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VERBAL ABILITY - VERBAL ABILITY
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Each of the following four sentences has two words within brackets. The word which has been
highlighted has been used as the most appropriate word for the sentence. In one of the sentences,
the wrong word has been highlighted. Identify that sentence and indicate that option as your answer.
(A) The regional rules had to (profligate/propitiate) the Kings and Emperors in order to
survive and prosper. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(B) Inculturation always runs the risk of (syncretism/symbolism), in all cultures without
exception.
(C) The family was destitute as its sole breadwinner was an (inveterate/invigorate) gambler.
(D) Classes where children from different economic backgrounds are (integrated/ingratiated)
might be a good way of developing empathy in children.

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Arrange the sentences in the most logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given
options choose the most appropriate option.
a. Hillary Clinton famously used children as her signature cause when she was first lady,
publishing in 1996, when her public image was mired in scandal.
b. “Think of the children!” has thus been a rallying cry for everyone from anti-nuclear activists to
crusaders against gay marriage or abortion.
c. Adults with wildly varying agendas have long used kids to serve their own political interests.
d. As a political strategy, this makes some sense; whatever their politics, most adults are
distressed when “children,” as an amorphous group, appear to be in trouble.
(A) adbc
(B) bcda
(C) cbda (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(D) dabc

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Each of the following four sentences has two words within brackets. The word which has been
highlighted has been used as the most appropriate word for the sentence. In one of the sentences,
the wrong word has been highlighted. Identify that sentence and indicate that option as your answer.
(A) Long years of neglect had left the roof of the historic building in a (precarious/precautious)
condition.
(B) Letters of congratulation (decanted/descended) on the winning team like snowflakes.
(Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(C) From a distance he could see the cow (foraging/foregoing) in the pasture at a distance
from the herd.
(D) The speaker was becoming more and more aggressive as the crowd (goaded/girded) him
on.

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a. The process of state building has often seen the exploitation of environmental and natural
resources.
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b. They become low paid labour in, or destructive scavengers eking out a living from the
remnants of, corporate forestry even as forest resources were being depleted.
c. In most of the countries in ASEAN, unbridled exploitation of forest resources occurred while
civil society actors, mainly forest-based communities, were either marginalized or co-opted.
d. In the history of ASEAN countries, this process led not only to political and economic
marginalization of many civil society sectors but also to the resource capture and ecological
marginalization of forest resources.
(A) adcb (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)

(B) bdca
(C) dbac
(D) cbda

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a. More broadly, globalization is the process by which countries become more like one country.
b. Narrowly defined, globalization is global economic and financial integration.
c. In this latter depiction, economic and financial integration can only be seen as a step in a long
process.
d. In its humane dimension, globalization is the gradual removal of all barriers and the integration
of mankind.
(A) dbca
(B) dcab
(C) badc (Correct Answer)
(D) bdca (Chosen option)
Case Study - 6 to 10 15.00

That orientals and occidentals think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies
conducted over the past two decades suggest Westerners have a more individualistic, analytic and abstract
mental life than do East Asians. Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this.
One, that modernisation promotes individualism, falls at the first hurdle: Japan, an ultra-modern country
whose people have retained a collective outlook. A second, that a higher prevalence of infectious disease in
a place makes contact with strangers more dangerous, and causes groups to turn inward, is hardly better.
Europe has had its share of plagues; probably more than either Japan or Korea. And though southern China
is notoriously a source of infection (influenza pandemics often start there), this is not true of other parts of
that enormous country.
That led Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia and his colleagues to look into a third suggestion: that
the crucial difference is agricultural. The West’s staple is wheat; the East’s, rice. Before the mechanisation of
agriculture a farmer who grew rice had to expend twice as many hours doing so as one who grew wheat. To
deploy labour efficiently, especially at times of planting and harvesting, rice-growing societies as far apart as
India, Malaysia and Japan all developed co-operative labour exchanges which let neighbours stagger their
farms’ schedules in order to assist each other during these crucial periods. Since, until recently, almost
everyone alive was a farmer, it is a reasonable hypothesis that such a collective outlook would dominate a
society’s culture and behaviour, and might prove so deep-rooted that even now, when most people earn their
living in other ways, it helps to define their lives.
Mr. Talhelm realized that this idea is testable. Large swathes of China, particularly in the north, depend not
on rice, but on wheat. That, as he explains in a paper in Science, let him and his team put some flesh on this
theory’s bones.
The team gathered almost 1,200 volunteers from all over China and asked them questions to assess their
individualism or collectivism. The answers bore little relation to the wealth of a volunteer’s place of origin,
which Mr. Talhelm saw as a proxy for how modern it was, or to its level of public health. There was a striking
correlation, though, with whether it was a rice-growing or a wheat-growing area. This difference was marked
even between people from neighbouring counties with different agricultural traditions. His hypothesis that the
different psychologies of East and West are, at least in part, a consequence of their agriculture thus looks
worth further exploration. And such exploration is possible—for India, too, has rice-growing and wheat-
growing regions.
How resilient Asia’s collectivist cultures will be as they lose their rural roots remains to be seen. But the
message from Japan, and also from more recently modernized places such as Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and Singapore, seems to be “quite resilient”. For some, Asian values—with their tenets of solidarity and
collective action—are cause for celebration. For others, they are stifling and a barrier to social progress. But
whichever side you take, if Mr. Talhelm is correct they are only “Asian” because, back in the neolithic,
farmers in many parts of that continent found Oryza a more congenial crop to grow than Triticum.

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In the context of the passage, the author’s assertion that the notion that ‘modernisation promotes
individualism, falls at the first hurdle’ refers to the fact that:
(A) Japan is a modern country despite its people having a collective outlook.
(B) People in Japan have a collective outlook, and as a consequence it has become a modern
nation.
(C) People in Japan have a collective outlook despite the fact that it has become a
modern nation. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(D) Japan is a modern country and hence its people have a collective outlook.

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In the context of the passage the hypothesis that a ‘higher prevalence of infectious disease in a
place makes contact with strangers more dangerous’ and hence people more individualistic, would
have been supported if:
(A) Only Europe, and not East Asia, had suffered from plagues and infectious diseases.
(B) Both East Asia and Europe had suffered from plagues and infectious diseases.
(C) Only East Asia, and not Europe, had suffered from plagues and infectious diseases.
(D) East Asia and Europe had not suffered from plagues and infectious diseases.

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Which of the following, if true, would invalidate the main argument of Thomas Talhelm and his
colleagues that agricultural traditions are the cause of differences in thinking between East Asians
and Europeans?
(A) Wheat production in Europe was never mechanized.
(B) Rice rather than wheat was part of the daily diet of Europeans.
(C) Wheat production in Europe was mechanized.
(D) Rice rather than wheat was the main European crop. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)

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The author’s assertion that Asia’s collectivist cultures are ‘quite resilient’ is based partly on the fact
that:
(A) Taiwan has a collectivist culture. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(B) Northern China has a collectivist culture.
(C) India has a collectivist culture.
(D) Southern China has a collectivist culture.

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Based on the claims made by the passage, if Oryza had been cultivated in Europe and Triticum in
Asia, then:
(A) The Germans might have developed and retained a collectivist culture, but Germany may
not have become a modern nation.
(B) The French might have developed and retained an individualist culture, even after France
became a modern nation.
(C) The Chinese might have developed and retained an individualistic culture, but it may not
have become a modern nation.
(D) The Japanese might have developed an individualistic culture and retained it even
after Japan became a modern nation. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)

For the film, what matters primarily is that the actor represents himself to the public before the camera, rather
than representing someone else. One of the first to sense the actor’s metamorphosis by this form of testing
was Pirandello. Though his remarks on the subject in his novel Si Gira were limited to the negative aspects
of the question and to the silent film only, this hardly impairs their validity. For in this respect, the sound film
did not change anything essential. What matters is that the part is acted not for an audience but for a
mechanical contrivance – in the case of the sound film, for two of them. “The film actor,” wrote Pirandello,
“feels as if in exile – exiled not only from the stage but also from himself. With a vague sense of discomfort
he feels inexplicable emptiness: his body loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life,
voice, and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an
instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence .... The projector will play with his shadow before the
public, and he himself must be content to play before the camera.” This situation might also be characterized
as follows: for the first time – and this is the effect of the film – man has to operate with his whole living
person, yet forgoing its aura. For aura is tied to his presence; there can be no replica of it. The aura which,
on the stage, emanates from Macbeth, cannot be separated for the spectators from that of the actor.
However, the singularity of the shot in the studio is that the camera is substituted for the public.
Consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays.
It is not surprising that it should be a dramatist such as Pirandello who, in characterizing the film,
inadvertently touches on the very crisis in which we see the theater. Any thorough study proves that there is
indeed no greater contrast than that of the stage play to a work of art that is completely subject to or, like the
film, founded in, mechanical reproduction. Experts have long recognized that in the film “the greatest effects
are almost always obtained by ‘acting’ as little as possible ... ” In 1932 Rudolf Arnheim saw “the latest trend
... in treating the actor as a stage prop chosen for its characteristics and... inserted at the proper place.” With
this idea something else is closely connected. The stage actor identifies himself with the character of his
role. The film actor very often is denied this opportunity. His creation is by no means all of a piece; it is
composed of many separate performances. Besides certain fortuitous considerations, such as cost of studio,
availability of fellow players, décor, etc., there are elementary necessities of equipment that split the actor’s
work into a series of mountable episodes. In particular, lighting and its installation require the presentation of
an event that, on the screen, unfolds as a rapid and unified scene, in a sequence of separate shootings
which may take hours at the studio; not to mention more obvious montage. Thus a jump from the window
can be shot in the studio as a jump from a scaffold, and the ensuing flight, if need be, can be shot weeks
later when outdoor scenes are taken. Far more paradoxical cases can easily be construed. Let us assume
that an actor is supposed to be startled by a knock at the door. If his reaction is not satisfactory, the director
can resort to an expedient: when the actor happens to be at the studio again he has a shot fired behind him
without his being forewarned of it. The frightened reaction can be shot now and be cut into the screen
version. Nothing more strikingly shows that art has left the realm of the “beautiful semblance” which, so far,
had been taken to be the only sphere where art could thrive.

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When the author says “that art has left the realm of the ‘beautiful semblance’ which, so far, had been
taken to be the only sphere where art could thrive,” in the light of the entire passage, what is
indicated?
(A) Art is predominantly imitative.
(B) Technology constrains artistic innovation. (Chosen option)
(C) Art loses its value with technology.
(D) Technology enables artistic innovation. (Correct Answer)

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On ruminating on silent films, the author states that “man has to operate with his whole living person,
yet forgoing its aura.” We can decipher a transition from
(A) Theatre to Movies.
(B) Art to Technology.
(C) Personalities to Commodities. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(D) Spirit to body.

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The author says: “It is not surprising that it should be a dramatist such as Pirandello who, in
characterizing the film, inadvertently touches on the very crisis in which we see the theatre.” Why is
it not surprising?
(A) Because as a dramatist he understood the impact of technology on the theatre.
(B) Because as a dramatist he understood the power of technology.
(C) Because as a dramatist he understood movie production technology.
(D) Because as a dramatist he understood the impact of theatre on movies.
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The passage through the following statement indicates a new trend in performance art. “Besides
certain fortuitous considerations, such as cost of studio, availability of fellow players, décor, etc.,
there are elementary necessities of equipment that split the actor’s work into a series of mountable
episodes.” Which of the following best reflects that trend?
(A) Decimation of traditional theatre.
(B) Aesthetization of movie-making technology.
(C) Disassembling of artistic processes. (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(D) Technologization of movie making.

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An appropriate title for the passage could be:
(A) Death of theatre in the age of mechanical reproduction.
(B) Theatre, films and mechanical reproduction. (Chosen option)
(C) Art in the age of mechanical reproduction. (Correct Answer)
(D) Rise of motion picture technology and the destruction of theatre.
LOGICAL REASONING - LOGICAL REASONING

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students registered for the PGDBA program, with graduation in exactly
one of the three disciplines: Engineering, Science and Humanities. Of the eight students, not more than
three are graduates from the same discipline. There are eight electives on offer, namely, Finance,
Economics, Marketing, Programming, Operations, Algorithms, Communications and Statistics. Each student
subscribes to exactly one elective and no elective remains unsubscribed.
Use the following additional information to answer the questions below:
i. D is a graduate in Science, and subscribes to neither Finance nor Economics.

ii. A and F are the only graduates in Humanities.
iii. A subscribes to Statistics and H does not subscribe to Economics.
iv. E and H are not graduates from the same discipline as D.
v. C subscribes to Communications, and is not an Engineer.
vi. G is not a graduate from the Science discipline, and subscribes to neither Economics nor
Programming.
vii. One of the students from the Science discipline subscribes to Finance.
viii. One of the students from the Humanities discipline subscribes to Marketing.
ix. No student from the Science discipline subscribes to either Programming or Operations.

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Which of the following students are graduates from the Science discipline?
(A) E, F and H
(B) E and H
(C) B, D and G
(D) B, C and D (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)

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Which of the following students subscribes to Finance?
(A) D
(B) B (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(C) F
(D) H

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Which of the following electives is subscribed by E?
(A) Programming
(B) Operations
(C) Economics (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(D) Algorithms

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Which of the following electives is subscribed by G?
(A) Algorithms
(B) Operations (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
(C) Economics
(D) Programming

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Which of the following combinations of (Student, Graduation Discipline, Subscribed Elective) is
correct?
(A) (E, Science, Economics)
(B) (H, Engineering, Operations)
(C) (F, Humanities, Operations)
(D) (D, Science, Algorithms) (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)
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(A) adcb (Correct Answer) (Chosen option)

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Case Study - 6 to 10 15.00

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LOGICAL REASONING - LOGICAL REASONING

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Use the following additional information to answer the questions below:

i. D is a graduate in Science, and subscribes to neither Finance nor Economics.

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