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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
Visualize two identical right circular cones such that one is inverted over the other and they share a common circular base. If a cutting plane passes through the vertices of the assembled cones, what shape does the outer boundary of the resulting cross-section make?
If the average of the numbers 2x + 3, 3x + 2, 25, x + 6, 26, x + 5 is 17, then what is the average of (4x + 3) and (7x - 8)?
Study the following graph which describes the percentage breakup of the total expenditure of four persons (P, Q, R and S) on three items (A, B and C) and answer the question. Please note that any point shown in the middle is the average of the values below and above (e.g., R).
The total expenditure of persons P, R and S on the given three items are ₹ 4000, ₹ 6400 and ₹ 3500, respectively. What is the total expenditure of P on item C, of R on item B and of S on item A?
Reasoning [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Study the following passage carefully and answer the questions.
Indian granite industry is in peril in the absence of a uniform policy from the State Governments, despite the
thrust given by liberalisation policies of the Union Government in the last two years. Compared to the remark-
-able progress in the field during the last three years, the absence of matching policies by State Governments
had put granite quarry owners and others involved in the industry on the verge of collapse in the international
market. The policies differed from state to state, had created problems as far as loyalty, dead rent and duration
of lease were concerned.
The Union Governments liberalisation policy became applicable to granite industry only during the last two years.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by three assumptions numbered I, II and III. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions, decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement and choose your answer accordingly.
Statement: "Fly with us and experience the pleasure of flying."- An advertisement by an airlines.
Assumptions:
1. More passengers may be attracted to travel by the airline after reading the advertisement.
2. People generally may prefer an enjoyable flight.
3. Other airlines may not be offering the same facilities
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Each question given below consists of a statement, followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the arguments is a 'strong' argument and which is a 'weak' argument.
Give answer:
- (A) If only argument I is strong
- (B) If only argument II is strong
- (C) If either I or II is strong
- (D) If neither I nor II is strong and
- (E) If both I and II are strong.
Statement: Should all the unauthorized structures in the city be demolished?
Arguments:
1. No. Where will the people residing in such houses live?
2. Yes. This will give a clear message to general public and they will refrain from constructing unauthorized buildings.
Given below are four statements.
Statement 1: All students are inquisitive.
Statement 2: Some students are inquisitive.
Statement 3: No student is inquisitive.
Statement 4: Some students are not inquisitive.
From the given four statements, find the two statements that CANNOT BE TRUE simultaneously, assuming that there is at least one student in the class.
Emerson said that the poet was landlord, Sealord, airlord. The flight of imagination made the poet master of land, sea and air. But a poet's dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement and a reality for all men. Even those who invented, improved and perfected the aeroplane could hardly have dreamt of the possibility of flight into outer space.
The passage best supports the statement that:
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 10 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
The secret to tightrope walking is to grasp the rope between the toes and distribute one's weight evenly on the soles of one's _____________.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 11 To 13 ] :
ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does EBCDIC stand for ?
In programming language BASIC, area is calculated as
A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 14 To 20 ] :
Drought is a condition which is the result of high variability in annual rain fall accompanied by: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
The continental shelf is
The Tropic of Capricorn lies at approximately
Pali Texts are associated with ?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
Visualize two identical right circular cones such that one is inverted over the other and they share a common circular base. If a cutting plane passes through the vertices of the assembled cones, what shape does the outer boundary of the resulting cross-section make?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The outline is a rhombus.
A plane through both apexes contains the common axis of the two cones. It cuts each cone in an isosceles triangle whose base is a diameter of the shared circular base. The two triangles share that diameter as a common side and point in opposite directions, so together they form a quadrilateral with all four sides equal to the slant height: a rhombus.
A single triangle would come from cutting one cone only. An ellipse arises when a plane cuts a cone without passing through its apex, and a hexagon cannot come from two cones.
If the average of the numbers 2x + 3, 3x + 2, 25, x + 6, 26, x + 5 is 17, then what is the average of (4x + 3) and (7x - 8)?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The average is 25. The six numbers add up to \[(2x+3)+(3x+2)+25+(x+6)+26+(x+5) = 7x + 67\] Their average is 17, so the sum is 6 x 17 = 102. Then 7x = 35 and x = 5. Hence 4x + 3 = 23 and 7x - 8 = 27, and the average of 23 and 27 is 25. The other options come from slips such as wrong x or adding instead of averaging.
Study the following graph which describes the percentage breakup of the total expenditure of four persons (P, Q, R and S) on three items (A, B and C) and answer the question. Please note that any point shown in the middle is the average of the values below and above (e.g., R).
The total expenditure of persons P, R and S on the given three items are ₹ 4000, ₹ 6400 and ₹ 3500, respectively. What is the total expenditure of P on item C, of R on item B and of S on item A?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The total is 5150 rupees. Reading the triangular graph, each point shows the share of the three items. P has 25 % on item A, 50 % on item B and 25 % on item C. R has 12.5 % on A, 37.5 % on B and 50 % on C. S has 50 % on A, 37.5 % on B and 12.5 % on C. P on item C: 25 % of 4000 = 1000. R on item B: 37.5 % of 6400 = 2400. S on item A: 50 % of 3500 = 1750. The sum is 1000 + 2400 + 1750 = 5150. The values were read from the grid lines, with R marked as the midpoint of the values below and above it, as the question notes.
Reasoning [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Study the following passage carefully and answer the questions.
Indian granite industry is in peril in the absence of a uniform policy from the State Governments, despite the
thrust given by liberalisation policies of the Union Government in the last two years. Compared to the remark-
-able progress in the field during the last three years, the absence of matching policies by State Governments
had put granite quarry owners and others involved in the industry on the verge of collapse in the international
market. The policies differed from state to state, had created problems as far as loyalty, dead rent and duration
of lease were concerned.
The Union Governments liberalisation policy became applicable to granite industry only during the last two years.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: Definitely true
The passage refers to the thrust given by the liberalisation policies of the Union Government in the last two years. That dates the Union Government’s impetus to the granite industry to those two years, which is exactly what the statement asserts. The contrast the passage draws - the Centre’s thrust against the states’ inaction - depends on that timing.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by three assumptions numbered I, II and III. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions, decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement and choose your answer accordingly.
Statement: "Fly with us and experience the pleasure of flying."- An advertisement by an airlines.
Assumptions:
1. More passengers may be attracted to travel by the airline after reading the advertisement.
2. People generally may prefer an enjoyable flight.
3. Other airlines may not be offering the same facilities
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : E
Clearly, the advertisement is meant to lure the passengers into travelling by the airline. So, I is implicit. Also, the advertisement promises an enjoyable flight. So, II is also implicit. The facilities offered by other airlines cannot be ascertained from the statement. So, III is not implicit.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Each question given below consists of a statement, followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the arguments is a 'strong' argument and which is a 'weak' argument.
Give answer:
- (A) If only argument I is strong
- (B) If only argument II is strong
- (C) If either I or II is strong
- (D) If neither I nor II is strong and
- (E) If both I and II are strong.
Statement: Should all the unauthorized structures in the city be demolished?
Arguments:
1. No. Where will the people residing in such houses live?
2. Yes. This will give a clear message to general public and they will refrain from constructing unauthorized buildings.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The demolition of unauthorized buildings would teach a lesson to the unscrupulous builders and also serve as a warning for the citizens not to indulge in such activities in the future. This is essential, as unauthorized constructions impose undue burden on the city's infrastructure. So, only argument II holds strong
Given below are four statements.
Statement 1: All students are inquisitive.
Statement 2: Some students are inquisitive.
Statement 3: No student is inquisitive.
Statement 4: Some students are not inquisitive.
From the given four statements, find the two statements that CANNOT BE TRUE simultaneously, assuming that there is at least one student in the class.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The two statements that cannot both be true are Statement 1 and Statement 3.
'All students are inquisitive' and 'No student is inquisitive' are contraries: with at least one student in the class, that student would have to be both inquisitive and not inquisitive.
The other pairs can hold together. If all students are inquisitive, then some students are inquisitive too, so 1 and 2 are compatible. 'Some are' and 'some are not' are both true in a mixed class, so 2 and 4 are compatible. If no student is inquisitive, then certainly some students are not, so 3 and 4 are compatible.
Emerson said that the poet was landlord, Sealord, airlord. The flight of imagination made the poet master of land, sea and air. But a poet's dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement and a reality for all men. Even those who invented, improved and perfected the aeroplane could hardly have dreamt of the possibility of flight into outer space.
The passage best supports the statement that:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.
The passage traces one line: the poet imagines mastery of land, sea and air; a poet’s dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement; and flight, once imagined, was built and then surpassed by flight into space.
So imagination is presented as the first step towards achievement, not as a test of poetic skill and not as a claim that every imagining comes true - the passage speaks of what has been realised, not of everything conceivable.
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 10 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The opposite is upset.
Stoical means bearing pain or trouble without complaint. Aloof, cool and stolid all describe the same detachment; upset is the state a stoic does not show.
The secret to tightrope walking is to grasp the rope between the toes and distribute one's weight evenly on the soles of one's _____________.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is feet.
Feet are what one stands on. A feat is a remarkable act, and the two sound the same - the previous question in this set turns on the other one.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 11 To 13 ] :
ASCII and EBCDIC are the popular character coding systems. What does EBCDIC stand for ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
EBCDIC stands for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.
EBCDIC is an 8-bit character code developed by IBM for its mainframe computers. It extended the earlier 6-bit Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) code, which is where 'Binary Coded Decimal' in its name comes from. ASCII, used by most other computers, is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
The other expansions replace 'Binary Coded' with 'Bit Code' or 'Bit Case', which are not part of the name.
In programming language BASIC, area is calculated as
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: 100 Area=Width*Length
A BASIC statement begins with its line number, and assignment uses a plain equals sign: 100 Area=Width*Length. The := of the other options belongs to Pascal, and a statement without a line number would not be stored in the program.
A modern electronic computer is a machine that is meant for
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: Input, storage, manipulation and outputting of data
A computer is defined by the cycle it performs: it accepts data, stores it, manipulates it under the control of a program, and outputs the result. Fast arithmetic and repetitive accuracy are consequences of that ability, not the definition of it.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 14 To 20 ] :
Drought is a condition which is the result of high variability in annual rain fall accompanied by: (Choose the most appropriate option from below)
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Drought is accompanied by water shortage.
A drought results when rainfall fails or is far below normal for a long period, so that the water available falls short of what people, crops and animals need. In Rajasthan, where rainfall varies greatly from year to year, the resulting water shortage affects drinking water, agriculture and fodder alike.
A large volume of water is the opposite of drought, and a high yield of coarse grain is not what failed rains produce. Low fodder yield is a consequence of drought rather than the condition that defines it.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Biogas is mainly methane.
It is typically 55–65 per cent \(\mathrm{CH_4}\) with most of the rest carbon dioxide, produced when methanogenic bacteria digest cattle dung and other organic waste in the absence of air. The methane is what makes it burn.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
An octane number of zero is assigned to n-heptane.
The scale is defined by two reference fuels: n-heptane, which knocks badly, is 0, and iso-octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane), which resists knocking, is 100. A fuel of octane number 90 behaves like a mixture of 90 per cent iso-octane and 10 per cent n-heptane. Branching raises the octane number.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
India's football team first appeared at the Olympics at London in 1948, losing 2–1 to France in the first round.
Several of the Indian players took the field barefoot, which is the detail the match is chiefly remembered for.
The continental shelf is
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: The gently sloping submerged margin of a continent
The continental shelf is the shallow, gently sloping platform extending from the shoreline to the point where the seabed steepens sharply at the shelf break, typically at around 130 to 200 metres depth. Geologically it is part of the continent, not the ocean basin, and was dry land during ice ages when sea level was lower. Its width varies greatly - barely a few kilometres off western South America, hundreds off Siberia. It is economically the most valuable part of the ocean. Sunlight reaches the bottom, so it supports the plankton that underpin nearly all the world’s major fisheries, and almost all offshore oil and gas is found beneath it - Mumbai High lies on India’s shelf. Under the Law of the Sea, coastal states hold rights over the resources of their shelf. Beyond it the continental slope descends to the rise and then to the abyssal plain, the vast flat expanse making up most of the ocean floor.
The Tropic of Capricorn lies at approximately
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: 23.5° South
The Tropic of Capricorn lies at about 23.5° South, the southern counterpart of the Tropic of Cancer, and its position is set by the same 23.5° tilt of the Earth’s axis. It marks the southernmost latitude at which the Sun can stand directly overhead, which happens there once a year at the December solstice - midsummer in the southern hemisphere. It crosses Australia, southern Africa through Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique, and South America through Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, passing close to São Paulo. The names of both tropics are a fossil of ancient astronomy: two thousand years ago the Sun stood in the constellation Capricornus at the December solstice. Precession has since shifted it into Sagittarius, but the names have stuck. India lies wholly north of the equator, so the Tropic of Capricorn does not touch it.
Pali Texts are associated with ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
They belong to Buddhism.
The Pali canon, the Tipitaka, is the scripture of Theravada Buddhism, preserved orally and written down in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20