Test 32 – Bilingual – Part 2

CSAT FLT – 11 – PRELIMS 2024

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1. Question 1 of 80

   1. Question

   If 1st January 2001 was Monday, then what day of the week was it on 31st December, 2001 ?
   (A) Monday
   (B) Wednesday
   (C) Friday
   (D) Sunday

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

   Incorrect
   

   We know that,
   Odd day :- Remainder we get, when we divide number of days by 7.
   In a simple year we have = 365 days.
   So, 1st January 2001 to 31st December 2001 = 364 days. { since 2001 is not a leap year, 365 – 1st jan.}
   then, Odd days = 364 / 7 = 0 Remainder .
   Therefore, 31st December 2001 = Monday + 0 = Monday

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   We know that,
   Odd day :- Remainder we get, when we divide number of days by 7.
   In a simple year we have = 365 days.
   So, 1st January 2001 to 31st December 2001 = 364 days. { since 2001 is not a leap year, 365 – 1st jan.}
   then, Odd days = 364 / 7 = 0 Remainder .
   Therefore, 31st December 2001 = Monday + 0 = Monday
2. Question 2 of 80

   2. Question

   Two alloys are formed by mixing metals A and B. The ratio by weight of A: B in the first alloy is 6:5 and that in second is 7:13. 29 kg of metal A must is melted along with 11 Kg of first alloy and 20 Kg of the second so as to produce a new alloy. Find percentage of metal B in the final alloy?
   (A) 18%
   (B) 20%
   (C) 25%
   (D) 30%

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

   Incorrect
   

   For first alloy
   A : B = 6 : 5
   If A + B = 11 Kg; A = 6Kg, B = 5Kg
   For Second alloy
   A : B = 7 : 13
   If A + B = 20 Kg; A = 7Kg, B = 13Kg
   Final alloy
   A = 29 + 6 + 7 = 42Kg
   B = 5 + 13 = 18Kg
   A + B = 60Kg
   Percentage = B×100/(A + B)
   = 1800/60 = 30%

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   For first alloy
   A : B = 6 : 5
   If A + B = 11 Kg; A = 6Kg, B = 5Kg
   For Second alloy
   A : B = 7 : 13
   If A + B = 20 Kg; A = 7Kg, B = 13Kg
   Final alloy
   A = 29 + 6 + 7 = 42Kg
   B = 5 + 13 = 18Kg
   A + B = 60Kg
   Percentage = B×100/(A + B)
   = 1800/60 = 30%
3. Question 3 of 80

   3. Question

   Find the next term in the series.
   169, 319, 519, 769, 1069, ?
   (A) 1401
   (B) 1391
   (C) 1421
   (D) 1419

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

   Incorrect
   

   The pattern is as follows:
   122 + 25 = 169
   172 + 30 = 319
   222 + 35 = 519
   272 + 40 = 769
   322 + 45 = 1069
   372 + 50 = 1419

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   The pattern is as follows:
   122 + 25 = 169
   172 + 30 = 319
   222 + 35 = 519
   272 + 40 = 769
   322 + 45 = 1069
   372 + 50 = 1419
4. Question 4 of 80

   4. Question

   The price of rice is increased by 20 percent and a person decrease his consumption by 15 percent, so his expenditure on rice –
   (A) increase by 2 percent
   (B) increase by 4 percent
   (C) decrease by 2 percent
   (D) decrease by 4 percent

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

   Incorrect
   

   Let initial price of rice – 100 and new price of rice – 120
   Suppose initial consumption is 100kg and new consumption is 85kg
   Initial expenditure = 10000
   New expenditure = 10200 (200/10000) *100 = 2 percent increase.

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   Let initial price of rice – 100 and new price of rice – 120
   Suppose initial consumption is 100kg and new consumption is 85kg
   Initial expenditure = 10000
   New expenditure = 10200 (200/10000) *100 = 2 percent increase.
5. Question 5 of 80

   5. Question

   A committee of two members is to be chosen from a group of 5 men and 4 women. Out of the 9 people, there is one couple. What is the probability that the committee has one male and one female member if the couple cannot be in the committee simultaneously?
   (A) 5/18
   (B) 19/36
   (C) 21/36
   (D) 1/20

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

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   Number of ways of choosing a committee of two members = 9C2 = (9 × 8)/2 = 36
   Number of ways of choosing a committee of one male and one female members = 5 × 4 = 20
   Number of ways of choosing a committee such that the members are the couple = 1
   Number of ways of choosing the committee of one male and one female such that the couple is not in the committee simultaneously = 20 – 1 = 19
   Required probability = 19/36

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   Number of ways of choosing a committee of two members = 9C2 = (9 × 8)/2 = 36
   Number of ways of choosing a committee of one male and one female members = 5 × 4 = 20
   Number of ways of choosing a committee such that the members are the couple = 1
   Number of ways of choosing the committee of one male and one female such that the couple is not in the committee simultaneously = 20 – 1 = 19
   Required probability = 19/36
6. Question 6 of 80

   6. Question

   In how many ways can eight directors, the vice chairman and chairman of a firm be seated at a round table, if the chairman has to sit between the the vice chairman and a specific director?
   (A) 9! × 2
   (B) 2 × 8!
   (C) 2 × 7!
   (D) None of these

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

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   Chariman, Vice-Chairman and the director can be made as a group such that Chairman sits between the Vice-Chairman and the director.
   This group can be formed in 2 ways.
   Each of the remaining 7 directors and the group can be arranged in 7! ways.
   => Total number of ways = 2 * 7!

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   Chariman, Vice-Chairman and the director can be made as a group such that Chairman sits between the Vice-Chairman and the director.
   This group can be formed in 2 ways.
   Each of the remaining 7 directors and the group can be arranged in 7! ways.
   => Total number of ways = 2 * 7!
7. Question 7 of 80

   7. Question

   N persons stand on the circumference of a circle at distinct points. Each possible pair of persons, not standing next to each other, sings a two-minute song one pair after the other. If the total time taken for singing is 28 minutes, what is N?
   (A) 5
   (B) 7
   (C) 9
   (D) None of the above

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

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   Total number of pairs is NC2​.
   Number of pairs standing next to each other = N.
   Therefore, number of pairs in question = NC2​ ​– N
   = 28/2 = 14.
   If N = 7,
   7C2 – 7 = 21 – 7 = 14.
   N = 7

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   Total number of pairs is NC2​.
   Number of pairs standing next to each other = N.
   Therefore, number of pairs in question = NC2​ ​– N
   = 28/2 = 14.
   If N = 7,
   7C2 – 7 = 21 – 7 = 14.
   N = 7
8. Question 8 of 80

   8. Question

   How many eight letter words (meaningful or meaningless) in English can be formed that have 2 different vowels and 6 different consonants?
   (A) 5C2 × 21C6 × 2! × 6!
   (B) 5P2 × 21P6
   (C) 5C2 × 21C6 × 8!
   (D) 26C8 × 8!

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

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   English language has 5 vowels and 21 consonants.
   2 vowels can be chosen in 5C2 ways and 6 consonants may be chosen in 21C6 ways.
   Now, these eight letters may be rearranged in 8! ways.
   Total number of words that can be formed = 5C2 × 21C6 × 8!

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   English language has 5 vowels and 21 consonants.
   2 vowels can be chosen in 5C2 ways and 6 consonants may be chosen in 21C6 ways.
   Now, these eight letters may be rearranged in 8! ways.
   Total number of words that can be formed = 5C2 × 21C6 × 8!
9. Question 9 of 80

   9. Question

   The letters of the word LUCKNOW are rearranged to generate all possible words (meaningful or meaningless). In the list of all the words generated, how many words have the word ‘NOW’ embedded in them?
   (A) 7!
   (B) 24
   (C) 720
   (D) 120

   • A
   • B
   • C
   • D
   Correct
   

   Incorrect
   

   The word ‘NOW’ has to appear in the word.
   So, we can assume that ‘NOW’ is a single alphabet and the remaining alphabets ‘L’, ‘U’, ‘C’ and ‘K’ are re-arranged along with ‘NOW’ to generate all possible words.
   Total number of alphabets available = 5 (‘L’, ‘U’, ‘C’, ‘K’ and ‘NOW’)
   Total number of permutations possible = 5! = 120.

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   The word ‘NOW’ has to appear in the word.
   So, we can assume that ‘NOW’ is a single alphabet and the remaining alphabets ‘L’, ‘U’, ‘C’ and ‘K’ are re-arranged along with ‘NOW’ to generate all possible words.
   Total number of alphabets available = 5 (‘L’, ‘U’, ‘C’, ‘K’ and ‘NOW’)
   Total number of permutations possible = 5! = 120.
10. Question 10 of 80

    10. Question

    40% of the students like Mathematics, 50% like English and 10% like both Mathematics and English. What % of the students like neither English nor Mathematics?
    (A) 25%
    (B) 10%
    (C) 20%
    (D) 60%

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    n(M or E) = n(M) + n(E) – n(M and E)
    n(M or E) = 40+50-10 = 80
    So % of the students who like neither English nor Mathematics
    = 100 – 80 = 20%

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    n(M or E) = n(M) + n(E) – n(M and E)
    n(M or E) = 40+50-10 = 80
    So % of the students who like neither English nor Mathematics
    = 100 – 80 = 20%
11. Question 11 of 80

    11. Question

    On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is:
    (A) Rs. 45
    (B) Rs. 50
    (C) Rs. 55
    (D) Rs. 60

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    (C.P. of 17 balls) – (S.P. of 17 balls) = (C.P. of 5 balls)
    C.P. of 12 balls = S.P. of 17 balls = Rs.720.
    C.P. of 1 ball = Rs. 720/12 = Rs. 60.

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    (C.P. of 17 balls) – (S.P. of 17 balls) = (C.P. of 5 balls)
    C.P. of 12 balls = S.P. of 17 balls = Rs.720.
    C.P. of 1 ball = Rs. 720/12 = Rs. 60.
12. Question 12 of 80

    12. Question

    4800 chocolates were distributed among the children of a class VI. Each child got thrice as many chocolates as the number of children in the class. The number of children in the class is:
    (A) 35
    (B) 40
    (C) 50
    (D) 45

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Let the numbers of children = n
    Then the chocolates to each child = 3n
    Total numbers of chocolates = n x 3n
    3n2 = 4800
    n = 40

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    Let the numbers of children = n
    Then the chocolates to each child = 3n
    Total numbers of chocolates = n x 3n
    3n2 = 4800
    n = 40
13. Question 13 of 80

    13. Question

    The average weight of four persons sitting in a car and driver is 55kg. The average weight of the car and the all persons sitting in the car is 440kg. What is the weight of the car?
    (A) 2365 kg
    (B) 2565 kg
    (C) 2415 kg
    (D) 2405 kg

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Including driver, there are 5 persons in the car.
    Total weight of the five persons = 55 x 5 = 275
    Total weight of the five persons and car = 440 x 6 = 2640
    Weight of the car = 2640 – 275 = 2365

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    Including driver, there are 5 persons in the car.
    Total weight of the five persons = 55 x 5 = 275
    Total weight of the five persons and car = 440 x 6 = 2640
    Weight of the car = 2640 – 275 = 2365
14. Question 14 of 80

    14. Question

    Five children A, B, C, D & E were tested for their IQ levels. The results were as follows:
    (1) Either A scored less than B or their scores were equal.
    (2) Either B scored less than C or their scores were equal.
    (3) C got less score than the D.
    (4) A got more score than the E.
    Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
    (A) A is positioned fourth if they are arranged in descending order of scores.
    (B) D scored more than A.
    (C) C, B and A scored the same.
    (D) Scores of B and E are same.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    According to the statements 1, 2, 3 and 4
    E < A ≤ B ≤ C < D
    Option (A) is incorrect as it is not necessary that rank of A is fourth.
    Option (C) is not correct as they may be equal or unequal.
    Option (D) is incorrect as B and E are not equal.

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    According to the statements 1, 2, 3 and 4
    E < A ≤ B ≤ C < D
    Option (A) is incorrect as it is not necessary that rank of A is fourth.
    Option (C) is not correct as they may be equal or unequal.
    Option (D) is incorrect as B and E are not equal.
15. Question 15 of 80

    15. Question

    In the given figure with four intersecting circles, each representing a group of persons having the quality written against it.
    
    The region which represents the people who are intelligent, honest and truthful but not hard working is marked using:
    (A) E
    (B) M
    (C) H
    (D) I

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Only portion H has people who are intelligent, honest, and truthful but not hard working.

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    Only portion H has people who are intelligent, honest, and truthful but not hard working.
16. Question 16 of 80

    16. Question

    In the figure below the fourth square is empty. From among the given options choose the one that logically fits in the best.
    
    (A) A
    (B) B
    (C) C
    (D) D

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Unattempted
    
17. Question 17 of 80

    17. Question

    Directions for the following item :
    Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    The University is conducting a Personality Development Program (PDP) for those graduating this year in diverse fields. One day session each for the six subjects – History, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Environmental Science and Geography, will be conducted beginning from 1st August to 7th August.
    I. Course should start with Psychology.
    II. 2nd August, being Sunday, should be holiday.
    III. Environmental Science should be discussed on the previous day of the Geography.
    IV. Course should end with History.
    V. Philosophy should be immediately after the holiday.
    VI. Economics session has to be before the Environmental Science session and there is a gap of one day in between Economics and Geography sessions.
    Which subject is followed by Environmental Science?
    (A) Geography
    (B) History
    (C) Economics
    (D) Philosophy

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
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18. Question 18 of 80

    18. Question

    In a certain code, '256' means 'red colour chalk', '589' means ‘green colour flower' and '254' means 'white colour chalk'. The digit in the code that indicates 'white' is
    (A) 12
    (B) 14
    (C) 8
    (D) 4

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    '256' = 'red colour chalk'
    '589' = ‘green colour flower'
    '254' = 'white colour chalk'
    5 and colour are common in all three.
    So, 5 = Colour, 2 = Chalk
    Hence, Red = 6, White = 4

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    '256' = 'red colour chalk'
    '589' = ‘green colour flower'
    '254' = 'white colour chalk'
    5 and colour are common in all three.
    So, 5 = Colour, 2 = Chalk
    Hence, Red = 6, White = 4
19. Question 19 of 80

    19. Question

    Directions for the following item :
    Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    The University is conducting a Personality Development Program (PDP) for those graduating this year in diverse fields. One day session each for the six subjects – History, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Environmental Science and Geography, will be conducted beginning from 1st August to 7th August.
    I. Course should start with Psychology.
    II. 2nd August, being Sunday, should be holiday.
    III. Environmental Science should be discussed on the previous day of the Geography.
    IV. Course should end with History.
    V. Philosophy should be immediately after the holiday.
    VI. Economics session has to be before the Environmental Science session and there is a gap of one day in between Economics and Geography sessions.
    Which subject will be on Tuesday?
    (A) Philosophy
    (B) Economics
    (C) Environmental Science
    (D) Psychology

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

    Unattempted
    

    
20. Question 20 of 80

    20. Question

    Directions for the following item :
    Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    The University is conducting a Personality Development Program (PDP) for those graduating this year in diverse fields. One day session each for the six subjects – History, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Environmental Science and Geography, will be conducted beginning from 1st August to 7th August.
    I. Course should start with Psychology.
    II. 2nd August, being Sunday, should be holiday.
    III. Environmental Science should be discussed on the previous day of the Geography.
    IV. Course should end with History.
    V. Philosophy should be immediately after the holiday.
    VI. Economics session has to be before the Environmental Science session and there is a gap of one day in between Economics and Geography sessions.
    Which subject precedes History?
    (A) Economics
    (B) Environmental Science
    (C) Geography
    (D) Philosophy

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

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21. Question 21 of 80

    21. Question

    Directions for the following item :
    Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    The University is conducting a Personality Development Program (PDP) for those graduating this year in diverse fields. One day session each for the six subjects – History, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Environmental Science and Geography, will be conducted beginning from 1st August to 7th August.
    I. Course should start with Psychology.
    II. 2nd August, being Sunday, should be holiday.
    III. Environmental Science should be discussed on the previous day of the Geography.
    IV. Course should end with History.
    V. Philosophy should be immediately after the holiday.
    VI. Economics session has to be before the Environmental Science session and there is a gap of one day in between Economics and Geography sessions.
    How many days' gap is there between Environmental Science and Philosophy?
    (A) The sessions are held on consecutive days.
    (B) There are sessions of 2 other subjects in between.
    (C) Only the session of Geography is held in between.
    (D) Only the session of Economics is held in between.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

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22. Question 22 of 80

    22. Question

    Direction :
    Read the following passage and answer the item that follow.
    A, B, C, D and E are members of the same family. There are two fathers, two sons, two wives, three males and two females. The teacher was the wife of a lawyer who was the son of a doctor. E is not a male, neither also a wife of a professional. C is the youngest person in the family and D is the eldest. B is a male.
    How is D related to E?
    (A) Husband
    (B) Son
    (C) Father
    (D) Wife

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The given information can be tabulated as follows:
    Grandfather – D
    Grandmother – E – Doctor
    Father – B – Lawyer
    Mother – A – Teacher
    Son – C

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    The given information can be tabulated as follows:
    Grandfather – D
    Grandmother – E – Doctor
    Father – B – Lawyer
    Mother – A – Teacher
    Son – C
23. Question 23 of 80

    23. Question

    Direction : Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
    The competitive civil-service system is designed to give candidates fair and equal treatment and to ensure that federal applicants are hired based on objective criteria. Hiring has to be based solely on a candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (which you’ll sometimes see abbreviated as ksa), and not on external factors such as race, religion, sex, and so on. Whereas employers in the private sector can hire employees for subjective reasons, federal employers must be able to justify their decision with objective evidence that the candidate is qualified.
    The paragraph best supports the statement that
    (A) hiring in the private sector is inherently unfair.
    (B) ksa is not as important as test scores to federal employers.
    (C) federal hiring practices are simpler than those employed by the private sector.
    (D) the civil service strives to hire on the basis of a candidate’s abilities.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

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24. Question 24 of 80

    24. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    It's easy to forget that most of the world's languages are still transmitted orally with no widely established written form. While speech communities are increasingly involved in projects to protect their languages – in print, on air and online – orality is fragile and contributes to linguistic vulnerability. But indigenous languages are about much more than unusual words and intriguing grammar: They function as vehicles for the transmission of cultural traditions, environmental understandings and knowledge about medicinal plants, all at risk when elders die and livelihoods are disrupted.
    Both push and pull factors lead to the decline of languages. Through war, famine and natural disasters, whole communities can be destroyed, taking their language with them to the grave, such as the indigenous populations of Tasmania who were wiped out by colonists. More commonly, speakers live on but abandon their language in favor of another vernacular, a widespread process that linguists refer to as “language shift” from which few languages are immune. Such trading up and out of a speech form occurs for complex political, cultural and economic reasons – sometimes voluntary for economic and educational reasons, although often amplified by state coercion or neglect. Welsh, long stigmatized and disparaged by the British state, has rebounded with vigor.
    Many speakers of endangered, poorly documented languages have embraced new digital media with excitement. Speakers of previously exclusively oral tongues are turning to the web as a virtual space for languages to live on. Internet technology offers powerful ways for oral traditions and cultural practices to survive, even thrive, among increasingly mobile communities. I have watched as videos of traditional wedding ceremonies and songs are recorded on smartphones in London by Nepali migrants, then uploaded to YouTube and watched an hour later by relatives in remote Himalayan villages . . .Globalization is regularly, and often uncritically, pilloried as a major threat to linguistic diversity. But in fact, globalization is as much process as it is ideology, certainly when it comes to language. The real forces behind cultural homogenization are unbending beliefs, exchanged through a globalized delivery system, reinforced by the historical monolingualism prevalent in much of the West.
    Monolingualism – the condition of being able to speak only one language – is regularly accompanied by a deep-seated conviction in the value of that language over all others. Across the largest economies that make up the G8, being monolingual is still often the norm, with multilingualism appearing unusual and even somewhat exotic. The monolingual mindset stands in sharp contrast to the lived reality of most the world, which throughout its history has been more multilingual than unilingual. Monolingualism, then, not globalization, should be our primary concern.
    Multilingualism can help us live in a more connected and more interdependent world. By widening access to technology, globalization can support indigenous and scholarly communities engaged in documenting and protecting our shared linguistic heritage. For the last 5,000 years, the rise and fall of languages was intimately tied to the plow, sword and book. In our digital age, the keyboard, screen and web will play a decisive role in shaping the future linguistic diversity of our species.
    From the passage, we can infer that the author is in favour of:
    (A) “language shifts” across languages.
    (B) cultural homogenisation.
    (C) greater multilingualism.
    (D) an expanded state role in the preservation of languages

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The answer to this question can be found in the first sentence of last paragraph. The author says “multilingualism can help us live in a more connected world”. Thus C is the best choice

    Unattempted
    

    The answer to this question can be found in the first sentence of last paragraph. The author says “multilingualism can help us live in a more connected world”. Thus C is the best choice
25. Question 25 of 80

    25. Question

    Direction : Read the following passage and answer the question that follow. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
    Unlike our current broken industrial agriculture model, eco-farming answers these questions as a food system, with people and farmers at its heart. Eco-farming combines modern science and innovation with respect for nature and biodiversity. It ensures healthy farming and healthy food. It protects the soil, the water and the climate. It does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs or use genetically engineered crops. And it places people and farmers—consumers and producers, rather than the corporations who control our food now—at its very heart. It is a vision of sustainability and food sovereignty in which food is grown with health and safety first and where control over food and farming rests with local communities, rather than transnational corporations.
    What is the most logical conclusion that can be drawn from the passage above?
    (A) Farmers are going to engage mostly in eco-farming in the future.
    (B) International corporations and industrial farming will eliminate the small farmers if left unchecked.
    (C) Eco-farming is a sustainable solution that pays heed to environmental concerns.
    (D) Food sovereignty is of vital importance for small farmers to survive.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The passage states that eco-farming respects nature and biodiversity and ‘It does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs or use genetically engineered crops’.

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    The passage states that eco-farming respects nature and biodiversity and ‘It does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs or use genetically engineered crops’.
26. Question 26 of 80

    26. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Today we can hardly conceive of ourselves without an unconscious. Yet between 1700 and1900, this notion developed as a genuinely original thought. The “unconscious” burst the shell of conventional language, coined as it had been to embody the fleeting ideas and the shifting conceptions of several generations until, finally, it became fixed and defined in specialized terms within the realm of medical psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis.
    The vocabulary concerning the soul and the mind increased enormously in the course of the nineteenth century. The enrichments of literary and intellectual language led to an altered understanding of the meanings that underlie time-honored expressions and traditional catchwords. At the same time, once coined, powerful new ideas attracted to themselves a whole host of seemingly unrelated issues, practices, and experiences, creating a peculiar network of preoccupations that as a group had not existed before. The drawn-out attempt to approach and define the unconscious brought together the spiritualist and the psychical researcher of borderline phenomena (such as apparitions, spectral illusions, haunted houses, mediums, trance, automatic writing); the psychiatrist or alienist probing the nature of mental disease, of abnormal ideation, hallucination, delirium, melancholia, mania; the surgeon performing operations with the aid of hypnotism; the magnetizer claiming to correct the disequilibrium in the universal flow of magnetic fluids but who soon came to be regarded as a clever manipulator of the imagination; the physiologist and the physician who puzzled oversleep, dreams, sleepwalking, anesthesia, the influence of the mind on the body in health and disease; the neurologist concerned with the functions of the brain and the physiological basis of mental life; the philosopher interested in the will, the emotions, consciousness, knowledge, imagination and the creative genius; and, last but not least, the psychologist.
    Significantly, most if not all of these practices (for example, hypnotism in surgery or psychological magnetism) originated in the waning years of the eighteenth century and during the early decades of the nineteenth century, as did some of the disciplines (such as psychology and psychical research). The majority of topics too were either new or assumed hitherto unknown colors. Thus, before 1790, few if any spoke, in medical terms, of the affinity between creative genius and the hallucinations of the insane .
    Striving vaguely and independently to give expression to a latent conception, various lines of thought can be brought together by some novel term. The new concept then serves as a kind of resting place or stocktaking in the development of ideas, giving satisfaction and a stimulus for further discussion or speculation. Thus, the massive introduction of the term unconscious by Hartmann in 1869 appeared to focalize many stray thoughts, affording a temporary feeling that a crucial step had been taken forward, a comprehensive knowledge gained, a knowledge that required only further elaboration, explication, and unfolding in order to bring in a bounty of higher understanding. Ultimately, Hartmann's attempt at defining the unconscious proved fruitless because he extended its reach into every realm of organic and inorganic, spiritual, intellectual, and instinctive existence, severely diluting the precision and compromising the impact of the concept.
    Which one of the following statements best describes what the passage is about?
    (A) The collating of diverse ideas under the single term: unconscious.
    (B) The identification of the unconscious as an object of psychical research.
    (C) The discovery of the unconscious as a part of the human mind.
    (D) The growing vocabulary of the soul and the mind, as diverse processes.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    This question is about the central idea of the passage. If we read the passage twice, we get to know that the author is discussing how over a period of almost 200 years, the term unconscious brought within itself a wide range of related, interconnected things, ideas and concepts. This is precisely what option A talks about. In option B the phrase “psychical research” is not the core idea of the passage. It might be a small issue of a broad framework, but not the central theme.
    Instead of the discovery of the unconscious, it is the evolution of the term unconscious and the various things that fall under it, that is the concern of the passage.
    The growing vocabulary is again not the broad idea. It might be factually correct in the context of the passage, but it is not the main idea. The main idea occupies bulk of the passage.

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    This question is about the central idea of the passage. If we read the passage twice, we get to know that the author is discussing how over a period of almost 200 years, the term unconscious brought within itself a wide range of related, interconnected things, ideas and concepts. This is precisely what option A talks about. In option B the phrase “psychical research” is not the core idea of the passage. It might be a small issue of a broad framework, but not the central theme.
    Instead of the discovery of the unconscious, it is the evolution of the term unconscious and the various things that fall under it, that is the concern of the passage.
    The growing vocabulary is again not the broad idea. It might be factually correct in the context of the passage, but it is not the main idea. The main idea occupies bulk of the passage.
27. Question 27 of 80

    27. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    The decades of efforts aimed at containing population growth in the country have finally started yielding results, albeit mixed ones. As the provisional results of the 2011 census reveal, we have a lot to feel happy and proud about -but this happiness comes with a baggage of some very serious concerns.
    With the growth rate of population slowing down to 17.64from the earlier 21.54, we can hope to see our population stabilizing earlier than we had expected. The sustained campaign by central and state governments, non-government organizations and leaders of the society to educate our masses have also borne fruit – with literacy levels having risen to 74.04 from 64.83 in 2001. What is more heartening in this regard is the fact that among these additional literates the number of women is more than that of men. India is finally giving due thought to the education of her daughters. We are now 4.91 points closer to bridging the gender gap in literacy.
    However, while India may have started showing concern about her daughters’ education, the same cannot be said about her enthusiasm in welcoming female offsprings into the family- at least in major parts of the country. The alarming and continuous drop in the Child Sex Ratio over the years is not just a matter of serious concern for the nation but also a matter of shame for any civilized society. Studies point to the growing scale of son preference and the resultant sex- selective abortion or female foeticide as the major reason for this drop in CSR. The trend seems to be more alarming in the northern and the western parts of the country. Clearly, the legislation preventing sex-selective abortion has proved totally ineffectual, and we need to work out more effective strategies in this regard.
    Apart from this major problem, the continued, less than satisfactory performance of the Empowered Action Group of States also needs to be addressed afresh. Not that these states have not made any progress –but the current rate of change is not good enough to ensure a satisfactory rate of development in these states, nor a fast attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
    With a largely young population, problems associates with ageing of population may not appear an urgency for the country. Nevertheless, these problems need to be tackled with advance planning. While the going is still good, India needs to look into the future and plan how it will take care of its elderly in the years to come.
    Why do we need advance planning regarding the health of elderly people?
    (A) We are a relatively young country, which will grow old in coming years.
    (B) Problem of elderly cannot be ignored any longer.
    (C) Advance planning is essential to deal with the coming problems.
    (D) None of the above

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Advance planning is required to deal with the problems of elderly population as more focus may be on younger population and dealing with problems of elderly will require planning.

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    Advance planning is required to deal with the problems of elderly population as more focus may be on younger population and dealing with problems of elderly will require planning.
28. Question 28 of 80

    28. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive “milky” is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy – a band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. The chance of having existence of extraterrestrial life is maximum on a planet in one of the other solar system in the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy alone contains many other suns, many of which have planets similar enough to Earth to make them suitable for life to sustain.
    Which of the following is an assumption made by the speaker of the above?
    (A) Life on another planet probably has the same form and appearance as those on the Earth.
    (B) Condition on other planets in our solar system is not suitable for the life to exist.
    (C) It is likely that life on another planet would require conditions similar to those on Earth.
    (D) Earth-like planets exist in more than one of the solar system in the Milky Way galaxy.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    In stating that planets may exist that are similar enough to Earth to make them suitable for supporting life, the author implicitly rules out planets dissimilar to Earth as likely to support life.
    The assumption underlying the statement is that life on another planet is likely to require conditions similar to those on Earth. Therefore, C is the correct answer.
    Option D, which close, is not correct as the argument is limited to existence of life in earth like planets in Milky way only. D is out of scope.

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    In stating that planets may exist that are similar enough to Earth to make them suitable for supporting life, the author implicitly rules out planets dissimilar to Earth as likely to support life.
    The assumption underlying the statement is that life on another planet is likely to require conditions similar to those on Earth. Therefore, C is the correct answer.
    Option D, which close, is not correct as the argument is limited to existence of life in earth like planets in Milky way only. D is out of scope.
29. Question 29 of 80

    29. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    I have elaborated – a framework for analyzing the contradictory pulls on [Indian] nationalist ideology in its struggle against the dominance of colonialism and the resolution it offered to those contradictions. Briefly, this resolution was built around a separation of the domain of culture into two spheres – the material and the spiritual. It was in the material sphere that the claims of Western civilization were the most powerful. Science, technology, rational forms of economic organization, modern methods of statecraft – these had given the European countries the strength to subjugate the non-European people . To overcome this domination, the colonized people had to learn those superior techniques of organizing material life and incorporate them within their own cultures. But this could not mean the imitation of the West in every aspect of life, for then the very distinction between the West and the East would vanish – the self-identity of national culture would itself be threatened. The discourse of nationalism shows that the material/spiritual distinction was condensed into an analogous, but ideologically far more powerful, dichotomy: that between the outer and the inner. Applying the inner/outer distinction to the matter of concrete day-to-day living separates the social space into ghar and bāhir, the home and the world. The world is the external, the domain of the material; the home represents one's inner spiritual self, one's true identity. The world is a treacherous terrain of the pursuit of material interests, where practical considerations reign supreme. It is also typically the domain of the male. The home in its essence must remain unaffected by the profane activities of the material world – and woman is its representation. And so one gets an identification of social roles by gender to correspond with the separation of the social space into ghar and bāhir.
    The colonial situation, and the ideological response of nationalism to the critique of Indian tradition, introduced an entirely new substance to [these dichotomies] and effected their transformation. The material/spiritual dichotomy, to which the terms world and home corresponded, had acquired . a very special significance in the nationalist mind. The world was where the European power had challenged the non-European peoples and, by virtue of its superior material culture, had subjugated them. But, the nationalists asserted, it had failed to colonize the inner, essential, identity of the East which lay in its distinctive, and superior, spiritual culture. [I]n the entire phase of the national struggle, the crucial need was to protect, preserve and strengthen the inner core of the national culture, its spiritual essence.
    Once we match this new meaning of the home/world dichotomy with the identification of social roles by gender, we get the ideological framework within which nationalism answered the women's question. It would be a grave error to see in this, as liberals are apt to in their despair at the many marks of social conservatism in nationalist practice, a total rejection of the West. Quite the contrary: the nationalist paradigm in fact supplied an ideological principle of selection.
    Which one of the following explains the “contradictory pulls” on Indian nationalism?
    (A) Despite its scientific and technological inferiority, Indian nationalism had to fight against colonial domination.
    (B) Despite its fight against colonial domination, Indian nationalism had to borrow from the coloniser in the material sphere.
    (C) Despite its fight against colonial domination, Indian nationalism had to borrow from the coloniser in the spiritual sphere.
    (D) Despite its spiritual superiority, Indian nationalism had to fight against colonial domination.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    To answer this question correctly, we have to pick a choice that has contradiction in it. There is no contradiction in A. Fighting against something or someone in spite of being inferior is not a contradiction. B has contradiction because the colonists, in their fight against the coloniser, are borrowing something from the latter. C is factually incorrect, the borrowing was done in the material sphere, not the spiritual. D is wrong because the passage talks of the material superiority, not the spiritual superiority.

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    To answer this question correctly, we have to pick a choice that has contradiction in it. There is no contradiction in A. Fighting against something or someone in spite of being inferior is not a contradiction. B has contradiction because the colonists, in their fight against the coloniser, are borrowing something from the latter. C is factually incorrect, the borrowing was done in the material sphere, not the spiritual. D is wrong because the passage talks of the material superiority, not the spiritual superiority.
30. Question 30 of 80

    30. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    The IPCC Land Report estimates that land serves as a large CO2 sink. There is a growing body of evidence that a large proportion of the required removals could be achieved by conserving natural sinks, improving biodiversity protection, and restoring ecosystems. Preserving earth’s cyclical processes by protecting terrestrial ecosystems and natural sinks and transformative agricultural practices under the leadership of indigenous people and local communities is a far more equitable and cost-effective way of tackling the climate crisis than it is being done now. We need to realize that the climate crisis is just a symptom; our real problem is that human consumption and activity have exceeded the regenerative. Technology, at best, can assist us, not lead us, on the pathway to a sustainable, regenerative and equitable world.
    Which of the following is the most rational and logical inference from the above passage?
    (A) Climate crisis can be best handled with the help of technology.
    (B) Real problem that has to be addressed on priority is the excessive human consumption and unbridled capitalism.
    (C) Afforestation and conservation measures aided with technology and people’s involvement could address the climate crisis effectively.
    (D) Preserving earth’s cyclical processes by protecting terrestrial ecosystems and natural sinks is a far more equitable and cost-effective way of tackling climate crisis than it is being done now.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Unattempted
    
31. Question 31 of 80

    31. Question

    Directions for the following item :
    Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    The University is conducting a Personality Development Program (PDP) for those graduating this year in diverse fields. One day session each for the six subjects – History, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Environmental Science and Geography, will be conducted beginning from 1st August to 7th August.
    I. Course should start with Psychology.
    II. 2nd August, being Sunday, should be holiday.
    III. Environmental Science should be discussed on the previous day of the Geography.
    IV. Course should end with History.
    V. Philosophy should be immediately after the holiday.
    VI. Economics session has to be before the Environmental Science session and there is a gap of one day in between Economics and Geography sessions.
    Which of the following statements is true?
    (A) There is gap of 2 days in between Psychology and Environmental Science.
    (B) There is gap of 5 days in between Geography and Psychology.
    (C) There is gap of 2 days in between Philosophy and Geography.
    (D) There is gap of 1 day in between History and Philosophy.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

    Unattempted
    

    
32. Question 32 of 80

    32. Question

    Consider the following statements:
    1. All those who work hard are selected for jobs.
    2. Government gives jobs.
    3. Government jobs offer job security.
    4. Government jobs do not cause inefficiency.
    Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above statements?
    (A) All job seekers get government jobs.
    (B) There is no other agency offering jobs but the government.
    (C) Only those who work hard get jobs.
    (D) None of the above

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

    (A) Some job seekers also get non-government jobs. So the statement is incorrect.
    (B) All jobs are not government jobs. So the statement is incorrect.
    (C) Non-hard workers are also getting jobs. So the statement is incorrect.

    Unattempted
    

    

    (A) Some job seekers also get non-government jobs. So the statement is incorrect.
    (B) All jobs are not government jobs. So the statement is incorrect.
    (C) Non-hard workers are also getting jobs. So the statement is incorrect.
33. Question 33 of 80

    33. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    For the past one and half decade as Indian industry went places, recording a hearty rate of growth, the story of Indian agriculture remained unchanged. Successive governments have put in plenty of effort but the results were still weak. This is surprising as in the same period except for 2008, the monsoon went through one of the longest periods of regular annual rainfall pattern. Despite this favourable initial condition, the rate of growth of the agriculture sector has been low. The one spoilsport in the agriculture story was of course the stagnant rate of public investment. The state, hamstrung by vastly competitive demands on its resources, initially and also by the realisation that public investments in irrigation and others were not yielding quick results, moved the money elsewhere.
    But now, in the aftermath of the global meltdown, the consensus of informed opinion has switched to the view that consumption demand from rural India has been the great stabilizer for industry. The impetus for that rural consumption demand has to come from rising productivity in agriculture. In turn rising productivity can only come if adequate investment is made at all stages of agricultural operation. Not surprisingly the push for these improvements has come from one of the longest spells of rise in prices of food products – the persisting inflation in food that has just begun to soften. So, we have a fortuitous combination of circumstances that, if harvested, can create huge value upgradation for the Indian agriculture sector and in turn for the entire economy. The components of these improvements are well known like seed technology, better management of post-harvest operations like preservation of produce in warehouses and of agricultural marketing.
    So even though it may seem of repeated, the time for an agricultural revolution is here. Probably the most important element of that will be the plans for a second green revolution. The government has already indicated that it is very keen to start it off in the dryland areas of the south and in the rich but weakly tapped soils of the eastern Indian states. A debate is already raging in the country, if such a rise in productivity will also necessarily entail a movement towards genetically modified crops. The need of adequate grains to feed a vastly rising population is immediate and so the decision has to be made carefully, as the government has indicated. The associated issues are of infrastructure to run the crops from the farm gates to the market. Most of the states have a poorly developed set of roads and even less carriers to undertake the task. In this context the need for refrigerated trucks and cold storage chains across the country is an immense investment possibility as well as the need of the hour. The government has to also make changes in the law to allow for the trading of warehouse receipts and that of the agricultural produce marketing act that makes transport of most agricultural produce across state boundaries, a crime. The list is large, the need is to start moving right now.
    What according to the passage is/are the reason(s) for the weak performance of Indian agriculture in the past decade?
    (1) The monsoon has been weak during the decade especially during 2008.
    (2) Successive governments have not put in enough efforts to boast the performance of agriculture.
    (3) Stagnant public investment in the agriculture sector of India.
    How many of the above statements is/are correct ?
    (A) Only one
    (B) Only two
    (C) All
    (D) None

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Statements 1 and 2 are incorrect. It is clearly mentioned in the paragraph 1 that “the monsoon went through one of the longest periods of regular annual rainfall pattern”. It means that Monsoon was weak during the 2008 as an exception. It was normal in all other years.
    Statement-2 is incorrect as it is mentioned that “Successive governments have put in plenty of effort but the results were still weak”. It implies that the governments have tried to improve the performance of agriculture but results are not positive.
    Statement-3 is correct as it highlights that spoilsport in the agriculture story was the stagnant public investment.

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    Statements 1 and 2 are incorrect. It is clearly mentioned in the paragraph 1 that “the monsoon went through one of the longest periods of regular annual rainfall pattern”. It means that Monsoon was weak during the 2008 as an exception. It was normal in all other years.
    Statement-2 is incorrect as it is mentioned that “Successive governments have put in plenty of effort but the results were still weak”. It implies that the governments have tried to improve the performance of agriculture but results are not positive.
    Statement-3 is correct as it highlights that spoilsport in the agriculture story was the stagnant public investment.
34. Question 34 of 80

    34. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    The decades of efforts aimed at containing population growth in the country have finally started yielding results, albeit mixed ones. As the provisional results of the 2011 census reveal, we have a lot to feel happy and proud about -but this happiness comes with a baggage of some very serious concerns.
    With the growth rate of population slowing down to 17.64from the earlier 21.54, we can hope to see our population stabilizing earlier than we had expected. The sustained campaign by central and state governments, non-government organizations and leaders of the society to educate our masses have also borne fruit – with literacy levels having risen to 74.04 from 64.83 in 2001. What is more heartening in this regard is the fact that among these additional literates the number of women is more than that of men. India is finally giving due thought to the education of her daughters. We are now 4.91 points closer to bridging the gender gap in literacy.
    However, while India may have started showing concern about her daughters’ education, the same cannot be said about her enthusiasm in welcoming female offsprings into the family- at least in major parts of the country. The alarming and continuous drop in the Child Sex Ratio over the years is not just a matter of serious concern for the nation but also a matter of shame for any civilized society. Studies point to the growing scale of son preference and the resultant sex- selective abortion or female foeticide as the major reason for this drop in CSR. The trend seems to be more alarming in the northern and the western parts of the country. Clearly, the legislation preventing sex-selective abortion has proved totally ineffectual, and we need to work out more effective strategies in this regard.
    Apart from this major problem, the continued, less than satisfactory performance of the Empowered Action Group of States also needs to be addressed afresh. Not that these states have not made any progress –but the current rate of change is not good enough to ensure a satisfactory rate of development in these states, nor a fast attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
    With a largely young population, problems associates with ageing of population may not appear an urgency for the country. Nevertheless, these problems need to be tackled with advance planning. While the going is still good, India needs to look into the future and plan how it will take care of its elderly in the years to come.
    Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?
    1. According to the provisional results of 2011 census, Indian population is not growing.
    2. Rising literacy levels has resulted in fall in growth rate of population.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
    (A) Both statements 1 and 2 are correct.
    (B) Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.
    (C) Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect..
    (D) Statement 1 is incorrect but Statement 2 is correct.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Option1: Population is still growing but slower.
    Option2: No correlation given between literacy rate and population growth rate.

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    Option1: Population is still growing but slower.
    Option2: No correlation given between literacy rate and population growth rate.
35. Question 35 of 80

    35. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    The decades of efforts aimed at containing population growth in the country have finally started yielding results, albeit mixed ones. As the provisional results of the 2011 census reveal, we have a lot to feel happy and proud about -but this happiness comes with a baggage of some very serious concerns.
    With the growth rate of population slowing down to 17.64from the earlier 21.54, we can hope to see our population stabilizing earlier than we had expected. The sustained campaign by central and state governments, non-government organizations and leaders of the society to educate our masses have also borne fruit – with literacy levels having risen to 74.04 from 64.83 in 2001. What is more heartening in this regard is the fact that among these additional literates the number of women is more than that of men. India is finally giving due thought to the education of her daughters. We are now 4.91 points closer to bridging the gender gap in literacy.
    However, while India may have started showing concern about her daughters’ education, the same cannot be said about her enthusiasm in welcoming female offsprings into the family- at least in major parts of the country. The alarming and continuous drop in the Child Sex Ratio over the years is not just a matter of serious concern for the nation but also a matter of shame for any civilized society. Studies point to the growing scale of son preference and the resultant sex- selective abortion or female foeticide as the major reason for this drop in CSR. The trend seems to be more alarming in the northern and the western parts of the country. Clearly, the legislation preventing sex-selective abortion has proved totally ineffectual, and we need to work out more effective strategies in this regard.
    Apart from this major problem, the continued, less than satisfactory performance of the Empowered Action Group of States also needs to be addressed afresh. Not that these states have not made any progress –but the current rate of change is not good enough to ensure a satisfactory rate of development in these states, nor a fast attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
    With a largely young population, problems associates with ageing of population may not appear an urgency for the country. Nevertheless, these problems need to be tackled with advance planning. While the going is still good, India needs to look into the future and plan how it will take care of its elderly in the years to come.
    What according to the author is the main cause of falling sex ratio in major parts of the country?
    (A) Poor literacy among females.
    (B) Failure of legislation to curb sex selective abortion.
    (C) Strong preference for male child and female feticide.
    (D) Apathy of government to educate people regarding this issue.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Passage says that growing scale of son preference and the resultant sex- selective abortion or female foeticide as the major reason for this drop in CSR.

    Unattempted
    

    Passage says that growing scale of son preference and the resultant sex- selective abortion or female foeticide as the major reason for this drop in CSR.
36. Question 36 of 80

    36. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    Bastar in south Chhattisgarh is increasingly being associated with bloody violence and strife, a political conflict that throws up disturbing questions of policy priorities that this tribal region has received in the decades following India’s Independence. Indeed as it is being increasingly acknowledged, it has been the singular lack of development that has led to birth of political groups that question the framework of parliamentary democracy in this country.
    Somewhere lost in this high-intensity conflict and debate around it, is the question of Bastar’s own identity. What is the area like, how do the people live and what in a sense defines it, in terms of its terrain, its natural resources, and its cultural and social patterns? What strikes one are the luxuriant forests that stretch for miles and miles from any one point. The adivasis who have inhabited the region for centuries have evolved a way of life, a culture that worships nature, preserves it for the present generation of course, but really speaking for posterity.
    Perhaps it is this philosophy embedded in the region for centuries that has led Virender Singh to take on the mantle of environment protection in the region. Even as a child growing up in Durg district in a family of agricultural workers, he would revel in the bounty of nature; the joy of seeing new leaves, crops waiting to be harvested and water gushing in the streams. As he grew, he realized that this bounty is the basis for human civilization and indeed its continuance. Yet it is finite, and if we do not nurture it, it may disappear altogether. In later years, as a schoolteacher, he saw the immense potential of opening young minds to both the joy and the threat to Nature. From this realization, began his journey and over the last 13 years earned him the pseudonym of “Green Commando”.
    Which of the following is not true regarding Bastar?
    (A) It has a wonderful collection of natural resources.
    (B) It has a unique adivasi culture, which owes its existence to forests.
    (C) The distinct identity of Adivasi people is the main cause of tension and strife.
    (D) Worshipping and preserving nature are inherent part of Adivasi culture of Bastar.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    It is mentioned in the passage that Baster has natural resources.
    Baster has unique Adivasi culture which preserves, worship and own its existence to the forest.
    Nowhere, it is mentioned that the distinct identity of Adivasi people is the cause of tension and strife.

    Unattempted
    

    It is mentioned in the passage that Baster has natural resources.
    Baster has unique Adivasi culture which preserves, worship and own its existence to the forest.
    Nowhere, it is mentioned that the distinct identity of Adivasi people is the cause of tension and strife.
37. Question 37 of 80

    37. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    Bastar in south Chhattisgarh is increasingly being associated with bloody violence and strife, a political conflict that throws up disturbing questions of policy priorities that this tribal region has received in the decades following India’s Independence. Indeed as it is being increasingly acknowledged, it has been the singular lack of development that has led to birth of political groups that question the framework of parliamentary democracy in this country.
    Somewhere lost in this high-intensity conflict and debate around it, is the question of Bastar’s own identity. What is the area like, how do the people live and what in a sense defines it, in terms of its terrain, its natural resources, and its cultural and social patterns? What strikes one are the luxuriant forests that stretch for miles and miles from any one point. The adivasis who have inhabited the region for centuries have evolved a way of life, a culture that worships nature, preserves it for the present generation of course, but really speaking for posterity.
    Perhaps it is this philosophy embedded in the region for centuries that has led Virender Singh to take on the mantle of environment protection in the region. Even as a child growing up in Durg district in a family of agricultural workers, he would revel in the bounty of nature; the joy of seeing new leaves, crops waiting to be harvested and water gushing in the streams. As he grew, he realized that this bounty is the basis for human civilization and indeed its continuance. Yet it is finite, and if we do not nurture it, it may disappear altogether. In later years, as a schoolteacher, he saw the immense potential of opening young minds to both the joy and the threat to Nature. From this realization, began his journey and over the last 13 years earned him the pseudonym of “Green Commando”.
    Which of the following according to the passage holds the key to solve the violence and strife in Bastar?
    (A) People like Virender Singh should be made to promote forest conservation and thereby Adivasi culture.
    (B) Government should promote development activities in the Bastar region through economic incentives.
    (C) Better understanding of Adivasi culture and its history along with conservation of forest land should be at the centre of policy framework for the region.
    (D) Establishing political democracy throughout the territory of India.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Nowhere in the passage talks about Option (A) Virender Singh should be made to promote forest conservation and thereby Adivasi culture.
    Option (B) Government should promote development activities in the Bastar.
    Option (D) Establishing political democracy throughout the territory of India.
    But the passage talks about better understanding of Adivasi culture along with conservation of forest land.

    Unattempted
    

    Nowhere in the passage talks about Option (A) Virender Singh should be made to promote forest conservation and thereby Adivasi culture.
    Option (B) Government should promote development activities in the Bastar.
    Option (D) Establishing political democracy throughout the territory of India.
    But the passage talks about better understanding of Adivasi culture along with conservation of forest land.
38. Question 38 of 80

    38. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Rocks which have solidified directly from molten materials are called igneous rocks. Igneous rocks are commonly referred to as primary rocks because they are the original source of material found in sedimentaries and metamorphics. Igneous rocks compose the greater part of the Earth's crust, but they are generally covered by a thin layer of sedimentary or metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks are distinguished by the following characteristics :
    (1) they contain no fossils, (2) they have no regular arrangement of layers and (3) they are nearly always made up of crystals.
    Sedimentary rocks are composed largely of minute fragments derived from the disintegration of existing old rocks and from the remains of animals. Distinct layers of such sediments as gravels, sand and clay build up, as they are deposited by water and occasionally wind. These sediments vary in size with the material and the power of the eroding agents. When sediments harden into sedimentary rocks, the names applied to them change to indicate the change in physical state. Thus, small stones and gravel cemented together are known as conglomerates; cemented sand becomes sandstone; and hardened clay becomes shale. Limestone results from the deposition of dissolved materials.
    The ingredient parts are normally precipitated by organic substances, such as shells and hard skeletons of marine organisms. Both igneous and sedimentary rocks may be changed under pressure, heat, solution or cementing action into metamorphic rocks, e.g. granite, an igneous rock, may be metamorphosed into gneiss or a schist. Limestone, a sedimentary rock, may become marble. Shale becomes slate.
    The passage contains information that would answer which of the following questions?
    (1) Which elements form igneous rocks? .
    (2) What produces sufficient pressure to alter a rock?
    (3) Why is marble called a metamorphic rock?
    Select the correct answer using the codes given below :
    (A) 1 only
    (B) 3 only
    (C) 1 and 2 only
    (D) 2 and 3 only

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The passage provides answer to statement 3 only. 1 and 2 are not discussed in the passage.

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    The passage provides answer to statement 3 only. 1 and 2 are not discussed in the passage.
39. Question 39 of 80

    39. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    For two years, I tracked down dozens of Chinese in Upper Egypt [who were] selling lingerie. In a deeply conservative region, where Egyptian families rarely allow women to work or own businesses, the Chinese flourished because of their status as outsiders. They didn’t gossip, and they kept their opinions to themselves. In a New Yorker article entitled “Learning to Speak Lingerie,” I described the Chinese use of Arabic as another non-threatening characteristic. I wrote, “Unlike Mandarin, Arabic is inflected for gender, and Chinese dealers, who learn the language strictly by ear, often pick up speech patterns from female customers. I’ve come to think of it as the lingerie dialect, and there’s something disarming about these Chinese men speaking in the feminine voice.” . . .
    When I wrote about the Chinese in the New Yorker, most readers seemed to appreciate the unusual perspective. But as I often find with topics that involve the Middle East, some people had trouble getting past the black-and-white quality of a byline. “This piece is so orientalist I don’t know what to do,” Aisha Gani, a reporter who worked at The Guardian, tweeted. Another colleague at the British paper, Iman Amrani, agreed: “I wouldn’t have minded an article on the subject written by an Egyptian woman—probably would have had better insight.” . . .
    As an MOL (man of language), I also take issue with this kind of essentialism. Empathy and understanding are not inherited traits, and they are not strictly tied to gender and race. An individual who wrestles with a difficult language can learn to be more sympathetic to outsiders and open to different experiences of the world. This learning process—the embarrassments, the frustrations, the gradual sense of understanding and connection—is invariably transformative. In Upper Egypt, the Chinese experience of struggling to learn Arabic and local culture had made them much more thoughtful. In the same way, I was interested in their lives not because of some kind of voyeurism, but because I had also experienced Egypt and Arabic as an outsider. And both the Chinese and the Egyptians welcomed me because I spoke their languages. My identity as a white male was far less important than my ability to communicate.
    And that easily lobbed word—“Orientalist”—hardly captures the complexity of our interactions. What exactly is the dynamic when a man from Missouri observes a Zhejiang native selling lingerie to an Upper Egyptian woman? . . . If all of us now stand beside the same river, speaking in ways we all understand, who’s looking east and who’s looking west? Which way is Oriental?
    For all of our current interest in identity politics, there’s no corresponding sense of identity linguistics. You are what you speak—the words that run throughout your mind are at least as fundamental to your selfhood as is your ethnicity or your gender. And sometimes it’s healthy to consider human characteristics that are not inborn, rigid, and outwardly defined. After all, you can always learn another language and change who you are.
    Which of the following can be inferred from the author’s claim, “Which way is Oriental?”
    (A) Goodwill alone mitigates cultural hierarchies and barriers.
    (B) Learning another language can mitigate cultural hierarchies and barriers.
    (C) Globalisation has mitigated cultural hierarchies and barriers.
    (D) Orientalism is a discourse of the past, from colonial times, rarely visible today.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The word Orientalism has been used here in the sense of identity. The author says when we speak the same language and understand each other, there is nothing like Orientalism in that case. In effect, he wants to say that language breaks all the barriers of culture and identity.
    Option B is correct because it mentions learning another language and thus captures the essence. Option A goes out because goodwill is not the intention, nor is globalization. Option D takes the word Orientalism literally, the author has used the word in a context, that context is identity defined by language.

    Unattempted
    

    The word Orientalism has been used here in the sense of identity. The author says when we speak the same language and understand each other, there is nothing like Orientalism in that case. In effect, he wants to say that language breaks all the barriers of culture and identity.
    Option B is correct because it mentions learning another language and thus captures the essence. Option A goes out because goodwill is not the intention, nor is globalization. Option D takes the word Orientalism literally, the author has used the word in a context, that context is identity defined by language.
40. Question 40 of 80

    40. Question

    Examine the following statements:
    1. Only the vegetarian people can live for 100 years.
    2. Some of those who live for 100 years suffer from Alzheimer disease.
    3. Some of those who suffer from Alzheimer disease also suffer from cancer.
    Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
    (A) All vegetarian people live for 100 years.
    (B) Those who live for 100 years suffer from Alzheimer disease.
    (C) Only the vegetarian people suffer from Alzheimer disease.
    (D) None of the above.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    
    Option (A): Some vegetarians are not living 100 years.
    Option (B): Not all 100 years have Alzheimer.
    Option (C): Not necessarily
    Option (D): is the answer

    Unattempted
    

    
    Option (A): Some vegetarians are not living 100 years.
    Option (B): Not all 100 years have Alzheimer.
    Option (C): Not necessarily
    Option (D): is the answer
41. Question 41 of 80

    41. Question

    Six friends Rohan, Mohit, Ashu, Varun, Sohrab and Puneet are sitting around a circular table headed towards the centre of the table with equally spaced seats. Mohit and Rohan had an altercation few days back so Mohit doesn’t takes a seat adjacent to Rohan and is sitting at the second place to the left of Rohan. Mohit is exactly opposite to Varun. Ashu, who is exactly opposite to Puneet, is on the immediate right of Varun. Who sits between Mohit and Rohan?
    (A) Puneet
    (B) Sohrab
    (C) Ashu
    (D) Varun

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

    Unattempted
    

    
42. Question 42 of 80

    42. Question

    Directions for following item: Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    Read the following information and answer the following question:
    A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys Vinod, Krishna, Raman, Prem and Harry and four girls Rita, Sita, Mita and Gita according to the following selection criteria:
    – Gita and Vinod have to be together.
    – Rita cannot be put with Mita.
    – Sita and Prem cannot be together.
    – Raman and Harry have to be together.
    – Mita cannot be put with Krishna.
    If two of the members have to be boys, the team will consist of:
    (A) Vinod, Krishna, Gita, Rita, Sita
    (B) Vinod, Prem, Gita, Sita, Mita
    (C) Krishna, Prem, Gita, Mita, Sita
    (D) Raman, Harry, Gita, Rita, Sita

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    If Vinod is selected, Gita has to be selected.
    If Krishna is selected, Mita cannot be selected.
    If Prem is selected, Sita cannot be selected. So, option (B) (Vinod Prem Gita Sita Mita) and option (C) (Krishna Prem Gita Mita Sita) are not possible.
    Option (D) (Raman Harry Gita Rita Sita) is not possible because Gita has to be accompanied with Vinod.

    Unattempted
    

    If Vinod is selected, Gita has to be selected.
    If Krishna is selected, Mita cannot be selected.
    If Prem is selected, Sita cannot be selected. So, option (B) (Vinod Prem Gita Sita Mita) and option (C) (Krishna Prem Gita Mita Sita) are not possible.
    Option (D) (Raman Harry Gita Rita Sita) is not possible because Gita has to be accompanied with Vinod.
43. Question 43 of 80

    43. Question

    Which image from the bottom row should replace the question mark ?
    
    

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Unattempted
    
44. Question 44 of 80

    44. Question

    Directions for following item: Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    Read the following information and answer the following question:
    A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys Vinod, Krishna, Raman, Prem and Harry and four girls Rita, Sita, Mita and Gita according to the following selection criteria:
    – Gita and Vinod have to be together.
    – Rita cannot be put with Mita.
    – Sita and Prem cannot be together.
    – Raman and Harry have to be together.
    – Mita cannot be put with Krishna.
    If Mita be one of the members, the other members of the team are :
    (A) Rita, Gita, Vinod, Prem
    (B) Sita, Gita, Vinod, Prem
    (C) Sita, Gita, Raman, Harry
    (D) Gita; Vinod, Raman, Harry

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    If Mita is selected, Rita cannot be selected.
    So, option (A) (Rita Gita Vinod Prem) is wrong:
    Prem and Sita cannot go together. So,
    option (B) (Sita Gita Vinod Prem) is wrong.
    Gita and Vinod have to be together, so, option (C) (Sita Gita Raman Harry) is wrong.

    Unattempted
    

    If Mita is selected, Rita cannot be selected.
    So, option (A) (Rita Gita Vinod Prem) is wrong:
    Prem and Sita cannot go together. So,
    option (B) (Sita Gita Vinod Prem) is wrong.
    Gita and Vinod have to be together, so, option (C) (Sita Gita Raman Harry) is wrong.
45. Question 45 of 80

    45. Question

    In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘KURUKSHETRA’ be arranged?
    (A) 4789600
    (B) 4497600
    (C) 4979600
    (D) 4989600

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Number of letters in the word ‘KURUKSHETRA’ is 11 of which 2 are K’s.
    2 are U’s, 2 are R’s and remaining are different.
    ∴ Required number of permutations =
    11!/2!2!2!
    = 4989600.

    Unattempted
    

    Number of letters in the word ‘KURUKSHETRA’ is 11 of which 2 are K’s.
    2 are U’s, 2 are R’s and remaining are different.
    ∴ Required number of permutations =
    11!/2!2!2!
    = 4989600.
46. Question 46 of 80

    46. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. Natalia Ares at the University of Oxford and her colleagues made this discovery using a tiny clock with an accuracy that can be controlled. The clock consists of a 50-nanometre-thick membrane of silicon nitride, vibrated by an electric current. Each time the membrane moved up and down once and then returned to its original position, the researchers counted a tick, and the regularity of the spacing between the ticks represented the accuracy of the clock. The researchers found that as they increased the clock's accuracy, the heat produced in the system grew, increasing the entropy of its surroundings by jostling nearby particles. “If a clock is more accurate, you are paying for it somehow,” says Ares. In this case, you pay for it by pouring more ordered energy into the clock, which is then converted into entropy. “By measuring time, we are increasing the entropy of the universe,” says Ares. The more entropy there is in the universe, the closer it may be to its eventual demise. “Maybe we should stop measuring time,” says Ares. The scale of the additional entropy is so small, though, that there is no need to worry about its effects, she says.
    The increase in entropy in timekeeping may be related to the “arrow of time”, says Marcus Huber at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, who was part of the research team. It has been suggested that the reason that time only flows forward, not in reverse, is that the total amount of entropy in the universe is constantly increasing, creating disorder that cannot be put in order again.
    The relationship that the researchers found is a limit on the accuracy of a clock, so it doesn't mean that a clock that creates the most possible entropy would be maximally accurate – hence a large, inefficient grandfather clock isn't more precise than an atomic clock. “It's a bit like fuel use in a car. Just because I'm using more fuel doesn't mean that I'm going faster or further,” says Huber.
    When the researchers compared their results with theoretical models developed for clocks that rely on quantum effects, they were surprised to find that the relationship between accuracy and entropy seemed to be the same for both. . . . We can't be sure yet that these results are actually universal, though, because there are many types of clocks for which the relationship between accuracy and entropy haven't been tested. “It's still unclear how this principle plays out in real devices such as atomic clocks, which push the ultimate quantum limits of accuracy,” says Mark Mitchison at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Understanding this relationship could be helpful for designing clocks in the future, particularly those used in quantum computers and other devices where both accuracy and temperature are crucial, says Ares. This finding could also help us understand more generally how the quantum world and the classical world are similar and different in terms of thermodynamics and the passage of time.
    None of the following statements can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that:
    (A) the arrow of time has not yet been tested for atomic clocks.
    (B) quantum computers are likely to produce more heat and, hence, more entropy, because of the emphasis on their clocks' accuracy.
    (C) grandfather clocks are likely to produce less heat and, hence, less entropy, because they are not as accurate.
    (D) a clock with a 50-nanometre-thick membrane of silicon nitride has been made to vibrate, producing electric currents.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    This is a moderate difficulty question. We have to pick the choice that cannot be inferred. Two options can be checked by understanding the idea of “arrow of time”, which according to the passage, means time always moves forward because of increasing entropy in the universe… But the idea of entropy vs accuracy has not yet been understood as to how it plays out for atomic clocks, suggesting that arrow of time must have been tested on atomic clocks. That's why you don't understand how arrow of time plays out in atomic clocks. Thus A cannot be inferred, as the opposite of A is true. C cannot be inferred because the passage talks opposite of this. D cannot be inferred because it fed with electric currents, not producing electric currents. Thus A, C and D cannot be inferred. B can be inferred from last paragraph.

    Unattempted
    

    This is a moderate difficulty question. We have to pick the choice that cannot be inferred. Two options can be checked by understanding the idea of “arrow of time”, which according to the passage, means time always moves forward because of increasing entropy in the universe… But the idea of entropy vs accuracy has not yet been understood as to how it plays out for atomic clocks, suggesting that arrow of time must have been tested on atomic clocks. That's why you don't understand how arrow of time plays out in atomic clocks. Thus A cannot be inferred, as the opposite of A is true. C cannot be inferred because the passage talks opposite of this. D cannot be inferred because it fed with electric currents, not producing electric currents. Thus A, C and D cannot be inferred. B can be inferred from last paragraph.
47. Question 47 of 80

    47. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. Natalia Ares at the University of Oxford and her colleagues made this discovery using a tiny clock with an accuracy that can be controlled. The clock consists of a 50-nanometre-thick membrane of silicon nitride, vibrated by an electric current. Each time the membrane moved up and down once and then returned to its original position, the researchers counted a tick, and the regularity of the spacing between the ticks represented the accuracy of the clock. The researchers found that as they increased the clock's accuracy, the heat produced in the system grew, increasing the entropy of its surroundings by jostling nearby particles. “If a clock is more accurate, you are paying for it somehow,” says Ares. In this case, you pay for it by pouring more ordered energy into the clock, which is then converted into entropy. “By measuring time, we are increasing the entropy of the universe,” says Ares. The more entropy there is in the universe, the closer it may be to its eventual demise. “Maybe we should stop measuring time,” says Ares. The scale of the additional entropy is so small, though, that there is no need to worry about its effects, she says.
    The increase in entropy in timekeeping may be related to the “arrow of time”, says Marcus Huber at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, who was part of the research team. It has been suggested that the reason that time only flows forward, not in reverse, is that the total amount of entropy in the universe is constantly increasing, creating disorder that cannot be put in order again.
    The relationship that the researchers found is a limit on the accuracy of a clock, so it doesn't mean that a clock that creates the most possible entropy would be maximally accurate – hence a large, inefficient grandfather clock isn't more precise than an atomic clock. “It's a bit like fuel use in a car. Just because I'm using more fuel doesn't mean that I'm going faster or further,” says Huber.
    When the researchers compared their results with theoretical models developed for clocks that rely on quantum effects, they were surprised to find that the relationship between accuracy and entropy seemed to be the same for both. . . . We can't be sure yet that these results are actually universal, though, because there are many types of clocks for which the relationship between accuracy and entropy haven't been tested. “It's still unclear how this principle plays out in real devices such as atomic clocks, which push the ultimate quantum limits of accuracy,” says Mark Mitchison at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Understanding this relationship could be helpful for designing clocks in the future, particularly those used in quantum computers and other devices where both accuracy and temperature are crucial, says Ares. This finding could also help us understand more generally how the quantum world and the classical world are similar and different in terms of thermodynamics and the passage of time.
    “It's a bit like fuel use in a car. Just because I'm using more fuel doesn't mean that I'm going faster or further . . .” What is the purpose of this example?
    (A) If you go faster in a car, you will tend to consume more fuel, but the converse is not necessarily true. In the same way, increased entropy does not necessarily mean greater accuracy of a clock.
    (B) The further you go in a car, the more fuel you use. In the same way, the faster you go in a car, the less time you use.
    (C) If you measure the speed of a car with a grandfather clock, the result will be different than if you measured it with an atomic clock.
    (D) The further and faster you go in a car, the greater the amount of fuel you will use, the greater the amount of heat produced and, hence, the greater the entropy.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    This is an easy question; you just have to focus on the paragraph where this sentence has come. Option A accurately captures this. Entropy and fuel are analogous, higher entropy doesn't always mean higher accuracy, just as higher fuel consumption in a car doesn't mean greater speed.

    Unattempted
    

    This is an easy question; you just have to focus on the paragraph where this sentence has come. Option A accurately captures this. Entropy and fuel are analogous, higher entropy doesn't always mean higher accuracy, just as higher fuel consumption in a car doesn't mean greater speed.
48. Question 48 of 80

    48. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    The IPCC Land Report estimates that land serves as a large CO2 sink. There is a growing body of evidence that a large proportion of the required removals could be achieved by conserving natural sinks, improving biodiversity protection, and restoring ecosystems. Preserving earth’s cyclical processes by protecting terrestrial ecosystems and natural sinks and transformative agricultural practices under the leadership of indigenous people and local communities is a far more equitable and cost-effective way of tackling the climate crisis than it is being done now. We need to realize that the climate crisis is just a symptom; our real problem is that human consumption and activity have exceeded the regenerative. Technology, at best, can assist us, not lead us, on the pathway to a sustainable, regenerative and equitable world.
    According to the author of the above passage which of the following is the real problem of which climate crisis is only a symptom:
    (A) Not using technology to assist us on the pathway to a sustainable regenerative and equitable world.
    (B) Excessive consumerism and unbridled capitalism.
    (C) Not protecting earth’s cyclical processes and natural sinks.
    (D) Over exploitation of natural resources beyond the point of no return spurred by man’s greed and deed.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Unattempted
    
49. Question 49 of 80

    49. Question

    Direction : Read the following passage and answer the question that follow. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
    Soil is the earth’s fragile skin that anchors all life on Earth. It is comprised of countless species that create a dynamic and complex ecosystem and is among the most precious resources to humans. Increased demand for agriculture commodities generates incentives to convert forests and grasslands to farm fields and pastures. The transition to agriculture from natural vegetation often cannot hold onto the soil and many of these plants, such as coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybean and wheat, can actually increase soil erosion beyond the soil’s ability to maintain itself.
    What is the central theme of the passage above?
    (A) Agricultural activities may exacerbate soil erosion.
    (B) Soil is the most precious resource for human beings.
    (C) Most ecosystems in the world are complex.
    (D) It is a painstaking but worthwhile initiative to convert forests into farmland.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    The author concludes that many crops, such as coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybean and wheat, ‘can actually increase soil erosion beyond the soil’s ability to maintain itself’.

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    The author concludes that many crops, such as coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybean and wheat, ‘can actually increase soil erosion beyond the soil’s ability to maintain itself’.
50. Question 50 of 80

    50. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Once people wore garlic around their necks to ward off disease. Today, most Americans would scoff at the idea of wearing a necklace of garlic cloves to enhance their well-being. However, you might find a number of Americans willing to ingest capsules of pulverized garlic or other herbal supplements in the name of health. Complementary and alternative medicine, which includes a range of practices outside of conventional medicine such as herbs, homeopathy, massage therapy, yoga, and acupuncture, hold increasing appeal for Americans. In fact, according to one estimate, 42% of Americans have used alternative therapies. In all age groups, the use of unconventional healthcare practices has steadily increased in the last 30 years, and the trend is likely to continue, although people born before 1945 are the least likely to turn to these therapies.
    Why have so many patients turned to alternative therapies? Many are frustrated by the time constraints of managed care and alienated by conventional medicine’s focus on technology. Others feel that a holistic approach to healthcare better reflects their beliefs and values. Others seek therapies that relieve symptoms associated with chronic disease; symptoms that mainstream medicine cannot treat. Some alternative therapies have even crossed the line into mainstream medicine, as scientific investigation has confirmed their safety and efficacy. For example, physicians may currently prescribe acupuncture for pain management or to control the nausea associated with chemotherapy. Additionally, many U.S. medical schools teach courses in alternative therapies, and many health insurance companies offer some alternative medicine benefits.
    The passage indicates that alternative treatments are increasingly being used by mainstream medical professionals because
    (A) more and more Americans are demanding alternative therapies.
    (B) healthcare insurance companies are now providing some benefits for alternative medical treatments.
    (C) they are frustrated by the time constraints of managed care.
    (D) scientific studies are becoming available that prove their effectiveness and safety

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    The beginning of the last paragraph discusses this scientific investigation and its role in making alternative treatments more accepted by mainstream medicine.

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    The beginning of the last paragraph discusses this scientific investigation and its role in making alternative treatments more accepted by mainstream medicine.
51. Question 51 of 80

    51. Question

    Direction : Read the following passage and answer the question that follow. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
    Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population has increased, so has the volume of fossil fuels burned. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas, and burning them causes what is known as the “greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere.
    The greenhouse effect is when the Sun’s rays penetrate the atmosphere, but when that heat is reflected off the surface cannot escape back into space. Gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide. The excess heat in the atmosphere has caused the average global temperature to rise overtime, otherwise known as global warming.
    What is the central message conveyed by the passage above?
    (A) Burning fossil fuels leads to global warming.
    (B) The greenhouse effect can be observed only in the Earth’s atmosphere.
    (C) It is unclear how chlorofluorocarbons and methane are emitted.
    (D) Global warming has increased significantly in recent years.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    The author emphasizes that ‘Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels’ and explains how this happens in the remainder of the passage.

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    The author emphasizes that ‘Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels’ and explains how this happens in the remainder of the passage.
52. Question 52 of 80

    52. Question

    Direction : Read the following passage and answer the question that follow. Your answers to these questions should be based on the passage only.
    Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population has increased, so has the volume of fossil fuels burned. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas, and burning them causes what is known as the “greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere.
    The greenhouse effect is when the Sun’s rays penetrate the atmosphere, but when that heat is reflected off the surface cannot escape back into space. Gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide. The excess heat in the atmosphere has caused the average global temperature to rise overtime, otherwise known as global warming.
    Which of the following statements cannot be inferred from the passage above?
    (A) The greenhouse effect results from the burning of fossil fuels.
    (B) If fossil fuels are not burnt, there will be no heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.
    (C) Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.
    (D) The rise in global temperatures is known as global warming.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    It is not indicated in the passage that fossil fuels are the only way to retain heat in the atmosphere.

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    It is not indicated in the passage that fossil fuels are the only way to retain heat in the atmosphere.
53. Question 53 of 80

    53. Question

    Directions for following item: Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    Read the following information and answer the following question:
    A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys Vinod, Krishna, Raman, Prem and Harry and four girls Rita, Sita, Mita and Gita according to the following selection criteria:
    – Gita and Vinod have to be together.
    – Rita cannot be put with Mita.
    – Sita and Prem cannot be together.
    – Raman and Harry have to be together.
    – Mita cannot be put with Krishna.
    If two of the members are girls and Prem is one of the members, the members of the team other than Prem are:
    (A) Rita, Sita, Krishna, Raman
    (B) Rita, Sita, Raman, Harry
    (C) Rita, Gita, Vinod, Krishna
    (D) Rita, Gita, Raman, Harry

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    If Prem is selected, Sita cannot be selected. So, option (A) (Rita Sita Krishna Raman) and option (B) (Rita Sita Raman Harry) are not correct. Gita and Vinod have to be together. So, option (C) (Rita Gita Raman Harry) is also wrong. Answer is option (C).

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    If Prem is selected, Sita cannot be selected. So, option (A) (Rita Sita Krishna Raman) and option (B) (Rita Sita Raman Harry) are not correct. Gita and Vinod have to be together. So, option (C) (Rita Gita Raman Harry) is also wrong. Answer is option (C).
54. Question 54 of 80

    54. Question

    Directions for following item: Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    Read the following information and answer the following question:
    A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys Vinod, Krishna, Raman, Prem and Harry and four girls Rita, Sita, Mita and Gita according to the following selection criteria:
    – Gita and Vinod have to be together.
    – Rita cannot be put with Mita.
    – Sita and Prem cannot be together.
    – Raman and Harry have to be together.
    – Mita cannot be put with Krishna.
    If Vinod and Raman are members, which among the following is not a feasible combination of the other team members:
    (A) Krishna, Harry, Gita
    (B) Prem, Harry, Gita
    (C) Harry, Gita, Rita
    (D) Rita, Sita, Harry

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    If Vinod and Raman are members, Gita and Harry have must also to be selected. So, option (D) (Rita Sita Harry) is not the correct combination because this combination does not have Gita. Answer is option (D).

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    If Vinod and Raman are members, Gita and Harry have must also to be selected. So, option (D) (Rita Sita Harry) is not the correct combination because this combination does not have Gita. Answer is option (D).
55. Question 55 of 80

    55. Question

    Directions for following item: Read the following information and answer the item that follows:
    Read the following information and answer the following question:
    A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys Vinod, Krishna, Raman, Prem and Harry and four girls Rita, Sita, Mita and Gita according to the following selection criteria:
    – Gita and Vinod have to be together.
    – Rita cannot be put with Mita.
    – Sita and Prem cannot be together.
    – Raman and Harry have to be together.
    – Mita cannot be put with Krishna.
    If including Rita at least three members are girls, the members of the team other than Rita are:
    (A) Sita, Gita, Vinod, Krishna
    (B) Sita, Gita, Krishna, Prem
    (C) Sita, Gita, Raman, Harry
    (D) Mita, Gita, Vinod, Prem

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Rita and Mita cannot be together. So, option (D) (Mita Gita VinodPrem) is wrong.
    Gita and Vinod have to be together. So, option (B) (Sita Gita Krishna Prem) and option (C) (Sita Gita Raman Harry) are incorrect. Answer is option (A).

    Unattempted
    

    Rita and Mita cannot be together. So, option (D) (Mita Gita VinodPrem) is wrong.
    Gita and Vinod have to be together. So, option (B) (Sita Gita Krishna Prem) and option (C) (Sita Gita Raman Harry) are incorrect. Answer is option (A).
56. Question 56 of 80

    56. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    For the Maya of the Classic period, who lived in Southern Mexico and Central America between 250 and 900 CE, the category of “persons” was not coincident with human beings, as it is for us. That is, human beings were persons – but other, nonhuman entities could be persons, too. In order to explore the slippage of categories between “humans” and “persons”, I examined a very specific category of ancient Maya images, found painted in scenes on ceramic vessels. I sought out instances in which faces (some combination of eyes, nose, and mouth) are shown on inanimate objects. Consider my iPhone, which needs to be fed with electricity every night, swaddled in a protective bumper, and enjoys communicating with other fellow-phone-beings. Does it have personhood (if at all) because itis connected to me, drawing this resource from me as an owner or source? For the Maya (who did have plenty of other communicating objects, if not smartphones), the answer was no. Nonhuman persons were not tethered to specific humans, and they did not derive their personhood from a connection with a human. It's a profoundly democratising way of understanding the world. Humans are not more important persons – we are just one of many kinds of persons who inhabit this world.
    The Maya saw personhood as 'activated' by experiencing certain bodily needs and through participation in certain social activities. For example, among the faced objects that I examined, persons are marked by personal requirements (such as hunger, tiredness, physical closeness), and by community obligations (communication, interaction, ritual observance). In the images I examined, we see, for instance, faced objects being cradled in humans' arms; we also see them speaking to humans. These core elements of personhood are both turned inward, what the body or self of a person requires, and outward, what a community expects of the persons who are a part of it, underlining the reciprocal nature of community membership.
    Personhood was a nonbinary proposition for the Maya. Entities were able to be persons while also being something else. The faced objects I looked at indicate that they continue to be functional, doing what objects do (a stone implement continues to chop, an incense burner continues to do its smoky work). Furthermore, the Maya visually depicted many objects in ways that indicated the material category to which they belonged – drawings of the stone implement show that a person-tool is still made of stone. One additional complexity: the incense burner (which would have been made of clay, and decorated with spiky appliques representing the sacred ceiba tree found in this region) is categorised as a person – but also as a tree. With these Maya examples, we are challenged to discard the person/nonperson binary that constitutes our basic ontological outlook. The porousness of boundaries that we have seen in the Maya world points towards the possibility of living with a certain uncategorisability of the world.
    Which one of the following best explains the “additional complexity” that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood for the Classic Maya?
    (A) The example adds a new layer to the nonbinary understanding of personhood by bringing in a third category that shares a similar relation with the previous two.
    (B) The example provides an exception to the nonbinary understanding of personhood that the passage had hitherto established.
    (C) The example adds a new layer to the nonbinary understanding of personhood by bringing in a third category that shares a dissimilar relation with the previous two.
    (D) The example complicates the nonbinary understanding of personhood by bringing in the sacred, establishing the porosity of the divine and the profane.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
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    This passage is difficult to read and understand. We have to pick the choice that best explains the “additional complexity” that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood. Option B is the first to go out because the example is not an exception to the nonbinary understanding. In fact, it adds one more layer about the nonbinary personhood of the Maya people. Option C goes out because it is not adding “a third category”, and is not sharing “dissimilar relation”. In fact, the relationship is similar, not dissimilar. Option D goes out because without any evidence it says “the example complicates the nonbinary understanding of personhood”. Option A is the best choice as everything given in it matches with what the passage has to say.

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    This passage is difficult to read and understand. We have to pick the choice that best explains the “additional complexity” that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood. Option B is the first to go out because the example is not an exception to the nonbinary understanding. In fact, it adds one more layer about the nonbinary personhood of the Maya people. Option C goes out because it is not adding “a third category”, and is not sharing “dissimilar relation”. In fact, the relationship is similar, not dissimilar. Option D goes out because without any evidence it says “the example complicates the nonbinary understanding of personhood”. Option A is the best choice as everything given in it matches with what the passage has to say.
57. Question 57 of 80

    57. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    Cuttlefish are full of personality, as behavioral ecologist Alexandra Schnell found out while researching the cephalopod's potential to display self-control. ” Self-control is thought to be the cornerstone of intelligence, as it is an important prerequisite for complex decision-making and planning for the future,” says Schnell .
    [Schnell's] study used a modified version of the ” marshmallow test ” – During the original marshmallow test, psychologist Walter Mischel presented children between age four and six with one marshmallow. He told them that if they waited 15 minutes and didn't eat it, he would give them a second marshmallow. A long-term follow-up study showed that the children who waited for the second marshmallow had more success later in life. The cuttlefish version of the experiment looked a lot different. The researchers worked with six cuttlefish under nine months old and presented them with seafood instead of sweets. (Preliminary experiments showed that cuttlefishes' favorite food is live grass shrimp, while raw prawns are so-so and Asian shore crab is nearly unacceptable.) Since the researchers couldn't explain to the cuttlefish that they would need to wait for their shrimp, they trained them to recognize certain shapes that indicated when a food item would become available. The symbols were pasted on transparent drawers so that the cuttlefish could see the food that was stored inside. One drawer, labeled with a circle to mean “immediate,” held raw king prawn. Another drawer, labeled with a triangle to mean “delayed,” held live grass shrimp. During a control experiment, square labels meant “never.”
    “If their self-control is flexible and I hadn't just trained them to wait in any context, you would expect the cuttlefish to take the immediate reward [in the control], even if it's their second preference,” says Schnell . . . and that's what they did. That showed the researchers that cuttlefish wouldn't reject the prawns if it was the only food available. In the experimental trials, the cuttlefish didn't jump on the prawns if the live grass shrimp were labeled with a triangle – many waited for the shrimp drawer to open up. Each time the cuttlefish showed it could wait, the researchers tacked another ten seconds on to the next round of waiting before releasing the shrimp. The longest that a cuttlefish waited was 130 seconds.
    Schnell [says] that the cuttlefish usually sat at the bottom of the tank and looked at the two food items while they waited, but sometimes, they would turn away from the king prawn “as if to distract themselves from the temptation of the immediate reward.” In past studies, humans, chimpanzees, parrots and dogs also tried to distract themselves while waiting for a reward.
    Not every species can use self-control, but most of the animals that can share another trait in common: long, social lives. Cuttlefish, on the other hand, are solitary creatures that don't form relationships even with mates or young. “We don't know if living in a social group is important for complex cognition unless we also show those abilities are lacking in less social species,” says . . . comparative psychologist Jennifer Vonk.
    In which one of the following scenarios would the cuttlefish's behaviour demonstrate self-control?
    (A) Asian shore crabs and raw prawns are simultaneously released while a live grass shrimp drawer labelled with a triangle is placed in front of the cuttlefish, to be opened after one minute.
    (B) raw prawns are released while a live grass shrimp drawer labelled with a square is placed in front of the cuttlefish.
    (C) live grass shrimp are released while two raw prawn drawers labelled with a circle and a triangle respectively are placed in front of the cuttlefish; the triangle-labelled drawer is opened after 50 seconds.
    (D) raw prawns are released while an Asian shore crab drawer labelled with a triangle is placed in front of the cuttlefish, to be opened after one minute.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    In this question, we have to pick a scenario in which the cuttlefish would demonstrate self-control. Option A is precisely that scenario. Option B goes out because if live grass shrimp, which is cuttlefish's favourite food, is placed right in front of them, there is no need to exhibit self-control. They will grab it immediately without giving us a chance to learn about their self-control. Option C and D have the same flaw.

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    In this question, we have to pick a scenario in which the cuttlefish would demonstrate self-control. Option A is precisely that scenario. Option B goes out because if live grass shrimp, which is cuttlefish's favourite food, is placed right in front of them, there is no need to exhibit self-control. They will grab it immediately without giving us a chance to learn about their self-control. Option C and D have the same flaw.
58. Question 58 of 80

    58. Question

    DIRECTION : READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOW. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGE ONLY.
    For two years, I tracked down dozens of Chinese in Upper Egypt [who were] selling lingerie. In a deeply conservative region, where Egyptian families rarely allow women to work or own businesses, the Chinese flourished because of their status as outsiders. They didn’t gossip, and they kept their opinions to themselves. In a New Yorker article entitled “Learning to Speak Lingerie,” I described the Chinese use of Arabic as another non-threatening characteristic. I wrote, “Unlike Mandarin, Arabic is inflected for gender, and Chinese dealers, who learn the language strictly by ear, often pick up speech patterns from female customers. I’ve come to think of it as the lingerie dialect, and there’s something disarming about these Chinese men speaking in the feminine voice.” . . .
    When I wrote about the Chinese in the New Yorker, most readers seemed to appreciate the unusual perspective. But as I often find with topics that involve the Middle East, some people had trouble getting past the black-and-white quality of a byline. “This piece is so orientalist I don’t know what to do,” Aisha Gani, a reporter who worked at The Guardian, tweeted. Another colleague at the British paper, Iman Amrani, agreed: “I wouldn’t have minded an article on the subject written by an Egyptian woman—probably would have had better insight.” . . .
    As an MOL (man of language), I also take issue with this kind of essentialism. Empathy and understanding are not inherited traits, and they are not strictly tied to gender and race. An individual who wrestles with a difficult language can learn to be more sympathetic to outsiders and open to different experiences of the world. This learning process—the embarrassments, the frustrations, the gradual sense of understanding and connection—is invariably transformative. In Upper Egypt, the Chinese experience of struggling to learn Arabic and local culture had made them much more thoughtful. In the same way, I was interested in their lives not because of some kind of voyeurism, but because I had also experienced Egypt and Arabic as an outsider. And both the Chinese and the Egyptians welcomed me because I spoke their languages. My identity as a white male was far less important than my ability to communicate.
    And that easily lobbed word—“Orientalist”—hardly captures the complexity of our interactions. What exactly is the dynamic when a man from Missouri observes a Zhejiang native selling lingerie to an Upper Egyptian woman? . . . If all of us now stand beside the same river, speaking in ways we all understand, who’s looking east and who’s looking west? Which way is Oriental?
    For all of our current interest in identity politics, there’s no corresponding sense of identity linguistics. You are what you speak—the words that run throughout your mind are at least as fundamental to your selfhood as is your ethnicity or your gender. And sometimes it’s healthy to consider human characteristics that are not inborn, rigid, and outwardly defined. After all, you can always learn another language and change who you are.
    A French ethnographer decides to study the culture of a Nigerian tribe. Which of the following is most likely to be the view of the author of the passage?
    (A) The author would discourage the ethnographer from conducting the study as Nigerian ethnographers can better understand the tribe.
    (B) The author would encourage the ethnographer and recommend him/her to hire a good translator for the purpose of holding interviews.
    (C) The author would encourage the ethnographer, but ask him/her to first learn the language of the Nigerian tribe s/he wishes to study.
    (D) The author would encourage the ethnographer, but ask him/her to be mindful of his/her racial and gender identity in the process.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
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    This is an application based question. The answer to such questions cannot be found directly in the passage, but has to be gathered from the key ideas supported by the author. The author of this passage is in favour of learning a new language because he thinks it breaks cultural barriers. So, if a French ethnographer decides to study the culture of a Nigerian tribe, the author would unarguably want him to learn their language, as this will help the ethnographer better study the tribe.

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    This is an application based question. The answer to such questions cannot be found directly in the passage, but has to be gathered from the key ideas supported by the author. The author of this passage is in favour of learning a new language because he thinks it breaks cultural barriers. So, if a French ethnographer decides to study the culture of a Nigerian tribe, the author would unarguably want him to learn their language, as this will help the ethnographer better study the tribe.
59. Question 59 of 80

    59. Question

    DIRECTIONS
    READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE ITEM. YOUR ANSWER TO THIS ITEM SHOULD BE BASED ON THE PASSAGES ONLY.
    Bastar in south Chhattisgarh is increasingly being associated with bloody violence and strife, a political conflict that throws up disturbing questions of policy priorities that this tribal region has received in the decades following India’s Independence. Indeed as it is being increasingly acknowledged, it has been the singular lack of development that has led to birth of political groups that question the framework of parliamentary democracy in this country.
    Somewhere lost in this high-intensity conflict and debate around it, is the question of Bastar’s own identity. What is the area like, how do the people live and what in a sense defines it, in terms of its terrain, its natural resources, and its cultural and social patterns? What strikes one are the luxuriant forests that stretch for miles and miles from any one point. The adivasis who have inhabited the region for centuries have evolved a way of life, a culture that worships nature, preserves it for the present generation of course, but really speaking for posterity.
    Perhaps it is this philosophy embedded in the region for centuries that has led Virender Singh to take on the mantle of environment protection in the region. Even as a child growing up in Durg district in a family of agricultural workers, he would revel in the bounty of nature; the joy of seeing new leaves, crops waiting to be harvested and water gushing in the streams. As he grew, he realized that this bounty is the basis for human civilization and indeed its continuance. Yet it is finite, and if we do not nurture it, it may disappear altogether. In later years, as a schoolteacher, he saw the immense potential of opening young minds to both the joy and the threat to Nature. From this realization, began his journey and over the last 13 years earned him the pseudonym of “Green Commando”.
    What according to the passage is /are the causes of violence and strife in Bastar?
    1. Lack of framework for policy democracy in India
    2. Lack of development in the area due to poor prioritization of policies.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
    (A) Both statements 1 and 2 are correct.
    (B) Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.
    (C) Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect..
    (D) Statement 1 is incorrect but Statement 2 is correct.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    It is stated in the passage that lack of development led to birth of group that question the framework of parliamentary democracy in the country. Policy priorities in tribal areas are in question but not policy democracy in India.

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    It is stated in the passage that lack of development led to birth of group that question the framework of parliamentary democracy in the country. Policy priorities in tribal areas are in question but not policy democracy in India.
60. Question 60 of 80

    60. Question

    Rectangle, square, circle, and triangle represents the area of regions where the soil and other conditions are suitable for wheat, gram, maize and rice cultivations.
    
    Find the land area that can be brought under wheat, gram and maize cultivation but not rice?
    (A) 46
    (B) 47
    (C) 36
    (D) 39

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    We have to identify the area which is not covered by triangle but is covered by other 3. This area is presented by 46.

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    We have to identify the area which is not covered by triangle but is covered by other 3. This area is presented by 46.
61. Question 61 of 80

    61. Question

    Examine the following statements:
    1. Only if I am ill, I do not go to office.
    2. I do not fall ill when I practice yoga.
    3. Only when I practice yoga, I do meditation.
    Which of the following conclusions can be validly drawn from the statements given above?
    (A) If I do meditation, I go to office.
    (B) If I do not do meditation, I do not go to office.
    (C) If I do not practice yoga, I do not go to office.
    (D) I am ill; I have gone to the office.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

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    Statement 1 is necessary condition and 2 and 3 are sufficient conditions.
    Now option is (B) is not a valid conclusion as even when I do not do meditation, I can go to office.
    Similarly, options (C) and (D) cannot be drawn from this. Hence, correct answer is option (A).

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    Statement 1 is necessary condition and 2 and 3 are sufficient conditions.
    Now option is (B) is not a valid conclusion as even when I do not do meditation, I can go to office.
    Similarly, options (C) and (D) cannot be drawn from this. Hence, correct answer is option (A).
62. Question 62 of 80

    62. Question

    In a cricket season, India defeated Australia twice, Pakistan defeated India twice, Australia defeated Pakistan twice, India defeated New Zealand twice and Pakistan defeated New Zealand twice.
    Which of the following statements is true?
    (A) India won only 2 matches in the season.
    (B) Australia won only 4 matches in the season.
    (C) Pakistan won 4 and lost 2 matches.
    (D) India lost 4 and won 2 matches in the season.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Pakistan has defeated India and New Zealand twice each and hence, they have won four matches. They lost to Australia twice and hence, they have lost 2 matches. So, it can be concluded that Pakistan has won 4 and lost 2 matches.
    India has won 4 matches and hence, option (A) is incorrect. Australia has defeated Pakistan twice and hence, it cannot be concluded that they have 4 matches.
    Option (D) is incorrect as India has won four matches.

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    Pakistan has defeated India and New Zealand twice each and hence, they have won four matches. They lost to Australia twice and hence, they have lost 2 matches. So, it can be concluded that Pakistan has won 4 and lost 2 matches.
    India has won 4 matches and hence, option (A) is incorrect. Australia has defeated Pakistan twice and hence, it cannot be concluded that they have 4 matches.
    Option (D) is incorrect as India has won four matches.
63. Question 63 of 80

    63. Question

    Examine the following statements:
    1. Only the hardworking or the intelligent are selected for the job.
    2. Some who are selected for the job are post-graduate.
    3. All post graduates are invited for the seminar.
    Which of the following conclusions can be validly drawn from the statements given above?
    (A) Only the hardworking or the intelligent are invited for the seminar.
    (B) Some of those who are invited for the seminar are hardworking and intelligent.
    (C) All those who are invited for the seminar are postgraduates.
    (D) Some intelligent or hardworking are invited for the seminar.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

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64. Question 64 of 80

    64. Question

    Seven people A, B, C, D, E, F, G are planning to enjoy boating. There are only two boats, and the following conditions are to be kept in mind.
    1. A will go in the same boat in which E is to go.
    2. F cannot go in the boat in which C is, unless D is also accompanying
    3. Neither B nor C can be given boat in which G is.
    4. The maximum number of persons in one boat can be four only.
    If E gets the boat with F, which of the following is the complete and accurate list of the people who must be sitting in other boat?
    (A) F and E
    (B) G and A
    (C) D and A
    (D) C, D and B

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

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65. Question 65 of 80

    65. Question

    Consider the following statements:
    1. All houses in the lane are white.
    2. Some of houses in the lane have grilled gates.
    3. All the houses that have grilled gates have garage.
    4. Not all houses are white.
    Which of the following conclusions can be validly drawn from the statements given above?
    (A) All the houses with grilled gates are white.
    (B) All the houses which are white have a garage.
    (C) All the houses which have garage are white.
    (D) None of the above.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    

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66. Question 66 of 80

    66. Question

    According to a recent survey, rural households have a better purchasing power than the urban households at the same income level. A part of the income of urban households is used for food and shelter but rural households can utilize it for catering their other needs.
    Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the passage given above?
    (A) The median income of rural households is more than that of urban households.
    (B) The expenses of a rural household for items other than food and shelter are more than an urban household
    (C) Rural households have lower food and shelter costs than do the urban households.
    (D) The average number of members in a rural household is less than the urban household.

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    In the last part of the question, it is mentioned that “A part of the income of urban households is used for food and shelter but rural households can utilize it for catering their other needs.” This implies that rural household have very less or none expenditure in terms of food and shelter.
    By this understanding, we can deduce that option C is the correct answer.

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    In the last part of the question, it is mentioned that “A part of the income of urban households is used for food and shelter but rural households can utilize it for catering their other needs.” This implies that rural household have very less or none expenditure in terms of food and shelter.
    By this understanding, we can deduce that option C is the correct answer.
67. Question 67 of 80

    67. Question

    The following question has four problem figures and four option figures. Problem figures have four designs in series. One of the Option figures has the fifth one in order. Which option figure should it be ?
    

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    The image shows movement of north and south reversing in direction and moving towards centre.

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    The image shows movement of north and south reversing in direction and moving towards centre.
68. Question 68 of 80

    68. Question

    What is the 507th term of the sequence
    1, –1, 2, –2, 1, –1, 2, – 2, 1,….?
    (A) –1
    (B) 1
    (C) –2
    (D) 2

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Clearly, repetition takes place for each set of four terms.
    Hence, 507th term will be 2
    507, when divided by 4, gives 3 as remainder and 3rd term is 2.

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    Clearly, repetition takes place for each set of four terms.
    Hence, 507th term will be 2
    507, when divided by 4, gives 3 as remainder and 3rd term is 2.
69. Question 69 of 80

    69. Question

    The sum (101 + 102 + 103 + …. + 200) is equal to :
    (A) 15000
    (B) 15025
    (C) 15050
    (D) 25000

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    101 + 102 + 103 + …. + 200
    S = (100 + 1) + (100 + 2) + (100 + 3) + …+ (100 + 100)
    Thus, it consists of 100 terms.
    = (100 + 100 + 100 + …. 100 times) + (1 + 2 + 3 + …… + 100)
    = (100 × 100) + (1 + 2 + 3 + ….. + 100)
    = (10000) + (1+ 2 + 3 + … + 100)
    = 10000 + {100*(100+1)}/2
    = 10000 + 5050 = 15050

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    101 + 102 + 103 + …. + 200
    S = (100 + 1) + (100 + 2) + (100 + 3) + …+ (100 + 100)
    Thus, it consists of 100 terms.
    = (100 + 100 + 100 + …. 100 times) + (1 + 2 + 3 + …… + 100)
    = (100 × 100) + (1 + 2 + 3 + ….. + 100)
    = (10000) + (1+ 2 + 3 + … + 100)
    = 10000 + {100*(100+1)}/2
    = 10000 + 5050 = 15050
70. Question 70 of 80

    70. Question

    If the students of a class can be grouped exactly into 6 or 8 or 10, then the minimum number of students in the class must be
    (A) 60
    (B) 120
    (C) 180
    (D) 240

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Required number of students
    = LCM of 6, 8, 10 = 120

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    Required number of students
    = LCM of 6, 8, 10 = 120
71. Question 71 of 80

    71. Question

    If the average of 25 consecutive odd numbers is 93, then what must be the largest of these numbers?
    (A) 110
    (B) 114
    (C) 117
    (D) 119

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Here the odd numbers, whose average is given, are consecutive. As these numbers are consecutive, their average must be the middle number, i.e. the 13th odd number.
    Thus, 93 is the 13th number and we are supposed to find the 25th number (which is the largest number).
    The difference between any two consecutive odd numbers is 2.
    Thus, the 25th number = 13th number + (12 X 2) = 93 + 24 = 117

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    Here the odd numbers, whose average is given, are consecutive. As these numbers are consecutive, their average must be the middle number, i.e. the 13th odd number.
    Thus, 93 is the 13th number and we are supposed to find the 25th number (which is the largest number).
    The difference between any two consecutive odd numbers is 2.
    Thus, the 25th number = 13th number + (12 X 2) = 93 + 24 = 117
72. Question 72 of 80

    72. Question

    The following chart shows the business mix of different Business Units (BU) of an IT organization:
    
    Which BU had the greatest income in JFM quarter, 2002?
    (A) Hardware Services
    (B) Security Services
    (C) Software Services
    (D) Consulting Services

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    We need to calculate income in JFM quarter, 2002 for the right picture.
    So, for Hardware services the figures was X × 145/100 = 72.4
    So, X = 72.4 × 100/145
    X = 7240/145 = 49. 93
    Similarly for Security
    P = 5470/98 = 55.81
    For Software
    Q = 11230/398 = 28.21
    For consulting
    R = 4890/73 = 66.98
    Hence, consulting had maximum income in the quarter of 2002.

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    We need to calculate income in JFM quarter, 2002 for the right picture.
    So, for Hardware services the figures was X × 145/100 = 72.4
    So, X = 72.4 × 100/145
    X = 7240/145 = 49. 93
    Similarly for Security
    P = 5470/98 = 55.81
    For Software
    Q = 11230/398 = 28.21
    For consulting
    R = 4890/73 = 66.98
    Hence, consulting had maximum income in the quarter of 2002.
73. Question 73 of 80

    73. Question

    In an animal farm, the ratio of cows to pigs was 1:3. After 50 more cows were brought to the farm, the ratio of cows to pigs became 1:1. What is the total number of cows in the farm now?
    (A) 75
    (B) 100
    (C) 125
    (D) Cannot be determined

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Let the original number of cows be x.
    Hence, the number of pigs = 3x.
    After 50 more cows are brought to the farm, the ratio of cows to pigs = (x+50) : 3x = 1 : 1
    or (x + 50)/3x = 1/1
    or x + 50 = 3x
    or 2x = 50
    or x = 25
    Hence, total number of cows in the farm now = x + 50 = 25 + 50 = 75

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    Let the original number of cows be x.
    Hence, the number of pigs = 3x.
    After 50 more cows are brought to the farm, the ratio of cows to pigs = (x+50) : 3x = 1 : 1
    or (x + 50)/3x = 1/1
    or x + 50 = 3x
    or 2x = 50
    or x = 25
    Hence, total number of cows in the farm now = x + 50 = 25 + 50 = 75
74. Question 74 of 80

    74. Question

    The least number which when divided by 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 leaves a remainder of 2 in each case is :
    (A) 46
    (B) 48
    (C) 50
    (D) 56

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    RULE : When a number is divided by a, b or c leaving same remainder ‘r’ in each case then that number must be k + r where k is LCM of a, b and c.
    So, L.C.M. of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 = 48
    Required number = 48 + 2 = 50

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    RULE : When a number is divided by a, b or c leaving same remainder ‘r’ in each case then that number must be k + r where k is LCM of a, b and c.
    So, L.C.M. of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 = 48
    Required number = 48 + 2 = 50
75. Question 75 of 80

    75. Question

    X, Y and Z are three numbers that are co-prime to each other. (Two numbers are co-prime if their HCF is 1). It is given that X × Y = 77 and Y × Z = 63. What is the sum X + Y + Z?
    (A) 20
    (B) 21
    (C) 27
    (D) 20

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Y = HCF (XY, YZ) (as X, Y and Z are co-primes to each other)
    = HCF (77, 63) = 7
    X = XY/Y = 77/7 = 11
    Z = YZ/Y = 63/7 = 9
    X + Y + Z = 11 + 7 + 9 = 27.

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    Y = HCF (XY, YZ) (as X, Y and Z are co-primes to each other)
    = HCF (77, 63) = 7
    X = XY/Y = 77/7 = 11
    Z = YZ/Y = 63/7 = 9
    X + Y + Z = 11 + 7 + 9 = 27.
76. Question 76 of 80

    76. Question

    In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘FLEECED’ be arrange?
    (A) 49
    (B) 840
    (C) 1680
    (D) 2520

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    Required number of ways = 7!/3! = 840.

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    Required number of ways = 7!/3! = 840.
77. Question 77 of 80

    77. Question

    How many different ways can the letters in the word ATTEND be arranged?
    (A) 60
    (B) 120
    (C) 360
    (D) 480

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    There are 6 letters in the word ‘ATTEND’ whereas, T comes 2 times.
    So, required number of ways
    = 6!/2! = 720/2 = 360.

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    There are 6 letters in the word ‘ATTEND’ whereas, T comes 2 times.
    So, required number of ways
    = 6!/2! = 720/2 = 360.
78. Question 78 of 80

    78. Question

    May 6, 1993 was Thursday. What day of the week was on May 6, 1992?
    (A) Tuesday
    (B) Wednesday
    (C) Friday
    (D) Saturday

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    1992 was a leap year, so it had 2 odd days.
    So, the day on May 1993 is 2 days beyond the day on M1ay 6, 1992.
    But, on May 6, 1993 it was Thursday.
    So, on May 6, 1992 it was Tuesday.

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    1992 was a leap year, so it had 2 odd days.
    So, the day on May 1993 is 2 days beyond the day on M1ay 6, 1992.
    But, on May 6, 1993 it was Thursday.
    So, on May 6, 1992 it was Tuesday.
79. Question 79 of 80

    79. Question

    January 1, 1995 was a Sunday. What day of the week lies on January 1, 1996?
    (A) Saturday
    (B) Sunday
    (C) Monday
    (D) Tuesday

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    1995 was an ordinary year, so it had 1 odd day. Hence, the first day of 1996 will be one day beyond Sunday.
    It will be Monday.

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    1995 was an ordinary year, so it had 1 odd day. Hence, the first day of 1996 will be one day beyond Sunday.
    It will be Monday.
80. Question 80 of 80

    80. Question

    How often between 11 o’clock and 12 o’clock are the hands of a clock in integral number of minutes apart?
    (A) 54 times
    (B) 55 times
    (C) 56 times
    (D) 58 times

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    Correct
    

    Incorrect
    

    At 11 O’clock, the hours hand is 4 spaces apart from the minute hand. Since there are 60 spaces in one hour, so (60 – 4) times. 56 times the hands of the clock are an integral number of minutes apart.

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    At 11 O’clock, the hours hand is 4 spaces apart from the minute hand. Since there are 60 spaces in one hour, so (60 – 4) times. 56 times the hands of the clock are an integral number of minutes apart.