.
d) Statements IV:
All vowels are word.
No number is a word.
Some letters are numbers.
e) Statements V:
Some letters are vowel.
All numbers are vowel.
No vowel is word.
18). Conclusion:
Some glasses are caps.
Some bottles are Not cups.
No glass is a cup
a) Statements I:
All glasses are bottles.
Some caps are cup.
No cup is glass.
b) Statements II:
Some bottles are cups.
No cap is a bottle.
All cups are glasses.
c) Statements III:
No cap is a glass.
Some bottles are cap.
All bottles are cups.
d) Statements IV:
Some glasses are bottles.
No cup is a glass.
All bottles are caps.
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Some caps are cup.
All bottles are cup.
19). Conclusion:
No kicks are bricks.
Some stones are Not sticks.
No brick is a stick
a) Statements I:
All kicks are sticks.
No stick is a brick.
Some bricks are stones.
b) Statements II:
Some sticks are bricks;
No brick is a kick;
All kicks are stones.
c) Statements III:
All kicks are stones;
No stick is a brick;
Some stones are sticks.
d) Statements IV:
All bricks are sticks;
All sticks are kicks;
All kicks are stones.
e) Statements V:
No stick is stone;
All bricks are sticks;
All kicks are stones.
20). Conclusion:
Some garlic being potatoes is a possibility.
Some tomatoes are Not onions.
All potatoes being tomatoes is a possibility.
a) Statements I:
All potatoes are tomatoes;
No tomato is garlic;
All garlic is onions.
b) Statements II:
No onion is a tomato;
All garlic is onions;
All potatoes are tomatoes.
c) Statements III:
All tomatoes are onions;
All onions are garlic;
No potato is garlic.
d) Statements IV:
No garlic is a onion;
All potatoes are onions;
Some tomatoes are garlic.
e) Statements V:
Some potatoes are onions.
No onion is garlic.
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Direction (21 – 25): In the following questions, only one Conclusion is given and five statements are given
as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.
21). Conclusions:
Some wheels are bangles
All rings are wheels
Some tyres are bangles
a) Statements:
Some chains are bangles
All bangles are rings
All rings are tyres.
No tyres are wheels
b) Statements:
All chains are bangles
No bangles are rings
All rings are tyres.
All tyres are wheels
c) Statements:
Some chains are bangles
Some bangles are rings
All rings are tyres.
All tyres are wheels
d) Statements:
Some chains are bangles
Some bangles are not rings
No rings are tyres.
All tyres are wheels
e) Statements:
Some chains are bangles
No bangles are rings
All rings are not tyres.
All tyres are wheels
22). Conclusions:
Some seas are stones
Some jungles are hills
Some stones are hills
a) Statements:
All hills are roads
All roads are stones
All stones are jungles
All jungles are sea
b) Statements:
Some hills are roads
All roads are stones
No stones are jungles
All jungles are sea
c) Statements:
No hills are roads
All roads are stones
All stones are jungles
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Some hills are roads
Some roads are stones
All stones are jungles
All jungles are sea
e) Statements:
All hills are roads
All roads are stones
No stones are jungles
No jungles are sea
23). Conclusions:
Some threads are not room
Some needles are clothes is a possibility
Some threads are house is a possibility
a) Statements:
No needles are threads
Some threads are clothes
No cloth is room
All rooms are houses
b) Statements:
All needles are threads
Some threads are clothes
No cloth is room
All rooms are houses
c) Statements:
Some needles are threads
Some threads are clothes
No cloth is room
All rooms are houses
d) Statements:
All needles are threads
Some threads are clothes
Some cloth is room
Some rooms are houses
e) Statements:
All needles are threads
No threads are clothes
No cloth is room
No rooms are houses
24). Conclusions:
Some roofs are curtains
Some bags are walls is a possibility
Some curtains are bags
a) Statements:
All bags are toys
No bags are curtains
Some toys are not walls
All walls are roofs
b) Statements:
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All toys are curtains
Some curtains are not walls
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All bags are toys
All toys are curtains
Some curtains are not walls
All walls are roofs
d) Statements:
Some bags are toys
All toys are curtains
Some curtains are walls
All walls are roofs
e) Statements:
Some bags are toys
All toys are curtains
No curtains are walls
No walls are roofs
25). Conclusions:
Some plants are flowers
All roses are buds is a possibility
Some plants are buds
a) Statements:
Some roses are flowers
Some flowers are buds
All buds are leaves
All leaves are plants
b) Statements:
Some roses are flowers
Some flowers are not buds
No buds are leaves
All leaves are plants
c) Statements:
All roses are flowers
No flowers are buds
All buds are leaves
All leaves are plants
d) Statements:
No roses are flowers
No flowers are buds
All buds are leaves
All leaves are plants
e) Statements:
Some roses are flowers
Some flowers are buds
No buds are leaves
No leaves are plants
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as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.

26). Conclusions :
Some desks are pencils is a possibility
Some mountains are jungles
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a) Statements :
All pencils are kites
No kites are desks
All desks are jungles
All jungles are mountains
b) Statements :
No pencils are kites
No kites are desks
All desks are jungles
All jungles are mountains
c) Statements :
Some pencils are kites
Some kites are desks
All desks are jungles
All jungles are mountains
d) Statements :
Some pencils are kites
Some kites are desks
No desks are jungles
No jungles are mountains
e) Statements :
Some pencils are kites
Some kites are desks
Some desks are jungles
Some jungles are mountains
27). Conclusions :
Some roads are boards
Some boards are papers is a possibility
Some roads are clips is a possibility
Some roads are lanes
a) Statements :
No papers are clips
Some clips are bonds
Some boards are lanes
No lanes are roads
b) Statements :
All papers are clips
All clips are bonds
No boards are lanes
All lanes are roads
c) Statements :
Some papers are clips
No clips are bonds
No boards are lanes
Some lanes are roads
d) Statements :
No papers are clips
Some clips are not bonds
Some boards are not lanes
All lanes are roads
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Some boards are lanes
All lanes are roads
28). Conclusions :
Some buses are tyres
Some tyres are pens is a possibility
Some buses are wheels
Some clocks are wheels
a) Statements :
All pens are clocks
Some clocks are tyres
All tyres are wheels
All wheels are buses
b) Statements :
Some pens are clocks
Some clocks are tyres
All tyres are wheels
No wheels are buses
c) Statements :
All pens are clocks
Some clocks are tyres
All tyres are not wheels
No wheels are buses
d) Statements :
No pens are clocks
Some clocks are tyres
No tyres are wheels
All wheels are buses
e) Statements :
All pens are clocks
All clocks are tyres
No tyres are wheels
No wheels are buses
29). Conclusions :
Some windows are rings
No stone is a ring
Some windows are doors
Some doors are rings
a) Statements :
Some stones are hammers
Some hammer is a ring
Some rings are doors
All doors are windows
b) Statements :
All stones are hammers
No hammer is a ring
Some rings are doors
All doors are windows
c) Statements :
All stones are hammers
No hammer is a ring
No rings are doors
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All stones are hammers
All hammer is a ring
Some rings are doors
All doors are windows
e) Statements :
Some stones are hammers
No hammer is a ring
Some rings are doors
All doors are windows
30). Conclusions :
Some sticks are store is a possibility
Some chains are baskets
Some chains are sticks
All stores are sticks is a possibility
a) Statements :
Some stores are baskets
Some baskets are sticks
Some sticks are chains
b) Statements :
All stores are baskets
Some baskets are not sticks
Some sticks are chains
c) Statements :
No stores are baskets
All baskets are sticks
All sticks are chains
d) Statements :
All stores are baskets
Some baskets are sticks
All sticks are chains
e) Statements :
All stores are baskets
No baskets are sticks
All sticks are chains
31). Conclusions :
Some ropes are desks
Some ropes are chairs
Some walls are ropes
Some desks are walls is a possibility
a) Statements :
No desks are chairs
All chairs are ropes
Some ropes are walls
b) Statements :
Some desks are chairs
All chairs are ropes
Some ropes are walls
c) Statements :
All desks are chairs
All chairs are ropes
No ropes are walls
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All chairs are ropes
Some ropes are not walls
e) Statements :
No desks are chairs
Some chairs are ropes
All ropes are walls
32). Conclusions :
Some cars are rooms
Some roads are rooms
Some cars are wires
Some cars are roads
a) Statements :
Some rooms are wires
No wires are roads
Some roads are cars
b) Statements :
All rooms are wires
Some wires are roads
Some roads are cars
c) Statements :
All rooms are wires
No wires are roads
All roads are cars
d) Statements :
All rooms are wires
All wires are roads
All roads are cars
e) Statements :
Some rooms are wires
Some wires are roads
Some roads are cars
33). Conclusions :
No table is a box
Some mats are not pencils
Some mats are not tables
Some pencils are tables
a) Statements :
All tables are pencils
No pencil is box
Some boxes are mats
b) Statements :
All tables are pencils
All pencil is box
All boxes are mats
c) Statements :
Some tables are pencils
All pencils are boxes
Some boxes are mats
d) Statements :
Some tables are pencils
No table is box
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No table is pencils
All Boxes are Pencils
Some boxes are not mats
34). Conclusions :
Some books are chairs
Some chairs are books
Some pens are books
Some tables are chairs
a) Statements :
Some books are not pens
All pens are chairs
Some chairs are tables
b) Statements :
All books are pens
All pens are chairs
Some chairs are tables
c) Statements :
Some books are pens
All pens are chairs
Some chairs are tables
d) Statements :
No books are pens
All pens are chairs
Some chairs are tables
e) Statements :
Some books are pens
No pens are chairs
No chairs are tables
35). Conclusions :
Some cars are buses
Some buses are cars
some jeeps are trucks
All jeeps are trucks
a) Statements :
No cars are jeeps
Some jeeps are buses
No buses are trucks
b) Statements :
All cars are jeeps
Some jeeps are buses
Some buses are not trucks
c) Statements :
All cars are jeeps
No jeeps are buses
Some buses are trucks
d) Statements :
All cars are jeeps
All jeeps are buses
All buses are trucks
e) Statements :
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Direction (36 – 40): In the following questions, only one Conclusion is given and five statements are given
as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.
36). Conclusions :
There is a possibility that some doctors are engineers
Some perfects are doctors
There is a possibility that some engineers are good
Some perfect are engineers
a) Statements :
No doctors are perfect
All engineers are perfect
Some perfect are good
b) Statements :
All doctors are perfect
All engineers are perfect
Some perfect are good
c) Statements :
Some doctors are perfect
No engineers are perfect
Some perfect are good
d) Statements :
All doctors are perfect
All engineers are perfect
No perfect are good
e) Statements :
No doctors are perfect
No engineers are perfect
Some perfect are good
37). Conclusions :
Some tomatoes may be goods
No egg is potato
Some tomatoes may be eggs
Some goods are potatoes
a) Statements :
No eggs are tomatoes
No tomato is a potato
All potatoes are goods
b) Statements :
Some eggs are tomatoes
No tomato is a potato
No potatoes are goods
c) Statements :
No eggs are tomatoes
No tomato is a potato
No potatoes are goods
d) Statements :
All eggs are tomatoes
All tomato is a potato
All potatoes are goods
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All potatoes are goods
38). Conclusions:
All those dogs that are cats are also whites
All the animals may be dog.
Some whites are animal
Some cats are animals
a) Statements :
No dogs are cats
All animals are cats
No cats are whites
b) Statements :
All dogs are cats
No animals are cats
All cats are whites
c) Statements :
All dogs are cats
All animals are cats
All cats are whites
d) Statements :
Some dogs are cats
Some animals are cats
All cats are whites
e) Statements :
All dogs are cats
Some animals are cats
Some cats are whites
39). Conclusions :
Some gold which are white are not yellow
Some gold being yellow is a possibility.
Some white are gold
No silver is a yellow
a) Statements :
No gold are silvers
All silvers are white
No white is a yellow
b) Statements :
Some gold are silvers
Some silvers are white
No white is a yellow
c) Statements :
Some gold are not white
Some yellow are not white
No silver is a yellow
d) Statements :
Some gold are silvers
All silvers are white
No white is a yellow
e) Statements :
No gold are silvers
No silvers are white
No white is a yellow
40). Conclusions :
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Some planets are stars
No moon is a universe
Some planets are moons
a) Statements :
Some stars are moons
All moons are planets
No planet is a universe
b) Statements :
No stars are moons
All moons are planets
No planet is a universe
c) Statements :
Some stars are moons
Some moons are planets
Some planet is a universe
d) Statements :
Some stars are not moons
No moons are planets
No planet is a universe
e) Statements :
No stars are moons
No moons are planets
some planet is a universe
Direction (41 – 50): In the following questions, only one Conclusion is given and five statements are given
as a), b), c), d) and e). From this you have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at
variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given statement logically follows.
41). Conclusions:
All trees are wires.
Some wires are leafs.
Some leafs are branches.
All branches are wires
a) Statements:
No branches are trees.
All trees are leafs.
All leafs are wires.
b) Statements:
All branches are trees.
All trees are leafs.
All leafs are wires.
c) Statements:
No branches are trees.
Some trees are leafs.
All leafs are wires.
d) Statements:
All branches are trees.
No trees are leafs.
No leafs are wires.
e) Statements:
All branches are trees.
Some trees are leafs.
Some leafs are wires.
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Some keys are tigers
Some radios are tapes
Some tapes are keys is a possibility
Some tigers are radios is a possibility
a) Statements:
No tapes are radios.
Some radios are keys.
No tigers are keys.
b) Statements:
Some tapes are not radios.
Some radios are not keys.
All tigers are keys.
c) Statements:
Some tapes are radios.
Some radios are keys.
All tigers are keys.
d) Statements:
No tapes are radios.
No radios are keys.
No tigers are keys.
e) Statements:
Some tapes are radios.
No radios are keys.
All tigers are keys.
43). Conclusions:
Some boxes are buses.
Some boxes are roads.
Some roads are cars is a possibility
Some boxes are cars
a) Statements:
No buses are cars.
All cars are boxes.
Some roads are boxes.
b) Statements:
Some buses are cars.
No cars are boxes.
No roads are boxes.
c) Statements:
No buses are cars.
All cars are boxes.
No roads are boxes.
d) Statements:
Some buses are cars.
All cars are boxes.
Some roads are boxes.
e) Statements:
Some buses are not cars.
All cars are boxes.
Some roads are not boxes.
44). Conclusions:
Some rabbits are bats is a possibility
Some cells are bats
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Some carrots are bats is a possibility
Some carrots are rabbits.
a) Statements:
No bats are cells.
Some cells are rabbits.
All rabbits are carrots.
b) Statements:
No bats are cells.
No cells are rabbits.
All rabbits are carrots.
c) Statements:
Some bats are cells.
Some cells are not rabbits.
All rabbits are carrots.
d) Statements:
No bats are cells.
No cells are rabbits.
No rabbits are carrots.
e) Statements:
All bats are cells.
Some cells are rabbits.
All rabbits are carrots.
45). Conclusions:
No cards are tools.
Some doors are not lines
Some cards are doors is a possibility
Some doors are tools
a) Statements:
All cards are lines.
No lines are tools.
All tools are doors.
b) Statements:
Some cards are lines.
No lines are tools.
All tools are doors.
c) Statements:
All cards are lines.
No lines are tools.
No tools are doors.
d) Statements:
No cards are lines.
No lines are tools.
All tools are doors.
e) Statements:
All cards are lines.
All lines are tools.
All tools are doors.
46). Conclusions:
Some cars are boats.
Some leafs are wires.
Some wires are not boats
Some cars are not wires
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Some wires are leafs.
All wire is a boat.
All boats are cars.
b) Statements:
Some wires are leafs.
No wire is a boat.
All boats are cars.
c) Statements:
All wires are leafs.
Some wire is a boat.
All boats are cars.
d) Statements:
No wires are leafs.
No wire is a boat.
All boats are cars.
e) Statements:
Some wires are leafs.
No wire is a boat.
No boats are cars.
47). Conclusions:
Some sheets are buses.
Some sheets are cycles.
Some sheets are files.
Some buses are files.
a) Statements:
Some buses are cycles.
Some cycles are files.
All files are sheets.
b) Statements:
Some buses are cycles.
No cycles are files.
All files are sheets.
c) Statements:
No buses are cycles.
All cycles are files.
All files are sheets.
d) Statements:
No buses are cycles.
No cycles are files.
All files are sheets.
e) Statements:
Some buses are cycles.
All cycles are files.
All files are sheets.
48). Conclusions:
Some bikes are bottles.
Some bottles are buildings.
Some trucks are buildings is a possibility
Some bikes are trucks is a possibility
a) Statements:
No bikes are buildings.
All buildings are bottles.
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b) Statements:
Some bikes are buildings.
Some buildings are bottles.
Some bottles are trucks.
c) Statements:
No bikes are buildings.
No buildings are bottles.
Some bottles are trucks.
d) Statements:
Some bikes are buildings.
All buildings are bottles.
Some bottles are trucks.
e) Statements:
Some bikes are buildings.
All buildings are bottles.
No bottles are trucks.
49). Conclusions:
Some lines are not copies.
Some copies are not radios.
Some telephones are copies
No cards are radios
a) Statements:
All cards are lines.
All copies are cards.
All lines are telephones.
All radios are telephones.
b) Statements:
No cards are lines.
Some copies are cards.
Some cards are telephones.
No radios are telephones.
c) Statements:
No cards are lines.
All copies are cards.
All cards are telephones.
No radios are telephones.
d) Statements:
No cards are lines.
All copies are cards.
All cards are telephones.
All radios are telephones.
e) Statements:
Some cards are lines.
All copies are cards.
All cards are telephones.
All radios are telephones.
50). Conclusions:
Some soldiers are either famous or intelligent.
Some intelligent persons are kind-hearted.
Some famous are soldiers
Some intelligent are famous is a possibility
a) Statements:
No soldiers are famous.

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Some soldiers are intelligent.
All soldiers are honest.
All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted.
b) Statements:
Some soldiers are not famous.
All soldiers are intelligent.
No soldiers are honest.
All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted.
c) Statements:
No soldiers are famous.
No soldiers are intelligent.
All soldiers are honest.
All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted.
d) Statements:
All soldiers are famous.
No soldiers are intelligent.
All famous are honest.
All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted.
e) Statements:
Some soldiers are famous.
Some soldiers are intelligent.
All soldiers are honest.
All honest and famous persons are kind-hearted.

Syllogism New Pattern (Solutions:

1). Answer: d)

2). Answer: c)

3). Answer: b)

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5). Answer: d)

6). Answer: c)

7). Answer: e)

8). Answer: b)

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10). Answer: c)

11). Answer: d)

12). Answer: c)

13). Answer: c)

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15). Answer: b)

16). Answer: e)

17). Answer: b)

18). Answer: d)

19). Answer: a)

20). Answer: e)

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21). Answer: c)

22). Answer: a)

23). Answer: b)

24). Answer: d)

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26). Answer: c)

27). Answer: e)

28). Answer: a)

29). Answer: b)

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31). Answer: b)

32). Answer: d)

33). Answer: a)

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35). Answer: d)

36). Answer: b)

37). Answer: e)

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39). Answer: d)

40). Answer: a)

41). Answer: b)

42). Answer: c)

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43). Answer: d)

44). Answer: e)

45). Answer: a)

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47). Answer: e)

48). Answer: d)

49). Answer: c)

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PRACTICE ENGLISH QUESTIONS BASED ON NEW PATTERN

Direction (Q. 1 - 10): In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines in
the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given to
make the passage complete and coherent.

1). As far as we know, all animals dream; and humans probably started to dream even before they were
sufficiently intelligent to think about the process. _____________. Freud set out the theory that, although
they may be prompted by external stimuli, wish-fulfill ment was the basis of most dreams. According to
him, our dreams reflected our deepest desires, rooted in our infancy, and always held a serious meaning.
a) During sleep, what is happening in the brain can be measured by the use an EEG.
b) Scientists identify four stages of sleep – the first stage is simply a transition from wakefulness to real sleep;
while stage two may be described as “normal” sleep.
c) It has been suggested that some of the earliest prehistoric cave paintings are records of dreams.
d) When we fall asleep we enter a cycle of sleep – a pattern that is usually repeated several times during the
night.
e) During stage three, there is another transition, or sinking into a deeper sleep – that of stage four.

2). For years now, George W. Bush has told Americans that he would increase the number of troops in
Iraq only if, the commanders on the ground asked him to do so. It was not a throw away live.
_______________. He said it right up until last summer, stressing at a news conference in Chicago that
Iraq commander General George Casey will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there.
a) The politicians and commanders had trouble agreeing on what the goal of a surge would further erode the
readiness of the US’s already stressed ground forces.
b) The commander in chief is betting that more troops will lead the way to what one white house official calls
“victory.”
c) The irony is that while the generals would have liked more troops in the past, they are cool to the idea of
spending more now that’s in past.
d) If you put more American troops on the front line said a white house official, you’re going to have more
casualties.
e) Bush said it from the very first days of the war, when he and pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld were
criticized for going to war with too few troops.

3). In February 2010 the Medical Council of India announced a major change in the regulation
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open medical colleges. The new regulation also carried the following warning: “permission shall be
withdrawn if the colleges resort to commercialization”. _______________. A basic requirement for a new
medical college is a pre-existing hospital that will serve as a teaching hospital.
a) Since the regulation does not elaborate on what constitutes “resorting to commercialization”, this will
presumably be a matter left to the discretion of the Government.
b) The Health Ministry, with the help of the MCI, has been active in proposing yet another ‘innovative’
solution to the problem of lack of doctors in the rural areas.
c) This and another change have been justified in the name of addressing the shortage of doctors.
d) Until now, medical education in India has been projected as a not-for profit activity to be organized for the
public good.
e) Faculty in all medical colleges are to be issued an RFID-based smart card by th MCI with a unique Faculty
Number.

4). ______________. At many of them, politics has introduced into campus life, influencing academic
appointments and decisions across levels. Under investment in libraries, information technology,
laboratories, and classrooms make it very difficult to provide top quality instruction or engage in cutting-
edge research. The rise in the number of part-time teachers and freeze on new full time appointments in
many places has affected morale in the academic profession. The lack of accountability means that
teaching and research performance is seldom measured.
a) India has survived with an increasingly mediocre higher education system for decades.
b) World class universities require world class professors and students and a culture to sustain and stimulate
them.
c) China in particular is heavily investing in improving its best universities with the aim of making a small
group of them world class in the coming decade, and making a larger number internationally competitive
research universities.
d) India’s colleges and universities, with just a few expectations, have become large, under unfounded,
ungovernable institutions.
e) An academic culture that is based on the merit-based norms and competition for advancement and search
funds is necessary component, as is a judicious mix of autonomy to do creative research and accountability to
ensure productivity.

5). Ariel Sharon’s visit to India is a historic one. Not only is it the first ever by any Israeli prime minister,
but it also opens a new chapter in cooperation between the two countries which has multiplied manifold
since the establishment of full-fledged diplomatic relations in 1992. It is understood that the present and
former Israeli PMs had been keen on visiting India for quite some time, but the ball was lying in New
Delhi’s court. ____________________.
a) Indian policy-makers started viewing its West Asia policy not necessarily as a zero-sum game.
b) Sharon’s visit is likely to focus on bolstering strategic partnership - highlighting the horrors of terrorism
and the need to cooperate to effectively combat the scourge as also to boost defence and trade cooperation.
c) The Nehruvian perspective guided India’s West Asia police for decades after Independence.
d) New Delhi now may be Israel’s largest arms purchaser.
e) During the independence movement, Nehru and Gandhi did not favor the Zionist claim to Palestine and
saw a fundamental difference between the Zionist movement and Indian national movement.

6). India is a great book producing nation and has a vibrant world of book publishing spread throughout
the vast country in a number of modern languages most of which have their roots in Sanskrit, the mother
of Indian languages. In terms of numbers, there are more than 16,000 publishers in India publishing
90,000 titles annually in 24 languages, out of which 18 are highly developed, to fulfill the needs of this
multilingual nation. ______________________. Today Indian publishing is one of the greatest in the
world and can be counted among the first seven publishing nations.
a) In India, every year a world level Book fair is held in New Delhi, which is India’s oldest book fair.
b) The focus is being given especially keeping in mind the increasing number of IT-savvy younger generation
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c) The visitor profile at the fair includes national and International publishers, librarians, researchers,
academicians, writers, students and book lovers. Publishers also introduced “e-Books” in this fair.
d) Delhi Book Fair is playing a pivotal role in reiterating the might of the pen and the printed word and has
come to be recognized as the biggest annual cultural event
e) These languages have a galaxy of good authors, their own publishers and readers of books within their own
area as well as spread out in the entire country.

7). Everyone deals with integrity underlying moral issue in their everyday life. _______________.
Question arises-What is integrity? It means honesty - keeping to one's word even if it costs us dearly to
do so. If you pledge to 'love, honour and cherish your spouse until death do you part', you must honour
that promise. If you agree to do a task, you must do it. Integrity comes in many forms, but honesty and
dependability are two traits that are expected in most workplace situations.
a) Irresponsible behavior and distrust can make a work environment tense and uncomfortable.
b) Establishing yourself as a trustworthy worker who submits to company policies shows your boss and
coworkers that you'll faithfully carry out your duties.
c) Respecting those you work with reveals your desire to create a healthy work environment.
d) Most of our parents would have taught us during our growing up years that we must inculcate this virtue
because it is the right thing to do.
e) Avoid using company products or equipment for personal use and submit exact receipts for travel or meal
reimbursements.

8). __________________. A corrupt act is often - but not necessarily - illegal. In handling corruption you
will often face a Gray zones and dilemmas. In many countries, corruption is everywhere and daily life is
riddled with situations in the Gray zone between legal and illegal. Many people accept petty corruption
as a fact of life. But the causes might differ, however, whether corruption results from a need, a culture
or simply from an opportunity too tempting not to exploit, it influences the way we deal with it - or don’t
deal with it.
a) Corruption can occur on different scales.
b) Corruption is a broad term covering a wide range of misuse of entrusted funds and power for personal gain
i.e. Theft, fraud, nepotism, abuse of power etc.
c) No subordinate will have to guts to be corrupt if the people at the top of the administration are honest and
take stern action against the corrupt people.
d) According to a 2007 World Bank published report, the travel time for a Delhi-Mumbai trip can be reduced
by about 2 days per trip if the corruption and associated regulatory stoppages to extract bribes was eliminated.
e) The main reason for the spread of corruption is that the people in the highest seat of power are corrupt
unless the people at the top rung of power are honest and free from corruption.

9). Information revolution has undoubtedly brought many new and fascinating things to make life easier.
But the bit coins, a new type of money, facilitated by the same information technology does not seem to
be very useful; rather it is a harmful invention to categorically say without mincing words.
______________________. The People’s Bank of China prohibited Chinese financial institutions from
using bit coins from December 5, 2013. The RBI on its part has cautioned the users, holders and traders
of bit coins and the like, about the potential financial, operational, legal, customer protection and
security related risks that they are exposing themselves to.
a) Central banks of different countries have got alarmed, and rightly so, with the bit coin’s business.
b) Highly sophisticated computers which are naturally very costly are used and very complex mathematical
process is involved to create the code numbers through which they can be accessed by the true owners.
c) All the wallets in the world are recorded at one place or electronic general ledger known as ‘block chain’.
d) In fact the persons who want to use bitcoins are required to create their wallets in their computers or other
electronic devices.
e) Two different keys, say codes, are generated; one is public key which enables all the bit coin users to see
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10). The happy man is the man who lived objectively, who has free affection and wide interest, who
secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they, in turn, make
him an object of interest and affection to many others. ____________________. The man who receives
affection is, speaking broadly, the man who gives it. But it useless to attempt to give it as a calculation, in
the way in which one might lend money at interest, for a calculated affection is not genuine and is not felt
to be so by the recipient.
a) Exercises of this sort prolonged through several years will at last enable you to admit facts without
flinching and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of feat over a very large filed.
b) If fear is his trouble, let him practice exercises designed to give courage.
c) If he succeeds in dispelling the sense of sin, it is possible that genuine objective interests will arise
spontaneously.
d) To be the recipient of affection is a potent cause of happiness, but the man who demands affection is not
the man upon whom it is bestowed.
e) Teach yourself to feel that life still be worth living even if you were not, as of course you are immeasurably
superior to all your friends in virtue and in intelligence.

Explanations:
1). Answer: c)
Option c) is correct answer since in the paragraph is giving details about the dream and theory related to it. So,
option c) is fit to the blank and makes the paragraph coherent since it describes about records of dream.
2). Answer: e)
Option e) is correct answer since in the beginning of the passage it is explaining about the war and need for
improving the troop (crowd). So, option e) will give a coherent passage since others are describing about
various factors with respect to troops.
3). Answer: a)
Option a) is correct answer since the paragraph gives details about the rules by government that should be
followed by private medical college. So, option a) will be a perfect sentence since it also describe about the
rules.
4). Answer: d)
Option d) is correct answer since the passage is explaining about the colleges in India and its present situation.
So, option d) is explaining about Indian colleges and their economic situation while others are explaining the
academic factors.
5). Answer: b)
Option b) is correct answer since in the paragraph is describing about the visit of Israeli PM to India. So, option
b) is opt for the blank since it explains the facts that discussed between Israeli and India.
6). Answer: e)
Option e) is correct answer since in the paragraph is giving details about book publishing in India. So, option e)
is fit to the blank and makes the paragraph coherent since it describes about authors and readers of books.
7). Answer: d)
Option d) is correct answer since the passage is explaining about the integrity and its essentials. So, option d) is
explaining about integrity that taught by our parents.
8). Answer: b)
Option b) is correct answer since in the paragraph is describing about the corruption and its influence in
people’s life. So, option b) is opt for the blank since it gives the best start regarding corruption.
9). Answer: a)
Option a) is correct answer since the passage is explaining about the revolution in information by bit coins. So,
option a) is explaining about bit coin’s use in business while others are explaining securities under bit coins.
10). Answer: d)
Option d) is correct answer since the passage is describing about the affection which is needed to be happy. So,
option d) is explaining about affection and happiness.

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Directions (Q 11-20): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any,
will be in one or more sentence. Then choose the sentence(s) without error as your answer. If there is
error in all the sentences, then your answer is e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

11). A. There will be no scrutiny or enquiry of money declared, neither under the Income - Tax Act or the
Wealth Tax Act and the declarants will have immunity from prosecution.
B. The victim was persuaded to recall back what had happened with her but she was unable to recollect
anything.
C. The carbonic acid thus produced leads to ocean acidulation by decreasing the pH of the ocean, reducing the
concentration of the carbonate ion.
D. The Constitution granted the right to citizens to join such bodies to pursue their interest in sports, religion,
culture and art etc.
a) Only B
b) Only A
c) Both A & C
d) Both C & B
e) None of the sentence is correct.

12). A. The government have decided to open a one-time, four month compliance window for domestic black
money holders.
B. The process to be adopted by the government for these activities has to be defined because the government is
responsible for any object put up in space and for what happens to it in orbit or because of it.
C. Should have been nice if we could have played this game before the Australia one, would have had a better
idea of the conditions.
D. We swap up to the drowning man, caught hold of his clothes, before he would go down again and pulled
him, out safe to the shore.
a) Only C
b) Only D
c) Both B & D
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

13). A. The scheme which will be launched during the next two years requires an additional investment of one
hundred crores.
B. Household spends will support real domestic growth of 2 percent or perhaps more, because real earnings are
rising at 2 percent, house prices are increasing even faster in real terms and employment prospects are good.
C. The projects that the government takes up these days are all dominated by modern technologies.
D. The Prime Minister has observed many changes in the rural areas when he last visited the country side.
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Both A & B
d) Both B & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

14). A. The students decided to donate blood after they saw the plight of the injured in various accidents in a
documentary film.
B. An enquiry committee has been formed as devastating poverty and indebtedness have forced farmers in the
country to commit suicide.
C. Unemployed are more concerned to get an employment than to know the number of the unemployed in the
country.
D. Martin Luther King, who led the Gandhian Movement against racial discrimination, brought considerable
amount of justice and equality for the blacks in the US.
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b) Only A
c) Both B & C
d) Both B & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

15). A. The leader told the people, “You yourself have to build your nation; and no neighbor or a powerful
county will come for your help.”
B. The Commonwealth Games committee is unhappy as the preparations for the 2010 games are in front of
schedule
C. Only till few years ago people could not dream of the facilities and comforts that they enjoy now.
D. R.K. Narayan’s, the famous Indian English authors, stories are known for deep insight into their characters.
a) Only B
b) Only C
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

16). A. In time of crisis the Bhagavad Gita gives light and guide to the mind tortured by doubt and torn by
conflict of duties.
B. The builders have promised a customers that the construction will be completed as soon as possible.
C. While it is apparent that biotechnology offers significant benefits adequate attention has not been focused to
this vital area.
D. Each of the students whom I have chosen to take part in the discussion have indicated that he will be happy
to do so.
a) Only B
b) Only D
c) Both B & C
d) Both A & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

17). A. I am opposed to the plan of action not because it is ill conceived but that it seems impractical.
B. The President of Costa Rica, along with two vice-presidents, are elected for a four-year term by the people.
C. The number of people applying was so large that the company had to stop issuing job application forms.
D. The Headmaster advised the student who had failed in the examination twice, not to attempt it again until he
had time to prepare for it properly.
a) Only B
b) Only A
c) Both B & C
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

18). A. Mahesh hesitated in accepting the post as he did not think that the salary package was enough for a man
with a family of ten.
B. Sumathi was trying for admission in the Engineering College even though her parents wanted her to do
something different.
C. Rajesh was popular with his college mates that he always had some or the other coming to his house.
D. Prem was the one person who could somehow manage to working in this job for such a long time.
a) Only D
b) Only A
c) Both A & C
d) Both C & B
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19). A. The car went off the road and fell into the valley because Tamizh was driving faster.
B. Even after working in the organization for ten years Hema had hardly mastered any job at all.
C. As soon as the police inspector entered the crime scene all people approached him and reported the matter.
D. Sooner than he had arrived his relatives arranged a grand welcome in his honour in at the city bus stand.
a) Only C
b) Only A
c) Both A & C
d) Both B & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

20). A. He had obtained good grades not only in tenth class but also in eighth class which was full of
complicated subjects.
B. No sooner did Chandru see the Policeman that he jumped over the wall and ran away.
C. Raman was one of those great sons of India who has earned everlasting fame for scientific researches.
D. The only good thing about these books is their color and their premium pages.
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Both A & D
d) Both B & C
e) None of the sentence is correct.

Answers with explanations:

11). Answer: e)
In A, ‘Neither’ should be replaced by “Either”; In B, ‘Back’ should be removed; In C, ‘the carbonate ion’
should be replaced by “carbonate ion”; In D, “Grants” should come in place of ‘Granted’.
12). Answer: c)
In A, ‘have’ should be replaced by “has”; In C, replace ‘should’ by “would”.
13). Answer: a)
In B, ‘spends’ should be replaced by “Spending”; In C, ‘takes up’ should be replaced by “is taking up”; In D”
observed” should come in place of ‘has observed’.
14). Answer: d)
In A, “had seen” should come in place of ‘saw’; In C, “the unemployed” should come in place of ‘unemployed’
at beginning of the sentence;
15). Answer: b)
In A, ‘yourself’ should be replaced by “yourselves”; In B, ‘in front of’ should be replaced by “behind”; In D,
‘R.K. Narayan’s, the famous Indian English authors’ should be replaced by “R.K. Narayan, the famous Indian
English author’s”.
16). Answer: e)
In A, replace 'guide' by ”guides”; In B, replace 'a customers' by “customer”; In C, use “on” in place of ‘to’; In
D, ‘have indicated’ should be replaced by “has indicated”;
17). Answer: d)
In A, ‘that’ should be replaced by “because”; In B, “is elected” should come in place of ‘are elected’.
18). Answer: b)
In B, use “Had wanted” in place of ‘wanted’; In C, “so popular” should come in place of ‘popular’; In D,
‘working’ should be replaced by “work”.
19). Answer: a)
In A, use “Fast” in place of ‘faster’; In B, ‘after working’ should be replaced by “after having worked”; In D,
use “No sooner had he arrived than” in place of ‘sooner than he had arrived’.
20). Answer: c)
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Directions (Q.21-30): Choose the appropriate phrase/connector from the given three options which can
be used to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same meaning as
expressed in the statement sentences.

21). The two countries reached an agreement on trade policies. They then were able to complete their
peace treaty.
(i) Although
(ii) After
(iii) Unless
a) (i) & (ii)
b) Only (iii)
c) Only (i)
d) Only (ii)
e) (i), (ii) and (iii)

22). The male hornbill builds a nest for his mate. He chooses a nest site that will protect her and her
chicks from predators.
(i) However
(ii) Consequently
(iii) Where
a) (i), (ii) & (iii)
b) (i) & (iii)
c) Only (ii)
d) (ii) & (iii)
e) Only (iii)

23). Video game manufacturers plan to impose a rating system to indicate violence. The ratings system
will be ineffectual without an accompanying plan for reinforcement.
(i) Because
(ii) Owing to
(iii) Unless
a) (i) & (ii)
b) Only (iii)
c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
d) Only (i)
e) Only (ii)

24). The program's format allows individual users to make changes. This can be done each time users
encounter problems in implementing the program.
(i) Whenever
(ii) As soon as
(iii) Nevertheless
a) Only (i)
b) (i) & (ii)
c) Only (iii)
d) (ii) & (iii)
e) (i), (ii) & (iii)

25). The judges scored the performances using a new set of standards. This different method of scoring
resulted in unanticipated victories for several new competitors.
(i) Instead of
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a) (i), (ii) & (iii)
b) Only (iii)
c) Only (ii)
d) (ii) & (iii)
e) Only (i)

26). He has already delivered a good performance. Nobody can question his eligibility.
(i) Neither - nor
(ii) Otherwise
(iii) Since
a) (i) & (ii)
b) Only (iii)
c) (i), (ii) and (iii)
d) Only (i)
e) Only (ii)

27). Jonarthan read the company website and articles about the company before his interview. He was
able to ask very good questions during his interview.
(i) Therefore
(ii) Though
(iii) Moreover
a) (i), (ii) & (iii)
b) Only (iii)
c) Only (ii)
d) (ii) & (iii)
e) Only (i)

28). Suriya checked the grammar in her college application essay twice. She asked her neighbor to check
the grammar one more time.
(i) In addition
(ii) Moreover
(iii) But
a) (i) & (ii)
b) Only (iii)
c) Only (i)
d) Only (ii)
e) (i), (ii) and (iii)

29). All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months.
When he went there, the server was quite rude.
(i) Nevertheless
(ii) Either - or
(iii) Indeed
a) (i), (ii) & (iii)
b) (i) & (ii)
c) Only (i)
d) (ii) & (iii)
e) Only (iii)

30). More students at the college are biking, walking, or carpooling. The price of gasoline is continuing to
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(iii) Not only – but also
a) (i) & (ii)
b) Only (iii)
c) Only (i)
d) Only (ii)
e) (i), (ii) and (iii)

Answers with Explanation:

21). Answer: d)
After the two countries reached an agreement on trade policies, they were able to complete their peace treaty.
22). Answer: e)
The male hornbill builds a nest for his mate where she and her chicks will be protected from predators.
23). Answer: b)
Unless video game manufacturers issue an accompanying plan for enforcement, their ratings system will be
ineffectual.
24). Answer: a)
The program's format allows individual users to make changes whenever they encounter problems
implementing the program.
25). Answer: c)
The judges scored the performance using a new set of standards, which resulted in unanticipated victories for
several new competitors.
26). Answer: b)
Since he has already delivered a good performance, nobody can question his eligibility.
27). Answer: e)
Jonarthan read the company website and articles about the company before his interview; therefore, he was
able to ask very good questions during his interview.
28). Answer: a)
Suriya checked the grammar in her college application essay twice; in addition, she asked her neighbor to
check the grammar one more time.
Suriya checked the grammar in her college application essay twice; moreover, she asked her neighbor to check
the grammar one more time.
29). Answer: c)
All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless,
when he went there, the server was quite rude.
30). Answer: d)
More students at the college are biking, walking, or carpooling because the price of gasoline is continuing to
rise. (or)
Because the price of gasoline is continuing to rise, more students at the college are biking, walking, or
carpooling.

Directions (Q 31-40): Four statements are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. Among these, some
statements are in logical order and form coherent paragraph. From the given options a), b), c), d) and e),
choose the option the does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.

31). A. New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of
employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at various levels of
education.
B. From recent research, we have learned a number of interesting things about how the evolution of economic
structure affects employment.
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D. Technological innovations are not only reducing the number of routine jobs, but also causing changes in
global supply chains and networks that result in the relocation of routine jobs – and, increasingly, non-routine
jobs at multiple skill levels – in the tradable sector of many economies.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) All fits to paragraph

32). A. Not long ago the world’s main worry was that people had too little to eat.
B. In an age of plenty, individuals have the luxury of eating what they like.
C. Persuading children to eat vegetables is hardly a new struggle, nor would it seem to rank high on the list of
global priorities.
D. Yet America, for its entire libertarian ethos, is now worrying about how its citizens eat and how much
exercise they take.
a) B
b) D
c) A
d) C
e) None of the above

33). A. Among the many new gadgets unveiled at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a
pair of smart phones able to exchange data using light.
B. Using light offers the possibility of breaking out of this conundrum by exploiting a completely different part
of the electromagnetic spectrum, one that is already ubiquitous because it is used for another purpose:
illumination.
C. These phones, as yet only prototypes from Casio, a Japanese firm, transmit digital signals by varying the
intensity of the light given off from their screens.
D. The flickering is so slight that it is imperceptible to the human eye, but the camera on another phone can
detect it at a distance of up to ten meters.
a) C
b) D
c) A
d) B
e) All fits to paragraph

34). A. A thorough understanding of what civilization and culture are requires knowledge of all the qualities
that make up human nature and a full understanding of world history.
B. To be truly world history, an account of the past must not only retell what happened but must also relate
events and people to each other.
C. It must inquire into causes and effects.
D. It must try to discern false hood in the old records, such as attempts of kings to make themselves look better
than they really were.
a) A
b) C
c) B
d) D
e) None of the above

35). A. Since our economy is heavily dependent on cash, demonetisation has caused a lot of problems and
imbalance in the functioning of the nation.
B. The effects are more severe as only less than half the population uses banking system for monetary
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C. The aim of demonetisation was to free the society of black money and make the terrorists powerless who
had entered our country.
D. Demonetisation has hit trade and consumption hard and has severely affected the wages and income of huge
masses of people.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) All fits to the paragraph

36). A. The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently
occurring anywhere on the planet, with profound environmental and economic implications.
B. There are several oil-related environmental risks specific to the Arctic Ocean.
C. The once fabled northeast and northwest passages will reduce shipping times and costs by as much as half,
bringing China and Japan much closer to Europe and North America’s east coast.
D. We stand to lose one of the Earth’s largest and most significant ecosystems.
a) C
b) D
c) A
d) All fits to paragraph
e) None of the above

37). A. NASA could design another rover, equipped with all sorts of life-hunting instrumentation, only to find it
is taking the wrong measurements with the wrong detectors.
B. The reason scientists favour a sample return mission is that they do not know exactly what they are looking
for.
C. Lunar rocks and soil were sealed in bags and only opened in airtight laboratories.
D. Martian life, for example, could come in many different guises and using equipment designed to detect life
on Earth, may not pick it up on Mars.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) All fits to the paragraph

38). A. In these centuries, there were important advances in the aesthetics of nature, including the emergence of
the concepts of disinterestedness and the picturesque, as well as the introduction of the idea of positive
aesthetics.
B. Although environmental aesthetics has developed as a sub-field of philosophical aesthetics only in the last
40 years, it has historical roots in eighteenth and nineteenth-century aesthetics.
C. Thus, by the end of the eighteenth century, there were three clearly distinct ideas each focusing on different
aspects of nature’s diverse and often contrasting moods.
D. These notions continue to play a role in contemporary work in environmental aesthetics, especially in the
context of its relationship to environmentalism.
a) C
b) B
c) D
d) All fits to paragraph
e) None of the above

39). A. Drugs with serious adverse safety profiles are used to treat potentially fatal conditions – including
various forms of cancer, inflammatory arthritis, and HIV – because they ultimately help more than they hurt.
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C. Rather than assess a medicine’s safety in isolation, its adverse effects must be considered in relation to its
efficacy.
D. In other words, a benefit-risk balance must be struck.
a) A
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) All fits to the paragraph

40). A. For better or worse, youth brands have lost the fear of alienating people who are not the core
demographic.
B. The ’91 and later generations have grown up with a far wider and more global set of influences.
C. Or at least expect them to take a lot more ribbing without complaining.
D. These ads are early signs of the clash between the pre and post liberalization generations.
a) C
b) D
c) A
d) All fits to paragraph
e) None of the above

Answer with Explanations:

31). Answer: b)
Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are talking about
how new technologies affect jobs and raises the question how policy makers this challenge. But option b) is
defining about the “evolution of economic structure” not necessarily new technologies or globalization.
32). Answer: c)
Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others are explaining about the eating
habits of Americans – children don’t eat vegetable – individuals eat what they like – their eating habit has
become a national concern. But option c) does not fit well in this scheme of things.
33). Answer: d)
Option d) is the one which is not part of the paragraph since “breaking out of this conundrum” in statement B
does not related to any of the other three sentences; While the other three sentences introduce a new discovery
or technology to us.
34). Answer: a)
Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others are explaining about the world
history and some facts. But option a) explains some facts about culture and civilization.
35). Answer: c)
Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are explaining about
the negative impacts of demonetisation. But option c) is defining about the aim of demonetization.
36). Answer: e)
Statement B is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since it is explaining about “oil related
environmental risks”; where others are describing about the effects of rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover.
37). Answer: c)
Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph because others are explaining about, why
scientists prefer sample return missions. But option c) is giving details about soils and rocks.
38). Answer: a)
Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others are explaining about the
development of environmental aesthetics – its roots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. But option a) is
explaining about some ideas with respect to nature’s diverse.
39). Answer: d)
Option d) is the one which is not part of the paragraph because other sentences are explaining about the drugs
and its security risks. But option d) talks about regulation related to drugs.
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Statement B is the one which is not part of the paragraph; while the other three sentences are about youth
brands. But statement B talks about – wider and more global exposure of the liberalized generation.

Directions (Q 41-50): Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the
words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct?
If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.

41). Due to last year’s vigorous hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has
advised coastal residents to extend a family evacuation plan, arrange important documents and valuables and
create a disaster supply kit for use in the car and at the evacuation destination.
a) Dynamic, supported, enlarge, sort out
b) Active, urged, develop, organize
c) Forceful, insisted, improve, manage
d) Vibrant, recommended, increase, handle
e) No improvement required

42). Reports from New York and Paris specify that this season’s style is an eclectic mix of fashions from past
decades, varying from the empire-waist dresses of the rested and liberated 1960s to the legwarmers of the
excessive and generous 1980s.
a) Show, changing, settled, lenient
b) Illustrate, differing, respite, soft
c) Prove, diverging, reprieved, tolerant
d) Indicate, ranging, relaxed, indulgent
e) No improvement required

43). While global warming has already made the Hudson River a seemingly fragile ecosystem, the introduction
of invasive species has the potential to destroy nearly all of the aquatic plants and animals that inhabit the
river.
a) Though, delicate, insidious, demolish
b) Although, flimsy, subtle, wipe out
c) Whereas, feeble, restrained, raze
d) Even if, pathetic, sinister, flatten
e) No improvement required

44). Though we have kept in mind to try and keep most facilities, we would like to demand you to kindly
stand with us any problem that may be caused.
a) Maintain, request, bear, inconvenience
b) Sustain, appeal, abide, difficulty
c) Preserve, ask, tolerate, complexity
d) Retain, call, endure, trouble
e) No improvement required

45). These days urbanized countries have begun looking after for under - developed countries because it is
beneficial for both the parties.
a) Residential, commenced, since, helpful
b) Built-up, instigated, while, profitable
c) Developed, started, as, advantageous
d) Industrialized, initiated, seeing that, useful
e) No improvement required

46). People with persistent headaches are hence as likely to develop bed’s palsy even as research accounts
for other factors which could increase the risk of conditions like diabetes.
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b) Relentless, expand, aspects, rise
c) Insistent, recover, causes, enhance
d) Ruthless, look up, parts, add to
e) No improvement required

47). India has declared a long anticipated programme of measures aimed to open its markets and settle
foreign trade negotiators.
a) Pronounced, expected, intended, soothe
b) Stated, predictable, deliberate, pacify
c) Announced, awaited, designed, appease
d) Affirmed, estimated, considered, conciliate
e) No improvement required

48). Transforming ineffective bureaucracies into active, this mission of customer-driven organizations is
challenging under general circumstances.
a) Inefficient, dynamic, task, prevailing
b) Unsuccessful, vibrant, chore, existing
c) Useless, alive, errand, main
d) Vain, vivacious, assignment, popular
e) No improvement required

49). There is a good chance for the members of our society provide we think ourselves Indians first and
everything else later.
a) Luck, area, believe, nothing
b) Option, group, imagine, nobody
c) Prospect, region, assume, no one
d) Fortune, community, consider, anything
e) No improvement required

50). Having been definite to their homes for a week after a leopard was viewed; the villagers nurtured restless
and disturbed.
a) Decided, appeared, fostered, annoyed
b) Confirmed, sighted, grew, frustrated
c) Resolute, stared, reared, aggravated
d) Determined, gazed, cherished, perturbed
e) No improvement required

Answer with Explanations:

41). Answer: b)
Active – energetic.
Urged – try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something.
Develop – grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
Organize – arrange into a structured whole; order.
42). Answer: d)
Indicate – point out; show.
Ranging – differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.
Relaxed – free from tension and anxiety; at ease.
Indulgent – having or indicating a tendency to be overly generous to or lenient with someone.
43). Answer: e)
While – during the time that; at the same time as.
Fragile – (of an object) easily broken or damaged.
Invasive – (especially of plants or a disease) tending to spread prolifically and undesirably or harmfully.
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44). Answer: a)
Maintain – cause or enable (a condition or state of affairs) to continue.
Request – politely or formally ask for.
Bear – endure (an ordeal or difficulty).
Inconvenience – trouble or difficulty caused to one's personal requirements or comfort.
45). Answer: c)
Developed – grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
Started – come into being; begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space.
As – used to indicate that something happens during the time when something is taking place.
Advantageous – involving or creating favorable circumstances that increase the chances of success or
effectiveness; beneficial.
46). Answer: e)
Persistent – continuing to exist or endure over a prolonged period.
Develop – grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
Factors – a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome.
Increase – an instance of growing or making greater.
47). Answer: c)
Announced – make a public and typically formal declaration about a fact, occurrence, or intention.
Awaited – wait for (an event).
Designed – decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object),
Appease – relieve or satisfy (a demand or a feeling).
48). Answer: a)
Inefficient – wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources.
Dynamic – a force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process.
Task – a piece of work to be done or undertaken.
Prevailing – existing at a particular time; current.
49). Answer: d)
Fortune – chance or luck as an external, arbitrary force affecting human affairs.
Community – a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
Consider – think carefully about (something), typically before making a decision.
Anything – used to refer to a thing, no matter what.
50). Answer: b)
Confirmed – firmly established in a particular habit, belief, or way of life and unlikely to change.
Sighted – manage to see or observe (someone or something); catch an initial glimpse of.
Grew – become gradually or increasingly.
Frustrated – feeling or expressing distress and annoyance, especially because of inability to change or achieve
something.

Odd One Out in Sentence of Paragraph

Direction (51-60): Ten statements are given below, labelled a, b, c, d and e. Among these, four statements
are in logical order and form coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option the does not
fit into the theme of the paragraph.
51). a) To gain some perspective on the Centre’s decision to divest 25% of its stake in five public sector general
insurers, consider these numbers.
b) Last year, the gross premium income of four of these companies - New India Assurance, United India
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c) The companies whose stake would be offloaded, as per stock market watchdog Securities and Exchange
Board of India’s listing norms, are The New India Assurance Company, United India Insurance Company,
Oriental Insurance Company, National Insurance Company, and General Insurance Corporation of India.
d) But their profits after tax fell by more than half from a year earlier, from Rs.3,094 crore in 2014-15 to just
Rs.1,499 crore in 2015-16.
e) A closer scrutiny reveals that high underwriting losses, which increased 55% in the year, were largely
responsible for profits falling at these firms even as revenues rose.
Answer: c)
Explanation: Option c) is the one which is not part of the coherent paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the disinvestment in rebooting in public sector insurers. But option c) is defining the list of five
insurance companies.

52). a) The world has turned the page on 2016 with the worrying revelation that it was the warmest year on
the instrumental record since the late 19th century, and the hottest of three record-breaking years in a row.
b) While the rise in global average surface temperature by about 1.1º C last year over the pre-industrial era
was aggravated by the El Nino phenomenon of 2015-16, the trend is a warning to all countries that they cannot
afford to rely on carbon-intensive growth any longer.
c) Explaining the scientific view, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies points to the rise in
temperature as being driven “largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the
atmosphere.”
d) The global average temperature last year was 1.69°Fahrenheit (0.94°C) above the 20th century average,
and 0.07°F (0.04°C) warmer than in 2015, the last record-setting year, according to NOAA. A separate analysis
by the
U.S. space agency NASA also found that 2016 was the hottest on record.
e) The warming pattern must be seen in the context of declining sea ice cover in the Arctic, compounding
the loss of ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic.
Answer: d)
Explanation: Option d) is the one which is not part of the coherent paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the living in the place which is hotter in the world. But option d) is defining the record of the
hottest year 2016.

53). a) Mr. Obama said on Wednesday that he granted clemency to Ms. Manning because she had gone to
trial, taken responsibility for her crime and received a sentence that was harsher than other leakers have
received.
b) Chelsea Manning, the American whistle-blower slapped with a 35-year sentence for leaking classified
State Department documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, has had her sentence commuted by the
outgoing President, Barack Obama.
c) Earlier known as Bradley, she has gender dysphoria, is undergoing hormone therapy for gender
reassignment, and has twice attempted suicide while being held at a men’s prison.
d) She has served more than six years of her sentence and, assuming Mr. Obama’s commutation is
implemented, could hope to be freed by May 2017.
e) Even as White House officials underscored that the 44th President had commuted the sentence, not
pardoned her, and thus had not removed a federal crime from her record, Mr. Obama insisted that “justice has
been served”.
Answer: a)
Explanation: Option a) is the one which is not part of the coherent paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the deserved commutation by Chelsea Manning. But option a) is defining the defending by
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54). a) The Tamil Nadu government may have had few political options but to go in for an ordinance to
facilitate the conduct of jallikattu once the surge in popular sentiment in favour of the traditional bull-taming
sport gathered an enormous, unstoppable momentum.
b) The State amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, seeks to exempt jallikattu from
the purview of the law.
c) With the implacable mass movement demanding a legal Explanation to overcome the judicial ban on
jallikattu on the one side, and related litigation pending in the Supreme Court on the other, there was little that
the Union government could have done on its own.
d) For the Centre to bring in an amendment would have incurred the wrath of the Supreme Court, which
stayed a January 2016 notification and will rule on its validity soon.
e) Youths protesting at Tamukkam ground here are determined to continue with their agitation till
permanent measures for the regular conduct of jallikattu are taken.
Answer: e)
Explanation: Option e) is the one which is not part of the coherent paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the permanence of jallikattu. But option e) is defining the about the protesters.

55). a) President Xi Jinping’s message to the World Economic Forum in Davos was timely and perhaps
visionary as well, in this time of extraordinary global uncertainty.
b) There is "no point in blaming economic globalisation for the world's problems," he said, saying that the
process was not at the root of the Syrian refugee situation or the 2008 financial crisis.
c) It is no surprise if, as in the case of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s potential leadership of the
Western alliance, questions have arisen at this juncture about Mr. Xi’s willingness to take up cudgels on behalf
of broader internationalism and against the rising tide of inward-looking nationalism.
d) His address at the opening plenary before captains of business and industry could not have been a more
robust and reassuring defence of the current world economic order, perceived to be at its most fragile in the
post-War era with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President.
e) Foremost is Mr. Xi’s caution against attempts to prevent the free flow of goods, services, capital and
people as running counter to the historical trend.
Answer: b)
Explanation: Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the conversation between President Xi Jinping and WEF. But option b) is defining the message by
Xi Jinping to the word.

56). a) The split, and the retention of the election symbol, appear to have compensated in some measure for
the party’s failings on the governance front over the last five years.
b) Mr. Akhilesh Yadav is now able to seek a fresh mandate on his own terms; moreover, he can, with some
degree of credibility, blame the shortcomings on the party’s old guard.
c) Also, an alliance with the Congress is now very much within the realm of possibility.
d) The Election Commission on Monday allotted the “bicycle” symbol to the Akhilesh faction of the
Samajwadi Party as the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister enjoyed majority in the party’s organisational and
legislative structures.
e) Mr. Mulayam Singh was averse to a tie-up, but Mr. Akhilesh Yadav seems to enjoy a better rapport with
the Congress leadership.
Answer: d)
Explanation: Option d) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the communication that happened after the retention of election symbol. But option d) is defining
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57). a) The suspense over the timing of the Union Budget for 2017-18 finally ended on Monday with the
Election Commission and the Supreme Court scotching calls, in the light of upcoming elections for five State
Assemblies, to defer the February 1 date proposed by the Centre.
b) The NDA government has been keen to abandon the tradition of presenting the next financial year’s
Budget on the last working day of February, citing the potential benefits for the economy from faster spending
of the approved public expenditure.
c) With a February-end Budget, transmission of funds, and thereby meaningful implementation, seldom
starts before June, by which time the monsoon sets in.
d) This leaves just about two quarters to spend a whole year’s funding for projects involving physical
infrastructure capacity-creation, for instance.
e) Noting that there is “nothing concrete” to back the notion that presentation of the annual budget can
sway the minds of people during the State Assembly polls, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition
seeking the postponement of the Central budget till the Assembly elections in five States.
Answer: e)
Explanation: Option e) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the budgeting in elections. But option e) is defining about the budget before polling.

58). a) Everybody loves a good protest — an orderly, self-limiting protest at iconic landmarks organised
with state sanction and police protection.
b) But what began as a people’s protest on Chennai’s Marina beach against the ban on jallikattu quickly
descended into chaos and confusion when the protesters stood their ground even after the government came up
with a practical, legislative Explanation to the judiciary-imposed prohibition of the annual bull-taming ritual.
c) As the police resorted to force, violence broke out in several parts of Tamil Nadu.
d) Unfortunately, some in the police not only used excessive force but also tried to match the rioters in
lawlessness by attacking two-wheelers and setting fire to auto rickshaws.
e) The State prepared itself for a shutdown on Friday as trade unions, traders, hoteliers and others in the
service sector announced a dawn-to-dusk bandh in support.
Answer: e)
Explanation: Option e) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the jallikattu protest and its ending. But option e) is defining about the shutdown of power during
the protest.

59). a) The number of unemployed people in India is expected to rise by 1 lakh in 2017 and another 2 lakh in
2018, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
b) The mismatch between the number of people who annually reach working age and the availability of
jobs has been a matter of constant concern globally during the better part of the period since the global financial
crisis of the last decade.
c) The International Labour Organisation’s latest forecast that a few more millions are set to join the pool
of the jobless during this year and the next, is in line with its own previous estimates.
d) In any case, with the growth in global gross domestic product registering a six-year low in 2016,
expectations of generation of new jobs were always going to be low.
e) But a no-less-serious concern in the ‘World Employment and Social Outlook 2017’ pertains to the
stubborn challenge of reducing the extent of vulnerability that currently affects about 42 per cent of the total
working population.
Answer: a)
Explanation: Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the job market vagaries. But option a) is defining about the jobless peoples in India.

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b) Advance GDP estimates and gross value added (GVA) for the current fiscal year from the Central
Statistics Office clearly reveal the extent of the slowdown.
c) India’s gross domestic output is expected to grow at a slower pace of 7.1 per cent in 2016-17 compared
to the
7.6 per cent clocked in the previous year, Chief Statistician TCA Anant said.
d) While GDP growth is now pegged at 7.1 per cent, compared with a 7.6 per cent pace in 2015-16, GVA
is forecast to expand at 7 per cent this year, easing from the 7.2 per cent posted 12 months earlier.
e) And as the Chief Statistician emphasised, these projections were based solely on data from the first
seven months through October and do not factor in the impact from the withdrawal of high-value banknotes and
the consequent cash crunch.
Answer: c)
Explanation: Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are
talking about the decreasing nature of economy. But option c) is defining about the GDP growth.

Sentence Improvement

Directions (61-70): Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the
words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct?
If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.

61). In the U.S., German luxury brands has been succeeded in getting people who could once have thought
the cars were out of their league towards buying and leasing some snazzy rides.
a) Has succeeded, once might have, in buying, leasing
b) Have succeeded, should have once, for buying, leasing
c) Have succeeded, might have once, to buy, lease
d) Had succeeded, once should have, on the way to buy, leased
e) No correction required
62). Denial of wages forced scientists and teachers at the agriculture universities throughout the country to
go on strike, crippling crucial research that could help the state of agriculture in the country.
a) Strained, during, critical, condition
b) Required, all over, vital, situation
c) Worried, all through, essential, status
d) Concerned, in the course of, important, position
e) No correction required
63). After that the Tsunami had killed thousands of people beside the coasts of southern India;
parliament approved a bill that proposed to set up an institutional mechanism to respond quickly to natural
disasters.
a) Soon after, along, passed, promptly
b) Later on, next to, accepted, swiftly
c) Anon, alongside, permitted, rapidly
d) In a while, adjacent to, established, punctually
e) No correction required

64). In an aim to boost their profits, many edible oil manufacturing companies have been engaging
themselves in misinformation against commonly used oils and supporting exotic and expensive varieties of
oils as more healthier options.
a) Effort to, making, party line, sustaining
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c) Intend to, generating, cant, sponsoring
d) Attempt to, producing, propaganda, promoting
e) No correction required
65). During the days of the League when India's benefit were affected, such as in matters of trade or the
place of Indians overseas, the Indian delegation did not falter to make known its autonomous position, for
what it was worth.
a) Advantage, situation of, vacillate to, sovereign
b) Assistance, part of, dither to, hopeful
c) Interests, position of, hesitate to, independent
d) Support, state of, wane to, positive
e) No correction required
66). Unless India and the US are signing a new extradition treaty or adjusting the existing one is rather
unclear, but there is no doubt that India's extradition requests have usually been turned by western
democracies.
a) If, modifying, fairly, turned in
b) Whether, amending, somewhat, turned down
c) Because of, altering, a bit, turned up
d) When, improving, not at all, turned on
e) No correction required
67). When women are allowed to work in a profession of their choice, when they have access to financial
services and when they are protected, by law, from domestic violence, they are not only economically
empowered, they also live longer.
a) Permitted, contact to, confined, authorized
b) Accepted, entrance to, cosseted, allowed
c) Tolerated, way in, cramped, endorsed
d) Established, aperture, curbed, certified
e) No correction required
68). The force of technical improvement in armaments on man, have to be analyzed with a sane mind, and
heart free from prejudices of any kind towards modernization.
a) Impact, advancement, needs to, rational
b) Brunt, encroachment, wants to, coherent
c) Collision, development, will, lucid
d) Power, enlargement, should, cogent
e) No correction required
69). The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) approximates that America forgoes about $ 17 billion in
retirement earnings annually as financial advisers suggest investments that generate profitable commissions
for themselves but short change their clients with high fees, not a hundred percent performance and risky
products.
a) Guessed, advocated, rewarding, not at best
b) Calculated, advised, beneficial, in poor
c) Educated, proposed, productive, meager
d) Estimates, recommend, lucrative, below-par
e) No correction required
70). The greater part of the poor remain in rural areas, and measures to rectify poverty must
concentrate on striking both agricultural expansion and non-farm employment.
a) Majority, redress, enhancing, growth
b) Most, correct, outstanding, development
c) Large amount, resolve, prominent in, progress
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e) No correction required

Explanation:
61). Answer: c)
Have succeeded – German luxury brands is plural. So “have succeeded” will come.
Might have once – The sentence is explaining about the certainty i.e. the people may or may not think about it.
So “might” will come.
To buy, lease – It will be the correct idiomatic.
62). Answer: e)
Forced - produced or maintained with effort; Throughout – in every part of
Crucial – decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something or of great importance. State –
the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time.
63). Answer: a)
Along - moving in a constant direction on Passed - approve or put into effect Promptly - with little or no delay
64). Answer: d)
Attempt to - an act of trying to achieve something
Producing - make or manufacture from components or raw materials. Propaganda - information, especially of a
biased or misleading nature
Promoting - further the progress of (something, especially a cause, venture, or aim); support or actively
encourage.
65). Answer: c)
Interests – the advantage or benefit of a person or group.
Position of – a place where someone or something is located or has been put. Hesitate to - pause before saying
or doing something, especially through uncertainty. Independent - free from outside control; not depending on
another's authority.
66). Answer: b)
Whether - expressing a doubt or choice between alternatives. Amending - make minor changes in (a text) in
order to make it fairer, Somewhat - to a moderate extent or by a moderate amount;
Turned down - to decline to accept
67). Answer: e)
Allowed - admit (an event or activity) as legal or acceptable. Access to – a means of approaching or entering a
place.
Protected - keep safe from harm or injury.
Empowered - give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
68). Answer: a)
Impact – the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another Advancement – the process of
promoting a cause or plan
Needs to – circumstances in which something is necessary, or that require some course of action; necessity
Rational – based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
69). Answer: d)
Estimates – judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.
Recommend – put forward (someone or something) with approval as being suitable for a particular purpose or
role.
Lucrative – producing a great deal of profit.
Below-par – better (or worse) than is usual or expected.
70). Answer: a)
Majority – the greater number.
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Enhancing – intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of. Growth - the process of
increasing in physical size.

Fill Ups

Directions (Q 71-80): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence
there are four words denoted by numbers a), b), c) and d). Find out ONE word that to be fitted in
both the sentences I and II to make it meaningfully complete. In case no word is fit to these sentences,
option 'e' is the answer.
71). I. The purpose of the audit is to all of the financial transactions made under the company umbrella
to ensure fraud has not occurred.
II. If you do not your credit card statement each month, you may find yourself paying for charges you did
not incur.
a) Scrutinize
b) Secure
c) Analyze
d) Intent
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
72). I. The 2000s saw the rise of commercially seeds created by trans-genesis, that is, the insertion of
DNA from one species into another species.
II. While there is a lot of institutional and financial support for other entertainment media; those who go into
theatre generally have to struggle to make it a full-time job.
a) Alternative
b) Successful
c) Lucrative
d) Viable
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
73). I. Environmental groups are upset at the government's plans to allow mining in the sensitive
wilderness area.
II. Maybe your approach is better for the of functional programming anyway makes it less intimidating.
a) Promotion
b) Assertion
c) Advocacy
d) Support
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
74). I. The atmosphere outside the courtroom where the victim's parents the defendant's family was
quite volatile but police were able to keep everything under control.
II. The world is with environmental problems ranging from global warming to deforestation.
a) Exhausted
b) Confronted
c) Tackled
d) Dealt
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
75). I. Leena recalled her long sad and severe look at those words and understood the meaning of the and
despair in that protracted gaze.
II. After learning the lawyer accepted a bribe, the committee decided to him and suspends his license.
a) Rebuke
b) Censure
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d) Criticize
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
76). I. The presence of bedding or cleavage planes against the general slope reduces the for mass
movements to grade the slope.
II. Widening the differentials in the vehicle excise duty system could increase the to purchase very low
emissions vehicles.
a) Character
b) Quality
c) Disposition
d) Propensity
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
77). I. It's not uncommon to hide personal pain, because putting it on display for all to see can be
embarrassing and even relationships.
II. Those that do so usually overeat at the next meal and the glycemic index and several other metabolism-
related factors.
a) Escalate
b) Wreck
c) Haunt
d) Trouble
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
78). I. As a religious , we have to decide whether or not we want to merge with another church.
II. Without hesitation, the brainwashed handed over their lifesavings to the cult leader.
a) Staff
b) Flock
c) Congregation
d) Audience
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
79). I. Since I had not studied for the exam, I was happy when the fire alarm went off in the of the test.
II. In the of the strange surroundings he still preserved that air of knowing, and being master of, his fate,
which was his chief attraction.
a) Nexus
b) Midst
c) Quagmire
d) Position
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
80). I. A good leader will people to achieve their own forms of greatness rather than try to force them on a
certain path.
II. Even though I enjoy having you as a coworker, I you to accept the new job opportunity because it
comes with a pay increase.
a) Exhort
b) Weaken
c) Sink
d) Urge
e) None of the above fits to the sentence.
Explanations:
71). Answer: a)
Scrutinize - examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.

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Viable - capable of working successfully; feasible.

73). Answer: c)
Advocacy – public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.

74). Answer: b)
Confronted – meet (someone or something) face to face with hostile or argumentative intent.

75). Answer: a)
Rebuke – an expression of sharp disapproval or criticism.

76). Answer: d)
Propensity – an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

77). Answer: e)
Destabilize – upset the stability of; cause unrest in.

78). Answer: c)
Congregation – a group of people assembled for religious worship / a gathering or collection of people,
animals, or things.

79). Answer: b)
Midst - the middle point or part.

80). Answer: a)
Exhort - strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

Sentence Filler

Direction (Q. 81 - 90): In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines in the
passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given to make the
passage complete and coherent.

81). Indian officialdom has all but acknowledged what many suspected all along - that there is
something amiss about the growth narrative. _________________. The finance ministry expects a 50,000-
crore shortfall in revenue collections, against the budgeted estimate of 14.5 lakh crore. It has promised
that the fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent of GDP will be adhered to, without serious cutbacks in
expenditure.
a) But that may not be enough to spur investment, given the poor demand impulses, borne out by flat
tractor and auto sales, and the stock of unsold homes.

b) Indeed, while the Budget rightly prioritizes capital spending in infrastructure, setting aside some Rs.
70,000 crore, it is worth considering whether a larger sum is needed to get the investment cycle going — even
if this entails a small deviation from the fiscal deficit target.
c) There can be no better time than now to impart an intelligent, rather than populist, fiscal stimulus —
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d) A lowering of the projections made in the Economic Survey, from 8.1-8.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent,
hardly comes as a surprise, given a 14 per cent deficient monsoon, persistently negative exports and indifferent
industrial growth.
e) The RBI has “frontloaded” its rate cuts and is helping banks deal with stressed assets so that they can
lend freely.
82). For many years, the continent Africa remained unexplored and unknown. The main reason was
the inaccessibility to its interior region due to dense forests, wildlife, savage tribal, deserts and barren
solid hills. ____________. While others explored with the idea of expanding their respective empires,
Livingstone did so to explore its vast and mysterious hinterland, rivers and lakes.
a) He was primarily religious man and a medical practitioner who tried to help mankind with it.
b) Livingstone was born in Scotland and was educated to become a doctor and priest.
c) He explored an unknown river in Western Luanda. However, he was reduced to a skeleton during four
years of travelling.
d) He discovered the origin of the River Nile in 1866. He again suffered many discomforts. He became too
sick and could not even walk.
e) Many people tried to explore the could not survive the dangers, David Livingstone is among those brave
few who not only explored part of Africa but also lived among the tribals bringing them near to social milieu.
83). _______________________. Even the human body is a form of energy. Call it prana or jivatma or
simply vayu energy sustains the gross body and expresses it through sensory perceptions and the basic
physical elements. The three fundamental gunas- satvik, nijasik and tamasik which characterize the
nature of the human being, very often in a combination, are further sub divided into many basic qualities
commonly known as human values.
a) Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is only recycled and recast in different forms.
b) Love, affection, integrity and truth, for instance, are values that are as important to life as breathing or
eating.
c) Energy values are positive but in the course of practice and because they emanate from a mind that is
susceptible to negative thoughts, they get corrupted.
d) Energy generates negativity and manifest in the form of tying cheating or causing others harm.
e) The very fact that human civilization has survived over centuries shows that despite all the negativity,
the force of positive energy within all of us continues to expand and enrich.
84). Over the next five years, India faces one of the world’s biggest financing challenges: bringing
clean, affordable, reliable, water and energy to all, building the infrastructure for smart cities to thrive
and investing in enterprises that will provide livelihoods for an extra 10 million jobseekers each year.
Through all of this and beyond, a sustainable financial system is both a necessity and an opportunity.
_____________________. Actual practice suggests the reverse.
a) At IDFC, the business case for sustainable finance is real and multifaceted: reduced risk, increased
market share, access to international finance, reduced reputational risks and enhanced brand value.
b) For too long, a myth has been allowed to take root in India that sustainability and finance are at odds –
that taking account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors raises costs, reduces returns and
impedes development.
c) The fivefold increase in the country’s solar target to 100 GW of installed capacity by 2022 will require
unprecedented volumes of investment, perhaps as much as $ 100 billion as per some estimates.
d) The Small Industries Development Bank of India has found, for example, that loans to energy – efficient
companies have a much better loan recovery rate than the norm.
e) Sustainable finance is fundamentally about channeling capital to India’s real economy needs. Take
renewable.
85). Central to the financial sector reforms would be the restructuring and financing of public sector
banks (PSBs). ___________________. Accordingly, it recommended that the minimum government
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government holding to 33 per cent would not mean a loss of control over the social objectives of PSBs,
but it would give a breather to these banks to meet minimum capital requirements.
a) The UPA government I and II swore by the 51 per cent minimum government holding and hence there
was an impasse.
b) The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (2013) recommended a single Indian Financial
Sector Code.

c) The Narasimham Committee II on Banking Sector Reforms (1998) concluded that the fisc just could not
meet the capital requirements of PSBs.
d) The pronouncements of the present BJP government, however, indicate that they would not deviate
from the 51 per cent government holding in PSBs.
e) Under the NDA regime, Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha made a valiant effort to get this
recommendation accepted, but parliamentarians from his own party blocked the move.
86). _______________. But the number of insured people is only around 20% which is very less
compared to other countries. There could be many reasons for this shortfall such as lack of awareness or
the inability of companies to reach the masses. But the government of India on its part has taken many
steps to increase insurance penetration.
a) India with a population of over 1 billion is the 2nd most populous country in the world.
b) The government has brought many reforms in the insurance sector, the above steps have helped more
people to take up insurance policies.
c) In the coming years, we can be confident of seeing higher growth in insurance penetration among
Indians.
d) The biggest step taken by the government in recent years was raising the Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) to 49% from the earlier 26%.
e) The amendment paved way for foreign insurance companies to start operations in India by partnering
with existing entities & offer more products suited for Indian public.
87). Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our chase
for that elusive dream. Especially in the west, the land that has been marketed as the land of dreams - the
great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives, of making big bucks and
of being happy - even if that happiness is being bought by money, which all of them chase out there.
____________.
a) That is what has made the rest of the world mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or
an ideal form of society.
b) All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
c) Thus, the shop window of Westernism looks lucidly attractive.
d) However, this has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and
exploitation.
e) No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty.
88). A long-standing perspective on modernity - that a march toward it would lead progressively to
lessening of religious and related affiliations – has been discredited over a period of time. ____________.
For example, even a product of the information revolution, the Internet, is used to hunt for marriage
partners of a given caste. Modern electoral politics is all about utilizing identities that predate this
modernity for political gain.
a) We have assumed erroneously that we know what modernity is, thereby confusing its present character
with what we wish it to be.
b) Confusing a wish with the reality on the ground might well be called the Great Nehruvian Conceit —
we are all part of this.
c) It frequently goes back to the past and incorporates elements from long-forgotten eras into its unfolding
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d) Modern technologies - such as television - feed growing religious appetites.
e) We have too easily assumed a linear narrative for modernity, even more so if we clearly observe that it
consists of bits and pieces from different historical periods, and that it unfolds in a circular rather than linear
manner.
89). _______________. The vast majority of those who backed him, those who gave the BJP he led a
clear mandate in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, bought his words of hope in to, and believed he could
bring in much-needed change and put the country back on a trajectory of growth and development. On
the first anniversary, some of the promises remain as proposals and many others appear too remote with
little or no chance of coming to fruition in the next four years.
a) As the previous Congress-led government ended its term entwined in scams and scandals, Mr. Modi
marketed himself as everything his predecessor Manmohan Singh was not, and sought to represent the varied
aspirations of whole classes of people.
b) Having come to power on the strength of mega-promises centered on the prospect of ache din for all,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot but feel the weight of popular expectations on his government after an
uneventful first year.
c) To the government’s credit, inflation is down.
d) PM Modi wanted to offer much more than a concrete programme of action; he wanted to present a
vision of the future, a vision of India taking its place as an economic superpower in the first world.
e) Falling international oil prices might have had a role as also the resoluteness of the Reserve Bank of
India in not lowering interest rates, but the government kept a close watch on food prices.
90). We today revel in the idea that we are living in a world of science and science can work wonders
for us. It is evident that science has revolutionized modern life. What our forefathers, half a century ago,
could not even dream of, we have that on our beck and call. _______________. A button is pressed, the
room gets flooded with light; the fan moves, the A.C. Cools or warms the room, water is boiled or cooled
even is frozen, eatables can be preserved for days.
a) Artificial limbs can be fitted into the disabled bodies, even kidneys, and hearts are being performed.
b) Means of communication- The fax, The E-mail, The mobile smart phones are really wonderful means
given to us by science.
c) Electricity is a wonder and what it is doing would have appeared to be a fairy tale for our forefathers.
d) Human labor has been minimized but that has led to a more luxurious living and lens of physical
activity.
e) The worlds is getting exposed to the situations of great alarms and dangers. GMOs are good for some
crops and not so for others. Wild varieties cannot be allowed to go extinct.

Explanation:
81). Answer: d)
Option d) is correct answer since in the beginning of the passage it is explaining about the worst case of the
economic situation. So, option d) is explaining about negative growth of economic condition while others are
explaining the ways to improve the economic state.
82). Answer: e)
Option e) is correct answer since in the beginning of the passage it is explaining about the Africa and its region.
So, option e) will give a coherent passage since others are describing about Livingstone.
83). Answer: a)
Option a) is correct answer since in the paragraph is explaining about the Energy. So, option a) will be perfect
choice for starting the passage.
84). Answer: b)
Option b) is correct answer since in the paragraph is describing about the financial status. So, option a) is opt
for the blank since it explains the myth of the financial situation and makes the paragraph complete.
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Option c) is correct answer since in the paragraph is giving details about the reformation of PSBs. So, option c)
is fit to the blank and makes the paragraph coherent.
86). Answer: a)
Option a) is correct answer since the paragraph gives details insurance scheme among people. So, option a) will
be a perfect sentence for starting the passage since it describe about the people which is followed in next
sentence.
87). Answer: e)
Option e) is correct answer since the passage gives some facts about capitalism. So, option e) will be a correct
option for that blank since it makes the paragraph meaningful.
88). Answer: d)
Option d) is correct answer since the passage explains about the modernity. So, option d) will be correct answer
since it makes the paragraph coherent which gives the continuation of previous sentence.
89). Answer: b)
Option b) is correct answer since in the paragraph is describing about the development that was done during the
past year by PM Narendra Modi. So, option b) is a correct sentence which gives correct starting for the
paragraph.
90). Answer: c)
Option c) is correct answer since in the paragraph is giving details about technology improvement in science.
So, option c) is exact sentence which makes the paragraph meaningful.

Error Spot

Directions (91-100): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will
be in one or more sentence. Then choose the sentence(s) without error as your answer. If there is error in
all the sentences, then your answer is E. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
91). A. Locke's treatises on government toleration and education show a mind fully awake in the possibilities
of social reconstruction.
B. A large scale exchange of nuclear weapons will produce unprecedented amounts of radiation that can
penetrate into the biological tissue.

C. The person who was recommended for the position did not fulfill the prescribed qualifications.
D. The presumption that the average investor does not understand or take interest in the affairs of the
company is not correct.
a) Only A
b) Only D
c) Both A & C
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
92). A. At the moment the house was burgled the family attended a night party in the neighborhood.
B. Though he stoutly persisted in denying his involvement in the case, the facts made it very clear that he
had hand in the cruel murder of his wife.
C. There was very heavy rain last night, and the rivers have overflown their banks causing severe hardship
to the people living by them.
D. Scarcely had I finished washing the car than the master came and asked me to clean the floor of the
house.
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d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
93). A. Few scientists have changed people's ideas as much as Darwin with his Theory of Evolution.
B. The meeting adjourned abruptly by the Chairman after about three hours of deliberation.
C. Another reason for pharmaceutical companies beefing up their OTC (Over the Country) divisions is that
prescription drugs with proven safety records which have been reached the end of the their patent protection
period are allowed to be sold without a prescription.
D. Last month we celebrated the wedding of our sister for whom we have been looking for a suitable
alliance for three years.
a) Only B
b) Only A
c) Both A & C
d) Both C & B
e) None of the sentence is correct.
94). A. Unless you stop making noise at once I will have no option but to bring the matter to the attention of
the police.
B. Since India gained Independence 49 years ago much progress has been made in almost every field.
C. He wanted to work all night but we saw that he was completely worn out and so we persuaded him to
stop.
D. The party chief made it a point to state that the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister should
also come and they see what his party men had seen.
a) Only A
b) Only D
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
95). A. This questions force us to face the unpleasant truth that the policies of social justice have reached a
dead end.
B. The judge advised the government to have metered auto rickshaws across the state while recounting his
personal experience where an auto- rickshaw driver made him to wait and also demanded Rs. 100.
C. India’s largest corporate house may be forced to review the selection parameters after struggling to
shortlist potential candidates for the past eight months.
D. Australian scientists have developed a new anti-venom treatment that could save household pets from
deadly snakebites.
a) Only C
b) Only D
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
96). A. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will leave for New Delhi on Friday evening to attend the Inter-
State Council meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi the previous day.
B. Besides, the jallikattu ban is hardly enforceable as benign cultural practices enjoying widespread
support can’t be curbed through fiat.
C. Astronomers have found two exo-planet that are potentially habitable, as they do not have hydrogen-
dominated atmospheres that smother life.
D. Researchers have discovered that a deadly bacteria, which can be picked up by a simple sniff, can travel
to the brain and spinal cord in just 24 hours.
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c) Both B & D
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
97). A. The idea ought to be to move to a competitive market price rather then a distorted subsidized price
that is perverse incentive for arbitrage and artificial shortages.
B. The broker plays an important part as a matchmaker enabling buyer and seller to agree to terms which
would spark a transaction.
C. Other investments planned in sectors like public transport (namely, low-floor buses) and railways also
need to be expediting to reap immediate benefits.
D. A good broker is aware that without strong logistics support, transactions could take longer to transpire,
in some cases might never happen.
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
98). A. With theatrics such as these, both the Government and the Opposition have left an question hanging
in the politically charged air: what was the point?
B. It also failed to end the session on a note of federal cooperation to set on the shift to Budget day to
February 1 from next year.
C. With the Opposition parties mustering all its disruptive tactics to stall the functioning of both Houses,
insisting on maximalist demands on just how the debate on demonetization should be structured, hopes for any
substantive work had diminished.
D. Basic self-interest demands that government and opposition avert the possibility for the Budget session
meeting the same fate as this one.
a) Only C
b) Only D
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
99). A. My all hopes were dashed to the ground when I came to know that my son had fallen in bad
company.
B. Although he only earns eight hundred rupees a month, he manages to support his family adequately.
C. Though the first portion of the book was dull, but the later part was quite interesting.
D. The current economic scenario could possibly undo the growth that had followed the economic
liberalization of 1991.
a) Only D
b) Only A
c) Both A & B
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.
100). A. The Renaissance was a time to ‘reawakening’ in both the arts and the sciences.
B. While luminaries of the dance world have a dearth of opportunities to display their art upcoming
dancers suffer from an unfortunate lack of exposure.
C. Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial incentives have become increasingly
difficult.
D. Our neighbors would have repeated the same illogical sequence of activities if we had not brought the
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b) Only D
c) Both B & D
d) Both C & D
e) None of the sentence is correct.

Explanation:

91). Answer: d)
In A, replace ‘awake in’ by ‘alert to’; In B, remove “into”;
92). Answer: e)
In A, remove “at”; In B, replace ‘hand’ by “involved”; In C, replace ‘overflown’ by “overflowed”; In D,
replace ‘ than’ by “when”.
93). Answer: b)
In B, ‘adjourned abruptly’ should be replaced by “was abruptly adjourned”; In C, remove ‘been’; In D, replace
‘have’ by “had”.
94). Answer: c)
In C, replace by ‘was completely’ by “had completely been”; In D, remove ‘they’.
95). Answer: a)
In A, Use “These” in place of ‘This’; In B, ‘made him to wait’ should be replaced by “made him wait”; In D,
replace “could” with “can”;
96). Answer: c)
In A, it should be “the next day” instead of “the previous day”. Because first part of sentence is in future tense
so meeting should be held on the next day; In C, it should be “exo-planets” instead of “exo-planet”
97). Answer: b)
In A, Replace “then” with “than” - Rather…than is correct sequence; In C, Replace “expediting” with
“expedited”; In D, Replace “might” with “may”.
98). Answer: e)
In A, it should be “a question” instead of ‘an question’; In B, Replace “on” with “up”; In C, it should be “their”
instead of ‘its’; In D, Replace “for” with “of”;
99). Answer: a)
In A, Put ‘all’ before ‘my’; In B, Change the position of ‘only’. Put it before ‘eight hundred rupees’; In C,
Substitute ‘but’ by ‘yet’ or delete ‘but’;
100). Answer: d)
In A, “of” should come instead of ‘to’; In B, “no” should come in place of ‘a’.

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