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Verbal AbilityDIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 3: In each question, there are five sentences or partsof sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s), or parts(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose themost appropriate option.

1. (A) The fact that Japan and Korea have so far resisted the Great Disruption

(B) is testimony for the power of culture to shape economic choices.(C) Both countries, have shown strong cultural preferences for more traditionalfemale roles,(D) and both retained discriminatory formal laws that make it less likely for women

to enter the workforce.(E) Particularly in Korea, Confucianism gives broad support to the patriarchal family. (1) A and E

(2) A, C and E

(3) B, C and D

(4) D and E

(5) E only

2. (A) Present European languages emphasize on time distinctions.

(B) The tense systems are thought of usually

(C) as the most basic of verbal inflections.(D) However this was not always so.(E) Steinberg says that in primitive Indo-European languages special indicator of the present was usually lacking. (1) A and D

(2) A and B

(3) B, C and D

(4) Only C

(5) E only

3. (A) Skinner's treatment of the notions "leisure" and "work"

(B) give an interesting insight into the behaviourist system of beliefs.(C) He asserts that the level of an organism's activity depends on its environmentalhistory of reinforcement(D) and that an organism will range between vigorous activity and completequeiscence depending upon the schedules on which it has been reinforced.(E) According to Skinner, people are at leisure if they'd have little to do. (1) A and C

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(2) A, C and D

(3) B and C

(4) B, D and E

(5) D and E

DIRECTIONS for questions 4 to 6: In each question there are five sentences. Eachsentence has pairs of words/phrases that are italicised and highlighted. From theitalicised and highlighted word(s)/phrase(s). Select the most appropriateword(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then from the options given, choosethe best one.

4. Ironically, the book was a best-seller inspite of its occasions of bathos (A) /

pathos (B).The lack of equipment compelled us to improve (A) / improvise (B).The opponent's pitying (A) / piteous (B) look was even more painful than my defeat.The proposal was eventually (A) / subsequently (B) rejected as the majority wasagainst it.

Most psychological disorders do not affect the perceptible (A) / perceptive (B)abilities.

(1) BBBBB

(2) BBABB

(3) ABBBB

(4) ABABB

(5) BBABA

5. He impressed every one at the party with his urbanized (A) / urbane (B)

demeanour.The latter part of the sentence which is adverse (A) / adversative (B) clearly negatesthe author's claim.Her lovely (A) / loveable (B) little blue eyes would captivate anyone.With open arms the brave knight welcomed the quietude (A) / quietus (B) andstepped into the world of eternal glory.Considering the statements made by the minister an insult, the opposition irrupted

(A) / erupted (B). (1) ABABB

(2) BBABB

(3) AAABB

(4) ABBBB

(5) BBBAA

6. Individualism (A) / Individuality (B) coupled with responsibility seldom leads to

anarchy.The speaker had to interfere (A) / intervene (B) as the situation seemed to get outof hand.Contemporary (A) / Contemporaneous (B) art never fails to impress even the loverof classical art.A few crystalline substances are absolutely insoluble (A) / indissoluble (B) in water.

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With no proper ventilation, the atmosphere in the hospital was noise (A) / noisome

(B). (1) ABAAB

(2) BBAAB

(3) AABBA

(4) BABAA

(5) BAAAA

DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 10: In each question, there are fivesentences/paragraphs. The sentence/paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. Thefour that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose themost appropriate one.

7. A. The United States Supreme Court has upheld the three-drug protocol in lethal

injections for capital punishment applied in 36 states, besides the federalgovernment, thus lifting a seven month de facto moratorium on executions.B. The contention of the two death row inmates in Kentucky State was that theadministration of pancuronium bromide, the paralytic, carried the risk of excruciatingpain in the event of inadequate dosage of the anaesthetic sodium thiopental. Theymaintained that the continuation of the current protocol was a violation of the bar oncruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.C. Yet the divergent opinions expressed in the ruling on the constitutionality of thedrug regimen and on the deterrent value of the death penalty itself are hopefulpointers to the ultimate, if distant, goal of the abolition of this barbaric punishment.D. Moreover, the plaintiffs' plea for the anesthetic to be administered in largeamounts minus the other two drugs was overruled on grounds that such analternative, while applied to put animals to sleep, may not be the appropriate in thecase of human beings.E. The judges were not unanimous on the gratuitous harm that could result from the

maladiministration of the protocol, or on the preparedness of the Kentucky prisonadministration to ensure that inmates were rendered unconscious before theparalytic and cardiac drugs were injected. (1) CBED

(2) EBDC

(3) BCED

(4) CBDE

(5) BCDE

8. A. The most comprehensive study yet of the status of mammals on land and in

marine environments, published recently in a popular science journal, has revealedthat, 1,141 species, representing one in four, are threatened with extinctionworldwide. Data for many others are deficient, but they are also at considerable risk.

B. The Western Ghats in India with their high species endemism constitute ahotspot; in Southeast Asia, primates are extremely threatened; globally animalsranging from shrews to elephants and whales are distressed.C. The major tool it has crafted for biodiversity protection is the Red List, whichflags individual species as vulnerable, critically endangered and so on. Yet, theeffects of key factors − habitat fragmentation and loss, hunting, and climate change

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− on listed species are growing more serious.D. The IUCN resolved at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona recently thatit would work with governments, civil society and the private sector towards asustainable future.E. This is unambiguous evidence emerging from the five year study led by theInternational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, better knownas the IUCN which has the monumental task of helping governments take the right

steps to avert more extinction. (1) BECD

(2) EBDC

(3) ECDB

(4) BEDC

(5) CEDB

9. A. The medieval period saw significant changes in the art and architecture

dedicated to eternal concepts.B. By the 7th and 8th centuries, it was the intellectual quest that came to the fore. The

eternal concepts and qualities within people were studied in detail and complexpantheons of deities were created in different faith to personify these.C. The purpose of ancient art was always to help one lose one's ego, and sopersonalities were not depicted (with the exception of the period of the rule of theKushanas, who came from Southern China).D. The art depicted the dynamism of the intellectual endeavours of the time.E. By the 8th century, a few portraits of kings had been made under the Pallavas inwhat is present day Tamil Nadu. Earlier art had presented the gentlest in images,steeped in the grace of compassion, to dissolve one's ego and transport one throughsublime love. (1) BCED

(2) CBED

(3) DCBE(4) EDBC

(5) CEBD

10. A. Imperial history is replete with revelations about the evil capabilities of the

human race, as is evident in the genocide of the natives in Africa and America, theholocaust accompanied by unimaginable fascist brutalities, the two world wars andnow the violence unleashed in West Asia.B. If not Pax Britannica, then it is Pax Americana.C. This crisis in imperial history is stubbornly located in the structures of technological dominance, military violence and ideological legitimation.D. The wars waged by the West are an example of this deep-seated aggressive

behaviour in the Western psyche wherein lies the supremacist attitude of settinggoals for the world.E. European violence is evident in its political and economic adventures, in the verysavagery that lies under the veneer of civilization as is apparent in the art of Picassoand Gauguin, which reflects the dark side of the European man. (1) CDEB

(2) CDBE

(3) CEDB

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(4) DCEB

(5) DECB

DIRECTIONS for questions 11 to 15: Read the following passage and answer thequestions that follow it.

According to Senator Jim Bunning, the proposal to purchase $700bn of dodgy debt bythe U.S. government "is financial socialism, it is un-American". The economicsprofessor Nouriel Roubini called George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke" atroika of Bolsheviks who turned the U.S.A. into the United Socialist State Republic of America". Bill Perkins, the venture capitalist who took out an ad in the New YorkTimes attacking the plan, called it "trickle-down communism".

They are wrong. Any subsidies eventually given to the monster banks of Wall Streetwill be as American as apple pie and obesity. The sums demanded may beunprecedented, but there is nothing new about the principle: corporate welfare is aconsistent feature of advanced capitalism. Only one thing has changed: Congress hasbeen forced to confront its contradictions.

One of the best studies of corporate welfare in the U.S. is published by my oldenemies at the Cato Institute. Its report, by Stephen Slivinski, estimates that in 2006the federal government spent $92n subsidizing business. Much of it went to majorcorporations such as Boeing, IBM and General Electric.

The biggest money crop − $21bn − is harvested by Big Farmer. Slivinski shows thatthe richest 10% of subsidized farmers took 66% of the payouts. Every few years,Congress or the administration promises to stop this swindle, then hands even morestate money to agribusiness. The farm bill passed by Congress in May guaranteesfarmers a minimum of 90% of the income they've received over the past two years,which happen to be among the most profitable they've ever had. The middlemen doeven better, especially the companies spreading starvation by turning maize intoethanol, which are guzzling billions of dollars' worth of tax credits.

Slivinski shows how the federal government's Advanced Technology Program, whichwas supposed to support the development of technologies that are "pre-competitive"or "high risk", has instead been captured by big businesses flogging provenproducts. Since 1991, companies such as IBM, General Electric, Dow Chemical,Caterpillar, Ford, DuPont, General Motors, Chevron and Monsanto have extractedhundreds of millions from this programme. Big business is also underwritten by theExport Import Bank: in 2006, for example, Boeing alone received $4.5bn in loanguarantees.

The government runs something called the Foreign Military Financing programme,which gives money to other countries to purchase weaponry from U.S. corporations.It doles out grants to airports for building runways and to fishing companies to helpthem wipe out endangered stocks.

But the Cato Institute's report has exposed only part of the corporate welfarescandal. A new paper by the U.S. Institute for Policy Studies shows that, through aseries of cunning tax and accounting loopholes, the U.S. spends $20bn a yearsubsidizing executive pay. By disguising their professional fees as capital gainsrather than income, for example, the managers of hedge funds and private equitycompanies pay lower rates of tax than the people who clean their offices. A year ago,the House of Representatives tried to close this loophole, but the bill was blocked inthe Senate after a lobbying campaign by some of the richest men in America.

Another report, by a group called Good Jobs First, reveals that Wal-mart has receivedat least $1bn of public money. Over 90% of its distribution centres and many of its

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retail outlets have been subsidized by country and local governments. They give thechain free land, they pay for the roads, water and sewerage required to make thatland usable, and they grant it property tax breaks and subsidies (called taxincrement financing) originally intended to regenerate depressed communities.Sometimes state governments give the firm straight cash as well: in Virginia, forexample, Wal-Mart's distribution centres receive handouts from the Governor's

Opportunity Fund.

Corporate welfare is arguably the core business of some government departments.Many of the Pentagon's programmes deliver benefits only to its contractors. Ballisticmissile defence, for example, which has no obvious strategic purpose and is unlikelyever to work, has already cost the U.S. between $120bn and $150bn. The U.S. isunique among major donors in insisting that the food it offers in aid is produced onits own soil, rather than in the regions it is meant to be helping. U.S. Aid used toboast on its website that "the principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistanceprograms has always been the United States. Close to 80% of the U.S. Aid'scontracts and grants go directly to American firms." There is not and has never beena free market in the U.S.

Why not? Because the Congressmen and women now railing against financialsocialism depend for their re-election on the companies they subsidise. The legalbribes paid by these businesses deliver two short-term benefits for them. The first isthat they prevent proper regulation, allowing them to make spectacular profits andto generate disasters of the kind Congress is now confronting. The second is thepublic money that should be used to help the poorest is instead diverted into thepockets of the rich.

A report published last week by the advocacy group Common Cause shows howbankers and brokers stopped legislators banning unsustainable lending. Over thepast financial year, the big banks spent $49m on lobbying and $7m in directcampaign contributions. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent $180m in lobbying andcampaign finance over the past eight years. Much of this was thrown at members of the House financial services committee and the Senate banking committee.

Whenever Congressmen tried to rein in the banks and mortgage lenders they were

blocked by the banks' money. Dick Durbin's 2005 amendment seeking to stoppredatory mortgage lending, for example, was defeated in the Senate by 58 to 40.The former representative Jim Leach proposed re-regulating Fannie Mae and FreddieMac. Their lobbyists, he recalls, managed in "less than 48 hours to orchestrate bothparties' leadership" to crush his amendments.

The money these firms spend buys the socialization of financial risk. The $700bn thegovernment was looking for was just one of the public costs of its repeated failure toregulate. Even now the lobbying power of the banks has been making itself felt: onSaturday the Democrats watered down their demand that the money earned byexecutives of companies rescued by the government be capped. Campaign finance isthe best investment a corporation can make. You give a million dollars to the rightman and reap a billion dollars' worth of state protection, tax breaks and subsidies.When the same thing happens in Africa we call it corruption.

European governments are no better. The free market economics they proclaim are acon: they intervene repeatedly on behalf of the rich, while leaving everyone else tofend for themselves. Just as in the U.S., the bosses of farm companies, oil drillers,supermarkets and banks capture the funds extracted by government from thepockets of people much poorer than themselves. Taxpayers everywhere should beasking the same question: why the hell should we be supporting them? 11. It can be inferred from the passage that

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(1) the author berates those who call the U.S. government communist.

(2) the author does not believe that free market or capitalism is beneficial to society.

(3) the author condemns government policies which favour the rich at the expense of the

poor.

(4) the author denounces state subsidies and welfare spendings.

(5) the author reviles big businesses which are steeped in corruption.

12. The 'socialization of financial risk' in the context of the passage, refers to

(1) regulating according to the theory and practices of socialism.

(2) passing on the loss incurred to the public.

(3) getting the support of the people before taking financial risks.

(4) obtaining the government's permission before undertaking risky ventures.

(5) risky investments undertaken by banks with its customers money.

13. The author refers to the reports of the Cato Institute and others to show that (1) corporates do more harm than good to society.

(2) big business have been behind the successful working of democracy in America.

(3) lobbying in the Congress by corporates is unique to America.

(4) the American government has always tried to ensure the successful working of free

market.

(5) the big corporates and the Congress have always been hand in glove.

14. 'Congress has been forced to confront its contradictions' because

(1) the issue has attracted a lot of negative publicity.

(2) the sum involved is larger than any paid out so far.

(3) the banks have been on a collision course.

(4) Congressmen have been accused of accepting bribes.

(5) funds have been mis-appropriated.

15. As inferred from the passage, what might lead to the proper functioning of

corporates? (1) Non-interference by the government.(2) An end to corporate lobbying

(3) An end to subsidies and welfare schemes.

(4) Appropriate governmental regulations.

(5) Complete freedom to corpoates to further their goals.

DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 20: Read the following passage and answer thequestions that follow it.

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Anti-science movements have burgeoned in recent years, the ideas behind them arenot new. In the early part of the 20th century, Stephen Toulmin, identified fivethemes which recur again and again at every stage of the anti-science debate. Theseare humanism, individualism, imagination, 'quality versus quantity', and the abstractcharacter of scientific ideas and inquiries.

The idea of humanism can be traced back to Socrates, who emphasized the primacyof social, ethical and humane issues, and was healthily skeptical about the possibilityof totally reliable, objective scientific knowledge. So it was with Michel deMontaingne and the humanists of the 16th century. While the scientific ideas of theclassical Greeks had survived through the Middle ages, the humanists had torediscover the poets, essayists, historians, and tragedians of antiquity. In doing so,they made a unique contribution to European sensibility. 'The humanists tended −like the romantics of the early nineteenth century − to go on and pillory the scientistfor being indifferent, and even callous, about humane issues,' writes Toulmin. Theydid so 'with the same kind of passion as any of today's anti scientists denouncingnerve gas research or the alliance between official science and the military-industrialcomplex.

Individualism is another characteristic claimed uniquely for literature and the arts bythe enemies of science, because these activities give scope to the individualpersonality of the writer or artist. In contrast, science is looked upon as a conformistactivity in which research workers rigidly suppress their personal and subjectiveviews and feelings in favour of communally imposed orthodoxy. As we have seen,this is by no means totally true, but the comparison with the arts is accurate andscientists themselves certainly make a virtue of the objective character of theirwork. Closely connected with the theme of individualism is that of imagination.Science (the argument runs) is based on mechanical and stereotyped modes of inquiry, which tend to starve creativity and the imagination. Again, although muchnormal bread-and-butter science is pursued on this basis, creativity akin to that of the artist is important at the major turning points of research, but scientists disguisethe fact when presenting and discussing their research findings. To that extent,scientists are indeed peculiar people, who make a virtue of denying their owncreativity.

The fourth theme, quality versus quantity, was emphasized by Goethe in particular.It stems from scientific method. The scientist concerns himself only with thecommon features shared by many individual things, organisms, phenomena − and inthe last resort with statistical averages and measurable units. This leads him toneglect individual differences and to ignore qualitative variations. Perhaps thestarkest modern example is the sociology of mass observation, according to whichone can gain an exhaustive account of society and groups within society simply bycounting heads, totting up salaries, sampling opinions by national opinion poll. Oneof the greatest contributions to this interpretation of science was Isaac Newton's'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica', a quarter of a million words on thelaws of motion, the mathematical analysis of motion, and the movement of heavenlybodies, which he believed to have established that the universe was made by aRational Being. As seen by the romantics, writes Toulmin, Newtonian science wasguilty of 'ignoring the individual, of subordinating qualitative differences to

quantitative uniformities, of killing the animal whose life it pretended to explain, of breaking up into a spectrum (and so destroying) the whiteness of light, whichneeded rather to be studied in its primal integrity, and so on.' On the romantic view,scientists should cultivate more of the personal, humane insight into the world whichgood doctors bring to their individual patients. They should become not objectiveautomata but artists of the intellect, 'developing a feeling for the personality anduniqueness of each colour, leaf, human being, or meteorological event, withoutwhich he could not seriously claim to "understand it".'

The abstract character of scientific investigation is a related complaint. It is onewhich probably comes closest to identifying the psychological traits which drive

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individuals to become scientists (if, as I suspect, such traits do exist). Scientist ingeneral are unhappy about the untidiness of political, social and personalrelationships in the real world, and find it difficult to take the actual course of events, or a particular problem, as they find it. 'They begin by imposing certainarbitrary theoretical demands and standards on the variety of nature, and they arethen prepared to pay serious attention only to those aspects of nature which they

choose to accept as "significant" by those standards,' argues Toulmin. 'A truehumanism by contrast, will be prepared to accept each new concrete situation in allits complexity and variety, as it arises, and deal with it accordingly.' It is thisdeficiency which has led to so many attacks on scientists and technologists forcallous indifference to the broad, human implications of their work. For a group of scientists, it can be self-evident that their work is beneficial and should be acceptedas such by the people likely to be affected. This is true almost irrespective of theactual merits and demerits of the work in question. Poring over their maps andrainfall figures, it can be self evident to the senior scientists of a chemical companythat their new plant, bringing employment to an area by producing millions of plasticmilk bottles, must have more water; that therefore a new reservoir will have to beconstructed in a particular valley; and that the residents there will simply have tomove. Scientists actually trying to be directly helpful can be equally blind to humanfactors − in offering a new synthetic food to the people of a developing country, forexample, or proposing a daring new surgical operation to the anxious parents of aseriously ill child.

Each of the five different limbs of the anti-science movement can, then, be tracedback into history. With the tremendous successes of science over the past hundredyears, however, they have been increasingly overshadowed. In particular, therevolutions wrought by science in medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing industryhave persuaded people that science is a 'good thing'. More than that, becausescience has proved itself so overwhelmingly, we tend nowadays to elevate the needsand explanations of science, quite wrongly, to a very high level indeed. 16. According to the passage, romantics accused Newtonian science of (1) reducing everything in Nature to dry mathematical laws.

(2) being insensitive to social and ethical issues.

(3) failing to study Nature in its entirety.

(4) claiming that the universe was made by a rational being.

(5) disregarding the uniqueness which is characteristic of all things in the world.

17. In the phrase, 'it is this deficiency which has led to so many attacks on

scientists and technologists', the reference is to which deficiency? (1) Callous attitude of scientists

(2) Scientists not being humane

(3) The narrow perspective of scientists

(4) The psychological traits of scientists

(5) Scientists turning blind eye to the needs of society

18. In this passage, the author (1) shows how the anti-science debate has lost its relevance in the last century.

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(2) opines that the questions raised by anti-science activists remain unanswered till this day.

(3) tries to trace the historical precedents of the anti-science debate.

(4) captures the manner in which the recurrent theme in the anti science debate are related

to each other.

(5) does all of the above.

19. We can understand from the passage that (1) scientists do not like to admit that their work is a result of their imagination.

(2) research workers choose to suppress their personal and subjective views.

(3) in the last century, scientists have proved their critics wrong.

(4) humanists opposed the nerve gas research tooth and nail.

(5) those who pursue bread and butter science do not challenge conventional wisdom.

20. The author has provided the example of a project work in a chemical company

most probably to highlight the (1) no nonsense approach of scientists.

(2) matter of fact behaviours of research workers.

(3) practical nature of scientists.

(4) callous attitude of scientists.

(5) theoretical mindset of technologists.

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Logical & Data Interpretation

DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of theinformation given below.

Ms. Radiance went to a supermarket with her two bright kids Chotu and Motu.Chotu and Motu were always proud of identifying fruits of special kind. If a fruit waseither an apple or an orange, Chotu would always identify it correctly and if a fruitwas a mango or a guava or a watermelon, then Motu would always identify itcorrectly. In that supermarket, five baskets of fruits were there. In each basket,there were twenty fruits, which included at least one fruit each of the abovementioned five types.Chotu identified the fruits in each of the five baskets and came up with the followingdetails.

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21. Find the least possible number of watermelons in all the baskets put together.

(1) 38

(2) 28

(3) 35

(4) 31

(5) 25

22. Which of the following statements is definitely false? (1) The number of mangoes in basket IV is 1.

(2) The number of mangoes in basket IV is 3.(3) The number of apples in basket I is 3.

(4) The number of watermelons in basket II is 9.

(5) None of the above

23. If the number of guavas in basket IV is 6, then find the number of oranges in

basket IV. (1) 2

(2) 1

(3) 3

(4) Cannot be determined

(5) Data inconsistent

24. With the given information, in how many of the five baskets can the number of

mangoes be determined correctly? (1) 2

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(2) 1

(3) 0

(4) 3

(5) More than 3


The FIFA World Cup Football tournament in 2006 had the 32 participating countriesdivided into eight groups − A to H. Each group had four teams, with each teamplaying all the other teams in the group exactly once. The top two teams in eachgroup advance to the pre-quarters, i.e., the round of 16, from where onwards thetournament is played in the knock-out format, except when the losers of the semi-finals are not eliminated but instead play each other for the 3rd place. The differentteams in each group and the fixtures for the subsequent matches are as follows: .

.

25. The total number of matches in the tournament is

(1) 55

(2) 63

(3) 64

(4) 56

(5) None of these

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26. If Brazil reached the finals, which of the following could be the teams that it

beat in the quarterfinals, i.e., the round of 8? (1) Croatia

(2) Czech Republic

(3) South Korea

(4) U.S.A.

(5) Japan

27. If it was known that one match of the tournament was between Czech Republic

and Ukraine, it could have taken place in theI. Semi-finals II. Round of 8 III. Round of 16 IV. Finals (1) Only I or IV

(2) Only I or II

(3) Only I, II or III

(4) Only I or III(5) Only I, II or IV

28. If Argentina was the loser in the finals, which of the following is definitely not

the winner of the tournament?

(1) U.S.A.

(2) Japan

(3) Paraguay

(4) Tunisia

(5) France


Four persons A, B, C and D are playing a game of blindly picking the balls from abag. This bag contains five balls, each of a different colour among Red, Green, Blue,Yellow and White, and these five balls fetch 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 points respectively. Thegame is being played in four rounds. In each round, each person randomly takes outone ball from the bag and places it back into the bag. Based on the colour of the ball,they have been given points as mentioned above. Further it is known that,

(i) each ball was picked by at least one person and each ball was picked a differentnumber of times.

(ii) none of A, B and C picked the same ball in any two rounds and the maximumpoints scored by any of A, B and C in all the four rounds put together are 12.(iii) among the four rounds, the maximum points were scored in round III and Apicked the white ball in round III.(iv) in each of rounds I, III and IV no two players picked the same ball.(v) the points scored by A and that by B in all the four rounds put together areequal.(vi) the green ball was picked more number of times than the white ball. The sum of the points scored by A in round I and that scored by D in round IV is 5.(vii) one of the five balls contributed a score of 20 to the total points scored in allthe four rounds put together.

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29. Which ball did C pick in round IV? (1) Red

(2) White

(3) Green(4) Blue


30. What is the sum of the points scored by A in round IV and that by B in round II? (1) 7

(2) 3

(3) 6

(4) 4


31. Which ball was picked exactly three times? (1) Green

(2) Yellow

(3) Blue

(4) Red


32. Who picked the blue ball in round IV? (1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) Blue ball was not picked

33. How many times was the yellow ball picked in all the four rounds put together?

(1) 1

(2) 2

(3) 3

(4) 4


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The following pie-charts give the information regarding the area wise distributionof the number of 1-mark and 2-mark questions in a test and also the area wisedistribution of the marks obtained by Ramesh, a student who appeared for the test.The test comprised only 1-mark and 2-mark questions. .

Note:(i) No negative mark was given for any wrong attempt or for any question leftunattempted.(ii) A total of 500 questions were asked in the test out of which 80 questions werefrom QA.(iii) Total marks of Ramesh in the test = 300.

34. The total number of 1-mark questions attempted correctly by Ramesh cannot

be (1) 284

(2) 282

(3) 286

(4) 280

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(5) 278

35. The maximum possible total marks in the test are

(1) 600(2) 650

(3) 700

(4) 750

(5) 800

36. The minimum number of questions which Ramesh could have attempted in DI is (1) 25

(2) 15

(3) 14(4) 16

(5) 24

37. Which of the following statements is definitely true regarding the performance

of Ramesh in the test?

(1) The number of 2-mark questions attempted correctly in QA is more than that in DI

(2) The number of 2-mark questions attempted correctly in DI is less than that in LA.

(3) The number of 2-mark questions attempted correctly in RC is more than that in DI.

(4) The number of 1-mark questions attempted correctly in VA is less than that in DS.

(5) None of the above


125 small unpainted cubes are arranged to form a large cube. All the six faces of the large cube are painted green. Now a 3 × 3 × 3 cube, comprising 27 small cubes,is removed out of one of the corners of the large cube. This 3 × 3 × 3 cube is nowpainted blue on all six faces, while all the three surfaces (each of which is a 3 × 3square) of the large cube exposed due to the removal of the 3 × 3 × 3 cube arepainted black. Then, the 3 × 3 × 3 cube is put back in its original position in the largecube and the large cube is finally painted yellow on all six faces.

38. What is the number of small cubes which have exactly three faces painted? (1) 8

(2) 16

(3) 18

(4) 19

(5) 15

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42. A said to B, I am four times as old as you were, when I was as old as you are

now. If the sum of their ages (in years) is 104, find the age (in years) of B. (1) 35

(2) 20

(3) 45

(4) 40

(5) 50

43. A circle is drawn taking the line joining the points (7, 3) and (−17, −7) as

diameter and another circle of radius 5 units is drawn with centre as (3, −8). Findthe number of common tangents to the two circles. (1) Zero

(2) One

(3) Two(4) Three

(5) Four

44. The number of positive integers n, satisfying n3 − 16n − 4n2 + 64 ≤ 0 is (1) 1

(2) 4

(3) 0

(4) 3

(5) 2

45. A man brought a certain number of mangoes from the market and gave some of

them to his three sons. To his eldest son, he gave one more than half the totalnumber of mangoes. To his second son he gave two more than one-third the numberof mangoes that remained after giving to his first son. To his third son he gave threemore than one-fourth of the remaining mangoes. Now, after giving to his third son, if he was left with three mangoes, find the number of mangoes that he gave to his firstson?

(1) 5

(2) 17

(3) 9

(4) 32

(5) 24


In a competitive exam, there were 75 questions, where 4 marks were awarded for

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every correct answer and 1 mark was deducted for every wrong answer. No markswere awarded/deducted for unattempted questions. 46. If exactly n students, whose number of attempts were all different, got the

same net score of 100 marks each, then what is the maximum possible value of n? (1) 26

(2) 25

(3) 11

(4) 10

(5) None of these

47. If 1000 students wrote the exam, what is the minimum possible number of

students each of whose net score is the same as that of at least one of the otherstudents? (1) 630(2) 730

(3) 731

(4) 631

(5) None of these

48. What is the maximum possible number of students, each of who attempted a

different number of questions, but secured the same net score? (1) 15

(2) 16

(3) 20

(4) 19

(5) None of these

DIRECTIONS for questions 49 to 58: Answer the questions independently of eachother.

49. If the 12th term of an arithmetic progression is and its 64th term is ,

find the sum of the first 75 terms of the progression.

(1) 1500

(2) 4500

(3) 6000

(4) 9000

(5) None of these

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50. A is the set of first ten consecutive natural numbers. Find the number of ways in

which a subset B can be formed out of set A, such that the sum of all the elements inB is odd.

(1) 512

(2) 507

(3) 320

(4) 352

(5) 310

51.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

52. In how many ways can 40 sweets be given to A, B, C and D such that B gets at

least three sweets and D gets at least five sweets while A and C may or may not getany sweets? (1) 4960(2) 6545

(3) 9139

(4) 12

(5) 15

53. What is the remainder when 7777 is divided by 28? (1) 1

(2) 7

(3) 3(4) 21

(5) 25

54. A cubical block has an edge of 24 m. It is placed on a floor such that one of its

faces touches a wall. A 70 m long ladder is placed such that its top rests on the walland its foot rests on the floor. If the ladder just touches an edge of the block, and thefoot of the ladder is closer to the bottom of the wall than its top is to the floor, find

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the height (in m) at which its top rests.

(1) 56

(2) 60

(3) 45

(4) 50

(5) 40

55. If n is an odd multiple of 3, in how many ways can 2n be expressed as the

product of 3 factors?

(1) n

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

56. The indices of the highest powers of 5 in N! and M! are 64 and 28 respectively.

Find the maximum difference between the values of N and M. (1) 120

(2) 136

(3) 140

(4) 144

(5) 180

57. If the sum of three distinct integers is 16, which of the following statements is

true? (1) To obtain the maximum or the minimum possible product, one of the three integers must

be 5.

(2) To obtain the maximum or the minimum possible product, one of the three integers mustbe 6.

(3) The maximum possible product of the three integers is 150.

(4) More than one of the above.

(5) None of these

58. There are fifty tickets numbered 00, 01, 02,……. 49. If M and N respectively

denote the sum and the product of the digits on a ticket, what is the probability thata ticket having N = 0 has M = 9?

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(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

DIRECTIONS for questions 59 and 60: Answer the questions on the basis of theinformation given below.

Ram Kumar wanted to come down from the first floor to the ground floor of ashopping mall, whereas Kishore wanted to climb up from the ground floor to the firstfloor. Both used the same escalator (a moving staircase) which was ascending fromthe ground floor to the first floor and both walked towards their respectivedestinations. Both of them started simultaneously from the top and the bottom of theescalator respectively and crossed each other after exactly 21 seconds. If instead,

Kishore had walked at 1/3rd of his speed while Ram Kumar maintained his speed,they would have crossed each other after exactly 28 seconds from the start. Further,if both Ram Kumar and Kishore had climbed up from the ground floor to the firstfloor using the same ascending escalator, the number of steps taken by Kishore toreach the first floor would be 20% less than the number of steps taken by RamKumar for the same. 59. If I were to stand still on the same escalator, how long would it take for the

escalator to take me from the ground floor to the first floor? (1) 42 seconds

(2) 63 seconds

(3) 84 seconds

(4) 105 seconds

(5) None of these

60. Ram Kumar walked down from the first floor to the ground floor using the same

escalator. However, after some time the escalator stopped moving due to a powerfailure. Find the total time taken by Ram Kumar to reach the ground floor, given thatthe time for which he walked on the moving escalator was the same as that forwhich he walked on the stationary escalator. (1)

(2)

(3) 48 seconds

(4) 56 seconds

(5) 70 seconds

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