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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
A father is three times as old as his son. Eight years ago, the father was five times as old as his son. What is the present age of the son ?
If \(x, 2x+2, 3x+3\) are in G.P., then the 4th term is:
Two trains are moving in opposite directions @ 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is:
The positive integers mm and nn leave remainders of 2 and 3, respectively, when divided by 6. m>nm>n.
What is the remainder when m-nm-n is divided by 6?
English Language [ Question No: 5 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Although religion does not inhibit the acquisition of wealth, although it does not hold up large fortunes as evil, the tenor of its teaching, by and large, is to induce an attitude of indifference to worldly things, things which gratify one's lower self and keep one engrossed in money-making. The student should be made to realise that the real goods of life are spiritual, love of things of the spirit and service of one's fellowmen, joy of an ordered disciplined life. These are blessings money cannot buy. What is wealth before such things of the spirit? Of all religious teachers, Jesus Christ has dealt more comprehensively than any other with the problem of wealth in all its aspects. He may be called the greatest exponent of the science of wealth. With only four words “Blessed are ye poor!” he changed altogether the values which man attached to human existence and human happiness and acquisition and possession of wealth. Real bliss consisted, he taught, not in riches nor in anything else which the world regarded as prosperity or felicity, but in the joy and happiness derived from being at peace with one's fellowmen through perfect love and fellowship and selfless service and sacrifice.
The word “poor” on the lips of the Master had a spiritual significance – the poor so far as they were poor in spirit, humble before God, simple, God-fearing, teachable, faithful, it could surely not have been his intention to hold up destitution and privation as a blessing in itself, that would have turned life into a terrible ordeal and it would have been heartless to exhort the poor to believe that money was not necessary for one's sustenance or the joys and blessings of life. Even things of the spirit cannot be had without money. Extreme poverty is as liable to lead to the stagnation and impoverishment of the soul as excessive wealth. Not outward poverty but inward spirit was what Jesus Christ desired and demanded. Every religion asks a man to regard his wealth as a trust. Giving in charity for the relief of the poor and public welfare is not merely an act of compassion, not merely a religious duty, but also an act of social justice. All the gospels of wealth are based on the fundamental concept that none can claim an absolute or inherent right to property. Everyone holds it in trust from God to promote the good of mankind. All rights to private property are subject to this primary obligation to God and man.
Which of the following statements explains the idea contained in the following line?
"Every religion asks a man to regard his wealth as a trust."
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
White elephant
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 9 To 17 ] :
The decimal system of note and coin issue was started in India in______-.
The 2017 National Hindi Day (NHD) is celebrated on which day in India?
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament is appointed by the
Child Development and Pedagogy [ Question No: 18 To 20 ] :
Which principle of development is illustrated in the following statement ?
"Children who are deprived of a conducive environment for learning language in their early years have some difficulty in picking language later in life."
Read the following statements :
Assertion (A) : Teachers should include a variety of children's literature to create print-rich environment in the classroom.
Reason (R) : Classrooms rich in literacy materials and literacy experiences are central to effective learning.
Choose the correct option.
Read the following statements and choose the appropriate response from the options given below:
Statement-1 Societies wherein generations of families are linked through the father's line are said to be patriarchal in nature.
Statement-2 Patriarchy as a way of life has affected men as much as it has affected women, across the world.
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
A father is three times as old as his son. Eight years ago, the father was five times as old as his son. What is the present age of the son ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The son is 16 years old.
Let the son be s years old, so the father is 3s. Eight years ago the father was five times as old.
\[ \begin{aligned} 3s - 8 &= 5(s - 8) \\ 3s - 8 &= 5s - 40 \Rightarrow s = 16 \end{aligned} \]
Check: the father is 48; eight years ago they were 40 and 8, and 40 = 5 x 8. 12, 14 and 20 fail this check.
If \(x, 2x+2, 3x+3\) are in G.P., then the 4th term is:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
If the terms are in G.P., the ratio of consecutive terms is constant. So, \(\frac{2x+2}{x} = \frac{3x+3}{2x+2}\). \((2x+2)^2 = x(3x+3) \Rightarrow 4x^2+8x+4 = 3x^2+3x \Rightarrow x^2+5x+4=0 \Rightarrow (x+1)(x+4)=0\). So \(x=-1\) or \(x=-4\). If x=-1, terms are -1, 0, 0 (not a G.P.). If x=-4, terms are -4, -6, -9. This is a G.P. with \(r = -6/-4 = 3/2\). The 4th term is \(-9 \times (3/2) = -27/2 = -13.5\).
Two trains are moving in opposite directions @ 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Trains moving in the same direction close at the difference of their speeds; in opposite directions, at the sum.
\[ \text{relative speed} = 60 + 90 = 150 \text{ km/hr} = 150 \times \frac{5}{18} = \frac{125}{3} \text{ m/s} \]
\[ \text{total length} = 1100 + 900 = 2000 \text{ m} \]
\[ t = \frac{2000 \times 3}{125} = 48 \text{ seconds} \]
The lengths are given in kilometres and must be converted to metres first.
The positive integers mm and nn leave remainders of 2 and 3, respectively, when divided by 6. m>nm>n.
What is the remainder when m-nm-n is divided by 6?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
We are given that the numbers mm and nn, when divided by 6, leave remainders of 2 and 3, respectively.
Hence, we can represent the numbers mm and nn as 6p+26p+2 and 6q+36q+3, respectively, where pp and qq are suitable integers.
Now,
m−n=(6p+2)−(6q+3)
=6p−6q−1
=6(p−q)−1
A remainder must be positive, so let’s add 6 to this expression and compensate by subtracting 6:
6(p−q)−1=6(p−q)−6+6−1
=6(p−q)−6+5
=6(p−q−1)+5
Thus, the remainder is 5
English Language [ Question No: 5 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Although religion does not inhibit the acquisition of wealth, although it does not hold up large fortunes as evil, the tenor of its teaching, by and large, is to induce an attitude of indifference to worldly things, things which gratify one's lower self and keep one engrossed in money-making. The student should be made to realise that the real goods of life are spiritual, love of things of the spirit and service of one's fellowmen, joy of an ordered disciplined life. These are blessings money cannot buy. What is wealth before such things of the spirit? Of all religious teachers, Jesus Christ has dealt more comprehensively than any other with the problem of wealth in all its aspects. He may be called the greatest exponent of the science of wealth. With only four words “Blessed are ye poor!” he changed altogether the values which man attached to human existence and human happiness and acquisition and possession of wealth. Real bliss consisted, he taught, not in riches nor in anything else which the world regarded as prosperity or felicity, but in the joy and happiness derived from being at peace with one's fellowmen through perfect love and fellowship and selfless service and sacrifice.
The word “poor” on the lips of the Master had a spiritual significance – the poor so far as they were poor in spirit, humble before God, simple, God-fearing, teachable, faithful, it could surely not have been his intention to hold up destitution and privation as a blessing in itself, that would have turned life into a terrible ordeal and it would have been heartless to exhort the poor to believe that money was not necessary for one's sustenance or the joys and blessings of life. Even things of the spirit cannot be had without money. Extreme poverty is as liable to lead to the stagnation and impoverishment of the soul as excessive wealth. Not outward poverty but inward spirit was what Jesus Christ desired and demanded. Every religion asks a man to regard his wealth as a trust. Giving in charity for the relief of the poor and public welfare is not merely an act of compassion, not merely a religious duty, but also an act of social justice. All the gospels of wealth are based on the fundamental concept that none can claim an absolute or inherent right to property. Everyone holds it in trust from God to promote the good of mankind. All rights to private property are subject to this primary obligation to God and man.
Which of the following statements explains the idea contained in the following line?
"Every religion asks a man to regard his wealth as a trust."
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The line says every religion asks a man to regard his wealth as a trust, and the passage explains this a few sentences later: all the gospels of wealth rest on the idea that no one has an absolute right to property, and everyone holds it in trust from God to promote the good of mankind. The first option restates that idea.
Giving in charity is described as an act of social justice, but that is a consequence of the trust idea, not an explanation of it. Religious institutes holding rights to private property is not said anywhere. The passage does not tell people to give away excessive wealth either; it says rights to property are subject to the obligation to God and man. The first option is the answer.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The error is in I had hoped to have met him yesterday.
The perfect infinitive after had hoped doubles the pastness. Had hoped already places the hope in the past, so the infinitive stays plain: I had hoped to meet him.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
White elephant
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
It means a possession of little use and great expense.
The kings of Siam are said to have given a sacred white elephant to a courtier they wished to ruin: it could not be worked or given away, and the cost of keeping it broke him.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is tears.
To tear, rhyming with air, is to rip. Tares are weeds, from the parable of the wheat and the tares, and the two are pronounced identically.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 9 To 17 ] :
The decimal system of note and coin issue was started in India in______-.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
It was 1957.
Decimal coinage began on 1 April 1957, dividing the rupee into 100 naye paise. The old anna coins remained legal tender alongside them until 1964.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Lightning conductors are made of copper.
Copper conducts almost as well as silver at far less cost, so it carries the enormous discharge current to earth without melting, and it resists corrosion out of doors. The conductor runs from a pointed rod above the roof to a plate buried in moist earth.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Google is a search engine.
The name is a misspelling of googol, the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros, chosen to suggest the scale of the web it indexes. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded it in 1998.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Sulphuric acid is used in refining crude petroleum, in the treating stages that remove sulphur compounds, unsaturated hydrocarbons and gums from the distilled fractions.
The separation of the crude into fractions is done by distillation; the acid treatment is what cleans those fractions up afterwards.
The 2017 National Hindi Day (NHD) is celebrated on which day in India?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Hindi Diwas is celebrated on 14 September.
The Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in Devanagari as an official language of the Union on that date in 1949, and the day has been observed since 1953. World Hindi Day, a separate observance, falls on 10 January.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Raúl Castro became President of Cuba.
He formally took over from his brother Fidel in February 2008, having acted as President since 2006, and served until 2018. He remained First Secretary of the Communist Party until 2021.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Of the figures offered, 15 billion years is nearest the age of the universe. Measurements of the cosmic microwave background now put it more precisely at about 13.8 billion years.
The older textbook estimate of 15 to 20 billion years came from less accurate values of the Hubble constant, and has been steadily refined downward.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
They are in Assam.
Digboi in Tinsukia district is the oldest oilfield in the country, producing since 1889. Naharkatiya and Moran, in Dibrugarh district, were found in the 1950s and their crude is piped to Noonmati, Barauni and Bongaigaon.
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament is appointed by the
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Since 1967 the post has by convention gone to a member of the opposition, which is what allows the committee to scrutinise government spending with real independence. It examines the CAG's reports.
Child Development and Pedagogy [ Question No: 18 To 20 ] :
Which principle of development is illustrated in the following statement ?
"Children who are deprived of a conducive environment for learning language in their early years have some difficulty in picking language later in life."
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The statement illustrates that there is a sensitive period of language development.
A sensitive (or critical) period is a time when a child is especially ready to acquire a particular ability, given the right environment. The early years are such a period for language: children deprived of rich language input then, as in documented cases of extreme neglect, find it much harder to acquire language fully later.
The statement says nothing about genetics deciding language entirely, which would contradict the role it gives to environment. It does not concern the link between language and cognition, and it shows development as orderly and time-sensitive, not disorderly and unpredictable.
Read the following statements :
Assertion (A) : Teachers should include a variety of children's literature to create print-rich environment in the classroom.
Reason (R) : Classrooms rich in literacy materials and literacy experiences are central to effective learning.
Choose the correct option.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
A print-rich classroom surrounds children with books, labels, charts, stories and their own writing. Teachers build it with a variety of children's literature because, as R states, classrooms rich in literacy materials and literacy experiences are central to learning to read and write meaningfully.
R gives the reason the practice in A is recommended, so the option saying R does not explain A is wrong, and neither statement is false.
Read the following statements and choose the appropriate response from the options given below:
Statement-1 Societies wherein generations of families are linked through the father's line are said to be patriarchal in nature.
Statement-2 Patriarchy as a way of life has affected men as much as it has affected women, across the world.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Both statements are true: patriarchal societies trace the line of descent through the father, and patriarchy as a way of life has affected both men and women across the world, though in different ways. The first option as printed is an unrelated phrase, apparently from the next item, a printing error in the booklet. The answer is both the statements are true, option C.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20