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SECTION—I EXCEPT:
Verbal Ability A. Pride B. Love C. Envy D. Patience
This set contains 25 questions 1. A and B 2. A, B and C 3. B, C and D
DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 3: The passage given 4. B and C 5. A, B and D
below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most 3. Which of the following prevents us from action,
appropriate answer to each question. according to the passage given above?
To be, or not to be: that is the question: A. Our conscience B. Thinking excessively
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer C. Fear of something after death
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune D. Thinking about our loved ones
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 1. A and B 2. A, B and C 3. A, B and D
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— 4. A, B, C and D 5. B and C
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks DIRECTIONS for questions 4 to 6: In each question,
That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;— paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s)
To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub; that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, choose the most appropriate option.
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 4. A. Recently, I had a very amusing experience with a
Must give us pause: there’s the respect fresh MBA who had applied for a job with us.
That makes calamity of so long life; B. She had done a project on the corporate
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, governance.
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, C. To test her knowledge I started off with a basic
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay, question: What is corporate governance?
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The insolence of office, and the spurns D. She did not take much time to get off the start-
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, ing blocks: “It is about managing a company well
When he himself might his quietus make so that shareholders’ wealth is maximised.”
With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear, 1. A & C 2. C 3. B & D 4. D 5. B & C
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 5. A. Then I asked her to define the corporate finance.
But that the dread of something after death,— B. After a bit of meandering, she repeats the first
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn answer.
No traveller returns,—puzzles the will, C. I then asked her to explain the difference
And makes us rather bear those ills we have between the corporate finance and the corporate
Than fly to others that we know not of? governance.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; D. She gave herself up.
of cards. Eventually all of the cards are chosen, and the person 3. b 3 = (a 2 c 2) 4. – b = a(b +c)
who has none to pick up is the loser. If A starts and picks up 5. None of these
23 cards in his first move, then how many does B need to pick 38. In the figure below, a
up in order to win? circular swimming pool (the
1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 5 5. None of these unshaded area) is surrounded by
30. Please refer to the figure below: a circular walkway (the shaded
A area). Both the circular swim- O
ming pool and the entire circular
region consisting of the swim-
ming pool and the walkway have
the centre O. If the radius of the swimming pool is 10 meters
and the width of the walkway is 5 meters, how much greater
O
than the surface area of the swimming pool is the area of the
Z
walkway?
1. 100π 2. 50π 3. 25π 4. 125π 5. None of these
B C
39. A and B swim a 1500 m race in a 25 m swimming pool.
ABC is an quilateral triangle, with side = 5 cm. The circle A swims 50 metres in the time B takes to swim 40 m. If both
with centre O, is the incircle of the ΔABC and there is another swim at a constant rate, how many times do they meet, before
circle drawn with radius ‘r’ and touching two sides of the A completes the race?
triangle and the encircle itself. What is the value of ‘r’. 1. 58 2. 60 3. 59 4. 62 5. 63
5 3 5 3 6 40. If the angles of a quadrilateral form an arithmetic pro-
1. 2. 3.
6 2 6 3 gression, and the third angle measures three times the first,
5 find the smallest angle.
4. 5. None of these 1. 90 deg 2. 72 deg 3. 54 deg 4. 36 deg 5. 44 deg
6 3
41. The number 311311311311311311311 is:
31. A man had three daughters who celebrated their 1. divisible both by 3 and 11
birthday on the same day, but were born in 1977, 1978 and 2. divisible by 3 but not by 11
1979 respectively. On one such birthday, if the product of their 3. divisible by 11 but not by 3
ages was divided by their respective ages in turn, the sum of 4. divisible by 3, 7 and 11
quotients would have been 74. Find the age of the eldest 5. neither divisible by 3, 7 or by 11
daughter. 42. A rectangular block 10 cm by 15 cm by 20 cm is cut
1. 6 2. 8 3. 7 4. 9 5. None of these into exact number of equal cubes. The least possible number
32. If the roots of ax² + bx + c = 0 are in the ratio of of cubes will be:
m : n, then 1. 12 2. 16 3. 18 4. 24 5. 25
1. mna² = (m + n)c² 2. mnb² = (m + n) ac 43. Four circular coins of equal radius are placed with
3. mnb² = (m + n)²ac 4. mn = (m + n) ab their centres coinciding with the four vertices of a square. Each
5. None of these coin touches two other coins. If the inside area enclosed by the
33. Find the value of ‘k’ so that the following equations four coins is given to be 42 cm2, then the radius of the coins is
are consistent: equal to:
2x + 3y + 4 = 0 3x + 4y + 6 = 0 1. 5 cm 2. 7 cm 3. 10 cm
4x + 5y – k = 0 4. 14 cm 5. None of these
1. –2 2. 7 3. –8 4. 10.5 5. 11 44. An equilateral triangle, a square and a circle have
(1 + x) equal perimeters. If T denotes the area of the triangle; S, the
34. If f(x) = , what is the value of f(f(2x))?
(1 – x) area of the square and C, the area of the circle, then:
–1 1. T < S < C 2. S < T < C 3. C < S < T
1. x 2. 3. – x 4. – 1 5. 0
2x 4. T < C < S 5. S < C < T
35. A varies inversely as the square of B such that 45. 378 oranges and 462 mangoes are to be distributed
A B among some girls so that each girl may get as many mangoes
n 5 and as many oranges as another girl. The largest possible num-
n+1 4 ber of girls and the least possible number of fruits of each kind
What is the value of ‘n’? which a girl gets are:
8 3 2 7 5 1. 42, 9, 11 2. 42, 12, 9 3. 24, 12, 13
1. 1 2. 1 3. 1 4. 1 5. 1
15 7 5 9 7 4. 14, 15, 16 5. 24, 9, 11
36. If in ΔABC, AB = 2,AC = 2, and BC =1 + 3, 46. Let x1, x2 be the roots of the equation x2 – 3x + p = 0
find ∠B. and let x3, x4 be the roots of the equation x2 – 12x + q = 0. If the
numbers x1, x2, x3, x4 (in order) from an increasing GP, then:
1. 60° 2. 45° 3. 30°
1. p = 2, q = 32 2. p = 4, q = 32 3. p = 2, q = 16
4. 90° 5. None of these
4. p = 4, q = 16 5. p = 3, q = 18
37. One root of the equation ax² + bx + c = 0 is the square 47. G(x) = x2 + 4, h(x) = x2, F(x) = (x – 1)2 = 25. Then the
of the other. Which of the following holds?
DIRECTIONS for questions 71 to 75: Answer these questions on the basis of the information given below.
Number of questions solved correctly by four candidates in 30 tests.
Test
No AMIT BIRJOO SONIA SOFIA
QA DI VA RC DS QA DI VA RC DS QA DI VA RC DS QA DI VA RC DS
1 4 10 12 7 3 19 7 6 11 8 11 2 4 1 9 17 4 5 7 4
2 6 9 11 10 4 20 8 9 14 2 8 3 6 0 7 13 3 6 8 9
3 12 1 3 5 7 11 9 3 4 7 7 9 3 18 12 9 2 8 8 11
4 16 13 9 14 0 9 9 9 8 19 13 11 9 7 8 14 7 12 11 2
5 6 7 20 6 1 0 13 11 11 11 7 9 4 18 9 12 11 2 1 11
6 8 23 0 18 2 10 8 7 15 16 16 12 3 4 5 12 3 6 12 5
7 18 9 7 6 10 3 4 6 14 5 19 8 7 13 14 3 2 17 19 4
8 22 17 4 2 3 11 7 6 3 0 11 18 14 15 11 18 8 0 9 1
9 20 19 18 6 10 18 9 19 8 4 13 19 24 26 3 13 8 7 6 7
10 18 8 7 7 0 7 3 8 6 4 19 9 4 3 2 14 6 5 8 9
11 16 19 7 0 10 4 12 11 5 7 4 7 2 10 9 12 13 12 11 4
12 10 4 3 5 14 18 6 3 9 7 3 11 6 1 5 13 10 4 8 5
13 1 6 0 13 1 11 13 18 7 5 3 4 8 6 5 18 3 9 8 3
14 2 7 5 8 8 9 2 3 4 14 9 10 8 7 11 19 11 19 18 9
15 4 8 2 9 14 13 8 4 0 3 7 8 13 6 18 23 7 3 18 4
16 10 18 8 7 11 2 1 3 3 8 15 17 7 16 5 11 18 10 17 5
17 12 10 23 10 3 15 2 1 15 0 10 11 4 1 20 12 13 7 9 10
18 19 7 19 6 2 1 7 2 3 4 19 21 21 3 1 9 11 15 16 11
19 25 12 4 6 0 23 11 4 12 2 21 9 23 3 4 8 12 13 11 9
20 3 5 21 7 8 3 7 5 9 19 9 6 7 8 0 15 9 8 7 6
21 10 0 9 4 19 5 15 7 8 11 3 1 4 8 18 16 13 8 7 9
22 7 9 23 3 7 13 4 8 9 1 22 2 30 1 4 4 14 5 8 7
23 6 1 2 3 5 10 9 7 15 6 8 10 16 6 3 18 15 11 5 6
24 1 3 20 0 12 8 6 13 8 5 18 26 1 7 13 9 16 12 4 7
25 0 4 8 6 8 9 15 4 5 7 13 14 2 8 17 18 11 19 3 8
26 20 14 13 7 9 12 7 11 8 10 25 24 15 9 19 17 10 11 13 15
27 25 4 15 18 10 2 3 9 20 5 19 11 19 11 3 16 9 18 11 12
28 18 1 2 3 3 1 4 6 8 10 13 21 20 11 4 13 13 7 8 9
29 17 2 4 7 3 0 11 9 8 8 18 20 18 2 5 6 4 2 3 5
30 9 5 8 11 6 23 21 18 1 10 19 6 7 8 9 5 3 1 4 6
Note: Each test had five different areas – QA, DI, VA, RC and DS.
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