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- Total number of questions : 20
- Time allotted : 30:00 Minutes:Seconds.
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Reasoning [ Question No: 1 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the three given suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.
Statement: Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.
Courses of Action:
1. The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction.
2. Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition.
3. The public sector banks should advertise their special feature repeatedly so that they do not lose their future customers.
Direction for [ Question No: 2 To 2 ] :
Choose te most suitable reaction to the given situation from amongst the alternatives provided.
If you find yourself in a situation where you are required to make a power - point presentation and you are already bogged down by too much work, as the manager what would you do?
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
Choose the correct alternative from the following.
Assertion (A) : Earthworms are not good for agriculture.
Reason (R) : Earthworms break down the soil into fine particles and make it soft.
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
For the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) below, choose the correct alternative.
Assertion (A) : Carbon dioxide turns lime water milky.
Reason (R) : Carbon dioxide sullies the water.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear.Choose the correct alternatives.
4 : 6 :: ______ : 16
The numbers below advance according to a pattern you are asked to identify. Identify the pattern, then choose the number that belongs at the question mark.
3, 5, 9, 17, 33, ?
Introducing a man. a woman said, "He is the only son of my mother's mother." How is the woman related to the man ?
LAP BUT CAR SON HID
If the positions of the first and the third alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, which of the following would form a meaningful word in the new arrangement?
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete silence. Gagarin himself described the experience.
"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air-nothing. It was uncanny, unnerving."
He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he would recite half-remembered poetry to himself.
Then, came parachute training. Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty.
One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed a drop of 500 feet. At a certain high speed the passenger would find himself suspended between the floor and ceiling of the lift without support. This was a convenient and inexpensive way of reproducing 'zero gravity'.
Special air brakes prevented the lift from crashing as it reached the bottom.
On the morning of April 12, Gagarin rose at 5.30. He was zipped into his complicated space-suit, on top of which went a pale blue fibre suit, and finally an orange one. Then an Air Force bus drove him to the launching site in company with various helpers. The gantry lift took him up 100 feet, to the nose of the rocket, and he entered the cabin (named Vostok) with a wave to those below.
Gagarin was shut up in a dark room :
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options :
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Identify and name the figure of speech used in 'Poems are made by fools like me'.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
Who gave you permission to enter?
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
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.
He asked his teacher, "Need I read this chapter?"
Direction for [ Question No: 13 To 13 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
Person who writes with both hands.
Direction for [ Question No: 14 To 14 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 15 To 20 ] :
The Rules of inheritance of traits was given by :
What is the national currency of Greece?
Which of the rock formations in India is the richest in fossil content?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Reasoning [ Question No: 1 To 8 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the three given suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.
Statement: Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.
Courses of Action:
1. The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction.
2. Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition.
3. The public sector banks should advertise their special feature repeatedly so that they do not lose their future customers.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Clearly, the private sector banks have done so to attract more and more customers of public sector banks. Thus, public sector banks should either reduce the rate of interest to match with that of private sector banks or highlight those features which make them stand apart from private sector banks. So, either II or III follows.
Direction for [ Question No: 2 To 2 ] :
Choose te most suitable reaction to the given situation from amongst the alternatives provided.
If you find yourself in a situation where you are required to make a power - point presentation and you are already bogged down by too much work, as the manager what would you do?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
A manager is one who has the expertise to manage tasks properly.So, it becomes his prime responsibility to rearrange his work schedule properly and work out the required time for the project rather than postpone it or hand it over to some one else.
Direction for [ Question No: 3 To 3 ] :
Choose the correct alternative from the following.
Assertion (A) : Earthworms are not good for agriculture.
Reason (R) : Earthworms break down the soil into fine particles and make it soft.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: A is false but R is true.
Earthworms do break the soil into fine crumbs, aerate it and enrich it with their castings, so R is true - and that is exactly why they are called the farmer’s friend. The assertion says the opposite of the truth, so A is false.
Direction for [ Question No: 4 To 4 ] :
For the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) below, choose the correct alternative.
Assertion (A) : Carbon dioxide turns lime water milky.
Reason (R) : Carbon dioxide sullies the water.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: A is true but R is false.
Carbon dioxide does turn lime water milky, so A is true. But the milkiness is a precipitate of insoluble calcium carbonate: \[ \mathrm{Ca(OH)_2 + CO_2 \rightarrow CaCO_3 \downarrow + H_2O} \] not any “sullying” of the water. R is false.
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear.Choose the correct alternatives.
4 : 6 :: ______ : 16
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Correct answer: 14
The relation between the numbers is a difference of two: \( 6 - 4 = 2 \), so the missing number must be two less than 16, \[ 16 - 2 = 14 \] which gives the same relation on both sides of the analogy.
The numbers below advance according to a pattern you are asked to identify. Identify the pattern, then choose the number that belongs at the question mark.
3, 5, 9, 17, 33, ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: 65
The gaps are 2, 4, 8, 16, which follow no constant pattern, so the rule lies in the terms rather than in the steps between them. Each term is one more than a power of two: position 1 gives 3 and position 5 gives 33. The next position is 6, which gives 65. As a check, the same rule applied to the earlier positions reproduces 3, 5, 9, 17, 33 exactly, so it accounts for every term shown and not merely the last. Adding or subtracting one from a power of two leaves the doubling almost visible, which is how the family is spotted.
Introducing a man. a woman said, "He is the only son of my mother's mother." How is the woman related to the man ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: Niece
My mother’s mother is the woman’s maternal grandmother, and that lady’s only son is the woman’s maternal uncle. She is therefore his niece.
LAP BUT CAR SON HID
If the positions of the first and the third alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, which of the following would form a meaningful word in the new arrangement?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
When positions of first and the third alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, we have
PAL TUB RAC NOS DIH
clearly, PAL and TUB are the only meaningful words. These words are obtained from LAP and BUT
respectively.
English Language [ Question No: 9 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete silence. Gagarin himself described the experience.
"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air-nothing. It was uncanny, unnerving."
He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he would recite half-remembered poetry to himself.
Then, came parachute training. Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty.
One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed a drop of 500 feet. At a certain high speed the passenger would find himself suspended between the floor and ceiling of the lift without support. This was a convenient and inexpensive way of reproducing 'zero gravity'.
Special air brakes prevented the lift from crashing as it reached the bottom.
On the morning of April 12, Gagarin rose at 5.30. He was zipped into his complicated space-suit, on top of which went a pale blue fibre suit, and finally an orange one. Then an Air Force bus drove him to the launching site in company with various helpers. The gantry lift took him up 100 feet, to the nose of the rocket, and he entered the cabin (named Vostok) with a wave to those below.
Gagarin was shut up in a dark room :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The key gives to feel like in a space cabin. 'As an experiment' is the nearest rival and is also defensible.
The passage calls the dark, silent room one of the ordeals of his training and says he would shut his eyes and 'imagine himself in a space-cabin in orbit'. The keyed option reads the isolation as meant to give him a taste of the loneliness of space flight.
It was not a punishment: the room is part of the training, and the passage does not say he did wrong. Meditation is not mentioned. 'As an experiment' fits the passage's remark that the training included experiments, so the answer rests on the key's choice of the purpose the passage comes closest to stating.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options :
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Identify and name the figure of speech used in 'Poems are made by fools like me'.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The figure of speech is a Simile.
A simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'. In 'Poems are made by fools like me', the poet compares himself, through 'like', with fools, saying that poets such as he are foolish compared with God, who alone can make a tree.
A metaphor makes the comparison without 'like' or 'as', for example 'I am a fool'. Personification gives human qualities to something non-human, which this line does not do. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect, and the line works mainly through its explicit comparison.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
Who gave you permission to enter?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Auxiliary Verb that should be used with you is were and not was. Again, as the given sentence is an Interrogative sentence, in Passive form also, the sentence will be Interrogative, which is in Verb + Subject form. Keeping these two conditions in mind, if we judge the given options.
Direction for [ Question No: 12 To 12 ] :
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.
He asked his teacher, "Need I read this chapter?"
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: He asked his teacher if he had to read that chapter.
Need I…? is a yes-or-no question, so it takes if; need as a modal has no past form and is replaced by had to; and this chapter becomes that chapter.
Direction for [ Question No: 13 To 13 ] :
In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
Person who writes with both hands.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is ambidextrous.
Ambidextrous means able to use both hands equally well, literally having two right hands. Ambisinistrous, its jocular opposite, means clumsy with both.
Direction for [ Question No: 14 To 14 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The opposite is eulogy.
A diatribe is a bitter verbal attack; a eulogy is a speech of praise. An elegy is a lament for the dead, which is a different kind of speech altogether.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 15 To 20 ] :
The Rules of inheritance of traits was given by :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The rules of inheritance were given by Gregor Mendel.
Gregor Johann Mendel, an Augustinian friar in Brno, crossed pea plants for several years and published his results in 1866. He showed that traits are passed on by discrete factors (now called genes) and set out the laws of dominance, segregation and independent assortment. He is called the father of genetics.
'Jesue', 'Bridge' and 'Jimmy' Mendel are not real scientists; they are invented names built around the surname, so the question tests only whether the first name is known.
What is the national currency of Greece?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
It is the euro.
Greece adopted the euro in 2001, two years after the first wave, replacing the drachma - a name in use since antiquity and among the oldest currency names in the world.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
ADH stands for antidiuretic hormone, also called vasopressin.
It is released from the posterior pituitary when the blood becomes too concentrated, and makes the kidney tubules reabsorb water, so less urine is passed. Its absence causes diabetes insipidus.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The College of Military Engineering is at Kirkee, Pune.
Founded in 1943, it trains officers of the Corps of Engineers in combat engineering, bridging, mine warfare and construction.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The drachma was the currency of Greece until the euro replaced it on 1 January 2002. It is among the oldest currency names in the world, in use in ancient Greece as well.
The guilder was Dutch, the yen is Japanese, and the dinar is used in several Arab countries and in Serbia.
Which of the rock formations in India is the richest in fossil content?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The Gondwana formations are the richest in fossils.
Laid down between about 250 and 100 million years ago in freshwater basins, they hold abundant plant remains - above all Glossopteris, whose distribution across India, Africa, Australia, South America and Antarctica was among the first evidence for continental drift. They also hold most of India's coal.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20