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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.

Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.

Q1. Which of the following best represents the essence of the passage?

a) Modern capitalism should neither be manager-centric nor shareholder-centric as it has been; it should be customer-centric.

b) Modern capitalism has evolved from being manager-driven and later, shareholder-driven to being customer-
driven. Your answer is incorrect

c) Modern capitalism can maximise shareholder value by only maximising customer-satisfaction.

d) Modern capitalism gives greater priority to customers than to shareholders, who are more important than professional
managers.

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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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.

Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.
Q2. All the following, if true, demonstrate the principles of at least one of the three eras of modern capitalism discussed in the
passage EXCEPT:

a) Johnson & Johnson’s CEO, James Burke, in the aftermath of Tylenol capsule poisoning called back all the capsules
across America for customer-safety despite market share, sales and stock price plummeting.

b) Jack Welch of GE oversaw a $471 billion increase in shareholder value from $13 billion in 1981 to $484 billion in
2001 by putting into practice the theory of shareholder value maximisation. Your answer is incorrect

c) Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, also the company’s CEO, thinks the company will
be ready next year to go public and bring in shareholders into the mix.

d) Roberto Goizueta, Coca Cola’s CEO from 1981 to 1997, was the first American manager to become a billionaire thanks to
stock-based compensation in a company that he’d neither founded nor taken public.

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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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.

Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.

Q3. ‘This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic expansion.’
Which of the following can be inferred as a necessity of ‘This movement’ as per Berle and Means?

a) Entrepreneurs were gradually replaced by managers, because they were professional and efficient, unlike the former.

b) Companies need managers more than owner-CEOs to grow.

c) Management and ownership should go separate ways if corporations were to expand. Your answer is incorrect

d) The growth of companies beyond a point is better steered by dependable managers than mercurial entrepreneurs.

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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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.
Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.

Q4. A critic of Jensen and Meckling’s theory discussed in the passage will most likely agree with which of the following?

a) Shareholders were getting short shrift from the owners of companies.

b) Shareholders actually have been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe.

c) Companies focusing on maximising shareholder value may not offer shareholders the best value.

d) While allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers, shareholders were being taken for a ride. Your
answer is incorrect

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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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.

Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.

Q5. Which of the following serve to weaken the ‘shareholder-first’ theory advocated by Michael C. Jensen and William H
Meckling?

a) CEOs can push shareholder value up in short bursts, hoping to get out before the inevitable resultant crash.

b) Maximising shareholder value will maximise customer satisfaction. Your answer is incorrect

c) CEOs are more concerned about their stock-based compensation than maximising shareholder value.

d) Companies that focus on maximising shareholder value probably deliver the best returns.

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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.

Modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932, and was defined by
the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in
1976. Its governing premise is that the purpose of every corporation should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. This is a
tragically flawed premise, and it is time we abandoned it and made the shift to a third era: customer-driven capitalism.

In 1932, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means published their legendary treatise, The Modern Corporation and Private Property,
which asserted that management should be divorced from ownership. After that, the business world would no longer be
dominated by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) owners like the Rockefellers, Mellons, Carnegies, and Morgans. Firms would be
run by a new class of professional managers, who were more dependable and less volatile, once the business reached a
significant size. This movement, said Berle and Means, was not to be feared; it was part of a brave new era of economic
expansion.

Then in 1976 managerial capitalism received a stinging rebuke: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling’s “Theory of the
Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The
most-cited academic business article of all time argued that owners were getting short shrift from professional managers, who
were squandering corporate and societal resources to feather their own nests. This was bad for shareholders and wasteful for
the economy, Jensen and Meckling argued.
Their critique ushered in the current era of capitalism, as CEOs, the managers, quickly saw the need to swear allegiance to
“maximizing shareholder value.” Boards of directors soon came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management
with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation.

Have shareholders actually been better off since they displaced managers as the centre of the business universe? The simple
answer is no. From 1933 to the end of 1976, when they were allegedly playing second fiddle to professional managers,
shareholders of the S&P 500 earned compound annual real returns of 7.6%. From 1977 to the end of 2008, they did
considerably worse-earning real returns of 5.9% a year. On this basis, it’s hard to argue that Jensen and Meckling did
shareholders a huge favour.

That counterintuitive answer begs a provocative follow-up question: If the shareholders were all you cared about, would focusing
on increasing shareholder value be the best way to make sure they benefited? I believe that the answer to this question is also
no. To create shareholder value, you should instead aim to maximize customer satisfaction. In other words, Peter Drucker had it
right when he said that the primary purpose of a business is to acquire and keep customers.

Why not have a dual objective of maximizing both customer satisfaction and shareholder value? Unfortunately, as optimization
theory maintains, there is no way to simultaneously optimize two different things-that is, to maximize two desirable variables or
minimize two undesirable variables. It is possible to maximize shareholder value given a minimum hurdle for customer
satisfaction, or to maximize customer satisfaction given a minimum hurdle for shareholder value appreciation, but you can’t
maximize both.

Q6. Which of the following best describes the ‘tragically flawed premise’ mentioned in the passage that needs to be
abandoned?

a) Management should be divorced from ownership.

b) To create shareholder value, you should aim to maximize customer satisfaction.

c) Maximising shareholder value should be the defining mantra of any corporation. Your answer is correct

d) Board of directors and CEOs should swear allegiance to shareholders.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 9: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In a 2004 book, I introduced the word ‘oxymoronica’ by adding the suffix -ica to the word ‘oxymoron’. I was trying to coin a word
to describe a collection of oxymoronic and paradoxical quotations. An oxymoron is formed when two words that don’t normally
go together are conjoined creating a compressed paradox. A paradox is interesting because it is false and true at the same time.
The most impressive examples of oxymoronica don’t contain a simple ‘contradiction in terms’, but rather a ‘contradiction in
ideas’. Browning’s ‘Less is more’ or Lao-tzu’s ‘To lead the people, walk behind them’ are false at a literal level and true at a
figurative one.

Many oxymoronic replies are wonderfully witty. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr invited
friends and associates to a celebration party at his country cottage. The event was also well attended by the members of the
press. One reporter, noticing a horseshoe hanging on a wall, teasingly asked the famous physicist, “Can be it that you, of all
people, believe a horseshoe will bring you good luck?” Bohr replied: “Of course not but I understand it brings you luck whether
you believe it or not.”
Other oxymoronic replies are not so much witty as they are profound, often capturing important human truths. A famous
example was offered by the emperor Pyrrhus in 279 BC when he led a coalition of invading Greek forces against the Roman
army. In one of the most bitterly fought battles of the campaign, there were heavy losses on both sides. Finally, the battered
Greek army defeated the Roman forces. In a celebration after the battle, when Pyrrhus was congratulated on the victory, he
reportedly said: “Another victory like this and we are ruined.” The words of Pyrrhus live on in the eponymous expression ‘pyrrhic
victory’, which refers to a win accompanied by such huge losses that its difficult to truly consider it a triumph.

Q7. All the following can be understood from the third para, “Other oxymoronic replies…consider it a triumph”, EXCEPT:

a) Pyrrhus led the Greek forces to a victory that came at a great cost.

b) A ‘pyrrhic victory’ is a victory that feels like a defeat. Your answer is correct

c) Pyrrhus won the battle against the Roman army which inflicted huge losses upon the Greeks.

d) Pyrrhus felt the Greeks cannot afford another victory at such a cost.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 9: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In a 2004 book, I introduced the word ‘oxymoronica’ by adding the suffix -ica to the word ‘oxymoron’. I was trying to coin a word
to describe a collection of oxymoronic and paradoxical quotations. An oxymoron is formed when two words that don’t normally
go together are conjoined creating a compressed paradox. A paradox is interesting because it is false and true at the same time.
The most impressive examples of oxymoronica don’t contain a simple ‘contradiction in terms’, but rather a ‘contradiction in
ideas’. Browning’s ‘Less is more’ or Lao-tzu’s ‘To lead the people, walk behind them’ are false at a literal level and true at a
figurative one.
Many oxymoronic replies are wonderfully witty. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr invited
friends and associates to a celebration party at his country cottage. The event was also well attended by the members of the
press. One reporter, noticing a horseshoe hanging on a wall, teasingly asked the famous physicist, “Can be it that you, of all
people, believe a horseshoe will bring you good luck?” Bohr replied: “Of course not but I understand it brings you luck whether
you believe it or not.”

Other oxymoronic replies are not so much witty as they are profound, often capturing important human truths. A famous
example was offered by the emperor Pyrrhus in 279 BC when he led a coalition of invading Greek forces against the Roman
army. In one of the most bitterly fought battles of the campaign, there were heavy losses on both sides. Finally, the battered
Greek army defeated the Roman forces. In a celebration after the battle, when Pyrrhus was congratulated on the victory, he
reportedly said: “Another victory like this and we are ruined.” The words of Pyrrhus live on in the eponymous expression ‘pyrrhic
victory’, which refers to a win accompanied by such huge losses that its difficult to truly consider it a triumph.

Q8. All the following can be included in ‘oxymoronica’ EXCEPT:

a) The more things change, the more they remain the same.

b) Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.

c) We are overpaying him, but he’s worth it. Your answer is incorrect

d) There were plenty of vacancies, but they’re all filled.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 9: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

In a 2004 book, I introduced the word ‘oxymoronica’ by adding the suffix -ica to the word ‘oxymoron’. I was trying to coin a word
to describe a collection of oxymoronic and paradoxical quotations. An oxymoron is formed when two words that don’t normally
go together are conjoined creating a compressed paradox. A paradox is interesting because it is false and true at the same time.
The most impressive examples of oxymoronica don’t contain a simple ‘contradiction in terms’, but rather a ‘contradiction in
ideas’. Browning’s ‘Less is more’ or Lao-tzu’s ‘To lead the people, walk behind them’ are false at a literal level and true at a
figurative one.

Many oxymoronic replies are wonderfully witty. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr invited
friends and associates to a celebration party at his country cottage. The event was also well attended by the members of the
press. One reporter, noticing a horseshoe hanging on a wall, teasingly asked the famous physicist, “Can be it that you, of all
people, believe a horseshoe will bring you good luck?” Bohr replied: “Of course not but I understand it brings you luck whether
you believe it or not.”

Other oxymoronic replies are not so much witty as they are profound, often capturing important human truths. A famous
example was offered by the emperor Pyrrhus in 279 BC when he led a coalition of invading Greek forces against the Roman
army. In one of the most bitterly fought battles of the campaign, there were heavy losses on both sides. Finally, the battered
Greek army defeated the Roman forces. In a celebration after the battle, when Pyrrhus was congratulated on the victory, he
reportedly said: “Another victory like this and we are ruined.” The words of Pyrrhus live on in the eponymous expression ‘pyrrhic
victory’, which refers to a win accompanied by such huge losses that its difficult to truly consider it a triumph.

Q9. Which of the following best explains Niels Bohr’s ‘oxymoronic’ reply, as defined in the passage?

a) Bohr understands that his belief in the horseshoe is what brought him luck. Your answer is incorrect

b) Bohr doesn’t believe the horseshoe brings luck but understands that it brings luck whether he believes it or not.

c) Bohr believes that the horseshoe brings luck only to those who believe it does.

d) Bohr believes that the horseshoe doesn’t bring luck irrespective of whether one understands it does or not.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.

But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.

The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q10. Which of the following can be understood from the author’s statement: ‘They manage without a drug apparently essential
to civilised life in the west’?

I.
Two-thirds of the world’s population are not from the
west.

II.
The west cannot survive without
alcohol.

III.
It is not impossible to manage without
alcohol.

IV.
Only those who consume alcohol can be called civilised in the
west.

a) I, II and III

b) Only III Your answer is correct

c) Only II

d) I, III and IV

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.

But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.
The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q11. Which of the following questions need to be answered to evaluate the author’s conclusion: “A world without drink might
find itself poorer as well as richer”?

a) Does alcohol trigger imagination and courage?

b) Can imagination and courage offset the adverse impact of bad health?

c) What is the increase in productivity of countries restricting alcohol consumption? Your answer is incorrect

d) What is the government’s revenue from taxing alcohol consumption?

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.
But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.

The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q12. Which of the following has not been suggested as a way of reducing alcohol consumption?

a) Increasing the price of alcohol.

b) Checks on the promotion of alcohol

c) Hindering the availability of drugs to deal with alcoholism

d) Self-discipline Your answer is incorrect

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.

But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.

The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q13. Which of the following statements is the author most likely to disagree with based on the opinions and information given in
the passage?

a) Alcohol consumption shouldn’t cross certain limits.

b) Moderate alcohol consumption makes a person self-disciplined. Your answer is correct

c) Abstinence from alcohol consumption may make the world less imaginative.

d) Regulated alcohol consumption can stave off the risk of heart disease.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.

But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.

The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q14. Which of the following cannot be inferred as a physical ill-effect associated with alcohol consumption in the passage?

a) Drunken driving

b) TB

c) Cancer

d) Heart disease Your answer is incorrect

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DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 15: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the more you drink, the worse its health effects. A gigantic report on the
subject published last week is unequivocal and authoritative. It makes depressing reading - “sobering” would be the wrong word
here, not least because few people are likely to change their behaviour as a result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions.
The report was based on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people around the world were examined in 592 studies to
estimate the health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using a further 694 studies.

Some of the effects of large-scale drinking are really shocking. Around the world today, alcohol is responsible for 20% of the
deaths in the 15 to 49 age group (the researchers include in this an estimate for the proportion of road traffic fatalities cause by
drunk driving, though this is extrapolated from US data).

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary means of
damage is through TB; as countries grow more developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to cancer and heart
disease. It is the trade-off between cancer and heart disease which leads the researchers to reject the notion that moderate
drinking has health benefits compared with abstinence: they find that the increased risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk
of heart disease among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without a
drug apparently essential to civilised life in the west. The question is whether those of us in the other third should try to emulate
them. The researchers are unequivocal. They want concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol consumption, using
many of the same mechanisms that have been successfully deployed against tobacco: price rises, restrictions on advertising;
limiting the availability of the drug. Some of these look like common sense.

But the report’s concentration on the physical ill-effects of alcohol consumption leaves two important questions unanswered. The
direct physical effects of the drug are not the reasons for its popularity or use. It is the effect on mood and even intellect that
many people take it for. This isn’t an entirely benevolent one. Drunken drivers, and drunken physical violence, cause immense
suffering. The emotional damage that even high-functioning alcoholics do to their families is profound and lasting. Alcohol is bad
for judgment and can promote a destructive solipsism. But it can also stimulate imagination, courage and friendship in a way that
is hard to achieve otherwise. These are gifts that make life worth living. There is a reason why wine is tightly linked to paradise
in religious poetry. Almost all human societies have used drugs for social purposes as well as individual pleasure. A world
without drink might find itself poorer as well as richer.

The report is right that many people should drink less than they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.
Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it protects the heart, but that it requires a little self-discipline.

Q15. All the following are true according to the passage EXCEPT:

a) Alcohol is responsible for 20% of the deaths in the 15 to 49 age group.

b) Alcohol is consumed for its probable effects on mood and intellect.

c) The effect of alcohol on a drinker depends on whether the drinker is from a rich or a poor country. Your answer
is correct

d) Moderate drinkers are at a lower risk of heart diseases than non-drinkers.

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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.

Almost 20% of Britons aged 18 and over are estimated to have a tattoo. A furtive recce at my gym suggests more women have
tattoos than don’t; the real distinction is level of commitment. The woman I saw last week, with the elaborately shaded Illuminati
eye across her décolletage? She had committed. Me, with my line drawing no larger than a credit card, placed just so on my ribs
- not so much. And that had felt like a leap.

A tattoo does not inspire trepidation in everyone. My colleague seems to have easily acquired four or five tattoos in a matter of
months. But for years I couldn’t get past the question: “What if I regret it later?”

People do - at least the 1,000 of them in the UK who were recently surveyed about it for Casino.org. A fifth said they’d spent “no
time at all” settling on the tattoo they now regret. Star constellations, Asian characters and tribal designs did not age well beyond
a split-second decision…

But as the idea settled in my mind, the unequivocal indelibility of a tattoo became a selling point. I was 26, about to move away
from my family. I was leaving a permanent job for a contract; I was not in a relationship; I was nowhere near home ownership, or
even dog ownership.

There wasn’t much in my life that felt permanent, and it had recently dawned on me that maybe there never would be. For the
first time a tattoo felt like a desirably declarative statement, a steadying stake in the ground. It was not often that I agreed with
Lena Dunham, but her explanation for her tens of tattoos appealed: “I think it gives me a sense of control and ownership of a
body that’s often beyond my control.” Not just a body. A life.

Q16. The colleague’s case discussed by the author demonstrates which of the following?

a) Not everyone is obsessed with tattoos.

b) Tattoos are sported by intrepid people.

 c) Getting multiple tattoos is an exception rather than a norm.

d) Not everyone gets anxious about getting tattoos. Your answer is correct

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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.

Almost 20% of Britons aged 18 and over are estimated to have a tattoo. A furtive recce at my gym suggests more women have
tattoos than don’t; the real distinction is level of commitment. The woman I saw last week, with the elaborately shaded Illuminati
eye across her décolletage? She had committed. Me, with my line drawing no larger than a credit card, placed just so on my ribs
- not so much. And that had felt like a leap.

A tattoo does not inspire trepidation in everyone. My colleague seems to have easily acquired four or five tattoos in a matter of
months. But for years I couldn’t get past the question: “What if I regret it later?”

People do - at least the 1,000 of them in the UK who were recently surveyed about it for Casino.org. A fifth said they’d spent “no
time at all” settling on the tattoo they now regret. Star constellations, Asian characters and tribal designs did not age well beyond
a split-second decision…

But as the idea settled in my mind, the unequivocal indelibility of a tattoo became a selling point. I was 26, about to move away
from my family. I was leaving a permanent job for a contract; I was not in a relationship; I was nowhere near home ownership, or
even dog ownership.

There wasn’t much in my life that felt permanent, and it had recently dawned on me that maybe there never would be. For the
first time a tattoo felt like a desirably declarative statement, a steadying stake in the ground. It was not often that I agreed with
Lena Dunham, but her explanation for her tens of tattoos appealed: “I think it gives me a sense of control and ownership of a
body that’s often beyond my control.” Not just a body. A life.

Q17. Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the third para: ‘People do…split-second decision’?

a) Tattoos don’t age well beyond a split-second decision.

b) It’s possible to regret tattoos one gets on a whim.

c) Settling on which tattoo one wants doesn’t take time.

d) All those who don’t spend time settling on a tattoo will regret it later. Your answer is incorrect

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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.

Almost 20% of Britons aged 18 and over are estimated to have a tattoo. A furtive recce at my gym suggests more women have
tattoos than don’t; the real distinction is level of commitment. The woman I saw last week, with the elaborately shaded Illuminati
eye across her décolletage? She had committed. Me, with my line drawing no larger than a credit card, placed just so on my ribs
- not so much. And that had felt like a leap.

A tattoo does not inspire trepidation in everyone. My colleague seems to have easily acquired four or five tattoos in a matter of
months. But for years I couldn’t get past the question: “What if I regret it later?”

People do - at least the 1,000 of them in the UK who were recently surveyed about it for Casino.org. A fifth said they’d spent “no
time at all” settling on the tattoo they now regret. Star constellations, Asian characters and tribal designs did not age well beyond
a split-second decision…

But as the idea settled in my mind, the unequivocal indelibility of a tattoo became a selling point. I was 26, about to move away
from my family. I was leaving a permanent job for a contract; I was not in a relationship; I was nowhere near home ownership, or
even dog ownership.
There wasn’t much in my life that felt permanent, and it had recently dawned on me that maybe there never would be. For the
first time a tattoo felt like a desirably declarative statement, a steadying stake in the ground. It was not often that I agreed with
Lena Dunham, but her explanation for her tens of tattoos appealed: “I think it gives me a sense of control and ownership of a
body that’s often beyond my control.” Not just a body. A life.

Q18. All the following were mentioned by author as reasons why the indelibility of tattoos became a selling point EXCEPT:

a) The author had to give up on his/her home ownership. Your answer is correct

b) Not much in the author’s life had a sense of permanence.

c) The author picked a contract job over a permanent one.

d) The author wasn’t in a relationship.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q19. A consequence of Ms Baxter finding out about the new survey by the RSPB, as can be inferred from the passage, is that

a) the role of amateurs without scientific training became crucial in nature conservation.

b) it led to the inception of the Great Garden Birdwatch. Your answer is incorrect

c) it led to an increase in the number of participants in the survey.

d) children started to participate in the survey.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q20. It can be understood from the third para of the passage that

a) abundant butterflies include the generalist species and the habitat specialists.
 b) the heatwave of the summer of 1976 led to the loss of half of the abundant butterflies and three-quarters of the
habitat specialists.

c) the use of neonicotinoid pesticides led to the loss of many butterfly species.

d) intensive farming has led to the loss of both wild birds and butterflies. Your answer is correct

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q21. “It’s not all bad news” Which of the following best captures what the author considers not a bad news?

a) Butterflies are capable of migrating to areas of high temperature, if it becomes too cold in the areas that they
usually occupy.

b) Most of the species of butterflies live in the southern part of the UK.

c) The warm climate has resulted in a boost in the numbers of some species of butterflies. Your answer is correct

d) The rising temperatures not only help boost the butterfly population but also help tackle the pestilence of
caterpillars.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q22. Which of the following can be inferred from the statement “this year’s warm and sunny boom… bust”?

a) The butterfly population may decrease in 2019 because of the drought conditions this year.

b) The butterfly population may increase in 2019 but the population of caterpillars may plummet.

c) The drought conditions may result in the extinction of the high brown fritillary.

d) The summer of 2019 may not be as warm and sunny as the summer of this year resulting in the decrease of
butterfly population.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q22. Which of the following can be inferred from the statement “this year’s warm and sunny boom… bust”?

a) The butterfly population may decrease in 2019 because of the drought conditions this year.

b) The butterfly population may increase in 2019 but the population of caterpillars may plummet.

c) The drought conditions may result in the extinction of the high brown fritillary.

d) The summer of 2019 may not be as warm and sunny as the summer of this year resulting in the decrease of
butterfly population.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q23. The author argues that the Big Butterfly Count helps in

a) generating interest among children about lepidoptery.

b) understanding only short term changes in butterfly population.

c) understanding how butterflies live in areas that conservationists are not allowed.

d) understanding how butterfly populations are doing in greenspaces.

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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.

It is almost four decades since Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter found out about a new survey being run by the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea was that junior birdwatchers would count the birds in their gardens, to find out which
were the 10 most common species. After Ms Baxter featured it on the television programme, 34,000 children joined in, and the
Great Garden Birdwatch has run every year since.

Volunteers and amateurs without scientific training have long had a crucial role to play in nature conservation. Over the last
decade, such efforts have increasingly been grouped under the heading of citizen science. Provided you are somewhere in the
UK, this is a good time to join the Big Butterfly Count - the younger cousin of the birdwatch.

Butterflies, like nearly all wildlife, are having a rough time. Since the heatwave summer of 1976, we have lost around half of our
abundant butterflies - the generalist species found in gardens, parks and countryside all over the UK - and three quarters of our
habitat specialists - those butterflies that rely on rarer plants and settings for their food. As with wild birds, intensive farming is
the main cause, with recent evidence suggesting that the introduction of neonicotinoid pesticides in the 1990s may also have
been a factor.

It’s not all bad news: broadly speaking, British butterflies are thought to be among climate change’s winners, because the UK is
in the northern range of most of the 59 species that live here, meaning rising temperatures can enable them to move into new
territory. This summer the marbled white, purple emperor and black hairstreak are doing well, while the warm spring provided a
boost for the most endangered of all British butterflies: the high brown fritillary. But the drought conditions are perilous for
caterpillars, since many of the plants and grasses they feed on have dried out, and this year’s warm and sunny boom could well
be followed by a 2019 bust.

Big fluctuations in populations are normal for butterflies, so conservationists focus on longer-term trends. But the count - run by
the charity Butterfly Conservation, which is 50 this year and also focuses on moths - produces valuable information about how
butterflies are doing in greenspaces such as urban gardens that conservationists are usually unable to access.

The delicacy and glorious colour of butterflies, and their metamorphosis from creepy-crawly caterpillars to gorgeous, fluttering
butterflies, has won them far more affection and prominence in human minds than other insects. Because of the long tradition of
collecting and observing them, British butterflies are the most studied group of insects in the world. Though ants, bees and
others have their champions, this realm of the animal kingdom is often overlooked by humans, and sometimes disliked.
Butterflies should be the ambassadors for the insect world. This would augur well for this often overlooked realm.

Q24. From the last paragraph of the passage, we can infer that the author hopes that

a) studying butterflies will rekindle the interest that humans have on insects.

b) humans’ interest in butterflies can be extended to interest on insects as a whole. Your answer is correct

c) ants and bees have their own champions, but humans must not overlook butterflies.

d) butterflies should be studied more to gain an understanding about the insect world.

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Avg. time spent on this question by all students 96
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Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 and 26: The sentences given in each of the following questions, 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
the sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1.
Daenerys Targaryen, from Game of Thrones, is no stranger to
consequences.

2.
Decision-making is another managerial process that involves social, political, emotional, and organizational factors, as well
as analytics, reason, and fact-based analysis.

3.
Along her journey from exile to Queen of Meereen, she learns that decision making is a delicate balance that requires not
only finding the greatest good for all the parties involved, but also planning for the future.

4.
Good managers must recognize the pros and cons of each option and take into account all of these factors when
evaluating which path will result in the best outcome.

5.
Liberating an entire region of slaves, wiping out all of the Dothraki Khals in existence, and planning a coup in King’s
Landing do not come without repercussions.

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Q26. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 and 26: The sentences given in each of the following questions, 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
the sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1.
If you really want to know about it, I will own
up.

2.
There are scenes in Mad Men and Transparent that are as accomplished and lovely, as profound and truthful, as anything
I’ve seen in the cinema.

3.
I’ve barely left the house in the last 18 months because I’ve been watching what for me seems like a lot of TV, around five
hours a night.

4.
And the episode in Breaking Bad where the former chemistry teacher Walter White buries the money he has accumulated
by selling crystal meth - transforming the spoils into waste or shit - is one of the most illuminating in all art.

5.
And I can’t say that a moment of it - apart from, say, the second season of Mr Robot - feels like wasted
time.
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Q27. DIRECTIONS for questions 27 and 28: Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in each of the following questions.
Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out.
Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you
omit the contextually unrelated sentence.

1.
But as it turns out, research shows that unwinding is just as powerful, albeit in different
ways.

2.
Instead, we spend our spare time bouncing between novel distractions - going from checking our email, to reading the
news, to surfing Facebook, and so on - activities that often make us even more tired.

3.
I don’t mean laziness in the sense of filling each moment with mindless distraction but in the sense of proper idleness,
when we choose to do nothing.

4.
In a world of constant distraction, we rarely put our mental feet
up.

5.
Laziness is a lost
art.
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Q28. DIRECTIONS for questions 27 and 28: Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in each of the following questions.
Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out.
Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you
omit the contextually unrelated sentence.

1.
It was this grounding in reality that bestowed a more profound political instinct than would be available to some
sloganeering zealot.

2.
What Orwell's experiences - both as figure of authority and as scullion - had given him was a lived understanding of the
human condition.

3.
Orwell could toss off sentences like that with greater authority than most because of the quality not merely of his writing
but of his experience.

4.
He had acquired a capacity to empathise with the foot-soldiers of history, the put-upon people generally taken for granted,
ignored or squashed by the great isms of one sort or another.
 5.
It conferred upon him the remarkable ability to achieve what every journalist and essayist seeks: he could tell the
truth.

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Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 and 30: Each of the questions given below has a paragraph which is followed by four
alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

What attitude should we take to our situation or ourselves, once we recognise that it is absurd? One option is to shake our noble
fists at the cosmos, cursing its silent coldness and slippery stairs. This stance appeals to a certain kind of guy in college. But
some of us - women, the disabled, ethnic and gender minorities, etc - got the memo pretty early on that we weren’t plausibly the
centre of the Universe. So, when our adolescent attention was directed to life’s disappointments and farcicality, we were more
inclined to shrug and get back to what we were doing than get theatrical about it.

a) When faced with the absurd, we could sulk and complain about the disappointments of life, or just get back to
what we were doing.

b) Life’s disappointments can be dealt in two ways: curse the cosmos or realise we aren’t the centre of the universe.

c) Those who understood their place in the universe early in life are more likely to adapt to a disappointment than a
privileged guy.

d) When faced with a disappointment, some resist, but those who have understood that the world doesn’t revolve
around them, simply get on with it.
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Q30. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 and 30: Each of the questions given below has a paragraph which is followed by four
alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

One interesting aspect of this penchant for combining tasks is that we seem to have lost the ability to single task. Glance around
a restaurant, look at people walking on a city street, pay attention to people waiting in line for a movie or the theatre, and you will
see busily tapping fingers. We act as though we are no longer interested in or able to stay idle and simply do nothing. We
appear to care more about the people who are available through our devices than those who are right in front of our faces. And
perhaps more critically, we appear to have lost the ability to simply be alone with our thoughts.

a) Whether in a restaurant, on the street, or in a line waiting for a movie, people are displaying an inability to stay in
the moment and do nothing.

b) A penchant for combining tasks has made people incapable of performing a single task - that of staying idle and
not doing anything.

c) A proclivity towards combining tasks may have rendered people incapable of single-tasking, or staying idle and
doing nothing, or being alone with their thoughts.

d) Our need to combine tasks has taken away our inability to focus on one thing, and we have stopped caring about
people in front of us or our own thoughts and idleness.

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Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 31 and 32: Each of the following questions consists of a highlighted sentence followed by the
context from where the sentence may have been drawn. The context given provides exactly three successive paragraphs, which
may or may not have any other paragraph preceding or succeeding them. The paragraphs have a total of five blanks numbered
as (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Choose the number of the blank where the highlighted sentence can best be reinserted and key in
that number in the input box provided below the context.

But it has not always been this way.

Despite being Earth's nearest neighbour, the Moon has been a lonely place for the past three decades.
________________(1)_________________ Until this decade nothing had landed on the moon since August 9th 1976, when
Luna 24, a probe belonging to the Soviet Union, set itself down in Mare Crisium, just north of the lunar equator.

That changed on December 14th 2013, when China became the third power to land successfully on the lunar surface.Chang'E
3, the craft that did so, then deployed a small rover calledYutu or “Jade Rabbit”, which travelled for 114 m before getting stuck.
________________(2)________________

Beyond the constant pitter-patter of meteorite strikes on its surface, the modern Moon is thought to be geologically dead.
________________(3)_________________ And Yutu - which is equipped with a ground-penetrating radar - has shed some light
on the body's past. Chang'E 3's landing site was Mare Imbrium, the remnant of a giant impact crater formed 4 billion years ago.
Peering hundreds of meters beneath the mare's surface, the rover was able to discern at least nine distinct strata.
________________(4)________________ Some of these are remnants of recent impacts, which leave layers of fine, powered
rock across the surface. _______________(5)________________ Others, deeper down, are lava flows from volcanoes that
may have stopped erupting a mere 100m years ago.
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Q32. DIRECTIONS for questions 31 and 32: Each of the following questions consists of a highlighted sentence followed by the
context from where the sentence may have been drawn. The context given provides exactly three successive paragraphs, which
may or may not have any other paragraph preceding or succeeding them. The paragraphs have a total of five blanks numbered
as (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Choose the number of the blank where the highlighted sentence can best be reinserted and key in
that number in the input box provided below the context.

So far, so good.

When we make decisions, we make mistakes. ________________(1)_________________We all know this from personal
experience, of course. But just in case we didn't, a seemingly unending stream of experimental evidence in recent years has
documented the human penchant for error. ________________(2)_________________ This line of research - dubbed
heuristics and biases (behavioural economics) - has become the dominant academic approach to understanding decisions. Its
practitioners have had a major influence on business, government and financial markets. Their books - Predictably Irrational;
Thinking, fast and Slow; and Nudge, to name three of the most important - have suffused popular culture.

________________(3)_________________ This research has been enormously informative and valuable. Our world, and our
understanding of decision making, would be much poorer without it.

It is not, however, the only useful way to think about making decisions. ________________(4)_________________ Even if you
restrict your view to the academic discussion, there are three distinct schools of thought.
________________(5)_________________ Although heuristics and biases is currently dominant, for the past half century, it
has interacted with and sometimes battled with the other two, one of which has a formal name - decision analysis - and the other
- going with your gut - which can be characterized as demonstrating that we humans aren't as dumb as we look.

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Q33. DIRECTIONS for questions 33 and 34: Each of the questions consists of a paragraph with three blanks. For each blank
choose one numbered word/ phrase from the corresponding column of choices that will best complete the text. Key in the
appropriate numbers of the words/ phrases for each blank, in the correct sequential order, in the input box given below the
question. For example, if you think that words/ phrases labelled (1), (5) and (9) can complete the text correctly, then enter 159 as
your answer in the input box. (Note: Only one word/ phrase in each column can fill the respective blank correctly.)

Dating is a treacherous business. There may be plenty of fish in the sea, yet many are unhygienic, self-absorbed or
____________(i)____________ attached to ex-fish. Digital dating sites, including a growing array of matchmaking apps, are
meant to help. Their design owes more to hard-nosed economics than it does to the mysteries of the heart. In a sense,
searching for a mate is not so different from hunting for a job. Jobs, like prospective partners, have their strengths and
weaknesses, which makes finding the right one a matter of ____________(ii)_____________. Dating exchanges are different
from other transactions, in that both parties must be enthusiastic about the match for it to happen. A supermarket, in contrast,
____________(iii)_____________ whose wallet it is draining, nor does the power company agonize about whether a customer
is worthy of its watts.
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Q34. DIRECTIONS for questions 33 and 34: Each of the questions consists of a paragraph with three blanks. For each blank
choose one numbered word/ phrase from the corresponding column of choices that will best complete the text. Key in the
appropriate numbers of the words/ phrases for each blank, in the correct sequential order, in the input box given below the
question. For example, if you think that words/ phrases labelled (1), (5) and (9) can complete the text correctly, then enter 159 as
your answer in the input box. (Note: Only one word/ phrase in each column can fill the respective blank correctly.)

The book The Tipping Point is the ____________(i)____________ of a simple idea: the best way to understand the emergence
of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, the rise of teenage
smoking, the phenomena of word of mouth etc is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas, products, messages and behaviours
spread just like viruses do. The rise of Hush Puppies and the fall of New York's crime rate are textbook examples of epidemics
in action. Although they may sound as if they don't have very much in common, they share a basic, underlying pattern: they are
clear examples of ____________(ii)_____________ behaviour. In New York, kids exposed other people to their fashion sense
and infected them with the Hush Puppies “virus” by wearing the shoes where ever they went.
____________(iii)_____________, a large number of people in New York got “infected” with an anti-crime virus in a short time.
The behaviour of peace-loving people in a huge percentage of situations that would otherwise have turned deadly spread to
other would-be criminals.

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

This year, the Indian cricket selection panel decided that the only criterion for selecting young batsmen to play at the
international level will be their average in the one-day matches that they have played at the national level.
Average of any player =

where the number of runs scored and number of times a player is out are positive integers.

At present, the selection panel was considering a young opening batsman, who had played a total of 25 one-day matches at the
national level but had not played even one match at the international level. At the national level, the player had batted and got
out in each of the 25 matches he played. It was also known that his score in no two matches was the same. Further, the sum of
his top five scores was 337.

All the questions that follow are based only on the scores of the above-mentioned batsman in the 25 national level matches he
played.

Q1. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Type your answer in the text box provided below the question.

Given that his lowest five scores added up to 121 and his average was more than 40, the number of matches in which he
scored less than 40 was at most

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

This year, the Indian cricket selection panel decided that the only criterion for selecting young batsmen to play at the
international level will be their average in the one-day matches that they have played at the national level.

Average of any player =

where the number of runs scored and number of times a player is out are positive integers.

At present, the selection panel was considering a young opening batsman, who had played a total of 25 one-day matches at the
national level but had not played even one match at the international level. At the national level, the player had batted and got
out in each of the 25 matches he played. It was also known that his score in no two matches was the same. Further, the sum of
his top five scores was 337.

All the questions that follow are based only on the scores of the above-mentioned batsman in the 25 national level matches he
played.
Q2. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Type your answer in the text box provided below the question.

If his lowest five scores added up to 121, his sixth highest score was at least

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

This year, the Indian cricket selection panel decided that the only criterion for selecting young batsmen to play at the
international level will be their average in the one-day matches that they have played at the national level.

Average of any player =

where the number of runs scored and number of times a player is out are positive integers.

At present, the selection panel was considering a young opening batsman, who had played a total of 25 one-day matches at the
national level but had not played even one match at the international level. At the national level, the player had batted and got
out in each of the 25 matches he played. It was also known that his score in no two matches was the same. Further, the sum of
his top five scores was 337.

All the questions that follow are based only on the scores of the above-mentioned batsman in the 25 national level matches he
played.

Q3. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Type your answer in the text box provided below the question.

If it is known that the total number of runs he made was the maximum possible, and the highest score made by him in any
match was X, then how many of the following are possible values of X?

(I) 68 (II) 69 (III) 70 (IV) 71 (V) 72 (VI) 75

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

This year, the Indian cricket selection panel decided that the only criterion for selecting young batsmen to play at the
international level will be their average in the one-day matches that they have played at the national level.

Average of any player =

where the number of runs scored and number of times a player is out are positive integers.

At present, the selection panel was considering a young opening batsman, who had played a total of 25 one-day matches at the
national level but had not played even one match at the international level. At the national level, the player had batted and got
out in each of the 25 matches he played. It was also known that his score in no two matches was the same. Further, the sum of
his top five scores was 337.

All the questions that follow are based only on the scores of the above-mentioned batsman in the 25 national level matches he
played.

Q4. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Type your answer in the text box provided below the question.

If it is known that he made two centuries (i.e., a score of 100 or more), his lowest score was at most

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.

iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.

Q5. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Sudheer typed PUT on his keyboard and the output he got is PAT, then what will be the output if he types BAT?

a) BUT

b) BIT Your answer is correct

c) BET

d) BOT

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.

iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.

Q5. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Sudheer typed PUT on his keyboard and the output he got is PAT, then what will be the output if he types BAT?

a) BUT

b) BIT Your answer is correct

c) BET

d) BOT

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.

iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.

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

Which of the following words cannot be the output, if Sudheer typed DUAL?

a) DIEL

b) DEIL

c) DAIL

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.

iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.

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

Which of the following words cannot be the output, if Sudheer typed DUAL?
 a) DIEL

b) DEIL

c) DAIL

d) DAEL

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.

iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.
Q7. DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following cannot be the marking on any of the keys that Sudheer has typed, if the output is MORE?

a) E

b) O Your answer is correct

c) A

d) U

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

Sudheer is interested in electronic gadgets and he made a new metallic keyboard for his computer. However, while marking the
keys with letters, he made a mistake in marking the vowels such that none of the vowels were marked correctly with their
corresponding keys. All other keys, except the vowels were marked correctly. Further it is known that,

i.
the key for A is neither marked E nor marked
O.

ii.
the key for I is either marked A or marked
U.
iii.
the key for E is not marked
O.

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

Which of the following statements is definitely true?

a) If Sudheer types UNIT, the output will not be ANET.

b) If Sudheer types CRICKET, the output will be CRACKOT.

c) If Sudheer types ORANGE, the output will be URENGO.

d) If Sudheer types DUNE, the output will not be DANU.

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

Three persons - A, B and C - play a series of games with coins. In each game, they place some coins on a table and pick the
 coins in turns, starting with A, then B, then C and then A and so on. Each person, in his turn, has to pick either one or two coins.
In any game, the number of coins with which the game starts is termed as the primary count of that game. In each game, they
get points according to the following conditions:

i.
The person who picks the last coin is the winner of that game and hence gets two
points.

ii.
The person whose turn is next to the winner of that game gets one
point.

iii.
The person whose turn is before the winner of that game gets no
points.

Also each person plays intelligently and tries to get the maximum possible points.

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

For which of the following primary counts will A win?

a) 12

b) 23

c) 34

d) None of these

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

Three persons - A, B and C - play a series of games with coins. In each game, they place some coins on a table and pick the
coins in turns, starting with A, then B, then C and then A and so on. Each person, in his turn, has to pick either one or two coins.
In any game, the number of coins with which the game starts is termed as the primary count of that game. In each game, they
get points according to the following conditions:

i.
The person who picks the last coin is the winner of that game and hence gets two
points.

ii.
The person whose turn is next to the winner of that game gets one
point.

iii.
The person whose turn is before the winner of that game gets no
points.

Also each person plays intelligently and tries to get the maximum possible points.

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

For which of the following primary counts will B get no points?

a) 15

b) 16

c) 17

d) None of these
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DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Answer these questions on the basis of the information given below.

Three persons - A, B and C - play a series of games with coins. In each game, they place some coins on a table and pick the
coins in turns, starting with A, then B, then C and then A and so on. Each person, in his turn, has to pick either one or two coins.
In any game, the number of coins with which the game starts is termed as the primary count of that game. In each game, they
get points according to the following conditions:

i.
The person who picks the last coin is the winner of that game and hence gets two
points.

ii.
The person whose turn is next to the winner of that game gets one
point.

iii.
The person whose turn is before the winner of that game gets no
points.
Also each person plays intelligently and tries to get the maximum possible points.

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

B and C are friends and hence they want one of them to be the winner (without considering their individual points).

For which of the following primary counts will A win?

a) 24

b) 25

c) 26

d) None of the above

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

Three persons - A, B and C - play a series of games with coins. In each game, they place some coins on a table and pick the
coins in turns, starting with A, then B, then C and then A and so on. Each person, in his turn, has to pick either one or two coins.
In any game, the number of coins with which the game starts is termed as the primary count of that game. In each game, they
get points according to the following conditions:

i.
The person who picks the last coin is the winner of that game and hence gets two
points.

ii.
The person whose turn is next to the winner of that game gets one
point.
iii.
The person whose turn is before the winner of that game gets no
points.

Also each person plays intelligently and tries to get the maximum possible points.

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

B and C are friends and hence they want one of them to be the winner (without considering their individual points).

If they play three games with primary counts as 4, 5 and 6, what is the number of points scored by A by the end of these three
games?

a) 5

b) 4

c) 3

d) 2

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

Akbar wrote a software which modifies a string in a specific manner. The software accepts input only in the form of a text string
and the modification of the text string takes place in four sequential steps, i.e., step 1, step 2 and step 3 followed by the final
output. The following example gives the output of the software after each step for a particular input string:

Q13. DIRECTIONS for question 13: Type your answer in the text box provided below the question.

What is the number of vowels in the final output of the software, if the input string is “THERE IS NO SPOON”?

Your Answer:4 Your answer is correct

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Akbar wrote a software which modifies a string in a specific manner. The software accepts input only in the form of a text string
and the modification of the text string takes place in four sequential steps, i.e., step 1, step 2 and step 3 followed by the final
output. The following example gives the output of the software after each step for a particular input string:

Q14. DIRECTIONS for questions 14 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

If the final output of the software is “WISIQSQUZ”, which of the following could be the input string?
 a) THE PHONE SOUNDS TWICE

b) THE PHONE IS NOT WORKING

c) THE PHONE SINGS ONCE

d) THE PHONE RINGS TWICE Your answer is correct

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Akbar wrote a software which modifies a string in a specific manner. The software accepts input only in the form of a text string
and the modification of the text string takes place in four sequential steps, i.e., step 1, step 2 and step 3 followed by the final
output. The following example gives the output of the software after each step for a particular input string:

Q15. DIRECTIONS for questions 14 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Which of the following can be the final output of the software?

a) SIZLOCK

b) FRIENDS

c) COPTER

d) CHIPSET

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Akbar wrote a software which modifies a string in a specific manner. The software accepts input only in the form of a text string
and the modification of the text string takes place in four sequential steps, i.e., step 1, step 2 and step 3 followed by the final
output. The following example gives the output of the software after each step for a particular input string:

Q16. DIRECTIONS for questions 14 to 16: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

While operating the software, Akbar unknowingly altered the software such that the order of exactly two steps were
interchanged. If the final output of the software did not change for the input string “PRINTER” after this alteration, which of the
following steps could have been interchanged?

a) Step 1, Step 2

b) Step 1, Step 3

c) Step 3, Step 4

d) More than one of the above

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

What percentage of the total number of employees in the organisation were sent for SAP training?

a) 42%

b) 67%

c) 58%

d) 63% Your answer is correct

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

At least how many staff employees with an experience between 3 and 5 years underwent training in both the programmes?

Your Answer:63 Your answer is correct

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At most how many line employees with less than 3 years of experience underwent only BAAN training?

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

At most how many employees with an experience between 3 and 5 years underwent only SAP training?

a) 118

b) 128

c) 181

d) None of the above Your answer is incorrect

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Three girls - Aishwarya, Ashmita and Ananya - and five boys - Raghuram, Ritvik, Rishi, Ramesh and Rana are sitting around a
circular table such that no two girls are opposite or adjacent to each other. The following additional information is also known
about the way they are seated:

i.
Raghuram is four places away to the right of
Rana.

ii.
Aishwarya is to the immediate left of
Ritvik.

iii.
Ramesh and Ashmita are opposite each
other.

iv.
Rana is not adjacent to
Ramesh.

v.
Rishi is adjacent to two
girls.

Q21. DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
Who is sitting opposite Ananya?

a) Ritvik Your answer is correct

b) Rishi

c) Rana

d) Raghuram

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Three girls - Aishwarya, Ashmita and Ananya - and five boys - Raghuram, Ritvik, Rishi, Ramesh and Rana are sitting around a
circular table such that no two girls are opposite or adjacent to each other. The following additional information is also known
about the way they are seated:

i.
Raghuram is four places away to the right of
Rana.

ii.
Aishwarya is to the immediate left of
Ritvik.
iii.
Ramesh and Ashmita are opposite each
other.

iv.
Rana is not adjacent to
Ramesh.

v.
Rishi is adjacent to two
girls.

Q22. DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Who is sitting three places away to the right of Rana?

a) Rishi

b) Ramesh

c) Ashmita

d) Ananya Your answer is correct

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Three girls - Aishwarya, Ashmita and Ananya - and five boys - Raghuram, Ritvik, Rishi, Ramesh and Rana are sitting around a
circular table such that no two girls are opposite or adjacent to each other. The following additional information is also known
about the way they are seated:

i.
Raghuram is four places away to the right of
Rana.

ii.
Aishwarya is to the immediate left of
Ritvik.

iii.
Ramesh and Ashmita are opposite each
other.

iv.
Rana is not adjacent to
Ramesh.

v.
Rishi is adjacent to two
girls.

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Who is to the immediate left of Rishi?

a) Ananya

b) Ashmita Your answer is correct

c) Aishwarya

d) Either Ananya or Ashmita

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Three girls - Aishwarya, Ashmita and Ananya - and five boys - Raghuram, Ritvik, Rishi, Ramesh and Rana are sitting around a
circular table such that no two girls are opposite or adjacent to each other. The following additional information is also known
about the way they are seated:

i.
Raghuram is four places away to the right of
Rana.

ii.
Aishwarya is to the immediate left of
Ritvik.
iii.
Ramesh and Ashmita are opposite each
other.

iv.
Rana is not adjacent to
Ramesh.

v.
Rishi is adjacent to two
girls.

Q24. DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Who is sitting to the immediate right of Ritvik?

a) Raghuram

b) Ramesh

c) Ashmita

d) Rana Your answer is correct

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

The following table gives the details regarding the population and literacy rate in five districts - A, B, C, D and E. All questions
pertain only to these five districts.

Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: In each of the following questions, two statements I and II are given. Assess whether
each statement is true or false and mark your answer choice appropriately.

Statement I: In district B, the number of male illiterates is more than the number of female literates.

Statement II: The number of female literates in district A is 4.83 lakh.

a) Only statement I is true.

b) Only statement II is true.

c) Both statements I and II are true.

d) Neither statement I nor statement II is true.

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The following table gives the details regarding the population and literacy rate in five districts - A, B, C, D and E. All questions
pertain only to these five districts.
Q26. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: In each of the following questions, two statements I and II are given. Assess whether
each statement is true or false and mark your answer choice appropriately.

Statement I: District E has the highest number of illiterate males.

Statement II: The number of illiterate males in district D is 3.32 lakh.

a) Both statements I and II are true.

b) Only statement II is true.

c) Neither statement I nor statement II is true.

d) Only statement I is true.

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The following table gives the details regarding the population and literacy rate in five districts - A, B, C, D and E. All questions
pertain only to these five districts.

Q27. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: In each of the following questions, two statements I and II are given. Assess whether
each statement is true or false and mark your answer choice appropriately.

Statement I: The overall literacy rate of the five districts together is more than the overall literacy rate of district A.

Statement II: The female literacy rate is the highest in district D.

 a) Only statement II is true.

b) Only statement I is true.

c) Both statements I and II are true.

d) Neither statement I nor statement II is true.

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The following table gives the details regarding the population and literacy rate in five districts - A, B, C, D and E. All questions
pertain only to these five districts.

Q28. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: In each of the following questions, two statements I and II are given. Assess whether
each statement is true or false and mark your answer choice appropriately.
Statement I: The difference between the male and the female literacy rates is the highest in district D.

Statement II: More than 50% of the population of the five districts put together are males.

a) Only statement I is true.

b) Only statement II is true.

c) Neither statement I nor statement II is true.

d) Both statements I and II are true.

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

A wholesaler dealer, Chinta Singh, deals with only six products - A, B, C, D, E and F. He purchases the products from the
company at Rs.120, Rs.400, Rs.160, Rs.320, Rs.640 and Rs.140 per unit respectively and sells them to retail shopkeepers at
Rs.184, Rs.460, Rs.256, Rs.352, Rs.720 and Rs.196 per unit respectively. He sells each product only in packs of 100 units.

Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

On a certain day, if he sold a total of 200 units, then which of the following cannot be his total profit on that day?

a) Rs.8,800

b) Rs.12,800

c) Rs.14,600

d) Rs.17,600

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A wholesaler dealer, Chinta Singh, deals with only six products - A, B, C, D, E and F. He purchases the products from the
company at Rs.120, Rs.400, Rs.160, Rs.320, Rs.640 and Rs.140 per unit respectively and sells them to retail shopkeepers at
Rs.184, Rs.460, Rs.256, Rs.352, Rs.720 and Rs.196 per unit respectively. He sells each product only in packs of 100 units.

Q30. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

On a day on which he sold all the six products, selling 200 units of each product, what was his total profit?

a) Rs.73600

b) Rs.75600

c) Rs.77600

d) Rs.79600

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A wholesaler dealer, Chinta Singh, deals with only six products - A, B, C, D, E and F. He purchases the products from the
company at Rs.120, Rs.400, Rs.160, Rs.320, Rs.640 and Rs.140 per unit respectively and sells them to retail shopkeepers at
Rs.184, Rs.460, Rs.256, Rs.352, Rs.720 and Rs.196 per unit respectively. He sells each product only in packs of 100 units.

Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

It is known that on a particular day, the overall profit percentage that he made on the products sold on that day was exactly
10.5%.

What is the least possible total profit that he could have made on that day?

a) Rs.20,800

b) Rs.11,200

c) Rs.26,400

d) Rs.33,600

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A wholesaler dealer, Chinta Singh, deals with only six products - A, B, C, D, E and F. He purchases the products from the
company at Rs.120, Rs.400, Rs.160, Rs.320, Rs.640 and Rs.140 per unit respectively and sells them to retail shopkeepers at
Rs.184, Rs.460, Rs.256, Rs.352, Rs.720 and Rs.196 per unit respectively. He sells each product only in packs of 100 units.

Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

It is known that on a particular day, the overall profit percentage that he made on the products sold on that day was exactly
10.5%.

What is the least possible total profit that he could have made on that day?

a) Rs.20,800

b) Rs.11,200

c) Rs.26,400

d) Rs.33,600

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A wholesaler dealer, Chinta Singh, deals with only six products - A, B, C, D, E and F. He purchases the products from the
company at Rs.120, Rs.400, Rs.160, Rs.320, Rs.640 and Rs.140 per unit respectively and sells them to retail shopkeepers at
Rs.184, Rs.460, Rs.256, Rs.352, Rs.720 and Rs.196 per unit respectively. He sells each product only in packs of 100 units.

Q32. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

It is known that on a particular day, the overall profit percentage that he made on the products sold on that day was exactly
10.5%.

If it is also known that he sold only three products, B, D and E, selling at least 100 units of each, then which of the following can
be the total number of units that he sold on that day?

a) 4900

b) 6300

c) 6700

d) 7500

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A square room has a hook on the ceiling exactly at the centre P. If AB is one of the sides of the floor, where APB = 60° and
AB = 6 m, then what is the height (in m) of the room?

Enter your answer as a decimal value, rounded off to two decimal places.

Your Answer:4 Your answer is incorrect

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In how many ways can 60060 be written as a product of two factors?

a) 16 ways

b) 32 ways

c) 48 ways

d) 96 ways Your answer is incorrect

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Find the sum of all possible values ofx, if

a) -10

b) -5

c) 10

d) None of the above Your answer is incorrect

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If the ratio of the sum of the firstn terms (where n is any natural number) of two arithmetic progressions is given by , then
what is the ratio of the 12 th terms of the progressions?

Enter your answer as a decimal value, rounded off to two decimal places.

Your Answer:0.50 Your answer is correct

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The first term, seventh term and thirty-first term of an increasing arithmetic progression are in geometric progression. Find the
ratio of the first term to the common difference of the arithmetic progression.

a) 3 : 1

b) 2 : 1 Your answer is correct

c) 1 : 2
 d) 1 : 3

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Four friends, Amit, Sumit, Praneet and Vineet, decided to run on a circular track, of length 2.52 km, at speeds of 21 m/s, 23 m/s,
18 m/s and 19 m/s respectively. If all the four friends started running from the same point at 8:00 a.m., then at what time after
they start will all the friends meet for the first time at the starting point?

a) 8:21 a.m.

b) 8:42 a.m. Your answer is correct

c) 9:21 a.m.

d) They will never meet at the starting point.

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How many three-letter words can be formed using the letters of the word “EDUCATION”, such that no letter is repeated?

a) 729

b) 624

c) 512

d) 504 Your answer is correct

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In a class, there are 40 boys and 32 girls. The average heights of the boys and the girls are in the ratio 10 : 9. Find the ratio of
the average height of the class to that of the boys.

a) 45 : 43

b) 43 : 45

c) 45 : 47

d) 47 : 45

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At which of the following times will the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock be exactly 155

a) 5:40 p.m.

b) 4:50 p.m.

c) 3:40 p.m.

d) 2:30 p.m.

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o?
At which of the following times will the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock be exactly 155

a) 5:40 p.m.

b) 4:50 p.m.

c) 3:40 p.m.

d) 2:30 p.m.

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If the difference between the mean and the median of the observationsx1, x2, . . . . .,xn is d, find the difference between the
mean and the median of the observations 5x1 + 8 , 5x2 + 8, . . . . ., 5xn + 8.

a) 5d + 40

b) 5d + 8

c) 5d

d) Cannot be determined

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If the difference between the mean and the median of the observationsx1, x2, . . . . .,xn is d, find the difference between the
mean and the median of the observations 5x1 + 8 , 5x2 + 8, . . . . ., 5xn + 8.

a) 5d + 40
 b) 5d + 8

c) 5d

d) Cannot be determined

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Anil wrote down all the possible three-digit numbers with distinct digits on a blackboard. Of these numbers, Biswas erased all the
numbers whose first and last digits were either both even or both odd. How many numbers were left on the board?

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The cost per ounce of an acid A has a linear relation with its concentration. If the cost per ounce of 98% A is Rs.590, and that of
20% A is Rs.200, find the cost per ounce of 56% A.

a) Rs.560

b) Rs.470

c) Rs.380 Your answer is correct

d) Rs.340

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If there are five more men in a work force, they will take 16 days less to complete a job. Instead, if there are 12 more men in it,
they will take 30 days less to complete it. Find the ratio of the number of men and the time taken (in days) to complete the given
work.

a) 1 : 6

b) 1 : 5

c) 1 : 4

d) 3 : 10

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a) . Your answer is correct

b) .

c) .

d)

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Find the remainder when the product 567890 × 567892 × 567894 × 567896 × 567898 is divided by 11.

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What is the last digit of the sum 0! + 1! + 2! ……… 77!?

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Find the distance between the lines 3x + 2y + 7 = 0 and 6x + 4y + 15 = 0.

a)

b)
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d)

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A building of height 20 m has a pole on top of it. A person standing at a certain distance from the foot of the building observes
that the angle of elevation of the top of the building is 30°, whereas the angle of elevation of the top of the pole is 45°. What is
the height of the pole?

a) 20 m

b) 20 m

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d) 20 ( +1) m

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The simple interest accrued on an amount of Rs.30,000 at the end of four years is Rs.7,200. What would be the compound
interest accrued (in Rs.) on the same amount, at the same rate of interest, at the end of two years?

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Each of A, B and C have some chocolates with them, such that the ratio of the total number of chocolates with A and C to those
with A and B is 5 : 4. If the ratio of the total number of chocolates with B and C to those with C and A is 6 : 5, which of the
following is the ratio of the number of chocolates with B and C?

a) 5 : 7

b) 3 : 5

c) 1 : 3

d) 5 : 6

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An isosceles trapezium is circumscribed about a circle. One of the parallel sides is thrice the other. Find the area (in sq.cm.) of
the trapezium, if its perimeter is 8 cm.

a)

b)

c)

d)

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If the number of equilateral triangles that can be formed by joining the vertices of an-sided regular polygon is 9, then find the
value of n.

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If M and N are the roots of the quadratic equationx2 - (p - 3)x - 2p - 1 = 0, where p is some real number, find the minimum value
of M2 + N2.

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If the lines 6x + 5y = 17 and py = x +1 intersect at one point, then how many integer values of p are possible such that the point
of intersection has integer co-ordinates?

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Q26. DIRECTIONS for question 26: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.

Mr. Kumar has two sons Ramesh and Suresh. The sum of seven times Ramesh’s age and thirteen times Suresh’s age is equal
to Mr. Kumar’s age, while the sum of twelve times Ramesh’s age and eight times Suresh’s age is equal to Mrs. Kumar’s age. If
the difference between Mr. Kumar’s age and Mrs. Kumar’s age is five years, find the difference between Ramesh’s age and
Suresh’s age.

a) 1 year

b) 2 years

c) 3 years

d) Cannot be determined

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Mr. Kumar has two sons Ramesh and Suresh. The sum of seven times Ramesh’s age and thirteen times Suresh’s age is equal
to Mr. Kumar’s age, while the sum of twelve times Ramesh’s age and eight times Suresh’s age is equal to Mrs. Kumar’s age. If
the difference between Mr. Kumar’s age and Mrs. Kumar’s age is five years, find the difference between Ramesh’s age and
Suresh’s age.

a) 1 year

b) 2 years

c) 3 years

d) Cannot be determined

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There are two taps, P and Q, connected to a tank. P alone takes 16 hours more than the time taken by P and Q together to fill
the tank, while Q alone takes 36 hours more than the time taken by P and Q together to fill the tank. How many hours will Q
alone take to fill the tank?

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If the sum of the squares of the first N natural numbers exceeds the sum of the first N natural numbers by 1600%, find the value
of N.

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P started a business with Rs.4,00,000. After three months, Q joined him with Rs.6,00,000. After six more months, R joined them
with Rs.x. If at the end of the year, Q received Rs.24,000 as his share of the profit, out of a total annual profit of Rs.64000, find
the value of x.

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Find the sixth term of a geometric progression whose second term is 8 and common ratio, 4.

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If the average of N consecutive numbers is three times the smallest number of these consecutive numbers and the difference
between the second largest number and the smallest number is 59, find the sum of these numbers.

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The price of an article is marked up by 57.14% over its cost price. What should be the discount percentage offered so that the
profit made on selling the product is 10%?

a) 28%

b) 30%

c) 39%

d) 48%

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a)

b)

c)

d) Cannot be determined

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If 3x + 3 + 9x + 1 = 7290, then what is the value ofx?

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