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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 2 ] :
The square of a number exceeds the number itself by 132. The positive value of the number is:
If the mean of x, x+2, x+4, x+6, x+8 is 11, then the mean of the last three observations is:
Reasoning [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Give answer
- (A) If only assumption I is implicit
- (B) If only assumption II is implicit
- (C) If either I or II is implicit
- (D) If neither I nor II is implicit
- (E) If both I and II are implicit.
Statement: The civic authority appealed to the people for reduction in usage of water as there may be an acute shortage during the coming weeks.
Assumptions:
1. There will be no rain in recent future.
2. The people are ready to follow the advice of the civic authority.
English Language [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone-you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
Which one of the following words is similar in meaning to the phrase 'made to suit one's needs', as used in the passage?
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Rearrange the following six sentences in proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below.
- The means and methods they employ to deal with public pressures are also different.
- They will make no move unless the gallery is packed.
- The poorest are over-hesitant, evasive and preoccupied with their relationships with others.
- Enourmous difference is generally observed in the ways in which various public officials respond to public pressures.
- The best possess understanding of forces that must be taken in to account, determination not to be swerved from the path of public interest.
- They confront all embarrassments with a state general formula.
Which of the following should be the second sentence ?
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option ‘D’ is the answer
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.
The quality of the raw materials have deteriorated in recent months.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
In the following section the sentences have been given in Direct or Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the most appropriate sentence that best suits the given sentence in Indirect or Direct speech.
She asked him, "What did you say?"
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
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.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 9 To 11 ] :
What are the three options available in Insert >> Picture menu?
Which command brings you to the first slide in your presentation?
Excel is a
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 12 To 18 ] :
One Rutherford is equal to
Irrigation Management and Training Institute is located at which of the following area in Rajasthan ?
Fill in the blanks :
Bakelite is a __A__ and it is used for making __B__. On the other hand, PVC is a __C__ which is used for making __D__.
The Rajya Sabha can authorise Parliament to legislate on a subject in the State List by passing a resolution supported by
How many districts did Telangana have when it was formed?
The members of the parliamentary committee
Current Affairs [ Question No: 19 To 20 ] :
Which Singapore-based student won the Breakthrough Junior Challenge Award in April, 2025 for the work in Mechanogenetic cellular engineering ?
In Lok Sabha Elections 2024, which phase held the fewest Parliamentary seats for election ?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 2 ] :
The square of a number exceeds the number itself by 132. The positive value of the number is:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The condition is \(x^2 - x = 132\), so \(x^2 - x - 132 = 0\) and \((x - 12)(x + 11) = 0\). The positive root is 12. Check: \(144 - 12 = 132\). Looking for two factors of 132 that differ by 1 finds 11 and 12 immediately.
If the mean of x, x+2, x+4, x+6, x+8 is 11, then the mean of the last three observations is:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: 13
The five values are equally spaced, so their mean is the middle one:
\[x + 4 = 11 \quad\Longrightarrow\quad x = 7\]
The observations are therefore 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. The last three are 11, 13 and 15, again equally spaced, so their mean is their middle value:
\[\frac{11 + 13 + 15}{3} = \frac{39}{3} = 13\]
Answering 15 mistakes the largest observation for the mean of the last three.
Reasoning [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Give answer
- (A) If only assumption I is implicit
- (B) If only assumption II is implicit
- (C) If either I or II is implicit
- (D) If neither I nor II is implicit
- (E) If both I and II are implicit.
Statement: The civic authority appealed to the people for reduction in usage of water as there may be an acute shortage during the coming weeks.
Assumptions:
1. There will be no rain in recent future.
2. The people are ready to follow the advice of the civic authority.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Clearly, I is not directly related to the issue in the given statement and so it is not implicit. The civic authority makes an appeal to the people with the hope that it would surely be attended to by the people. So, II is implicit.
English Language [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone-you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
Which one of the following words is similar in meaning to the phrase 'made to suit one's needs', as used in the passage?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The word is Customised.
To customise something is to make or alter it to suit a particular person's needs or wishes, as in a customised holiday package or customised software. 'Made to suit one's needs' is exactly its meaning.
Attached means joined or fastened, or emotionally fond of someone. Plethora means an excess or large quantity, as in a plethora of classes. Gaggle is a flock of geese, or informally a noisy group of people, as in a gaggle of cousins. None of them means made to suit someone's needs.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Rearrange the following six sentences in proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below.
- The means and methods they employ to deal with public pressures are also different.
- They will make no move unless the gallery is packed.
- The poorest are over-hesitant, evasive and preoccupied with their relationships with others.
- Enourmous difference is generally observed in the ways in which various public officials respond to public pressures.
- The best possess understanding of forces that must be taken in to account, determination not to be swerved from the path of public interest.
- They confront all embarrassments with a state general formula.
Which of the following should be the second sentence ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: 1
Second in the rearranged paragraph is sentence 1.
The paragraph runs 4 – 1 – 5 – 3 – 2 – 6:
- 4 states the general observation about how officials differ.
- 1 extends it with also - the means and methods differ too.
- 5 describes the best officials.
- 3 turns to the poorest.
- 2 illustrates them - no move unless the gallery is packed.
- 6 completes the picture with the stock formula.
Sentences 2 and 6 both begin they and describe evasiveness, so they belong with the poorest in 3, not with the best in 5.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option ‘D’ is the answer
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.
The quality of the raw materials have deteriorated in recent months.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: has deteriorated
The subject is the quality, singular, so the verb is has deteriorated. Of the raw materials is a prepositional phrase and cannot supply the subject. This is the classic agreement trap: a singular head noun followed by of and a plural noun, with the plural standing next to the verb and pulling the ear the wrong way. The same pattern appears in the list of items is long, a bunch of keys was found and the cost of vegetables has risen. The remedy is mechanical - strike out everything between the head noun and the verb and read what remains. There is one genuine exception, with expressions of quantity such as a number of, a lot of, plenty of and the majority of, where the verb follows the noun after of: a number of items were damaged. Note that the number of reverts to the singular.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
In the following section the sentences have been given in Direct or Indirect speech. From the given alternatives, choose the most appropriate sentence that best suits the given sentence in Indirect or Direct speech.
She asked him, "What did you say?"
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: She asked him what he had said
The past simple did you say moves back to the past perfect had said, and the question order becomes a statement order. What did you say keeps the direct form untouched.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
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 imagine.
To conceive of something is to form an idea of it in the mind.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 9 To 11 ] :
What are the three options available in Insert >> Picture menu?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: Clipart, From Files, AutoShapes
Insert > Picture offers Clip Art, From File and AutoShapes, along with organisation chart and WordArt in some versions.
Which command brings you to the first slide in your presentation?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: Ctrl + Home
Ctrl + Home jumps to the beginning of the presentation, and Ctrl + End to the last slide. Page Up and the Previous Slide button move back only one slide at a time.
Excel is a
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: A spreadsheet
Excel is a spreadsheet: a grid of cells holding values and formulas, recalculated whenever anything they depend on changes.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 12 To 18 ] :
One Rutherford is equal to
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
One rutherford is a unit of radioactivity equal to 106 disintegrations per second, so option C is correct.
The becquerel (1 disintegration per second) and the curie (3.7 x 1010 per second) are the other units of activity; the values 108 and 104 do not define the rutherford.
The unit is named after Ernest Rutherford and is now obsolete, replaced by the becquerel, and 1 rutherford equals one million becquerels.
Irrigation Management and Training Institute is located at which of the following area in Rajasthan ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The institute is at Kota.
The Irrigation Management and Training Institute (IMTI) at Kota trains irrigation engineers, field staff and farmers in water management. Kota is the centre of the Chambal command area, one of the state's oldest large canal irrigation systems, which is why the institute was set up there.
Bikaner, Barmer and Udaipur do not host this institute.
Fill in the blanks :
Bakelite is a __A__ and it is used for making __B__. On the other hand, PVC is a __C__ which is used for making __D__.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The answer is A-thermosetting plastic; B-electrical switches; C-thermoplastic; D-containers.
Bakelite is a thermosetting plastic: once moulded it sets permanently and does not soften on heating. Being a poor conductor of heat and electricity, it is used for electrical switches, plugs and the handles of utensils. PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a thermoplastic: it softens on heating and can be reshaped, and it is used for pipes, containers, wire insulation and toys.
Options C and D swap the two types of plastic. Option B gives bakelite the use of containers and PVC the use of utensils, which reverses the properties that matter.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
When a body is accelerated, its speed may or may not change.
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, which is a vector. A body in uniform circular motion is accelerating continuously while its speed stays constant, because only the direction changes.
The Rajya Sabha can authorise Parliament to legislate on a subject in the State List by passing a resolution supported by
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: Two thirds of the members present and voting
Under Article 249, the Rajya Sabha may resolve, by a majority of not less than two thirds of the members present and voting, that it is necessary in the national interest for Parliament to legislate on a specified matter in the State List. Such a resolution is valid for one year and may be renewed indefinitely a year at a time; a law made under it ceases to have effect six months after the resolution expires. The provision recognises the Rajya Sabha as the House representing the states, so its consent stands in for theirs. Parliament can legislate on state subjects in four other situations: during a national emergency under Article 250; when two or more states request it under Article 252, in which case the law applies only to them; to implement an international treaty under Article 253; and during President’s Rule in a state. The last of these is the reason a state under Article 356 is governed almost wholly from the centre.
How many districts did Telangana have when it was formed?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Telangana had ten districts when it was formed in 2014.
They were Hyderabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nizamabad and Rangareddy. The state has since reorganised them into 33.
The members of the parliamentary committee
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Members of parliamentary committees are drawn from the various groups and parties in Parliament in proportion to their strength.
They are elected by the House or nominated by the Speaker on that basis, so a committee mirrors the composition of the House and its findings carry cross-party weight.
Current Affairs [ Question No: 19 To 20 ] :
Which Singapore-based student won the Breakthrough Junior Challenge Award in April, 2025 for the work in Mechanogenetic cellular engineering ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The answer is Jasmine Eyal.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced in April 2025 that Jasmine Eyal, a 16-year-old from Singapore, won the 10th Breakthrough Junior Challenge with a video explaining mechanogenetic cellular engineering, a biotechnology that uses mechanical forces to switch on cells' genes. She won a college scholarship of $250,000, her teacher a $50,000 prize, and her school a science lab.
The other three names in the options are not winners of this prize. The challenge is a global science-communication contest for students aged 13 to 18, judged on how clearly a video explains a scientific idea.
In Lok Sabha Elections 2024, which phase held the fewest Parliamentary seats for election ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The fifth phase had the fewest seats.
The 2024 Lok Sabha election was held in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June. The fifth phase, on 20 May, covered 49 constituencies, the smallest number of any phase.
The fourth phase was the largest of the later phases, with 96 seats, and the sixth and seventh phases covered 58 and 57 seats respectively, all more than the fifth.
Marks
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20