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SECTION-I

No. of Questions = 20

DIRECTIONS for the questions 1 to 14 : Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow each on the basisof what is written/implied therein.

PASSAGE-1

Memory is essential to the brains intellectual function: but equally essential is the power to manipulate both memories andincoming information, an ability perhaps best described as slickness of mind. I shall also often use the word intelligence,because it is cosily familiar, even though every one defines it differently. Slickness is an important ingredient of intelligence; it isthe other ingredients that provoke argument. The ineptly-named intelligence tests are really slickness tests, but manypsychologists and sociologists have unduly overvalued the IQ rating. The indispensable qualities for making a mark in the realworld are not IQ but rather common sense, originality, perseverance, intuition and enthusiasm (known in the word of initials asthe COPIES - in nice recognition that all human progress springs originally from imitation). These five fine qualities are fiendishlydifficult to discuss intelligently when we know so little about the brain.

Intelligence probably depends on the efficiency of the electrical circuits in the brain, on being on being able to try out manyconnections quickly and select the best. Like memory, intelligence will probably be susceptible to improvement by drugs: theidea of an intelligence pill has been suggested so often that it is becoming more of a joke. We are unlikely ever to produce adrug for transforming a moron into a genius, but a pill to improve intelligence may well be feasible. Rats clever at threadingmazes apparently have more cholinesterose in their brains than duller rats; so intelligent and dull humans may have significant

differences in the chemical compositions of their brain fluids. If so, the dull ones might be much brighter with the right mixture.

Intelligence may be improved by methods other than drugs, however. Already the technique of foetal oxygenation is well-established; during pregnancy the expectant mother sits for half an hour a day with her abdomen and pelvis in a plastic cocoon,the pressure inside being reduced to about a fifth of that outside. The relaxation of external pressure on the womb stimulates theflow of oxygenated blood to the baby and apparently promotes brain growth. Babies so treated are very often precocious onewas speaking four languages by the age of three. The children may lose these advantages later, but at least they should not beharmed, since no drug are used. The technique suggests others; for example, might babies brains be boosted after birth bywearing a crash-helmet in which pressure is reduced? Or before, birth, by the injection of growth hormones?

Some controversial experiments with mice suggest that we may one day have chemical treatments to increase the number ofbrain cells, or prevent their death. If so, people will demand bigger and better brains, and all sub-standard brains might beimproved. But the same questions arise as with surgical advances; who should be privileged to have treatment? Who shoulddecide who should be so privileged? And who should decide who should decide? The questions are endless and the dangeris that only dictatorial action can cut the tangled knot.

The subject is full of problems. If we can greatly increase the intelligence of children by foetal oxygenation or other methods anddecide to do so in, say, 1970, then everyone over thirty in the year 2000 will be a back number: the super-intelligent under-thirtieswill have begun to oust their dim-witted seniors. So we might conclude that brain-boosting is unwise. But suppose all Chinesebabies, say, were brain-boosted: other countries might feel bound to follow, or be outclassed after the end of the century.

The problems already mentioned are difficult enough but we have still to reckon with the intrusion of computers, the slickest ofall operators. At present the computers main advantage over the human brain is its tremendous speed; the fastest computersof 1970 performed about 10 million operations per second, whereas the brain cannot manage even a hundred; the computercan lap up about 5,000 items of information (bits) per second while the brain is limited to about fifty; and in long-term storage, I.E.memory, the computer is a million times faster than the brain. In storage capacity the brain is still the winner, but only by a smallmargin (a factor of about 20). A healthy brain has two great advantages over existing computers; the first is the brains rich patternof interconnections between neurons, which enables it to exercise judgement, to see links between apparently unrelated factsand to continue near-normal functioning even when several components fail. The second advantage is the brains superb inputsystem, developed over millions of years of evolution: our eyes have 100 million receptors which feed information direct to the

brain, and computers may never be able to rival ears in recognising slurred speech. Rapid progress is being made in teachingcomputers to recognise data: but it is a long way from reading numbers on cheques to the full perceptions and feelings of ahuman being, and the idea of giving computers the right to vote will not, I think, find favour during the twentieth century.

1. Slickness of mind as the expression occurs in the passage means:

1. sharpness of brain

2. general alertness of mind.

3. the power to deal with incoming information and memories stored in the mind.

4. efficient intellectual functioning of the brain.

5. the power to process incoming information coupled with filtering of memories stored in the mind.

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2 . Which of the following statements is not true as per the passage?

1. Intelligence is a very familiar word but defined in different ways

2. For efficient intellectual functioning the brain needs memory.

3. Excessive importance has been given to I,Q, rating by psychologists and sociologists.

4. Qualities like intuition, enthusiasm, perseverance, common-sense, etc are no doubt important but they are lessimportant than I. Q.

5. None of these

3 . According to the author of this passage,

1. intelligence can be improved substantially by drugs.

2. intelligence is something inborn and so it cannot be improved by any means later.

3. intelligence may be susceptible to improvement by the use of drugs.

4. nothing definite can be stated about the improvement of intelligence by drugs or other means.

5. An intelligence pill may be feasible in the near future.

4 . The technique of foetal oxygenation goes to prove that:

1. it is the proper flow of oxygen to the brain that makes a baby intelligent.

2. improved intelligence can be brought about by means other than drugs.

3. all babies can be made precocious.4. inborn intelligence is a myth.

5. None of these

PASSAGE-2

Along with John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard, Lester Thurow of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology is probably the mostwidely read establishment economist of the left in Americas. And, like those of Mr Galbraiths, his books are nothing if notambitious in scope. He interests himself in everything from ecology to theology, from technology to ethnography. Indeed, so wideis Mr Thurows range in The Future of Capitalism that his readers will sometimes empathise with the yokels listening to OliverGoldsmiths parson: And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew/That one small head could carry all he knew.

But, ignoring the many diversions and distractions, his book has a central message. The economy of the world is going throughsuch dramatic change that the only metaphor that will do is a concept borrowed from evolutionary biology: punctuated equilibrium.During such periods, the environment changes so radically that the dominant species dies out and is replaced by some other

species. The best-known instance is the extinction of the dinosaurs. They dominated the earth for 120m years, then suddenlybecame extinct (or perhaps became birds).

Punctuated equilibrium in economics, Mr Thurow argues, in being caused by the simultaneous movement of five tectonic plates:the end of communism, with one-third of humanity and one-quarter of the worlds land surface joining the capitalist world; atechnological shift to an era dominated by man-made brain-power industries; a demography never before seen, with a populationboom in the worlds poorest countries and a very large group of relatively-affluent old people in the rich world dependent uponsocial-welfare payments for much of their income; a global economy where countries splinter and regional trading blocks growat the same time as big businesses become ever more inter-connected; and a world entering into a new century where there willbe no dominant economic, political or military power.

Such a broad canvas presents a temptingly large target. Each of his assertions is open to attack or, at least, major revision.Is not the United States, the worlds only superpower, as dominant now as imperial Britain was during the 19th century orimperial Rome was under the early emperors? Are not genuinely global companies rare? Examine the membership of theirboards, their shareholders, their suppliers and all out a few global companies turn out in fact to be national or regionalcompanies. But assume that Mr Thurow is right about the general thrust, if not all the particulars, of his upheavals. The really

interesting question then become: So what?Mr Thurows answer is that with capitalism triumphant after the rout of communism and socialism, the worlds three great pillarsof capitalism the United States, Japan and Western Europe each now have structural weaknesses that threaten their andthe worlds political and economic stability.

In the United States, the worlds great open economy, real GDP per head rose by 36% from 1973 to mid-1995, yet the real hourlywages of non-supervisory workers (those who do not boss anyone else about the vast majority) declined by 14%. In thedecade of the 1980s, all of the workforce and an astounding 64% accrued to the top 1%.

The Im-mad-as-hell voters have so far taken out their consequent resentment on scapegoats. On unwed mothers, becausenobody likes to be the sucker who pays for somebody elses children. On the blacks and females who, allegedly, have gainedunfair advantages through affirmative action over white high-school-educated males. On immigrants. Some of the resentful

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have been born again as religious extremists. Or turned to crime with the result that walled, gated and guarded communities areonce again on the rise. If this goes on, every American will be the loser.

In Japan, Mr Thurows impending crisis arises from the fact that the prosperity of all of East Asia (including Japan) is founded onthe region running perpetual trade surplus with the United States. As he sees it, no country, not even the United Sates, can runa trade deficit forever. It can borrow a lot and sell a lot before it goes broke, but at some point the worlds financial markets willclamp down on the United States just as they clamped down on Mexico. The question is not whether an earthquake will occur.It will. The only question is when.

Americans need, just as the Japanese need, a Japan that has a domestically-pulled, rather than an exports-to-America-led,economy. Yet Japan seems petrified. It sits in an ever-lengthening recession. The upshot is profitless capitalism. In 1994 the149 Japanese firms in the Fortune list of the worlds 500 largest companies earned a 0.7% rate of return on revenues; a 0.2%rate of return on assets.

Western Europes crisis of capitalism is different. The whole region failed to create a single net new job from 1973 to 1994 (whenthe United State generated 38m net new jobs). Labour market rigidities are to blame. So is Europes failure to do as well intomorrows growth industries (microelectronics, biotechnology) as it does in yesterdays (chemicals, cars, machine tools).

Excuse his apocalyptic forecasts, and his failure often to establish a link between claimed causes and alleged effects, andmuch of what Mr Thurow has to say is familiar, even relatively uncontroversial. The widening gap between the have-nots inAmerica is indeed worrying. So is a static or declining population in the rich countries and a rapidly rising population in poorones.

If The Future of Capitalism sounds unbalanced it is because Mr Thurow is disinclined to acknowledge that much has alsochanged for the better over the past two or three decades, starting with an end to famine in much of Asia and the collapse of

repressive regimes in southern Africa and in eastern and southern Europe. Mr Thurow is not much interested in silver linings.He cannot see a cloud without imagining a flood; cannot feel a breeze without preparing for a hurricane; cannot encountereconomic upsets without predicting a return to the Dark Ages.

5. Which of the following characterises a period of punctuated equilibrium ?

1. dinosaurs die out and probably became birds 2. everything stops and is in a state of equilibrium

3. the dominant species are decimated 4. the environment changes radically

5. None of these

6. Which of the following are part of the punctuated equilibrium in economics, according to Lester Thurow?

I. a major technolog ical change

II. demographic changes

III. regional trading blocs are growing

IV. the world predominantly adhering to the neo-liberal policies.

1. I and II 2. I and III & IV 3. II and III 4. I, II, III & IV

5. None of these

7. The author feels that many of Thurows assertions :

1. are quite wrong and subject to attack 2. may be controversial

3. are specious 4. do not lead to any conclusion

5. open ended and hence lack conviction.

8. What are the structural weaknesses of the United States, according to Lester Thurow?

1. inequalities are rising 2. the trade deficit is rising

3. resentment against certain groups is rising 4. crime is rising

5. None of these

PASSAGE-3

The Lie Detectors is a shaggy dog, unruly with anecdotes and built loosely around the narratives of two outsize Jazz Agepersonalities: Leonarde Keeler, an avid amateur polygraph enthusiast, a charmer, a womanizer, and a drunk; and John Larson,a psychologist and Americas first doctoral cop, who adapted and refined the lie detector from an earlier model assembled bythe creator of Wonder Woman. In ascribing the power of the polygraph to the charismatic salesmanship of a huckster playboyand a starry-eyed psychologist, Alder suggests that the device represents neatly the scientific hubris and human folly of themachine age. The polygraph, he writes, belonged to the American strain of the Enlightenment project to replace personaldiscretion with objective measures, and political conflict with science, and transform the central moral questions of our societyinto simple matters for scientific inquiry. A tall order.

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One field that could legitimately benefit from such a scientific approach was law enforcement. At the time, rural justice in Americacould still resemble the lynch mob, and many cities were policed by corrupt departments rife with patronage and mob influence,and willing to countenance even the most brutal forms of interrogation. In some quarters, Alder writes, critics were so outragedby the methods employed by city cops that they called on courts to reclaim from police departments the long-lost monopoly oninterrogating suspects.The device appealed to police as a potent interrogatory tool, to reformers as a way to replace the ugly human science of lawenforcement with an objective science of criminology, and ultimately to government officials who hoped to police the inner lives

of citizens in the name of national security. By the early 1950s, Alder reports, the lie detector had become the de facto police forcein Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where federally managed plants produced much of the nuclear fissile material used in the earlyatomic era. In 1951, the New York Times reported that polygraph testing had become commonplace within the CIA, and by 1953the Army routinely tested its ranks on the device for hints of treasonous sentiment.Unfortunately, the device did not work. The polygraph can be an aid in interrogation, helping guide inquisitors in their questioning,but it fails, by leagues, any reasonable standard of reliability for determining guilt. The lie detector does not pierce the opacity ofthe human psyche or solve the mind-body problem, as early proponents insisted, but merely measures metabolic functions,which detectives can then interpret for signs of anxiety. In 1951, Larson estimated the error rate of polygraph readings as high as40 percent. In 2003, the National Academy of Sciences found that no scientific study of any rigor had yet been publisheddemonstrating the validity of the polygraph test.Polygraph testing is a placebo science, then, and as Alder points out, the first step in staging such a test must always beconvincing the subject that the machine does, in fact, work; only then will the stakes seem high enough to produce anxiety levelsin the suspect elevated enough to suggest deception. (Keeler, for one, always boasted of his ability to beat the machine, thoughhe trusted it enough to strap himself in during psychoanalysis.) As a placebo, the polygraph can often be exchanged for a prop.In the last several decades, Alder reports, cops have taken to placing the suspects head in a colander with wires attached.Baltimore police have extracted confessions by placing suspects hands on a copying machine filled with paper preprinted withthe word LIE! The polygraph ultimately fell out of favor not when detectives lost faith in its reliability, but only when DNA evidencereplaced the confession as the Holy Grail of investigative work. As heightened public scrutiny cleared cobwebs from the finalshadowy corners of American police work in recent decades, the resilient lie detector has been relegated to a cherished tool ofcelebrity culture, part of a standard plea to regain the trust of the American people.The lie detector appealed particularly to Americans because it accorded with our Manichean ethics, seemed to fulfill ouraspiration that the law be objective and equanimous, attested that personal virtue was a form of patriotic loyalty, assured us, inthe atomic age, that some of our most troubling science was managed by responsible hands for noble purposes, and suggestednaively that crime might be not morally complex but scientifically simple. Who but a Yankee would think of proving anything fromheart-throbs? asked G. K. Chestertons fictional detective, Father Brown. Why, they must be as sentimental as a man whothinks a woman is in love with him if she blushes.

9. The line project to replace personal discretion with objective measures and political conflict with science implies:

1. The lie detectors result was being thought of as accurate.2. Political conflicts can be best resolved using scientific methods.

3. It is difficult to judge a persons veracity without standard procedures.

4. The bigger objective behind the polygraph was ambitious.

5. Human decisions are accurate in most such cases.

10. The reason a lie detector is being termed a placebo is :

1. It has had no recorded effect on the suspect

2. DNA evidence has become the real solution and the polygraph is a mere placebo in comparison.

3. The police have had confessions in various non standard conditions.

4. Without producing enough anxiety levels, no polygraph can ever extract the truth.

5. It fails to indicate a fair degree of guilt in the suspect.

11. The line Who but a Yankee would think of proving anything from heart-throbs? implies:

1. Polygraphs employ analytical methods.

2. The search for truth has to be embarked upon with zeal.

3. The supporters of the polygraph have utopian ideas.

4. Yankees have a particular passion for judging the truth.

5. To prove a suspects crime, he has to be stressed up a bit.

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PASSAGE-4

Three young people in USA, barely out of their teens, were sentenced to 15 years each for removing a stop sign from anintersection. The defendants sobbed, and even the judge evinced regret, but everyone seemed to agree that stealing stop signsis a particularly heinous prank. In this case, three other young people were killed when they drove through the singles intersectioninto an eight-ton truck.Now, suppose these three miscreants had done something else. Suppose that they had removed stop signs at not just one but

133,333 intersections annually, resulting in three deaths per intersection, or 400,000 dead drivers and passengers a year.Suppose further that they had not only removed the stop sings but also replaced them will Go signs or, better yet, billboardsadvertising how cool it is to zip heedlessly through intersections without being bothered by irritating, petty-minded, governmentalinstructions. In fact, make those very attractive billboards featuring yellow-snickered cowboys or a suave camel named Joe.Then what do you think the sentence would have been?Well, if the kind of judicial reasoning that applies to tobacco companies also applied to stop-sign cases, then the three witlessyoung vandals would have faced a stiff fine and been forced to downsize the cowboy and put the camel out to pasture. But therewould be not talk about prison terms; in fact, Congress would be considering legislation to bar any such vengefulness on thepart of the courts. If the youths were fortunate enough to be a tobacco company, they might even find themselves rewarded fortheir crime with immunity from future class-action suits brought by the relatives of deceased drivers. They would be encouragedto take their act overseas and start focusing on signs saying HALT or ONE WAY.To be fair, there are some big differences between the stop-sign case and the tobacco companies. Smokers know theyrerisking their life and their health; it says so on the cigarette pack, right near tasteful/low tar or some similarly enticing inscription.In contrast, the three teens killed at the intersection didnt have a clue about the missing sign. No one has ever declared awillingness to walk a mile to go through an unmarked intersection or congratulated herself for having come a long way whenshe got to one. But to continue in the vein of fairness, it is also true that the stop-sign thieves had throughout their young livesneglected to contribute to any major political campaign. Anyone contemplating a thoughtless act that might end up costingpeople their life should take a tip from the tobacco companies and start bankrolling politicians who might be sympathetic to theircause.There is another way the three vandals went wrong: they failed to incorporate before committing their dastardly act. According tofateful 1886 Supreme Court decision, corporations are persons, entitled like anyone else to freedom of speech, even when theyuse it to promote the widespread consumption of a poisonous substance. They are not, however, persons who can be lethallyinjected or attached to a chain gang, no matter how wicked their crimes. In 1996, for example, Rockwell International was foundguilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360deaths world-wide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made, but no executive or plantmanager spent so much as a night in the slammer.The lesson from these cases, as well as from the tobacco settlement, is that mysterious masked entity known as a corporationis in fact an ingenious device for collectivising responsibility. Even when a corporation is found guilty, no actual individual needtake the fall. But if the defence lawyer for a mere biological person attempts a similar diffusion of blameby, for example,pointing out the defendants history of abuse as a child, or the fact that several upstanding citizens had noticed the mission stopsign and failed to report it the lawyer can expect to be laughed out of court.So heres another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: dont do the sign removing yourself. Call yourselfSuperior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labour so you can always point proudly to your contribution as apillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how youll make money to meet salaries, thats easy: you sell thepurloined signs to the millions of homeowner neighbours, who favour them as decorations for their basement wet bars.

12. The judge evinced regret, but still passed the stiff sentence against the culprits. What could be the reason that he did so?

1. It was a great mistake that should be punished.

2. It could lead to a disaster.

3. To make others learn a lesson so that such things are not done again

4. To stop the stealing of traffic signs

5. None of the above

13. The author says that the judicial reasoning towards stop sign case and towards the tobacco companies,

1. is the same 2. is opposite 3. has no parallels 4. cannot say


14. The three young people were punished severely but various officials of companies have not faced imprisonment,because:

1. they had enough money 2. shared good reputation

3. they was not real responsible 4. was a collective responsibility


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DIRECTIONS For questions 15 to 17 : For the word given at the top of each table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (A, B,C, D) with their corresponding usage on the right (E, F, G, H). Out of the four possibilities given below the table, select the one thathas all the definitions and their usages correctly matched.

15. ABOUT

Dictionary definition Usage

A App roximately E Look about you and you will find Godeverywhere.

B In connection with F This dress costs about Rs. 500.

C Here and there G I will have to investigate the allegations heis talking about.

D All around H The papers were lying about in the room.

1.

A

BC

D

F

GH

E

2.

A

BC

D

G

HE

F

3.

A

BC

D

H

FG

E

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A

BC

D

F

EH

G


16. ACCEPT


A To take willing ly E I will not accept your claim

B To undertake responsibility F I accept your offer wholeheartedly, but I willhave to consult my partners before I sign the

deed.

C To treat as welcome G We accept the liability for this accident.

D To take as true H She was never accepted in their house.

1.

A

B

C

D

H

F

G

E

2.

A

B

C

D

F

G

H

E

3.

A

B

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17. INSPIRE


A To stimulate/ to express an idea E He insp ires con fidence in us.

B To fill with certain feelings F She inspired me to take action against him.

C To communicate ideas by a divine agency G I inspired to my hearts content in the fields.

D To breathe air H The prophets were inspired by God.

1.

A

B

C

D

F

E

H

G

2.

A

B

C

D

E

G

F

H

3.

A

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D

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F

G

E

4.

A

B

C

D

G

H

E

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DIRECTIONS for questions 18 to 20 : Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.

18. A. The nave beholder differs from the art historian in that the latter is conscious of the situation.

B. He knows that his cultural equipment, such as it is, would not be in harmony to that of people from another landand time.

C. He tries, therefore, to make adjustments by learning as much as he possibly can of the circumstances underwhich the objects of his studies were created.

D. Not only will he collect all relevant information, also will he compare the work with others of its class.

1. A and C 2. B and D 3. B Only 4. D only

5. A, B and D

19. A. People say that if you do not change yourself, the impending change will compel you to.

B. Change has become such a constant part of our existence that no aspect of our lives has remained untouched.

C. Be it fashion, food, technology, transportation, entertainment or anything else change has pervades through ourlives.

D. It is aptly summed up by the line in todays world, tomorrow happens yesterday.

1. D only 2. C only 3. B and C 4. C and D only

5. None of these

20. A. Within the next decade, education will change more than it has changed since the modern school was created bythe printed book over three hundred years ago.

B. An economy in which knowledge is becoming the true capital and the premier resource makes new demands onthe schools for educational performance and responsibility.

C. Once again we will have to think about what an educated person is.

D. At the same time, our learning and teaching processes are changing fast.

1. A only 2. A and B 3. A, B and D 4. A and C only

5. None of these

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28. On a 8 x 8 board, we place n coins such that one coin covers 4 adjacent squares and no more coins can be placed on thesquares covered by one coin. What is the minimal value of n?

1. 16 2. 32 3. 8 4. 64

5. 48

29. Which of the following numbers is the biggest ?

1. 222 2. 33 3. square root of 9 4. square root of 4

5. 1

30. A person travelled first 10 km on foot at a rate of 5 km/hr; next 10 km by bicycle at a rate of 20 km/hr; next 40 km by motrobikeat a rate of 50 km/hr; and last 140 km by train at an average speed of 60 km/hr. Find the average speed during thecomplete journey.

1. 30 km/hr 2. 35 km/hr 3. 40 km/hr 4. 503 km/hr

5. None of these

31. Kimi and Yuvi share a semicircular slice of a pizza such that Kimis share is the largest possible circle that can be cut outof the semicircular slice. Find the ratio of Yuvis share to that of Kimis.

1. 1:1 2. 2 : 1 3. 3 : 2 4. 2 : 3

5. 1 : 2

32. A, B and C went to buy ration from the wholesale market. They had a combined sum of Rs. 900. A spent 80%, B spent 70%and C spent 75% of their respective amounts. Now the ratio of amounts left with them is 4 : 9 : 10. Find the ratio of theamounts they had in the beginning.

1. 2 : 4 : 3 2. 3 : 4 : 2 3. 5 : 2 : 2 4. 2 : 3 : 4

5. 5 : 6 : 8

33. A person has to reach a place 40 km away. He walks at the rate of 4 km/hr for the first 16 km and then travels on a scooterfor the rest of the journey. However, if he had travelled by the scooter for 16 km and covered the remaining distance on footat 4 km/hr, he would have taken an hour longer to complete the journey. Find the speed of the scooter.

1. 6 km/hr 2. 8 km/hr 3. 4 km/hr 4. 12 km/hr

4. None of these

34. An item is sold for Rs. 1,050 resulting in a 25% profit. If the shopkeeper wants to sell it at a profit of 30% after giving adiscount of 20%, find the price at which the shopkeeper should mark the product.

1. Rs. 1,150 2. Rs.1,240 3. Rs.1,325 4. Rs.1,365

5. Rs 2,772

35. Rs. 430 is divided among 45 persons consisting of men, women and children. The sum of mens, womens andchildrens shares are in the ratio 12 : 15 : 16. The individual shares of a man, a woman and a child are in the ratio6 : 5 : 4. Find the share of a man.

1. Rs. 10 2. Rs. 12 3. Rs. 15 4. Rs. 16

5. None of these

36. The set S consists of five integers. If pairs of distinct elements of S are added, the following ten sums are obtained: 1967,1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991. What is the average of all the elements of S ?

1. 989.4 2. 1975.6 3. 998.8 4. 1979.8

5. 987.5

37. Muneer has certain number of toffees between 80 and 100 with him. If he distributes them equally among all his 4children, there will be 3 left. If he distributes them equally among his wife and children, he is left with four toffees. If hedecides to distribute the toffees amongst himself, his wife, and children, then how many will be left over?

1. 5 2. 2 3. 3 4. 1

5. 6

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38. 1/m + 1/n = 1/94, where m and n are positive integers. Find m + n, given that m is half of n.

1. 49 2. 282 3. 423 4. No such numbers exist

5. 846

39. In a race, the man who came two places ahead of the last man, finished one place ahead of the man who came threeplaces behind the man just ahead of the one who stood second. How many men finished the race?

1. 4 2. 5 3. 6 4. 7

5. 9

40. All the page numbers from a book are added, beginning at page 1. However, one page number was mistakenly addedtwice. The sum obtained was 1000. Which page number was added twice?

1. 44 2. 45 3. 10 4. 12

5. None of these

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SECTION-III

No. of Questions = 20

DIRECTIONS for the question s 41 to 43 : Answer the questions on the basis of data given in the table below.

The table shows the sales and expenditures of three compaines : C1, C2 and C3 for the the financial year 2004-2005. These

companies are located in the different parts of the world.

Particulars C1 C2 C3

(sales Rs. 7.5) (sales Rs. 1.9) (sales Rs. 6.9)

Operating Profit 7 9 9

Interest paid 10 11 12

Rental 21 19 18

Taxes 8 8 11

Salaries 12 9 12

Raw material cost 25 18 19

Power and Electricity 5 10 7

Labour cost 5 6 4

Transportation 3 2 3

Maintenance 2 5 2

Miscellaneous 2 3 3

Total 100 100 100

* Sales to be read as Rs. million/month

* Sales break ups are in percentages (%)

41. What can be concluded about the expenditure in salaries, raw material, transportation and rental in 2004-2005 of all thethree companies listed above in the table ?

1. Percentage wise C3 is spending more than the other two companies.

2. C1 is spending less than C2 and C3 together

3. C2 and C3 are spending less than C1

4. Percentage-wise, C2 spends more than C1, which in turn spends more than C3

5. None of these

42. If the interest paid by C1 is reduced by 1%, expenditures under other heads remaining the same, its operating profit will

1. increase by 1% percent 2. not change

3. increase by Rs 0.0075 million 4. increase by 2% percent

5. increase by over 2%

43. If the average monthly salarly in C3 is Rs 9,500, then how many employees does C3 have ?

1. 28 2. 48 3. 81 4. 87

5. cannot be determined

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DIRECTIONS for the questions 44 to 46 : Refer to the following information :

Four sisters Rana, Sana, Swarna, and Biba have an agreement to share all snacks equally among themselves. One day, uncleRishi gave a box of cookies to Rana. Since the other sisters were not around, Rana divided the cookies into four equal parts, ateher share and put the rest into the box. As she was closing the box, Sana came in. She took all the cookies from the box anddivided them into four equal parts. Rana and Sana ate one part each and put the rest into the box. Just then, Swarna walked in.She took all the cookies from the box, divided them into four equal parts. The three of them ate their respective shares and putthe rest into the box. Later, when Biba came, she divided all the cookies into four equal parts and all the four sisters ate their

respective shares. In total, Biba ate 3 cookies.

44. How many cookies, in total, did Swarna eat ?

1. 30 2. 12 3. 15 4. 6

5. 8

45. How many cookies, in total, did Sana eat ?

1. 9 2. 30 3. 39 4. 78

5. 36

46. How many cookies, in total, did Rana eat ?

1. 32 2. 142 3. 72 4. 71

5. 97

DIRECTIONS for the question s 47 to 49 : A, B, C, D, E are five positive integers. D is the average of A and E, B is the smallest ofal l

A E is negative

D E is negative

E C is negative

47. Which is the greatest integer ?

1. A 2. E 3. C 4. D

5. Cannot be determined

48. Which of these is definitely positive ?1. C E 2. D A + B 3. B only 4. E A + C

5. None of these

49. Which of the following is definitely true ?

(i) E A < 0

(ii) A D = D E

(iii) The five positive integers in the decreasing order are B, A, D, E, C

1. i only 2. i and ii only 3. iii only 4. ii & iii only

5. ii only

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DIRECTIONS for questions 50 to 52 : Study the following table carefully and answer the questions given below it .

Truck freight rates (in rupees) from Delhi to various states (per 9 tonnes) are as follows:

Truck freight rates

Andhra Pradesh

Vishakhpatnam 19000

Assam

Guwahati 26000 Tinsukhia 30000

Bihar/Jharkhand

Patna 16000 Ranchi 15000

Jharia 16500 Tata 16000

Gujarat

Ahmed abad 6800 Surat 8000

Vadodara 7100 Kandla 8000

Haryana

Panipat 2000 Karnal 2300

Yamunanagar 2350 Kaithal 2400

Ambala 2700 Sir sa 2800

Madhya Pradesh/ Chhatisg arhBhopal 8000 Jabalpur 11000

Bilaspur 17000 Raipur 16000

Maharashtra

Mumbai 11500 Pune 14000

Nagpur 10000 Kolhapur 14800

Karnataka

Bangalore 20000 Mysore 20800

Punjab

Amritsar 4200 Rajpura 3300

Chandigarh 3100 Jalandhar 4600

Bhatinda 4300 Khanna 3900Rajasthan

Jaipur 2700 Ajmer 3000

Alwar 2500 Udaipur 3600

50. According to the information given in the table, what is the ratio of the truck freight rates of city X and city Y, from Delhi? CityX stands for the city for which truck freight rate is the highest and city Y stands for the city for which truck freight rate is thelowest.

1. 15 : 1 2. 13 : 1 3. 12 : 1 4. 10 : 4 : 1

5. None of these

51. Truck freight rates of some of the cities are half that of other cities. How many such pairs of rates are there in the table?

1. 5 2. 6 3. 7 4. 8

5. None of these

52. Ram Sahai is a renowned businessman of Delhi. He sent some trucks to Ajmer and some to Alwar. For this, he paid Rsx. His average payment per trip was Rs. 2650. Had he sent one truck to Jharia and one to Nagpur, he would have paid Rs.x then also. How many rupees will he pay as freight for the trips to Bhatinda? It is given that trips to Bhatinda were equalin number to the trips to Ajmer.

1. 30100 2. 17200 3. 12900 4. 21500

5. None of these

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DIRECTIONS for questions 53 to 56 : Use the following data :

As a fund manager of Simpleton Money Market Mutual Fund you will have to decide between investing in GOI 6% bonds or 10%tax free Sardar Sarovar Bonds (SSB). The investment decision is based on the expected value (EV) of return from each investment.

EV = (Principal + return) * probability of getting it + loss * risk of investment

You have Rs.100,000 to invest. Risk of an investment is defined as the probability that you will not get back the money

invested and is equal to (1 probability of geting it) . A wise investment decision augments your EV.

53. If the risk information given in one question may be utilised in other questions also on a GOI 6% bond is 0 and that of aSSB 10% bond is 1%, which is a wiser investment?

1. GOI 6% 2. SSB 10% 3. Both are equal 4. None of the above

54. In the question above, what was the EV of return at the end of a year from your wise investment choice?

1. Rs.106,000 2. Rs.108,900 3. Rs.107,900 4. Rs.104,500

5. Rs. 109, 900

55. Suppose the new SRISIL credit rating reported that the risk on SSB 10% bonds has gone up to 5%, what would be yourinvestment choice?

1. GOI 6% 2. SSB 10% 3. Both are equal 4. None of the above

56. At what risk level of SSB 10% bonds would you be indifferent between the two investments?1. 3.6% 2. 1.9% 3. 4.5% 4. 5%

5. 2.5%

DIRECTIONS for question s 57 to 58 : Each question is followed by two statements . Answer each question using the followinginstructions

Mark 1. if the question can be answered using statement A alone, but cannot be answered using statement B alone.

Mark 2. if the question can be answered using statement B alone, but cannot be answered using statement A alone

Mark 3. if the question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered using either statementalone.

Mark 4. if the question can be answered using either statement alone.

Mark 5. if the question cannot be answered even by using both statements together.

57. A farmer spent three equal sums of money in buying hens, pigeons and parrots. What would be the number of birds ofeach kind? It is given that each hen costs Re 1 more than a pigeon and Rs. 2 more than a parrot.

A. The number of pigeons exceeded that of the hens by as many parrots as he could have bought for Rs. 9

B. Altogether the farmer bought 47 birds.

58. Consider four real numbers P, Q, R and S. Is R the smallest of these numbers? It is given that S is greater than at leastone of Q, P and R.

A. P is greater than at least two of Q, R and S.

B. Q is greater than at least two of P, R and S.

DIRECTIONS for questions 59 to 60 : Read the following information and answer the questions that follow.

Srinivas intends to draw one rectangle of integer sides with a pencil which can last for a maximum possible length of 100 units

only. Let R denote the set of all possible distinct rectangles from which Srinivas can choose to draw one such rectangle.

59. The number of rectangles in set R is

1. 636 2. 601 3. 613 4. 625

5. 576

60. All the rectangles in R are formed into groups such that all the rectangles of same perimeter are in the same group. Whatis maximum number of groups that is possible?

1. 99 2. 96 3. 49 4. 50

5. 51

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