Model Questions – MBA / PGPM

Direction :- (1 – 3):- Study the following table and answer the questions given below it.

Average marks of students in Five Subjects in Class X in a school

History Geography Mathematics Science English

Year
(out of 200) (out of 100) (out of 200) (out of 200) (out of 150)
1984 88 46 94 98 60
1985 90 35 88 120 90
1986 100 45 112 102 66
1987 120 38 96 112 45
1988 124 54 80 96 57
1989 130 62 98 110 75

1) The average percentage marks of which of the following pairs of subjects was the
same in 1985?

a) Science / English b) English / Math c) Science / Geogra d) None

2) What was the approximate percentage increase in the average marks in Geography
from 1985 to 1986?

a) 10 b) 20 c)30 d)40

3) In which year the average marks for each subjects has increased over the previous
year?

a) 1986 b)1988 c) 1989 d) 1985

DIRECTIONS for Questions 4 to 8: Study the following table and answer the questions given
below it:-

Production of different types of scooters in a company (Figures in ‘000)

Year A B C D E
1992 180 60 84 100 76
1993 210 90 32 80 48
1994 135 30 44 95 85
1995 190 85 69 125 115
1996 260 95 120 80 120
1997 240 140 161 90 185

4) In which of the given years was the production of B type scooter close to its average
production over given years?
a) 1995 b) 1994 c) 1993 d) 1992

5) In which year the production of D type scooters was maximum?

a) 1993 b) 1996 c) 1995 d) 1997
6) What was the approximate percentage of production of A type scooter in 1995 to its
total production over the years?
a) 20 b) 15 c) 23 d) 40

7) In which of the following pairs of years was the total production of E type scooter two
lakhs?
a) 1993 & 1995 b) 1995 &1997 c) 1994 & 1992 d) None

8) In which of the given years the total production of all types of scooters was
minimum?
a) 1994 b) 1996 c) 1997 d) 1995

DIRECTIONS for Questions 9 to 12: The total adults in a city is 60000. The various
sections of them are indicated below in the circle below:-

unemployed
5%
self employed
5%
corporate sector public sector
15% public sector private sector
45% corporate sector
self employed
unemployed
private sector
30%

9) The number of adults employed in the corporate sector is

a) 32400 b) 19000 c) 27000 d) 9000

10) The number of persons employed in both the public sector and the private sector is
a) 36000 b) 45000 c) 27000 d) 16200

11) The number of unemployed persons is

a) 1800 b) 12000 c) 1200 d) 3000

12) What percentage of the employed persons is self – employed?

a) 5 5/9 b)19 c) 20 d) 5

Directions ( 13 – 15) :- Study the graph care fully and answer the questions given below it
 Comparative performance of Four
TV manufacturing Companies

30
25
20
in crores sales
15 expenditure
10 share capital
5
0
A B C D

13) Which company has the lowest sales per rupee of share capital?
a) B b) C c) D d) A

14) Which company has the lowest profit per rupee of share capital?
a) A b) D c) B d) C

15) Which company has the highest expenditure per rupee of profit?
a) A b) B c) C d) D

Direction ( 16 – 20) :- Study the graph carefully and answer the questions given below it:-

Rupee comes from ( All in paisa)

non debt capital

corporation tax,
receipts, 7
7
other taxes, 2
internal
borrowing , 20
excise, 22

external
borrowing, 3
borrowing from
RBI, 2
customs, 19
Non tax revenue,
12
income tax , 6

16) What is the ratio of central angle of total receipts to that of total borrowings?
a) 333 : 100 b) 3 : 1 c) 7 : 2 d) 4 : 11

17) If the external borrowings amount to Rs 1000 crore, then the corporation tax will be
a) 429 crore b) 2013 crore c) 1491 crore d) 2333 crore
18) The receipts from Excise as a percentage of total receipts are
a) 22 b) 17 c) 29 d) 31

19) If the difference between customs and non-tax revenue is Rs 490 crore then the total
borrowings are
a) 1750 crore b) 1610 crore c) 2500 crore 1500crore

20) If the receipts from corporation tax are Rs 23100 crore, then the total receipts are
a) 10500 crore b) 254100 crore c) 30000 crore d) none

Directions (21- 40):- Read the questions and answer them

21) In 1987, the enrolment in a school was 1,500. Next year it increased by 10%. What
was the enrolment in 1988?

a) 1700 b) 1850 c) 1650 d) 1750

22) The number 0.05 is what percentage of 20?

a) 1.5 b) 0.025 c) 0.25 d) 2.5

23) In an election, one of the two candidates got 30% of the total votes polled, but he lost
by 210 votes. What was the total number of votes polled?

a) 525 b) 700 c) 610 d) 300

24) The ratio of number of males to number of females in a club is 7: 4. If there are 84
males in the club, the total number of members in the club are:

a) 126 b) 132 c) 136 d) 148

25) The fourth proportional to 5 , 6 and 150 is :

a) 30 b) 125 c) 180 d) 120

26) Two numbers are in the ratio of 3:5. If 9 be subtracted from each, they are in the ratio
of 12: 23. The first number is

a) 27 b)33 c)55 d)49

27) A sum of money is to be divided among A, B and C in the ratio 2: 3: 7. If the total
share of A and B together is Rs 1,500 less than C, what is A’s share in it?
a) Rs 1,000 b) Rs 1,500 c) Rs 2,000 d) None of these

28) Nirmal and Kapil started a business investing Rs 9,000 and Rs 12,000 respectively.
After 6 months Kapil withdrew half of is investment. If after a year, the total profit
was Rs 4,600, what was Kapil’s share in it?
a) 2,000 b) Rs 2,600 c) Rs 1,960 d) Rs 2,300
29) A man sells his table clock for Rs 144. If his percentage of profit is equal to his cost
price, then the cost price of the watch is:
a) Rs 90 b) Rs 85 c) Rs 80 d) 75

30) Ben purchased 125 stools at the rate of Rs 120 per stool. The transport expenditure
was @ Rs 10 for 5 stools. He paid an octroi @ Rs 2 per stool and coolie charges were
Rs 250. What should be the selling price of each stool, if he wants profit of 10%?
a) Rs 125 b) Rs 145 c ) Rs 150 d) None of these

31) A shop keeper sells cashew nut at the rate of Rs 114 kg and incurs a loss of 5%. What
will happen when he sells it at the rate of Rs 126 per kg?
a) 15% gain b) 15% loss c) 5% gain d) 10% gain

32) A car takes 3 hours to cover a distance of 180 km. If the distance is to be covered in 2
1\2 hours, what should be the speed of the car?
a) 90 b) 60 c) 36 d) 72

33) A train runs at 45 km/h. How far does it go in 6 seconds?

a) 72 metres b) 60 metres c) 75 metres d) 70 metres

34) A motor cyclist travels for 10 hours, the first half at 21 km/h and the other half at 24
km/h. Find the distance traveled.
a) 225 km b) 224 km c) 200 km d) 324 km

35) In how many ways can a team of 11 be chosen from 14 cricket players if two of them
can only be wicket – keepers?
a) 440 b) 728 c) 360 d) 132

36) Out of 5 boys and 2 girls, a committee of 3 is to be found. In how many ways can it
be formed if at least one girl is to be included?
a) 20 b) 25 c) 32 d) 60

37) How many triangles can be drawn through points A, B, C, D, E, F and G on a circle?
a) 30 b) 42 c) 35 d) 63

38) 39798 + 3798 + 378 =?

a) 49532 b) 43984 c) 43974 d) 43576

39) 1080 divided by 12 divided by 10 =

a) 900 b) 90 c) 120 d) None of these

40) The ratio of number of males to number of females in club is 7:4. If there are 84
males in the club, the total numbers of members in the club are

a) 126 b) 132 c) 136 d) 148

Questions 41-42 are based on the following passage.

If highways were restricted to cars and only those truck with capacity of less than 8
tons, most the truck traffic would be forced to run outside highway. Such a reduction
in the amount of truck traffic would reduce the risk of collision in highway.
41) The conclusion draw in the first sentence depends on which of the following
assumptions?
a) The roads outside highway would be as convenient as highway for most drivers of
truck.
b) Most roads outside highways are not ready to handle truck traffic.
c) Most trucks that are currently running in highway have a capacity of more than 8
tons.
d) Cars are at greater risk of becoming involved in collisions than are trucks.

42) Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn in the
second sentence?
a) Cars with a capacity of more than 8 tons are already excluded outside highways.
b) Highways are experiencing overcrowded traffic primarily because of sharp
increases in car traffic.
c) Many drivers of trucks would rather buy truck with a capacity of less than 8 tons
than be excluded from highways.
d) Trucks that have a capacity of more than 8 tons cause a disproportionately large
number of collisions in highways.

Direction for questions 43 – 55:- Read the statement carefully and choose the best
assertions.

43) The price of purchasing a car in Country Q is 120 percent less than the price of
purchasing a car in Country Y. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are
added, it is still cheaper for a buyer to import car from Country Q to Country Y than
to buy car in Country Y.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

a) Gasoline prices in Country Q are 120 percent below those in Country Y.

Importing cars from Country Q to Country Y will eliminate 120 percent of the sales
of cars in Country Y.
b) The tariff on a car imported from Country Q to Country Y is less than 120 percent
of the price of a car in Country Y.
c) The fee for transporting a car from Country Q to Country Y is more than 120
percent of the price of a car in Country Q.
d) It takes 120 percent less time to transport a car in Country Q than it does in
Country Y.

44) In 1992, 5 percent of every dollar paid in tax went to support the unemployed citizens.
In 1998, 8 percent of every dollar paid in tax went to such funds, although that
unemployment rate has decreased in 1998 than in 1992.
Each of the following, if true, could explain the simultaneous increase in percent of
every dollar paid in tax to support the unemployed citizens and decrease in the
number of unemployment rate EXCEPT:

a) On average, each unemployed citizen received more money in 1998 than 1992.
b) On average, people paid less tax in 1998 than in 1992.
c) The individuals had paid more tax than did enterprises during this period.
d) Income before tax has significantly decreased since 1992.
45) Something must be done to stop spam. In early days, people seldom received
unsolicited email advertisement; but now that numerous bulk email software and
email address finders are developed to collect email address all around the world.
Advertisers use email addresses to market their products and even sell such email lists
to other advertisers. As a result, almost everyone ever get junk email, and sometime
several and even tens of annoying emails a day. So, relevant anti-spam regulations
should be framed to stop unsolicited advertising.
The two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

a) Background that the argument depends on and conclusion that can be drawn from
the argument.
b) Part of evidence that the argument includes, and inference that can be drawn from
this passage.
c) Pre-evidence that the argument depends on and part of evidence that supports the
conclusion.
d) Pre-evidence that argument includes and a method that helps to supports that
conclusion.

46) In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio advertising will get
maximum name recognition. The statement above logically conveys which of the
following?

a) Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los

Angeles.
b) Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher
percentage of votes cast in the city.
c) Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the
voting population of Los Angeles.
d) For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels
other than radio advertising.

47) The rate of violent crime in this state is up 30 percent from last year. The fault lies
entirely in our court system: Recently our judges' sentences have been so lenient that
criminals can now do almost anything without fear of a long prison term.
The argument above would be weakened if it were true that

a) 85 percent of the other states in the nation have lower crime rates than does this
state.
b) White collar crime in this state has also increased by over 25 percent in the last
year.
c) 35 percent of the police in this state have been laid off in the last year due to budget
cuts.
d) Polls show that 65 percent of the population in this state opposes capital
punishment.

48) The increase in the number of newspaper articles exposed as fabrications serves to
bolster the contention that publishers are more interested in boosting circulation than
in printing the truth. Even minor publications have staffs to check such obvious fraud.
The argument above assumes that

a) Newspaper stories exposed as fabrications are a recent phenomenon.

b) Everything a newspaper prints must be factually verifiable.
 c) Fact checking is more comprehensive for minor publications than for major ones.
d) The publishers of newspapers are the people who decide what to print in their
newspapers.

49) Time and again it has been shown that students who attend colleges with low
faculty/student ratios get the most well-rounded education. As a result, when my
children are ready to attend college, I'll be sure they attend a school with a very small
student population.
Which of the following, if true, identifies the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?

a) A low faculty/student ratio is the effect of a well-rounded education, not its source.
b) Intelligence should be considered the result of childhood environment, not
advanced education.
c) A very small student population does not by itself; ensure a low faculty/student
ratio.
d) Parental desires and preferences rarely determine a child's choice of a college or
university.

50) All German philosophers, except for Marx, are idealists.

From which of the following can the statement above be most properly inferred?

a) Except for Marx, if someone is an idealist philosopher, then he or she is German.

b) Marx is the only non-German philosopher who is an idealist.
c) If a German is an idealist, then he or she is a philosopher, as long as he or she is not
Marx.
d) Aside from the philosopher Marx, if someone is a German, then he or she is an
idealist.

51) Millions of identical copies of a plant can be produced using new tissue-culture and
cloning techniques.
If plant propagation by such methods in laboratories proves economical, each of the
following, if true, represents a benefit of the new techniques to farmers EXCEPT:

a) The techniques allow the development of superior strains to take place more
rapidly, requiring fewer generations of plants grown to maturity.
b) It is less difficult to care for plants that will grow at rates that do not vary widely.
c) Plant diseases and pests, once they take hold, spread more rapidly among
genetically uniform plants than among those with genetic variations.
d) Mechanical harvesting of crops is less difficult if plants are more uniform in size.

52) Which of the following best completes the passage below? Sales campaigns aimed at
the faltering personal computer market have strongly emphasized ease of use, called
user-friendliness. This emphasis is oddly premature and irrelevant in the eyes of most
potential buyers, who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether

a) User-friendliness also implies that owners can service their own computers
b) Personal computers cost more the more user-friendly they are
c) Currently available models are user-friendly enough to suit them
d) They have enough sensible uses for a personal computer to justify the expense of
buying one
53) A weapons-smuggling incident recently took place in country Y. We all know that Y
is a closed society. So Y's government must have known about the weapons.
Which of the following is an assumption that would make the conclusion above
logically correct?

a) If a country is a closed society, its government has knowledge about everything

that occurs in the country.
b) If a government claims that it knew nothing about a particular weapons-smuggling
incident, it must have known everything about it.
c) If a government does not permit weapons to enter a country, it is a closed society.
d) If a country is a closed society, its government has a large contingent of armed
guards patrolling its borders.

54) Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will not reduce the number of
young people who smoke. They know that cigarettes exist and they know how to get
them. They do not need the advertisements to supply that information.
The above argument would be most weakened if which of the following were true?

a) Seeing or hearing an advertisement for a product tends to increase people's desire

for that product.
b) Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will cause an increase in
advertisements in places where cigarettes are sold.
c) Advertisements in the mass media have been an exceedingly large part of the
expenditures of the tobacco companies.
d) Those who oppose cigarette use have advertised against it in the mass media ever
since cigarettes were found to be harmful.

55) People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event's occurrence according to its
salience; that is, according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.
By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over
stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.
It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of
the following is most probably also true?

a) The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and
fails to respect the rights of suspects.
b) The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the
coverage of local events.
c) Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in
their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.
d) None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so
salient in people's minds as their own personal experiences.

Questions 56 - 57 are based on the following.

The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers
there are who advertise their services and the lawyers who advertise a specific service
usually charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if
the state removes any of its current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements
that do not specify fee arrangements, overall consumer legal costs will be lower than
if the state retains its current restrictions.
56) If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
a) Some lawyers who now advertise will charge more for specific services if they do
not have to specify fee arrangements in the advertisements.
b) More consumers will use legal services if there are fewer restrictions on the
advertising of legal services.
c) If the restriction against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements is
removed, more lawyers will advertise their services.
d) If more lawyers advertise lower prices for specific services, some lawyers who do
not advertise will also charge less than they currently charge for those services.

57) Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument
concerning overall consumer legal costs?

a) The state has recently removed some other restrictions that had limited the
advertising of legal services.
b) Most lawyers who advertise specific services do not lower their fees for those
services when they begin to advertise.
c) Lawyers who do not advertise generally provide legal services of the same quality
as those provided by lawyers who do advertise.
d) Most lawyers who now specify fee arrangements in their advertisements would
continue to do so even if the specification were not required.
 Direction for questions 58 – 60:- Read the statement carefully and choose the best
assertions.

58) Opponents of laws that require automobile drivers and passengers to wear seat belts
argue that in a free society people has the right to take risks as long as the people do
not harm others as a result of taking the risks. As a result, they conclude that it should
be each person's decision whether or not to wear a seat belt.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion drawn above?

a) Many new cars are built with seat belts that automatically fasten when someone sits
in the front seat.
b) Automobile insurance rates for all automobile owners are higher because of the
need to pay for the increased injuries or deaths of people not wearing seat belts.
c) Passengers in airplanes are required to wear seat belts during takeoffs and landings.
d) The rate of automobile fatalities in states that do not have mandatory seat-belt laws
is greater than the rate of fatalities in states that do have such laws.

59) The cost of producing radios in Country Q is ten percent less than the cost of
producing radios in Country Y. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are
added, it is still cheaper for a company to import radios from Country Q to Country Y
than to produce radios in Country Y.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

a) Labor costs in Country Q are ten percent below those in Country Y.

b) Importing radios from Country Q to Country Y will eliminate ten percent of the
manufacturing jobs in Country Y.
c) The tariff on a radio imported from Country Q to Country Y is less than ten percent
of the cost of manufacturing the radio in Country Y.
d) The fee for transporting a radio from Country Q to Country Y is more than ten
percent of the cost of manufacturing the radio in Country Q.

60) During the Second World War, about 375,000 civilians died in the United States and
about 408,000 members of the United States armed forces died overseas. On the basis
of those figures, it can be concluded that it was not much more dangerous to be
overseas in the armed forces during the Second World War than it was to stay at home
as a civilian.
Which of the following would reveal most clearly the absurdity of the conclusion
drawn above?

a) Counting deaths among members of the armed forces who served in the United
States in addition to deaths among members of the armed forces serving overseas
b) Expressing the difference between the numbers of deaths among civilians and
members of the armed forces as a percentage of the total number of deaths
c) Separating deaths caused by accidents during service in the armed forces from
deaths caused by combat injuries
d) Comparing death rates per thousand members of each group rather than comparing
total numbers of deaths

Directions for Questions 61 to 63: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.

61) A. Last Sunday, Archana had nothing to do.

 B. After waking up, she lay on the bed thinking of what to do.
C. At 11o'clock she took shower and got ready.
D. She spent most of the day shopping.
a) B and C b) C c) A and B d) B, C, and D

62) A. It was a tough situation and Manasi was taking pains to make it better.
B. Slowly her efforts gave fruit and things started improving.
C. Everyone complemented her for her good work.
D. She was very happy and thanked everyone for their help.
a) A b) D c) B and C d) A and C

63) A. Harish told Raj to plead guilty.

B. Raj pleaded guilty of stealing money from the shop.
C. The court found Raj guilty of all the crimes he was charged with.
D. He was sentenced for three years in jail.
a) A and C b) B and D c) A, C, and D d) B, C, and D

Directions for Questions 64 to 66: Each statement has a part missing. Choose the best
option from the four options given below the statement to make up the missing part:

64) Archaeologists believe that the pieces of red-ware pottery excavated recently near
Bhavnagar and _____________shed light on a hitherto dark 600-year period in the
Harappan history of Gujarat.
a) Estimated with a reasonable certainty as being about 3400 years old,
b) Are estimated reasonably certain to be about 3400 years old
c) Estimated at about 3400 years old with reasonable certainty,
d) Estimated with reasonable certainty to be about 3400 years old,

65) Many people suggest _________________ and still others would like to convince
people not to buy pirated cassettes
a) To bring down audiocassette prices to reduce the incidence of music piracy, others
advocate strong legal action against the offenders,
b) Bringing down audiocassette prices to reduce the incidents of music piracy, others
are advocating strong legal action against offenders,
c) Bringing down audiocassette prices to reduce the incidence of music piracy, others
advocate strong legal action against offenders,
d) Audiocassette prices to be brought down to reduce incidence of music piracy,
others advocate that strong legal action must be taken against offenders,

66) The ancient Egyptians believed ______________so that when these objects were
magically reanimated through the correct rituals, they would be able to function
effectively.
a) That it was essential that things they portrayed must have every relevant feature
shown as clearly as possible
b) It was essential for things they portray to have had every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible,
c) It was essential that the things they portrayed had every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible,
d) That when they portrayed things, it should have every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible
 DIRECTIONS for Questions 67 to 69: In each question, the word at the top of the
table is used in four different ways, numbered a to d. Choose the option in which the
usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

67) FALLOUT
a) Nagasaki suffered from the fallout of nuclear radiation.
b) People believed that the political fallout of the scandal would be insignificant.
c) Who can predict the environmental fallout of the WTO agreements?
d) The headmaster could not understand the fallout of several of his good students at
the Public examination.

68) PASSING
a) She did not have passing marks in mathematics
b) The mad woman was cursing everybody passing her on the road.
c) At the birthday party all the children enjoyed a game of passing the parcel.
d) A passing taxi was stopped to rush the accident victim to the hospital

69) BOLT
a) The shopkeeper showed us a bolt of fine silk.
b) As he could not move, he made a bolt for the gate.
c) Could you please bolt the door?
d) The thief was arrested before he could bolt from the scene of the crime.

Directions for Question 70 to 71: The sentences given in each question, when
properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter.
Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct
a coherent paragraph.

70) A) In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as
Rome.
B) In June 1944 Germany's military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C) In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern
Europe had been completed.
D) The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E) The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
a) EDACB b) BEDAC c) BDECA d) CEDAB

71) A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.

B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House
does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
a) CAEDB b) DBAEC c) CEADB d) ECDBA

Direction for questions 72 to 75:- Read the paragraph given below and answer the
questions according to the paragraph.
Recently I spent several hours sitting under a tree in my garden with the social
anthropologist William Ury, a Harvard University professor who specializes in the art
of negotiation and wrote the bestselling book, getting to yes. He captivated me with
his theory that tribalism protects people from their fear of rapid change. He explained
that the pillars of tribalism that humans rely on for security would always counter any
significant cultural or social change. In this way, he said, change is never allowed to
happen too fast. Technology, for example, is a pillar of society. Ury believes that
every time technology moves in a new or radical direction, another pillar such as
religion or nationalism will grow stronger -in effect, the traditional and familiar will
assume greater importance to compensate for the new and untested. In this manner,
human tribes avoid rapid change that leaves people insecure and frightened.

But we have all heard that nothing is as permanent as change. Nothing is guaranteed.
Pithy expressions, to be sure, but no more than clichés. As Ury says, people don't live
that way from day-to-day. On the contrary, they actively seek certainty and stability.
They want to know they will be safe. Even so, we scare ourselves constantly with the
idea of change. An IBM CEO once said: 'we only re-structure for a good reason, and
if we haven't re-structured in a while, that's a good reason.' We are scared that
competitors, technology and the consumer will put us out of business -so we have to
change all the time just to stay alive. But if we asked our fathers and grandfathers,
would they have said that they lived in a period of little change? Structure may not
have changed much. It may just be the speed with which we do things.

Change is over-rated, anyway. Consider the automobile. It's an especially valuable

example, because the auto industry has spent tens of billions of dollars on research
and product development in the last 100 years. Henry Ford's first car had a metal
chassis with an internal combustion, gasoline-powered engine, four wheels with
rubber tyres, a foot operated clutch assembly and brake system, a steering wheel, and
four seats, and it could safely do 18 miles per hour. A hundred years and tens of
thousands of research hours later, we drive cars with a metal chassis with an internal
combustion, gasoline-powered engine, four wheels with rubber tyres, a foot operated
clutch assembly and brake system, a steering wheel, four seats -and the average speed
in London in 2001 was 17.5 miles per hour! That's not a hell of a lot of return for the
money. Ford evidently doesn't have much to teach us about change. The fact that
they're still manufacturing cars is not proof that
Ford Motor Co. is a sound organization, just proof that it takes very large companies
to make cars in great quantities -making for ~ almost impregnable entry barrier. Fifty
years after the development of the jet engine, planes are also little changed. They've
grown bigger, wider and can carry more people. But those are incremental, largely
cosmetic changes.

Taken together, this lack of real change has come to mean that in travel –whether
driving or flying -time and technology have not combined to make things much better.
The safety and design have of course accompanied the times and the new volume of
cars and flights, but nothing of any significance has changed in the basic assumptions
of the final product.
At the same time, moving around in cars or aero planes becomes less and less
efficient all the time. Not only has there been no great change, but also both forms of
transport have deteriorated as more people clamor to use them. The same is true for
telephones, which took over hundred years to become mobile or photographic film,
which also required an entire century to change.
 The only explanation for this is anthropological. Once established in calcified
organizations, humans do two things: sabotage changes that might render people
dispensable, and ensure industry-wide emulation. In the 1960s, German auto
companies developed plans to scrap the entire combustion engine for an electrical
design. (The same existed in the 1970s in Japan, and in the 1980s in France.) So for
40 years we might have been free of the wasteful and ludicrous dependence on fossil
fuels.

72) Which of the following best describes one of the main ideas discussed in the passage?
a) Rapid change is usually welcomed in society.
b) Industry is not as innovative as it is made out to be.
c) We should have less change than what we have now.
d) Competition spurs companies into radical innovation.

73) According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

a) Executives of automobile companies are inefficient and ludicrous.
b) The speed at which an automobile is driven in a city has not changed much in a
century.
c) Anthropological factors have fostered innovation in automobiles by promoting use
of new technologies.
d) Further innovation in jet engines has been more than incremental.

74) Which of the following views does the author fully support in the passage?
a) Nothing is as permanent as change.
b) Change is always rapid.
c) More money spent on innovation leads to more rapid change.
d) Over decades, structural change has been incremental.

75) According to the passage, the reason why we continued to be dependent on fossil
fuels is that:
a) Auto executives did not wish to change.
b) No alternative fuels were discovered.
c) Change in technology was not easily possible.
d) German, Japanese and French companies could not come up with new
technologies.
Direction for questions 76 to 80:- Read the paragraph given below and answer the
questions according to the paragraph.

The painter is now free to paint anything he chooses.. There are scarcely any
forbidden subjects, and today everybody is prepared to admit that a painting of some
fruit can be as important as a painting of a hero dying. The Impressionists did as much
as anybody to win this previously unheard-of freedom for the artist. Yet, by the next
generation, painters began to abandon the subject altogether, and began to paint
abstract pictures. Today the majority of pictures painted are abstract. Is there a
connection between these two developments? Has art gone abstract because the artist
is embarrassed by his freedom? Is it that, because he is free to paint anything, he
doesn't know what to paint? Apologists for abstract art often talk of it as the art of
maximum freedom. But could this be the freedom of the desert island? It would take
too long to answer these questions properly. I believe there is a connection. Many
things have encouraged the development of abstract art. Among them has been the
artists' wish to avoid the difficulties of finding subjects when all subjects are equally
possible.
 I raise the matter now because I want to draw attention to the fact that the painter's
choice of a subject is a far more complicated question than it would at first seem. A
subject does not start with what is put in front of the easel or with something which
the painter happens to remember. A subject starts with the painter deciding he would
like to paint such-and-such because for some reason or other he finds it meaningful. A
subject begins when the artist selects something for special mention. (What makes it
special or meaningful may seem to the artist to be purely visual-its colors or its form.)
When the subject has been selected, the function of the painting itself is to
communicate and justify the significance of that selection.

It is often said today that subject matter is unimportant. But this is only a reaction
against the excessively literary and moralistic interpretation of subject matter in the
nineteenth century. In truth the subject is literally the beginning and end of a painting.
The painting begins with a selection (1 will paint this and not everything else in the
world); it is finished when that selection is justified (now you can see all that 1 saw
and felt in this and how it is more than merely itself). Thus, for a painting to succeed
it is essential that the painter and his public agree about what is significant. The
subject may have a personal meaning for the painter or individual spectator; but there
must also be the possibility of their agreement on its general meaning. It is at this
point that the culture of the society and period in question precedes the artist and his
art. Renaissance art would have meant nothing to the Aztecs-and vice versa. If, to
some extent, a few intellectuals can appreciate them both today it is because their
culture is an historical one: its inspiration is history and therefore it can include within
itself, in principle if not in every
Particular, all known developments to date. When a culture is secure and certain of its
values, it presents its artists with subjects. The general agreement about what is
significant is so well established that the significance of a particular subject accrues
and becomes traditional. This is true, for instance, of reeds and water in China, ()f the
nude body in Renaissance, of the animal in Africa. Furthermore, in such cultures the
artist is unlikely to be a free agent: he will be employed for the sake of particular
Subjects, and the problem, as we have just described it, will not occur to him.

When a culture is in a state of disintegration or transition the freedom of the artist

increases-but the question of subject matter becomes problematic for him: he, himself,
has to choose for society. This was at the basis of all the increasing crises in European
art during the nineteenth century. It is too often forgotten how many of the art
scandals of that time were provoked by the choice of subject (Gericault, Courbet,
Daumier, Degas, Lautrec, Van Gogh, etc.).

By the end of the nineteenth century there were, roughly speaking, two ways in which
the painter could meet this challenge of deciding what to paint and so choosing for
society. Either he identified himself with the people and so allowed their lives to
dictate his subjects to him; or he had to find his subjects within himself as painter. By
people I mean everybody except the bourgeoisie. Many painters did of course work
for the bourgeoisie according to their copy-book of approved subjects, but all of them,
filling the Salon and the Royal Academy year after year, are now forgotten, buried
under the hypocrisy of those they served so sincerely.

76) In the sentence, "I believe there is a connection" (second paragraph), what two
developments is the author referring to?
a) Painters using a dying hero and using a fruit as a subject of painting.
 b) Growing success of painters and an increase in abstract forms.
c) Artists gaining freedom to choose subjects and abandoning subjects altogether.
d) Rise of Impressionists and an increase in abstract forms.

77) When a culture is insecure, the painter chooses his subject on the basis of:
a) The prevalent style in the society of his time.
b) Its meaningfulness to the painter.
c) What is put in front of the easel.
d) Past experience and memory of the painter.

78) Which of the following views is taken by the author?

a) The more insecure a culture, the greater the freedom of the artist.
b) The more secure a culture, the greater the freedom of the artist.
c) The more secure a culture, more difficult the choice of subject.
d) The more insecure a culture, the less significant the choice of the subject.

79) Which of the following is NOT necessarily among the attributes needed for a painter
to succeed?
a) The painter and his public agree on what is significant.
b) The painting is able to communicate and justify the significance of its subject
selection.
c) The subject has a personal meaning for the painter.
d) The painting of subjects is inspired by historical developments.

80) In the context of the passage, which of the following statements would NOT be true?
a) Painters decided subjects based on what they remembered from their own lives.
b) Painters of reeds and water in China faced no serious problem of choosing a
subject.
c) The choice of subject was a source of scandals in nineteenth century European art.
d) Agreement on the general meaning of a painting is influenced by culture and
historical context.

Direction 81 -100:- Read the questions carefully and answer them.

81) Which company pioneered the production of the Mobile Phones?

a) Motorola b) Nokia c) Samsung d) Sony

82) Jitendra Kapoor is the Chairman of which company?

a) Jitu Telefilms b) Balaji Telefilms c) Trirupati telefilms d) none of the
above

83) What is the name of the new search engine from Microsoft called as?
a) Bing b) Bingo c) Ask d) Boom

84) Which company is largest producer of the Mobile Phones?

a) Nokia b) Sony c) Samsung d) Motorola

85) OP Bhatt is the Head of which Bank?

a) Indian Bank b) IOB c) Indus Ind Bank d) SBI
86) Who is the chairman of Raymonds Suitings?
a) Gautam Singhania b) Vinod Singhania c) Sameer Bhatia d) Vineeta
singhania

87) New Improved Life is the tagline of which company?

a) Reliance b) Wipro c) Infosys d) Videocon

88) What is the brand name so popular in India that it is used as generic name for bottled
water?
a) Bisleri b) Team c) Aqua fina d) Himalayan water

89) Who is the female brand ambassador of Big Bazaar?

a) Sri devi b) Kareena Kapoor c)Asin d) Kajol

90) For which brand did Sachin and Amitabh Bacchan endorse together for the first time?
a) Coke b) Pepsi c) Dabur d) MRF

91) Where is WTO headquartered?

a) Geneva b) New York c) Tokyo d) London

92) What is the tag Line of Sony?

a) I like it b) Like.no.other c) Like to do it d) As you like it

93) Name of the Family Store owned by Kumar Mangalam Birla?

a) More b) Fresh c) Future stores d) Croma

94) Net Safe Credit Card is introduced by which Bank?

a) SBI b) ICICI c) HDFC d) HSBC

95) Who is the first bowler to record a hat trick in world cup?
a) Kapil Dev b) Aquip Javid c) Bret lee d) Chetan Sharma

96) Who is presently the chancellor of Germany?

a) Angelina Julie b) Angela Merkel c) Marquee d) None of the above

97) The first retail outlet of Wal-Mart in India a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises has
opened in which Indian city?
a) Delhi b) Bangalore c) Amritsar. d) Chandigar

98) Which film did United Insurance Company insure for Rs 11 lakh in 1998?

a) Taal b) Devdas c) Agni-putra d) Hum

99) Who has taken a highest number of wickets in the test matches?
a) Kapil Dev b) Richard Hadley c) Muthiah Muralidaran d)Warne

100) Who is the first person to get a Nobel Prize and on Oscar?
a) Tagore b) George Bernard Shaw
c) Steve wonder d) William wordsworth
 Answer Key

Questio Ans Q. Ans Q.no Ans Q.no Ans Q.no Ans

n no
number
1A 21 C 41 C 61 A 81 A
2C 22 C 42 D 62 C 82 B
3C 23 A 43 C 63 B 83 C
4A 24 B 44 C 64 D 84 A
5C 25 C 45 B 65 C 85 D
6B 26 B 46 D 66 C 86 A
7D 27 B 47 C 67 D 87 D
8A 28 D 48 D 68 D 88 A
9D 29 C 49 C 69 B 89 C
10 B 30 B 50 D 70 D 90 B
11 D 31 D 51 C 71 D 91 A
12 A 32 D 52 D 72 B 92 B
13 C 33 C 53 A 73 B 93 A
14 B 34 B 54 A 74 D 94 C
15 D 35 B 55 C 75 A 95 D
16 B 36 B 56 C 76 C 96 B
17 D 37 C 57 B 77 B 97 C
18 C 38 C 58 B 78 A 98 A
19 A 39 D 59 C 79 D 99 C
20 E 40 B 60 D 80 A 100 B