Test 2 - Va

Direction:
Directions for questions 1 to 4: Select the best answer for each of the following questions
based on the information given in the passage.
Question:
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?
Options:
For the elderly and the sick, it is easier to laugh than to engage in conventional exercises.
1.
Several medical practioners recommend laughing as an additional step to exercise to control blood
pressure.
2.
A performers heart pumps blood at a faster rate during exercise.
3.
Laughter causes the heart rate and blood pressure to fall below the doers baseline after an initial rise.
4.
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Question:
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?
Options:
The companies are located in the order by which the wastes of one can be used by the adjacent one and so
on.
1.
The companies are built in a circle so that there is no waste left behind unutilized.
2.
Pollution is caused substantially by solid and liquid wastes.
3.
Solid and liquid wastes are easily convertible into required raw materials.
4.
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Question:
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?
Options:
With terrible lifestyles and worse postures, not to mention careless, unsupervised
1. exercising, there will be a huge rush for orthopedic seats in cars.
A wonderfully well found target group that cuts across gender, age and occupation -
2. this is a marketers dream-come-true.
3. Whats more, it is a guaranteed to grow segment!
If you are willing to be persuaded that, for those with less income, time can be a
4. valuable commodity too, then you have all of the bus-passenger market.
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Question:
This India is a frighteningly linear narrative. Only banning and banishments can keep
this India intact. It was in this India that The Satanic Verses was banned even
before Iran woke up to the blasphemy, and for a while, its author, an Indian by birth and
imagination, was denied entry. It was in this India that some Catholic organizations almost
convinced the secular government that the screening of The Da Vinci Code would cause
cracks on Peters Rock. In this India, the culturally paranoid are not let down by the so-called
secular state. It is in this India that the over-whelming silliness of a public kiss has become
an assault on civilization.
Which of the following can aptly conclude the authors viewpoint?

Options:
1. Itis in clash with the India that doesnt require cultural bodyguards.
The power of orthodoxy can still make it a country unsafe for ideas that
2. dare.
3. We have no escape from the fury of religion and its war against metaphors.
4. This India is a huge hypocrisy
Explanation:
x
Passage:
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 in it 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 doctrines
the theistic
and the pantheistic are 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. Hopkins makes 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.
Direction:
Question:
The following are all conclusions arrived at by various commentators regarding The Gita
EXCEPT:
Options:
The confusion between different streams of tradition in the mind of the author is reflected in the
1. epic.
2. Theism and pantheism are treated in the volume as though there is no difference between the two.
3. It is the product of different writers working in different time periods.
4. It recounts the transition from theism to atheism.
Explanation:
Passage:
into a single whole. That is why we find in it 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
the theistic and the pantheistic are mixed up
of the Upanisad monism. These two doctrines
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. Hopkins makes 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.
Direction:
Question:
The commonality between the Gita and the Upanishad is / are
Options:
1. deriving a religion from the premises of universal truth.
2. blending the different thoughts of the day into a comprehensive whole.
3. the shift in focus from the theoretical to the empirical, from the metaphysical to the spiritual.
4. All of the above
Explanation:
Passage:
into a single whole. That is why we find in it 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 doctrines
the theistic
and the pantheistic are 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. Hopkins makes 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.
Direction:
Question:
Yoga, in the context of the Gita, is NOT
Options:
a discipline by which we go through life with our soul untouched by worldly
1. things.
2. just an ethical message without any metaphysical backing.
3. a means to achieve union with God.
4. a method to ignite the spark of divine in us to an eternal flame.
Explanation:
x
Passage:
into a single whole. That is why we find in it 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 doctrines the theistic and the pantheistic are 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. Hopkins makes 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.
Direction:
Question:
Which of the following is not the authors view on The Gita?
Options:
1. The Gita succeeds in blending conflicting, contemporary views.
2. The Gita tries to derive a religion from the philosophy of the Upanishad.
3. It is an ethical treatise meant to stimulate right conduct.
4. It applies the ideals of the Upanishad to situations arising at the time of the Mahabharata
Explanation:
Direction:
Directions for questions 9 and 10: In each question, five different ways of presenting an
idea is given. Choose the one that conforms most closely to standard English usage.
Question:
Options:
Regulating the behaviour of robots is going to become more difficult in the future, since they will increasingly have
impossible to fully
self-learning mechanisms built up into them and consequently their behaviour will become
predict, since they will not be behaving in predefined ways but learn new behaviour as
1. they go.
Regulating the behaviour of robots is going to become more difficult in the future,
since they will increasingly have self-learning mechanisms built in them and
consequently their behaviour will become impossible to fully predict, since they will
2. not be behaving in predefined ways but learn new behaviour as they go.
self-learning mechanisms built up into them and consequently their behaviour will become impossible to fully predict,
3. since they will not be behaving in predefined ways but will learn new behaviour as they go.
self-learning mechanisms built into them and consequently their behaviour will become impossible to predict fully,
4. since they will not be behaving in predefined ways but will learn new behaviour as they go.
Explanation:
Direction:
Directions for questions 9 and 10: In each question, five different ways of presenting an
idea is given. Choose the one that conforms most closely to standard English usage.
Question:
Options:
for both rigidity and novelty and the ability of the
Human systems have much greater powers
bureaucracy of a government agency in controlling information and in resisting change
seems to show a level of individual and group ingenuity and persistence that reflect
1. conscious control by dedicated and intelligent individuals.
Human systems have much greater powers for both rigidity and novelty and the ability of the bureaucracy of a
government agency in controlling information and in resisting change seem to show a level of individual and group
2. ingenuity and persistence that reflect conscious control by dedicated and intelligent individuals.
government agency to control information and to resist change seems to show a level of individual and group
3. ingenuity and persistence that reflects conscious control by dedicated and intelligent individuals.
government agency to control information and to resist change seems to show a level of individual and group
4. ingenuity and persistence that reflect conscious control by dedicated and intelligent individuals.
Explanation:
irection:
Directions for questions 11 to 13: Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word or
phrase from among the options.
Question:
By the time the school celebrates its silver jubilee in 2008, Mr. Anand _____ there for five
years.
Options:
1. will teach
2. will be teaching
would have been
3. teaching
4. will have taught
Explanation:
x
Direction:
Question:
A species of microbe called Micrococcus Radiophilies was found living happily in the waste
tanks of nuclear reactors, _____ plutonium and whatever else there.
Options:
1. gorging itself on
2. gorging
3. gorging up
4. gorging in
Explanation:
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Question:
Mr. Gautam _____ this car for eleven years before I purchased it from him.
Options:
1. had
2. had had
3. has had
4. was having
Explanation:
assage:
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?
Direction:
Question:
Tax collection becomes an issue in a networked economy because
Options:
economic activities are often overlapping.
1.
the role of the state is negated by activities that spread across borders.
2.
many people at different places and different times work on a product.
3.
it becomes difficult to determine which government is entitled to the tax on a product.
4.
Explanation:
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Question:
In an age of access, the question Do governments still matter? arises because
Options:
1. the virtual world gains predominance over the physical world.
2. nations lose their identity when citizens have shifting loyalties.
3. patriotism has no hold on people who look upon the world as their home.
4. people are restless and their interests are temporary.
Explanation:
Passage:
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.
Direction:
Question:
The author in this passage
Options:
1. compares the brick and mortar businesses to their counterparts in cyberspace.
2. validates the need for greater freedom for business.
3. analyses the implications of the private ownership of the electromagnetic spectrum.
4. argues in favour of a greater role for the government.
Explanation:
Passage:
Direction:
Question:
In the area of trade, according to the passage,
Options:
officials, not accountable to any government or world body, rule the
1. roost.
2. world organizations must respect national governments and their laws.
3. global companies are unable to get concessions from various regional governments.
4. the national governments powers have been superceded by international treaties and conventions.
Explanation:
Direction:
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.
Question:
India may be like the proverbial slow and steady tortoise but 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.
Options:
but hardly it can afford to amble along in this age of speed and
1. technology
2. but it can hardly afford to amble along in this age of speed and technology
3. but hardly can it afford to amble in this age of speed and technology
4. but it can hardly afford to amble in this age of speed and technology
Explanation:
Direction:
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.
Question:
Since the 1990s, politicians and pundits predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia
wherein robots would do the washing up and we would live in peace and harmony in an
electronically connected global village thanks to the net.
Options:
1. pundits had predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia wherein
2. pundits have predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia where
3. pundits have predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia in which
4. pundits predicted the imminent arrival of a digital utopia in which
Explanation:
Direction:
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.
Question:
UNPROFESSIONAL : CONDUCT
Options:
Unpremeditated :
1. Observation
2. Unpretentious : Thoroughfare
3. Unpalatable : Truth
4. Unobtrusive : Lecture
Explanation:
Direction:
Directions for questions 22 to 25: Choose the best answer for each of the following
questions based on the information given in the passage.
Question:
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 that India can sustain 8%
growth for over a decade. A few years ago, India seemed 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, with India riding
a global wave that will soon ebb? Or has something changed fundamentally?
Which of the following lends credence to the cyclical theory?

Options:
The cumulative effects of reforms have finally reached a critical mass and exploded into
1. much faster growth.
2. Bank reforms have liberalized interest rates, slashed non-performing loans and helped banks move towards Basel-II
norms.
3. Indian growth of 8% is still only 2.5% higher than Africas, the same as in earlier times.
Agricultural barriers have been eroded, if not abolished, in many states paving the way for corporates to buy produce
directly from farmers, cutting out intermediaries and creating a retail revolution.
4.
Explanation:
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Question:
Only a member of the OB
party would support the bill for introducing reservation for backward
classes in premier technological and management institutes. Nupur Jain cannot be a
member of the OB party as she does not support the bill.
Which of the following statements points out the flaw in the above reasoning?
Options:
Members of OB party support any new bill that benefit the weaker sections of the
1. society.
Technological and management institutes may not oppose reservations for backward classes.
2.
3. It is possible that some members of the OB party do not support reservations.
4. Nupur Jain has attended meetings and distributed pamphlets of the OB party.
Explanation:
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Question:
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?

Options:
The quality of domestic and international gold is the same.
1.
The citizens of the country are less status conscious than they were earlier.
2.
The opposition would have been more successful in curbing smuggling.
3.
Gold is a price-elastic commodity, that is dependent on supply and demand.
4.
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Question:
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:
Options:
Carrefour and Spencers offer the same value for
money.
1.
Spencers offers more value for money than Carrefour.
2.
Walmart offers better value for money than Spencers.
3.
Walmart offers better value than Trinethra.
4.
Explanation:
Passage:
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.
Direction:
Question:
Why has the chasm become more perceptible of late?
Options:
The business logic of yesteryears is still being practised inspite of the glaring examples of its failure.
1.
Managerial capitalism has turned out to be not-so-successful in todays service economy.
2.
Present business organisations continue to consider consumers as mere numbers or
3. targets with no soul.
Customers in general no longer want to be consumers of mass produced goods.
4.
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
As understood from the passage, an alternative business model to managerial capitalism
may emerge when
Options:
1. corporations look at new markets, i.e., individual customers.
the new corporate logic changes to meeting the requirements of each consumer through better
2. services.
3. new technological resources are used for greater customer satisfaction.
4. all the above three converge.
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
We can infer that, in the authors view, the road map for survival, growth and nurture of a business
organisation would emerge
Options:
with the firm taking a call on immediate transactions and the consequent trend of
1. sales.
2. from the realisation that the source of value is the individual customer.
3. even before an individual has become a customer.
4. with the identification of the general needs of a market segment.
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
Which of the following can be safely assumed to be (a) characteristic feature(s) of market capitalism?
Options:
1. It is inward looking in the sense that customer requirements are not considered.
2. It is more successful when catering to mass consumers.
3. It force feeds the needs of consumers.
4. All the above three statements.
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
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.
Options:
1. a and b
2. b and c
3. a and c
4. a, b and c
Explanation:
Passage:
Directions for questions 31 to 33: 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.
Direction:
Question:
(A) If you thought blogs are inane conversations on 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 geographies does 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.
Options:
1. JFIF
J
FJFJ
J
2.
IFIJI
3.
JFJFI
4.
Explanation:
Passage:
F).
Direction:
Question:
(A) Leadership in science and technology is the key to economic and political power.
(B) This has been proven through history, and is also the reason why the US is so obsessed with 'losing the
innovation edge'.
(C) Though China has emerged as an economic superpower it, like India, 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.
Options:
JJJJ
1.
JFFF
2.
IFJJ
3.
IFFF
4.
Explanation:
assage:
F).
Direction:
Question:
(A) Women Army officers who believe that diamonds are a girls best friend are going to be
sorely disappointed.
(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.
Options:
JFIJF
1.
IFJJF
2.
FFIJJ
3.
JFIFF
4.
Explanation:
Direction:
Directions for question 34: Find the odd man out.
Question:
Options:
1. massive
2. large
3. monumental
4. astronomical
Explanation:
Passage:
Directions for questions 35 to 37: 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 of elo points, based on his performance in the previous tournaments.
At the start of any tournament, the expected score of a player in that tournament is
calculated, based on the comparison of the elo points (say p) of the player at the beginning
of the tournament with the average (say a) of the elo points of the remaining seven players
at the beginning of the tournament, as follows:
(i) If p is equal to a, then the players expected score is exactly half of the total available
points, i.e., 3.5 points.
(ii) If p is less than a by x elo points, the players expected score is less than 3.5 by Kx points,
where K is a constant.
(iii) If p is more than a by x elo points, the players expected score is more than 3.5
by Kx points.
Now, after the expected scores are calculated, the tournament will be conducted in the
round robin format, as stated above, and for every player, the achieved score is recorded.
For every player, the elo points are updated at the end of the tournament by comparing
his expected score and achieved score as follows:
(i) If the achieved score is equal to the expected score, there is no change in his elo points.
(ii) If the achieved score is y points less than the expected score, his elo points are decreased
by y/K points.
(iii) If the achieved score is y points more than the expected score, his elo points are increased
by y/K points.
Note: The value of K is 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, the elo points of the player at the
beginning of the tournament held in October, the achieved score in that tournament and
the change in the elo points of the player at the end of that tournament.
Direction:
Question:
What is the value of K?
Options:
0.02
1.
0.00
5
2.
0.01
3.
0.015
4.
Explanation:
Passage:
below.

by Kx points.
by y/K points.
by y/K points.
Direction:
Question:
What was As expected score in the tournament?
Options:
4
1.
2. 3.5
3
3.
4. 4.5
Explanation:
Passage:
below.

by Kx points.
by y/K points.
by y/K points.
Direction:
Question:
The expected score of C in the tournament was
Options:
3.2
1. 1
3.3
2. 2
3.4
3. 6
4. 3.68
Explanation:
Passage:
Directions for questions 38 and 39: 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.
Direction:
Question:
What is the total number of students who belong to AISF, North region and Engineering
stream?
Options:
1
1. 0
1
2. 5
2
3. 0
4. 40
Explanation:
Passage:
Directions for questions 38 and 39: 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.
Direction:
Question:
Which of the following represents the stream-region-federation combination of D?
Options:
Engineering-South-
AISF
1.
Management-North-NSF
2.
Management-South-NSF
3.
Engineering-North-AISF
4.
Explanation:
Passage:
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.
Direction:
Question:
If there were 5 guards, what is the value of D?
Options:
1. 5
2. 4
3. 3
4. 2
Explanation:
Passage:
below.
Direction:
Question:
If there were 5 guards, what is the minimum possible value of L?
Options:
1. 5
2. 8
3. 9
4. 10
Explanation:
Passage:
below.
Direction:
Question:
If there were 5 guards, what is the minimum possible number of keys with each guard?
Options:
1. 6
2. 5
3. 4
4. 3
Explanation:
Passage:
below.
Direction:
Question:
If there were 6 guards, what is the value of D?
Options:
1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6
Explanation:
Passage:
Directions for questions 44 to 46: 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 is to the immediate 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.
Direction:
Question:
Who is third to the right of A?
Options:
B
1.
C
2.
D
3.
C or D
4.
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
Who is facing the person second to the left of R?
Options:
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. S
Explanation:
Passage:

Direction:
Question:
Which one is the correct pair of persons facing each other?
Options:
1. SC
2. DR
3. AP
4. BS
Explanation:
x
Passage:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of three different companies X, Y and Z. Not

more than three among these eight persons are working in the same company. Each of
them has a different designation among Accountant, Trainee, Marketing Manager, Assistant
Manager, Tech. head. Project head, Team leader and Director, not necessarily in the same
order.
D works neither for X nor works for the same company as F works at. C and F work in the
same company and C is not a Tech. head. B an Accountant works for Y and E is the only
other person who works for Y. Neither the Team leader nor the Tech head works for Z. A is
an Assistant Manger but does not work for Z. Neither G nor H is a Marketing Manager. F is a
director and G is not a Trainee.
Direction:
Question:
Which among the following groups works for Z?
Options:
1. DFH
2. CFH
3. DGH
4. CFG
Explanation:
Passage:

order.
Direction:
Question:
What is the profession of E?
Options:
1. Tech. head
2. Project head
3. Trainee
4. None of these
Explanation:
Passage:

order.
Direction:
Question:
Who among the following is a Trainee?
Options:
1. E
2. D
3. C
4. H
Explanation:
Passage:

order.
Direction:
Question:
Who among the following works with the Team leader in the same company?
Options:
D
1.
E
2.
A
3.
H
4.
Explanation:

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