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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
Equal sized circular regions are shaded in a square sheet of paper of 1 cm side length. Two cases, case M and case N, are considered as shown in the figures below. In the case M, four circles are shaded in the square sheet and in the case N, nine circles are shaded in the square sheet as shown.
What is the ratio of the areas of unshaded regions of case M to that of case N?
If x is the interest on y and y is the interest on z, the rate and time is the same on both the cases. What is the relation between x, y and z?
A cistern has two taps attached to it. Tap B can empty the cistern in 45 minutes. But Tap A can fill the cistern in just 30 minutes. Rohit started both taps unknowingly but realized his mistake after 30 minutes. He immediately closed Tap B. Now after this, in how much time will the cistern be filled?
2/5 of a water tank is full. Pipe a fills the tank in 10 minutes, pipe B empties it in 6 minutes. Both the pipes if opened together, how long shall it take to fill or empty the entire tank?
Reasoning [ Question No: 5 To 6 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
At an Electronic Data Processing Unit, five out of the eight program sets P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are to be operated daily. On any one day, except for the first day of a month, only three of the program sets must be the ones that were operated on the previous day. The program operating must also satisfy the following conditions :
(i). If program P is to be operated on a day, V cannot be operated on that day.
(ii). If Q is to be operated on a day, T must be one of the programs to be operated after Q.
(iii). If R is to be operated on a day, V must be one of the programs to be operated after R.
(iv). The last program to be operated on any day must be either S or U.
Which of the following is true of any day's valid program set operation ?
A boy is sitting at the back seat of a car. When the driver suddenly starts moving the car (in forward direction), the boy experiences a backward force?
English Language [ Question No: 7 To 13 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. There is something we all want to do, although few of us readily admit it : Get rid of guests.
2. For nine months in the year, only my closest friends come to see me. Then, when temperatures start soaring in the plains, long-lost acquaintances suddenly remember that I exist, and people whom I am barely able to recognize appear at the front door, willing to have me put them up for periods ranging from six days to six weeks.
3. Occasionally, I am the master of the situation I inform them that the cottage is already bursting, that people are sleeping on the floor. If the hopefuls start looking around for signs of these uncomfortable guests, I remark that they have all gone out for a picnic.
4. The other day I received visitors who proved to be more thick-skinned than most. The man was a friend of a friend of an acquaintance of mine. I had never seen him before. But on the strength of this distant relationship, he had brought his family along.
5. I tried the usual ploy but it didn't work. The man and his family were perfectly willing to share the floor with any others who might be staying with me.
6. So I made my next move. 'I must warn you about the scorpions', I said. The scorpion-scare is effective with most people. But I was dealing with professionals. The man set his son rolling up the carpet. 'Sometimes centipedes fall from the ceiling', I said desperately.
7. We were now interrupted by someone knocking on the front door. It was the postman with a rejected manuscript, his arrival inspired me to greater inventiveness.
8. 'I'm terribly sorry', I said, staring hard at a rejection slip. 'I'm afraid I have to leave immediately. A paper wants me to interview the Maharishi. I hope you won't mind. Would you like the name of a good hotel ?'
9. 'Oh, don't worry about us', said the woman expansively. 'We'll look after the house while you are away.'
Which one of the following ploys does the author not use to get rid of unwanted guests ?
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
He returned back to his village after ten years abroad.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
The Indian middle class consists of so many strata that it defies categorisation under a single term class, which would imply a considerable degree of homogeneity. Yet two paradoxical features characterise its conduct fairly uniformly; extensive practice and intensive abhorrence of corruption.
In the several recent surveys of popular perceptions of corruptions, politicians of course invariably and understandably top the list, closely followed by bureaucrats, policemen, lawyers, businessmen and others. The quintessential middle class. If teachers do not figure high on this priority list, it is not for lack of trying, but for lack of opportunities. Over the years, the sense of shock over acts of corruption in the middle class has witnessed a steady decline, as its ambitions for a better material life have soared but the resources for meeting such ambitions have not kept pace.
What is fascinating, however, is the intense yearning of this class for a clean corruptionless politics and society, a yearning that has again and again surfaced with any figure, public or obscure, who focuses on his mission of eradicating corruption. Even the repeated failure of this promise on virtually every man's part has not subjected it to the law of diminishing returns.
Teachers are not high on the list of corruption because they do not have
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
The first step is for us to realise that a city need not to be frustrater of life,it can be among other things,A mechanism for enhancing life, for producing possibilities of living which are not to be realized except through cities. But for that to happen deliberate and drastic planning is needed. Towns as much as animals must have their system for organs-those for transport and circulation are an obvious example. What we need now are organ system for recreation, leisure, culture, community expression. This means abundance of open space, easy access to unspoilt nature, beauty in parks and in fine buildings, gymnasia and swimming baths and recreation grounds in plenty, central spaces for celebrations and demonstrations, halls for citizens’ meetings, concert halls and theatres and cinemas that belong to the city. And the buildings must not be built anyhow or dumped down anywhere. both they and their grouping should mean something important to the people of the place.
"The building must not be built anyhow and dumped down anywhere" ......the statement implies that the building:
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
A pioneer of a reform movement.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
A genre of sculpture that ______ and developed between 100 BCE and 700 CE in the ethnically diverse and religiously tolerant cultures of the ancient region of Gandhara is the anthropomorphic depiction of Lord Buddha. The body of sculptural art ______ this period is unique for its syncretic character, ______ stylistic influences of the Hellenistic, Persian and Kushan cultures.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 14 To 14 ] :
It is possible to _______ a data source before performing a merge.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 15 To 20 ] :
October 1 is observed as-
May 12 is observed as-
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
Equal sized circular regions are shaded in a square sheet of paper of 1 cm side length. Two cases, case M and case N, are considered as shown in the figures below. In the case M, four circles are shaded in the square sheet and in the case N, nine circles are shaded in the square sheet as shown.
What is the ratio of the areas of unshaded regions of case M to that of case N?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The ratio is 1 : 1.
In case M, four circles fill the 1 cm square in a 2 by 2 grid, so each has diameter 1/2 cm and radius 1/4 cm. In case N, nine circles fill it in a 3 by 3 grid, so each has radius 1/6 cm. The shaded areas are:
\[ \begin{aligned} M: \; 4 \times \pi \left(\tfrac{1}{4}\right)^{2} &= \tfrac{\pi}{4} \\ N: \; 9 \times \pi \left(\tfrac{1}{6}\right)^{2} &= \tfrac{\pi}{4} \end{aligned} \]
Both unshaded areas are therefore \(1 - \pi/4\) square cm, and the ratio is 1 : 1.
In general, \(n^{2}\) touching circles in an \(n\) by \(n\) grid always cover \(\pi/4\) of the square, whatever \(n\) is. The ratios 2 : 3 and 3 : 2 come from comparing the numbers of circles, 4 and 9, or their rows, instead of their areas.
If x is the interest on y and y is the interest on z, the rate and time is the same on both the cases. What is the relation between x, y and z?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Write both statements with the same \( R \) and \( T \), and let \( k = \tfrac{RT}{100} \).
\[ x = yk, \qquad y = zk \]
Dividing one by the other:
\[ \frac{x}{y} = \frac{y}{z} \quad\Longrightarrow\quad y^{2} = xz \]
So \( y \) is the geometric mean of \( x \) and \( z \). Substituting directly gives the same thing: \( x = zk^{2} \) and \( y^{2} = z^{2}k^{2} = xz \).
A cistern has two taps attached to it. Tap B can empty the cistern in 45 minutes. But Tap A can fill the cistern in just 30 minutes. Rohit started both taps unknowingly but realized his mistake after 30 minutes. He immediately closed Tap B. Now after this, in how much time will the cistern be filled?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Work in rates: a pipe that fills a tank in \( n \) units of time fills \( \tfrac{1}{n} \) of it per unit, and rates add (an emptying pipe counting negative).
For the first 30 minutes both taps run:
\[ \frac{1}{30} - \frac{1}{45} = \frac{3 - 2}{90} = \frac{1}{90} \text{ per minute} \]
\[ 30 \times \frac{1}{90} = \frac{1}{3} \text{ filled} \]
With Tap B closed, the remaining \( \tfrac{2}{3} \) is filled at \( \tfrac{1}{30} \) per minute:
\[ \frac{2}{3} \times 30 = 20 \text{ minutes} \]
2/5 of a water tank is full. Pipe a fills the tank in 10 minutes, pipe B empties it in 6 minutes. Both the pipes if opened together, how long shall it take to fill or empty the entire tank?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
There are two important points to learn in this type of question,
First, if both will open then tank will be empty first.
Second most important thing is,
If we are calculating filling of tank then we will subtract as (filling-empting)
If we are calculating empting of thank then we will subtract as (empting-filling)
So lets come on the question now,
Part to emptied 2/5
Part emptied in 1 minute =
1/6−1/10
=1/15
=>1/15:2/5 :: 1:x
=>2/5∗15
= 6mins
Reasoning [ Question No: 5 To 6 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
At an Electronic Data Processing Unit, five out of the eight program sets P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are to be operated daily. On any one day, except for the first day of a month, only three of the program sets must be the ones that were operated on the previous day. The program operating must also satisfy the following conditions :
(i). If program P is to be operated on a day, V cannot be operated on that day.
(ii). If Q is to be operated on a day, T must be one of the programs to be operated after Q.
(iii). If R is to be operated on a day, V must be one of the programs to be operated after R.
(iv). The last program to be operated on any day must be either S or U.
Which of the following is true of any day's valid program set operation ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Clearly, if R is operated at the fourth place, V must be operated somewhere after it. This is not possible since the fifth program is the last one which has to be either S or U. So, R cannot be operated at the fourth Place.
A boy is sitting at the back seat of a car. When the driver suddenly starts moving the car (in forward direction), the boy experiences a backward force?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: Always
A body at rest stays at rest unless a force acts on it. When the car accelerates forward, the boy’s body tends to remain where it was, so he is pressed back into the seat - and this happens always, whenever the car accelerates.
English Language [ Question No: 7 To 13 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. There is something we all want to do, although few of us readily admit it : Get rid of guests.
2. For nine months in the year, only my closest friends come to see me. Then, when temperatures start soaring in the plains, long-lost acquaintances suddenly remember that I exist, and people whom I am barely able to recognize appear at the front door, willing to have me put them up for periods ranging from six days to six weeks.
3. Occasionally, I am the master of the situation I inform them that the cottage is already bursting, that people are sleeping on the floor. If the hopefuls start looking around for signs of these uncomfortable guests, I remark that they have all gone out for a picnic.
4. The other day I received visitors who proved to be more thick-skinned than most. The man was a friend of a friend of an acquaintance of mine. I had never seen him before. But on the strength of this distant relationship, he had brought his family along.
5. I tried the usual ploy but it didn't work. The man and his family were perfectly willing to share the floor with any others who might be staying with me.
6. So I made my next move. 'I must warn you about the scorpions', I said. The scorpion-scare is effective with most people. But I was dealing with professionals. The man set his son rolling up the carpet. 'Sometimes centipedes fall from the ceiling', I said desperately.
7. We were now interrupted by someone knocking on the front door. It was the postman with a rejected manuscript, his arrival inspired me to greater inventiveness.
8. 'I'm terribly sorry', I said, staring hard at a rejection slip. 'I'm afraid I have to leave immediately. A paper wants me to interview the Maharishi. I hope you won't mind. Would you like the name of a good hotel ?'
9. 'Oh, don't worry about us', said the woman expansively. 'We'll look after the house while you are away.'
Which one of the following ploys does the author not use to get rid of unwanted guests ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The ploy the author does not use is that there is acute water scarcity.
The passage lists his ploys: the cottage is bursting with people sleeping on the floor (too many guests), the warning about scorpions, and the claim that centipedes sometimes fall from the ceiling. He also says he must leave to interview the Maharishi.
Water scarcity is never mentioned, so it is the ploy he does not use.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
He returned back to his village after ten years abroad.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: returned
Return already means to come or go back, so adding back repeats the idea. The correct form is simply he returned to his village. This is pleonasm - using more words than the sense requires - and English has a familiar set of such redundancies that examiners draw on: revert back, repeat again, reply back, join together, enter into a room, ascend up, descend down, connect together, final conclusion, free gift, new innovation, past history and advance planning. Most of them arise because the Latin prefix already carries the sense that the English particle repeats: re- means back, ad- means to, de- means down. Note that give back, come back and go back are perfectly correct, since those verbs carry no such prefix - the objection is to doubling, not to the word back itself.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It means undecided.
A moot point is one still open to argument. The moot was an Anglo-Saxon assembly, and a moot case was one debated for practice in the Inns of Court.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
The Indian middle class consists of so many strata that it defies categorisation under a single term class, which would imply a considerable degree of homogeneity. Yet two paradoxical features characterise its conduct fairly uniformly; extensive practice and intensive abhorrence of corruption.
In the several recent surveys of popular perceptions of corruptions, politicians of course invariably and understandably top the list, closely followed by bureaucrats, policemen, lawyers, businessmen and others. The quintessential middle class. If teachers do not figure high on this priority list, it is not for lack of trying, but for lack of opportunities. Over the years, the sense of shock over acts of corruption in the middle class has witnessed a steady decline, as its ambitions for a better material life have soared but the resources for meeting such ambitions have not kept pace.
What is fascinating, however, is the intense yearning of this class for a clean corruptionless politics and society, a yearning that has again and again surfaced with any figure, public or obscure, who focuses on his mission of eradicating corruption. Even the repeated failure of this promise on virtually every man's part has not subjected it to the law of diminishing returns.
Teachers are not high on the list of corruption because they do not have
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: Opportunities
The passage says that if teachers do not figure high on the list, it is not for lack of trying, but for lack of opportunities. That wording rules out any explanation resting on their character or their willingness.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
The first step is for us to realise that a city need not to be frustrater of life,it can be among other things,A mechanism for enhancing life, for producing possibilities of living which are not to be realized except through cities. But for that to happen deliberate and drastic planning is needed. Towns as much as animals must have their system for organs-those for transport and circulation are an obvious example. What we need now are organ system for recreation, leisure, culture, community expression. This means abundance of open space, easy access to unspoilt nature, beauty in parks and in fine buildings, gymnasia and swimming baths and recreation grounds in plenty, central spaces for celebrations and demonstrations, halls for citizens’ meetings, concert halls and theatres and cinemas that belong to the city. And the buildings must not be built anyhow or dumped down anywhere. both they and their grouping should mean something important to the people of the place.
"The building must not be built anyhow and dumped down anywhere" ......the statement implies that the building:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: Should be built according to some suitable design, not indiscriminately.
Anyhow and anywhere are the two words the sentence objects to, so it is arguing against carelessness in both design and placement. The passage adds that buildings and their grouping should mean something important to the people of the place, which is a demand for design, not for wider spacing.
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
A pioneer of a reform movement.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It is an apostle.
An apostle is a pioneering advocate of a cause, from the Greek for one sent out. A renegade deserts a cause, an apothecary prepares medicines, and apotheosis is elevation to divine rank.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
A genre of sculpture that ______ and developed between 100 BCE and 700 CE in the ethnically diverse and religiously tolerant cultures of the ancient region of Gandhara is the anthropomorphic depiction of Lord Buddha. The body of sculptural art ______ this period is unique for its syncretic character, ______ stylistic influences of the Hellenistic, Persian and Kushan cultures.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The right set is 'arose', 'from' and 'combining'. A genre of sculpture 'arose and developed' over the period named. The body of sculptural art 'from this period' is unique, and the last clause 'combining stylistic influences of the Hellenistic, Persian and Kushan cultures' gives the reason for its syncretic character. 'Ensued' and 'appeared' do not pair as well with 'and developed', and 'since', 'of' and 'at' do not fit before 'this period', and 'cooperating' and 'fusing' do not suit the influences as 'combining' does.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 14 To 14 ] :
It is possible to _______ a data source before performing a merge.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: all of the above
The data source is an ordinary table of records, so it can be created within Word, edited afterwards, and sorted or filtered before the merge is run - which is how a merge is restricted to part of a list.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 15 To 20 ] :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The 2012 Olympic Games were held in London, England, from 27 July to 12 August.
London became the first city to host the modern Games three times, having also staged them in 1908 and 1948.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Barcelona won La Liga in the 2014–15 season, finishing two points ahead of Real Madrid.
They completed a treble that year, adding the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, with Messi, Suárez and Neymar scoring 122 goals between them.
October 1 is observed as-
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
1 October is World Vegetarian Day.
The North American Vegetarian Society began it in 1977, and it opens Vegetarian Awareness Month. It is also the International Day of Older Persons.
May 12 is observed as-
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
12 May is International Nurses Day.
It is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, born in 1820, who founded modern nursing during the Crimean War and established the first professional nursing school in London in 1860.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Shade of Swords was written by M.J. Akbar, published in 2002.
Subtitled 'Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity', it traces the idea of jihad from the seventh century to the present.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Seventh Plan gave the greatest weight to energy.
Running from 1985 to 1990 with the theme 'food, work and productivity', it allocated about 30 per cent of outlay to the energy sector, on the view that power shortages were the binding constraint on industrial growth.
Marks
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20