Ref: AIMCAT1402 INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read the instructions given at the beginninglend of each section or at the beginning of a group of questions very carefuly 2. This test has two sections with 60 questions - 30 questions in each section. The TOTAL TIME available for the paper is 140 minutes. The time available for each section is 70 minutes and you cannot return to the first section ‘once you have started the second section, 3. You are expected to show your competence in both the sections, 4, All questions carry three marks each. Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of one mark. SECTION ~1 Number of Questions DIRECTIONS for questions 1 f0 6: Answer the questions independent of each other. 1. cylindrical box P, of height 80 cm, placed vertically fn its base, contains eight identical balls stacked ‘ne on top of the other. Another cylindrical box Q, of hheight 108 cm, placed vertically on its base, contains. 12 identical balls stacked one on top of the other. If the radius of each bal is equal tothe radius ofthe box. Jn which itis placed, and the top most bal in each box: just touches the lid ofthe box, then find the ratio of the volume of each ballin P and that in Q. (A) 1000 : 729 (@) 720:512 (©) 729: 1000 (0) 512:729 2. A function f is defined on integers in the following manner, 2, if xis od. = 3, ifs even Ay = 13 and Ay) = 2{F (Ad). find A. (A) 1484 (6) 1478 {C) 1490 (0) None of these 3. The number of integer values of x that satisfy the inequality |x-1||x-2|s 10is (a4 5 (08 (0) More than 6 4. Aline makes intercepts a and b on the coordinate axes intersecting the x-axis and y-axis at points A and B respectively. A circle is circumscribed about the triangle OAB, where O is the origin of the coordinate system. A tangent is drawn to this circle al the point O. Find the sum of the perpendicular distances from the points A and 8 to the tangent. (abt () Vo a0? 2 op? 0) oF Wt p=-% arr value of 9+ a(t) * of) +... (r= 1)" “ Atr-ns4e-1+ nde = 4] (8) pir-y" (©) py-1"" (©) pr-1" Three runners, A, B and C, are running in the ockwvise direction around a circular track. The tracks marked with numbers frorn 1 to 12, uniformly spaced ‘along the track, inthe clockwise direction, lke the dial ‘of a clock. A overtakes B once at and then the next time again at 9. A also overtakes C once at 2 and then the next time again at 4. What s the ratio of B's speed tos speed? (A) 7:4 ® (3:2 ©) DIRECTIONS for questions 7 10 9: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. The table below gives details about the performances of the tennis player Roger Federer in all the Grand Slam tournaments since the year 2000. Each entry in the table indicates the round in which he was eliminated, except when he won the tournament, where itis denoted as W. ‘D Triumphant Insitute of Management Education Pvt Lid. (TMB), 95D, Siddamsetty Complex, Park Lane, Secunderaball 500 003 All rights reserved. No par of ths material may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing. This course material is only for the use of Bonafide students of Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. and its licenscesfranchisees and is not fr sale, (10 pages} auepauch) AIMCATINO2/ITournament Year ‘Australian French ‘Wimbledon Open Open ‘Open US Open 2000 3R 4R AR 3R 2001 3R QF QF aR 2002 aR AR aR aR 2003, 4k AR w aR 2004 W 3R w Ww 2005 SF SF w w 2006 w FE w w 2007 w F w w 2008 SF F F w 2009 F w w F 2010 w OF oF SF 2011 SF F oF SF 2012 SE SF Ww E Each of the four tournaments begins with 128 players in the fray and is played in a Knack-Out format, where the loser in ‘any match is eliminated from the tournament. Hence, each tournament had a total of seven rounds, namely 1R, 2R, 3R, 4R, QF, SF and F, playod in that order. Note: SF =SomiFinals; QF = Quarter Finals; 7. If for any period, the win % of a player in a tournament is defined as the number of matches. won as a percentage of the number of matches played by the player during the period in that fournament, then the highest win % of Roger Foderer in’ any single tournament for the period 2000-2012 is (A) 87.67% (8) 92.63% (©) 91.78% (0) 89.47% 8. If for any year, the win % of a player in the year is defined as the percentage of the number of grand slam matches won out of the number of grand slam matches played by that player in that year, then what is the approximate difference between Roger Federer's win % in 2011 and his win % in 2005? (A) 8.98 percentage points (8) 24.14 percentage points {C) 12.67 percentage points (0) 31.16 percentage points 9. If in any calendar year, the grand slam tourraments are held in the order Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, then what is the highest ‘number of consecutive grand slam matches won by Federer in the period 2000-12 A) 2 (8) 24 (C) 35. (DAT DIRECTIONS for question 10: The question is followed by two statements, | and Il. You have to decide whether the information provided in the statements is sufficient for answering the question. Mark A if the question can be answered by using only ‘one of the statements. Mark B if the question can be answered by using either statement alone. Mark C if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone. Mark D if the question cannot be answered even when both the statements are used together. 10. If the internal angles of a n sided polygon are in arithmetic progression, what is the value of 1? |. The greatest internal angle is 125" Il, The Smallest internal angle is 115° = Finals; ‘nR’= n Round, DIRECTIONS jor questions 11 fo 16: Answer the ‘questions independently of each other. 14. A solution of alcohol and water contains 60% alcohol. What percent of the solution must be taken ‘out and replaced with water, so that the resultant solution contains 40% alcohol? (A) 50% . (@) 334% 2 1 (o) 142% (0) 83% 12. In a rock garden, there are four narrow tracks, two ‘going East-West and the other two going North— South, forming a square. A huge circular lawn, of radius R feet, lies inside the square, touching all the four tracks. A and B are two points on the south- ‘western arc of the boundary of the lawn, A is at a distance of 2x feet from the track on the South and 9x feet from the track on the West. B is ata distance ‘of y feat from the track on the West and a distance ‘of / feet from the track on the South. IF R > 6x and > 6y. ind *. ” y 13 13 4 43 a 4 a af of © ms 43, There are eight white balls and six oreen balls in a box. If four balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that at least two of these are green in colour? 55 65 Oa Om 15 85 oF ©) v5 14, In the given figure lines 1 and II are represented by the equation y* = x’ and C is a circle with its centre al the origin and radius 2 units. Find the area of the shaded region “Triumphant inatnute of Managemont Education Put, Lid, (TIM:E) HO: 95D, 2" Floor, Sildamsatiy Complex, Ssundorabad S00 008 infoarimesedueation com website: www.imededvcation som AIMCATI02/2u - 1 x c (A) 2 squnits (8) 1 squunit (©) 4squnits (©) 242 sa.units 15. A group of 18 workers take 9 hours to plough a fel. If the group starts the work at 9:00 am. in the morning, and one worker per hour is then added to the group, starting rom 12:00 noon, at what time will the work get completed? (A) 6:00 p.m (C) 5:30 p.m (8) 400pm {D) 5:00 p.m. 46. A communication tower of height 10 m is erected on the top of a building of height 30 m. Find the distance of the point on the ground from the base of the building, at which the tower subtends the tan ~tanB restest angle. Gven tan(A—B)= SMA IENS () 30m (6) 20m (C) 203 m {0) 15¥3m DIRECTIONS for questions 17 fo 19: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In January 2011, *Pehalwan Private Limited" forayed into the fitness segment by opening franchisees of its gymnasiums in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, The franchisees in these cities operated at 3, 5,3, 2 and 4 ‘venues in their respective cies. The table below gives the cumulative number of members in each city with’a one-year subscription at the end of every quarter in the period starting January 2011 and ending in March 2012. No additional venues and franchisees were added after the initial set-up. The gym allows only annual-subscriptions, which can be renewed at the end of the subscription period Quarter ending Mumbai_| Bangalore | Hyderabad | Chennai_| New Delhi March 2011 252 240 180 144 300 ‘June 2014 468 510. 324 264 564 ‘September 201% 666 810) 495) 420 840 December 2011 ‘200 1140 747 582 7080 March 2012 1125 1545, Bt 738 1332 17. For the quarter ending June 2011, in which city was the monthly average of subscriptions per venue, the highest? (A) Mumbai (8) Hyderabad (© Chennai (0) Bangalore 18. In Mumbai, if exactly 38 of those who joined in January 2011, 22 of those who joined in February 2011, and 25 of those who joined in March 2011, renewed their annual-subscriptions at the end of their subscription period, how many people joined Pehalwan’ gymnasiums in Mumbai in the first quarter of 20127 (A) 225° (8) 310 (C) 346. () 302 19. A market study reveals that, on an average 90% of those who join a gymnasium attend the gymnasium in their first month of joining. Similarly, the percentage of people who attend the gymnasium in each of their first two, three and four months of joining is 70%, 50% and 20% respectively. Only 10% were observed to attend the gymnasium after the first four months of joining. If, in Bangalore, the number of people who joined in the first six months since opening the gymnasium in 2011 is 60, 70, 110, 100, 80 and 90 respectively, then as per the market study, what is the number of people expected to attend the gymnasium in June 2011? (A) 246 (8) 192 (C) 222 (0) 234 DIRECTIONS for questions 20 fo 23: Answer the questions independent of each other. 20. Find the last three digits in the binary representation of the number 76548926, (4) 010 (8) 100 (Cp O11 (D110 21. Set A contains n elements. If Ps, Pre.Pq are m (m> 1) subsels of A, find the number of ways in which we can choose P;, Ps, ....Pm such that fir @ er-ay (@) 21 (2 (0) @"-1" 22. Several identical cuboids of dimensions 4 cm x 3.cm x2 cm are put together to form a large cube. What is the least possible volume (in cu.cm) of such a ‘cube? (A) 216 (8) 1728 (©) $832 (0) 13824 23. If x is a real number, then find the least possible value of the standard deviation of 23.5, 27.5, 26.5, 25.5, 24.5 and x. w 2 © & O 15 ‘Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt, Ltd. (FAME) HO: 95B, 2" Floor, Skddamsetty Complex, Secunderabad ~500 003, ‘Tel: 040-27808195 Fax : 040-2787 emai + info timededuation.com websi rwwaisimededucationcom —_ AIMCATI402/3DIRECTIONS for questions 24 to 26: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. ‘The following tables give the cumulative sales, in volume as well as value, of five companies ~ A, B, C, D and E ~ from 2006 to 2010. All the five companies started ‘operations in the year 2006. Cumulative Sales value (in Rs.'000) 26. For how many companies did the number of units sold in an year register an increase over the previous year, forall the years from 2007 to 2010? 0 4 (2 (4 DIRECTIONS for questions 27 to 30: Answer the questions independently of each other. 27. In. ABD, 2B = 60°, 2D = 90° and AB =4 cm. Cis 2 point on BD, such that DC = DA. M is a point on omayJalelelole CA (between G and A) such that 2GM = MA.‘Nis the Year ‘midpoint of BM. If Line CN intersects AB at P, find 2006 [7000 | 7500 | 7200 | woo| S00 BP. 2007 [25002700 | 3000 2600 [4700 4 5 2008 4000] 3600 | 4500 | 3800 | 3800 (@) tom @) Zoom (C) 450m (0) Fam 200 [4500] 5100 | s000 | 4700-| 5000 2010 [6500] 6300 6500 [620016500] 28, Wx=4+ay=14b42=1+4c%,anda+b+e=0, then ab + D+ ca ‘Cumulative Sales volume (in’00 units) (A) 3-(etyt2) e) 1g (x+ytz) 3-(x+y+z) sompany (ce) 14222) (p) Soetysz) ee ale ]leclole 2 2006 | 50 | 40_| 60 | 60 | 25 3007 195 | a8 | 180] 180 | 7 29, In tangle POR, 20 = 90°, PQ = 6 om and QR 27 Ah ee B em. X is variable point an PO. The line through 2008276 [200-360-328 | 300 Xparalal to GR, inert PR at Y ond the fe rough Y, paral intersects OR at Z. Fin am 325 | 350 | 400 | 450 | 400 the least possible length of XZ. (&) 360m (8) 240m Sales value in an year = No. of units sold in an year x oxo Oe, Price per unit in that year. 30. Ours is a big family and | have thrice as many brothers as sisters, while my sister, Bharathi, has four times as many brothers as sisters. How many 24, Which company has the highest average price per nit, fr all the units sold over the given period? Ma GB Cc ME chilren do my parents have? 25. Which company showed the highest percentage ee growth in price per unit for 2007 to 20102 @s @)D Cc | OA SECTION -11 Number of Questions = 30 DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it In one of the most infamous scenes in modem drama, a group of young men in a London park stone a baby to death in its carriage. What begins as roughhousing escalates to all-out sadism until a rock is thrown at point blank range, ending the child's pitiful cries for good. Even by today's standards, “Saved" is shocking. Bond, who once acknowledged that he writes “about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners,” captures the murder in all its bleak sociological detal. Against a seedy urban background of utter futility, the young mothers temporary abandonment of her baby is made chilingly plausible, ais the pack-lke behavior ofthe men who torture the baby for perverse distraction from thei aimless lives ‘What is the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence in art? If gruesomeness is the criterion, much of Jacobean drama would have to banned, including Shakespeare's "King Leer,” with its graphic scene of Gloucester’s, eyes being mercilessly plucked out. Some may believe they can identify pomography at a glance, but violence places keener demands on our sensibilities. Its artistic validity isn't a function of how many ters of blood are spiled or how many limbs are dismembered. The question is one of gratuitousness. Or to put it another way: How does the brutality fit into a work's larger vision? In the “Pootics,” Aristotle takes up the question of why human beings delight in contemplating objects that in reality bring them pain, His answer is thet man is essentially an imitative animal who leams by copying the world around him, Yet Aristotle doesn't claim that this instinct alone justifies the portrayal of any kind of atrocity. The crux of his argument is that the dramatization of certain types of calamity can have a positive moral effec. In fact, rather than feeding the unruly Passions, (one of Plato's big beefs with poetry), these depictions have the power to calm the emotional waters by stiring them up. ‘Triumphant institute of Management Education Pvt, Lid (AME) HO: 950, 2” Floor, Siddamszity Complex, Secunderabad ~ 500 003 ‘Tel: 040-27898195 Fax : 040-27847334 email: info@timeseducation com website: ww:timefeducation.com __AIMCATI402/4Like Freud, Aristotle thought that repression carries more dangers than representation. Yet his theory of catharsis ~ for him, the raison d'etre of tragedy — isnt unlimited. There are experiences better left undramatized. The test of an action’s ‘moral suitability, however, lies in its artistic ends, notin its inherent balefulness. 1. The passage addresses which of the following issues related to the depiction of violence in theater? (A) How it should be nihilistic and not revelatory. (8) Whether strict theater censorship laws should bbe impose. (C) How it should serve artistic vision and not merely celebrate destruction (0) Whether theater, as 2 metaphorical space, should invite critical inquiry 2. The author of the passage mentions Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’ primarily in order to (A) claim that Snakespeare never failed to register the emotional cost of horror. (6) illustrate how the play's brutality is an organic, part of its theatrical plot. (C) blame Shakespeare for cutivating a culture of horror by gluting his plays with images of human suffering (0) make a case that Jacobean drama should be unequivocally condemned, 3. The author of the passage suggests which of the following about Aristotle's ‘Postios"? (@) Disturbing actions can awake an audience's, ‘empathy, (0) Artistic violence should be portrayed indiscriminately, (c) Tragedy purges spectators of excessive passions. (@) The shock value of horror must outstrip poetic, imperatives. (A) a and. (8) anda (C) aandc (0) Only 4. Which of the following are true with respect to the passage? (@) Austen had a formative influence on Bond's theatrical styl. (0) ‘Saved’ is unrestrained in its depiction of violence (©) The killing in the play is sensationalistic and detached from the socio-economic conficts that the play examines. (@) ‘Saved’ has justification in that it depicts the dehumanizing effects of unjust social conditions. (@) In the context in which it appears, ‘gratuiousness’ most nearly means necessary (A) aande (8) b.canda (C) dande (©) Only b DIRECTIONS for questions 5 and 6: There are two blanks in each question. From the pairs of words given below each sentence, choose the pair that fils the blanks most appropriately. 5. Using extensive meteorological data and it into their methodology, the Chinese government's eneray bidding and financial restrictions for delivering wind power, a team of ‘environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University have estimated thal wind alone has the potential to China's ravenous hunger for electricity. (A) consolidating... satiate (8) assimilating ... jettison (C) incorporating sate (0) melding... assuage 6 The mill workers faced the _____ oftheir ‘oppressors with unexpected "Much to the ‘consternation of the coterie of landlords (A) ineluctabilties ... pugiism (8) contumelies ... contumacy (C) bilingsgate. .. appreciation (D) overweeningness . .. prevarication DIRECTIONS for question 7: The sentences given in the following question. when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. From among the four choices given below each question, choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph. 7. {a) No one made an attempt to carry out public- pinion research in this regard, (b) That neoplasm of the publishing world became the subject of such heated debate that the debate obscured the phenomenon itself. (c) Perhaps righty so; perhaps the public that decided the fate of the venture did not itself know what it was doing, (4) book that told the story of the rise and fall of U.Writestt would make most instructive reading (©) Therefore the factors that led to the failure of the enterprise to this day remain unclear. (A) deabe (8) dbace (C) baede (0) dbeac DIRECTIONS for questions 8 and 9: In the following questions, the word in capitals is used in four differant ways. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE. 8. BEAR (A) His recent statement to the police does not quite bear out his earlier claims. (B) Go right on 8103 Mosley Street and bear left conto Capitol Avenue. (C) These research articles do not bear on our thesis topic, (D) She bore up the insult with stoic silence. 9. KEEP (A) He didnt need a new car — he just purchased ‘one to keep up with the Joneses. (8) The boss kept on at me being ‘reactive’ and not ‘proactive! (C) Even though he was just six years old, Cade kept a stiff upper lip the whole time he was in the hospital recovering from the open heart surgery. (D) You have to keep your end up in this project lke the rest of us, ‘Triumphant institute of Management Education Put. Lid, (AME) HO: 95D, 2" Foor, Sldamsety Complex, Savunderabad ~ 500003, ‘Tel: 040-27808195 Fax: 040-27847334 emai novatimesedcation.com website: www.timededucation.com AIMCATISO2/5DIRECTIONS for questions 10 to 14: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it Who is it we would consider an ideal individual? Every age and class has had its ideal. The ruling classes in Greece idealized the magnanimous man, @ sort of scholar-and-gentleman. Kshatriyas in early India and feudal nobles in ‘mediaeval Europe held up the ideal of the chivalrous man. The honest man makes his appearance as the ideal of seventeenth-century gentlemen; the philosophe, as the ideal of their descendants in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century idealized the respectable man. The twentieth witnessed the rise and fall of the liberal man and the ‘emergence of the sheep-like social man and the god-like Leader. Meanwhile the poor and downtrodden have always dreamed nostalgically of a man idealy well-fed, fee, happy and unoppressed. ‘Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall choose none. For itis. clear that each one of these contradictory ideals isthe fruit of particular social circumstances. To some extent, of course, this is true of every thought and aspiration that has ever been formulated. Some thoughts and aspirations, however, are ‘manifestly less dependent on particular social circumstances than others. And here a significant fact emerges : all he ideals of human behaviour formulated by those who have been most successful in freeing themselves from the prejudices of their time and place are singularly alike. Liberation from prevailing conventions of thought, feeling and behaviour is accomplished most effectively by the practice of disinterested virtues and through direct insight into the real nature of ullimate reality. (Such insight is a gif, inherent in the individual; but, though inherent, it cannot manifest itself ‘compietely except where certain conditions are fulfilled. The principal pre-condition of insight is, precisely, the practice of disinterested virtues.) To some extent critical intellect is also a liberating force. But the way in which intellect is used depends upon the will. Where the wil is not disinterested, the intellect tends to be used (outside the non-human fields of technology, science or pure mathematics) merely as an instrument for the rationalization of passion and prejudice, the Justification of self-interest. That is why so few even of the acutast philosophers have succeeded in liberating themselves completely ftom the narrow prison of their age and country. It is seldom indeed that they achieve as much freedom as the mystics and the founders of religion. The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight, Its difficult to find a single word that will adequately describe the ideal man of the free philosophers, the mystics, the founders of religions. 'Non-attached’ is perhaps the best. The ideal man is the non-attached man. Non-attached to his bodily sensations and lusts. Non-atlached to his craving for power and possessions. Nor-altached to the objects of these various desires, Non-altached to his anger and hatred; non-attached to his exclusive loves. Non-altached to wealth, fame, social position. Non-attached even to science, art, speculation, philanthropy, Yes, non-attached even to these. For, ike patriotism, in Cavall's phrase, ‘they are not enough’. Non-attachment to self and to what are called ‘the things of this world’ has always been associated in the teachings of the philosophers and the founders of religions with attachment to an ultimate reality greater and more significant than the self. Greater and more significant than even the best things that this world has to offer. The ethic of non-attachment has always been correlated with cosmologies that affirm the existence of a spiritual reality underlying the phenomenal world and imparting to it whatever value or significance it possesses. Non-attachmert is negatve only in name. The practice of non-atachment ental the practice of al the virtues ft entais the practice of charity, for example; for there are no more fatal impediments than anger (even ‘righteous indignation’) and cold-blooded malice tothe ienificalon of the elf wth the immanent and transcendent mere-than-sll. entails the practice of courege: for fear is painful and obsessive identification of the self with its body. (Fear i negative sensual, just as sloth negalive malice It entails the clivation of ineligence; for nsenstve stupid isa main root af al the oiher vices. I entails the practice of generosity and dsinteestedness for avarice and te love of possessions constrain their vicim to equate themselves with mere tings. And so on. Ils unnecessary any futher to labour the ont, suficenty obvious fo anyone who chooses to think adout the mater, that nor-atachment imposes upon those Who Would precise i the edopion of anintensely posve atu towards the wel 410. Which ofthe folowing best describes the functin of 11. In the sentence “And here _@ significant fact the first paragraph in the context of the passage as emerges..." (second paragraph), “here” refers to a whole? — of the Iolowing? eect 0 exemply ways in which diferent images e bewiklering ruiplicky of Weal. A een eee ee amet (8) The ideal individual of particular age being the " fruit of particular social circumstances. certain entical senses (C) eal individuals transcending particular social (B) To imply tha the considerations for determining crcumstances who isan ideal indivicual are too varied to (0) The simlarty of the ideals of human behaviour rove proper contextualizations of dees where people have overcome the confines of (c) To give ilustrations of the kind of individuals particular social crcumstances, who were idealized in diferent ages and 12. The tone of the passage is most likely to conform to dhasses wich of olewngt (0) To suggest tat there has beon a subsianiol WehatBelolowing? oworent in rogers 10 the Weel indies (8) hose (0) Factual ‘among the freest of human beings. ‘Triumphant institute of Maragoment Education Put. Lid (FAME) HO: 05H, 2” Flor, Sdamsety Complex, Sasunderibad 500008, ‘Tel 040-27898195 Fax : 040-27847334 email info @timeseducation.com website: www.imededucationcom _AIMCATI402/613, 14. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage? (a) Critical intellect where the will isnot disinterested helps in the liberation from prevailing conditions of thought, feeling and behaviour. (©) Critical intellect and the practice of disinterested virtues are liberating forces, (c) Non-attachment to virtues imposes upon those who would practise it, the adoption of en intensely positive attitude towards the world (@) ‘Righteous indignation’, ‘direct insight’ and ‘patriotism’ are important, self sufficient factors in achieving freedom, (@) Identification of self with the immanent and transcendent more-than-salf is the malicious or vicious root of al vices. (9) Using the critical intellect for the rationalization Of passion and prejudice so as to ensure that selfinterest is altained should be the ultimate priory of acute philosophers who want to break the chains of age and location boundaries. (A) a, banda (8) o,e.andt (C) b, dandt (0) Only The presentation of the author's view on ‘non- attachment’ is both - (A) Emotive and Exhaustive (8) Derivative and Evocative (C) Elucidative and Proseriptve. (0) Descriptive and Prescriptive DIRECTIONS for questions 15 and 16: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence hhas been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. 15, Spinoza's ‘Ethics’ is not to be read, it is to be Studied; you must approach him as you would Euclid, recognising that, inthis work, he presents his, lifetime's thought in layers, with the stoic setting aside of everything superfluous. Do not think to find the core by running through his work rapidly; read it ‘ot all at once but in small portions at many sittings. Having finished, consider that you have but begun to understand him. Read some commentary — Pollock’s, Martineau’s, perhaps both — and then read the book again. / (A) You will begin to understand philosophy. (B) [twill seem an entirely new book to your freshly ‘opened eyes. (©) You will realise the significance of ethies. (0) You will see how the work of Spinoza reflects the thoughts of Euclid, 16, Terms such as good and bad indicate no qualities in things regarded in themselves, but are only modes ff thinking, or notions which we form from the comparisons that we make. What all the world recognises as beautiful implies the existence of ugliness. What all the world recognises as good implies the existence of evil. Is itnot true that dificult and easy complement each other, just as long and short exhibit each other? - (A) Likewise, the conception of ugliness [presupposes the conception of beauty. (8) Likewise, beauty is apparent in ugliness. (C) Likewise, ugliness is mimored in beauty, (0) Likewise, evilis obvious in good. DIRECTIONS for question 17: The sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced, form a ‘coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. The first sentence labelled (a) is in the correct place. From among the four choices given below the ‘question, choose the most logical order of the remaining sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph. 17. (a) To critics accustomed to the style of fifteenth- century narrative paintings by Italian artists from Tuscany, the Venetian examples of narrative paintings with religious subjects that Patricia Fortini Brown analyzes in a recent book will come as a great surprise, (b) And yet, while Venetian altitudes toward history that are reflected in their art account in part for the difference in style between Venetian and Tuscan narrative paintings, Brown has ‘overlooked some practical influences. (¢) Indeed, Brown argues that the distinctive style of the Venetian paintings ~ what she calls the “eyewitness style" — was influenced by Venetian affinity for a strongly parochial type of historical ‘writing, consisting almost exclusively of vernacular chronicles of local events embroidered with all kinds of inconsequential detail (@) While the Tuscan paintings present large-scale figures, clear narratives, and simple settings, the Venetians filed their pictures with dozens of ‘small figures and elaborate building, in addition to a wealth of carefully observed anecdotal etail often irrelevant to the paintings’ principal ‘subjects — the religious stories they narrate, (e) Although it occasionally obscured these stories, this accumulation of circumstantial detail from Venetian life — the inclusion of prominent Venetian ctizens, for example — was considered appropriate to the narration of historical subjects end underlined the authenticity ofthe historical events depicted (A) cebd (@) debe (C) ebed (0) dec DIRECTIONS for questions 18 and 19: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it. In the past few decades, the scholarly world has newly awakened to the oral character of language and to some of the deeper implications of the contrasts between oraiity and writing. Anthropologists have gone more directly into the matter of orality. Drawing not only on Parry and Lord and Havelock but also on others’ work, Jack Goody (1977) has shown how shifts hitherto labeled as shifts from magic to science, or from the so-called ‘prelogical to the more and more ‘ational’ state of consciousness, or from Levi-Strauss's ‘savage’ mind to domesticated thought, can be more economically and cogertly explained as shifts from orality to various stages of literacy. Many of the contrasts often Triumphant institute of Management Education Pvt Ltd. (FAM.E}) HO- 958, 2" Foor, Siddamsetty Comples, Secunderabad — 500 003. Tet + O40 27808105 Fax : 04027847334 emai nfoatimeteducation.com webit wwwetimeteducationcom —_AIMCATISO02/7made between ‘western’ and other views seem reducible to contrasts between deeply interiorized literacy and more or less residually oral states of consciousness. The late Marshall McLuhan's well-known work (1962, 1964) has also made much of ear-eye, oral-textual contrasts, caling attention to James Joyce's precociously acute awareness of ear-eye polarities and relating to such polarities & ‘great amount of otherwise quite disparate scholarly work brought together by McLuhan's vast eclectic learning and his startling insights. McLuhan’s attracted the attention not only of scholars but also of people working in the mass media, of business leaders, and of the generally informed public, largely because of fascination wih his many gnomic or oracular pronouncements, too glib for some readers but often deeply perceptive. These he called ‘probes’. He generally moved Fapidly from one ‘probe’ to another, seldom if ever undertaking any thorough explanation of a linear’ (that is, analytic) sort. His cardinal gnomic saying, ‘The medium is the message’, registered his acute awareness of the importance of the shift from oralty through literacy and print to electronic media. Few people have had so stimulating an effect as Marshall McLuhan on so many diverse minds, including those who disagreed with him or believed they did However, if attention to sophisticated orality-teracy contrasts is growing in some circles, its stil relatively rare in many fields where it could be helpful. For example, the early and late stages of consciousness which Julian Jaynes (1977) describes and relates to neurophysiological changes in the bicameral mind would also appear to lend themselves largely to much simpler and more verifiable description in terms of a shift from oraity to literacy. Jaynes discerns primitive stage of consciousness in which the brain was strongly ‘bicameral’, with the right hemisphere producing Lunconirollable ‘voices’ attributed to the gods which the left hemisphere processed into speech. The ‘voices’ began to lose their effectiveness between 2000 and 1000 BC. This period, it will be noted, is neatly bisected by the invention of the alphabet around 1500 BC, and Jaynes indeed believes that writing helped bring about the breakdown of the original bicameralty. The lied provides him with examples of bicameralty in its unselfconscious characters. Jaynes dates the Odyssey a hundred years later than the liad and believes that wily Odysseus marks a breakthrough into the modern self-conscious mind, no longer under the rule of the ‘voices’. Whatever one makes of Jaynes's theories, one cannot but be struck by the resemblance between the characteristics of the early or ‘bicameral’ psyche as Jaynes describes it — lack of intraspectivty, of analytic prowess, of concem with the will as such. of a sense ‘of difference between past and future — and the characteristics of the psyche in oral cultures not only in the past but even today. The effects of oral states of consciousness are bizarre to the literate mind, and they can invite elaborate explanations which may turn out to be needless. Bicamerality may mean simply orally 18. Which of the following best slates Goody's main point? (A) Neglect of the psychodynamics of orality has led to misconceptions about the narratives of ancient people. (B) The contrasts between oralty and literacy can be reconstructed once one puts aside the assumptions about thought processes engrained in the human psyche by iterate DIRECTIONS for question 20: In the question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar, punctuation, spelling and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option. 20. (a) It is a corollary of the predominance of the intellectual in the sensuous instinct that the true 19. culture, (C) Many of the contrasts. between primitiveness ‘and culture are reducible to contrasts between oral states and literacy. (0) The effects of purely oral performances are bizarre once writing has taken possession of the psyche. The passage mentions the liad and the Odyssey primarily in order to (A) trace the neurological adaptations to ‘complexities in a changing worl. (B) support Jaynes’ argument that the rupture of the bicameral mind can be attributed to the visual ‘coding of the elusive world of sound. (©) laud the abstract intellectual achievements of ancient oral Greek culture. (0) cite evidence to support Jaynes's thesis that writing paved the way for the shift from the oval Lneonscious to the selfeonscious. should be preferred to beautiful, and some French entics are so far from (b) denying this preference of French art that they express pride in it, and, indeed, defend it in a way that makes one feel slightly amateurish and fanciful in thinking of beauty (©) apart of ‘ruth. A walk through the Louvre, however, sulfices to restore one's confidence in ‘one's own convietions. The French rooms, at least until modern periods (@) are reached, are demonstration that in the ‘sphere of aesthetics, science does not produce the greatest artists — that something (e) other than inteligent interest and technical accomplishment are requisite to that end, and that system is fatal to spontaneity. (A) dande (B)aandc (C)bande {0) Only b DIRECTIONS for question 21: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows it. ‘Student evaluations, set in place to give the impression to students that they have an important say in their own education, are one of the useless intrusions into university teaching by the political tumult of the 1960s. Teaching remains @ mysterious, magical art. Anyone who claims he knows how it works is a lar. No one tells you how to do it “Triumphant Insitute of Menagement Education Pvt.Ltd. 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Otherwise, itis pure improv, no matter how extensive one’s notes. ‘One study found that students tend to give good evaluations “to instructors who are easy graders or who are good looking," and to be hardest on women and foreign teachers; another, made at Ohio State University, found "no correlation between professor evaluations and the learning that is actually taking place.” As Delbanco notes, the main result of student evaluations is to make it easier for students to avoid tough teachers or, through harsh reviews, punish these teachers for holding to a high standard, | was not myself regarded as a tough teacher, but | prefer to think that I never fell below the line of the serious in what | taught or in what | asked of my students. What | tried to convey about the writers on whom | gave courses was, alongside the aesthetic pleasures they provided, their use as guides, however incomplete, to understanding life. Reading Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Willa Cather, and other writers I taught was important business — possibly, in the end, though I never said it straight out, more important than getting into Harvard Law School or Stanford Business School. When | taught courses on prose style, | stressed that correctness has its own ‘elegance, and that, in the use of language, unlike in horseshoes, close isn't good enough; precision was the minimal requirement, and it was everything. How many students found helpful what I was trying to convey | havent the least notion. If anything | said during the ‘many hours we were together mattered to them I cannot know. Not a scholar myself, | never tried to make scholars of, ‘my students. A small number of them went on to do intellectual work, to become editors, critics, poets, novelists; a few became college teachers. Dic my example help push them in their decision not to go for the money? Some of the brightest among them did go for the money, and have lived honorable lives in pursuit of i, and that's fine 100. A world filled with people like me would be intolerable. 21. Which of the following stetements are supported by the passage? (a) According to the passage, teaching is a spontaneous service, (©) The author mentions "horseshoes" primarily in order to maintain that accuracy is more important than precision in prose style. (©) In the pursuit of intellectual professions, intellectuals may have to give up lucrative ambitions, (@) Tough graders are most likely 10 get poor ratings on student evaluations. (©) The “Understanding ite" mentioned in the passage in being ascribed to aesthetic pleasures, (A) ab.candd (8) 2,c,dande (C) aicandd (0) bcande DIRECTIONS for questions 22 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. ‘Six passengers ~ A through F ~ are traveling in a train. Each of them has to alight the train at a different station ‘among Nagpur, Agra, Bhopal, Jhansi, Mathura and New Delhi, and speaks a diferent language among Hindi, English, Telugu, Temil, Marathi and Bengali. Further, the following information is known about the passengers: () C alighted at Bhopal and E speaks either English or Hindi. (i) A, who did not alight the train at Delhi, speaks neither Telugu nor Tamil, while 8 alighted the train at Mathura or Jhansi. (ii) The person who speaks Tamil alighted the train at neither Jhansi nor Mathura, while the person who ‘speaks Marathi alighted the train at Delhi (iv) D, who speaks Bengali, did not alight the train at Nagpur, while the person who alighted the train at ‘Agra speaks English 22. For how many of the six persons can both the lighting station and language be uniquely etermines? wt @®2 (3 Mes 223. If the person alighting the train at Mathura speaks Bengali then the person alighting the train at Jhansi speaks (A) Hindi (8) Tamil (C) Telugu. (0) Cannot be determined 24. Which of the following statements is definitely false? (A) Fis the person who speaks Marathi (B) Ais the person who speaks English (C) Els the person who speaks English (0) Cis the person who speaks Hindi DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 27: Answer the ‘questions on the basis of the information given below. ‘The diagram below gives a network of roads connecting two cies P and Q. There are ten junctions — A to J — ‘enroute and any person can take @ turn only at these junctions. c 8 n a D A S J P = F 1 Further, any person can travel only eastwards or northwards along any road, 25. Whats the maximum number of turns that @ person can take to reach Q from P? @z2 83 ©4 (5 ‘Triumphant institute of Management Education Pvt. 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