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Directions for questions 1 to 4:Selectthe best answer for each of the following questions based on the information given in the passage.

According to researchers, a hearty laugh can cause us to double over and tense all our major muscle groups for minutes at a time. The heart rate and blood pressure go up while you are laughing. So laughter is an exercise and is important especially for the elderly and the sick people who suffer from high blood pressure, who cant exercise otherwise.

Which of the following, if true, is an additional premise required to draw the conclusion that laughter is a good exercise for the elderly and the sick people who suffer from high blood pressure?

Question Type : Multiple Choice Question

Q.2)

A circular economy is one which would mean organizing industrial parks in such a manner that a power company, a drug company, a wall-board producer and an oil refinery would be located near one another so that they could use one anothers solid and liquid wastes as raw materials. This would effectively curb the pollution around the area.

Which of the following is an assumption in the above conclusion that such a system would do away with pollution?


Q.3)

Theres a whole new market opportunity that threatens to grow for the next five years, and become a big money spinner the commuting market. More and more people in more and more cities are stuck in ever increasing traffic and commuting longer and longer hours each day. The fact that there are a lot of unfulfilled consumer needs is glaring at us, and suppliers havent even got there yet! This market is up for grabs for anyone who has the competence to translate these needs into crafting imaginatively designed and distributed products that can make the customers life better.

Which of the following makes a specific reference to one of the needs mentioned above?


Q.4)

ThisIndiais a frighteningly linear narrative. Only banning and banishments can keep thisIndiaintact. It was in thisIndiathat The Satanic Verses was banned even beforeIranwoke up to the blasphemy, and for a while, its author, an Indian by birth and imagination, was denied entry. It was in thisIndiathat some Catholic organizations almost convinced the secular government that the screening of The Da Vinci Code would cause cracks on Peters Rock. In thisIndia, the culturally paranoid are not let down by the so-called secular state. It is in thisIndiathat the over-whelming silliness of a public kiss has become an assault on civilization.

Which of the following can aptly conclude the authors viewpoint?


Q.5)

Directions for questions 5 to 8:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

At the time of the Gita many different views about ultimate reality and mans destiny prevailed. The Gita attempts to synthesise the heterogeneous elements and fuse them all into a single whole. That is why we find init apparently conflicting views about the end of freedom and the means of discipline. Finding that the Gita is not a consistent piece of doctrine, different writers try to account for it in different ways. Garbe and Hopkins suppose that several writers in different centuries have been at work upon it. According to Garbe the original Gita was written in the second, century B.C. as a theistic tract, based on the Samkhya-Yoga, though in the second century A.D. it was adapted by the upholders of the Upanisad monism. These two doctrinesthe theistic and the pantheisticare mixed up with each other and follow each other, sometimes quite unconnected and some times loosely connected. But the two beliefs are treated, almost throughout as though there was indeed no difference between them, either verbal or real.Hopkinsmakes the Gita a Krsnaite version of Visnuite poem, which was itself a late Upanisad. Barnett thinks that different streams of tradition became confused in the mind of the author.

There is no need to accept any of these conjectures. The Gita is an application of the Upanisad ideal to the new situations which arose at the time of the Mahabharata. In adapting the idealism of the Upanisads to a theistically minded people, it attempts to derive a religion from the Upanisad philosophy. It shows that the reflective spiritual idealism of the Upanisads has room for the living warm religion of personal devotion. The absolute of the Upanisads is revealed as the fulfilment of the reflective and the emotional demands of human nature. This change of emphasis from the speculative to the practical, from the philosophical to the religious, is also to be found in the later Upanisads, where we have the saviour responding to the cry of faith. The Gita attempts a spiritual synthesis which could support life and conduct on the basis of the Upanisad truth, which it carries into the life-blood of the Indian people.

The context in which the Gita is said to be delivered points out how its central purpose is to solve the problem of life and stimulate right conduct. It is obviously an ethical treatise, a yoga sastra. The Gita was formulated in a period of ethical religion and so shared in the feeling of the age. Whatever peculiar adaptations the term yoga may have in the Gita, it throughout keeps up its practical reference. Yoga is getting to God, relating oneself to the power that rules the universe, touching the absolute. It is yoking merely this or that power of the soul, but all the forces of heart, mind and will to God. It is the effort of man to unite himself to the deeper principle. We have to change the whole poise of the soul into something absolute and uncompromising and develop the strength to resist power and pleasure. Yoga thus comes to mean the discipline by which we can train ourselves to bear the shocks of the world with the central being of our soul untouched. We can train our being, watch it with ardent love and aspiration, till the spark grows into an infinite light. All these are different yogas or methods leading to the one supreme yoga or unite with God. But no ethical message can be sustained if it is not backed up by a metaphysical statement. So the yoga sastra of the Gita is rooted in Brahmavidya, or knowledge of the spirit. The Gita is a system of speculation as well as a rule of life, an intellectual search for truth as well as an attempt to make the truth dynamic in the soul of man.

The following are all conclusions arrived at by various commentators regarding The Gita EXCEPT:


Q.6)

The commonality between the Gita and the Upanishad is / are


Q.7)

Yoga, in the context of the Gita, is NOT


Q.8)

Which of the following is not the authors view on The Gita?


Q.9)Directions for questions 9 and 10:In each question, five different ways of presenting an ideaisgiven. Choose the one that conforms most closely to standard English usage.


Q.10)


Q.11)Directionsfor questions 11 to 13:Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word or phrase from among the options.

By the time the school celebrates its silver jubilee in 2008, Mr. Anand _____ there for five years.


Q.12)

A species of microbe called Micrococcus Radiophilies was found living happily in the waste tanks of nuclear reactors, _____ plutonium and whatever else there.


Q.13)

Mr. Gautam _____ this car for eleven years before I purchased it from him.


Q.14)

Directions for questions 14 to 18:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

The transformation of the electromagnetic spectrum from public commons-held in trust by government on behalf of its citizenry-to private electronic real estate-controlled by global media giants-fundamentally changes the relationship between the people and global commercial enterprises. Without public ownership over the spectrum, the citizenry becomes beholden to a handful of media companies for access to the means of communicating with one another in a highly sophisticated network-based civilization.

What, then, are we to make of the fate of the nation-state in this new era? Up to now, governments have been rooted in geography. They are institutions designed to control and administer land. But with so much of the commercial and social life of humanity migrating to the nonmaterial world of cyberspace, will political institutions wedded in geography become increasingly less important and less viable?

In a world in which more and more first-tier economic and social activity takes place in cyberspace in the form of commodified cultural experiences, governments find themselves with a greatly diminished role to play. That role is further eroded as governments give up their authority to control the frequencies and communication channels that are the pipelines to cyberspace. In cyberspace, the only mega properties really worth owning are the radio frequencies, the fiber optic cable, the communications satellites, the hardware and software technologies that make up the channels to communication, and the content that flows through the pipelines.

The decline of the nation-state is becoming most apparent in issues of trade. Global companies have successfully lobbied governments for major concessions that have further weakened traditional rights of sovereignty. International treaties and conventions like NAFTA and GATT have stripped governments of their right to impose domestic restrictions on such things as unfair labor practices or egregious environmental violations, if they interfere with the free exercise of global trade. New institutions like the World Trade Organisations, whose officials are unaccountable to any specific government, can impose sanctions on countries which violate trade agreements and norms.

Nowhere, however, is the diminished nature of nation-states becoming more at issue than in the question of tax collection. With a growing amount of personal and commercial business being conducted in cyber space, it becomes more difficult to assess and collect taxes. In a network economy, in which so much commercial activity is broken up into small packets of information which do not mean anything until reassembled, says Diane Coyle, economic editor of the Independent in London, it will be impossible for tax authorities to monitor all transactions, Coyle adds that it would be impossible to say where those transactions had taken place even if they could be monitored and therefore knotty to decide which government is entitled to any tax on them. In a network economy made up of the commodification of connections, relationships, and lived experiences, how does the government determine gradations and value added for the purposes of taxation?

As long as human activity was grounded in geography, governments made sense. But now that economic and social life is becoming increasingly spaceless, do governments still matter? And when communities are no longer grounded in geography but rather defined by temporary, shared interests among people who interact with one another in virtual worlds, how does one retain any notion of collective solidarity and loyalty to place and country, long regarded as requisites for maintaining any sense of national cohesion?

Tax collection becomes an issue in a networked economy because


Q.15)

In an age of access, the question Do governments still matter? arises because


Q.16)

The author in this passage


Q.17)

In the area of trade, according to the passage,


Q.18)

The role of the government is diminished today because

a. corporations want to appropriate a greater role for themselves.

b. governments do not want to be burdened by additional responsibilities.

c. economic and social activities are not confined by geography.

d. personal property and commercial property do not have much value.

e. governments have given up their power over frequencies and communication channels.


Q.19)Directions for questions 19 and 20:In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative and mark it as your answer.

Indiamay be like the proverbial slow and steady tortoisebut hardly it can afford to amble in this age of speed and technology, burdened by a deep-rooted corruption that is not just holding it back, but is also eroding its very foundation.


Q.20)

Since the 1990s, politicians andpundits predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia whereinrobots would do the washing up and we would live in peace and harmony in an electronically connected global village thanks to the net.


Q.21)Directions for question 21:The question has a pair of CAPITALISED words followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair of words that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed by the capitalized pair.

UNPROFESSIONAL : CONDUCT


Q.22)Directions for questions22to25:Choose the best answer for each of the following questions based on the information given in the passage.

Indian GDP growth has averaged 8% for four years. Indeed, it has crossed 9% in the first half of this fiscal year. The updated BRK report of Goldman Sach claims thatIndiacan sustain 8% growth for over a decade. A few years ago,Indiaseemed stuck in a growth groove of 6% per year. Many analysts said it could not accelerate without much more reform. However, despite few new reforms, growth is up at 8%. Is this just a cyclical upswing, withIndiariding a global wave that will soon ebb? Or has something changed fundamentally?

Which of the following lends credence to the cyclical theory?


Q.23)

Only a member of theOBparty would support the bill for introducing reservation for backward classes in premier technological and management institutes. Nupur Jain cannot be a member of theOBparty as she does not support the bill.

Which of the following statements points out the flaw in the above reasoning?


Q.24)

The new government at the center has been unable to curb gold being smuggled into the country. If the government had been successful, the price of gold would have increased by more than the 30% increase it registered.

Which of the following is an assumption in the above argument?


Q.25)

A study of some of the leading supermarket chains showed that Carrefour offers more value for money than Walmart. But since Spencers offers better value than Trinethra, it follows that Carrefour offers better value than Trinethra.

Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument above logically correct EXCEPT:


Q.26)

Directionsfor questions26to30:Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

People have changed more than the business organizations upon which they depend. The last fifty years have seen the rise of a new breed of individuals, yet corporations continue to operate according to a logic invented at the time of their origin, a century ago. The chasm that now separates individuals and organizations is marked by frustration, mistrust, disappointment, and even rage. It also harbours the possibility of a new capitalism and a new era of wealth creation.

In the second half of the twentieth century a new society of individuals emerged a breed of people unlike any the world has ever seen. Educated, informed, travelled, they work with their brains, not their bodies. They do not assume that their lives can be patterned after their parents or grandparents. Throughout human history the problem of identity was settled in one way I am my mothers daughter; I am my fathers son. But in a discontinuous and irreversible break with the past, todays individuals seek the experiences and insights that enable them to find the elusive pattern in life, the singular pattern that is me. Their sense of self is more intricate, acute, detailed, vast, and rich than at any other time in human history. They have learned to make sense of their lives in unique and private ways, to forge the delicate tissue of meaning that marks their lives as their own.

In all other times and all other places, psychological individuation was unimaginable. It was, at best, the emotional precinct of an elite group of artists and spiritual seekers rare, elusive, precious. But today that unique human capacity for individuation has been put within the reach of millions of people. Their individualism, long regarded as the basis for political self-determination, has also become the foundation of the one sure thing they have in common: a deep and abiding yearning for psychological self-determination. The new individuals are remaking their societies as they demand the right to psychological sovereignty, but they continue to be invisible to the commercial organizations upon which they must routinely rely. Long distant from the land and far removed from age-old traditions of household production, the new individuals protect, sustain, and nurture themselves and their families in the only way that is available through the modern process known as consumption. But corporations continue to be dominated by a commercial logic based on assumptions about human beings and their approach to consumption that is more than one hundred years old. That commercial logic, known as managerial capitalism, was invented for the production and distribution of things. It has been uneasily adapted to the delivery of services. But neither goods nor services adequately fulfil the needs of todays markets.

In search of psychological self-determination, the new individuals want something that modern organizations cannot give them: tangible support in leading the lives they choose. They want to be freed from the time-consuming stress, rage, injustice, and personal defeat that accompany so many commercial exchanges. As a result, a chasm has opened up between the new individuals and the world of business organizations. Too many people, consumers and employees alike, feel that businesses are failing those whom they should be serving captialisms past is in bold confrontation with the realities of human life today. Companies invest billions in endless cycles of quick fixes to rediscover their end consumers. But the chasm that separates the new individuals from their commercial organizations cannot be bridged within the terms of todays business models. Instead we will argue that the chasm reflects an enterprise logic that has outlived the society it was once designed to serve. It matters little whether companies think of their end consumers as wallets, eyeballs, anonymous marks on a ledger, cognitive real estate, personalized relationship targets or individually addressable data packets. In every case, what is most important about todays individual end consumers cannot be perceived by the modern enterprise as we know it. Corporate indifference has resulted in a weary mistrust frequently shading into disgust among end consumers as well as a new determination to find alternatives to the status quo of todays marketplace.

Why has the chasm become more perceptible of late?


Q.27)

As understood from the passage, an alternative business model to managerial capitalism may emerge when


Q.28)

We can infer that, in the authors view, the road map for survival, growth and nurture of a business organisation would emerge


Q.29)

Which of the following can be safely assumed to be (a) characteristic feature(s) of market capitalism?


Q.30)

The examples that can represent the chasm are

a. When one has to make repeated calls to the service personnel to get ones car fixed.

b. If a builder does not deliver the utilities he promised even after a property transaction is completed.

c. When a firm is half-hearted in providing after sales service.


Q.31)

Directions for questions31to33:Each question has a set of sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

-Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an F).

-Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known the answer option indicates such a statement with an I).

-Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a J).

Select the answer option that best describes the set of statements.

(A)If you thought blogs are inane conversationson the web that no one really pays attention to, then think again.

(B)Bloggers who harp about their favourite new gizmos or put down their rants about the services they hate, are making companies rethink their marketing strategies, sometimes even making them take their products back to the drawing board.

(C)The growing popularity of blogs and on-line forums is prompting companies to pay more attention to what is being said about them on the web, and has given rise to a new kind of market research called blog analysis.

(D)Blog analysis works for companies across the board.

(E)Just because the bloggers are based in different geographiesdoes not make the data any less relevant no matter where you are, the basic things you are looking for in the product are essentially the same.


Q.32)






(A)Leadership in science and technology is thekey to economic and political power.

(B)This has been proven through history, and is also the reason why theUSis so obsessed with 'losing the innovation edge'.

(C)ThoughChinahas emerged as an economic superpower it, likeIndia, faces some crucial shortages to realizing its ambition of being a global leader in science and technology.

(D)The most critical is the low level of production of PhDs, both in terms of quality and quantity.


Q.33)






(A)Women Army officers who believe that diamonds are a girls best friend are going to be sorelydisappointed.

(B)While in uniform on parade with the troops only one signet ring can be worn on the left hand.

(C)Those with a liking for chunky jewellery will have to stash it away for social occasions, because the only concession the army makes to your femininity is that it allows you to wear a thin chain.

(D)The condescending attitude towards the miniscule community of women officers in the predominantly male environs of the armed forces is, of course, well known.

(E)But now the army has gone ahead and codified it in the book.


Q.34)Directionsfor question34:Find the odd man out.


Q.35)

Directions for questions35to37:These questions are based on the information given below.

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H play a chess tournament every month. Each tournament is played in a round robin format, where each player plays with every other player exactly once. In any match of a tournament, for any player, one point is awarded for a win, half a point for a draw and zero points for a loss. Each player starts a tournament with a certain number ofelo points, based on his performance in the previous tournaments.

At the start of any tournament, theexpected scoreof a player in that tournament is calculated, based on the comparison of theelo points(sayp) of the player at the beginning of the tournament with the average (saya) of theelo pointsof the remaining seven players at the beginning of the tournament, as follows:

(i)Ifpis equal toa, then the playersexpected scoreis exactly half of the total available points, i.e.,3.5 points.(ii)Ifpis less thanabyx elo points, the playersexpected scoreis less than3.5 byKxpoints, whereKis a constant.(iii)Ifpis more thanabyx elo points, the playersexpected scoreis more than3.5 byKxpoints.

Now, after theexpected scoresare calculated, the tournament will be conducted in the round robin format, as stated above, and for every player, theachieved scoreis recorded. For every player, theelo pointsare updated at the end of the tournament by comparing hisexpected scoreandachieved scoreas follows:

(i)If theachieved scoreis equal to theexpected score, there is no change in hiselo points.(ii)If theachieved scoreisypointsless than theexpected score, hiselo pointsare decreased byy/Kpoints.(iii)If theachieved scoreisypointsmore than theexpected score, hiselo pointsare increased byy/Kpoints.

Note:The value ofKis the same for each of the eight players and is also the same in all the instances mentioned above.

The following table shows, for each of the eight players, theelo pointsof the player at the beginning of the tournament held in October, theachieved scorein that tournament and the change in theelo pointsof the player at the end of that tournament.

What is the value ofK?


Q.36)

What was Asexpected scorein the tournament?


Q.37)

Theexpected scoreof C in the tournament was


Q.38)

Directions for questions38and39:These questions are based on the information given below.

In a certain college, there are a total of 200 students. Each student belongs to exactly one federation between AISF and NSF, exactly one stream between Engineering and Management and exactly one region between North and South. I met six students A, B, C, D, E and F on the campus and it was found that each of the six students belonged to a different combination of stream-region-federation. Further, the total number of students in any combination of stream-region-federation is different from that in any other combination. When enquired regarding the combinations, each of the six students made the following statements:

A:Of the other 59 students who belong to the same federation as well as stream as me, only 39 belong to the same region as me.

B:Of the other 49 students who belong to the same region as well as federation as me, only 44 belong to the same stream as me.

C:Of the other 64 students who belong to the same region as well as stream as me, only 29 belong to the same federation as me.

D:Of the other 39 students who belong to the same federation as well as stream as me, only 34 belong to the same region as me.

E:Of the other 49 students who belong to the same region as well as federation as me, only 14 belong to the same stream as me.

F:Of the other 64 students, who belong to the same region as well as stream as me, only 19 belong to the same federation as me.

It is also known that 5 students are from NSF, South region and Management stream.

What is the total number of students who belong to AISF, North region and Engineering stream?


Q.39)

Which of the following represents the stream-region-federation combination of D?


Q.40)

Directions for questions40to43:These questions are based on the information given below.

Mr. Goldfinger had a safe with L locks. The safe could be opened only if all the L keys corresponding to the L locks were available. As he was planning to go abroad for a short while, he employed a team of guards to look after his safe. He also made D duplicates of each of these L keys and kept the original set of L keys with himself. For each lock, he gave the D duplicate keys to different guards such that no guard got more than one key for that lock. In this manner, he distributed all the duplicate keys of all the locks among his guards so that any three guards, together, could open the safe but no two of them together, could open it. Further the number of keys given to each guard was the same.

If there were 5 guards, what is the value of D?


Q.41)

If there were 5 guards, what is the minimum possible value of L?


Q.42)

If there were 5 guards, what is the minimum possible number of keys with each guard?


Q.43)

If there were 6 guards, what is the value of D?


Q.44)

Directions for questions44to46:These questions are based on the following information.

Five persons A, B, C, D and E are seated in row I facing North and five other persons P, Q, R, S and T are seated in row II facing South. Each person from one row is facing exactly one person from the other row. The following information is known about them.

(i)D is seated second to the right of E, and is not adjacent to B.(ii)T is seated at an end.(iii)R is not facing the person who isto theimmediate left of B.(iv)Q is facing E and is seated at one of the ends.(v)The person who is to the immediate left of P is facing C.

Who is third to the right of A?


Q.45)

Who is facing the person second to the left of R?


Q.46)

Which one is the correct pair of persons facing each other?


Q.47)

Directions for questions47to50:These questions are based on the following information.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of three different companies X, Y and Z.Not more than threeamong these eightpersons are working in the same company. Each of them hasadifferent designation among Accountant, Trainee, Marketing Manager, Assistant Manager, Tech. head. Project head, Team leader and Director, not necessarily in the same order.

D works neitherforX nor worksforthe same company as F works at. C and F work in the same company and C is not a Tech. head. B an Accountant worksforY and E is the only other person who worksforY. Neither the Team leader nor the Tech head worksforZ. A is an Assistant Manger but does not workforZ. Neither G nor H is a Marketing Manager. F is a director and G is not a Trainee.

Which among the following groups worksforZ?


Q.48)

What is the profession of E?


Q.49)

Who among the following is a Trainee?


Q.50)

Who among the following workswiththe Team leader in the same company?


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