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Directions (1 - 5): Fill in each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with the most suita-
ble word out of the alternative given against each number.
(1) her monumental reputation the Mona Lisa was a (2) thirty-one inches by twenty one inches,
smaller even than the poster of her sold in the Louvre Gift shop, She hung on the north west wall of
the Salle des Elate (3) a two inch-thick pane of protective plexiglas. Painted on a popular wood
panel her (4) mistfillied atmosphere was attributed to Da Vinci's mastery of the sfumato style, in
which forms appear to (5) in to one another.
Q1.
1) Despite
2) Unlikely to
3) Even with
Q2.
1) Only
2) Mere
3) Just
Q3.
1) In
2) On
3) Behind
Q4.
1) Ethereal
2) Curious
3) Pictorial
Q5.
1) Get duplicated
2) Evaporate
3) Constituted
Directions (6 - 11): Choose the right ‘parts of speech’ of the words given in the questions below.
Q6. Degauss
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Q7. Culvert
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Q8. Plumose
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Q9. Maraud
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Q10. Halcyon
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Q11. Shard
1) Noun
2) Adjective
3) Verb
Directions (12 - 20): Read the passage and answer the questions:
The last one in this long procession of silent men and women was a little wizened old man. Even he
carried a load of two baskets, slung on a pole on his shoulder, the same load of a folded quilt, a
cauldron. But there was only one cauldron. In the other basket it seemed there was quilt. extremely
ragged arid patched but clean still. Although the load was light. It was too much for the old man. It
was evident that in usual times he would be beyond the age of work and was perhaps unaccus-
tomed to such Labour in recent years. His breath whistled an he staggered along and he strained
his eyes to watch those who were ahead, of him test he be left behind, and his old wrinkled face
was set In as sort of gasping agony.
Suddenly he could to no more. He set his burden down with grea gentleness and sank upon the
ground, his head sunk between his knees, his eyes closed, panting desperately. Starved as he was,
a little blood rose in dark patches on his cheeks. A vendor selling hot noodles set his stand near,
and shouted his trade cry, and the light from the stand fell on the old man's drooping figure. A man
passing stopped and muttered. looked at him. 'I swear I can give no more this day If I am to feed my
own even nothing but noodles — but here is the old man He brought out of ht ragged girdle a bit of
silver coin, and after a moment's hesitation and muttering, he added to It a coppe-penny.
There, old father’, he said with a sort of bitter heartiness. ‘let the see you eat noodles. ‘The old man
lifted his head slowly. He said.’ Sir I did not beg of you. Sir, we have good land and we have never
been starving like this before, having such good land. But this year the river rose and men starve
even on good land at such times. Sir, we now have no seed left. We have eaten our seed. ‘Take it’,
said the man, and he dropped the money into the old man’s apron and went on his way, sighting.
The vendor prepared his bowl of noodles and called out. How many will you eat. Old man? The old
man said, ‘One small bowl is enough.
Then the old man rose with great effort and took the bowl he tween his shaking hand and he went to
the other basket. He pulled aside the quilt until one could see the shrunken face of a small boy lying
with his eyes fast closed. The old man lifted his head so that his mouth could touch the edge of the
little bowl, he began to swallow feebly until the hot mixture was finished. The old man kept inurmur-
ing to him. ‘There my heart ____three, my child _____’. Your grandson? Said the yendor. ‘Yes, the
son of my only son. Both my son and his wife were drowned as they worked on our land when our
dikes broke.’ ‘But you have the silver bill’ cried the vendor, astonished to see that the old man or-
dered on more. The old man shock his head. ‘That is for seed’ The best I can do for this grandson of
mine to buy a little seed for the land____ Yea, even. I die and others must plant it, the land must be
put to seed’.
1) France
2) New York
3) China
4) England
2) To walk unsteadily
1) Very rich
3) Very poor
4) Unkind
Q17. The men and women in the procession were silent because:
Q18. The old man hestlated to take the silver coin because
1) He did not understand why the man was giving him a coin
2) He was surprised
1) Dizziness
2) Slow breathing
3) Rapid breathing
1) Unaccustomed-not used to
2) agony-hungry
4) dropping-bent
Q21. A, B and C center into a partnership. A invests some money at the beginning. B invests double
the amount after 6 months and C invests thrice the amount after 8 months. If the annual profit be
Rs. 27000 C’s share is:
1) Rs. 9000
2) Rs. 11250
3) Rs. 10,800
4) Rs. 8625
Q22. A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 14 days. The
number of days taken by A alone to finish the work is:
1) 11
2) 21
3) 28
4) 42
Q23. Each boy contributed rupees equal to the number of girls and each girl contributed rupees
equal to the number of boys in a class of 60 students. If the total amount thus collected is Rs. 1600,
how many boys are there in the class?
1) 30
2) 25
3) 50
4) Data Inadequate
Q24. [x % of y + y % of x] is:
1) x % of y
2) y % of x
3) 2% of xy
4) xy % of 3
Q25. Two barrels contain a mixture of ethanol and gasoline. The content of the ethanol is 60% in
the first barrel and 30% in the second barrel. In what ratio must the mixtures from the first and the
second barrels be taken to form a mixture containting 50% ethanol?
1) 1 : 2
2) 2 : 1
3) 2 : 3
4) 3 : 2
Q26. The angles of a convex hexagon in degrees are Integers and in arithmetic progression L and
M denote the largest of these 6 angles. Then the maximum value that M can take is:
1) 125 degree
2) 150 degree
3) 175 degree
4) 179 degre
Q27. Two straight lines can divide a circular disk into a maximum of 4 parts. Likewise into how many
parts can four straight lines devide a circular disk?
1) 8
2) 9
3) 10
4) 11
Q28. The currencies in countries M and N are denoted by m and n respectively. The exchange rate
in 1990 was 1m, 0.6n the price level in 2006 in M and N are 150 and 400 respectively with 1990 as
a base of 100. The exchange rate in 2006 based solely on the purchasing power parity considera-
tion is 1 m:
1) 0.225 n
2) 0.625 n
3) 1.6 n
4) 3.6 n
Q29. The age of Mr. Bhagat in 2002 was 1/90 of his birth year. What is his age in 2006?
1) 30
2) 28
3) 26
4) 22
Directions (30 - 31): The cost of fuel running the engine of an army tank is proportional to the
square of the speed and Rs. 64 per hour for a speed of 16 kmph. Other costs amount to Rs. 400
per hour. The tank has to make a journey of 400 km at a constant speed.
1) 20 kmph
2) 30 kmph
3) 35 kmph
4) 40 kmph
Q31. The total cost for the journey at this most economical speed is:
1) Rs. 6000
2) Rs. 8000
3) Rs. 10000
4) Rs. 11000
Q32. In a market research respect 20% opied for Nirma detergent whereas 60% opied for surf. Blue
detergent. The rest were unsure. It the difference between those who opied for surf blue and those
who were uncertain is 720. How many respondenis were covered in survey?
1) 1800
2) 1440
3) 3600
4) Data Inadequate
Q33. A property tax increase was proposed by a municipal coroporation and it was observed that
40% of the property owners favoured it while 80% of the non-owners of property favoured it. It 70%
of voters are property owners, what is the probability that a voter selected at random would be the
one favouring the increase?
1) 0.80
2) 0.52
3) 0.40
4) Data inadequate
Q34. A toothed wheel of diameter 50 cm is attached to a smaller wheel of diameter 30 cm. How
many revolutions will the smaller wheel make when the larger one makes 15 revoltios?
1) 18
2) 20
3) 25
4) 30
Q35. Prof. Chatterjee bought a car and got 15% of its original price as a dealer’s discount. He then
sold it at 20% profit on his purchase price. What percentage profit did he get on the original price?
1) 2%
2) 12%
3) 5%
4) 17%
Q36. The area of a rectangle gets reduced by 9 sq. metre if its length is reduced by 5m and breadth
is increased by 3m. If we increase the length by 2m and breadth by 3m, the area is increased by 67
sq. metre. The length of the rectangle is:
1) 9m
2) 15.6m
3) 17m
4) 18.5m
Q37. A dinner party is to be fixed for a group of 100 persons do not prefer fish, 60 prefer chicken
and 10 do not prefer either chicken or fish. Find the number of people who prefer both fish and
chicken.
1) 20
2) 30
3) 40
4) 10
Q38. The average of marks obtained in 120 students was 35. If the average of passed candidates
was 39 and that of failed candidates is 15, the number of candidates who passed th examination is:
1) 100
2) 110
3) 120
4) 80
Q39. There are two examination halls. P and Q. If 10 students are sent from P to Q, then the num-
ber of students in each room is same. If 20 students are sent from Q to P then the number of stu-
dents in P is double of that in Q. The number of students in P and Q respectively are”
1) 6.40
2) 70.50
3) 80.60
4) 100.80
Q40. If a number of two digits is k times the sum of its digits, then the number formed by interchang-
ing the digits is the sum of the digits multiplied by:
1) 9 + k
2) 10 + k
3) 11 - k
4) k - 1
Directions (41 - 44): Study the following graph and answer the questions.
1) 1996
2) 1997
3) 1999
4) 2000
Q42. What was the approximate percent increase in export value from 1996-2000?
1) 350
2) 330.3
3) 433.3
4) None of these
Q43. What was the percent drop in export quantity from 1996 to 1997?
1) 75
2) 30
3) 25
4) None of these
Q44. If in 1999, the processed food tins were exported at the same rate per tin as that in 1998.
What would be the value of export in 1999 (in crore of Rs.)?
1) 400
2) 375
3) 332
4) 330
Directions (45 - 48): Mr. and Mrs. Sharma have two children Asha and Shashi. Shashi married Ra-
dha, doughter of Mrs. Mahajan, Suresh, Son of Mrs Mahajan married Rita, Sonu and Rocky are
born to Suresh and Rita. Uma and Sudha are daughters of Shashi and Radha.
1) Mahajan
2) Sharma
3) Shashi
4) None of these
1) Brother
2) Uncle
3) Maternal uncle
4) Cousin
1) Sister
2) Niece
3) Aunt
4) Daughter
1) Sister-in-law
2) Grandson
3) Son
4) None of these
Q49. In a certain code. ‘FAVOUR’ is written as ‘EBUPTS’. How is ‘DAGGER’ written in that code?
1) EBHHFS
2) CBFHDS
3) CBFFDS
4) EBFHDS
Q50.
3 9
? 81
1) 24
2) 162
3) 6261
4) 729
Directions (51 - 56): Examine the given Venn diagram and answer the following questions:
Q51. Which part denotes people who know English but not Doctor, nor Post Graduate nor Asian nor
Indian?
1) 9
2) 6
3) 10
4) 3
1) 2
2) 1
3) 3
4) 4
1) 10
2) 9
3) 3
4) 6
1) 9
2) 12
3) 4
4) 8
1) 1
2) 4
3) 2
4) 5
Q56. Which part denotes Asian Post Graduates who know English?
1) 5
2) 7
3) 4
4) 1
Q57. Which of the following combination of figures best represent males, fathers, human being?
1) B
2) A
3) D
4) C
Directions (58 - 59): In the following questions find out the missing number:
Q58.
1) 30
2) 25
3) 27
4) 31
Q59.
1) 8
2) 10
3) 12
4) 17
Q60. How many meaningful words can be formed by using any two letters of the word NOT?
1) One
2) Two
3) Three
4) Four
Directions (61 - 64): A company launches eight products- Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y. and Z one of the
four metros of India. The products were launched one after the other over the period of 6 months in
2006. The order in which the products were launched is consistent with the following conditions
Q61. Which one of the following could be true ? ( (2) (3) (4)
Q62. If Z is the seventh products to be launched, then which one of the following could be true?
Q63. If Q is the 5th product to be launched then each of the following could be true except:
4) None of these
Direction (65 - 69): In each question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions
numbered I and II. You have to take the two given statements to be true even if they seern to be at
variance for commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows
from the two given statements. Read both the statements and give answer as:
3) If either I or II follows
Q65. Statements:
Conclusions:
Q66. Statements:
Conclusions:
Q67. Statements:
Conclusions:
Q68. Statements:
Conclusions:
I. No Engine is a plane
Q69. Statements:
Conclusions:
Mark (2) if the question can be answered with the help of II alone.
Mark (3) If the question can be answered with the help of both statements but not with the help of
either statement itself.
Mark (4). If the question can not be answered with the help of both the statements.
Q70. The average of three quotations for a particular item is Rs. 120 is the highest quotation less
than or equal to Rs. 139?
Q71. How many people, read both Economic Times and Financial Express?
I. Out of 300 readers, 200 read Financial Express, 220 read Economic Times and 50 read Indian
Express.
II. Out of total 300 readers 220 read Economic Times, 200 reads. Financial Express and 50 read
Neither.
Q72. A bus started from bus stop P, developed engine trouble and reached bus stop Q. 40 minutes
late. What is the distance between the bus stops P and Q?
1
I. The engine trouble developed after travelling 40 kms from bus stop P and the speed reduced to 4th
II. The engine trouble developed after travelling 40 kms from bus stop P in 2 hours and the speed
1
reduced to 4th of the original speed.
I. The departure time at Nairobi is exactly 6 P.M. local time and the arrival time in Mumbai is next
day 3 AM local time.
Q75. Sujata is the eldest daughter. What is the current ege of her father?
I. Current age of Sujata is 25 years and current age of her sister Sangeeta is 20 years.
1rd
II. Sangeeta’s current age is of father’s age five year before.
3
Q76. Alka has two sisters and one brother. How many sisters does Sandhya have?
Q77. Madhav likes car X because its cost Rs. 5,00,000 is cheapest in C segment and Raghav likes
car Y, because its cost Rs. 7,00,000 is highest in C segment. Which vehicle will be selected by
Keshav?
Directions (78 - 80): Refer to the following table. Given below are the win loss histories of four ten-
nis players in three set matches and number of matches played.
P Q R S
Won 2 – 0 23 18 10 16
Won 2 – 1 13 16 13 14
Lost 0 – 2 8 13 16 13
Lost 1 - 2 6 8 20 17
Q78. If a win carries an award of Rs. 1500 and a loss of Rs. 1000 which is the largest difference in
prize money eaned among the four?
1) Rs. 7000
2) Rs. 14000
3) Rs. 5000
4) Rs. 9000
Q79. As in the case above, what is the lowest average prize money won per match by any player?
1) Rs. 1135
2) Rs. 1300
3) Rs. 1195
4) Rs. 1150
Q80. As in the case above, what is the highest average prize money won per match by any player?
1) Rs. 1495
2) Rs. 1360
3) Rs. 1460
4) Rs. 1410
1) O
2) AB
3) A
4) B
1) China
2) USA
3) Japan
4) UK
1) Water
2) Air
3) Steel
4) Vacuum
1) Nitric acid
2) Sulphuric acid
3) Hydrochloric acid
4) None of these
1) Lungs
2) Heart
3) Liver
4) Kidneys
Q87. Who among the following was the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee?
1) Dr. Ambedkar
3) Sardar Patel
4) Motilal Nehru
Q88. Who among the following decides the concellation of the election of a person to Parliament?
1) Election Commission
2) Supreme Court
3) The Parliament
4) None of these
1) Unitary State
2) Federal State
3) Quassi State
4) Union of States
1) Oxygen
2) Ammonia
3) Carbon Dioxide
4) Sulphur Dioxide
3) Amir Khan
4) Slman Khan
Q92. During the debate in Parliament over Lokpal Bill, who saluted Anna Hazare for raising the is-
sue of Corruption?
Q93. Which Indian CEO of McKinsey who was settled in USA was criminally charged with Insider
Trading in Stock Market?
1) Rajat Gupta
2) Vikram Pandit
3) Rajiv Goel
4) Roomy Khan
Q94. Who married Prince William recently and may become the next Queen of England?
1) Kate Middleton
2) Roste Pose
3) Jecca Craig
4) Olivia Hunt
Q95. Who is the highest wicket taker in the recently concluded India England ODI 2011 series from
Indian side?
1) R. Ashwin
2) Ravindra Jadeja
3) Vinay Kumar
4) Suresh Raina
Q96. In the recently concluded India-England ODI 2011 Series, there was one player whome the
England bowlers could not get out even once. Who was he?
1) Gautam Gambhir
2) Suresh Raina
3) M.S. Dhoni
4) R. Ashwin
1) Cricket
2) Football
3) F1 Car Race
4) Tennis
1) Rock Star
2) RA. One
3) Slumdog Millionair
4) Mausam
Q99. Which film won the best film award in the recently concluded Tibet Film Festival at Dharama-
shala?
1) Mother
3) Prayers Answered
1) Ali Tarhount
2) Mahmoud Jibril
4) Saif-Al-Islam Gaddafi
PROFESSINAL KNOWLEDGE
1) Readymade garments
2) Ballpoint pens
3) Diamond jewellery
4) Golf Clubs
2) Unpaid advertising
4) None of these
Q104. Five stage model of the consumer buying process does not include:
1) Problem recognition
3) Evaluation of alternatives
4) Product perception
1) Consumer characteristes
2) Consumer responses
3) Consumer challenges
Q106. The stages of the product life cycle in chronological order is:
1) Position
2) Product
3) Conformance
4) Customer Consulting
Q108. _______ consists of a few companies producing essentially the same commodity.
1) Monopolistic competition
2) Pure competition
3) Oligopoly
4) Pure monopoly
1) Counterfelter
2) Adapter
3) Initiator
4) Cloner
Q110. ______ is registering, trafficking in or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from
the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
1) Email marketing
2) Cyber squatting
3) Web scraping
4) Web spidering
1) Customer
2) Major
3) Corporate
4) Account
1) Firms can offer products and services to advertising firms if the latter offer cheap advertising ser-
vices
2) Firms buy products from market and supply products to the same market
4) None of these
Q114. If the objective is ______ then prices must be set very competitively to appeal to the largest
possible number of potential consumers.
1) Market penetration
2) Niche Marketing
3) Product enhancement
4) None of these
1) Speciality services
2) Speciality products
3) Primary services
4) Secondary services
Q116. The ______ represents our expectations of the general need for the item during the lead
time.
1) Reorder point
3) Reordering policy
4) Reordering cycle
Q117. ______ is the principle of organization of a region around several political.social or Financial
centres.
1) Ethnocentrism
2) Polycentrism
3) Marketing expansion
4) Global marketing
1) Language, Aesthetics
2) Technology, Economics
3) Education Religion
4) Attitudes, Values
“To become a major player in the global chemical business and simultaneously growth in other
growth industries like infrastructure”.
1) Reliance
2) Tata
3) Bharti enterprises
4) Kotak Mahindra
1) Service quality
2) Service sector
3) Service industry
1) Super market
2) Discount store
3) Department store
4) Convenience store
2) Selection of sales promotion techniques, Advertising, Sales – promotion, personal selling etc.
1) Motor Cycles
2) Television
3) Gensets
3) Incremental method
4) Sales budget
4) None of these
Q126. A bank expects fall in price of a security if it sells it in the market. What is the risk that the
bank is facing?
1) Market risk
2) Operational risk
Q127. When a company acquires a supplier through an acquisition strategy, this is referred to as
2) Forward integration
3) Horizontal integration
4) Backward integration
Q128. Charles Revson of Revlon observed: ‘In the factory, we make cosmetics: in the store, _____”.
1) we make profits
2) we challenge competitors
3) we implement ads
4) we sell hope
Q129. Mohan Sawhney has proposed the concept of ______ to describe a cluster of complemen-
tary products and services that are closely related in the minds of consumers but are spread across
a diverse set of industries.
1) metamarket
2) vertical integration
3) horizontal integration
4) Betamarket
Q130. A tobacco company advertises its line of music cds. It is a type of:
1) Substitute advertising
2) Surrogate advertising
3) Out-door advertising
4) None of these
Q131. You watch a movie and find out that a particular brand crops up in it very often. It is an exam-
ple of:
1) Surrogate advertising
2) Broadcast advertising
3) Covert advertising
4) None of these
Q133. Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new
ideas and technology spread through cultures. The adopters of these innovations are categorized in
five categories. Which of the following is incorrect?
1) Early adopters
2) Early majority
3) Late adopters
4) Late majority
4) None of these
3) A method used to divide the market in different individual groups of similar needs or wants
4) None of these
1) Buyer to brand
2) Business to business
3) Business to buyer
4) none of these
1) Walmart
2) Carrefour
3) Casino
1) Lead generation
4) Showing a product
4) All of these
4) None of these
1) Before purchase
2) After purchase
4) All of these
1) Strength
2) Weakness
3) Opportunity
4) Talent
2) Internet marketing
3) Telemarketing
4) None of these
1) Brand
2) Product
3) Patent
4) None of these
4) None of these
1) Product
2) Price
3) Profit
4) Promotion
2) Advertising
1) Treats
2) Technological
3) Teacher
4) Table
Q149. Brad Loyalty is defined by Kotler in for behavior pattern. Which of the following is not one of
them
2) Shifters
3) Semt Loyals
4) Shifting Loyals
1) Selling
2) Promoting
3) Advertising
4) None of these
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