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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
If three points P, Q, R lie on the side BC of the ΔABC such that BP = PQ = QR = RC. If G be centroid of ΔABC, then the ratio of areas of ΔPGR and ΔABC is :
A two-digit number is such that the product of its digits is 14. When 45 is added to this number the digits interchange their position (like 12+9 = 21). What is that number ?
Following bar chart presents supply as a percentage of demand of a product and demand as a percentage of capacity of the industry to produce the same product. All the values are multiples of 5.
| Year | Supply of demand | Demand of capacity |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 65 | 80 |
| 2004 | 70 | 90 |
| 2005 | 60 | 80 |
| 2006 | 90 | 65 |
If product supply for the year 2005 is 6000 kg. then the total capacity of the product is (in kg):
Reasoning [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
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: Be humble even after being victorious.
Assumptions:
1. Many people are humble after being victorious.
2. Generally people are not humble.
According to the map shown in the figure, which one of the following statements is correct?
Note: The figure shown is representative.
A poem always has
Five men A, B, C, D and E read a newspaper.
The one who reads first gives it to C. The one who reads last had taken from A. E was not the first or last to read. There were two readers between B and A.
B passed the newspaper to whom ?
A family consists of six members P, Q, R, S, T and U. There are two married couples. Q is a doctor and the father of T. U is grandfather of R and is a contractor. S is grandmother of T and is a housewife. There is one doctor, one contractor, one nurse, one housewife and two students in the family. Which of the following is definitely a group of male members ?
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Water is the core of life; hence water must be central to our spiritual thinking. Water is not only most of earth, but also most of life. Therefore water conservation must be our deepest concern.
The Himalayan mountain range is among the highest, youngest and most fragile ecosystem of the planet. The Himalayas have given us some of the great river systems of the earth including the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Nu Salween, Yangtze and the Mekong. The Himalayas are also called the 'Third Pole', for they contain the largest mass of ice and snow outside the earth's polar region, the north and south poles. There is a permanent snowline above 5,000 metres. Some of the glaciers in the region are the longest outside the two poles. The Himalayas serve as water towers, providing water on a sustained basis to more than 1,000 million people and millions of hectares of land in South Asia. The greenery, benevolent climate, highly productive ecosystems, food production and overall happiness in South Asia are in fact, attributable to the bounty of the Himalayas. They are not only beautiful; they are life-givers. Little wonder that they are venerated as the abode of gods.
To keep the Third Pole preserved through assured conservation is one of the greatest challenges for the contemporary world. Himalayan mountains are a common but fragile natural resource. As mountain ecosystems have enormous bearing on the earth's systems, their special care, regeneration and conservation of their pristine resources would only bring more happiness, peace and prosperity to large parts of the world. In Agenda 21, Chapter 13 of the United Nations, the importance of mountains is underlined : "mountain environments are essential to the survival of global ecosystems."
The Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand are especially rich in water resources. This area is home to dozens of perennial streams and numerous other rain-fed rivers along with innumerable rivulets, waterfalls and ponds, etc.
Which of the following has not been mentioned in the passage ?
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given below it.
Belief systems are the framework upon which cultures and societies function. It is the bond that (1) civilizations together, and it I the small voice (2) each of us that urges us to be (3) to what we have been taught. We cannot (4) our spiritual teachings from our learning nor can we separate our beliefs about who and what we are (5) our values and our behaviours. We ask that educational systems (6) our right to religious freedom and our right to live in harmony. Tribal beliefs vary as does the (7) to which a tribe embraces (8) its traditional cultural beliefs. (9) tribal group has distinct and unique beliefs that are basic to that tribe’s culture. Most tribes cling to the old teachings because they know that once gone, it means the (10) of their culture.
Which word best fits blank (6)?
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 12 ] :
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.
ADULTERATION
In the following question, a group of letters is given which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Below are given four alternatives containing combinations of these numbers. Select that combination of numbers so that letters arranged accordingly, form a meaningful word.
R P E D I
1 2 3 4 5
Direction for [ Question No: 13 To 13 ] :
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: 14 To 14 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
Good Samaritan
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 15 To 15 ] :
We can replace a font on all slides with another font using the …. option
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 20 ] :
In the context of global environment, February 2nd is observed as:
Jhum cultivation, a form of shifting agriculture, is practised mainly in which part of India?
The president can dismiss a member of the council of ministers
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 3 ] :
If three points P, Q, R lie on the side BC of the ΔABC such that BP = PQ = QR = RC. If G be centroid of ΔABC, then the ratio of areas of ΔPGR and ΔABC is :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The ratio is 1 : 6.
The points divide BC into four equal parts, so PR, which spans two of them, is half of BC. The centroid G lies one-third of the way up from BC, so its height above BC is one-third of the height \(h\) of the triangle:
\[ \begin{aligned} [\text{PGR}] &= \tfrac{1}{2} \cdot \tfrac{BC}{2} \cdot \tfrac{h}{3} \\ &= \tfrac{1}{6} \cdot \tfrac{1}{2} \cdot BC \cdot h \\ &= \tfrac{1}{6}[\text{ABC}] \end{aligned} \]
1 : 3 is the ratio for the triangle GBC, with the whole of BC as base. 1 : 2 and 1 : 4 forget either the halved base or the one-third height.
A two-digit number is such that the product of its digits is 14. When 45 is added to this number the digits interchange their position (like 12+9 = 21). What is that number ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The number is 27.
Let the number be \(10a + b\). Adding 45 reverses the digits:
\[ \begin{aligned} 10a + b + 45 &= 10b + a \\ 9(b - a) &= 45 \\ b - a &= 5 \end{aligned} \]
With the product of the digits 14, the digits are 2 and 7 (\(2 \times 7 = 14\), and \(7 - 2 = 5\)), so the number is 27. Check: \(27 + 45 = 72\).
72 has the right digits but adding 45 gives 117, not 27. 54 and 36 have digit products of 20 and 18, not 14.
Following bar chart presents supply as a percentage of demand of a product and demand as a percentage of capacity of the industry to produce the same product. All the values are multiples of 5.
| Year | Supply of demand | Demand of capacity |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 65 | 80 |
| 2004 | 70 | 90 |
| 2005 | 60 | 80 |
| 2006 | 90 | 65 |
If product supply for the year 2005 is 6000 kg. then the total capacity of the product is (in kg):
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The total capacity is 12500 kg.
In 2005, supply was 60% of demand and demand was 80% of capacity. Work back from the supply.
\[ \begin{aligned} \text{demand} &= \frac{6000}{0.60} = 10000 \\ \text{capacity} &= \frac{10000}{0.80} = 12500 \end{aligned} \]
10000 is the demand, the trap for anyone who stops after the first step. 16500 does not follow from the 2005 values. In one line, capacity is supply divided by both percentages: \(6000 \div (0.6 \times 0.8) = 12500\).
Reasoning [ Question No: 4 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
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: Be humble even after being victorious.
Assumptions:
1. Many people are humble after being victorious.
2. Generally people are not humble.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Clearly, nothing is mentioned about the nature of the people. So, I is not implicit. Also, the statement gives an advice of being humble even after being victorious. This means that generally people are not humble. So, II is implicit
According to the map shown in the figure, which one of the following statements is correct?
Note: The figure shown is representative.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The correct statement is The chemistry lab is to the southeast of physics lab.
The Physics Lab is in the north-west block, just above 5th Cross Road and west of 1st Main Road. The Chemistry Lab is in the south-east block, below the cross road and east of the main road. Moving from the Physics Lab to the Chemistry Lab means going both south and east, so the chemistry lab is to the southeast.
The Library and the Canteen are at the same level on either side of the main road, so the library is due west of the canteen, not northwest. The Hospital is north of the Chemistry Lab across the cross road, not east of it. The Classrooms are in the south-west block and the Canteen in the north-east block, separated by both roads, so they are not next to each other.
A poem always has
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: Words
The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A poem is a composition in words, so words are what it cannot lack. Rhyme is a device many poems use and many do not: blank verse and free verse are unrhymed, and most of Shakespeare’s dramatic verse rhymes only occasionally. A title is a convenience of publication, and a great many poems are known only by their first lines. Stanzas divide some poems and not others; a continuous verse paragraph is equally a poem.
Five men A, B, C, D and E read a newspaper.
The one who reads first gives it to C. The one who reads last had taken from A. E was not the first or last to read. There were two readers between B and A.
B passed the newspaper to whom ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: C
Position the readers first. The one who reads first hands it to C, so C is second. The last reader took it from A, so A is fourth and someone else is fifth. Two readers between B and A puts B at the first place, and E is neither first nor last, so E is third and D is fifth. The order is B, C, E, A, D - and B, reading first, passes it to C.
A family consists of six members P, Q, R, S, T and U. There are two married couples. Q is a doctor and the father of T. U is grandfather of R and is a contractor. S is grandmother of T and is a housewife. There is one doctor, one contractor, one nurse, one housewife and two students in the family. Which of the following is definitely a group of male members ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Q, the Doctor, is the father of T. S, the Housewife, is the grandmother of T and hence the mother of Q. Since there are only two married couples one being that of Q, the grandfather of R. i.e, U must be married to S. Thus, R and T will be both children of Q and these must be the students So, P, who remains, shall be the wife of Q and she alone can be the nurse. Thus, U must be the contractor
Clearly, for definite the males are Q, the father and U, the grandfather
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Water is the core of life; hence water must be central to our spiritual thinking. Water is not only most of earth, but also most of life. Therefore water conservation must be our deepest concern.
The Himalayan mountain range is among the highest, youngest and most fragile ecosystem of the planet. The Himalayas have given us some of the great river systems of the earth including the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Nu Salween, Yangtze and the Mekong. The Himalayas are also called the 'Third Pole', for they contain the largest mass of ice and snow outside the earth's polar region, the north and south poles. There is a permanent snowline above 5,000 metres. Some of the glaciers in the region are the longest outside the two poles. The Himalayas serve as water towers, providing water on a sustained basis to more than 1,000 million people and millions of hectares of land in South Asia. The greenery, benevolent climate, highly productive ecosystems, food production and overall happiness in South Asia are in fact, attributable to the bounty of the Himalayas. They are not only beautiful; they are life-givers. Little wonder that they are venerated as the abode of gods.
To keep the Third Pole preserved through assured conservation is one of the greatest challenges for the contemporary world. Himalayan mountains are a common but fragile natural resource. As mountain ecosystems have enormous bearing on the earth's systems, their special care, regeneration and conservation of their pristine resources would only bring more happiness, peace and prosperity to large parts of the world. In Agenda 21, Chapter 13 of the United Nations, the importance of mountains is underlined : "mountain environments are essential to the survival of global ecosystems."
The Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand are especially rich in water resources. This area is home to dozens of perennial streams and numerous other rain-fed rivers along with innumerable rivulets, waterfalls and ponds, etc.
Which of the following has not been mentioned in the passage ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
What is not mentioned is that the Himalayas form the backbone of the tourism industry.
The passage says the Himalayas have highly productive ecosystems, that they provide water to more than 1,000 million people, and that they provide water to millions of hectares of land. Tourism is not discussed anywhere in it.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given below it.
Belief systems are the framework upon which cultures and societies function. It is the bond that (1) civilizations together, and it I the small voice (2) each of us that urges us to be (3) to what we have been taught. We cannot (4) our spiritual teachings from our learning nor can we separate our beliefs about who and what we are (5) our values and our behaviours. We ask that educational systems (6) our right to religious freedom and our right to live in harmony. Tribal beliefs vary as does the (7) to which a tribe embraces (8) its traditional cultural beliefs. (9) tribal group has distinct and unique beliefs that are basic to that tribe’s culture. Most tribes cling to the old teachings because they know that once gone, it means the (10) of their culture.
Which word best fits blank (6)?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: recognise
What a school is asked to do with a right is to recognise it. Infer and reach do not take a right as object, and diminish and destroy reverse the request.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 12 ] :
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.
ADULTERATION
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: RETURN
RETURN needs two Rs, and the word has only one, which ADULTERATION does not contain. RELATION, RETAIL and TOILET 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.
In the following question, a group of letters is given which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Below are given four alternatives containing combinations of these numbers. Select that combination of numbers so that letters arranged accordingly, form a meaningful word.
R P E D I
1 2 3 4 5
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: 2, 1, 5, 4, 3
The letters are R P E D I, and taken in that order they spell PRIDE.
Read the option as a set of positions: 2 = P 1 = R 5 = I 4 = D 3 = E.
None of the other three orders produces an English word, so checking each against the letter list is quicker than trying to build the word from scratch.
Direction for [ Question No: 13 To 13 ] :
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 : B
The error is in have been organised.
The subject is a body, which is singular: a body of volunteers has been organised.
Direction for [ Question No: 14 To 14 ] :
Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
Good Samaritan
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
It means a person who helps a stranger in need.
From the parable in Luke, where the Samaritan - a foreigner and a despised one - stops for the injured traveller whom the priest and the Levite pass by.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 15 To 15 ] :
We can replace a font on all slides with another font using the …. option
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: Format, Replace Fonts
Format → Replace Fonts asks which font to replace and what to replace it with, then makes the substitution everywhere in the presentation at once - slides, masters and all. Neither the Edit nor the Tools menu has such a command.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 20 ] :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
A web browser is a software program that lets you access sites on the World Wide Web.
It fetches pages by HTTP, renders the HTML, applies the stylesheets and runs the scripts. Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge are the common ones.
In the context of global environment, February 2nd is observed as:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
World Wetlands Day is observed on 2 February.
It marks the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands at Ramsar in Iran on that date in 1971. Wetlands store carbon, buffer floods and support enormous biodiversity, and are being lost faster than any other ecosystem.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It is the Saptakoteshwar shrine.
The temple at Narve in Bicholim taluka is one of the six great sites of Shiva in the Konkan, and was rebuilt by Shivaji in 1668 after the Portuguese had destroyed the original.
Jhum cultivation, a form of shifting agriculture, is practised mainly in which part of India?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: The northeastern states
Jhum is shifting cultivation, practised chiefly in the hill areas of the northeastern states - Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. A patch of forest is cleared and burnt, the ash fertilising the soil; it is cropped for two or three years until yields fall, then abandoned and left fallow while the cultivators move on. It is also called slash-and-burn agriculture, and the same practice has local names elsewhere - podu in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, bewar in Madhya Pradesh, kumari in the Western Ghats. It was sustainable while the fallow period ran to fifteen or twenty years and the population was small. Shortening cycles have made it a cause of deforestation, soil erosion and declining fertility, and governments have long tried to replace it with terraced or settled farming - with limited success, since it is bound up with land tenure and community practice as much as with agronomy.
The president can dismiss a member of the council of ministers
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The president dismisses a minister on the recommendation of the prime minister.
Article 75 says ministers hold office during the pleasure of the president, but that pleasure is exercised on the prime minister's advice. This is what makes the council of ministers a team the prime minister can reconstitute at will.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20