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Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
The point (0, -4) lies on:
There is a tree between houses of A and B. If the tree leans on A’s House, the tree top rests on his window which is 12 m from ground. If the tree leans on B’s House, the tree top rests on his window which is 9 m from ground. If the height of the tree is 15 m, what is distance between A’s and B’s house?
\((\frac{1}{216})^{-\frac{2}{3}}\div(\frac{1}{27})^{-\frac{4}{3}}=?\)
Eight years ago, Ajay's age was 4/3 times that of Vijay. Eight years hence, Ajay's age will be 6/5 times that of Vijay. What is the present age of Ajay ?
English Language [ Question No: 5 To 12 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Then he went into the office. It was a large, bare room with two desks in it and a bench along one side. A number of natives were seated on this, and a couple of women. They gossiped while they waited for the administrator, and when Mackintosh came in they greeted him. “Talofa-li.” He returned their greeting and sat down at his desk. He began to write, working on a report which the governor of Samoa had been clamouring for and which Walker, with his usual dilatoriness, had neglected to prepare. Mackintosh, as he made his notes, reflected vindictively that Walker was late with his report because he was so illiterate that he had an invincible distaste for anything to do with pens and paper; and now when it was at last ready, concise and neatly official, he would accept his subordinate’s work without a word of appreciation, with a sneer rather or a gibe, and send it on to his own superior as though it were his own composition. He could not have written a word of it. Mackintosh thought with rage that if his chief pencilled in some insertion, it would be childish in expression and faulty in language. If he remonstrated or sought to put his meaning into an intelligible phrase, Walker would fly into a passion and cry: “What the hell do I care about grammar? That’s what I want to say and that’s how I want to say it.”
At last Walker came in. The natives surrounded him as he entered, trying to get his immediate attention, but he turned on them roughly and told them to sit down and hold their tongues. He threatened that if they were not quiet, he would have them all turned out and see none of them that day. He nodded to Mackintosh.
"What the hell do I care about grammar?"
What prompts Walker to utter the above line?
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
"A principal fruit of friendship", Francis Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the subject, "is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce." For Thoreau, friendship was one of life's great rewards. But in today's cultural landscape of muddled relationships scattered across various platforms for connecting, amidst constant debates about whether our Facebook 'friendships' are making us more or less happy, it pays to consider what friendship actually is. That's precisely what CUNY Philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci explores in Answers for Aristotle : How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (public library), which also gave us this provocative read on the science of what we call 'intuition'.
Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree that friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness. But beyond the dry academic definitions—like, say, "voluntary interdependence between two persons over time, which is intended to facilitate socio-emotional goals of the participants, and may involve varying types and degrees of companionship, intimacy, affection and mutual assistance"—lies a body of compelling research that sheds light on how, precisely, friendship augments happiness. The way friendship enhances well-being, it turns out, has nothing to do with quantity and everything to do with quality—researchers confirm that it isn't the number of friends (or, in the case of Facebook, 'friends').
Is the quality of friends important?
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. For each blank five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
With Rahane batting (1) at the other end, Kohli gradually regained his (2) .By the time Johnson returned for his next spell, the India vice-captain had scored his third century of the tour. He and Rahane were well on their way to post the first-ever fourth-wicket double-hundred stand at the historic MCG. Johnson was welcomed to the crease with three (3) pull shots, each more (4) than the next. It was Johnson who was (5) now. Two balls later, Kohli did what he had been doing for the rest of the day. He covered the line of a full delivery and punched the ball down the ground. Kohli and Rahane ran three. Johnson had (6) over a 100 runs without a wicket.
Suddenly, India lost wickets in a heap. Rahane went followed by MS Dhoni and R Ashwin. Another collapse seemed (7). Kohli batted on to reach 169, his highest Test score to date. Then, as if it was scripted, he fell to Johnson in the last over of the day, with Haddin pulling off an acrobatic catch behind the stumps. The MCG (8). But not so much for Johnson’s first wicket of the Indian innings. Instead, every Indian and Australian around the MCG was on his feet, (9) and cheering Kohli as he walked (10) like a gladiator who’s just won another battle.
Which word best fits blank (9)?
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; the answer the questions given below them.
A. In fact, he believed that customers are at the origin, the source of the money we have.
B. The customer thus has the power to fire everybody in the company from the chairman to the shop clerk.
C. Management can ensure this doesn’t happen by motivating employees to cultivate meaningful relationships with customer.
D. Sam Walton built his WalMart business empire knowing there was only one boss – the customer.
E. So it is not the company which pays us but the customer.
F. He can achieve this by simply spending his money elsewhere
Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
I.The management did not find her suitable for the job of a receptionist.
II.Kanak failed to arrange the parts of the machine properly.
The ball went _____________ the window.
Please ___________ for me outside the cinema.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 13 To 19 ] :
Who led the Mughal forces in the Battle of Haldighati?
Current Affairs [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
Which artillery Gun of Indian Army has come under criticism for use of Chinese components?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Quantitative Aptitude [ Question No: 1 To 4 ] :
The point (0, -4) lies on:
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
A point with \( x = 0 \) lies on the y-axis, whatever its \( y \)-coordinate.
The origin is the single point \( (0,0) \), and the first quadrant needs both coordinates positive.
There is a tree between houses of A and B. If the tree leans on A’s House, the tree top rests on his window which is 12 m from ground. If the tree leans on B’s House, the tree top rests on his window which is 9 m from ground. If the height of the tree is 15 m, what is distance between A’s and B’s house?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The leaning tree is the hypotenuse of a right triangle in each case, with the tree's base fixed and its 15 m length unchanged.
Towards A: the top rests 12 m up the wall, so the horizontal gap is
\[ \sqrt{15^{2} - 12^{2}} = \sqrt{225 - 144} = \sqrt{81} = 9 \text{ m} \]
Towards B: the top rests 9 m up, so
\[ \sqrt{15^{2} - 9^{2}} = \sqrt{225 - 81} = \sqrt{144} = 12 \text{ m} \]
The tree stands between the two houses, so the distance between them is the sum:
\[ 9 + 12 = 21 \text{ m} \]
Both are 9-12-15 triangles, the 3-4-5 triple scaled by three.
\((\frac{1}{216})^{-\frac{2}{3}}\div(\frac{1}{27})^{-\frac{4}{3}}=?\)
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
\((\frac{1}{216})^{-\frac{2}{3}}\div(\frac{1}{27})^{-\frac{4}{3}} \)
\(= 216^{\frac{2}{3}}\div27^{\frac{4}{3}} \)
\(= (63)^{\frac{2}{3}}\div(33)^{\frac{4}{3}} \)
\(= \frac{4}{9}\)
Eight years ago, Ajay's age was 4/3 times that of Vijay. Eight years hence, Ajay's age will be 6/5 times that of Vijay. What is the present age of Ajay ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Let the present ages of Ajay and Vijay be ' \(A\) ' and ' \(V\) ' years respectively.
\(\Rightarrow A-8= \frac{4}{3}\left ( V-8 \right )\) and \( A + 8 =\frac{6}{5}\left ( V-8 \right )\)
\(\Rightarrow\frac{3}{4}\left ( A-8 \right )= V-8\) and \(\frac{5}{6}\left ( A+8 \right )=V+8\)
\(V=\frac{3}{4}\left ( A-8 \right ) + 8=\frac{5}{6}\left ( A+8 \right )-8\)
\(\Rightarrow \frac{3}{4}A-6+8=\)\(\frac{5}{6}A + \frac{20}{3}- 8\)
\(\Rightarrow 10 -\frac{20}{3}=\)\(\frac{10}{12}A -\)\(\frac{9}{12}A\)
\(\Rightarrow \) \(\frac{10}{3}=\) \(\frac{A}{12}\)
\(\Rightarrow A = 40\)
English Language [ Question No: 5 To 12 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 5 To 5 ] :
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Then he went into the office. It was a large, bare room with two desks in it and a bench along one side. A number of natives were seated on this, and a couple of women. They gossiped while they waited for the administrator, and when Mackintosh came in they greeted him. “Talofa-li.” He returned their greeting and sat down at his desk. He began to write, working on a report which the governor of Samoa had been clamouring for and which Walker, with his usual dilatoriness, had neglected to prepare. Mackintosh, as he made his notes, reflected vindictively that Walker was late with his report because he was so illiterate that he had an invincible distaste for anything to do with pens and paper; and now when it was at last ready, concise and neatly official, he would accept his subordinate’s work without a word of appreciation, with a sneer rather or a gibe, and send it on to his own superior as though it were his own composition. He could not have written a word of it. Mackintosh thought with rage that if his chief pencilled in some insertion, it would be childish in expression and faulty in language. If he remonstrated or sought to put his meaning into an intelligible phrase, Walker would fly into a passion and cry: “What the hell do I care about grammar? That’s what I want to say and that’s how I want to say it.”
At last Walker came in. The natives surrounded him as he entered, trying to get his immediate attention, but he turned on them roughly and told them to sit down and hold their tongues. He threatened that if they were not quiet, he would have them all turned out and see none of them that day. He nodded to Mackintosh.
"What the hell do I care about grammar?"
What prompts Walker to utter the above line?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The key gives the third option: Walker says this because he did not understand the intelligible phrases. The passage says that if Mackintosh sought to put his meaning into an intelligible phrase, Walker would fly into a passion and ask what he cared about grammar, which fits a man who does not follow careful phrasing.
The report was late because of Walker, not Mackintosh's dilatoriness, so the first option is reversed. The distaste the passage names is for pens and paper, not for neatness, so the second option does not match. Childish expressions would be Walker's own insertions, not a reason for his outburst. The wording of the key option is loose, but it is the closest to the passage.
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
"A principal fruit of friendship", Francis Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the subject, "is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce." For Thoreau, friendship was one of life's great rewards. But in today's cultural landscape of muddled relationships scattered across various platforms for connecting, amidst constant debates about whether our Facebook 'friendships' are making us more or less happy, it pays to consider what friendship actually is. That's precisely what CUNY Philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci explores in Answers for Aristotle : How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (public library), which also gave us this provocative read on the science of what we call 'intuition'.
Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree that friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness. But beyond the dry academic definitions—like, say, "voluntary interdependence between two persons over time, which is intended to facilitate socio-emotional goals of the participants, and may involve varying types and degrees of companionship, intimacy, affection and mutual assistance"—lies a body of compelling research that sheds light on how, precisely, friendship augments happiness. The way friendship enhances well-being, it turns out, has nothing to do with quantity and everything to do with quality—researchers confirm that it isn't the number of friends (or, in the case of Facebook, 'friends').
Is the quality of friends important?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The answer is yes, it matters.
The passage says that the way friendship enhances well-being 'has nothing to do with quantity and everything to do with quality', and that it is not the number of friends that counts.
The options saying quality does not matter, that comments on social networks matter, or that quality comes with quantity are all contradicted by that sentence.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. For each blank five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
With Rahane batting (1) at the other end, Kohli gradually regained his (2) .By the time Johnson returned for his next spell, the India vice-captain had scored his third century of the tour. He and Rahane were well on their way to post the first-ever fourth-wicket double-hundred stand at the historic MCG. Johnson was welcomed to the crease with three (3) pull shots, each more (4) than the next. It was Johnson who was (5) now. Two balls later, Kohli did what he had been doing for the rest of the day. He covered the line of a full delivery and punched the ball down the ground. Kohli and Rahane ran three. Johnson had (6) over a 100 runs without a wicket.
Suddenly, India lost wickets in a heap. Rahane went followed by MS Dhoni and R Ashwin. Another collapse seemed (7). Kohli batted on to reach 169, his highest Test score to date. Then, as if it was scripted, he fell to Johnson in the last over of the day, with Haddin pulling off an acrobatic catch behind the stumps. The MCG (8). But not so much for Johnson’s first wicket of the Indian innings. Instead, every Indian and Australian around the MCG was on his feet, (9) and cheering Kohli as he walked (10) like a gladiator who’s just won another battle.
Which word best fits blank (9)?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: applauding
The crowd is on its feet and cheering, so the missing word must be its companion: applauding. Partying and raving are the wrong register, and eulogising belongs to speech.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; the answer the questions given below them.
A. In fact, he believed that customers are at the origin, the source of the money we have.
B. The customer thus has the power to fire everybody in the company from the chairman to the shop clerk.
C. Management can ensure this doesn’t happen by motivating employees to cultivate meaningful relationships with customer.
D. Sam Walton built his WalMart business empire knowing there was only one boss – the customer.
E. So it is not the company which pays us but the customer.
F. He can achieve this by simply spending his money elsewhere
Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: D
First in the rearranged paragraph is D.
The paragraph runs D – A – E – B – F – C:
- D introduces Sam Walton and his one boss, the customer.
- A expands that belief - in fact, he believed can only follow a statement of what he knew.
- E draws the inference with so: the customer pays us, not the company.
- B states the customer's power, thus, to fire anyone.
- F says how - he can achieve this refers to the firing in B.
- C closes with what management can do about it.
He in A and F needs an antecedent, and this in F points at B, which fixes the second half.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is dull.
Stupid means slow to understand, and dull carries the same. Illiterate means unable to read, which is a lack of teaching rather than of wit, and obstinate is a fault of will.
I.The management did not find her suitable for the job of a receptionist.
II.Kanak failed to arrange the parts of the machine properly.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: fit
Fit works as an adjective in the first sentence and as a verb in the second, which is what a double-synonym question is testing.
- I - not suitable for the job means she was not fit for it.
- II - to arrange parts of a machine properly is to fit them together.
Adjust suits the machine but not the candidate; harness and harbour suit neither.
The ball went _____________ the window.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is through.
Through means from one side to the other. Threw is the past tense of throw, and the two are pronounced identically.
Please ___________ for me outside the cinema.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
It is wait.
To wait is to stay until someone comes. Weight is heaviness, and the two are pronounced identically.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 13 To 19 ] :
Who led the Mughal forces in the Battle of Haldighati?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The Mughal forces at Haldighati were led by Man Singh I.
In the Battle of Haldighati in June 1576, Akbar's army was commanded by Raja Man Singh of Amber, with Asaf Khan, against Maharana Pratap of Mewar. The battle was indecisive in the long run, as Pratap escaped and continued his resistance.
Rana Sanga was Pratap's grandfather, who fought Babur at Khanwa in 1527. Rao Jaimal and Patta were the defenders of Chittor during Akbar's siege of 1567-68, fighting against the Mughals, not leading them.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The Trade Marks Act was enacted in 1999.
It replaced the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, allowing registration of service marks and collective marks, extending the registration term to ten years, and recognising well-known marks.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Stefan Edberg is from Sweden, born at Västervik in 1966.
He won six Grand Slam singles titles - Wimbledon twice, the US Open twice and the Australian Open twice - and was among the last great serve-and-volley players.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
James Gosling created Java, at Sun Microsystems in 1995.
Its compiled bytecode runs on a virtual machine rather than directly on the processor, which is the basis of its 'write once, run anywhere' promise.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Marie Curie discovered radium.
She and Pierre isolated it from pitchblende in 1898, along with polonium, having processed tonnes of ore to obtain a fraction of a gram. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Jantar Mantar is an observatory.
Sawai Jai Singh II built five between 1724 and 1735, at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi. Their masonry instruments - the Samrat Yantra sundial, the Jai Prakash Yantra - measure time and the positions of the stars. The Jaipur one is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The rolling plan covered 1978 to 1983.
The Janata government scrapped the Fifth Plan a year early and adopted the rolling plan proposed by Gunnar Myrdal, in which the plan is revised every year and rolled forward. The Congress government abandoned it in 1980.
Current Affairs [ Question No: 20 To 20 ] :
Which artillery Gun of Indian Army has come under criticism for use of Chinese components?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The gun criticised was the Dhanush.
Dhanush is a 155 mm towed howitzer developed by the Ordnance Factory Board, based on the Bofors design. In 2017 the CBI registered a case after it emerged that a part (wire race rollers) supplied as German-made had in fact been made in China, raising questions about components used in the gun.
The Bofors FH-77B is the Swedish gun of the 1980s. The AK-47 is a rifle, not artillery. The M-777 is a light howitzer bought from the USA and BAE Systems, and was not the subject of this complaint.
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Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20