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Section 1 - Verbal Ability

No. Of Questions: 10
Duration in Minutes: 10
Directions for Questions 1-3:

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the word in ITALICS from the given options.

1) My life so far has been turbulent with varied experiences.

A) Adventurous B) Chaotic C) Intense D) Interesting

2) Family gatherings often become occasions to reminisce.

A) Recollect B) Repent C) Relax D) Ruminate

3) Flowers have conspicuous petals so that they can attract birds for pollination.

A) Prominent B) Beautiful C) Colourful D) Scented

Directions for Questions 4-6:

Choose the answer option, which will CORRECTLY fill the blank.

4) ____ ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

A) The B) A C) An D) No article required

5) The book takes __________ reader to ______ ideal world.

A) The, an B) A, an C) A, the D) The, the

6) Ayush studied engineering, did __ MBA, and worked briefly in ___ banking sector.

A) An, a B) An, the C) A, a D) The, the

Directions for Questions 7-8:

Choose the option, which will CORRECTLY fill the blank.

7) They're _______ Brighton to do an English language course.

A) In B) At C) On D) Over

8) I live _____ the fifth floor of my apartment building.

A) On B) At C) In D) By

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Directions for Questions 9-10:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

How Maths Can Be Great Fun

Soutik Biswas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5203440.stm
Like many of his friends, 12-year-old Indian student SK Ramnandan used to find mathematics "rather mechanical and unattractive"
and a bit of a chore.
This was before HeyMath happened to him. HeyMath is an India-based online maths tutoring company which uses innovative,
interactive lessons, peppered with animation, graphics and quizzes for students and teachers alike.
Today, Ramnandan, a student of Padma Seshadri School in the southern Indian city of Madras (Chennai), is a champion number
cruncher and in love with maths. "The lessons are practical and logical. I don't lose concentration. I remember concepts more
clearly," he says.
Ramnandan's peer in Singapore, Deborah Chan, also says HeyMath lessons have helped her in a more rounded understanding of
maths. "The step-by-step working shown in the lessons has helped me to understand the various topics," says the student of the city's
Methodist Girls School.
Ramnandan and Chan are not the only students who say learning maths has become fun thanks to HeyMath's interactive lessons.
Today, the company sends out its lessons to more than 60 schools all over the world. The company charges each student about $100 a
year for its lessons. In India, it offers schools its lessons at 600 rupees ($13) a year.
HeyMath, which is fast becoming the maths back office and tuitions provider of the world, has earned praise from far and wide. The
company has received some 2,500 inquiries from public schools in the US. The department of education in Massachusetts has
included HeyMath as an approved learning resource.
Six years ago, two young Indians - Harsh Rajan and Nirmala Sankaran - quit their jobs managing cash and derivatives with Credit
Suisse and Citibank in London to return home and start up the company. They had found that many students were getting put off by
conventional ways of learning maths. "We were seeing a lot of children tuning out of maths in Britain, finding it dull and boring,"
says Mr Rajan. "So we thought - why don't they make the lessons interesting enough for children? The fact is that if you cannot
connect with maths by grade five or six, the aversion to the subject begins and keeps hardening."
In partnership with the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, the two began devising lessons for students and
teachers alike. "On the one hand, children are getting put off by maths. On the other, there is a massive shortage of good maths
teachers. So we tried to address both with HeyMath," says Mr Rajan.
Maths teacher Durga Chandrashekhar says teaching the subject has become easier with HeyMath. Sumedha Biswas, a student, who
takes HeyMath lessons at home, says she used to hate learning maths. "HeyMath improved my practice. The visual impact is quite
amazing. It helps mostly in geometry. When you see things happening in front of you on a screen, you understand them better. Maths
just springs to life".
India still has a long way to go to equip its schools and the majority of its students with useful online tools like HeyMath. But
students around the world are already beginning to see how maths can be fun.

9) According to both SK Ramnandan and Deborah Chan:

A) HeyMath has made mathematics the most interesting subject for them.
B) They are the two students who have enjoyed HeyMath lessons the most.
C) HeyMath has helped them to understand various mathematical concepts.
D) They have been able to maintain their concentration with HeyMath.

10) Harsh Rajan and Nirmala Sankaran started HeyMath because:

A) They believed conventional methods of teaching made math dull.

B) They knew that only unconventional teaching methods would help.
C) They wanted to do something unconventional in their careers.
D) They believed conventional methods of teaching had its good points.

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Section 2 - Analytical Ability

No. Of Questions: 10
Duration in Minutes: 10
1) The combined membership of the Lions Club and the Rotary Club in Mangalore is 560. If the Lions Club has 360 members and 200
members are common to both clubs, then what is the number of members of the Rotary Club?

A) 400 B) 200 C) 160 D) 240

2) A restaurant has a bar and a separate section for teetotallers. Smokers can visit the bar but not the area for teetotallers. On a
particular day, some drinkers, smokers and teetotallers visit the restaurant. Out of the 2700 guests present, 1600 were drinkers, 1250
were smokers, 1100 were teetotallers and 750 were only smokers and drinkers. Only 550 were teetotallers and 50 were all the three. Find
the number of persons who were NOT present.

A) 100 B) 350 C) 400 D) 450

3) In a city, people read the Papers A, B and C. Given that the people read at least one of the three papers, find out the number of
people who read only papers B and C by considering the following data:

70% of the people read A

45% of the people read B
40% of the people read C
20% of the people read only Paper B
People who read both Papers A and B is 10%
People who read both the Papers A and C is 20%

A) 45% B) 35% C) 25% D) 15%

Directions for Questions 4-5:

In the following questions mark:

1, if the question can be answered with the help of statement I alone.

2, if the question can be answered with the help of statement II alone.
3, if the question can be answered with the help of both I and II.
4, if none of the above options is true.

4) What is the time difference between New York and London?

Statement I: The departure time at New York is exactly 9.00 a.m. local time, and the arrival time at London is on the same day at 10
a.m., local time.
Statement II: The flight time is five hours.

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

5) Given that a and b are non-negative numbers, is (a + b) > ab?

Statement I: a = b
Statement II: (a + b) > (a2 + b2)

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

6) A shopkeeper sells 12 sweets for a rupee. At this price, he suffers a loss of 10%. How many sweets must he sell for a rupee so that he
gains 20% in the deal?

A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) 9

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Directions for Questions 7:

In the following questions, three figures are given, that follow a certain sequence or pattern. Find the next figure in the sequence from
the answer choices provided below.

7)

A) A B) B C) C D) D

Directions for Questions 8-9:

Choose the image, which completes the pattern.

8)

A) B) C) D)

9)

A) B) C) D)

10) Complete the series:

3, 5, 11, 21, ___

A) 36 B) 35 C) 34 D) 33

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Section 3 - Attention to Detail

No. Of Questions: 10
Duration in Minutes: 10
Directions for Questions 1-3:

Follow the directions given below to answer the questions that follow.

Your answer for each question below would be:

A, if ALL THREE items given in the question are exactly ALIKE.

B, if only the FIRST and SECOND items are exactly ALIKE.
C, if only the FIRST and THIRD items are exactly ALIKE.
D, if None of the above.

1) A0067DF667016 A0067DF667016 A0067DF667106

A) A B) B C) C D) D

2) Janmasthami Janmasthhami Jamnasthami

A) A B) B C) C D) D

3) 7227.4696827 7227.4696827 7227.4695827

A) A B) B C) C D) D

4) If * stands for +, / stands for *, + stands for - and - stands for /, then 27/5*8+11-7=?

A) 141.4 B) 38.4 C) 16.4 D) 36.1

5) If * stands for -, / stands for +, + stands for / and - stands for *, then which of the following is TRUE?

A) 8/12*4+20-8 = 18.4 B) 12*8/4+20-8 = -5.6 C) 8*4/12+8-8 = -12.2 D) 8*8/4+20-8 = -4

Directions for Questions 6-8:

For a rural medical center, the Medical Board needs to select Medical Officers based on the following conditions. The candidate must:

i. Possess an MBA degree from a recognized university with minimum 50% marks
ii. Be willing to execute a bond of 3 years of service
iii. Be well versed with the local language of the concerned region
iv. Have a minimum 4 years of experience of full time practice in rural areas

However, if a candidate satisfies all other conditions except:

a. Condition (i), but has 45% marks in MBBS and has done MS or MD with minimum 50%, the candidate must be referred to
the Chief Medical Officer
b. Condition (ii), but can deposit Rs.25000 as security money, the candidate must be referred to the Chairman of the Medical
Board
c. Condition (iii), but has knowledge of Hindi, the candidate must be referred to the Secretary of the Medical Board
d. Condition (iv), but has 4 years of full time experience in urban or semi urban areas and has spent at least 5 years in a rural
area any time during his life, the
candidate must be referred to the Directors of the Medical Board.

6) Samarth knows the local language well as he is the native of the region. He decided to work in his home town after completing
MBBS and MS. He has been a first division holder in all his examinations. He is willing to execute a bond for 3 years as he plans to
migrate to the USA after 6 more years in India. He should be:

A) Referred to the CMO B) Referred to the Chairman C) Not be selected D) Data is inadequate

7) Chander was born and has had his education in a metropolitan city. He secured a 48% in MBBS and 58% in MD. Though he has
worked in a rural hospital in the region for 5 years, he is not able to communicate in the local language. He only has working
knowledge of Hindi and his mother tongue. He is willing to execute a bond for 3 years. He should be:

A) Selected B) Referred to the CMO C) Data is inadequate D) Referred to the Secretary

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8) Manish has been running a dispensary in a village for the past 5 years. He is well versed with the local language. He scored 47%
marks in MBBS and 65% marks in MD. He has saved enough money to start a mobile clinic for rural areas. As he dreams of starting
his own hospital in the near future, he is unwilling to execute a bond of more than 2 years of service.

A) Selected B) Referred to the CMO C) Be Rejected D) Refered to the Secretary

Directions for Questions 9-10:

An MNC planning to expand its operations has advertised for recruiting computer operators. Applicants must fulfill
the following conditions for selection.

i. Must be a graduate with a degree/ diploma in desktop publishing.

ii. Must not be more than 29 yrs and less than 25 yrs as on 1 August 2001.
iii. Expected salary must not be more than Rs.3000 per month.
iv. Have working knowledge of at least four of the required computer programs.

However, if a candidate:
a. Is more than 29 yrs, but is ready to accept a salary below Rs.2500, the candidate must be referred to the Chairman of
the company.
b. Knows only two programs but is willing to learn the others within two months, the candidate must be referred to the
Managing Director of the company.
c. Knows more than four computer programs and is expecting more than Rs.3000 as salary, the candidate must be
referred to the Director (Personnel).

9) Priya was born on 19 July 1972 and is a graduate. She has a good knowledge of all the four computer programs and holds a diploma
in DTP. She expects a salary of Rs.2200 per month.

A) She should be selected B) She should be rejected

C) She should be referred to the Chairman D) She should be referred to the Managing Director.

10) Sujoy has completed his post graduation and the DTP diploma. He knows more than four programs and expects a salary of
Rs.3800 per month. He was born on 20 July 1974.

A) He should be selected B) He should be referred to the Chairman.

C) He should be referred to the Managing Director D) He should be referred to the Director (Personnel).

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Section 4 - Programming Fundamentals

No. Of Questions: 10
Duration in Minutes: 10
1) Pseudo-code contains:

A) Iterative statements B) Conditional statements C) Sequential statements D) All the options

Study the following scenario:

A class has a combination of girls and boys as students. The age of girls is less than 21 years and the age of boys is greater than 20
years. Use the following rules to assign the grades to students based upon the marks obtained by them:
GRADE Obtained MARKS
A Greater than 69%
B Greater than 59 AND Less than 70%
C Greater than 34 AND Less than 60%
D Less than 35
Only students who got marks greater than 34% are eligible for the next semester. Assume that the class strength is 100.

2) Which of the following is the CORRECT Algorithm, which calculates the number of eligible and non-eligible students separately?
A) STEP 1: START
STEP 2: SET stud_num equals to 1 and result_elig equals to and result_notelig equals 0
STEP 3: IF stud_number is less than 101 THEN goto STEP 4 goto STEP 8
STEP 4: IF marks of student stud_num is less than 35% THEN goto STEP otherwise goto STEP 6
STEP 5: INCREMENT result_notelig by 1 goto step 7
STEP 6: INCREMENT result_elig by 1
STEP 7: INCREMENT stud_num by 1 goto STEP 3
STEP 8: PRINT result_elig number of students are eligibled
STEP 9: PRINT result_notelig number of students are not eligibled

B) STEP 1: START
STEP 2: SET stud_num equals to 1 and result_elig equals to 0 and result_notelig equals 0
STEP 3: IF stud_number is less than 101 THEN goto STEP 4 goto STEP 8
STEP 4: IF marks of student stud_num is less than 35% THEN goto STEP 5 otherwise goto STEP 6
STEP 5: INCREMENT result_notelig by 1 goto step 8
STEP 6: INCREMENT result_elig by 1
STEP 7: INCREMENT stud_num by 1 goto STEP 4
STEP 8: PRINT result_elig number of students are eligibled
STEP 9: PRINT result_notelig number of students are not eligibled
STEP 10: END

C) STEP 1: START
STEP 2: SET stud_num equals to 1 and result_elig equals to and result_notelig equals 0
STEP 3: IF stud_number is less than 101 THEN goto STEP 4 otherwise goto STEP 8
STEP 4: IF marks of student stud_num is less than 35% THEN goto STEP 5 otherwise goto STEP 6
STEP 5: INCREMENT result_notelig by 1 goto step 7
STEP 6: INCREMENT result_elig by 1
STEP 7: INCREMENT stud_num by 1
STEP 8: PRINT result_elig number of students are eligibled
STEP 9: PRINT result_notelig number of students are not eligibled
STEP 10: END

D) STEP 1: START
STEP 2: SET stud_num equals to 1 and result_elig equals to 0 and result_notelig equals 0
STEP 3: IF stud_number is less than 101 THEN goto STEP 4 otherwise goto STEP 7
STEP 4: IF marks of student stud_num is less than 35% THEN goto STEP 4 otherwise goto STEP 8
STEP 5: INCREMENT result_notelig by 1 goto step 7
STEP 6: INCREMENT result_elig by 1
STEP 7: INCREMENT stud_num by 1 goto STEP 3
STEP 8: PRINT result_elig number of students are eligibled
STEP 9: PRINT result_notelig number of students are not eligibled
STEP 10: END

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Directions for Questions 3-4:

Consider the example of a stack:

Push (number) performs the insertion of element to the top, Pop (Number) means extracting the top element from the stack.

Now consider the following operations:

Push(10)
Push(12)
Push(15

Now the content of the stack is:

Top-> 15
12
bottomà 10
Pop( )

Now the content of the stack is:

Top-> 12
Bottom->10

Using the above scenario answer the following.

3) What is the content of the stack after executing the following operations?

Push(20);
Push(15);
Pop( )
Push(35)

A) 35
15
B) 15
20
35
C) 35
20
15
D) 35
20

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4) The initial stack content is:

20
10
5
6

Now perform the operation:

Pop()
Push(20)
Pop()
Push(5)

What is the content of stack?

A) 5
10
5
6
B) 10
5
5
6
C) 5
10
6
5
D) 10
5
6
5

5) How many times will the following loop run?

INT COUNT=0;
WHILE(TRUE)
{
INCREMENT COUNT BY 1;
If(COUNT IS GREATER THAN 6)
BREAK THE IF;
}

A) 5 B) 6 C) 1 D) 2

6) _________ instructs the system to display the key being pressed.

A) Display/#Pressed B) #Pressed/Display C) EnterPressed/Validate D) Cancel Pressed/Clear

7) In order to go from the ‘Start’ state to the ‘NextNumber’ state:

A) A key must be pressed and the first digit must be greater than 0
B) A key must be pressed and the first digit must be greater than 1
C) A key must be pressed.
D) The first digit must be greater than 0

8) Name the system state movement if the entered password is WRONG?

A) NextNumber->Retry B) NextNumber->Validate C) Validate->Retry D) Start->NextNumber

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9)

With reference to the flowchart above, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) Gearing up for production does not depend on the manufacturability of the product.
B) Starting production depends on the readiness for production and an available marketing plan
C) A project can be cancelled irrespective of the presence of a prototype or a suitable market.
D) One can simply create the product and start marketing it

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10) There is a gear system as depicted below. Circumference of gear one, two and three are 10mm, 17mm and 23mm respectively.
Rotation speed of gear one is 1mm/sec. If you know the current positions of pointers in all the three gear, to predict the future
position of the pointers, you approach will be:

A) Create a mathematical formula considering the circumference and rotational speed of the associate gears to predict the future positions of the
pointers.
B) Write a program with three-nested FOR LOOP to simulate the three gears.
C) Information is insufficient to predict the future positions.
D) None of the options

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Section 5 - Learning Ability (Passage)

Duration in Minutes: 15
Directions for Questions 1-5:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

DATA TYPES AND TABLE STRUCTURES

Databases and database technology have a major impact on the growing use of computers.
It is fair to say that databases will play a critical role in almost all areas of computer
usage, including business, engineering, medicine, law, education and library science to
name a few. A database is a collection of related data. By data, we mean known facts that
can be recorded and that have implicit meaning. For example consider the names, telephone
numbers, and addresses of the people you know.

Generally data in databases is contained in objects called tables. Each table represents some type
of object meaningful to the users. For example, in a school database you would expect to find tables
such as a class table, an instructor table, and a student table.

The tables have two main components:

* Columns
Each column represents some attribute of the object modeled by the table, such as a Students table
having columns for RollNo, Name and Course
* Rows
Each row represents an individual occurrence of the object modeled by the table. For example, the
Students table would have one row for each student studying in the School/College.

Because each column represents one attribute of an object, the data in each occurrence of the column
is similar. One of the properties of a column is called its data type, which defines the type of data the
column can hold. A Database supports several base data types like int, char,date etc.
int can hold integers (ex: 5000) , char can hold characters (ex: “Hello”), date can hold date values
(ex: 01-Jan-1980) and so on.

Columns can either accept or reject NULL values. NULL is a special value in databases which represents
the concept of an unknown value. NULL is not the same as a blank character or 0. Blank is actually a valid character, and zero is a
valid number, while NULL just represents the idea that we do not know what the
value is. NULL is also different from a zero length string. If a column definition contains the NOT NULL clause,
you cannot insert rows having the value NULL for that row. If the column definition has just the NULL keyword,
it accepts NULL values.

The Database Server stores the data defining the configuration of the server and all its tables in a special set of tables known as system
tables. Users should not query or update system tables directly. Only the Database Server should reference the system tables in
response to administration commands issued by users.

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Section 5 - Learning Ability (Questions)

No. of Questions: 5
Duration in Minutes: 5

1) Data in Databases are usually stored in the form of _________________

A) Objects B) Text C) Numbers D) Tables

2) Given the following table, can you identify the row and column number respectively pertaining to the student who has secured the
highest percentage of marks.

A) 5th row, 5th column B) 6th row, 5th column C) 3th row, 5th column D) 5rd row, 3rd column

3) Given a record containing the following data: Rajesh,Kumar,10-Jun-2002,Science,5000 <br>how many different data types exist in
the following record and what are they?

A) 2, 3 char datatypes, 2 integer datatypes B) 3, 1 char datatype, 1 integer datatype, 1 date datatype
C) 3, 2 char datatypes,1 integer datatype, 1 date datatype D) 3, 3 char datatypes,1 integer datatype, 1 date datatype

4) From the statements given below, identify the one which best describes NULL

A) Columns that are defined as NULL contain no data

B) You can enter data of any datatype into a NULL column
C) Saying that a column has a NULL value is as good as saying that the column<br>contains a zero length string
D) NULL is a special value in a database which can be used to represent an unknown value

5) Identify the statement(s) that is/are w.r.t. a System Table (Choose all that apply)

A) The configuration details of the Server are stored in a special set of tables known as System Tables.
B) The users can directly query these tables, but cannot update it directly
C) The only way by which the user can access these tables is through administration commands
D) All the other options listed for this question

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Written English Test – Instruction Sheet

No. of Questions: 1
Duration in Minutes: 5

 The duration of this exercise is 5 minutes.

 Write the e-mail in your own words. The email should be between 75-100 words. An e-mail
less than 50 words & more than 125 words will not be evaluated.
 Your email will be evaluated on four parameters: Grammar, Content, Vocabulary, Spelling &
Punctuation.
 Do not use short-forms (u, 2, gr8, comm.). Only accepted abbreviations are allowed (etc,
asap, e.g., i.e.).
 Do not write in all upper case (“HI, I AM AN EXECUTIVE FROM ABC.”) or all lower case
(“this is to inform you that i will do it.”). Appropriate case structure is important.
 Proper punctuation (full-stops, commas) is important.
 Spell correctly. Any deviation from the correct spelling is an error.
 Respond to the scenario using the details/information provided.
 Digression from the main points will be rated down.

ALL THE BEST!!!

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Name: ____________________ Candidate ID No. ______________

Company: Reader's Digest is the most widely read English periodical. The magazine has 60,000 subscribers. It is a
multi-lingual magazine available in 8 different languages and is one of the most popular general magazines covering a
wide-range of articles - both facts and fiction.

Scenario: It is December - the time of the year when the subscriptions have to be renewed. The magazine has received
subscription renewal requests from only 45,000 readers.

Task: You are the Manager of Circulations and Subscriptions at Reader's Digest. Write an e-mail to the customers who
have stopped subscribing, requesting them to renew their subscription to Reader's Digest.

Grammar Content Vocabulary Spelling & Status Evaluator

Punctuation

/6 /6 /6 /6 S/R

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