DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions.

Choose the best

answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.

Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.

Q1. According to the passage, ancient writers allegedly

a) failed to establish a methodology for the study of political science.

b) did not put enough effort into establishing a discipline of political science. Your answer is incorrect

c) had a flawed understanding of how rules and laws came in to being and passed away.

d) did not study the data of political life in a systematic manner.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.

Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.
Q2. Which of the following can be inferred from the third paragraph of the passage?

a) The author does not expect the founder of a field of study to be non-traditional in his works.

b) Unlike Hobbes and Descartes, Machiavelli broke away from the traditional authority of his predecessors.
Your answer is incorrect

c) The author expects the works of the founder of a field of study to be experimental.

d) Machiavelli is called the founder of modern political science not because he was an iconoclast but because of his
methodological innovations.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.

Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.

Q3. What is the primary aspect of Machiavelli’s work that set it apart from the works of others prior to him?

a) He highlighted that a statesman should be a revolutionary and not a mere reformer.

b) He stayed away from prescribing how things should be and focussed on how things are. Your answer is
correct

c) He paid attention to the “free personality” of men and the value of private life.

d) He devised the rules of politics solely from a political angle.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.
Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.

Q4. Which of the following can be inferred to be the meaning of being “good” from the fourth paragraph of the passage?

a) Sacrificing one’s own well-being for the sake of others.

b) Acting in a manner which destroys existing conventions.

c) Possessing desired qualities.

d) Conforming to set rules. Your answer is correct

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.

Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.

Q5. Which of the following is true of Machiavelli’s prince, as can be inferred from para 4 and 5 of the passage?

a) Machiavelli’s prince has the exact characteristics as those of great founder legislators of the past.

b) Unlike the great founder legislators of the past, Machiavelli’s prince is open to framing new rules and does not
confine himself to existing rules.

c) Machiavelli’s prince alluded to a new, highly idealized conception of the statesman but this fact is obscured by
the reference to the great founder legislators of the past. Your answer is correct

d) Machiavelli’s The Prince is an amalgamation of the life lessons of Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

It will surprise no one if I say that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science.

To be sure, long before Machiavelli, the ancient writers had attempted to establish a science of politics. Plato, Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero had engaged in serious and systematic efforts to organize and clarify the data of political life, to
establish rules and laws by which different regimes come into being and pass away. The failure of the ancients, so it was
alleged, came not from their efforts to establish a science of politics but from their want of method in attempting to do so. It
is the charge of methodological naïveté that was brought against the ancients by Machiavelli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes,
and others seeking to put knowledge on a new, more secure foundation.

The idea that Machiavelli is the founder of modern political science is by no means self-evident. He seems to make none of
the bold experimental moves more frequently associated with Descartes and Hobbes. His most famous book, The Prince,
follows a traditional genre of “mirror of princes” that goes back to Xenophon; his longest and greatest book, Discourses on
Livy, takes the form of a commentary on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy. What could be more traditional? Yet
Machiavelli’s modernity consists less in his methodological innovations than in his call to break from the traditional authority
of his predecessors.

Machiavelli’s modernity is expressed in his preference for novelty, for the new over the old, for the bold and experimental
over the tried and true. His embrace of novelty is also tied to his realism, to the “effectual truth of the thing” rather than the
imagination. By the effectual truth, he means knowledge of the “is” rather than the “ought,” of the way things actually work
as opposed to how they ought to be. This is the prior move that made all later methodological innovations possible, namely,
Machiavelli’s attempt to determine the rules of political life solely from political life rather than subordinating it to the
demands of morality, theology, or metaphysics… Machiavelli’s praise of the effectual truth is followed by his famous (or
infamous) judgement that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn how “not to be good,” in other words, learn to break
the established rules and conventions. The prince who follows Machiavelli’s advice will be not simply a reformer but a
revolutionary who established his authority de novo.

Machiavelli’s modernity is most often expressed in his conception of the new prince who is the bringer of “new modes and
orders,” someone on the order of the great founder legislators of the past like Moses, Lycurgus, Cyrus, and Romulus.
Machiavelli’s appeal to these classical models concealed the fact that his prince expressed a new, highly idealized,
conception of the statesman, at once individual, autonomous, and self-legislating. Machiavelli thought of politics as a work of
art... He was a product of Renaissance Florence and a contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo. The term
“Renaissance” may mean rebirth, but the period was a time of extraordinary innovation… In fact, Nietzsche’s contemporary,
the historian Jacob Burckhardt, remains the most perceptive analyst of this new disposition that assumed the proportions of
a new protean image of human nature, a combination of individuality, an unprecedented flowering of the “free personality,”
and a new attention to the value of private life.

Q6. What does Machiavelli mean by the term “effectual truth” (para 4)?

a) The knowledge that politics is independent of metaphysics and theology.

b) The pursuit of the bold and the experimental.

c) Realistic knowledge of how to make things the way they should be.

d) Knowledge about the situation as is. Your answer is correct

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.

Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…

Q7. Which of the following can be inferred about Thomas Hunt Morgan’s studies?

a) He initially scrutinized regeneration in planaria but switched to studying regeneration in fruit flies.

b) He initially studied regeneration in planaria but later switched to studying genetic and embryonic development
focusing on fruit flies. Your answer is correct

c) He found that using fruit flies for studying regeneration helped understand it better than using planaria.

d) He found that regeneration cannot be understood by studying planaria and hence, switched to studying
genetic and embryonic development in planaria.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.

Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…

Q8. Which of the three strategies (mentioned in para 3) do humans make use of as mentioned in para 4 of the passage?

a) All the three strategies. Your answer is incorrect

b) The first and the third strategies.

c) The second and the third strategies.

d) The first and the second strategies.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.
Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.

Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…

Q9. Which of the following strategies do salamanders most probably use for replacing a severed tail (as mentioned in para
1 of the passage)?

a) Working organ cells that normally do not divide multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue.

b) Pools of stem cells step in to perform required renovations.

c) The process of dedifferentiation. Your answer is correct

d) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.

Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…
Q10. Which of the following can be inferred from the penultimate paragraph of the passage?

a) Scarring is absent in animals that are known for their regenerative abilities.

b) Humans cannot regenerate tissues because they do not scar.

c) Regenerating tissues in humans causes cancer.

d) Humans who have the ability to regenerate tissues are prone to suffer from cancer. Your answer is incorrect

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.
Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…

Q11. What is a common difference between the examples of animal regenerative mechanisms (para 3) and the examples
of human regenerative mechanisms (para 4)?

a) The former occur in adult animals, while the latter occur in the embryonic stage.

b) The former has been observed only in laboratories, while the latter is more commonplace.

c) The former occur naturally, while the latter involve human intervention. Your answer is correct

d) The former is quicker, while the latter takes a lot of time.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Researchers have puzzled for centuries over how body parts replenish themselves. In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss
researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra… could grow back into complete, new
organisms. Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail. And a century later,
Thomas Hunt Morgan scrutinized planaria, flatworms that can regenerate even when whittled into 279 bits. But he decided
that regeneration was an intractable problem and forsook planaria in favor of fruit flies.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic
development. But some researchers have pressed on with studies of regeneration superstars, and they've devised
innovative strategies to tackle the genetics of these organisms. These efforts and investigations of new regeneration models
are beginning to reveal the forces that guide regeneration and those that prevent it.

Animals exploit three principal strategies to regenerate organs. First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can
multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts. Second, specialized cells can undo their
training - a process known as dedifferentiation - and assume a more pliable form that can replicate and later respecialize to
reconstruct a missing part. Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to
mend clipped fins. Finally, pools of stem cells can step in to perform required renovations. Planaria tap into this resource
when reconstructing themselves.

Humans already plug into these mechanisms to some degree. For instance, after surgical removal of part of a liver, healing
signals tell remaining liver cells to resume growth and division to expand the organ back to its original size. Researchers
have found that when properly enticed, some types of specialized human cells can revert to a more nascent state... So why
do our hearts fill with scar tissue, our lenses cloud, and our brain cells perish?

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of
body structures during embryonic development. We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the
course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for
regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer. And we may have evolved the capacity to heal wounds rapidly to repel
infection, even though speeding the pace means more scarring. Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds
methodically and produce pristine tissue…

Unraveling the mysteries of regeneration will depend on understanding what separates our wound-healing process from that
of animals that are able to regenerate. The difference might be subtle… A relatively modest number of genetic differences
seems to underlie the effect. Perhaps altering a handful of genes would be enough to turn us into superhealers, too…

Q12. According to the passage, what can be a probable reason that adult humans lost the ability to regenerate tissues?

a) Regenerating tissues increases the chances of infection.

b) Regenerating tissues results in scarring, which leads to further complications. Your answer is incorrect

c) Regenerating tissues requires abundance of stem cells, which humans do not possess.

d) Regenerating tissues increases the chances of cancer incidence.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In the past decade, researchers have found that between 1% and 4% of the DNA of modern Europeans and their
descendants on other continents is of Neanderthal origin. What is less clear is the effect today of the DNA so acquired.
Neanderthal DNA is not easy to come by (it must be garnered from well preserved fossils). Doing extensive genetic testing
on large numbers of modern humans, which is necessary to untangle the influence of even a relatively small chunk of their
genomes, is expensive. Nevertheless, such a comparison has been made by Corinne Simonti of the Vanderbilt Genetics
Institute, in Tennessee.

Rather than doing the genetic tests themselves, Dr Simonti and her colleagues used data from the Electronic Medical
Records and Genomics Network. This gave them both the medical histories and the genotypes of thousands of people.
They picked out 28,416 people of European descent and compared the genomes of these individuals with genetic
information recovered from the toe-bone of a Neanderthal woman that was found in a cave in Russia, in 2010. They found
135,000 bits of modern human DNA which they thought were probably of Neanderthal origin.

Previous research had found such Neanderthal DNA to be especially common near parts of the genome associated with
illnesses like depression, heart disease and seborrheic keratosis, a complaint in which scaly lumps form on the skin.
Because Dr Simonti’s data included people who actually suffer from such conditions, she was able to check those
associations. She found that particular chunks of Neanderthal DNA were not only correlated with the presence of all three
complaints but they also put their carriers at additional risks of obesity, blood-clotting disorders, malnutrition, and smoking.

At first blush, this seems to suggest that Neanderthal DNA is a curse. But that is almost certainly not the case. Forty
millennia is plenty of time for evolution to get to work. This means that unfavourable traits should have been weeded out,
while beneficial ones spread. There is evidence of exactly this. Some parts of the human genome are unusually free from
Neanderthal influence, suggesting natural selection has removed harmful genes. Other parts of the human genome are full
of them.

Dr Simonti added that some Neanderthal genes might put their bearers at risk of obesity in the modern world of fatty, sugary
snacks. But in a world where food was scarce (as it presumably was in the northern latitudes where modern humans and
Neanderthals mixed), those same genes might help their owners through lean periods. Neanderthal DNA seems to put
modern humans at risk of a specific sort of malnutrition caused by a lack of thiamine, a B vitamin that is vital for
carbohydrate metabolism. But, says Dr Simonti, that same genetic variant may also make it easier to digest fats. Millennia
ago, when people obtained less of their energy from refined carbohydrates, the evolution trade-off may have been
worthwhile. In a world where grain crops have become a staple food, it may not be.

Q13. Which of the following most accurately describes the organization of the passage?

a) The passage challenges the validity of a research investigation by exposing the inconsistencies and
contradictions in it.

b) The passage presents research findings and addresses some speculations arising out of the investigation.
Your answer is correct

c) Two parallel investigations are discussed - the findings of one are proved correct and the findings of the other
are summarily rejected.

d) The passage presents two explanations for an evolutionary phenomenon based on medical records and
reconciles the differences between them.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In the past decade, researchers have found that between 1% and 4% of the DNA of modern Europeans and their
descendants on other continents is of Neanderthal origin. What is less clear is the effect today of the DNA so acquired.
Neanderthal DNA is not easy to come by (it must be garnered from well preserved fossils). Doing extensive genetic testing
on large numbers of modern humans, which is necessary to untangle the influence of even a relatively small chunk of their
genomes, is expensive. Nevertheless, such a comparison has been made by Corinne Simonti of the Vanderbilt Genetics
Institute, in Tennessee.

Rather than doing the genetic tests themselves, Dr Simonti and her colleagues used data from the Electronic Medical
Records and Genomics Network. This gave them both the medical histories and the genotypes of thousands of people.
They picked out 28,416 people of European descent and compared the genomes of these individuals with genetic
information recovered from the toe-bone of a Neanderthal woman that was found in a cave in Russia, in 2010. They found
135,000 bits of modern human DNA which they thought were probably of Neanderthal origin.

Previous research had found such Neanderthal DNA to be especially common near parts of the genome associated with
illnesses like depression, heart disease and seborrheic keratosis, a complaint in which scaly lumps form on the skin.
Because Dr Simonti’s data included people who actually suffer from such conditions, she was able to check those
associations. She found that particular chunks of Neanderthal DNA were not only correlated with the presence of all three
complaints but they also put their carriers at additional risks of obesity, blood-clotting disorders, malnutrition, and smoking.

At first blush, this seems to suggest that Neanderthal DNA is a curse. But that is almost certainly not the case. Forty
millennia is plenty of time for evolution to get to work. This means that unfavourable traits should have been weeded out,
while beneficial ones spread. There is evidence of exactly this. Some parts of the human genome are unusually free from
Neanderthal influence, suggesting natural selection has removed harmful genes. Other parts of the human genome are full
of them.

Dr Simonti added that some Neanderthal genes might put their bearers at risk of obesity in the modern world of fatty, sugary
snacks. But in a world where food was scarce (as it presumably was in the northern latitudes where modern humans and
Neanderthals mixed), those same genes might help their owners through lean periods. Neanderthal DNA seems to put
modern humans at risk of a specific sort of malnutrition caused by a lack of thiamine, a B vitamin that is vital for
carbohydrate metabolism. But, says Dr Simonti, that same genetic variant may also make it easier to digest fats. Millennia
ago, when people obtained less of their energy from refined carbohydrates, the evolution trade-off may have been
worthwhile. In a world where grain crops have become a staple food, it may not be.

Q14. According to the passage, Neanderthal DNA is attributed to all of the following conditions in humans EXCEPT?

a) It can lead to scaly lump formation on the skin.

b) It may impair carbohydrate metabolism.

c) It can subject a human carrier to risks of obesity and cancer.

d) It can put a human carrier at additional risks of blood-clotting disorders and smoking. Your answer is
incorrect

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DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In the past decade, researchers have found that between 1% and 4% of the DNA of modern Europeans and their
descendants on other continents is of Neanderthal origin. What is less clear is the effect today of the DNA so acquired.
Neanderthal DNA is not easy to come by (it must be garnered from well preserved fossils). Doing extensive genetic testing
on large numbers of modern humans, which is necessary to untangle the influence of even a relatively small chunk of their
genomes, is expensive. Nevertheless, such a comparison has been made by Corinne Simonti of the Vanderbilt Genetics
Institute, in Tennessee.

Rather than doing the genetic tests themselves, Dr Simonti and her colleagues used data from the Electronic Medical
Records and Genomics Network. This gave them both the medical histories and the genotypes of thousands of people.
They picked out 28,416 people of European descent and compared the genomes of these individuals with genetic
information recovered from the toe-bone of a Neanderthal woman that was found in a cave in Russia, in 2010. They found
135,000 bits of modern human DNA which they thought were probably of Neanderthal origin.

Previous research had found such Neanderthal DNA to be especially common near parts of the genome associated with
illnesses like depression, heart disease and seborrheic keratosis, a complaint in which scaly lumps form on the skin.
Because Dr Simonti’s data included people who actually suffer from such conditions, she was able to check those
associations. She found that particular chunks of Neanderthal DNA were not only correlated with the presence of all three
complaints but they also put their carriers at additional risks of obesity, blood-clotting disorders, malnutrition, and smoking.

At first blush, this seems to suggest that Neanderthal DNA is a curse. But that is almost certainly not the case. Forty
millennia is plenty of time for evolution to get to work. This means that unfavourable traits should have been weeded out,
while beneficial ones spread. There is evidence of exactly this. Some parts of the human genome are unusually free from
Neanderthal influence, suggesting natural selection has removed harmful genes. Other parts of the human genome are full
of them.

Dr Simonti added that some Neanderthal genes might put their bearers at risk of obesity in the modern world of fatty, sugary
snacks. But in a world where food was scarce (as it presumably was in the northern latitudes where modern humans and
Neanderthals mixed), those same genes might help their owners through lean periods. Neanderthal DNA seems to put
modern humans at risk of a specific sort of malnutrition caused by a lack of thiamine, a B vitamin that is vital for
carbohydrate metabolism. But, says Dr Simonti, that same genetic variant may also make it easier to digest fats. Millennia
ago, when people obtained less of their energy from refined carbohydrates, the evolution trade-off may have been
worthwhile. In a world where grain crops have become a staple food, it may not be.

Q15. What does the author suggest in the concluding para of the passage?

a) Evolution is a trade-off, and Neanderthal DNA offers multiple advantages to those carrying it.

b) Just because some genes are harmful to modern humans, it does not necessarily mean that they were harmful
for their recent ancestors. Your answer is correct

c) Though there was a certain amount of interbreeding going on back in the day, the human genome is
completely free from Neanderthal influence today.

d) Though some Neanderthal genes can endanger modern human lives in certain aspects, other genes can offer
several advantages.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 18: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

There is something up with the Dutch. As one of the six founding members of what became the European Union, the
Netherlands claims a special place in the European family - through Benelux (cooperation between Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Luxembourg), the Dutch helped inspire Europe’s integration project.

Strategically, the Netherlands has worked to maintain a balance in the EU: among large countries and among institutions. It
promoted British membership of the European Community in the 1970s to balance against Franco-German dominance.

On foreign policy, the Netherlands favors strong international engagement but rarely takes a controversial position. The
country wants a strong EU in international affairs to amplify its own bilateral foreign policy and to keep member states in
check. But it wants the European External Action Service to coordinate European foreign policies, not direct them. The
Hague has been ambitious on European defense cooperation, particularly by integrating its military forces and capabilities
with those of Germany and Belgium; but like most other EU members, the Netherlands has dramatically cut its defense
budget in previous years. ...

Since the early 2000s, the Netherlands’ image as a mainstream partner has changed: the Dutch have started to view the EU
suspiciously. EU enlargement in 2004 altered the union’s internal balance and member states’ voting weights. The
Netherlands has less of a say than some of the newest members, yet it is one of the largest per-capita contributors to the
EU budget. Despite the benefits in mutual trade, a larger union meant the Dutch voice became softer. This proved
particularly uncomfortable when member states agreed to hand over more powers to Brussels.

The eurozone crisis added further concerns about the EU’s direction of travel: the Netherlands became a creditor country
that was asked to bail out Southern eurozone members while having to take their word for it that they would make the
reforms necessary to weather the financial storm. The perception that the Dutch were left paying the bill while other
countries flouted the rules became fertile ground for Euroskeptic politicians. It boosted the anti-immigrant, anti-EU popularity
of Geert Wilders. His Freedom party has taken advantage of rising Dutch anger over the Euro crisis by shifting its focus from
a ban on Islam to an exit from the EU. The government saw the commission less as the defender of small countries’
interests and more as an overly ambitious regulator with an appetite to expand its reach.

Dutch Euroskepticism is reaching unheard-of heights: A Gallup survey in early June found voters split evenly, 39 per cent
each, on whether to exit the EU entirely. Most recent political polls put the Freedom Party in a close fight for the second-
largest share of the vote, and one poll has it in the lead. The other strongly Euroskeptic party, the far-left Socialists, is doing
nearly as well. The results will alarm eurocrats who have identified Holland, alongside France and Italy, as part of a trio of
threats where rising euroscepticism could rip the bloc limb from limb. The poll comes after Dutch voters overwhelmingly
rejected an EU Association Agreement with Ukraine granting visa-free access in a referendum last spring (April 2016), only
for the result to be ignored by politicians in the Hague and Brussels.

Q16. Which of the following cannot be inferred about the Netherlands?

a.
The Netherlands once stood at the heart of the cause of European
integration.

b.
The Freedom Party's strategy to focus on EU and Islam has started paying off as it has emerged as one of the more
popular parties in recent political polls.

c.
The Netherlands wanted the European Union to keep member states in check and promote the interests of smaller
ones.

d.
The Netherlands has dramatically cut its contribution to the EU budget in recent
years.

e.
A survey found that the voters were nearly evenly split on the decision of the Netherlands leaving the
EU.

a) a and c

b) b and d

c) a and d

d) b and c

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DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 18: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

There is something up with the Dutch. As one of the six founding members of what became the European Union, the
Netherlands claims a special place in the European family - through Benelux (cooperation between Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Luxembourg), the Dutch helped inspire Europe’s integration project.

Strategically, the Netherlands has worked to maintain a balance in the EU: among large countries and among institutions. It
promoted British membership of the European Community in the 1970s to balance against Franco-German dominance.

On foreign policy, the Netherlands favors strong international engagement but rarely takes a controversial position. The
country wants a strong EU in international affairs to amplify its own bilateral foreign policy and to keep member states in
check. But it wants the European External Action Service to coordinate European foreign policies, not direct them. The
Hague has been ambitious on European defense cooperation, particularly by integrating its military forces and capabilities
with those of Germany and Belgium; but like most other EU members, the Netherlands has dramatically cut its defense
budget in previous years. ...

Since the early 2000s, the Netherlands’ image as a mainstream partner has changed: the Dutch have started to view the EU
suspiciously. EU enlargement in 2004 altered the union’s internal balance and member states’ voting weights. The
Netherlands has less of a say than some of the newest members, yet it is one of the largest per-capita contributors to the
EU budget. Despite the benefits in mutual trade, a larger union meant the Dutch voice became softer. This proved
particularly uncomfortable when member states agreed to hand over more powers to Brussels.

The eurozone crisis added further concerns about the EU’s direction of travel: the Netherlands became a creditor country
that was asked to bail out Southern eurozone members while having to take their word for it that they would make the
reforms necessary to weather the financial storm. The perception that the Dutch were left paying the bill while other
countries flouted the rules became fertile ground for Euroskeptic politicians. It boosted the anti-immigrant, anti-EU popularity
of Geert Wilders. His Freedom party has taken advantage of rising Dutch anger over the Euro crisis by shifting its focus from
a ban on Islam to an exit from the EU. The government saw the commission less as the defender of small countries’
interests and more as an overly ambitious regulator with an appetite to expand its reach.

Dutch Euroskepticism is reaching unheard-of heights: A Gallup survey in early June found voters split evenly, 39 per cent
each, on whether to exit the EU entirely. Most recent political polls put the Freedom Party in a close fight for the second-
largest share of the vote, and one poll has it in the lead. The other strongly Euroskeptic party, the far-left Socialists, is doing
nearly as well. The results will alarm eurocrats who have identified Holland, alongside France and Italy, as part of a trio of
threats where rising euroscepticism could rip the bloc limb from limb. The poll comes after Dutch voters overwhelmingly
rejected an EU Association Agreement with Ukraine granting visa-free access in a referendum last spring (April 2016), only
for the result to be ignored by politicians in the Hague and Brussels.

Q17. Which statement related to the EU cannot be inferred from the passage?

a) The EU’s ignoring of the Dutch voters’ rejection of the treaty with Ukraine in April 2016 made the Netherlands
more wary of the EU.

b) There is an increase in the anti-EU feeling in various countries like the Netherlands, France and Italy.

c) There are some excesses in the northern states in the European Union which need to be reduced.

d) The Dutch government has become increasingly critical of the European commission partly because the
Hague has begun to control and direct foreign policy.

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answer to each question.

There is something up with the Dutch. As one of the six founding members of what became the European Union, the
Netherlands claims a special place in the European family - through Benelux (cooperation between Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Luxembourg), the Dutch helped inspire Europe’s integration project.

Strategically, the Netherlands has worked to maintain a balance in the EU: among large countries and among institutions. It
promoted British membership of the European Community in the 1970s to balance against Franco-German dominance.

On foreign policy, the Netherlands favors strong international engagement but rarely takes a controversial position. The
country wants a strong EU in international affairs to amplify its own bilateral foreign policy and to keep member states in
check. But it wants the European External Action Service to coordinate European foreign policies, not direct them. The
Hague has been ambitious on European defense cooperation, particularly by integrating its military forces and capabilities
with those of Germany and Belgium; but like most other EU members, the Netherlands has dramatically cut its defense
budget in previous years. ...

Since the early 2000s, the Netherlands’ image as a mainstream partner has changed: the Dutch have started to view the EU
suspiciously. EU enlargement in 2004 altered the union’s internal balance and member states’ voting weights. The
Netherlands has less of a say than some of the newest members, yet it is one of the largest per-capita contributors to the
EU budget. Despite the benefits in mutual trade, a larger union meant the Dutch voice became softer. This proved
particularly uncomfortable when member states agreed to hand over more powers to Brussels.

The eurozone crisis added further concerns about the EU’s direction of travel: the Netherlands became a creditor country
that was asked to bail out Southern eurozone members while having to take their word for it that they would make the
reforms necessary to weather the financial storm. The perception that the Dutch were left paying the bill while other
countries flouted the rules became fertile ground for Euroskeptic politicians. It boosted the anti-immigrant, anti-EU popularity
of Geert Wilders. His Freedom party has taken advantage of rising Dutch anger over the Euro crisis by shifting its focus from
a ban on Islam to an exit from the EU. The government saw the commission less as the defender of small countries’
interests and more as an overly ambitious regulator with an appetite to expand its reach.

Dutch Euroskepticism is reaching unheard-of heights: A Gallup survey in early June found voters split evenly, 39 per cent
each, on whether to exit the EU entirely. Most recent political polls put the Freedom Party in a close fight for the second-
largest share of the vote, and one poll has it in the lead. The other strongly Euroskeptic party, the far-left Socialists, is doing
nearly as well. The results will alarm eurocrats who have identified Holland, alongside France and Italy, as part of a trio of
threats where rising euroscepticism could rip the bloc limb from limb. The poll comes after Dutch voters overwhelmingly
rejected an EU Association Agreement with Ukraine granting visa-free access in a referendum last spring (April 2016), only
for the result to be ignored by politicians in the Hague and Brussels.

Q18. Where is this passage most probably taken from?

a) History textbook

b) Encyclopedia

c) Thesis

d) Magazine

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answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q19. According to the passage, the author asserts which of the following about Wittgenstein?

a) The propositions in the “Tractatus” are nonsensical.

b) Wittgenstein endorsed the view of scientism.

c) Wittgenstein's work deviated from the analytic tradition of philosophy.

d) Wittgenstein's style of thinking was at odds with the style that dominates our present era.

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answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q20. According to the passage, Ludwig Wittgenstein developed his theory against which notion?

a) The notion that deep, impenetrable mysteries of life can be explained by science.

b) The notion that the answer to any question from any discipline must have a scientific basis.

c) The notion that every question has two answers - a scientific solution and a philosophical solution.

d) The notion that many questions can be understood using philosophy and not just science.

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answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q21. According to the passage, all of the following can be inferred to be true of today's times EXCEPT?

a) We lack a generally accepted scientific theory of consciousness.

b) Looking for scientific reasoning in everything can have negative academic consequences.

c) Penrose's theory has begun to garner support from cognitive psychologists and philosophers.

d) The study of humanities mimics the study of sciences.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 19 to 24: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q22. Which of the following can be correctly inferred from the penultimate para of the passage?

a) Wittgenstein vehemently opposed scientism in his early works but supported it in his later works.

b) Wittgenstein agreed that scientific theory was the only kind of understanding there is.

c) Wittgenstein believed that science was an experiential activity and philosophy was purely theoretical in
nature.

d) Wittgenstein believed that certain propositions in the Tractatus pulled the rug out from under their own feet.

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answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q23. What is the correct difference between science and philosophy as can be understood from Wittgenstein's later work
which is discussed in the last para of the passage?

a) Philosophical understanding involves the testing of hypothesis and theories, and scientific understanding
involves an analysis of the non-theoretical.

b) Philosophical understanding and scientific understanding are too far apart to have any common ground.

c) Philosophy deals with the correct interpretation of logical forms and science deals with ineffable truths.

d) Philosophy deals purely with the understanding of the theoretical while science deals purely with the
understanding of the non-theoretical based on the theoretical.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 19 to 24: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most
important since Immanuel Kant. His early work culminated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophy book
that Wittgenstein published (1921) during his lifetime. His later work Philosophical Investigations (published posthumously in
1953) has also done much to shape subsequent developments in philosophy, especially in the analytic tradition.

And yet in a sense Wittgenstein’s thought has made very little impression on the intellectual life of this century. His work is
opposed, as Wittgenstein himself realized, to “the spirit which informs the vast stream of European and American civilisation
in which all of us stand.” Nearly 50 years after his death, we can see, more clearly than ever, that the feeling that he was
swimming against the tide was justified. If we wanted a label to describe this tide, we might call it “scientism,” the view that
every intelligible question has either a scientific solution or no solution at all. It is against this view that Wittgenstein set his
face.

Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and
art can be studied as if they were sciences, with “researchers” compelled to spell out their “methodologies” - a pretence
which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the
development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.

There are many questions to which we do not have scientific answers, not because they are deep, impenetrable mysteries,
but simply because they are not scientific questions. These include questions about love, art, history, culture, music-all
questions, in fact, that relate to the attempt to understand ourselves better. There is a widespread feeling today that the
great scandal of our times is that we lack a scientific theory of consciousness. And so there is a great interdisciplinary effort,
involving physicists, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, to come up with tenable scientific
answers to the questions: what is consciousness? What is the self? One of the leading competitors in this crowded field is
the theory advanced by the mathematician Roger Penrose, that a stream of consciousness is an orchestrated sequence of
quantum physical events taking place in the brain. Penrose’s theory is that a moment of consciousness is produced by a
sub-protein in the brain called a tubulin. The theory is, on Penrose’s own admission, speculative, and it strikes many as
being bizarrely implausible. But suppose we discovered that Penrose’s theory was correct, would we, as a result,
understand ourselves any better? Is a scientific theory the only kind of understanding?

Well, you might ask, what other kind is there? Wittgenstein’s answer to that, I think, is his greatest, and most neglected,
achievement. Although Wittgenstein’s thought underwent changes between his early and his later work, his opposition to
scientism was constant. Philosophy, he writes, “is not a theory but an activity.” It strives, not after scientific truth, but after
conceptual clarity. In the Tractatus, this clarity is achieved through a correct understanding of the logical form of language,
which, once achieved, was destined to remain inexpressible, leading Wittgenstein to compare his own philosophical
propositions with a ladder, which is thrown away once it has been used to climb up on.

In his later work, Wittgenstein abandoned the idea of logical form and with it the notion of ineffable truths. The difference
between science and philosophy, he now believed, is between two distinct forms of understanding: the theoretical and the
non-theoretical. Scientific understanding is given through the construction and testing of hypotheses and theories;
philosophical understanding, on the other hand, is resolutely non-theoretical. What we are after in philosophy is “the
understanding that consists in seeing connections.”

Q24. What is the style of the passage?

a) Argumentative

b) Descriptive

c) Analytical

d) Narrative

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Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of the
sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1.
It suggests some of the outer limits within which humans operate - feelings, moods, perceptions not available to man
because of his biological make-up - can be atleast analyzed.

2.
This is a possibility that many reputable astronomers regard as almost
inevitable.

3.
Yet the biological sciences are developing so rapidly that the balance may well tip within our
lifetimes.

4.
Research into communication between man and the dolphin may prove to be extremely useful if, and when, man
makes contact with extra-terrestrial life.

5.
In the meantime, dolphin research is yielding new data on the ways in which man's sensory apparatus differs from that
of other animals.

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Q26. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of the
sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1.
Value is the predecessor of
structure.

2.
Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an
understanding of the value source from which it's derived.

3.
Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of
structure.

4.
It's the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to
it.

5.
The classic pattern of rationality can be tremendously improved and expanded through the formal recognition of quality
in its operation.

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Q27. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of the
sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1.
The answer is that language is a skill acquired laterally - that what children pick up from other children is more
important in the acquisition of language as what they pick up at home.

2.
Harris concludes that the environmental influence that helps children become who they are - that shapes their
character and personality - is their peer group.

3.
How is it the children of deaf parents manage to learn how to speak as well and as quickly as children whose parents
speak to them from the day they were born?

4.
In fact, it may well be an even more difficult strategy than the first, for the simple reason that parents simply don't wield
that kind of influence over children.

5.
Why, Judith Harris asks, do the children of recent immigrants almost never retain the accent of their
parents?

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Q28. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of the
sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1.
Conformity becomes a problem when a country needs to alter an obviously wrong
course.

2.
Predictability in social and public life makes Japanese cities the safest on
Earth.

3.
Even today “culture” counts for much as an organizing force and social
glue.

4.
And a desire for consensus surely helped with the foundations for Japan's phenomenal post-war success - even if
living conditions were cramped and salarymen's hours long.

5.
What other country could have endured with such fortitude two decades of stagnation, not to mention the disastrous
tsunami and nuclear meltdown of March 11th 2011?

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Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 and 30: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Blame it on Christopher Fowler. Or the witching hour past midnight when the ghosts of writers past come knocking at our
mullioned windows begging to be let in. They had been banished by bell, book and Kindle. They had been disapparated, as
the new boy on the block Harry Potter would say, by the march of time, the demands of the market that crave a new author,
a new sensation, and an easily marketable genre that captures the flavour of the moment. A crime-writer by choice,
Christopher Fowler in The Book of Forgotten Authors has twitched the deep red velvet curtains of time and let loose the
spirits of 99 writers past and now mostly forgotten. They lie like those bodies often found in wood-panelled libraries,
preferably on a patterned Persian carpet in front of a fireplace of dying embers.
____________________________________________

a) As the year draws to a close, here's a strong case for recalling vanished authors of the past.

b) Fowler describes how Kyril Bonfiglioli was able to remove shirt buttons at a party with a sword and fry peas in
Worcestshire sauce.

c) Fowler kneels over them and performs a literary exorcism bringing them back to life.

d) Their print runs can be pulped, copies misfiled, manuscripts lost, banned and burnt.

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left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

In 1967 Canada invented a way to remove discrimination and prejudice from the process of choosing which immigrants to let
in. The point system ignored an applicant's race and country of origin. Instead, it rewarded education, fluency in English or
French and work experience. With the change, Asians supplanted white Europeans as the dominant immigrant group. The
idea of basing admission to Canada on merit rather than on a bureaucrat's whim was visionary at the time. Several
countries, including Australia, New England and Singapore adopted Canadian-style points systems.
_____________________________________________

a) In this, Canada is a follower rather than a leader.

b) But critics worry that in shifting from a policy based on civic values to one governed by commercial logic,
Canada is making the system more vulnerable to fraud and discrimination.

c) Though more open than other countries, Canada has been characteristically hard-nosed about letting in
refugees and immigrants' family members.

d) In Europe, even politicians hostile to uncontrolled immigration sing the praises of Canada's selective
approach.

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Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 31 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence
of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1.
Saimir Tahiri, Albania's interior minister, swoops down in a helicopter to observe the destruction of the plantations as
piles of two-metre high bushes are set on fire.

2.
It is peak season and dozens of sweat-drenched men are labouring in the fields near the Albanian town of Tragjas,
harvesting a bumper crop of cannabis.

3.
Europe's drug war is being fought here, he says, and billions of euros are at
stake.

4.
Overseeing them are policemen with sub-machine-guns and face
masks.

5.
Mr. Tahiri admits the choking fumes can be a problem for the policemen but adds that this is the least of their
concerns.

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paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence
of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1.
We derive personal pride by doing work that has a purpose, using reason, and exercising independent thinking, in
integrity with our principles.

2.
It is the accumulation of personal pride when one works in an appropriate
environment.

3.
In fact, many of the things that we look to as a source of self-esteem (like conspicuous consumption or cosmetic
surgery) amount to a very poor substitute for true self-esteem.

4.
Self-esteem can’t be “granted” or “bestowed” by someone else; “you look good in that dress” isn’t really a source of
true self-esteem.

5.
Real self-esteem comes from doing productive work and from creating value for
others.

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Q33. DIRECTIONS for questions 31 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence
of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1.
Agreed 16 years earlier, the mechanism sought to limit damage to the stratospheric ozone layer that protects the
planet from harmful ultraviolet radiation.

2.
These substances also contribute to global
warming.

3.
To date, the agreement has averted the equivalent of more than 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide
emissions.

4.
The protocol phased out substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - coolants in devices ranging from air
conditioners to refrigerators - which deplete the ozone.

5.
“Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal protocol,” declared Kofi
Annan, then head of the United Nations, back in 2003.

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paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence
of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

2. He then tries to some extent to substitute the cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.

3. Man tries to make for himself, in the fashion that suits him best, a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.

4. The supreme task is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.

5. He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the serenity which he
cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Three students, Ravi, Ramu and Raju, wrote a test, comprising six questions, with each question having four choices - A, B,
C and D. Each correct answer was awarded three marks, while each incorrect answer attracted a penalty of -1 mark. No
marks were awarded for questions left unattempted. The following table presents the answers marked for each question by
each of the three students and the total marks that each of them obtained in the test:

Note: ‘ - ’ represents an unattempted question.

Q1. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 and 2: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following questions was answered correctly by Raju?

a) Q1

b) Q2

c) Q3 Your answer is correct

d) Q5

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Three students, Ravi, Ramu and Raju, wrote a test, comprising six questions, with each question having four choices - A, B,
C and D. Each correct answer was awarded three marks, while each incorrect answer attracted a penalty of -1 mark. No
marks were awarded for questions left unattempted. The following table presents the answers marked for each question by
each of the three students and the total marks that each of them obtained in the test:

Note: ‘ - ’ represents an unattempted question.

Q2. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 and 2: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

What is the correct answer to Q1?

a) B

b) D

c) A Your answer is correct

 d) C

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Three students, Ravi, Ramu and Raju, wrote a test, comprising six questions, with each question having four choices - A, B,
C and D. Each correct answer was awarded three marks, while each incorrect answer attracted a penalty of -1 mark. No
marks were awarded for questions left unattempted. The following table presents the answers marked for each question by
each of the three students and the total marks that each of them obtained in the test:
Note: ‘ - ’ represents an unattempted question.

Q3. DIRECTIONS for question 3: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

For how many questions is the correct answer to that question choice A?

Your Answer:2 Your answer is correct

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Three students, Ravi, Ramu and Raju, wrote a test, comprising six questions, with each question having four choices - A, B,
C and D. Each correct answer was awarded three marks, while each incorrect answer attracted a penalty of -1 mark. No
marks were awarded for questions left unattempted. The following table presents the answers marked for each question by
each of the three students and the total marks that each of them obtained in the test:

Note: ‘ - ’ represents an unattempted question.

Q4. DIRECTIONS for question 4: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following questions was answered correctly by Raju but incorrectly by Ravi?

a) Q4 Your answer is correct

b) Q2

c) Q1

d) Q5

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DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Eight teams, A through H, participated in a hockey tournament, which comprised quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. All the
eight teams participated in the quarter-finals, with the winners of the quarter-finals participating in the semi-finals. The
winners of the semi-finals participated in the final and the winner of the final was declared the winner of the tournament.
Further, in every match, each team scored at least one goal and there were no matches in which both the teams scored
equal number of goals. The following table gives the total goals scored for and the total goals scored against each team in
all the matches in the tournament:

Q5. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
The maximum number of goals scored by any team in the semi-finals is

a) 2.

b) 3.

c) 4.

d) 5.

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Eight teams, A through H, participated in a hockey tournament, which comprised quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. All the
eight teams participated in the quarter-finals, with the winners of the quarter-finals participating in the semi-finals. The
winners of the semi-finals participated in the final and the winner of the final was declared the winner of the tournament.
Further, in every match, each team scored at least one goal and there were no matches in which both the teams scored
equal number of goals. The following table gives the total goals scored for and the total goals scored against each team in
all the matches in the tournament:

Q6. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which team was the winner of the tournament?

a) C

b) E

c) H

d) B

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Eight teams, A through H, participated in a hockey tournament, which comprised quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. All the
eight teams participated in the quarter-finals, with the winners of the quarter-finals participating in the semi-finals. The
winners of the semi-finals participated in the final and the winner of the final was declared the winner of the tournament.
Further, in every match, each team scored at least one goal and there were no matches in which both the teams scored
equal number of goals. The following table gives the total goals scored for and the total goals scored against each team in
all the matches in the tournament:

Q7. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following teams had the greatest margin of victory, i.e. Goals For - Goals Against, in any single match?

a) B

b) E

c) H

d) F

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Eight teams, A through H, participated in a hockey tournament, which comprised quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. All the
eight teams participated in the quarter-finals, with the winners of the quarter-finals participating in the semi-finals. The
winners of the semi-finals participated in the final and the winner of the final was declared the winner of the tournament.
Further, in every match, each team scored at least one goal and there were no matches in which both the teams scored
equal number of goals. The following table gives the total goals scored for and the total goals scored against each team in
all the matches in the tournament:

Q8. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

What is the total number of goals scored by H in all the matches that it had won?

a) 4

b) 5

c) 6

d) 7

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DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Six persons, Manish, Nagesh, Hamish, Satish, Lokesh and Brijesh, went to a stadium to watch a cricket match and they
reached the stadium at different times. During the match, four events occurred - there was an interruption due to rain, a
 bowler took a hat-trick, there was an innings break, and a batsman hit a half-century - each at a different time, not
necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about the order in which the six persons reached the
stadium and the order in which the events occurred:

i.
Nagesh reached the stadium immediately after Brijesh and there was an interruption due to rain immediately after Nagesh
reached the stadium.

ii.
Manish reached the stadium just as the innings break commenced and he reached before Satish who was able to
witness the hat-trick by the bowler.

iii.
None of the six persons reached the stadium after Lokesh but before Hamish, and among the two, only Lokesh had
reached the stadium by the time the bowler took a hat-trick.

iv.
The innings break commenced after the batsman hit a half-century and Brijesh reached the stadium just as the batsman
scored a half-century.

Q9. DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Who was the last person to reach the stadium?

a)

Lokesh

b)

Satish

c)

Hamish

Your answer is correct

d)

Manish

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DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Six persons, Manish, Nagesh, Hamish, Satish, Lokesh and Brijesh, went to a stadium to watch a cricket match and they
reached the stadium at different times. During the match, four events occurred - there was an interruption due to rain, a
bowler took a hat-trick, there was an innings break, and a batsman hit a half-century - each at a different time, not
necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about the order in which the six persons reached the
stadium and the order in which the events occurred:

i.
Nagesh reached the stadium immediately after Brijesh and there was an interruption due to rain immediately after Nagesh
reached the stadium.

ii.
Manish reached the stadium just as the innings break commenced and he reached before Satish who was able to
witness the hat-trick by the bowler.

iii.
None of the six persons reached the stadium after Lokesh but before Hamish, and among the two, only Lokesh had
reached the stadium by the time the bowler took a hat-trick.

iv.
The innings break commenced after the batsman hit a half-century and Brijesh reached the stadium just as the batsman
scored a half-century.

Q10. DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following events occurred after the maximum number of persons reached the stadium?

a)

Batsman hitting a half-century

 b)

Bowler taking a hat-trick

Your answer is correct

c)

Innings break

d)

Interruption due to rain

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Six persons, Manish, Nagesh, Hamish, Satish, Lokesh and Brijesh, went to a stadium to watch a cricket match and they
reached the stadium at different times. During the match, four events occurred - there was an interruption due to rain, a
bowler took a hat-trick, there was an innings break, and a batsman hit a half-century - each at a different time, not
necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about the order in which the six persons reached the
stadium and the order in which the events occurred:
 i.
Nagesh reached the stadium immediately after Brijesh and there was an interruption due to rain immediately after Nagesh
reached the stadium.

ii.
Manish reached the stadium just as the innings break commenced and he reached before Satish who was able to
witness the hat-trick by the bowler.

iii.
None of the six persons reached the stadium after Lokesh but before Hamish, and among the two, only Lokesh had
reached the stadium by the time the bowler took a hat-trick.

iv.
The innings break commenced after the batsman hit a half-century and Brijesh reached the stadium just as the batsman
scored a half-century.

Q11. DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

How many persons reached the stadium by the time there was an interruption due to rain?

a)

b)

c)

Your answer is correct

d)

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DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Six persons, Manish, Nagesh, Hamish, Satish, Lokesh and Brijesh, went to a stadium to watch a cricket match and they
reached the stadium at different times. During the match, four events occurred - there was an interruption due to rain, a
bowler took a hat-trick, there was an innings break, and a batsman hit a half-century - each at a different time, not
necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about the order in which the six persons reached the
stadium and the order in which the events occurred:

i.
Nagesh reached the stadium immediately after Brijesh and there was an interruption due to rain immediately after Nagesh
reached the stadium.

ii.
Manish reached the stadium just as the innings break commenced and he reached before Satish who was able to
witness the hat-trick by the bowler.

iii.
None of the six persons reached the stadium after Lokesh but before Hamish, and among the two, only Lokesh had
reached the stadium by the time the bowler took a hat-trick.

iv.
The innings break commenced after the batsman hit a half-century and Brijesh reached the stadium just as the batsman
scored a half-century.

Q12. DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

If the play before the innings break is referred to as the first innings, which of the following occurred during the first innings
of the match?

a)
 a)

Nagesh reaching the stadium

Your answer is correct

b)

Lokesh reaching the stadium

c)

Bowler taking a hat-trick

d)

More than one of the above

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 13 to 16:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Shyomi Inc. wanted to introduce a new smartphone, Me2, in India. The phone can be used for four different activities - Browsing using
WiFi, Browsing using Mobile Data, Video Playback and Gaming. The battery of Me2 gets discharged uniformly over a certain duration
depending on the activity for which the phone is used. A fully discharged battery of the phone takes exactly one hour to charge
completely. The phone cannot be used for more than one activity at the same time and the battery will not get discharged in any other
way. The following table provides the number of hours that the fully charged battery of the phone will last when the phone is used for
different activities:

On a particular day, at exactly 8:00 AM, Shyomi gave a fully charged Me2 phone to each of five tech reviewers – Andy, Charles, Hugh,
Jack and Will. Each reviewer used the phone for a certain period of time over the day. Also, each reviewer charged the phone every time
the battery of the phone got completely discharged, irrespective of whether or not he used the phone again. None of them used the phone
when it was being charged and they waited until the phone was completely charged before using it again. After using the phone, each
reviewer returned the phone back to the company. When the phone was with the reviewers, the phone was never idle, i.e., the phone was
either being used by the reviewers or being charged.

The bar graph below provides the duration for which each reviewer used Me2 for each activity during the day.

Q13. DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Who among the following would have charged his phone for the maximum number of times during the given period?

a)

Jack

b)

Charles

c)

Hugh

d)

Will

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 13 to 16:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Shyomi Inc. wanted to introduce a new smartphone, Me2, in India. The phone can be used for four different activities - Browsing using
WiFi, Browsing using Mobile Data, Video Playback and Gaming. The battery of Me2 gets discharged uniformly over a certain duration
depending on the activity for which the phone is used. A fully discharged battery of the phone takes exactly one hour to charge
completely. The phone cannot be used for more than one activity at the same time and the battery will not get discharged in any other
way. The following table provides the number of hours that the fully charged battery of the phone will last when the phone is used for
different activities:

On a particular day, at exactly 8:00 AM, Shyomi gave a fully charged Me2 phone to each of five tech reviewers – Andy, Charles, Hugh,
Jack and Will. Each reviewer used the phone for a certain period of time over the day. Also, each reviewer charged the phone every time
the battery of the phone got completely discharged, irrespective of whether or not he used the phone again. None of them used the phone
when it was being charged and they waited until the phone was completely charged before using it again. After using the phone, each
reviewer returned the phone back to the company. When the phone was with the reviewers, the phone was never idle, i.e., the phone was
either being used by the reviewers or being charged.

The bar graph below provides the duration for which each reviewer used Me2 for each activity during the day.
Q14. DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

When will Andy start charging his phone for the third time?

a)

8:00 PM

b)

6:00 PM

c)

4:00 PM

d)

Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 13 to 16:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Shyomi Inc. wanted to introduce a new smartphone, Me2, in India. The phone can be used for four different activities - Browsing using
WiFi, Browsing using Mobile Data, Video Playback and Gaming. The battery of Me2 gets discharged uniformly over a certain duration
depending on the activity for which the phone is used. A fully discharged battery of the phone takes exactly one hour to charge
completely. The phone cannot be used for more than one activity at the same time and the battery will not get discharged in any other
way. The following table provides the number of hours that the fully charged battery of the phone will last when the phone is used for
different activities:

On a particular day, at exactly 8:00 AM, Shyomi gave a fully charged Me2 phone to each of five tech reviewers – Andy, Charles, Hugh,
Jack and Will. Each reviewer used the phone for a certain period of time over the day. Also, each reviewer charged the phone every time
the battery of the phone got completely discharged, irrespective of whether or not he used the phone again. None of them used the phone
when it was being charged and they waited until the phone was completely charged before using it again. After using the phone, each
reviewer returned the phone back to the company. When the phone was with the reviewers, the phone was never idle, i.e., the phone was
either being used by the reviewers or being charged.

The bar graph below provides the duration for which each reviewer used Me2 for each activity during the day.

Q15. DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

What will be the percentage of charge remaining in Charles’ phone when he returned the phone?
 a)

65.42%

b)

79.17%

c)

68.45%

d)

74.51%

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 13 to 16:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Shyomi Inc. wanted to introduce a new smartphone, Me2, in India. The phone can be used for four different activities - Browsing using
WiFi, Browsing using Mobile Data, Video Playback and Gaming. The battery of Me2 gets discharged uniformly over a certain duration
depending on the activity for which the phone is used. A fully discharged battery of the phone takes exactly one hour to charge
completely. The phone cannot be used for more than one activity at the same time and the battery will not get discharged in any other
way. The following table provides the number of hours that the fully charged battery of the phone will last when the phone is used for
different activities:
On a particular day, at exactly 8:00 AM, Shyomi gave a fully charged Me2 phone to each of five tech reviewers – Andy, Charles, Hugh,
Jack and Will. Each reviewer used the phone for a certain period of time over the day. Also, each reviewer charged the phone every time
the battery of the phone got completely discharged, irrespective of whether or not he used the phone again. None of them used the phone
when it was being charged and they waited until the phone was completely charged before using it again. After using the phone, each
reviewer returned the phone back to the company. When the phone was with the reviewers, the phone was never idle, i.e., the phone was
either being used by the reviewers or being charged.

The bar graph below provides the duration for which each reviewer used Me2 for each activity during the day.

Q16. DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

At which of the following times will Jack’s phone definitely not be charging?

I.10:20 AM

II.10:50 AM

III.11:45 AM

IV.1:25 PM

V.2:35 PM

VI.3:10 PM

a)

I, II and VI

b)

II, IV and V

c)

I, V and VI

d)

II, III and IV

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 17 to 20:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five towns, Town A through Town E, are connected by roads as shown in the figure given below. Five motorists – Imran, John, Kalyan,
Lee, and Michael – travelled from Town A to Town E. Each motorist used a different route, i.e., no two motorists passed through the
same set of towns to go from Town A to Town E. Further, no motorist passed through any town twice. The distance (in km) between any
two towns is a distinct natural number. In addition to this, the following information is also known about the roads connecting the five
cities and the routes taken by each motorist:

i.
The length of the road connecting any two towns is at least 1 km and at most 8
km.

ii.
The road connecting Town A and Town E is the longest, while the road connecting Town C and Town E is the
shortest.

iii.
No motorist who passed through Town B passed through Town
D.

iv.
John and Imran passed through Town C, while Kalyan and Michael did not pass through Town
D.

v.
Kalyan travelled a total distance of 11
km.
 vi.
The motorist that passed through both Town C and Town D travelled for the longest distance and he travelled a distance
of 12 km.

vii.
The distance between Towns C and Towns D is 7
km.

viii.
The total length of one of the routes that passes through four towns is 2 km less than the length of the longest route
among the routes used by the motorists.

Q17. DIRECTIONS for question 17: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following routes did Lee take?

a) Town A - Town E

b) Town A - Town B - Town E

c) Town A - Town D - Town E

d) Town A - Town D - Town C - Town E

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 17 to 20:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five towns, Town A through Town E, are connected by roads as shown in the figure given below. Five motorists – Imran, John, Kalyan,
Lee, and Michael – travelled from Town A to Town E. Each motorist used a different route, i.e., no two motorists passed through the
same set of towns to go from Town A to Town E. Further, no motorist passed through any town twice. The distance (in km) between any
two towns is a distinct natural number. In addition to this, the following information is also known about the roads connecting the five
cities and the routes taken by each motorist:

i.
The length of the road connecting any two towns is at least 1 km and at most 8
km.

ii.
The road connecting Town A and Town E is the longest, while the road connecting Town C and Town E is the
shortest.

iii.
No motorist who passed through Town B passed through Town
D.

iv.
John and Imran passed through Town C, while Kalyan and Michael did not pass through Town
D.
 v.
Kalyan travelled a total distance of 11
km.

vi.
The motorist that passed through both Town C and Town D travelled for the longest distance and he travelled a distance
of 12 km.

vii.
The distance between Towns C and Towns D is 7
km.

viii.
The total length of one of the routes that passes through four towns is 2 km less than the length of the longest route
among the routes used by the motorists.

Q18. DIRECTIONS for questions 18 and 19: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

What is the length of the road (in km) connecting Town B and Town E?

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 17 to 20:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five towns, Town A through Town E, are connected by roads as shown in the figure given below. Five motorists – Imran, John, Kalyan,
Lee, and Michael – travelled from Town A to Town E. Each motorist used a different route, i.e., no two motorists passed through the
same set of towns to go from Town A to Town E. Further, no motorist passed through any town twice. The distance (in km) between any
two towns is a distinct natural number. In addition to this, the following information is also known about the roads connecting the five
cities and the routes taken by each motorist:

i.
The length of the road connecting any two towns is at least 1 km and at most 8
km.

ii.
The road connecting Town A and Town E is the longest, while the road connecting Town C and Town E is the
shortest.

iii.
No motorist who passed through Town B passed through Town
D.

iv.
John and Imran passed through Town C, while Kalyan and Michael did not pass through Town
D.

v.
Kalyan travelled a total distance of 11
km.

vi.
The motorist that passed through both Town C and Town D travelled for the longest distance and he travelled a distance
of 12 km.

vii.
The distance between Towns C and Towns D is 7
km.

viii.
The total length of one of the routes that passes through four towns is 2 km less than the length of the longest route
among the routes used by the motorists.

Q19. DIRECTIONS for questions 18 and 19: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

What is the total distance (in km) travelled by all the motorists combined?

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DIRECTIONSfor questions 17 to 20:Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Five towns, Town A through Town E, are connected by roads as shown in the figure given below. Five motorists – Imran, John, Kalyan,
Lee, and Michael – travelled from Town A to Town E. Each motorist used a different route, i.e., no two motorists passed through the
same set of towns to go from Town A to Town E. Further, no motorist passed through any town twice. The distance (in km) between any
two towns is a distinct natural number. In addition to this, the following information is also known about the roads connecting the five
cities and the routes taken by each motorist:

i.
The length of the road connecting any two towns is at least 1 km and at most 8
km.

ii.
The road connecting Town A and Town E is the longest, while the road connecting Town C and Town E is the
shortest.

iii.
No motorist who passed through Town B passed through Town
D.

iv.
John and Imran passed through Town C, while Kalyan and Michael did not pass through Town
D.
 v.
Kalyan travelled a total distance of 11
km.

vi.
The motorist that passed through both Town C and Town D travelled for the longest distance and he travelled a distance
of 12 km.

vii.
The distance between Towns C and Towns D is 7
km.

viii.
The total length of one of the routes that passes through four towns is 2 km less than the length of the longest route
among the routes used by the motorists.

Q20. DIRECTIONS for question 20: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

If John did not pass through Town D, which of the following pairs of motorists travelled along the same roads for the longest
distance?

a) John and Kalyan

b) Lee and Imran

c) John and Michael

d) Michael and Imran

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DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a state, anyone who finished high school is classified as a literate and anyone who did not, is classified as an illiterate.
Further, anyone who finished his graduation, i.e., a graduate, would have finished high school; anyone who finished his
post-graduation, i.e., a post-graduate, would have finished graduation; any person who finished his doctorate, i.e., a doctor,
would have finished post-graduation.

The following table provides for each of five districts - District A through District E - in that state, the percentage of people
who are literates, the percentage of the literates who are graduates, the percentage of graduates who are post-graduates,
the percentage of post-graduates who are doctors and the number (in "000) of people who are not post-graduates:
Q21. DIRECTIONS for question 21: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

What is the number of illiterates in District D?

a) 85000

b) 80000

c) 75000

d) 70000

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DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a state, anyone who finished high school is classified as a literate and anyone who did not, is classified as an illiterate.
Further, anyone who finished his graduation, i.e., a graduate, would have finished high school; anyone who finished his
post-graduation, i.e., a post-graduate, would have finished graduation; any person who finished his doctorate, i.e., a doctor,
would have finished post-graduation.

The following table provides for each of five districts - District A through District E - in that state, the percentage of people
who are literates, the percentage of the literates who are graduates, the percentage of graduates who are post-graduates,
the percentage of post-graduates who are doctors and the number (in "000) of people who are not post-graduates:

Q22. DIRECTIONS for questions 22 and 23: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

Across the five districts combined, what is the number of people who finished high school but are not graduates?

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DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a state, anyone who finished high school is classified as a literate and anyone who did not, is classified as an illiterate.
Further, anyone who finished his graduation, i.e., a graduate, would have finished high school; anyone who finished his
post-graduation, i.e., a post-graduate, would have finished graduation; any person who finished his doctorate, i.e., a doctor,
would have finished post-graduation.
The following table provides for each of five districts - District A through District E - in that state, the percentage of people
who are literates, the percentage of the literates who are graduates, the percentage of graduates who are post-graduates,
the percentage of post-graduates who are doctors and the number (in "000) of people who are not post-graduates:

Q23. DIRECTIONS for questions 22 and 23: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

How many persons are doctors across the five districts combined?

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DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

In a state, anyone who finished high school is classified as a literate and anyone who did not, is classified as an illiterate.
Further, anyone who finished his graduation, i.e., a graduate, would have finished high school; anyone who finished his
post-graduation, i.e., a post-graduate, would have finished graduation; any person who finished his doctorate, i.e., a doctor,
would have finished post-graduation.

The following table provides for each of five districts - District A through District E - in that state, the percentage of people
who are literates, the percentage of the literates who are graduates, the percentage of graduates who are post-graduates,
the percentage of post-graduates who are doctors and the number (in "000) of people who are not post-graduates:

Q24. DIRECTIONS for question 24: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

In how many districts are there more number of graduates who are not post-graduates than literates who are not
graduates?

a) 0
 b) 1

c) 2

d) 3

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DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Rahul was reminiscing about the year 2017, during which five events occurred - he finished his graduation, his girlfriend
broke up with him, he sold his bike, he ran a marathon and he learnt to swim.

However, no two events occurred in the same month.

It is known that
 i.
he ran a marathon three months before his girlfriend broke up with
him.

ii.
he sold his bike in July but he did not learn to swim in August or
September.

iii.
none of the five events occurred in January or
June.

iv.
he finished his graduation after he sold his
bike.

v.
he learnt to swim three months before he finished his
graduation.

Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 27: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

In which month did he run a marathon?

a) September Your answer is correct

b) May

c) February

d) Cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Rahul was reminiscing about the year 2017, during which five events occurred - he finished his graduation, his girlfriend
broke up with him, he sold his bike, he ran a marathon and he learnt to swim.

However, no two events occurred in the same month.

It is known that

i.
he ran a marathon three months before his girlfriend broke up with
him.

ii.
he sold his bike in July but he did not learn to swim in August or
September.

iii.
none of the five events occurred in January or
June.
iv.
he finished his graduation after he sold his
bike.

v.
he learnt to swim three months before he finished his
graduation.

Q26. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 27: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following events happened in April?

a) He learnt to swim

b) He finished his graduation

c) He ran a marathon

d) None of the above Your answer is correct

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 Rahul was reminiscing about the year 2017, during which five events occurred - he finished his graduation, his girlfriend
broke up with him, he sold his bike, he ran a marathon and he learnt to swim.

However, no two events occurred in the same month.

It is known that

i.
he ran a marathon three months before his girlfriend broke up with
him.

ii.
he sold his bike in July but he did not learn to swim in August or
September.

iii.
none of the five events occurred in January or
June.

iv.
he finished his graduation after he sold his
bike.

v.
he learnt to swim three months before he finished his
graduation.

Q27. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 27: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

In which month did the first of the five events occur?

a) March

b) February

c) May Your answer is correct

d) July

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DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Rahul was reminiscing about the year 2017, during which five events occurred - he finished his graduation, his girlfriend
broke up with him, he sold his bike, he ran a marathon and he learnt to swim.

However, no two events occurred in the same month.

It is known that

i.
he ran a marathon three months before his girlfriend broke up with
him.

ii.
he sold his bike in July but he did not learn to swim in August or
September.

iii.
none of the five events occurred in January or
June.

iv.
he finished his graduation after he sold his
bike.

v.
he learnt to swim three months before he finished his
graduation.
Q28. DIRECTIONS for question 28: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

How many of the five events occurred before October?

Your Answer:4 Your answer is correct

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DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

During a particular year, five movies - A through E - were released in the four regions of a country - North, South, East and
West. Each movie was ranked from 1 to 5 in each region, in the descending order of the box office collections of the movie
in that region. In any region, no two movies had the same box office collections. The bar graph below provides the box office
collections of four of the five movies, A, B, C and D, in each of the four regions - North, South, East and West. The table
adjacent to the bar graph provides the sum of the ranks obtained by these four movies in the four regions.
Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 and 30: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.

What is the sum of the ranks obtained by E across the four regions?

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During a particular year, five movies - A through E - were released in the four regions of a country - North, South, East and
West. Each movie was ranked from 1 to 5 in each region, in the descending order of the box office collections of the movie
in that region. In any region, no two movies had the same box office collections. The bar graph below provides the box office
collections of four of the five movies, A, B, C and D, in each of the four regions - North, South, East and West. The table
adjacent to the bar graph provides the sum of the ranks obtained by these four movies in the four regions.

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In how many of the four regions was B’s rank better, i.e., numerically lower, than that of E?

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West. Each movie was ranked from 1 to 5 in each region, in the descending order of the box office collections of the movie
in that region. In any region, no two movies had the same box office collections. The bar graph below provides the box office
collections of four of the five movies, A, B, C and D, in each of the four regions - North, South, East and West. The table
adjacent to the bar graph provides the sum of the ranks obtained by these four movies in the four regions.
Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 31 and 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following can be the total box office collections of E in East and South combined?

a) Rs.320 mn

b) Rs.300 mn

c) Rs.260 mn

d) Rs.200 mn

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West. Each movie was ranked from 1 to 5 in each region, in the descending order of the box office collections of the movie
in that region. In any region, no two movies had the same box office collections. The bar graph below provides the box office
collections of four of the five movies, A, B, C and D, in each of the four regions - North, South, East and West. The table
adjacent to the bar graph provides the sum of the ranks obtained by these four movies in the four regions.

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Which of the following statements is definitely true?

a) The box office collections of E across the four regions combined is greater than Rs.540 mn.

b) The box office collections of E across the four regions combined is less than Rs.540 mn.

c) The box office collections of E across the four regions combined is greater than Rs.640 mn.

d) The box office collections of E across the four regions combined is less than Rs.640 mn.

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If the total cost of two pencils, three erasers and one sharpener is Rs.23, and that of four pencils, five erasers and seven
sharpeners is Rs.67, how much will 24 pencils, 33 erasers and 27 sharpeners cost (in Rs.)?

Rs.
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In a town, the population of males increased by 20% from 2013 to 2014, while the population of females increased by 25% in
the same period. If females comprised 36% of the population in 2013, approximately what percentage of the population in
2014 are males?

a) 64%

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How many ordered pairs (a, b) exist such that HCF(a, b) = 1 and a × b = 1386?

a) 4

b) 8

c) 12

d) 16

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If two pipes, P and Q, which can empty a full tank in 20 mins and 80 mins respectively, and a pipe R, which can fill the empty
tank in 40 mins, are all opened simultaneously, how many minutes will it take for the full tank to be emptied?

Enter your answer as a decimal value, rounded off to two decimal places.
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In a race, A beats B by 50 m and C by 80 m. If B’s speed is 30% higher than that of C, find the distance (in m) over which
the race was run.

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In a triangle PQR, a line AB is drawn parallel to the side QR, whose length is 36 cm. If AB divides PQ in the ratio 4:5, what is
the length of the line AB?

a) 16 cm Your answer is correct

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c) 24 cm

d) 28 cm

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The book-value of a machine depreciates at the rate of 12.5% every year. What was the book-value (in Rs.) of the machine
three years ago, if the difference between its book-value two years ago and its present book-value is Rs.1,31,250?

Rs.

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How many natural numbers less than 1000 leave a remainder of 4 when divided by both 5 and 11?

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If the arithmetic mean of (80)9 and (80)16 is (40)n then n =

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There are ten children, each of a distinct age from 1 to 10 years, initially having an equal amount of money with each of
them. First, the eldest child gives ten rupees to every child younger to him. Then, the second eldest child gives nine rupees
to every child younger to him, after which, the third eldest child gives eight rupees to every child younger to him, and so on,
till the two-year old gives two rupees to the youngest child. If the ratio of the money with the four-year old and the seven-
year old is finally 7 : 5, find the initial amount (in Rs.) with each child.

Rs.

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The sum of the LCM and the HCF of two natural numbersa and b is 57. What is the minimum value ofa + b, if a and b are
not co-primes?

a) 33

b) 27

c) 15

d) 58

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If a⊕ b = , then find the value of 3 ⊕ (4 ⊕ 5).

a)

b) Your answer is correct

c)

d)

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If three acidic solutions of concentrations 35%, 50% and 65% respectively are mixed in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1, what is the
concentration of the resultant solution?

a) 52.5%

b) 42.5%

c) 47.5%

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Three men, Bharat, Pradeep and Ravi, together can complete a work in one hour less than what Pradeep would take
working alone, one-half the time that Ravi would take working alone and 6 hours less than what Bharat would take working
alone. How much time would Bharat and Pradeep, working together, take to complete the work?
 a) hours

b) hours

c) hours

d) hours

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If (x, y, z) is an ordered triplet such that 6x + 5y + 2z = 53, where x, y and z are positive integers, what is the difference
between maximum and minimum value of x + y + z?

a) 10

b) 11
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d) 13

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Krishna borrowed Rs.42,000 at 10% p.a. under compound interest, interest being compounded annually. If he has to repay
this in two equal annual investments, find the value (in Rs.) of each installment.

Rs.

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An ATM machine had money only in notes of denominations of Rs.1000, Rs.500 and Rs.100. The total number of notes
ejected by the machine on a certain day is 400. However, due to a malfunction, the machine wrongly ejected Rs.500 notes
instead of Rs.100 notes and Rs.100 notes instead of Rs.500 notes. Owing to this error, the machine calculated the total
amount ejected by it during the day to be Rs.1,80,000. If the correct amount that was ejected during the day by the machine
was Rs.1,16,000, what is the number of Rs.1000 notes ejected by the machine during the day?

a) 40

b) 45

c) 50

d) 60

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The monthly incomes of Amit and Bharath are in the ratio 4 : 5. If the ratio of the monthly expenditures of Amit and Bharath
is 3 : 4, which of the following can be the ratio of the savings of Amit and Bharath?

a) 2 : 3

b) 4 : 5

c) 5 : 7

d) 8 : 9

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Three runners, P, Q and R, run around a circular track, of length ℓ m, at speeds of 2 m/s, 6 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. If all
three of them start at the same time, from the same point, and run in the same direction, at how many distinct points on the
track would any two runners (but not all three) meet?

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The number of five-letter words which start with T, that can be formed using the letters of the word CASKET, without
repeating any letter, is

a) 180.

b) 720.

c) 120.

d) 24.

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Consider the following series 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 …. and so on. What is the sum of the first 1000 terms of the
series?

a) 21088

b) 21120

c) 20118

d) 21808

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a)

b) 1

c) 2

d)

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Find the area (in sq. units) of the region which satisfies the relations x + 3y ≤ 9, 3x + y ≤ 9, x ≥ 0 and y ≥ 0.

a)

b)

c)

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What is the square of the product of all the factors of 53900?

a)

b)
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d)

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If, for x > 0, f (x) = and f (1) = 1, then find the value off (100).

a)

b)

c)

d)

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What is the sum of all the natural numbers from 101 to 200 excluding those that end in 7?

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Peejay went to a shop to purchase chocolates. The shopkeeper said to him, “You can purchase a chocolate either by paying
Re.1 or by giving me three empty wrappers of the chocolate”. If the maximum number of chocolates Peejay can purchase is
50, then find the amount of money with him.

a) Rs.30

b) Rs.32

c) Rs.34

d) Rs.36

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Find the sum of all four-digit even numbers that can be formed using the digits 0, 2, 3 and 5, if no digit occurs more than
once in each number.

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Find the range of all real values ofx for which > 11x + 2.

a)

b)

c)
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If are the roots of the equation 2x2 + bx + a =0, while α and are the roots of the equation x2 - ax + c = 0, what is
the value of b?

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What is the remainder when 17432 is divided by 109?

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A trader increases the selling price of an article by exactly the same amount by which the cost price of the article goes up.
Which of the following statements is necessarily true regarding P1 and P2, which are his profit percentages before and after
the price hike respectively? (Negative profit percentage indicates a loss)

a) If P1 < 0, then | P1 | < | P2 |

b) If P1 > 0, then | P1 | > | P2 |

c) P1 = P2

d) P1 ≠ P2

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a) 3

b) 3

c) 3
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In a certain institute, out of every seven students studying Accountancy, three study Economics as well. For every student
studying at least one of these two courses, there are three students who study neither. If 10% of the students study only
Accountancy, then what percentage of students study only Economics?

a) 17½%

b) 7½%

c) 21½%

d) Cannot be determined

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