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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
Both the numerator and the denominator of \(\frac{3}{4}\) are increased by a positive integer, \(x\), and those of \(\frac{15}{17}\) are decreased by the same integer. This operation results in the same value for both the fractions.
What is the value of \(x\)?
In a zoo, there are Rabbits and Pigeons. If the heads are counted, there are 200 and if legs are counted, there are 580. How many pigeons are there?
Find the compound interest on Rs. 25000 in 2 years at 4% per annum. The interest being compounded half yearly.
If \(\sqrt{(3+3\sqrt{x})} = 2\), then \(x\) is equal to:
Reasoning [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
A * B means A and B are of the same age;
A - B means B is younger than A;
A + B means A is younger than B;
X + Y + Z is same as toX + Y + Z is same as to
English Language [ Question No: 6 To 12 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Choose the correct indirect speech of the sentences given in the questions below (Q 81 to Q 82):
He said, "I am glad to be here this evening".
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Directions : Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Born out of the forces of globalization, India's IT sector is undertaking some globalization of its own. In search of new sources of rapid growth, the country's outsourcing giants are aggressively expanding beyond their usual stomping grounds into the developing world; setting up programming centres, chasing new clients and hiring local talent. Through geographic diversification, Indian companies hope to regain some momentum after the recession. This shift is being driven by a global economy in which the US is no longer the undisputed engine of growth. India's IT powers rose to prominence largely on the decisions made by American executives, who were quick to capitalize on the cost savings to be gained by outsourcing noncore operations, such as systems programming and call centres, to specialists overseas.
Revenues in India's IT sector surged from $4 billion in 1998 to $59 billion last fiscal, but with the recession NASSCOM forecasts that the growth rate of India's exports of IT and other business services to the US and Europe will drop to at most 7% in the current fiscal year, down from 16% last year and 29% in 2007-08.
Factors other than the crisis are driving India's IT firms into the emerging world. Although the US still accounts for 60% of the export revenue of India's IT sector, emerging markets are growing faster. Tapping these more dynamic economies won't be easy, however. The goal of Indian IT firms for the past 30 years has been to woo clients outside India and transfer as much of the actual work as possible back home, where lower wages for highly skilled programmers allowed them to offer significant cost savings. With costs in other emerging economies equally low, Indian firms can't compete on price alone.
To adapt, Indian companies which are relatively unknown in these emerging nations are establishing major local operations around the world, in the process hiring thousands of locals. Cultural conflicts arise at times while training new recruits. In addition, IT firms also have to work extra hard to woo business from emerging-market companies still unaccustomed to the concept of outsourcing. If successful, the future of India's outsourcing sector could prove as bright as its past.
What do the NASSCOM statistics about Indian IT exports indicate?
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
The boy
(P) with big blue eyes
(Q)watched him,
(R) and he never said a word
(S) that had an uncanny cold fire in them
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Select the combination of numbers so that letters/words arranged accordingly will form meaningful word
In each of the following questions, find which one word cannot be made from the letters of the given word.
KNOWLEDGE
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
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: 11 To 11 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
Tarred with the same brush
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
In a little-publicised deal, Pepsi, Cola has ...... the entire soft drink market in Afghanistan.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 13 To 15 ] :
Programming language which is used for scientific purposes and work is to be done in batches is
What is the full form of "CAD"?
Which best describes a fragmented hard drive:
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 19 ] :
How many Indian states share their border with Rajasthan?
Current Affairs [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
Tripura Government has launched an online Portal named ________ to help the people of the State to avail benefits from various Government Schemes.
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
Both the numerator and the denominator of \(\frac{3}{4}\) are increased by a positive integer, \(x\), and those of \(\frac{15}{17}\) are decreased by the same integer. This operation results in the same value for both the fractions.
What is the value of \(x\)?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
\(x = 3\).
After the change the two fractions are \(\frac{3 + x}{4 + x}\) and \(\frac{15 - x}{17 - x}\). Setting them equal and cross-multiplying:
\[ \begin{aligned} (3 + x)(17 - x) &= (15 - x)(4 + x) \\ 51 + 14x - x^{2} &= 60 + 11x - x^{2} \\ 3x &= 9,\quad x = 3 \end{aligned} \]
Check: \(6/7\) and \(12/14 = 6/7\). With 1, 2 or 4 the fractions differ, for example \(4/5\) against \(14/16 = 7/8\) for x = 1.
In a zoo, there are Rabbits and Pigeons. If the heads are counted, there are 200 and if legs are counted, there are 580. How many pigeons are there?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
There are 110 pigeons.
Let there be \(r\) rabbits and \(p\) pigeons. Each has one head; rabbits have 4 legs and pigeons 2:
\[ \begin{aligned} r + p &= 200 \\ 4r + 2p &= 580 \\ 2r &= 580 - 400 = 180 \end{aligned} \]
So \(r = 90\) and \(p = 110\). Check: \(4 \times 90 + 2 \times 110 = 580\). 105, 115 and 120 pigeons give 590, 570 and 560 legs.
Find the compound interest on Rs. 25000 in 2 years at 4% per annum. The interest being compounded half yearly.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
\[ A = P\left(1 + \frac{R}{100}\right)^{n}, \qquad \text{CI} = A - P, \qquad \text{SI} = \frac{PRn}{100} \]
Half-yearly compounding halves the rate and doubles the number of periods.
\[ \text{rate} = \frac{4}{2} = 2\% \text{ per half-year}, \qquad n = 2 \times 2 = 4 \]
\[ A = 25000 \times (1.02)^{4} = 25000 \times 1.08243216 = 27{,}060.804 \]
\[ \text{CI} = 27060.804 - 25000 = \text{Rs. } 2060.804 \]
Annual compounding at 4% would give only Rs. 2040 - compounding more often always earns a little more.
If \(\sqrt{(3+3\sqrt{x})} = 2\), then \(x\) is equal to:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Exp: On squaring both sides, we get:
\(3+3\sqrt{x} = 4\) or \(3\sqrt{x} = 1\)
Cubing both sides, we get \(x = (1\times 1\times 1) = 1\)
Reasoning [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
A * B means A and B are of the same age;
A - B means B is younger than A;
A + B means A is younger than B;
X + Y + Z is same as toX + Y + Z is same as to
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: Z-Y-X
X + Y means X is younger than Y, and Y + Z means Y is younger than Z, so the ages run \( X < Y < Z \). Now read Z − Y − X: the first says Y is younger than Z, the second that X is younger than Y. That is the same ordering expressed with the other symbol, so the two statements are equivalent.
English Language [ Question No: 6 To 12 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Choose the correct indirect speech of the sentences given in the questions below (Q 81 to Q 82):
He said, "I am glad to be here this evening".
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The answer is None of the above.
In reported speech the pronoun, tense and words of place and time all shift: I becomes he, am becomes was, here becomes there, and this evening becomes that evening. The correct form is: He said that he was glad to be there that evening.
The first option changes nothing. The second changes the pronoun and tense but keeps here this evening. The third uses exclaimed, which the plain statement does not justify, and drops the verb be. Since none is right, the last option is.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Directions : Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Born out of the forces of globalization, India's IT sector is undertaking some globalization of its own. In search of new sources of rapid growth, the country's outsourcing giants are aggressively expanding beyond their usual stomping grounds into the developing world; setting up programming centres, chasing new clients and hiring local talent. Through geographic diversification, Indian companies hope to regain some momentum after the recession. This shift is being driven by a global economy in which the US is no longer the undisputed engine of growth. India's IT powers rose to prominence largely on the decisions made by American executives, who were quick to capitalize on the cost savings to be gained by outsourcing noncore operations, such as systems programming and call centres, to specialists overseas.
Revenues in India's IT sector surged from $4 billion in 1998 to $59 billion last fiscal, but with the recession NASSCOM forecasts that the growth rate of India's exports of IT and other business services to the US and Europe will drop to at most 7% in the current fiscal year, down from 16% last year and 29% in 2007-08.
Factors other than the crisis are driving India's IT firms into the emerging world. Although the US still accounts for 60% of the export revenue of India's IT sector, emerging markets are growing faster. Tapping these more dynamic economies won't be easy, however. The goal of Indian IT firms for the past 30 years has been to woo clients outside India and transfer as much of the actual work as possible back home, where lower wages for highly skilled programmers allowed them to offer significant cost savings. With costs in other emerging economies equally low, Indian firms can't compete on price alone.
To adapt, Indian companies which are relatively unknown in these emerging nations are establishing major local operations around the world, in the process hiring thousands of locals. Cultural conflicts arise at times while training new recruits. In addition, IT firms also have to work extra hard to woo business from emerging-market companies still unaccustomed to the concept of outsourcing. If successful, the future of India's outsourcing sector could prove as bright as its past.
What do the NASSCOM statistics about Indian IT exports indicate?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The key's answer is drop in demand for IT services by Europe and the US.
The passage says NASSCOM forecasts that the growth rate of India's exports of IT and other business services to the US and Europe 'will drop to at most 7% in the current fiscal year, down from 16% last year and 29% in 2007-08'. The statistics therefore show slowing demand from those two markets during the recession.
To be exact, the figures are a falling growth rate and not an absolute fall, so the option is the closest reading and not a precise one. The other options claim things the passage never says: that Indian firms overcharge, that India has lost out to other emerging IT hubs, or that the sector must be restructured.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
The boy
(P) with big blue eyes
(Q)watched him,
(R) and he never said a word
(S) that had an uncanny cold fire in them
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: QPSR
The sentence reads:
The boy watched him, with big blue eyes that had an uncanny cold fire in them, and he never said a word.
Q supplies the main verb for the boy. P and S then describe the eyes, and S must follow P because that had… in them is a relative clause needing eyes before it. R joins the second main clause with and.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Select the combination of numbers so that letters/words arranged accordingly will form meaningful word
In each of the following questions, find which one word cannot be made from the letters of the given word.
KNOWLEDGE
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: GODOWN
GODOWN needs two Os, and the word has only one, which KNOWLEDGE does not contain. WEDGE, KLEEN and GOLDEN can all be spelt from its letters. The quickest method is not to try building each option but to look for one letter the option needs and the source word lacks.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
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 were you.
The two halves of the alternative question must be parallel. The second half is you had to do it, a statement, so the first should match - or the second should be inverted to did you have to do it.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
Tarred with the same brush
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It means birds of the same feather.
To be tarred with the same brush is to share the same faults as another, from the tar once brushed on all the sheep of a flock alike.
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
In a little-publicised deal, Pepsi, Cola has ...... the entire soft drink market in Afghanistan.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: captured
Capture the market is the established business idiom for taking it over.
Occupied and conquered belong to territory, and swallowed would be used of taking over a company, not a market.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 13 To 15 ] :
Programming language which is used for scientific purposes and work is to be done in batches is
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: FORTRAN
FORTRAN was designed for numerical scientific work, and such work has traditionally been submitted as batch jobs rather than run interactively. LOGO, COMAL and Pascal are teaching languages.
What is the full form of "CAD"?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: Computer Aided Design
CAD is the use of software to create and modify designs, replacing the drawing board.
Which best describes a fragmented hard drive:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: Files are not stored in consecutive clusters
Fragmentation is a matter of layout, not of damage: as files are created and deleted, a new file is written into whatever gaps exist, so its clusters end up scattered and the head must seek between them.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 19 ] :
How many Indian states share their border with Rajasthan?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Rajasthan borders 5 Indian states.
They are Punjab to the north, Haryana to the north-east, Uttar Pradesh to the east, Madhya Pradesh to the south-east and Gujarat to the south-west. On the west it has an international border with Pakistan.
The smaller numbers leave out some of these neighbours. Of the five, Madhya Pradesh shares the longest border with Rajasthan and Punjab the shortest.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The botanical name of soyabean is Glycine max.
It is a legume, so it fixes nitrogen through root nodules, and its seed is about 40 per cent protein - the highest of any widely grown crop. Pisum sativum is the pea and Brassica nigra black mustard.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It is Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Robert Kanigel's 1991 biography traces the clerk from Kumbakonam who sent his results to Hardy at Cambridge in 1913, and the collaboration that followed. Ramanujan died at 32, leaving notebooks still being worked through.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Charachar (1993) is the film by Buddhadeb Dasgupta.
Based on a story by Prafulla Roy, it follows a bird catcher who can no longer bring himself to cage birds. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.
Current Affairs [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
Tripura Government has launched an online Portal named ________ to help the people of the State to avail benefits from various Government Schemes.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The portal is Jagrut Tripura.
The Tripura government launched the Jagrut Tripura online portal in 2021 so that people could find out which government schemes they were eligible for and how to apply for their benefits, without depending on intermediaries.
'Nirbar Tripura', 'Jan Tripura' and 'Yojan Tripura' are not the names of this portal.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20