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answer to each question.
The mission of epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is to clarify what the conception of knowledge involves, how it is
applied, and to explain why it has the features it does. And the idea of knowledge at issue here must, in the first instance at
least, be construed in its modest sense to include also belief, conjecture, and the like. For it is misleading to call cognitive
theory at large “epistemology” or “the theory of knowledge.” Its range of concern includes not only knowledge proper but
also rational belief, probability, plausibility, evidentiation and - additionally but not least - erotetics, the business of raising
and resolving questions. It is this last area that aims to maintain and substantiate the utility of approaching epistemological
issues from the angle of questions. As Aristotle already indicated, human inquiry is grounded in wonder. When matters are
running along in their accustomed way, we generally do not puzzle about it and stop to ask questions. But when things are
in any way out of the ordinary we puzzle over the reason why and seek for an explanation. And gradually our horizons
expand. With increasing sophistication, we learn to be surprised by virtually all of it. We increasingly want to know what
makes things tick - the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, so that questions gain an increasing prominence within
epistemology in general.
Any profitable discussion of knowledge does well to begin by recognizing some basic linguistic facts about how the verb "to
know" and its cognates actually function in the usual range of relevant discourse. For if one neglects these facts, one is well
en route to “changing the subject” to talk about something different from that very conception that must remain at the center
of our concern. It would clearly be self-defeating to turn away from knowledge as we in fact conceive and discuss it and deal
with some sort of so-called knowledge different from that whose elucidation is the very reason of our deliberations. If a
philosophical analysis is to elucidate a conception that is in actual use, it has no choice but to address itself to that usage
and conform to its actual characteristics.
The first essential step is to recognize that “to know” has both a propositional and a procedural sense: there is the
intellectual matter of “knowing that something or other is the case” (that-knowledge) and the practical matter of knowing how
to perform some action and to go about realizing some end (how-to-knowledge). This distinction is crucial because only the
former, intellectual and propositional mode of knowledge has generally been the focus of attention in traditional
philosophical epistemology, rather than the latter, practical and performatory mode.
There is a wide variety of cognitive involvements: one can know, believe or accept (disbelieve or reject), conjecture or
surmise or suspect, imagine or think about, assume or suppose, deem likely or unlikely, and so on. And there is also a wide
variety of cognitive performances: realizing, noticing, remembering - and sometimes also their negatives: ignoring,
forgetting, and so on. All of these cognitive circumstances belong to “the theory of knowledge” - to epistemology broadly
speaking, which accordingly extends far beyond the domain of knowledge as such. But knowledge lies at the center of the
range, and as the very expression indicates, the “theory of knowledge” focuses on knowledge.
The conception of “knowledge” itself represents a flexible and internally diversified idea. In general terms, it relates to the
way in which persons can be said to have access to correct information. This can, of course, occur in rather different ways,
so that there are various significantly distinguishable sorts of knowledge in terms of the kind of thing that is at issue:
1.
Knowledge that something or other is the case (i.e., knowledge of
facts).
2.
Adverbial knowledge (i.e. knowing what, when, how, why, and so
forth).
3.
Knowledge by acquaintance with individuals or
things.
4.
Performatory (or “how-to”) knowledge.
Q1. Which of the following statements about epistemology cannot be inferred to be true?
a) Cognitive theory sometimes tends to be mistaken for epistemology.
b) The inadequacy of epistemology in elucidating what the conceiving of knowledge involves forms the basis for
cognitive theory. Your answer is correct
c) One of the objectives of the theory of knowledge is to try to explain how the conception of knowledge can be applied.
d) Erotetics can help in corroborating the utility of advancing towards epistemological issues from the angle of questions.
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Q2. What does the statement 'human inquiry is grounded in wonder' (para 1) imply?
a) Humans start asking questions only when their curiosity gets the better of them.
b) Humans do not seek answers for the familiar and routine. Your answer is correct
c) Humans do not start inquiring about anything unless it makes them feel wonderful about themselves.
d) Humans start questioning their own existence every time they come across things that are out of the ordinary.

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Q3. “I know that robots will control humans in the future.” We can infer that this statement can be classified under which of
the following categories?
a) Factual Knowledge
b) Adverbial Knowledge Your answer is incorrect
c) Performatory Knowledge
d) None of the above
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Q4. How is the intellectual matter of knowledge different from the practical matter of knowledge?
a) The intellectual matter is only concerned with how the knowledge can be obtained while the practical matter is
concerned with how the knowledge can be applied.
b) The intellectual matter is only concerned about the acquired knowledge irrespective of its utility while the
practical matter is concerned about how the knowledge can be monetized.
c) The intellectual matter is concerned with what the knowledge is about while the practical matter is concerned
with how that knowledge can be utilized. Your answer is correct
d) The intellectual matter is concerned with monetizing the knowledge while the practical matter is concerned about
acquiring that knowledge.

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Q5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
a) Ignoring certain linguistic facts about how the verb 'to know' functions may lead to a digression from the main
issue of concern in the field of epistemology. Your answer is correct
b) Turning away from knowledge can be self-defeating because one would end up dealing with another sort of
knowledge whose elucidation is the very reason of our deliberations.
c) Elucidating a conception that is in actual use need not be strictly confined to that usage.
d) One must acknowledge all basic linguistic facts about how the verb 'to know' and its cognates actually function.

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Q6. Consider the following two activities:
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Contemplating the meaning of
life.
ii.
Observing the people around while travelling by metro to the
office.
Which of the following is true in the light of the passage?
a) (i) is a cognitive involvement and (ii) is a cognitive performance. Your answer is correct
b) (i) is a cognitive performance and (ii) is a cognitive involvement.
c) Both (i) and (ii) are cognitive involvements.
d) Both (i) and (ii) are cognitive performances.

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DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 9: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best
Computers have already proved better than people at playing chess and diagnosing diseases. But now intelligence
researchers in Singapore have managed to teach industrial robots to assemble an IKEA chair - for the first time uniting the
worlds of Allen keys and Alan Turing. Now that machines have mastered one of the most baffling ways of spending a
Saturday afternoon, can it be long before Artificial Intelligence systems rise up and enslave humans in the silicon mines?
The research also holds a serious message. It highlights a deep truth about the limitations of automation. Machines excel at
the sorts of abstract, cognitive tasks that, to people, signify intelligence - complex board games or differential calculus. But
they struggle with physical jobs, such as navigating a cluttered room, which hardly seem to count as intelligence at all. Two
IKEAbots pre-programmed by humans, took more than 20 minutes to assemble a chair that a person could knock together
in a fraction of the time.
AI researchers call that observation Moravec’s paradox which is, in fact, a fundamental truth. Physical dexterity is
computationally harder than playing Go. That humans do not grasp this is a side-effect of evolution. Natural selection has
had billions of years to attack the problem of manipulating the physical world, to the point where it feels effortless. Chess, by
contrast, is less than 2,000 years old. People find it hard because their brains are not wired for it.
That is something to bear in mind when thinking about the much-hyped effects of AI and automation, especially as AI moves
out of the abstract world of data and information and into the real world. On April 13th 2018, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla,
an electric-car firm, said that the production problems that have dogged his company’s high-tech factory were partly the
result of an overreliance on robots and automation. “Humans are underrated,” he tweeted. Lots of jobs have physical
aspects that robots struggle with. Machines may soon be able to drive delivery vans but they could fail to carry a parcel to a
flat at the top of a flight of slippery stairs, especially if the garden was patrolled by a dog.
Today’s AI systems are pattern-recognition engines, trained on thousands of examples in the hope that the rules they infer
will continue to apply in the wider world. But they apply those rules blindly, without a human-like understanding of what they
are doing or an ability to improvise a solution on the spot. Makers of self-driving cars worry constantly about how their
machines will perform in “edge cases”- complicated situations that cannot be foreseen during training. The main limitation of
AI is that it learns from given data. There is no other way that knowledge can be integrated, unlike human learning. This
means that any inaccuracies in the data will be reflected in the results.
Q7. Which of the following is an apt definition of Moravec's Paradox as can be inferred from the passage?
a) Low-level sensorimotor skills require very little computation, but high-level reasoning requires enormous
computational resources.
b) Easy problems are easy because they require very little computation while difficult problems are hard because
they require enormous computational resources.
c) Performing complex cognitive tasks requires fewer computational resources than performing simple physical
tasks.
d) It is easier for computers to exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or games like checkers, but it is difficult
for humans to ace a game of chess or Go.
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Q8. Which of the following statements best echoes the viewpoint of the author of the passage?
a) While research into multi-tasking machines and AI is heating up, the jury is still out on whether true human
level cognition is possible or desirable in machines. Your answer is incorrect
b) With the most recent breakthrough in robotics, it is clear that the time of humans as masters of planet Earth
has come to an end.
c) Furniture-assembly helps explain why a computer could one day do everything a human can and more.
d) Today’s AI systems are limited in many ways.
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Q9. All of the following are the shortcomings of Artificial Intelligence discussed in the passage EXCEPT?
a) Artificial Intelligence, a product of pattern recognition, is only as smart as the data sets served to it.
b) As soon as a computer or a machine achieves a task of AI, then the same task ceases to count as “AI”. Your
answer is correct
c) Humans feed the AI system with all the new information required for it to learn in the first place and this form
of learning is not as expansive as human learning.
d) While machines can beat people at Go and sift through data much faster than an individual, we still don’t have a robot
that can efficiently navigate a cluttered room or a flight of slippery stairs.

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UNTIL recently, Morriston Comprehensive was one of the worst schools in Wales, which in turn has the worst education
system in Britain. But in 2015, Martin Franklin, the head teacher, introduced a hawklike data-based monitoring system.
Parents receive a colour-coded memo every two months, showing their child’s progress towards various goals, as well as
their attendance. Pupils who do well are rewarded with gift tokens. Exam results are on the up.
The outlook for Welsh education as a whole is, however, less sunny. Many date the country’s difficulties back to changes
made after the devolution of some political powers, including control of all education policy bar teachers’ pay, from
Westminster, London to Cardiff, Wales in 1999. At the time, Welsh education was set up in a broadly similar way to that in
England. But, in 2001, a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition scrapped school league tables. They placed an unnecessary
burden on schools, the education minister explained. And, in 2004, a Labour government abolished national tests for 11- and
14-year-olds.
Standards duly plummeted. Getting rid of league tables alone cost the average pupil two grades at GCSE, the exams taken
at 16, according to research by Simon Burgess of the University of Bristol. Yet it was not until Wales entered the OECD’s
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2006 that the extent of the decline became clear. The results of
Welsh 15-year-olds were similar to those of their peers in Latvia and the Czech Republic, and far below those in England,
Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Few disagree that Welsh schools are in serious need of improvement. Much of the past ten years has been spent trying to
catch up with the rest of Britain. Changes include moving some training and administrative support from small local
authorities to new regional organisations, and channelling more funding and help to the weakest schools, including
Morriston. In 2013, new literacy and numeracy tests began. In 2015, a school-categorisation system vaguely akin to league
tables was brought back.
Still, few had much hope that enough had changed to improve performance in the latest round of PISA tests, whose results
were released last year. Sure enough, Wales was still far behind Finland, Singapore and Japan, where students have
always and continue to ace the test. Discussion of poor PISA performance dominated a recent head teachers’ conference,
says Mr Franklin. The OECD has warned of “reform fatigue”.
PISA has its opponents but not in Wales. Some say that it encourages countries to engage in short-term fixes as they deal
with a narrow curriculum and too standardised a testing process to climb the rankings. Others complain that it is not right to
compare systems using average scores from random schools, and also add that cultural differences make the tests unfair.
What next? A new Labour-Liberal Democrat government in Wales, formed last year, has grand plans. First, it hopes to
improve the quality of teaching. A recent report by Estyn, the Welsh schools inspectorate, drily noted that “teaching is one of
the weakest aspects of [education] provision.” The government wants trainee teachers to spend more time in the classroom
and less in the lecture hall, and will introduce new professional standards that emphasize their duty to keep improving once
they gain accreditation. “The biggest learner in the classroom should be the teacher,” chirps Kirsty Williams, the Lib Dem
education secretary.
Second, a new curriculum will be introduced in 2018. It will seek to break down subject boundaries, free teachers to teach
how they see fit and subject schools to lighter monitoring. Ms Williams flags the example of Finland which does not idolize
highly stressful school systems and Canada, which, like Wales, has a bilingual education system, and runs excellent
schools.
Yet there is another, less promising forerunner. Scotland recently adopted a more open-ended curriculum, with little
success. Although it once had one of the best education systems in the world, Scotland’s PISA results have been on a
downward trend, which accelerated in the most recent round. Many blame its “Curriculum for Excellence”, which was
phased in from 2010, and on which the proposed new Welsh curriculum is based.
Despite supposedly having been given more freedom, teachers in Scotland complain that they are overwhelmed by the
number of outcomes they must show they are meeting and complain that they have little time to spend on the basics.
Ms Williams argues that Wales already has a strong focus on basic standards, and that it will develop an assessment
system that is careful not to overwork teachers. But Scotland provides a lesson worth heeding.
Q10. Which of the following is not a reason that the author ascribes to the less than stellar situation of Welsh education
between 2000 and 2006?
a) The elimination of school league tables and certain national tests for school kids.
b) Transfer or delegation of political power to a lower level.
c) The entry of Wales in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment.
d) A shift in the control of all education policy bar teachers’ pay from Westminster to Cardiff.

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schools.
Q11. According to the passage, how did the removal of the school league tables in 2001 affect the average Welsh student?
a) The move led to the creation of a parallel school-categorisation system throughout Wales that was popular
among students and not burdensome on schools.
b) The academic standards of students across Wales declined as was evident in the fall in their grades at GCSE.
c) The performance of students in top Welsh schools plummeted while students in less popular schools began
to shine academically as was evident in their results at GCSE.
d) The performance of Welsh students in GCSE equalled that of their peers in Latvia and the Czech Republic in the
same for the first time.

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schools.
Q12. Which of the following does not figure in the grand plans of the new Labour-Liberal Democrat government to improve
the worst education system in Britain?
a) Stress on the teachers' need for self-improvement and make them spend more time in the classroom.
b) Combine high professional standards with less stringent oversight.
c) Provide teachers more freedom to experiment with curriculum content and classroom delivery.
d) Delay selection of students to enable slow starters to catch up and idolize less stressful school systems.

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schools.
Q13. Which of the following countries or regions has consistently excelled in the Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA)?
a) Scotland
b) Canada
c) Japan
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schools.
Q14. “Yet, there is another, less promising forerunner.” (para 9). What prompts the use of 'less promising'?
a) Increasing teachers' responsibilities without having focussed on basic teaching elements is a risky approach.
b) Welsh schools will not make up for the 'lost decade’ to climb in the PISA league.
c) Unlike Scotland, Wales already focuses on basic standards and hence it would be futile for Wales to
implement Scotland's “Curriculum for Excellence” in her schools.
d) Welsh and Scottish schools are wrestling with the conundrum of whether they should consider not using PISA as the
litmus test for academic success.

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schools.
Q15. All of the following are possible reasons, which can be inferred from the passage, for opposing the use of the
Programme for International Student Assessment in schools EXCEPT?
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding number in the input box given below. You must enter your answer in
increasing order only. For example, if you think that (1) and (4) apply, then enter 14 (but not 41) in the input box.
1.
The purpose of school gets reduced to passing
exams.
2.
The cultural reasons behind the success of certain countries in the PISA may not be given due
consideration.
3.
PISA excludes children with
disabilities.
4.
Countries may make use of quick fixes to avoid a slip in the PISA
rankings.
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Questions in the PISA tests when translated into different languages can be easily misinterpreted by
students.

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John Paul Lederach advances our understanding of the role of art and music in peace-building. His work with fractured
communities emphasizes the restoration of voice, a concept he finds particularly resonant with people who are struggling to
repair their violent communities. What “voice” - understood both as the individual regaining his or her voice, and the
community engaging in meaningful conversation - requires is “a container or space within which people [feel] safe but [are]
also close enough to hear and receive the echo of each other’s voices”.
The particular metaphor Lederach favours in his representations of peace processes is one that brings together voice and
container: the Tibetan singing bowl. He observes that social healing, like musical resonance, emerges from the interaction of
many vibrations, individual and collective, held within a community context. Social healing and reconciliation emerge in and
around the container that holds collective processes. ... The first distinguishing characteristic that the bowl shares with
sound is circular movement: “[g]oing in circles and repeating them over and again is not,” he insists, “… a movement of
going nowhere,” but has instead “a ritualistic quality … creating a certain kind of space and moment”. The second is the
container itself: “the bowl creates the space or location from which the sound is coaxed and held, but in terms of movement
the sensation is one of going deep, made possible by the circling”. “Deepening becomes a directional focus of the
container,” says Lederach. The third directional characteristic that makes the bowl a compelling metaphor is rising: “[s]ound
not only seems to rise from the bowl,” he explains; “it expands, moves out, touches and surrounds the space within its
reach. Sound moves in all directions and offers the experience of “feelings of being touched and held”.
Circling, deepening, and rising are all aspects of percussion that make instruments like drums and the singing bowl often
function as “the heartbeat” of musical performances. They are also important aspects of the genuine, voluntary, non-
imposed community reconciliation that Lederach prefers to discuss as “conflict transformation.” Going around, repeating
over and over, is a way of gathering grassroots support within a community; each time an outreach effort is made, space is
created for community members who had previously not been involved to join the movement. The descending movement
can be understood as a way of describing the process of developing, through a repetition that may well become ritualized,
an emotional loyalty to something that starts out as a social commitment - internalizing the peace-building ambition. And the
rising movement can similarly be understood as the inexorable pressure that a fully committed, mobilized grassroots
community can exert on a wider population - regional, national, or international.
Q16. Why does the author make a mention of the Tibetan singing bowl metaphor in the passage?
a) To prove that social healing, like musical resonance, arises from the individual holding the bowl.
b) To show that the Tibetan singing bowl has a social soul.
c) To indicate that its characteristics, when it contains sound, are analogous to those that provide harmony in
social contexts.
d) To stress the fact that a singing bowl teaches us about peace-building work as much as a painting or a drum or a string
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Q17. Which of the following can be said to be the underlying leitmotif of Lederach's peace building work?
a) To depict social transformation as analogous to sonic phenomena.
b) To strengthen the hypothesis that inanimate objects like a singing bowl are inevitably endowed with a voice.
c) To metaphorically explain how social healing depends on internalizing the peace-building ambition.
d) To explain how sonic phenomena can be applied to contexts of social change and healing.

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Q18. Consider the following:
A recurring, expanding, enveloping musical note arising from the Tibetan singing bowl flows out of the bowl and captivates
the attention of those in the audience who may not have been paying complete attention.
Which of the following aspects of the Tibetan singing bowl, as discussed in the passage, can be said to be involved in the
above situation?
a) Circling
b) Deepening
c) Rising
d) All of the above

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The 20th century was not a permanent plunge into depravity. The enduring moral trend of the century was a violence-averse
humanism that originated in the Enlightenment, became overshadowed by counter-Enlightenment ideologies wedded to
agents of growing destructive power and regained momentum in the wake of World War II. .... However, we are aware of the
cliche “The twentieth century was the bloodiest in history” that has been used to indict a vast range of demons, including
atheism, science, capitalism, communism etc. But is this true? The claim is rarely backed up by death tolls from any century
other than the 20th. .... The 20th century also had more people. The population of the world in 1950 was 2.5 billion, which is
about two and a half times the population in 1800, four and a half times that in 1600, seven times that in 1300, and fifteen
times that of 1 CE. So, the death count of a war in 1600 would have to be multiplied by 4.5 for us to compare its
destructiveness to the destructiveness of a war in the middle of the 20th century.
Another illusion is historical myopia: the closer an era is to our vantage point in the present, the more details of the same
can be gathered. Historical myopia can afflict both common sense and professional history. The cognitive psychologists
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman have shown that people intuitively estimate relative frequency using a shortcut called
the availability heuristic: the easier it is to recall examples of an event, the more probable people think it is. People
overestimate the likelihoods of the kinds of accidents that make headlines, such as plane crashes, shark attacks, and
terrorist bombings, and they underestimate those that pile up unremarked, like electrocutions, falls and drownings. ..... In a
survey of historical memory, I asked a hundred internet users to write down as many wars as they could remember in five
minutes. The responses were heavily weighted towards the world wars, wars fought by the US, and wars close to the
present. Though the earlier centuries, had far more wars, people remembered more wars from the recent centuries.
When one corrects for the availability bias and the 20th century population explosion, one comes across many wars and
massacres that could hold their head high among 20th-century atrocities. Taking into account population differences with
past societies, Steven Pinker develops an “adjusted rank” with adjusted death tolls based on a “mid-20th- century
equivalent” to come up with a new ranking for atrocities. The new ranking list includes not just deaths on the battlefield but
indirect deaths of civilians from starvation and disease. The death toll is thus considerably higher than estimates of
battlefield casualties for both recent and ancient events.
Had you even heard of all of the great atrocities from time immemorial? I hadn"t. Did you know there were five wars and four
atrocities before World War I that killed more people than that war? I suspect many readers will also be surprised to learn
that of the 21 worst things that people have ever done to each other, fourteen were in centuries before the 20th. And all of
this pertains to absolute numbers. When you scale by population size, only one of the 20th century"s atrocities even makes
the top ten. The worst atrocity of all time was the Lushan Revolt and Civil War that began in 755 AD, an 8 year rebellion
during China"s Tang Dynasty that, according to censuses, resulted in the loss of two-thirds of the empire"s population, a
sixth of the world"s population at the time.
These figures, of course, cannot all be taken at face value. Some tendentiously blame the entire death toll of a famine or
epidemic on a particular war, rebellion, or tyrant. And some came from innumerable cultures that lacked modern techniques
for counting and record-keeping. At the same time, narrative history confirms that earlier civilizations were certainly capable
of killing in vast numbers. Technological backwardness was no impediment; we know from Rwanda and Cambodia that
massive numbers of people can be murdered with low-tech means like machetes and starvation. And in the distant past,
implements of killing were not always so low-tech, because military weaponry usually boasted the most advanced
technology of the age. The military historian John Keegan notes that by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, the chariot
allowed nomadic armies to rain death on the civilizations they invaded. “Circling at a distance of 100 or 200 yards from the
herds of unarmoured foot soldiers, a chariot crew - one to drive, one to shoot - might have transfixed six men a minute.”
Q19. Which of the following can be reasons to suspect that “the 20th century being considered the bloodiest-century” notion
is an illusion?
a.
The notion is rarely supported with relevant details about the hemoclysms of centuries
past.
b.
The 20th century witnessed a higher population as compared to previous
centuries.
c.
There is a tendency to overweigh the conflicts that are most recent and most
studied.
a) a and c
b) Only c
c) a and b
d) a, b and c

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Q20. Which method of correction for the availability bias and the twentieth century population explosion has been cited in
the passage?
a) Comparing the death tolls in the 20th century to those of previous centuries.
b) Scaling the death tolls by the world population at that particular point of time and then comparing this figure
across centuries.
c) Rooting around in history books for particular wars and tyrannical rule that wiped out a large segment of the
population.
d) Ignoring the death toll data from those historical periods and cultures that lacked modern techniques for counting and
record-keeping.

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Q21. What can be understood from the author's statement “Had you even heard of all of the great atrocities from time
immemorial? I hadn't.” (para 4) in the context of the paragraph as a whole?
a) A common man is aware of the many atrocities that the world has seen in the past.
b) If the author can be unaware of many past atrocities, then the general public should be more ignorant of the
same.
c) Since the author had been unaware of many past atrocities, he could not have correctly assessed 20th century
atrocities.
d) In the case of atrocities and bloodbaths, there is a fixed pattern from the past to the present and to the future, and so
the hemoclysms of the past can be compared to those of the present.

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Q22. According to the passage, the world's most macabre atrocity of all time occurred
a) during 755 AD - 763 AD.
b) in the 2nd millennium BCE.
c) in Rwanda and Cambodia.
d) during the Second World War.

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Q22. According to the passage, the world's most macabre atrocity of all time occurred
a) during 755 AD - 763 AD.
b) in the 2nd millennium BCE.
c) in Rwanda and Cambodia.
d) during the Second World War.


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Q23. All of the following can be understood from the passage EXCEPT?
a) The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's
mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.
b) A revolution around 1 CE that resulted in half a million deaths would be considered more bloody than a civil
war in 1600 that claimed 500000 lives in a span of a few days.
c) Low-tech implements of killing in the era prior to the 20th century and poor record-keeping of deaths have
resulted in the notion that the twentieth century was the bloodiest in history.
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Q24. Match the words or idioms in Column A with their corresponding terms in column B.
a) 1 - f, 2 - d, 3 - c, 4 - b, 5 - g
b) 1 - g, 2 - c, 3 - f, 4 - a, 5 - d
c) 1 - a, 2 - c, 3 - b, 4 - f, 5 - e
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Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labeled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of the
sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.
1.
The crystals have a strange atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in perpetual
motion without energy.
2.
But now, for the first time, scientists have successfully created an entirely new form of matter called “time
crystals.”
3.
Science classes everywhere teach about the three states of matter (solid, liquid and
gas).
4.
Quasimomentum, however, is conserved in a perfect
crystal.
5.
That may sound abstract, but excited researchers say the crystals could herald in a new era in physics and eventually
revolutionize how we store and transfer information in quantum computing.
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1.
The team members dubbed the species Synalpheus pinkfloydi, inspired by their love of Pink
Floyd.
2.
On the Pacific coast of Panama, scientists discovered a new type of pistol shrimp that uses its large pink claw to
create a noise so loud it can stun - or even kill - small fish.
3.
The best thing about being a zoologist, aside from actually discovering new species, is getting to name
them.
4.
In fact, the sonic blast created by the animal’s snapping claw can reach 210 decibels and it is one of the loudest
sounds in the ocean, louder than a gun shot.
5.
Loud music at rock concerts can expose individuals to sound pressure levels of 100-110 decibels (dBA) for several
hours, a known cause of hearing loss.
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1.
As in the original book, the reader is thus encouraged to view the plot not as something that evolves chronologically,
but as an experience of fleeting, sometimes confused images.
2.
Mr Heuet's illustrations are simple, yet dramatic, on the whole - and even a child could read this
novel.
3.
His seven-volume “In Search of Lost Time”, published between 1913 and 1927, is known for its long, winding prose
and its many ruminations on time and the slipperiness of memory.
4.
Marcel Proust is a tough
read.
5.
For those who have never plucked up the courage to give it a go, Stephane Heuet's adaptation of the first volume into
a graphic novel is welcome.
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Yet, thanks to a complex but hugely positive transition towards universal health care, they are increasingly capable of
coping with it.
2.
To that list must be added caring for victims of those insidious
mosquitoes.
3.
Yet in the past 24 months, Zika has spread to 23 countries in the Americas, infecting some 3 to 4 million
people.
4.
The disease, which probably causes babies of infected mothers to be born with small brains, will put primary health
providers and hospitals in the region under strain.
5.
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, is the kind of epidemic that Latin America hoped it had put behind
it.
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Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 29 to 32: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence
of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.
1.
The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or
developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the United States population.
2.
The functionality of the fusiform gyrus allows most people to recognize faces in more detail than they do similarly
complex inanimate objects.
3.
Prosopagnosia (face blindness), is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar
faces, including one's own, is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and
intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact.
4.
For those with prosopagnosia, the new method for recognizing faces depends on the less-sensitive object recognition
system.
5.
The specific brain area that is damaged in patients with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus, which activates
specifically in response to faces.
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1.
The figures, relating to 2015, show that across Britain there were 11,819 deaths from prostate cancer, compared with
11,442 female deaths from breast cancer.
2.
Breast cancer, it appears, is far more destructive: men typically die of prostate cancer at an older age than women die
of breast cancer.
3.
A better measure is “years of life lost”, which compares the age at which someone dies from a disease to the age at
which they would be expected to die.
4.
Yet this is only half the story as a simple death count does not really get at the destructive impact of a
disease.
5.
It has been widely reported in the British press that the number of men dying from prostate cancer has overtaken
female deaths from breast cancer for the first time.
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Steel prices have risen by nearly 50% this year; steel production which fell in 2015 for the first time in decades is also
up and smelters are set for a strong recovery after losing $10 bn last year.
2.
But in recent months, the fires from the country's blast-furnaces have started to emit the warm glow of
profits.
3.
And it is not just the steelmakers who will be
pleased.
4.
Besides being dirty and dangerous, making steel in China has been a good way to burn through money over the past
few years.
5.
Asia’s central bankers can also take some comfort in the rising prices: they suggest that the threat of deflation might
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1.
If the consonant is “unvoiced” (like “f”, “k” and “t”), then the -s is simply pronounced as an
“s”.
2.
There are hidden rules not just in grammar, but at every level of language
production.
3.
The -s that marks a plural in English is pronounced differently depending on the previous consonants: if the consonant
is “voiced” (i.e. the vocal chords vibrate, as in “v”, “g” and “d”), then the -s is pronounced like a “z”.
4.
Every native English-speaker, including a child above the age of four, uses this rule every day but nobody is ever
taught it, and almost nobody knows they know it.
5.
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Q33. DIRECTIONS for questions 33 and 34: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Business cards have been around a long time in one form or another. The Chinese invented calling cards in the 15 th century
th
to give people notice that they intended to visit. European merchants invented trade cards in the 17 century to act as
miniature advertisements. Today, lots of companies try to turn their cards into miniature plugs for their products. That
business cards are thriving in a digital age is a forceful reminder that there is much about business that is timeless. Take, for
instance, the eternal and inescapable question of whether you can trust someone. The number of things that machines can
do better than humans grows by the day. But they cannot look people in the eye and decide what sort of person they are.
And they cannot transform acquaintanceships into relationships. A good deal of business life will always be about social
bonds - having dinner with people and playing sport with them. ___________________________
a) Cards can also act as a physical reminder that you have actually met someone rather than just Googled them.
b) And the more that machines take over the quantitative stuff, the more human beings will have to focus on the
touchy-feely.
c) The rapid advance of both globalization and virtualization means that this trust-building process is becoming
ever more demanding.
d) Exchanging business cards is a way of sparking a conversation and a way of placing people correctly in the
pecking order without the embarrassment of asking them their formal title.

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Q34. DIRECTIONS for questions 33 and 34: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
There is something comforting in a dictionary: right angles, a pleasing heft (weight), reassuringly rigid covers. A new one is
compact, a bright sheaf of discoveries yet to be made; an old one is a musty but trusted cozy friend. A good dictionary is the
classic school-leaving gift from ambitious parents to their children. A great dictionary might even be passed on through
several generations. But maybe the most reassuring thing about a dictionary is its finite nature. A small dictionary contains all
the words you need to know, and a really big one seems to contain all the words in existence.
_________________________________________
a) Erin McKean, who left traditional lexicography to found an online dictionary, Wordnik, explained why she
chose a format that could allow virtually limitless entries: “I don't want to be a traffic cop!”
b) Lexicographers, aware that people still look to them for guidance on what is a “real” word and what isn't,
whether or not they like this role, can still be conservative.
c) Having one nearby seems to say that the language has boundaries, and reasonable ones at that.
d) But the principle is to catch all of the language in use, and not merely to admit the good words, whatever
those are. Your answer is incorrect
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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Hari wanted to get a new phone number, which comprises eight non-zero digits. He chose a phone number which satisfied
all the following conditions, with the digits being referred to as first to eighth, starting from the leftmost digit:
i.
The last digit was greater than the third digit, while the fourth digit and the fifth digit, taken in that order, comprised (i.e.,
formed) a prime number.
ii.
The sixth and the third digits, taken in that order, comprised an even number greater than 40, while the first and the
second digits are not the same.
iii.
The sum of the fourth digit and the third digit was the same as the fifth
digit.
iv.
The sum of the fifth and the sixth digits was exactly 9, while the sixth and the seventh digits, taken in that order,
comprised a prime number.
v.
The second and the eighth digits, taken in that order, comprised a number which was four more than the number
comprised by the first and the second digits, taken in that order.
Q1. DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
In how many ways could Hari have chosen his phone number?
a) 1 Your answer is incorrect
b) 2
c) 4
d) 8
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ii.
iii.
digit.
iv.
v.
Which of the following is the eighth digit of the phone number?
a) 4
b) 5
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ii.
iii.
digit.
iv.
v.
Which of the following is the number comprised by the fifth and the second digits of the phone number, taken in that order?
a) 72
b) 32
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ii.
iii.
digit.
iv.
v.
What is the difference between the first and the last digits of the phone number?
a) 5 Your answer is correct
b) 6
c) 8
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Three panel members, X, Y and Z, interviewed four candidates - A, B, C and D. Each panel member scored each of the four
candidates on four parameters - P1, P2, P3 and P4. The following tables provides partial information about the score given
by each panel member to each candidate in each parameter:
The following information is known about the scores given by each panel member:
i.
In each parameter, X gave a different score to each candidate and, for each candidate, X gave a different score in each
parameter.
ii.
In each parameter, Y gave a different score to each candidate and, for each candidate, Y gave a different score in each
parameter.
iii.
The scores that X gave to any candidate in any parameter was a positive integer less than
5.
iv.
The scores that Y gave to any candidate in any parameter was an integer less than 9 and greater than
4.
v.
The score given by Z to any candidate in any parameter was the average of the scores given by X and Y to that
candidate in that parameter.
vi.
The score given by Z to any candidate in any parameter was an
integer.
What is the score given by X to C in P2?
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parameter.
ii.
parameter.
iii.
5.
iv.
4.
v.
vi.
integer.
What is the score given by Z to B in P1?
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parameter.
ii.
parameter.
iii.
5.
iv.
4.
v.
vi.
integer.
For each candidate, the scores that he received in each parameter from the three panel members were added to create a
Composite Score for that parameter.
Which candidate received the highest Composite Score in P3?
a) B
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parameter.
ii.
parameter.
iii.
5.
iv.
4.
v.
vi.
integer.
For each candidate, the scores that he received in each parameter from the three panel members were added to create a
Composite Score for that parameter.
How many candidates received a higher Composite Score in P2 as compared to that in P4?
a) 0
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c) 2
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Exactly 60 employees work in an office. During each of eight consecutive days, from Day 1 through Day 8, each of these 60
employees drank exactly one drink among tea, coffee and cola. On Day 1, an equal number of employees drank tea, coffee
and cola.
The following table provides, for each day, starting from Day 2, the number of people who switched from coffee to tea, from
coffee to cola, from tea to coffee, from tea to cola, from cola to coffee and from cola to tea as compared to the previous day.
Q9. DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question.
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and cola.
What is the average number of persons who drank coffee per day during the given period?

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and cola.
During the given period, on how many days did at least 15 persons drink each of the three drinks?

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and cola.
What is the maximum number of persons who could have had coffee on each of the eight days?

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Seven persons - A through G - are standing in a line, from left to right, all facing the same direction. Among the seven
persons, B, D, E and F are girls, while the remaining are boys. Starting from the left, each person declared the number of
persons standing adjacent to him/her who are not of the same gender as him/her. The numbers that each person declared,
from left to right, are 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 and 1 respectively.
Further, it is known that B is standing adjacent to neither A nor C, while D is standing to the immediate right of G. Also, C is
standing to the immediate left of E, who, in turn was not standing at the extreme right.
How many girls are standing to the right of B?
a) 0
b) 1

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Who among the following is standing adjacent to A?

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Among the seven persons, exactly two persons exchanged their places and each of them again declared the number of
persons standing adjacent to him/her who are not of the same gender as him/her.
If the maximum number of persons declared the highest possible number, who among the following definitely exchanged
his/her place?
a) E Your answer is correct
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c) B
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Among the seven persons, exactly two persons exchanged their places and each of them again declared the number of
persons standing adjacent to him/her who are not of the same gender as him/her.
If, starting from the left, six persons declared the same number, who among the following exchanged his/her place?
a) B
a) B
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Kiran, the owner of a restaurant, tracks the number of customers of different ages who visited his restaurant on 15 days,
from January 10 th to January 24th. He observed that no customer whose age is 10 years or less visited his restaurant during
the given time.
He made the following line graph which provides the number of customers of different age groups who visited his restaurant
on each of the 15 days:
Tarun, a 38-year-old businessman, visited the restaurant on one of the 15 days. On which of the following days did he
definitely not visit the restaurant?
a) 13th January
b) 16th January
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the given time.
If, on a particular day, the average age of all the persons who visited the restaurant was less than 20, which of the following
days can it be?
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the given time.
Rita, a 11-year-old girl, gave a birthday party in the restaurant on one of the 15 days. Exactly ten of Rita’s friends, who were
all of the same age as Rita and none of whom were siblings, attended the party along with her. If each child at the party was
accompanied by both his/her parents, who were all in their 30s, on which day did Rita give her birthday party?
a) 17th January
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the given time.
On a particular day, fifteen 13-year-old boys, nineteen 34-year-old men and twenty-one 42-year-old women visited the
restaurant. What is the maximum number of 15-year-old girls who could have visited the restaurant on that day?
a) 5
b) 15
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Exactly three persons, Hari, Krish and Ram, participated in a weightlifting competition, comprising three rounds, in which
each person lifts a weight exactly once in each of the three rounds. After the three persons participate in the three rounds,
the Combined Total Weight, which is defined as the sum of the heaviest two weights lifted in any round by a person, is
calculated for each of the three persons. The three persons are then ranked, from 1 to 3, in the descending order of their
Combined Total Weights. No person lifted the same weight across any two rounds and theCombined Total Weight for each
person was distinct. Further, the weight (in kg) that each person lifted was an integer.
Ram lifted 17 kg more in the first round than Krish did in that round, while Hari lifted the same weight in the second round as
Krish did in the third round. Also, the round in which a person lifted his least weight was distinct for the three persons. The
difference in the weight lifted by Krish in the first round and that by Ram in the third round was 20 kg, while the difference in
the weights lifted by Ram in the first round and Hari in the third round was 18 kg. Krish lifted 25 kg more in the second round
than Hari did in the first round. The Combined Total Weight for Hari was calculated using the weights that he lifted in the first
and second rounds. Further, Ram lifted 15 kg more in the second round than Krish did in the third round.
If Ram was ranked first in the competition, then what is the maximum difference (in kg) in the weights lifted by Hari in the
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If Krish was ranked first in the competition, what is the minimum difference (in kg) between the highest weight that any
person lifted in any round and the lowest weight that any person lifted in any round?

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If Hari was ranked second in the competition, what is the minimum difference (in kg) between the weight that Krish lifted in
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If the weights lifted by each person in the second round were all distinct integral multiples of 15, what is the minimum
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Raghu, an assistant to the dean of a college, was given a task to tabulate the courses taken by the students in the college.
The students can take any number of courses among SE, SPM, TD, IE, CS, CM and QM. He prepared a table comprising
eight columns, with the students’ names mentioned in the first column and the remaining seven columns, i.e., the second
column to the eighth column, representing the seven courses, in the same order, from left to right, as mentioned above. In
the row corresponding to every student, Raghu marked every cell corresponding to a course that the student took with a tick
and every cell corresponding to a course that the student did not take with a cross.
After preparing the table, he made the following observations:
i.
The student in the first row of the table took all the
courses.
ii.
The student in the second row took all the courses except for the courses in the second and eighth
columns.
iii.
The student in the third row took all the courses except for the courses in the second, third, seventh and eighth
columns.
iv.
The student in the fourth row took all the courses except for the courses in the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh and
eighth columns.
v.
The students in the fifth, sixth and seventh rows took the same courses as the students in the third, second and first rows
respectively.
vi.
This pattern mentioned from (i) through (v) repeats, starting from the seventh row for all the students in the table, and
continues repeating until the last row.
If the number of students who took at least three courses was 309, how many students are there in the college?
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courses.
ii.
columns.
iii.
columns.
iv.
eighth columns.
v.
respectively.
vi.
If exactly 58 students in the college took TD, how many students are there in the college?
a) 69 Your answer is incorrect
b) 70
c) 66
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courses.
ii.
columns.
iii.
columns.
iv.
eighth columns.
v.
respectively.
vi.
If there were 153 students in the college, how many students took TD but did not take CM?
a) 50
b) 51 Your answer is correct
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courses.
ii.
columns.
iii.
columns.
iv.
eighth columns.
v.
respectively.
vi.
If the ratio of the number of students who took SPM to the number of students who took CS was 10:17, what is the number
of students in the college?
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Exactly six persons, Amit, Gagan, Kiran, Larry, Omar and Piyush, work in an office. On a particular day, each person came
to the office at a different time among 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 12 noon, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM. Further, each person
left the office at a different time among 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Also, each person
spent at least one hour in the office on that day.
The following information is known about the times at which each person came to the office and left the office:
i.
For exactly two hours during the day, there were exactly two other persons along with Larry in the office, while for exactly
two hours during the day, there was exactly one other person along with Omar in the office.
ii.
Amit, who came to the office one hour after Kiran, left the office before Piyush, while Larry, who was not the last to leave
the office, stayed in the office for three hours more than Piyush.
iii.
Gagan came to the office at least two hours after Larry came but was not the last person to come to the
office.
iv.
Piyush came to the office before Kiran and left the office before
Omar.
Who was the first person to come to the office?
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ii.
iii.
office.
iv.
Omar.
How many of the six persons stayed for only one hour in the office?
a) 0
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ii.
iii.
office.
iv.
Omar.
Who came to the office immediately after Gagan did?
a) Piyush
b) Omar
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ii.
iii.
office.
iv.
Omar.
Who among the following was in the office at 4:10 PM?
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b) Gagan
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Q1. DIRECTIONS for question 1: Select the correct alternative from the given choices.
Solution B is prepared by evaporating some of the water contained in solution A, which contains water and sulphuric acid in
the ratio 2 : 1. If solution B contains water and sulphuric acid in the ratio 1 : 2, what percent of the water in solution A has
been evaporated to obtain solution B?
a) 50%
b) 66 %
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Rohan and his wife, Sita, went to Bangolore on a holiday. During their stay there, Rohan went jogging, while Sita went
walking during a number of mornings. There were a total of 16 mornings when Rohan did not go jogging and there were a
total of 18 mornings when Sita did not go for a walk. Further, there were 14 mornings when Rohan went for a jog and also
Sita went for a walk. If it is known that there was no morning when both stayed indoors, how many days did they stay in
Bangalore?
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In a group of boys and girls, there are three girls. On every friendship day, each of the members of the group would send an
email to the others to wish them. On one friendship day, a total of N emails were sent. The total number of emails sent by
the boys to other boys was N - 96. Find the number of emails that the girls sent to the boys. Assume that no emails were
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If a rectangle of breadth 10 units has an area equal to the area of the circle drawn with its length as the diameter, what is the
perimeter of the rectangle?
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If | x - 2 | + | x + 4 | < 6, then which of the following is true of the possible values thatx can assume?
a) 0 ≤ x ≤ 2.
b) 2 < x < 3.
c) 3 ≤ x. Your answer is incorrect
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N is the smallest positive integer which when divided successively by 12, 18 and 17 leaves remainders of 9, 8 and 7
respectively. Find the remainder when N3 - N is divided by 14.
a) 7
b) 0
c) 10
d) 13

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A, B, C, D bought a car for Rs.3,60,000. A paid 50% of the amount paid by the others. B paid of the amount paid by
the others and C paid 25% of that paid by the others. How many rupees did D pay?
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Arun has a certain amount with him in only coins of denominations of Rs.1, Rs.5 and Rs.10. If the numbers of Rs.5 and Rs.1
coins are interchanged, then the total amount would increase by Rs.800. If the numbers of Rs.10 and Rs.5 coins are
interchanged, then the total amount would increase by Rs.500. If the numbers of Rs.1 and Rs.10 coins are interchanged,
what would be the increase in the total amount?
a) Rs.1300
b) Rs.2600
c) Rs.2700
d) Rs.900

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A room has six windows in a row, with alternate windows painted in blue and red colours. A man walks into the room and
finds that at least two windows are closed. He also finds that all the windows that are closed are of the same colour. In how
many ways could the windows have been closed?
a) 10
b) 16 Your answer is incorrect
c) 8
d) 15
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Find the remainder when (3264)7 is divided by (8)10.
a) 0
b) 2
c) 3
d) 5

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The L.C.M. of 1224, 2569 and X is 2424. How many possible integral values can X assume?
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have to mark the correct answer from (A) to (D), depending on the sufficiency of the data given in the statements to answer
the question.
Do eight men require more than 60 days to complete a piece of work, W?
A.Three men and five women complete twice as much work as W in 25 days.
B.18 women complete four times as much work as W in 15 days.
a) if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but cannot be answered by using the
other statement alone.
b) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
c) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but cannot be answered by using either
statement alone.
d) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

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Train A travels from Secunderabad to Surat and train B travels from Surat to Secunderabad. Trains A and B leave
Secunderabad and Surat on Monday at 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. respectively. The trains travel on parallel tracks and cross
each other at 20 minutes past 10:00 p.m. on the same day. If both the trains reach their destinations simultaneously at time
T, then T must be
a) 5:05 p.m. on Tuesday.
b) 5:10 p.m. on Tuesday.
c) 4:40 p.m. on Tuesday.
d) 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

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The perimeters of a circle, a regular hexagon and a rectangle are equal. If the areas of the circle, the regular hexagon and
the rectangle are denoted by C, H and R, which of the following necessarily holds true?
a) C > H > R
b) R > H > C
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The average mark of a class of n students is 64. After a group of eight new students, with an average mark of 73, joined the
class, the new average of the entire class was a whole number. Find the number of students now in the class given that n
lies between 25 and 60 (both exclusive).
a) 44
b) 32
c) 36
d) 48

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Find the minimum number of coins required to pay the amounts of 67 paise, Rs.1.03 and 83 paise to three persons A, B and
C, respectively, using only coins of the denominations of 2 paise, 5 paise, 10 paise, 25 paise and 50 paise.

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There are six boxes, each containing brown and black socks. The number of socks in the six boxes is 11, 14, 17, 21, 22 and
27 respectively. One of these six boxes is removed and it was found that in the remaining five boxes together, the total
number of brown socks is double the total number of black socks. How many socks are there in the box that is removed?
a) 11
b) 22
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A manufacturer reduced the cost of production of an item by 20%, but left the selling price unchanged, as a result of which
his profit (as a percentage of the cost of production) increased by 30 percentage points. What will be his profit percentage, if
he reduces the cost of production by a further 25%?
a) 120%
b) 100%
c) 75%
d) 200%

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If |2x - 5| ≤ 9 and |4y - 7| ≤ 21, what is the maximum value of x| | - |y|?
Your Answer:3.5 Your answer is incorrect
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A road AB is 200 m long. Five poles are placed on the road starting from A, towards B, in a straight line, with the distance
between any two adjacent poles being 4 m. Find the minimum distance (in m) to be travelled by a person to transport all the
poles to B starting from A, carrying only one pole at a time?
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In a geometric progression, if the sum of the fourth, fifth and sixth terms is eight times the sum of the first three terms, find
the common ratio.
a) 3
b)
−3
c)
−2
d) 2 Your answer is correct

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In a trapezium PQRS, || and diagonals and intersect at O. If the area of the triangle QOR is 90 sq.units and
, find the area (in sq.units) of the trapezium.
a) 325
b) 375
c) 360
d) 420

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On 23rd January, 2006, when a clock showed 8:03 a.m., it was 21 minutes behind the correct time. On the last day of that
month, at 8:24 p.m., it was showing 9:11 p.m. on that day. When was the clock 13 minutes ahead of the correct time?
a) 2:24 p.m. on the 27th
b) 2:03 p.m. on the 27th

c) 8:24 a.m. on the 28th
d) 8:03 a.m. on the 28th

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In a plane, there are ten points, exactly three of which are collinear. No other set of three points are collinear. Find the
number of distinct straight lines which can be formed by joining these ten points.
a) 40
b) 36
d) 41

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A1, A2, A3, ….. A represents a sequence of numbers satisfying AN + 1 = AN + AN + 2. Find the sum of the first 3002 terms of
this sequence, given that A1 = 65 and A2 = −13.
a) 52
b) 78
c) 39
d) 91

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There is an overhead tank, T, which has three pipes P, Q and R connected at its bottom to let out the water available in it
into three small tanks A, B and C respectively. The volumes of A, B and C are 40%, 45% and 50% respectively of the
volume of T. A pipe S is connected to T, and it can fill T (when T is empty and the pipes P, Q and R closed) in 60 minutes.
Also, the capacities of the pipes P, Q and R are such that they can fill A, B and C in 24, 30 and 40 minutes respectively,
provided water is available in T. If at 2:00 p.m., all the tanks are empty and the pipes P, Q, R and S are all opened
simultaneously, then what is earliest possible time at which all of A, B and C can be filled?
a) 3:00 p.m.
b) 3:12 p.m.
c) 3:24 p.m.
d) 3:21 p.m.

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Given N = 56! + 55! + 54! + ……. + 4! + 3! + 2! + 1!, what is the remainder when N is divided by 56?
a) 5
b) 1
d) 55

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If the sum of the first 13 terms of an arithmetic progression equals the sum of its first 27 terms, find the sum of its first 40
terms.
a) 0
b)
−1
c) 1
d) Cannot be determined Your answer is incorrect
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A person when travelling at 6/7th of his usual speed takes 15 minutes more for a certain journey than what he would take
when he travels at 4/3rd of his usual speed. What is the time taken by the person for a journey which is one and half times
as long as the original one, when he travels at his usual speed?
a) 30 minutes
b) 36 minutes
c) 48 minutes

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In a class, 60% of the students are boys, 20% of the boys are from middle class families. If 30% of the students in the class
are from middle class families, find the fraction of girls who are not from middle class families?
a)
b)
c)
d) Your answer is correct

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If x = , find x.
a)
b)
c)
d)

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Find the sum of the digits of the least whole number N (N > 2), which satisfies the condition that the sum of the first N whole
numbers is a perfect square.
a) 9
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8

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A school needs funds for a new building. 80% of the people that the school approached for funds gave an average
contribution of Rs.600 each, thereby making up 75% of the total amount needed. To raise the rest of the total amount
needed, what should the average contribution from the remaining people the school has approached for donations?
a) Rs.850
b) Rs.800
c) Rs.650
d) Rs.400

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If = xy, find the sum of all the possible values that the productxy can assume.
a) 1.
b) -1.
c) .
d) 0.

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