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SAMPLE TEST (HCL)

NOTE: This test consists of 100 questions. The time limit is 100 minutes.

SECTIONI Verbal Ability

Directions for Q1. to Q2.: In the following question select the word which is OPPOSITE in the meaning of the given word.Q1. INDISCREET

a) reliable b) honest c) prudent d) stupid

Q2. SOLICITUDE

a) insouciance b) ingenuity c) propriety d) austerity

Q3. In the sentence there is a word or phrase written in italics. One of the words or phrases given in the options conveysalmost the same meaning as the bold word or phrase in the sentence. Select that option which is nearest in meaning.

It ispreposterous on your part to look for a job without first completing your education.

a) Wise b) Imperative c) Advisable d) Most admirable d) Very absurd

Directions for Q4. to Q5.: In the following questions, fill in the blank space.

Q4. The success that he has gained, though striking enough, does not, however, commensurate ___ the efforts made by him.

a) about b) from c) with d) beside e) over

Q5. Vinod took his meals after he ___.

a) had completed his work. b) had been completing his work. c) was completing his work.

d) had been completed his work. e) had got completed his work.

Directions for Q6. to Q7.: In the following questions, select the word or phrase that is similar in meaning to the given word.

Q6. Nonchalance

a) Neutrality b) Indifference c) Allknowing d) Ignorance e) Untimeliness

Q7. Conceal

a) Hide b) Seal c) Ceiling d) Horrifying

Q8. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of thesentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is D. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, ifany)

(A) The whole thing moves / (B) around the concept of building a small dynamic / (C) organization into a larger one. /(D) No error.

a) A b) B c) C d) D

Q9. In the question a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicized part are given which may improve thesentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed. Option D is the answer.

She gave most of her time to music.

a) spent b) lent c) devoted d) No improvementQ10. The given sentences when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. He was so busy with them that he did not get time to eat.

2. Thousands of people came to him and asked different types of questions.

3. No one cared to see that he had his food or rest that night.

4. Swami Vivekananda once stayed in a small village.

a) 2341 b) 3214 c) 4213 d) 4231

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Directions for Q11. to Q15.: Answer the question based on the given passage.

Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. Themost important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling, and problemsolving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantlychanging circumstances. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspiresthem to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purposes here: Successfultransformation is 70 to 90 per cent leadership and only 10 to 30 percent management. Yet for historical reasons, many

organizations today dont have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problem here as one of managingchange. For most of this country, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time inhuman history, we didnt have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. So many companiesand universities developed management programs and hundreds and thousands of people were encouraged to learnmanagement on the job. And they did. But, people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management wasemphasized because its easier to teach than leadership. But even more so, management was the main item on thetwentiethcentury agenda because thats what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader,we needed hundreds of managers to run their evergrowing enterprises.

Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures thatdiscourage employees from learning how to lead. Ironically, past success is usually the key ingredient in producing thisoutcome. The syndrome, as I have observed it on many occasions, goes like this: success creates some degree of markeddominance which in turn produces much growth. After a while keeping the everlarger organization under controlbecomes the primary challenge. So attention turns inward and managerial competencies are nurtured. With a strongemphasis on management but not leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus takeover. But with continued success, theresult mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance begins to evolve. Allof these characteristics then make any transformation effort much more difficult. Arrogant managers can overevaluatetheir current performance and competitive position, listen poorly and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can havedifficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who wantto respond to shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organizations to break out of themorass.

Q11. Why did companies and universities develop programs to prepare managers in such a large number?

a) Companies and universities wanted to generate funds through these programs.

b) A large number of organizations were created as they needed managers in good number.

c) Organizations did not want to spend their scarce resources in training managers.

d) Organizations wanted to create communication network through trained managers.

Q12. How has the author defined management?

a) It is the process of adapting organizations to changing circumstances.

b) It is the system of aligning people with the direction it has taken.

c) It refers to creating a vision to help direct the change effectively.

d) Creating better performance through customer orientation.

Q13. What is the historical reason for many organizations not having leadership?

a) A view that leaders are born, they are not made.

b) Leaders lack managerial skills and organizations need managers.

c) Leaders are weak in carrying out traditional functions of management.

d) Leaders allow too much complacency in organizations.

Q14. Which of the following characteristics help organizations in their transformation efforts?

a) Emphasis on leadership but not management.

b) A strong and dogmatic culture.

c) Bureaucratic and inward looking approach.

d) Failing to acknowledge the value of customers and shareholders.

Q15. Which of the following is similar in meaning of the word smother as used in the passage?

a) Suppress b) Encourage c) Instigate d) Criticize

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Directions for Q16. to Q20.: Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence tomake it meaningfully complete.

Q16. The truth is that in highly capitalintensive business ___ deep pockets, domestic civil aviation is ___ undercapitalized.

a) ascertaining, highly b) requiring, woefully c) sustaining, alarmingly

d) balancing, astonishingly e) demanding, niggardly

Q17 Time has now come for all agencies working in the development sector to launch a multipronged ___ to ___

malnutrition.a) system, abjure b) weapon, annihilate c) policy, deviate

d) strategy, eradicate e) fact, demolish

Q18. A well___, physically and mentally active ___ alone can contribute to the speedier economic progress of a nation.

a) educated, subjects b) organized, systems c) advanced, brethren

d) formulated, citizens e) nourished, populace

Q19. We must develop ___ systems from the village upwards and up to the national level to constantly ___ the nutritionalstatus of the people.

a) monitoring, review b) machinery, tackle c) efficient, emancipate

d) sound, harbor e) inherent, inundate

Q20. Democracy has taken a ___ in a system which promotes sycophancy and ___.a) dive, bureaucracy b) delve, dictatorship c) beating, mediocrity

d) ride, heredity e) privilege, intolerance

Directions for Q21. to Q25.: Answer the question based on the given passage.

A spate of soulsearching is guaranteed by two major anniversaries that loom this year: the abolition of the slave trade inthe British Empire in 1807, and the Act of Union of England and Scotland in 1707. Both will feed into Britain's naggingsense of selfdoubt: who are we? As the debates around integrated and multiculturalism show no sign of flagging, bothanniversaries will be mind for their contemporary relevance.Television programs, books, ceremonies, conferences, and newspaper supplements have been in the planning for months.Some might regard this selfreferentialism as tedious; they might advocate an apology for the slave trade and let's be

done with 2007's anniversaries. But our reckoning with British history has been so limited that these two anniversariesprovide us with a good opportunity for an overdue reality check.

Any chance of reinventing a plausible national identity now (as many are keen to do) is only possible if we develop amuch better understanding of how our nation behaved in the past and how nationalisms (English, Scottish, and British)were elaborately created over the past few hundred yearsand how incomplete and fragile that process always was.The coincidence of these two anniversaries is fortuitous. The abolition of the slave trade is a painful reminder of Britishimperial history, which we have, incredible, managed to largely forget. Who remembers the Bengal famine or Holacamp, the empire's opium trade with China or our invention of concentration camps in the Boer war? We too easilyoverlook how empire was a linchpin to British national identity, vital to welding Scotland and England together. Indeed,historian Linda Colley suggests three ingredients for British identity: Great Britain is an invented nation that was not

founded on the suppression of older loyalties so much as superimposed on them, and that was heavily dependent for itsraison dtre on a broadly Protestant culture, on the treat and tonic of recurrent war, especially war with France, and onthe triumphs, profits and Otherness represented by a massive overseas empire.

These three props for Britishness have collapsed: Protestant Christianity has declined sharply, war with France is thepastime only of a few drunken football fans, and the empire is no more. No wonder Britishness is on the decline; over thepast couple of decades, people have become increasingly likely to define themselves in polls as English or Scottish ratherthan British.

This is the social trend in defining identity that politicians such as Gordon Brown watch closely. Could this reemergence of the older loyalties to which Ms Colley refers have political consequences? Could the Scottish NationalParty translate that into significant electoral gains in the Scottish elections only a few days after the officialcommemoration of the Act of Union in May?

It's not just the Scots who could decide they've had enough of the Englishthe feeling could become mutual. Thegrumbles are getting louder about Scottish MPs who vote on legislation affecting the English and the disproportionateamount of public spending swallowed up by the Scots.

Mr. Brown clearly has a vested interest in stilling such complaints. He's been at the forefront of an establishment attemptto redefine Britishness on the grounds of common values such as fair play and tolerance.

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Who is going to define Englishness? Julian Baggini has a stab at it in a book to be published in March, Welcome toEvery town: A Journey into the English Mind. He spent six months living in Rotherham to get beyond the metropolitan,liberal elite's perceptions of Englishness and establish what most people (that is, the white working class) understand bytheir Englishness.

Parochial, tightly knit, focused on family and local communities; nostalgic, fearful of the future and insecure; a doggedbelief in common sense: these are his conclusions. Mr. Baggini confesses to feeling that his six months in Rotherhamwas like visiting a foreign country, and no doubt many of the people he met would regard six months in London as

profoundly alienating. How do you weld national identities out of global metropolises disconnected from hinterland?Englishness is driven with huge regional and class divides. The stakes are highfor example, a rising British NationalParty vote, a fear of asylum, and hostility to Islam. The anniversary of the Act of union will provide a stage for all this tobe played out. It's just as painful a commemoration for the English as for the Scottish. It required one nation to lose itssovereignty and the other its identity.

Q21. According to the passage, the two major anniversaries will

a) give an impetus to the questioning of British national identity.

b) set the Britons thinking who they really are.

c) be just another occasion to raise the issue of British national identity.

d) be just another occasion to give rise to a debate on multiculturalism.

e) not be celebrated because of the shame attached with slave trade.

Q22. According to Linda Colley, Great Britain owes its nationstate concept to

a) ceding of its territory by Scotland to England.

b) a shared relation of race, religion and economy.

c) what can today be seen as a concept of free trade area.

d) the perpetuation of slave trade.

e) commonality of interest between its constituents.

Q23. Going by the passage, which of the following may instill a sense of national identity among the Britons?

a) The return of Catholics to the Protestant fold.

b) Britain going to war with Germany.

c) Britain going to war as an Allied force.

d) Regular football matches between British and French clubs.

e) Any of the above.

Q24. According to the facts stated in the passage, if England and Scotland decide to split,

a) it is the former that stands to gain.

b) it is the latter that stands to gain.

c) it will be a winwin situation.

d) it will be a loselose situation.

e) both the parties will lose their face but gain materially

Q25. According to the passage, the postmodern mind views imperialism as

a) something that was necessary in the context of the times.

b) a thing of the past which need not be mentioned further.

c) a blot on the history of mankind.

d) the white man's burden.

e) a concept relevant even in the present times, given the inability of the developing countries to catch up with the West.

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SECTIONII Quantitative Ability

Q1. In a kilometer race, if A gives B a 40 m start, A wins by 19 sec. But if A gives B a 30 sec start, B wins by 40 m. Find thetime taken by B to run 5 km.

a) 150 sec b) 450 sec c) 750 sec d) 825 sec

Q2. Pipe A takes 16 min to fill a tank. Pipes B and C, whose crosssectional circumferences are in the ratio 2:3, fill another

tank twice as big as the first. If A has a crosssectional circumference that is onethird of C, how long will it take for Band C to fill the second tank? (Assume the rate at which water flows through a unit crosssectional area is same for allthe three pipes.)

a) 66/13 b) 40/13 c) 16/13 d) 32/13

Q3. Three consecutive whole numbers are such that the square of the middle number is greater than the product of the othertwo by 1. Find the middle number.

a) 6 b) 18 c) 12 d) All of these

Q4. The arithmetic mean of 2 numbers is 34 and their geometric mean is 16. One of the numbers will be

a) 4 b) 16 c) 18 d) 12

Q5. If x% of A is the same as y% of B, then z% of B is:

a) (xy/z) % of A b) (yz/x) % of A c) (xz/y) % of A d) None of these

Q6. The letters of the word WOMAN are written in all possible orders and these words are written out as in a dictionary, thenthe rank of the word WOMAN is

a) 117 b) 120 c) 118 d) 119

Q7. What least number must be subtracted from 9400 to get a number exactly divisible by 65?

a) 40 b) 20 c) 80 d) none of these

Q8. If 2505 / 0.5 = 5010 then 25.05 / 0.5 =?

a) 5.010 b) 50.10 c) 501.0 d) None of these

Q9. Which pair of rational numbers lies between 1/5 and 2/5?

a) 262/1000, 275/1000 b) 362/1000, 562/1000

c) 451/1000, 552/1000 d) 121/1000, 131/1000

Q10. What is the value of the following expression: 2 log10 5 + log10 4?

a) 2 b) 2.5 c) 3 d) None of these

Q11. If x increases linearly, how will ax behave (a>1)?

a) Increase linearly b) Decrease linearly

c) Increase exponentially d) Decrease exponentially

Q12. What is the probability of getting the sum 5 in two throws of the dice?

a) 1/12 b) 1/5 c) 1/9 d) None of these

Q13. Given that A, B, C, D and E, each represent one of the digits between 1 and 9 and that the following multiplication holds:

A B C D E

x 4

--------------

E D C B A

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What digit does E represent?

a) 4 b) 6 c) 8 d) 7

Q14. A girl likes 144 but not 145. She likes 900 but not 800 and so on. Which of the following does she like?

a) 1700 b) 1600 c) 32 d) 125

Q15. Two numbers when added make 330. When the last digit of the greater number is removed, 1st number is obtained. Findthe numbers.

a) 310, 20 b) 290, 90 c) 290, 60 d) 300, 30

Q16. If q 0 and k= (q*r/2)s, then what is r in terms of k, q and s?

a) (2k+s)/q b) 2sk/q c) 2(k-s)/q d) 2(k+s)/q

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Q17. Worker W produces n units in 5 hours. Workers V and W, working independently but in the same time, produce n unitsin 2 hours. How long would it take V alone to produce n units?

a) 1 hr 26 min b) 1 hr 53 min c) 2 hr 30 min d) 3 hr 30 min e) 3 hr 20 min

Q18. 10^2(10^8+10^8)/10^4=?

a) 2(10^4) b) 2(10^8) c) 2(10^6) d) 10^10 e) 10^8

Q19. If a=2, b=4, c=5, then (a+bc)/(ca+b)=?

a) 1 b) 11/30 c) 0 d)11/30 e)1

Q20. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even?

a) 21 b) 20 c) 11 d) 10 e) 9

Q21. If taxi fares were Rs. 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs. 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3mile ridewas?

a) Rs. 1.56 b) Rs. 2.40 c) Rs. 3.00 d) Rs. 3.80 e) Rs. 4.20

Q22. A computer routine was developed to generate two numbers (x, y) the first being a random number between 0 and 100inclusive, and the second being less than or equal to the square root of the first. Each of the following pair satisfies theroutine EXCEPT

a) (99, 10) b) (85, 9) c) (50, 7) d) (1, 1) e) (1, 0)

Q23. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 sq. meters. A rectangular addition was built along one entire side of thewarehouse that increased the floor by onehalf as much as the original floor. How many meters did the addition extendbeyond the original buildings?

a) 10 b) 20 c) 50 d) 200 e) 500

Q24. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8:30 A. M. and then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicatedon the watch at 6:30 P.M. of the same day if the watch operated continuously that time?

a) 5:56 P.M. b) 5:58 P.M. c) 6:00 P.M. d) 6:23 P.M. e) 6:26 P.M.

Q25. A 5 liter jug contains 4 liters of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salts. If 1.5 liters of the solution spills out of thejug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water, approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug issalt?

a) 15% b) 10% c) 9.5% d) 7.5%

SECTIONIII Reasoning Ability

Q1. The question shows a pair of words in which the first is related to the second in some way. It is followed by a single wordwhich bears a similar relation to one of the given alternatives. Find the correct alternative to complete the analogy.

Melt : Liquid :: Freeze : ?

a) Ice b) Condense c) Solid d) Crystal

Q2. Guilt : Past :: Hope : ?

a) Present b) Future c) Today d) Despair e) Hopeless

Q3. From the given choices select the odd man out:

a) Bird b) Kite c) Crow d) Pigeon e) SparrowQ4. Find the missing pattern

BOQD : ERTG :: ANPC : ?

a) DQSF b) FSHU c) SHFU d) DSQF

Q5. Find the missing number

5 : 24 :: 8 : ?

a) 65 b) 63 c) 62 d) 64

Q6. From the given choices select the odd man out.

a) DFHEG b) TWXUV c) OQSPR d) JLNKM

Q7. If HARD is coded as 1357 and SOFT is coded as 2468, what will 21448 stand for?

a) SHAFT b) SHORT c) SHOOT d) SHART

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Q8. Find the next number in the series

1, 6, 13, 22, 33, _

a) 44 b) 45 c) 46 d) 47

Q9. The question contains some statements followed by some conclusions. Decide which of the given conclusions logicallyfollow from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements: I) All tomatoes are red. II) All grapes are tomatoes.

Conclusions: I) All grapes are red. II) Some Tomatoes are grapes.

a) Only conclusion I follows.

b) Only conclusion II follows.

c) Neither I nor II follows.

d) Both I and II follow.

e) Either I or II follows

Q10. Old womans son is my daughters uncle. What relation has the old woman to me?

a) Sister b) Mother c) Grandmother d) Motherinlaw

Q11. Ramu was facing east. He walked 4 km forward and then after turning to his right walked 6 km. Again he turned to hisright and walked 7 km. After this he turned back. Which direction was he facing at the time?

a) East b) North c) South d) West e) NorthEast

Q12. Raman is not wearing purple and Aman is not wearing black. Raman and Sahil wear different colors. Avinash alonewears green. What is Sahils color, if all four of them are wearing different colors?

a) Green b) Black c) Purple d) Cant Say

Q13. The question is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the arguments is strong andwhich one is a weak argument.

Statement: Should a total ban be put on trapping wild animals?

Arguments: I. Yes, Trappers are making a lot of money.

II. No, bans on hunting and trapping are not effective.

a) Only argument I is strong.

b) Only argument II is strong.c) Either I or II is strong.

d) Neither I nor II is strong.

e) Both I and II are strong

Q14. The question contains a statement followed by two Assumptions I and II. Find out which assumption(s) is implicit.

Statements: Vitamin E tablets improve circulation; keep your complexion in glowing condition.

Assumptions: I. People like glowing complexion.

II. Complexion becomes dull in the absence of circulation.

a) Only assumption I is implicit.

b) Only assumption II is implicit.

c) Both assumption I and II are implicit.d) Neither assumption I nor II is implicit

Q15. Study the statement(s) and the conclusions and select the correct option.

Statement: No country is absolutely selfdependent these days.

Conclusions: I. It is impossible to grow and produce all that a country needs.

II. Countrymen in general have become lazy.

a) Only Conclusion I follows.

b) Only Conclusion II follows.

c) Both the conclusion I and II follow.

d) Either conclusion I or II follows.

e) Neither conclusion I nor II follows.

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Q16. In the question a statement is followed by some courses of action. A course of action is a step or administrative decisionsto be taken for improvement, followup, or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. You have to assumeeverything in the statement to be true and then decide which of the given suggested course(s) of action logically followsfor pursuing.

Statement: The World Bank has approved a $ 300 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports byMadras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

I. India should take financial help from other international financial institutions to develop such ports inother places.

II. India should not seek any help from the international financial institutions.

a) Only I follows.

b) Only II follows.

c) Either I or II follows.

d) Neither I nor II follows.

e) Both I and II follow.

Directions for Q17. to Q21.: Answer the following questions based on the following information.

Six knightsP, Q, R, S, T and Uassemble for a long journey in two travelling parties. For security, each travellingparty consists of at least two Knights. The two parties travel by separate routes, northern and southern. After one month,the routes of the northern and southern groups converge for a brief time and at that point the Knights can, if they wish,rearrange their travelling parties before continuing, again in two parties along separate northern and southern routes.Throughout the entire trip, the composition of travelling parties must be in accord with the following conditions:

P and R are deadly enemies and, although they may meet briefly, can never travel together.

P must travel in the same party with S.

Q can't travel by the southern route.

U can't change routes.

Q17. If one of the two parties of Knights consists of P and U and two other knights and travels by the southern route, the othermembers of this party besides P and U must be

a) Q and S b) Q and T c) R and S d) R and T e) S and T

Q18. If each of the two parties of Knights consists of exactly three members, which of the following is not a possible travellingparty and route?

a) P, S, U by the northern route. b) P, S, T by the northern route.

c) P, S, T by the southern route. d) P, S, U by the southern route. e) Q, R, T by the southern route.

Q19. If one of the two parties of Knights consists of U and two other Knights and travels by the northern route, the othermembers of this party besides U must be

a) P and S b) P and T c) Q and R d) Q and T e) R and T

Q20. If each of the two parties of Knights consists of exactly three members of different party and they travel by the northernroute, then T must travel by the

a) Southern route with P and S b) Southern route with Q and Rc) Southern route with R and U d) Northern route with Q and R e) Northern route with R and

Q21. If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly one knight changes from one travellingparty to the other travelling party, that knight must be

a) P b) Q c) R d) S e) T

Q22. Statistics indicate that men drivers are involved in more accidents than women drivers. Hence it may be concluded that:

a) Sufficiently information is not there to conclude anything.

b) Men are actually better drivers but drive more frequently.

c) Women certainly drive more cautiously than men.

d) Men chauvinists are wrong about women's abilities.e) Statistics sometimes present a wrong picture of things.

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Q23. In a murder case there are four suspects P, Q, R and S. Each of them makes a statement. They are:

P: I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of the murder.

Q: I was playing cards with P at the time of the murder.

R: Q didnt commit the murder.

S: R is not the murderer.

Assuming the only one of the above statement is false and that one of them is the murderer, who is the murderer?

a) P b) Q c) R d) Cant be concluded e) S

Q24. Mohan earned twice as much as Deep. Yogesh earned Rs. 3 more than half as much as deep. If the amounts earned byMohan, Deep and Yogesh are M, D and Y respectively, which of the following is the correct ordering of these amounts?

a) M < D < Y b) M < Y < D c) D < M < Y d) D < Y < M e) It cant be determined from the information given.

Q25. Each question below is followed by two numbered facts. You have to determine whether the data given in the statementis sufficient for answering the question. Choose one of the following choices best fitting the question and mark A, B, C,D or E as explained below.

a) if statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 is not sufficient.

b) If statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 is not sufficient.

c) If both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient.

d) If either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question.e) If enough facts are not available to answer the question.

A dress was initially listed at a price that would have given the store a profit of 20 percent of the wholesale cost. Whatwas the wholesale cost of the dress?

1. After reducing the asking price by 10 percent, the dress sold for a net profit of 10 dollars.

2. The dress sold for 50 dollars.

SECTIONIV Technical Ability

Q1. An 8bit signed integer has the following range

a) 0 to 255 b)128 to 127 c)255 to 254 d) 0 to 509Q2. What will be the output of the following code statements?

integer x = 34.54, y = 20, z =5

print ( y > 50 AND z > 10 or x > 30)

a) 0 b) 1 c)1 d) 10

Q3. Pankaj makes a program to print the product of cubes of the first 10 whole numbers. He writes the following program:

integer x = 0 // statement 1

integer sum = 0 // statement 2

while ( x < 10 ) // statement 3

{

sum = x*x*x // statement 4

x = x + 1 // statement 5

}

print sum // statement 6

Is his program correct? If not, which statement will you modify to correct it?

a) No error, the program is correct. b) Statement 1 c) Statement 4 d) statement 6

Q4. I have a problem to solve which takes as input a number n. The problem has a property that given the solution for (n1), Ican easily solve the problem for n. Which programming technique will I use to solve such a problem?

a) Iteration b) Decisionmaking c) Object Oriented Programming d) Recursion

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Q5. Given: integer x = 40, y = 35, z = 20, w = 10

Comment about the output of the following two statements:

print x * y / zw

print x * y / (zw)

a) Differ by 80 b) Same c) Differ by 50 d) Differ by 160

Q6. Data and function in which area of a class are directly accessible outside the class?

a) Public b) Private c) Protected d) None of these

Q7. Here is an infix notation: ((A+B)*C-(D-E))^(F+G). Choose the correct postfix notation of the above from the givenoptions.

a) AB+CD*E--FG+^ b) AB+C*DE--FG+^ c) AB+C*DE-FG-+^ d) A+BC*DE-FG-+^

Q8. If the depth of a tree is 3 levels, then what is the size of the Tree?

a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8

Q9. One of the following options is a form of access used to add and remove nodes from a queue.

a) LIFO b) FIFO c) Both LIFO and FIFO d) None of these

Q10. What is the time complexity of adding three matrices of size NxN cellbycell?

a) O(N) b) O(N^2) c) O(N^3) d) None of these

Q11. What does the hex number E78 correspond to in radix 7?

a) 12455 b) 14153 c) 14256 d) 13541 e) 13112

Q12. Which of the following about the following two declarations is true?

i) int *F()

ii) int (*F)()

a) Both are identical.

b) The first is a correct declaration and the second is wrong.

c) The first declaration is a function returning a pointer to an integer and the second is a pointer to function returning int.

d) Both are different ways of declaring pointer to a function

Q13. What are the values printed by the following program?

#define dprint(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n", expr)

main ()

{

int x=7;

int y=3;

dprintf(x/y);

}

a) #2 = 2 b) expr = 2 c) x/y = 2 d) None of these

Q14. When an array is passed as parameter to a function, which of the following statement is correct choice:

a) The function can change values in the original array.b) In C parameters are passed by value. The function cannot change the original value in the array.

c) It results in compilation error when the function tries to access the elements in the array.

d) Results in a run time error when the function tries to access the elements in the array.

Q15. The type of the controlling expression of a switch statement cannot be of the type

a) int b) char c) short d)float e) None

Q16. What is the value of the expression (3^6) + (a^a)?

a) 3 b) 5 c) 6 d) a+18 e) None

Q17. What is the value assigned to the variable X if b is 7?

X = b>8 ? b >1 : b;

a) 7 b) 28 c) 3 d) 14 e) None

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Q18. Which is the output produced by the following program

main ()

{

int n=2;

printf("%d %d\n", ++n, n*n);

}

a) 3, 6 b) 3, 4 c) 2, 4 d) Cannot Determine

Q19. What is the output of the following program?

int x= 0x65;

main ()

{

char x;

printf("%d\n", x)

}

a) Compilation Error b) 'A' c) 65 d) Unidentified

Q20. What is the output of the following program?main ()

{

int a=10;

int b=6;

if(a=3)

b++;

printf("%d %d\n", a, b++);

}

a) 10, 6 b) 10, 7 c) 3, 6 d) 3, 7 e) None

Q21. What can be said of the following program?main ()

{

enum Months {JAN =1,FEB,MAR,APR};

Months X = JAN;

if(X==1)

{

printf("Jan is the first month");

}

}

a) Does not print anything b) Jan is the first monthc) Generates compilation error d) Results in runtime error

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main ()

{

int l=6;

switch (l)

{default: l+=2;

case 4: l=4;

case 5: l++;

break;

}

printf("%d", l);

}

a) 8 b) 6 c) 5 d) 4 e) None


main ()

{int x=20;

int y=10; swap(x, y);

printf("%d %d", y, x+2);

}

swap (int x, int y)

{

int temp;

temp =x;

x=y;

y=temp;}

a) 10, 20 b) 20, 12 c) 22, 10 d) 10, 22 e) None

Q24. What is the size of the following union? Assume that the size of int=2, size of float=4 and size of char=1.

Union Tag{

int a;

float b;

char c;

};

a) 2 b) 4 c) 1 d) 7

Q25. What can be said of the following?struct Node {

char *word;

int count;

struct Node left;

struct Node right;

}

a) Incorrect definition.

b) Structures cannot refer to other structure.

c) Structures can refer to themselves. Hence the statement is OK.

d) Structures can refer to maximum of one other structure.

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