FACTS:deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read,

and which are open to discovery or verification. The key word here is
verification. A fact is a statement that can be verified, i.e. a fact is
either true or false. Facts are statements that may involve numbers,
natural phenomena, dates etc. The characteristics of the statements
classified as facts are
!ade after observation or e"perience. An event cannot become a fact
unless it has occurred.
#onfined to what one observes$ cannot be made about the future.
%imited number possible.
&ot perception dependent. A fact will be a'reed to by every person. (t
does not chan'e from person to person.
Tends to brin' people to'ether in a'reement.
Examples:
)*&early + lac students took #AT last year.
+*%ife e"ists on other planets ,althou'h physically not possible to verify,
this statement will be either true or false*.
-*( like .ink Floyd more than !etallica ,(t may not seem so, but this
statement is either true or false. /ither ( like .ink Floyd more than
!etallica or ( dont*.
0*The le'islature is advocatin' vi'orously a'ainst intrusion of 1udiciary
in parliamentary affairs.
2*A football field is )33 yards lon'.
NOTE: &otice the difference when a sentence contains sub1ective or
abstract e"pressions4
5*The music was very loud ,&6T a fact as the loudness mi'ht vary from
person to person*.
7*( found the music very loud ,A fact as it is either a truth or a lie. (
must have found the music very loud or not very loud*.
.overty is a curse on mankind ,&6T a fact8curse on mankind is too
abstract*.
9*+3: of the population live below poverty line ,Fact*.
FACTS STATEMENTS IN CAT 2006 PAPER:
)*The 'overnment has been supplyin' free dru's since +330, and -2
333 have benefited up to now4 thou'h the si;e of the affected
population is )23 times this number.
+*6nly about )- million children in the a'e 'roup of 5 to )0 years are
out of school.
-*The truth is that we have more red tape4 we take ei'hty4 nine days to
start a small business, Australians take two.
0*The economies of the industriali;ed western world derive +3: of their
income from the sale of all kinds of arms.
INFERENCES:are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis
of the known. &otice the three words conclusions, known and
unknown very carefully. They will 'ive you complete description of what
an inference consists of4
<nown4 A fact. The first thin' an inference should consist of is a fact.
This fact is re=uired to prove another proposition.
>nknown4 ?omethin' which can be logically proven by the 'iven fact
or the known. Therefore, in an inference an unknown proposition is
present which is to be proven with the help of the fact. @emember that
this proposition has to be proven with the help of another fact.
#onclusion4 6nce the unknown has been proved with the help of the
known ,fact* it is called a conclusion.
&otice the meanin' of the word (nfer. To infer means
to conclude from evidence$ to deduce
to have a lo'ical conse=uence. ,an inference A a conclusion*
Therefore, the process of inference can be summari;ed by the fi'ure
'iven below
Examples:
)*Because the old man stayed indoors all the time and did not receive
any visitors, no one discovered his dead body for days.
,the 'reen part is the fact and the brown part is the conclusion. &otice
that without the e"planation 'iven by the fact, you cannot convincin'ly
prove the conclusion.*
+*The footprint warned @obinson #rusoe that there was someone else
on the island.
INFERENCE STATEMENTS IN CAT 2006 PAPER:
(the facts are in green and the conclusions are in brown)
)*The recent initiatives of networks and companies like A(C?care
&etwork, /mcure, @eliance4#ipla4#((, would lead to availability of much4
needed dru's to a lar'er number of affected people.
+*Accordin' to all statistical indications, the ?arva ?hiksha Abhiyan has
mana'ed to keep pace with its ambitious 'oals.
-*/very red tape procedure is a point of contact with an official , and
such contacts have the potential to become opportunities for money to
chan'e hands.
0*/ven without war, we know that conflicts continue to trouble us4 they
only chan'e in color.
!"#EMENTS:are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of
persons, ob1ects, situations, and occurrences in the past, the present or
the future. There is a fine line of distinction between inferences and
1ud'ments. !ost of the times 1ud'ments are also based on facts and
therefore they seem like inferences. But there are some ways to
differentiate a 1ud'ment and an inference4
Dud'ments are ar'uable and contestable. (nferences are rock solid.
Althou'h both 1ud'ments and inferences are based on facts, in the latter
the conclusion is so un=uestionable that it becomes fact itself.
Dud'ments are opinions, su''estions and recommendations whereas
inferences are proven conditions.
Dud'ment statements include a lot of =uantities that cannot be
measured, such as happiness, beauty, 1oy etc.
!any a times, 1ud'ments are not accompanied by facts at all but are
only opinion statements. Ehen there is no fact involved, the statement
can only be a 1ud'ment statement.
A 1ud'ment is an honest attempt to make reasonable observations
about the 'iven facts but they do not conclusively prove anythin'.
Examples:
)*(t is estimated that that -3: of (ndians live below poverty line.
,1ud'ment if it is an estimate, it cannot be a fact*.
+*/very mother has only the best interests of her children at her heart.
,(s there a way to look inside a mothers heartF*.
-*Because we had three wars with our nei'hborin' country, we should
keep our armed forced ready for the fourth one.
!"#MENT STATEMENTS IN CAT 2006 PAPER:
)*?o much of our day4to4day focus seems to be on 'ettin' thins done,
trud'in' our way throu'h the tasks of livin'4 it can feel like a treadmill
that 'ets you nowhere$ where is the childlike 1oyF
+*Ee are not doin' thin's that make us happy$ that which brin's us
1oy$ the thin's that we cannot wait to do because we en1oy them so
much.
-*This is the stuff that 1oyful livin' is made of4 identifyin' your callin'
and committin' yourself wholeheartedly to it.
0*Ehen this happens, each moment becomes a celebration of you$
there is a rush of ener'y that comes with feelin' completely immersed
in doin' what you love most.
2*Given the poor =uality of service in the public service, the H(IJA(C?
affected should be switchin' to private initiatives that supply anti4
retroviral dru's ,A@Is* at a low cost.
5*But how ironic it is that we should face a perennial shorta'e of dru's
when (ndia is one of the worlds lar'est suppliers of 'eneric dru's to the
developin' world.
7*The !id4day !eal scheme has been a si'nificant incentive for the poor
to send their little ones to school, thus establishin' the vital link
between healthy bodies and healthy minds.
The 'oal of universalisation of elementary education has to be a pre4
re=uisite for the evolution and development of our country.
9*Ee should not be hopelessly addicted to an erroneous belief that
corruption in (ndia is caused by the crookedness of (ndians.
)3*@ed tape leads to corruption and distorts peoples character.
))*(ne=uitable distribution of all kinds of resources is certainly one of
the stron'est and most sinister sources of conflict.
)+*/"tensive disarmament is the only insurance for our future$ ima'ine
the amount of resources that can be released and redeployed.