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FACULTY RECRUITMENT

SAMPLE PAPER
VERBAL
(SAT-R)
(Category – G)
TIME: 1 HOUR TOTAL NO. OF QUESTIONS: 30
MAXIMUM MARKS: 60

INSTRUCTIONS

I. GENERAL
1. This booklet is your Question Paper contains only Objective Type.
2. All the questions are COMPULSORY.
3. Answer of MCQ need to write on the given answer sheet.
4. Separate sheet has been provided for rough work.
5. Blank papers, clip boards, log tables, slide rule, cellular phones, pagers and electronic gadgets, in any form
are not allowed.
6. Write your Name in the space provided at the bottom of this sheet.

II. MARKING SCHEME


 For each correct answer to a question, you receive +2 Marks.
 For questions you omit, you receive no Marks.
 For a wrong answer to a multiple-choice question, you lose -1 Mark.

Name of the Candidate :

Registration Number :

Date of Examination : Centre:

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Directions (1–5): For each question in this section, select the best answer from the choices given.

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted.
Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labelled A through E. Choose the word or set of
words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Example:
Hoping to ------- the dispute, negotiators proposed compromise that they felt would be ----to both labor
and management.
A. enforce . . useful B. end . . divisive
C. overcome . . unattractive D. extend . . satisfactory
E. resolve . . acceptable

1. Contrary to popular opinion, bats are not generally aggressive and rabid; most are shy and ----.
A. turgid B. disfigured
C. punctual D. innocuous
E. depraved
2. The ballet company demonstrated its ----by putting both classical and modern works in the repertoire.
A. versatility B. mollification
C. treachery D. dignity
E. obtrusiveness
3. Though the concert had been enjoyable, it was overly ---- and the three encores seemed ----.
A. extensive .. garrulous B. protracted .. gratuitous
C. inaudible .. superfluous D. sublime .. fortuitous
E. contracted .. lengthy
4. A good trial lawyer will argue only what is central to an issue, eliminating ----information or anything
else that might ----the client.
A. seminal .. amuse B. extraneous .. jeopardize
C. erratic .. enhance D. prodigious .. extol
E. reprehensible .. initiate
5. Peter, ---- by the repeated rejections of his novel, ---- to submit his manuscript to other publishers.
A. encouraged .. declined B. elated .. planned
C. undaunted .. continued D. inspired .. complied
E. undeterred .. refused
Direction (6–15): The questions that follow the next two passages relate to the content of both, and to their
relationship. The correct response may be stated outright in the passage or merely suggested.
Edwin Markham was primarily a poet. He was associated with the ―muckraking movement‖ of the early
twentieth century. Muckrakers were a loosely allied set of novelists, essayists, and magazine editors
whose goal was the raising of society’s consciousness and the exposure of social ills. This excerpt is from
a 1906 essay Markham wrote for the muckraking magazine Cosmopolitan. In the
5 North…, for every one thousand workers over sixteen years of age there are eighty-three workers under
sixteen…;while in the South, for every one thousand workers in the mills over sixteen years of age there
are three hundred and fifty-three under sixteen. Some of these are eight and nine years old, and some are

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only five and six. For a day or a night at a stretch these little children do some one monotonous thing—
abusing their eyes in watching the rushing threads; dwarfing their muscles in an
10 eternity of petty movements; befouling their lungs by breathing flecks of flying cotton; bestowing
ceaseless, anxious attention for hours, where science says that― a twenty-minute strain is long enough for
a growing mind.‖ And these are not the children of recent immigrants, hardened by the effete conditions
of foreign servitude. Nor are they Negro children who have shifted their shackles from field to mill. They
are white children of old and pure colonial stock. Think of it! Here is a people that
15 has outlived the bondage of England, that has seen the rise and fall of slavery—a people that must now
fling their children into the clutches of capital, into the maw of the blind machine…Fifty thousand
children, mostly girls, are in the textile mills of the South. Six times as many children are working now as
were working twenty years ago. Unless the conscience of the nation can be awakened, it will not be long
before one hundred thousand children will be hobbling in hopeless lock-step to
20 these Bastilles of labour.…Think of the deadly drudgery in these cotton mills. Children rise at half-past
four, commanded by the ogre scream of the factory whistle; they hurry, ill fed, unkempt, unwashed, half
dressed, to the walls which shut out the day and which confine them amid the din and dust and merciless
maze of the machines. Here, penned in little narrow lanes, they look and leap and reach and tie among
acres and acres of looms. Always the snow of lint in their faces, always the thunder of the
25 machines in their ears. A scant half hour at noon breaks the twelve-hour vigil, for it is nightfall when the
long hours end and the children may return to the barracks they call ―home, ―often too tried to wait for
the cheerless meal which the mother, also working in the factory, must cook, after her factory day is over.
Frequently at noon and at night they fall asleep with the food unswallowed in the mouth. Frequently
they snatch only a bite and curl up undressed on the bed, togather strength for the same dull round
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
6. The words ―abusing,‖ ―dwarfing,‖ and― befouling‖ (lines 9–10) are used by Markham to show
A. the health hazards for children of life in the mills
B. the quality of the workers in the mills
C. how little respect for life mill workers have
D. how adults fare no better than children
E. the varying jobs available for children
7. Markham quotes ―science‖ (line 11) to support his point that
A. young muscles are built by hard labor B. mill work is dangerous
C. children should not work long hours D. Both A and B
E. Both B and C
8. The word ―effete‖ (line 12) means
A. decent B. flourishing
C. childless D. barren
E. unwholesome
9. By ―shifted their shackles from field to mill‖ (lines 13–14), Markham means
A. taken their slaves from country to city B. changed from field slaves to slaves of the mills
C. moved their money indoors D. slipped the bonds of slavery to work in the mills
E. left a life of servitude for a better life
10. By ―the maw of the blind machine‖ (line16), Markham compares mill labor to
A. a senseless device B. a matriarchal society
C. a cruel, unfeeling mother D. a Cyclops-like ogre

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E. a tool that blinds workers
11. What does Markham mean by ―Bastilles of labor‖ (line 20)?
A. America needs a revolution. B. The mills are prisons.
C. Children work for freedom. D. Work is the drug of the masses.
E. We are no better than Europeans.
12. Paragraph 3 continues Markham’s metaphor of
A. prisons B. Monsters
C. flight D. Both A and B
E. Both B and C
13. The word ―penned‖ (line 23) is used to compare the children to
A. writers B. Animals
C. wrestlers D. Pigs
E. ranch hands
14. The word ―barracks‖ (line 26) is used to refer to the fact that the children’s home is
A. in a camp B. manned by armed guards
C. dreary and uniform D. militarily clean
E. old and run-down
15. Markham repeats the word ―tomorrow‖(line 30) to
A. remind us that the future is here B. imply endless repetitiveness
C. suggest that it is not too late to change
D. arouse us to the fact that these children will grow up
E. contrast the past with the present

Direction (16–20): Some or all parts of the following sentences are underlined. The first answer choice, A.,
simply repeats the underlined part of the sentence. The other four choices present four alternative ways to
phrase the underlined part. Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence, one that is clear and
exact, and blacken the appropriate space on your answer sheet. In selecting your choice, be sure that it is
standard written English, and that it expresses the meaning of the original sentence.
Example:
The first biography of author Eudora Welty came out in 1998 and she was 89 years old at the time.
A. and she was 89 years old at the time B. at the time when she was 89
C. upon becoming an 89 year old D. when she was 89
E. at the age of 89 years old
16. Tony showed three college acceptance letters to his counselor, he said that NYU was definitely his first
choice.
A. Tony showed three college acceptance letters to his counselor, he
B. Three college acceptance letters, which were shown to his counselor by Tony, who
C. Three college acceptance letters were shown by Tony to his counselor, then he
D. After showing three college acceptance letters to his counselor, Tony
E. Tony, having shown three college acceptance letters to his counselor, he

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17. Before going on the senior class trip, a parental permission slip must be filled out for each student.
A. a parental permission slip must be filled out for each student
B. a student must have their parental permission slips filled out
C. their parents must fill out a permission slip for each student
D. a student must have a parental permission slip filled out
E. permission for each student must be filled out by their parents
18. Despite being called ―reality‖ television, the program about the plane crash in the Rockies seemed about
as real as a cow jumping over the moon.
A. Despite being called ―reality‖ television B. Although its being ―reality‖ television
C. It was called ―reality‖ television D. Because it was called ―reality‖ television
E. Calling it ―reality‖ television
19. To think that only money motivates people to choose a career in professional athletics is wrong because
in sports many people do it to find personal satisfaction.
A. wrong because in sports many people do it to find personal satisfaction.
B. wrong because sports would have had an effect on find personal satisfaction
C. wrong, and the reason is because of the finding of personal satisfaction from a career in sports
D. wrong, because many athletes find personal satisfaction out of sports
E. wrong because many athletes find personal satisfaction in their sport
20. At the beginning of Joseph Conrad’s story ―Gaspar Ruiz,‖ a soldier has been falsely accused of cowardice
under fire, desertion of his post, and he gave military secrets to the enemy.
A. he gave military secrets to the enemy B. giving military secrets to the enemy
C. gives military secrets to the enemy D. military secrets were given to the enemy
E. the enemy received military secrets from him.
Direction(21-25): The following is an early draft of a short essay. Some parts need to be revised. Read the
passage, paragraph by paragraph and choose the best answers for the questions that follow. In choosing
answers, follow the rules of standard written English.
1) The London Underground, or ―the Tube,‖ as it is it is known to Londoners, is normally the quickest and
easiest way of getting around London. 2) In addition, London is served by twelve Tube lines, and
underground trains on all lines run every few minutes during most hours of every day. 3) It has 275 stations
conveniently dotted across the metro area.4) Sixty-three of these stations are in central London. 5) One is
never far from the convenience of the Tube.6) Americans who visit London for the first time are usually very
impressed by London’s Underground. 7) Even people from New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago, as well
as other U.S. cities boasting successful mass transit systems.8) London’s Tube enables people to travel short
distances or to access the outlying suburbs as well. 9) Because many of the outlying tube stations are adjacent
to train stations whose trains travel well into the surrounding countryside.10) Large, crowded American cities
which need mass transit systems such as Seattle and Detroit, should study the London Underground. 11)
Granted, the system has been in place a long time, over 100 years in fact and it takes an incredible amount of
money, time and coordination to keep it running. 12) Nevertheless, such a system is so worthwhile: it lessens
traffic on the roads, and is far kinder to the environment. 13) In fact, many Londoners don’t even own cars
nor need them. 14) They can get anywhere by just hopping on the Tube.
21. Sentence 2 is best placed:
A. where it is now. B. at the end of paragraph one.
C. following sentence 3. D. at the beginning of the paragraph.
E. following sentence 4.

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22. In the spirit of the first paragraph, sentences 3 and 4 can best be combined as:
A. It has 275 stations conveniently dotted across the metro area, where 63 of them are centralized.
B. It has 275 stations conveniently dotted across the metro area, and 63 of these are in central London.
C. Having 275 stations conveniently dotted across the metro area, 63 are in central London.
D. Sixty three stations are in central London out of 275 stations that are dotted across the metro area.
E. It has 275 stations conveniently dotted across the metro area but only 63 in central London.
23. Sentence 7 can best be expressed:
A. as it is now.
B. New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago visitors as well as other U.S. cities boasting successful mass
transit systems.
C. People from New York, Washington D.C. and even Chicago, as well as other U.S. cities boasting
successfulmass transit systems.
D. Even people from New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago, as well as other U.S. cities boasting
successful mass transit systems are impressed.
E. People are even impressed from New York, Washington D.C., as well as other U.S. cities, and
Chicago who boast successful mass transit systems.
24. Sentence 8 can best be stated:
A. as it is now.
B. London’s Tube enables people to travel short distances, or to access the outlying suburbs as well.
C. Short distances or outlying suburbs are accessible by London’s Tube.
D. London’s Tube accesses outlying suburbs as well as people who travel short distances.
E. Traveling short distances or accessing suburbs is possible by people on London’s Tube.
25. Sentence 9 can best be stated:
A. as it is now.
B. This is because many of the outlying Tube stations are adjacent to train stations whose trains travel
well into the surrounding countryside.
C. Many train stations that travel well into the surrounding countryside are adjacent to the outlying
Tube stations.
D. Outlying Tube stations that are adjacent to train stations allow people to travel well into the
surrounding countryside.
E. The surrounding countryside can be traveled because many of the outlying Tube stations are adjacent
to train stations whose trains travel there.

Direction (26–30): The following sentences test your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. Each
sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error,
if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that
must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice E. In choosing answers,
follow the requirements of standard written English.
Example:
The other him immediately drafted by No error
delegates and accepted the resolution the neutral states.
A B C D E

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who chose includes at least
26. Voters in the school-board election the candidate on the ballot twenty
A B C
whose No error
votes were influenced by the candidate’s delicious cookies.
D E
attended closely
27. During the debate, Jack to the Independent Party candidate’s economic plan,
A
which Jack better structured than the other candidate No error
thought was .
B C D E
to stage that develop from and incorporate
28. Edward Villella’s talent enables him ballets the feeling that
A B C
intended No error
George Balanchine .
D E
to have seen but have such an object No error
29. Many people claim UFOs, not one proved that exists.
A B C D E
announces to build the
30. This year, the company Take Your Daughter to Work Day in an effort morale
A B
of employees during the recession No error
in the head office .
C D E

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