ENGLISH COMPREHENSION: Sample Questions

All questions are Multiple-Choice-Questions with only one option as the correct answer.

In the following question select the word which is OPPOSITE in the meaning of the given
word.

Q1. INDISCREET

a. reliable
b. honest
c. prudent
d. stupid

In the following questions, fill in the blank space.

Q2. The success that he has gained, though striking enough, does not, however,
commensurate _________. . . the efforts made by him.

a. About
b. From
c. With
d. Beside
e. Over

Q3. Vinod took his meals after he . . . .

a. Had completed his work

b. Had been completing his work
c. Was completing his work
d. Had been completed his work
e. Had got completed his work

In the following questions, select the word or phrase that is similar in meaning to the given
word.

Q4. Conceal

a. Hide
b. Seal
c. Ceiling
d. Horrifying
Q5. In the question a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicised part is
given which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no
improvement is needed. Option 'D' is the answer.

She gave most of her time to music.

a. spent
b. lent
c. devoted
d. No improvement

Q6. The given sentences when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labeled with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among
the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. He was so busy with them that he did not get time to eat. 2. Thousands of people came to him
and asked different types of questions. 3. No one cared to see that he had his food or rest that
night. 4. Swami Vivekanand once stayed in a small village.

a. 2341
b. 3214
c. 4213
d. 4231

Answer the question based on the given passage

Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology
running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting,
organizing, staffing, controlling, and problem-solving. Leadership is a set of processes that
creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances.
Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires
them to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our
purposes here: Successful transformation is 70 to 90 per cent leadership and only 10 to 30
percent management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today don't have much
leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problem here as one of managing change. For
most of this country, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first
time in human history, we didn't have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies
functioning. So many companies and universities developed management programs and
hundreds and thousands of people were encouraged to learn management on the job. And they
did. But, people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management was
emphasized because it's easier to teach than leadership. But even more so, management was the
main item on the twentieth-century agenda because that's what was needed. For every
entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their
ever-growing enterprises. Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often
been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage employees from learning how to lead.
Ironically, past success is usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome,
as I have observed it on many occasions, goes like this: success creates some degree of marked
dominance which in turn produces much growth. After a while keeping the ever-larger
organization under control becomes the primary challenge. So attention turns inward and
managerial competencies are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management but not
leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus takeover. But with continued success, the result
mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance
begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation effort much more
difficult. Arrogant managers can over-evaluate their current performance and competitive
position, listen poorly and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can have difficulty seeing
the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those
who want to respond to shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside
these organizations to break out of the morass.

Q7. Why did companies and universities develop programs to prepare managers in such a
large number?

a. (A) Companies and universities wanted to generate funds through these programs
b. (B) The large number of organizations were created as they needed managers in good number
c. (C) Organizations did not want to spend their scarce resources in training managers
d. (D) Organizations wanted to create communication network through trained managers

Q8. How has the author defined management?

a. It is the process of adapting organizations to changing circumstances.

b. It is the system of aligning people with the direction it has taken.
c. It refers to creating a vision to help direct the change effectively.
d. Creating better performance through customer orientation.

Q9. What is the historical reason for many organizations not having leadership?

a. A view that leaders are born, they are not made

b. Leaders lack managerial skills and organizations need managers
c. Leaders are weak in carrying out traditional functions of management
d. Leaders allow too much complacency in organizations

Q10. Which of the following is similar in meaning of the word 'smother' as used in the
passage?

a. Suppress
b. Encourage
c. Instigate
d. Criticise
 LOGICAL ABILITY: Sample Questions

All questions are Multiple-Choice-Questions with only one option as the correct answer.

Q1. The question shows a pair of words in which the first is related to the second in some
way. It is followed by a single word which bears a similar relation to one of the given
alternatives. Find the correct alternative to complete the analogy.

Melt:Liquid::Freeze: ?

a. Ice
b. Condense
c. Solid
d. Crystal

Q2. Fill in the blank : Guilt is to Past as Hope is to ......

a. Present
b. Future
c. Today
d. Despair
e. Hopeless

Q3. From the given choices select the odd man out:

a. Peacock
b. Squirrel
c. Crow
d. Pigeon
e. Sparrow

Q4. Find the missing pattern

BOQD : ERTG :: ANPC : ?

a. DQSF
b. FSHU
c. SHFU
d. DSQF

Q5. Find the missing number

5 : 24 :: 8 : ?

a. 65
b. 63
c. 62
d. 64

Q6. From the given choices select the odd man out

a. DFHEG
b. TWXUV
c. OQSPR
d. JLNKM

Q7. If HARD is coded as 1357 and SOFT is coded as 2468, what will 21448 stand for?

a. SHAFT
b. SHORT
c. SHOOT
d. SHART

Q8. Find the next number in the series

1, 6, 13, 22, 33, ......

a. 44
b. 45
c. 46
d. 47

Q9. The question contains some statements followed by some conclusions. Decide which of
the given conclusions logically follow from the given statements, disregarding commonly
known facts.

Statements:
I) All tomatoes are red.
II) All grapes are tomatoes.
Conclusions:
I) All grapes are red.
II) Some Tomatoes are grapes.

a. Only conclusion I follows.

b. Only conclusion II follows.
c. Neither I nor II follows
d. Both I and II follow.
e. Either I or II follows
Q10. Old woman's son is my daughter's uncle, then what relation has the old woman to me
?

a. Sister
b. Mother
c. Grandmother
d. Mother - in - law

QUANTITATIVE ABILITY: Sample Questions

All questions are Multiple-Choice-Questions with only one option as the correct answer.

Q1. In a kilometre race, if A gives B a 40 m start, A wins by 19 s. But if A gives B a 30 s

start, B wins by 40 m. Find the time taken by B to run 5,000 m?

a. 150 s
b. 450 s
c. 750 s
d. 825 s

Q2. Pipe A takes 16 min to fill a tank. Pipes B and C, whose cross-sectional circumferences
are in the ratio 2:3, fill another tank twice as big as the first. If A has a cross-sectional
circumference that is one-third of C, how long will it take for B and C to fill the second
tank? (Assume the rate at which water flows through a unit cross-sectional area is same for
all the three pipes.)

a. 66/13
b. 40/13
c. 16/13
d. 32/13

Q3. Three consecutive whole numbers are such that the square of the middle number is
greater than the product of the other two by 1. Find the middle number.

a. 6
b. 18
c. 12
d. All of these

Q4. The arithmetic mean of 2 numbers is 34 and their geometric mean is 16. One of the
numbers will be

a. 4
b. 16
c. 18
d. 12
Q5. If x% of a is the same as y% of b, then z% of b is :

a. (xy/z)% of a
b. (yz/x)% of a
c. (xz/y)% of a
d. None of these

Q6. The letters of the word WOMAN are written in all possible orders and these words are
written out as in a dictionary ,then the rank of the word 'WOMAN' is

a. 117
b. 120
c. 118
d. 119

Q7. What least number must be subtracted from 9400 to get a number exactly divisible by
65?

a. 40
b. 20
c. 80
d. none of these

Q8. If 2505 / 0.5 = 5010 then 25.05 / 0.5 = ?

a. 5.010
b. 50.10
c. 501.0
d. None of these

Q9. Which pair of rational numbers lie between 1/5 and 2/5 -

a. 262/1000, 275/1000
b. 362/1000, 562/1000
c. 451/1000, 552/1000
d. 121/1000,131/1000

Q10. What is the probability of getting the sum 5 in two throws of the dice?

a. 1/12
b. 1/5
c. 1/9
d. None of theses