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Instructions: This test is made very similar to the actual And thus the native hue of resolution
CAT which is conducted by the Indian Institutes of Manage- Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
ment. It should be used to assess yourself and to cover up your And enterprises of great pith and moment,
weaknesses. With this regard, their currents turn awry,
The test has 75 questions. It is to be done in one sitting in And lose the name of action.
2½ hours. Mark the answers on the answer sheet. No breaks
are to be taken. 1. The passage above represents a dilemma face by the
A student must show capability in all the sections. A author. Which of the following best represents that dilemma?
minimum score of 10 in each section must be aimed at. Hence 1. The dilemma over existence—the author questions
it is not advisable to leave out any section. whether it is worthwhile to exist
After finishing, check the answers. Give yourself 4 marks 2. The author is thinking about suicide and concludes
for every correct answer and –1 for every wrong answer. A that suicide is a way out
net score should be arrived at after deducting the negative 3. The dilemma between facing the struggles of life or to
marks. end life by suicide
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ment. being and not being
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www.mbaprep.in and its meaning
2. All of the following are mentioned as burdens of life,

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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.

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1. A 2. B 3. C and D lowing modern civilisation’s repeated guarantee—No man shall
4. B, C and D 5. None of these starve—should be sufficient to maintain respectability. Guar-
6. A. In the above incident, the student had heard the anteed security beyond this is very likely to rob the great mass
term shareholders wealth maximisation being of men of the “mainspring of action”. Such a guarantee would
repeated by different teachers in different classes. take away the thrill of struggle and would be synonymous with
B. She must also have seen the term being mentioned a situation where one was guaranteed success in the outcome
repeatedly in the newspapers, magazines and of a game. Yet struggle without the minimum guarantee is like-
books. ly to paralyse individuals with fear, in which case their normal
C. So she must have thought, it is a safe answer to functioning is impossible.
give for most questions in the areas of finance. 7. What is the meaning of the following lines in the con-
D. Young people mouth the same meaningless phras- text of the passage: “Grow old along with me!/The best is yet
es without knowing what they mean or whether to be,/The last of life, for which the first was made.”
they are making sense. 1. That the best things in life are still to come till the last
1. A and C 2. B and D 3. C 4. D 5. None of these of life
2. That one must be optimistic as the best things in life
DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 9: The passage given happen in old age
below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most 3. That the challenges in life only increase with age and
appropriate answer to each question. man must keep working
Let us analyze more fundamentally the normality for 4. That life goes on and great things happen, for which life
which this gospel of work is a foundation. The real basis of has been made in the first place
normality is in reality joy and happiness. But what is happi- 5. That it is a philosophy on which life is based.
ness, and what is joy? Certainly not the “eat, drink, and be 8. This passage is taken from an essay titled “Man must
merry” concept. Is happiness merely the fulfilment of the age- work.” What should have come before the excerpt that is given
old dream of complete freedom to follow one’s bent? We do above?
know that basically the real joy which makes the individual 1. A description of what happens if man does not work
look forward to life from day to day has to do with struggle— 2. An explanation of what constitutes work
but not the kind of struggle which thousands of people face 3. A description of the gospel of work
each morning when they waken, a day just as yesterday and 4. A description of the foundation of work as a require-
just as tomorrow will be, a day of failure, with no work to do, ment
no new tasks in sight, no jobs here, no chance of success. Nor 5. An explanation of work as a philosophy
is it the struggle which the individual finds as he wakens in the 9. Which of the following best sums up the point made
morning with the same query that he had yesterday morning by the author with regard to guaranteed security?
and will have tomorrow morning: What shall I do to fill the 1. Security must be guaranteed, only then can work to his
hours of this day? best
The struggle referred to is the constant facing of chal- 2. Man always look for security and that is a basic reason
lenges accompanied by a reasonable chance of success. We why he works in the first place
crave struggles where the outcome is in doubt, where there is 3. Man’s need for security must be balanced by his need
no sure success or certain failure. There may be success today for work
and failure tomorrow, but it is in this situation that we delight 4. Man can work at his best once his minimum needs are
to exercise our talents. Even in the failure we save ourselves looked after
from a superiority complex and in success from an inferiority 5. We take security as granted and then do our best to
complex. It is in this struggle pattern that man has always been achieve our goals
spurred to action.
In primitive times it was a game where the stake was life DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 12: Each question is a
or death, and from the racial standpoint the stake is still life or logical sequence of statements with a missing link, the location
death. As Elie Faure has said, “Life is a dance over fire and of which is shown parenthetically. From the five choices avail-
water.” It always was. It is in balanced struggle that we get able, choose the one which best fits the sentence logically.
normality. It is on this basis that we lay the foundation of the 10. For most people, typing is not the ideal way to inter-
philosophy— face with computers. If we could speak to our machines, even
Grow old along with me! the most confirmed Luddite would use them more enthusiasti-
The best is yet to be, cally. (………....) why?
The last of life, for which the first was made. 1. It is almost certain that new technologies that permit
This type of joy in struggle for achievement is a far, far us to communicate with computers will be available
cry from the pink-lemonade, merry-go-round, Coney Island, within a decade.
jazz-party, movie, and radio mania which seems to have infest- 2. However, computers still remain man’s best friend
ed this pleasure-seeking but not pleasure-finding generation. 3. There will be more people buying more computers and
Undoubtedly it is from this viewpoint of work and strug- using them.
gle that we find Ida M. Tarbell saying: “The most satisfying 4. However, some resistance to using computers will
interest in life, books and friends and beauty aside, is work— always remain.
plain, hard, steady work.” 5. Nonetheless, computers remain more or less deaf and
Work which carries the connotation of workmanship— mute.
work with at least a low minimum of security but still work— 11. (………....) Were the charge fair, it would be reassur-
represents the pattern of normality. This level of security fol- ing, since ancient Hinduism was tolerant in its own way. But

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the BJP has no desire to go back to ancient Hinduism. Many of tanism. That would be going too far, however. He was a sincere
its leaders belong to the Arya Samaj sect that eschews idol and learned man, if a confused one, who offered some academ-
worship and castigates traditional Hinduism. ics and students just what they were looking for.
1. The BJP’s leaders are embroiled in corruption cases. Mr Derrida’s father was a salesman of Sephardic Jewish
2. The BJP has been accused of religious fundamentalism. extraction. Born in a suburb of Algiers, Jacques was expelled
3. Unlike other large political parties, which blow with the from his school at the age of 12 because of the Vichy govern-
prevailing wind, the BJP has been known to take a hard ment’s racial laws. With some difficulty, in 1952 he succeeded
and unyielding stand on religious matters. in entering the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and
4. The BJP has been charged with stirring up religious con- attended the lectures of Michel Foucault. He began to lecture at
troversies for political advantage. the Ecole Normale in 1964. Two years later, at a conference at
5. The BJP has been charged with alleviating the Hindus Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he laid the foundations
only. of his reputation in America with a bold new way to approach
12. Travelling by train and bus in the West and in India literary texts and lay bare their ideological presuppositions.
can give one fascinating glimpses of cultural differences. In the Three books followed in 1967, including “Of Grammatology”
West, it is impolite to ask the stranger who happens to be sit- and “Writing and Difference”. A radical star was born.
ting next to you personal questions. So you make inane conver- Mr Derrida’s style of deconstruction flowered especially
sation about the weather. (………....) It shows that you are being in American departments of comparative literature, where it
as cold as the Bering Strait. became interwoven with Marxism, feminism and anti-colonial-
1. In India, on the other hand, family is important. ism. Although by the early 1980s French academics had large-
2. You cannot speak about anything else. ly tired of trying to make sense of him, America’s teachers of
3. In India, it is in fact impolite not to ask personal ques- literature increasingly embraced Mr Derrida. Armed with an
tions. impenetrable new vocabulary, and without having to master
4. In fact, you must talk about being as cold as the Bering any rigorous thought, they could masquerade as social, politi-
Strait. cal and philosophical critics. Mr Derrida always denied any
5. In fact you end up writing a weather report. responsibility for the undisciplined nihilism of his imitators,
who gave the strong impression that deconstructionism had
DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 15: The passage given somehow succeeded in undermining, or even in refuting, the
below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most notion of objective truth. But his work could not easily be
appropriate answer to each question. interpreted in any other way.
“In him France gave the world one of the major figures of A crisis came in 1987. The New York Times revealed that
the intellectual life of our times”, announced Jacques Chirac, Paul de Man, a friend of Mr Derrida’s and one of America’s
the French President, on the day after Jacques Derrida’s death. leading deconstructionists, had written anti-Semitic articles for
Mr Derrida himself disagreed with pretty much everything any- a pro-Nazi Belgian newspaper in 1940-42. Coincidentally, also
one said about him; but he may have let that encomium pass. in 1987, evidence began to emerge of the hidden Nazi past of
The inventor of “deconstruction”—an ill-defined habit of dis- the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who had been a
mantling texts by revealing their assumptions and contradic- major influence on Mr Derrida. Mr Derrida’s response was dis-
tions—was indeed, and unfortunately, one of the most cited astrous. He used deconstructionist techniques to defend the
modern scholars in the humanities. two men, laying down a fog of convoluted rhetoric in a doomed
He was also the most controversial. In 1992 a proposal to attempt to exonerate them. This fed straight into the hands of
award him an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University his critics, who had always argued that the playful evasiveness
caused such howls that the university was forced to put the of deconstruction masked its moral and intellectual bankrupt-
matter to a ballot—the first time this had happened in 30 cy. The New York Review of Books quipped that deconstruction
years. Amid charges that Mr Derrida’s work was absurd, vapid means never having to say you’re sorry.
and pernicious, the degree was awarded in the end, by 336 Mr Derrida also pursued far worthier causes. He fought
votes to 204. for the rights of Algerian immigrants in France, opposed
The academy is often fractious, but this was different. It apartheid and campaigned for Czech dissidents. As his influ-
is not that Mr Derrida’s views, or his arguments for them, were ence waned, his fame grew. Abandoning his earlier reticence,
unusually contentious. He not only contradicted himself, over he submitted to interviews and photographs. The books con-
and over again, but vehemently resisted any attempt to clarify tinued to flow (80 volumes in all) as his concerns moved away
his ideas. “A critique of what I do”, he said, “is indeed impos- from literary and philosophical texts to ethical and political
sible.” subjects, but they were no easier to follow. In his final years he
There has always been a market for obscurantism. became increasingly concerned with religion, and some theolo-
Socrates railed against the followers of Heraclitus of Ephesus gians started to show interest in his work. God help them.
for much the same reasons that Mr Derrida’s critics berate his 13. What does the author imply in the last line “God help
unfortunate disciples: “If you ask one of them a question, they them”?
draw out enigmatic little expressions from their quiver, so to 1. Understanding Derrida’s work requires the help of God.
speak, and shoot one off; and if you try to get hold of an 2. As they are theologians, God’s help would help them
account of what that one meant, you’re transfixed by another achieve their goals.
novel set of metaphors. You’ll never get anywhere with any of 3. Making sense of Derrida was difficult, God’s help might
them.” help in unraveling his thoughts.
Subjected to his weak puns (“logical phallusies” was a 4. As Derrida deconstructed everything, theologians
famous example), bombastic rhetoric and illogical ramblings, would need the help of God in understanding him.
an open-minded reader might suspect Mr Derrida of charla- 5. The author is being sarcastic about the efforts of

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theologians taken, ‘my dear fellow’ whispered in his ear, and his steps guid-
14. What would be a definition of deconstructionism, as ed toward the inner precinct, whoever, observing this, has
per the passage? realized that these are the arts by which men become and
A. a bold new way to approach literary texts and lay bare remain legislators, can hardly fail to feel that democracy as it
their ideological presuppositions. exists is not an absolutely perfect instrument of government.
B. it was interwoven with Marxism, feminism and anti- It is a painful fact that the ordinary voter is quite blind to insin-
colonialism. cerity. The man who does not care about any definite political
C. breaking up ideas and texts by looking at their assump- measures can generally be won by corruption or flattery, open
tions and contradictions. or concealed; the man who is set on securing reforms will gen-
1. A, B and C 2. A and B 3. Only C erally prefer an ambitious windbag, as soon as he has become
4. Only A 5. B and C a power by the enthusiasm he has aroused, will sell his influ-
15. Which of the following statements is true? ence to the governing clique, sometimes openly, sometimes by
A. Derrida was not reviled in the American press for sup- the more subtle method of intentionally failing at a crisis. This
porting the Nazis. is part of the normal working of democracy as embodied in
B. Not much is known about Derrida’s past and hence it is representative institutions. Yet a cure must be found if demo-
difficult to say what he did during the World War days. cracy is not to remain a farce.
C. The books that Derrida wrote were not taken seriously One of the sources of evil in modern large democracies is
by intellectuals of his time. the fact that most of the electorate has no direct or vital inter-
1. Only A 2. Only B 3. B and C est in most of the questions that arise. Should Welsh children
4. A, B and C 5. None of these be allowed the use of the Welsh language in school? Should
gypsies be compelled to abandon their nomadic life at the bid-
DIRECTIONS for Questions 16 to 18: Fill up the blanks, ding of the education authorities? Should miners have an
numbered [16], [17] and [18], in the passage below with the eight-hour day? Should Christian scientists be compelled to
most appropriate word from the options given for each blank. call in doctors in case of serious illness? These are matters of
Caught in a/ an …… [16] …… of poverty, disease and passionate interest to certain sections of the community, but
ignorance, many Indian villagers are leading a life not fit for a of very little interest to the great majority. If they are decided
human. Not only does it lead them to a precarious existence, according to the wishes of the numerical majority, the intense
but also many times it makes them barter their very life for desires of minority will be overborne by the very slight and
something as small as a one-acre piece of land. This has been uniformed whims of the different remainder. If the minority
the biggest slap on the face of the so-called land reforms, are geographically concentrated, they have a good chance of
which nobody had any intention of carrying out. To getting their way, by the wholly beneficent process which its
……[17]…… the intent of the reforms, the big landlords enemies describe as long rolling. But if they are scattered and
ensured that whatever land was willy-nilly given to the poor politically feeble, like the gypsies and the Christian Scientists,
landless labourers, was so …… [18] …… in terms of quality they stand a very poor chance against the prejudices of the
that probably the landless were better off without it. majority. Even when they are geographically concentrated, like
16. 1. network 2. vortex 3. channel the Irish, they may fail to obtain their wishes, because they
4. atmosphere 5. trap arouse some hostility or some instinct of domination in the
17. 1. fructify 2. promote 3.cap majority. Such a state of affairs is the negation of all demo-
4. nullify 5. cancel cratic principles.
18. 1. fertile 2. shoddy 3. small The tyranny of the majority is a very real danger. It is a
4. good 5. poor mistake to suppose that the majority is necessarily right. On
every new question the majority is always wrong at first. In
DIRECTIONS for questions 19 to 21: The passage given matters where the state must act as a whole, such as tariffs, for
below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most example, decision by majorities is probably the best method
appropriate answer to each question. that can be devised. But there are a great many questions in
The problem of the distribution of power is a more diffi- which there is no need of a uniform decision. Wherever diver-
cult one than the problem of the distribution of wealth. The gent action by different groups is possible without anarchy, it
machinery of representative government has concentrated on ought to be permitted. In such cases it will be found by those
ultimate power as the only important matter, and has ignored who consider past history that, whenever any new fundamen-
immediate executive power. Almost nothing has been done to tal issue arises, the majority are in the wrong, because they are
democratise administration. Government officials, by virtue of guided by prejudice and habit. Progress comes through the
their income, security, and social position are likely to be on gradual effect of a minority in converting opinion and altering
the side of the rich, who have been their daily associates ever custom. At one time not so very long ago it was considered
since the time of school and college. And whether or not they monstrous wickedness to maintain that old women ought to be
are on the side of the rich, they are not likely, for the reasons burnt as witches. If those who held this opinion have been
we have been considering, to be genuinely in favour of forcibly suppressed, we should still be steeped in medical super-
progress. What applies to government officials applies also to stition. For such reasons, it is of the utmost importance that the
members of Parliament, with the sole difference that they have majority should refrain from imposing its will as regards matters
had to recommend themselves to a constituency. in which uniformity is not absolutely necessary.
This, however, only adds hypocrisy to the other qualities 19. What does the author imply by the phrase “the tyran-
of a ruling caste. Whoever has stood in the lobby of the House ny of the majority”?
of Commons watching members emerge with wandering eyes 1. The majority decision making is faulty and prejudicial
and hypocritical smiles, until the constituent is espied, his arm and works against some groups

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2. In a democracy, the will of the majority must prevail, 24. A. George Bernard Shaw reckoned that the English
even if it is tyrannical sometimes “spell it so abominably that no man can teach him-
3. Decision by majorities is the best method that can be self what it sounds like”.
devised for decision making in a democracy B. It is easy to find words like their/there/they’re
4. Majority decisions are required wherever divergent with the same sounds but different spellings.
action by different groups is possible without anarchy C. Many people argue that English spelling is simply
5. The majority is tyrannical by nature and the system awful.
supports them. D. Six out of 10 15-year-olds can’t write 10 lines with-
20. Why do you think the author assumes that the out making at least one spelling mistake and
bureaucrats are likely to support the rich? adults struggle with words such as accommodate
1. Because the rich class are the ones who contribute the and broccoli all their lives.
most to their salaries. E. Some words have unique spellings all of their own,
2. Because their wealth and social position are closer to such as colonel and yacht.
that of the rich. 1. AEDCB 2. CABED 3. AEDBC
3. Because they all look up to the rich class as the people 4. CADEB 5. CBAED
to follow. 25. A. The affectless uniformity of the web.
4. Because they get most of their bribes from the rich. B. Look at the world we have left to the hapless
5. Because they depend on the rich for the perks of social adolescents of the early 21st century.
life C. Danger lurking: perverts round every corner,
21. Who among the following would a reformist voter terrorists in the shadows.
most probably support? D. But the bargain has been broken, the debt called in.
1. An ambitious politician E. A world where the sea kills fish, rain dissolves trees
2. An ambitious man who is also honest and sex means death.
3. An ambitious politician with a gift of oratory F. A world of food fads and neuroses, of exploitation
4. A learned politician through mass media.
5. A non-controversial politician who can carry the 1. BDEFCE 2. FACEBD
majority with him 3. DBFACE 4. BAFCED

DIRECTIONS for questions 22 to 25: In each question, SECTION—II


there are 4-6 sentences. The sentences labelled A, B, C, and so Quantitative Ability
on, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a This section contains 25 questions
coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose 26. We are given that
the most appropriate option. f(x, y) = xy if x < y
22. A. What is more remarkable, Mr Buffett put ego aside = x2 + y2 if x = y
and gave the money to an outfit bearing someone x
= if x > y
else’s name. y
and f(x) = x + 3
B. His example to plutocrats everywhere amounts to
Which of the following is true?
an altruistic call to action, part of an attempt with
1. f(2, 4), 7(5, 8), f(10, 2) is not a perfect square
Mr Gates to make philanthropy as much about the 2. f([f(2, 2), f(4, 5)] = f[f(4, 5), 7(2, 2)]
doing as about the donating. 3. f[f(1, 2), f(2, 1)] = f[f(2, 3)]
C. Mr Buffett’s splendid liberality is noteworthy for 4. Both (1) and (2)
more than its magnitude. 5. None of these
D. With the Nebraskan billions to add to $30 billion 27. In the figure, SU || QT and ST || QR. U is the midpoint
of their own, Bill and Melinda Gates will be in to PT. And if A[SUTQ] = m A[STRQ] the value of ‘m’:
charge of a foundation the size of a multinational P
company such as Disney, Dell or Honda.
1. ABCD 2. ADCB 3. DACB U
4. DCAB 5. BADC T
S
23. A. And so we’d all love to understand, harness, and
enhance that kind of thinking.
B. But how the minds of truly original problem
solvers such as John Nash work remains pretty
much a mystery. Q R
C. How nations can promote creativity is the subject
1. 1 2. 3 3. 1.5 4. 2 5. 2.5
of many studies, including one by Edward
28. When dates are written using eight digits, e.g. 06 02
Prescott, who won a Nobel Prize in economics.
2003 for 6th Feb 2003, 20th February 2002 is a pallindromic
D. Such inventions strike us as magical, perhaps the
date since 20 02 2002 has the same digits in the same order when
reason one synonym for creativity is “wizardry”.
read in reverse. The previous pallindromic date and the next few
E. While most of us can imagine writing a book and
all occur in the months of February. What will be the next month
maybe painting a picture, very few of us can imag-
other than February to have a pallindromic date in it?
ine proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.
1. March 2. April 3. December
1. ACBED 2. EDBCA 3. EBDAC
4. October 5. September
4. CEDBA 5. DECBA

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29. Two people, A and B, play the following game with a 3 2 2 3 2 1 1 2

deck of 32 cards. With A starting, and thereafter the players 1. b2 = (a 2 c 3 + a 3 c 2) 2. – b = (a 3c 3


+a 3c )3
alternating, each player takes either 1 card or a prime number 2 3 3

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?

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G(x) 5. Bank of America


value of is: 53. The interest spread for Bank of America was higher
h(x)
than that of ANZ Grindlays Bank by
1 1 1
1. 1 2. – 1 3. 1 1. –12.5 crore 2. 14.5 crore 3. 10 crore
9 9 5 4. –10 crore 5. None of these
1 54. The number of employees are the highest for which
4. – 1 5. Either (1) or (4)
4 bank?
DIRECTIONS for questions 48 to 50: Read the detail and 1. Citibank 2. ANZ Grindlays Bank
answer the following questions. 3. ABN-Amro 4. Bank of America
A new system is devised wherein a number is presented 5. Stan Commercial Bank
using integers 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 only. In this system,
DIRECTIONS for questions 55 to 58: Read the following
∑x 5 i
(i = 1, 2, …..x) will be presented as ax ax – 1… ai where
information and answer the questions that follow.
ai always belongs to {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} for all i = 1, 2, ….., x. Thus, Twelve cricket teams participated in a national level
the number 231 in this system would mean 2 × 52 + 3 × 51 + 1 cricket tournament. These teams were distributed equally into
× 50 = 66 in the decimal system. Similarly, 17 of the decimal two pools A and B. In the first round, each team played a match
against all the other teams in its pool. Then three teams with
system would be written as 32 in the new system. Unless
highest average points from each pool qualified for the second
otherwise stated, for these problems, all numbers are assumed round where all the teams played against each other once.
to be in the new system. Again, three teams with highest average points qualified for
48. 140 – 42 = ? the final. In the final round, all the teams played a match
1. 103 2. 98 3. 43 4. 53 5. None of these against each other and the one with the highest average points
49. 43 in the decimal system = ? (in the new system) was declared to be the winner of the tournament. A winner of
1. 40 + 43 2. 20 + 23 3. 40 + 23 any match gets two points, the loser loses one point and in
4. 75 5. None of these case of a draw both the teams get one point each. Average
50. If 12 × y = 120, then y = ? points of a team are defined as the total points earned by the
1. 10 2. 15 3. 5 4. 20 5. None of these team so far divided by the number of matches played by the
team so far.
SECTION—III The following table gives the total points earned and the
Data Interpretation/Reasoning average points for each team at the end of the tournament.
This section contains 25 questions
DIRECTIONS for questions 51 to 54: Refer to the data Teams A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
Total 14 0 5 0 8 3 -3 13 3 6 2 7
below. Average 1.17 0 0.5 0 0.8 0.6 -0.6 1.08 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.58
The performance of a few of the foreign banks in India is points
given in the table below.
Also,
Deposits Average Operation Interest Profitibility Business Employee I. The winner of the tournament won both its matches in
working g profits spread (%) per branch producti-
(crore)
funds (crore) (%) (crore) vity (lakh)
the finals.
(crore) II. In second round, the total points earned by all the
ANZ Grindlays 4.000 5.200 300 5 4 2.080 240
teams are 50.
Bank
Citibank 4.250 3.750 225 4 3 625 375 55. Which two teams do not play against each other in the
Bank of America 2.000 2.250 2.250 11 5 500 275 finals?
ABN Amro 7.750 8.000 450 6 3 640 150
1. A1, B2 2. A1, B6 3. A5, B2
Deutsche Bank 7.000 8.500 500 6 2 850 250
IndusInd Bank 1.500 2.000 100 5 3 250 156 4. B2, B6 5. None of these
Stan Commercial 100 120 10 9 6 240 50 56. Find the total number of matches won by A2 and A4
Bank
in the first round.
Average working funds = (Deposits + Advances) ÷ 2 1. 0 2. 1 3. 2 4. 3 5. 4
Interest spread = [(Interest received – Interest paid)] ÷ 57. How many points did the second runner up earn in
[Average working funds] ×100 the finals?
Profitability = (Net profit ÷ Average working funds) × 100 1. –2 2. 1 3. 2 4. 3 5. Cannot be determined
Net profits = Operating profits - Provisioning 58. After round 2, the highest average points of any team
Business per branch = [Deposits + Advances] ÷ [Number of are:
branches] 1. 1 2. 1.2 3. 1.3 4. 1.4 5. Cannot be determined
Employee productivity = Operating profits ÷ Number of
employees DIRECTIONS for questions 59 to 62: Read the sixteen
51. Which bank had the highest volume of advances? statements given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. ANZ Grindlays Bank 2. Deutsche Bank S 1: There is a group of seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F
3. Bank of America 4. Citibank and G.
5. ABN Amro S 2: There are four males, three females, two married
52. Which bank had the maximum provisions for the couples and three unmarried persons in the group.
year? S 3: These seven persons are seated in a row on the
1. Stan Commercial Bank 2. IndusInd Bank bench.
3. ABN-Amro 4. Deutsche Bank S 4: Their professions are: engineer, teacher, doctor,

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Psychologist, entrepreneur, architect and student. 60. What is the profession of A?
S 5: B, the psychologist, is not married and is the most 1. Engineer 2. Doctor 3. Teacher
intelligent. 4. Data insufficient 5. None of the above
S 6: The engineer is married to the teacher, who is the 61. What is the profession of F?
least intelligent of the group. 1. Doctor 2. Engineer 3. Teacher
S 7: D is an architect. He is sitting in the centre. 4. Data insufficient 5. None of the above
S 8: The student is sitting on the rightmost corner of 62. Which two are sitting together?
the bench. 1. D and E 2. E and A
S 9: The doctor is married to C. C is the second most 3. Teacher and Entrepreneur
intelligent of the group followed by her husband. 4. Engineer and doctor
S 10: The least intelligent of the group is sitting on the 5. None of the above
immediate left of C. The most intelligent is sitting
on the immediate left of F. Questions 63 to 66:
S 11: There are as many more intelligent persons than There are three coalitions, namely Apple, Banana and
the engineer as there are less intelligent. Guava, in the national politics of a Socialist Democratic coun-
S 12: Student who is a male and unmarried has two try on this Earth. Apple, which has won 255 seats in the cur-
females sitting next to him. rent election, comprises of A, C, D, E, and J. Banana, which has
S 13: The psychologist is a female and unmarried. won 232 seats in the current election, comprises of B, F, G, H,
S 14: C, an entrepreneur, sitting immediately left of her I, K, L, M, N, and O. Rest of the parties belong to Guava coali-
husband. tion. The total number of seats contested in the election was
S 15: The student is more intelligent than the architect. 509.
They have two people in between them. Rules of Government Formation:
S 16: E is married and is sitting at the left most position I. If a coalition gets more then half of the total
of the row. seats then it can form the national
59. Who is sitting on the immediate right of D? government.
1. B 2. E 3. C II. If no one gets the required majority then the
4. D 5. None of F, E, C. nation will go for another general election.

Part V R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12


A 30 13 2 22 11 8 18 1 8 6 19 7
B 2 7 10 16 2 18 38 0 8 24 10 3
C 1 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 4 26
D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 1
E 0 19 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
F 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
G 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
H 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0
I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0
J 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 3
K 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0
L 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
M 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
O 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
P 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Q 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
R 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
S 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Here, R 1 implies Region 1, R 2 implies Region 2 and so on.
63. Party E comes out of Apple coalition and joins Banana 64. Five seats fell vacant in Region 12 after the untimely
coalition; party J pulls itself out of Apple coalition joins Guava death of the sitting members of the current Parliament. Two of
coalition; party F and G comes out of Banana coalition and joins these seats were formerly won by party C, two by party A, and
Apple coalition; and party A in Region 6 splits into two groups
one by party B. After fresh elections in these five seats, party C
of equal representatives, one group remains with the Apple
retained one of the seat and the other seat went to party A;
coalition and another joins Guava coalition. In this scenario
which coalition will have the required numbers to form the party A retained one seat and the other went to party B; and
national government? party B retained its only seat which went for re-elections. The
1. Apple percentage of seats of party C in region 12 is:
2. Banana 1. 72.5% 2. 65%
3. Guava 3. 62.5% 4. 60%
4. Both (1) and (2)
5. 58
5. Nation will have to go in for another general election

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65. It has been seen that the number of seats won by Mark (5) if the question cannot be answered.
party A in region 1 is directly proportional to the number of 67. Find integer ‘c’, if the equation x2 – 2x + c = 0 has
voters who voted in the elections. In the last elections all 10 rational roots.
million listed voters voted in region 1. In the current election I. Only one of the roots is a natural number.
there is a ten per cent increase in the list of eligible voters, out II. The product of the roots is zero.
of which eighty per cent voted in addition to the 10 million 68. What is the total number of coins in a bag containing
voters who voted last time Assuming that in the other regions only 25 paise and 1 rupee coins?
party A has won same number of seats as in the last elections, I. Total number of coins equals twice the number
what will be the approximate number of seats won by party A of 1 rupee coins.
in the current elections? II. If the number of 25 paise coins doubles, the bag
1. 147 2. 146 3. 145 4. 137 5. Cannot be determined. will have Rs 150 and if the number rupee coins
66. Last election in Region 10, out of ten million voters halve the bag will have Rs 75.
thirty per cent were very old voters. In the current elections 69. Four balls red, blue, green and yellow are to be placed
fifty per cent of them died and were removed from the list of in four boxes of different colours: red, blue, yellow and green.
eligible voters. At the same time two million new citizens got If each box is to contain exactly one ball and the colour of the
voting rights. If the number of seats won by party B in region box and the occupying ball cannot be same, then what is the
10 is directly proportional to the number of votes in that colour of the box containing the blue ball?
region then approximately how many seats party B will win? I. The yellow ball is in the blue box.
1. 25 2. 24 3. 23 4. 21 5. Cannot be determined II. The yellow box has the red ball.
70. O is the centre of the circle and the length of tangent
DIRECTIONS for Qs 67 to 69: AB is 8 cm. Find the radius of the circle.
Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using A alone C
but not by B. D
A
Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using B alone
but not by A. O

Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using either


statement alone.
Mark (4) if the question can be answered only by using B

both statements together. I. CD = 12 cm II. AD = 10 cm

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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71. Which candidate solved the maximum number of that candidate in that area. The deviation of Sonia is the
questions correctly in all the five areas combined for any test? highest in which area?
1. Sonia 2. Sofia 3. Birjoo 1. DS 2. DI 3. QA
4. Amit 5. None of these 4. RC 5. VA
72. Among all the 30 tests, in which test was the sum of 74. Find the number of tests in which at least one ques-
the number of questions solved correctly by all the four tion of every area has been solved correctly by every candidate.
candidates the maximum? 1. 14 2. 13 3. 11
1. Test No. 22 2. Test No. 8 3. Test No. 9 4. 15 5. None of these
4. Test No. 26 5. Test No. 11 75. How many questions from DI were solved correctly by
73. For any candidate the difference between the maxi- Birjoo in all the 30 tests put together?
mum number of questions solved in an area in any of the 30 1. 855 2. 257 3. 558
tests and the minimum number of questions solved in the 4. 816 5. 241
same area in any of the other tests is called the “deviation” of

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