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Sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(A) Paucity of serious thought is no surprise in the government, but one would have thought that the considerably educated PM, who at one time did research of some quality, would have tried to answer for his own satisfaction how effective reservation policies have been.

(B) In his approach to Pakistan, he has gone about enthusiastically looking for out of the box solutions.

(C) Assuming that he came to the above conclusion—it is hard to imagine how he would come to any other?

(D) My question is why should they be confined to the ‘Pak policy only? SC/STs deserve them more.

• (A) ABCD
• (B) CDBA
• (C) DABC
• (D) ACBD

Sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(A) Overcoming the handicap of crushing poverty, he has had a phenomenal run thus far.

(B) Soon enough, the mentor faced exploitation charges, with a government agency taking objection to the manner in which the boy’s grooming is being handled.

(C) When his widowed mother was reportedly on the verge of giving up on it all, a martial arts coach descended on stage like a deus ex machina.

(D) The controversy even found its way to the court.

• (A) ACDB
• (B) BDAC
• (C) ABCD
• (D) BACD

In the given question, all the sentences except one, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Identify the sentence which does \textbf{not} form a part of the coherent paragraph.

• (A) The revolution called Human Relations is quieter than its predecessor and is sweeping through U.S. industry.
• (B) Vast, impersonal factories in which rubbed away their identities...
• (C) In anger against betrayal of the human spirit by the Industrial Revolution, million of workers listened to the false promises of Marx's philosophy.
• (D) The Industrial Revolution, replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers.

A \ldots statement is an \ldots comparison; it does not compare things explicitly, but suggests, a likeness between them.

• (A) sarcastic \ldots unfair
• (B) blatant \ldots overt
• (C) metaphorical \ldots implied
• (D) sanguine \ldots inherent

The question below consists of a sentence divided into four parts (A)–(D). One part is grammatically incorrect. Identify the part.

(A) Her acceptance of speech

(B) Was well received

(C) Eliciting thunderous applause

(D) At several points

• (A) A
• (B) B
• (C) C
• (D) D

In the following question, four different sentences are given. Choose the option that contains the grammatically incorrect sentence/s.

I. He is feeling that this relocation is nothing but the kick upstairs.

II. Consensus is now emerging at our state and national levels.

III. A more and more rigorous circle is formed from which one is more and more unlikely to escape.

IV. It happened up on a system that worked.

• (A) I, II
• (B) I, II, III
• (C) II, III, IV
• (D) I, III

Given below are sentences, each using the question word "happen" in different ways. Identify the sentence which uses the question word in a grammatically incorrect manner.

• (A) Accept it, mistakes will happen
• (B) It happened on a system that worked
• (C) I promise nothing will happen to you
• (D) If so happens I’m going your way

Given below are sentences, each using the question word "gut" in different ways. Identify the sentence which uses the question word in a grammatically incorrect manner.

• (A) The fire gutted the building
• (B) The prisoner’s letters were gutted by heavy censorship
• (C) The famous star spills his guts in his autobiography
• (D) Climbing that cliff takes a lot of guts

Given below is a paragraph whose last line is missing. Choose the line which completes the paragraph most logically from the options given below.


The real change in corporate culture began with the personal computer. With the PC, any empolyee could have a computer of his or her very own and use if for
real work. It simplified applications that were cumbersome with a mainframe even without taking into account the problem of gaining access. A mainframe required a skilled programmer to do things that a non-technical user eventually could easily do with a spreadsheet on a PC. The forms and macros required to solve problems on PCs were trivial compared to traditional programming in COBOL or
other computer languages.

• (A) Soon PCs were ubiquitous among managers and professionals.
• (B) Management Information System (MIS) managers reacted in horror as they saw these rogue computers serving important functions within their corporations.
• (C) These PCs held vital information in inconsistent and inaccessible formats and were not secure from loss or damage.
• (D) Eventually, MIS departments connected PCs to powerful corporate mainframes, but primarily as replacements for dumb terminals.

Given below is a paragraph whose last line is missing. Choose the line which completes the paragraph most logically from the options given below.


So the unpleasant shocks that used to affect other people now affect us. Few of us have not been touched on the shoulder lightly or, in some cases, heavily, by the hand of failure. A dozen or more years ago, failure was for the untalented, or the unlucky. Today, no one is safe.

• (A) It is a strange irony that while changes in fortune are now more personal, other changes have become less so.
• (B) This, of course, applies to \_\_\_’s products.
• (C) Constantly improving products and services is an intrinsic part of staying in business.
• (D) Another is the fact that there are more scientists alive today than ever lived in the history of the world.

Given below is a paragraph whose last line is missing. Choose the line which completes the paragraph most logically from the options given below.

The remake the world (including Nature), Fourier mobilised: an intolerance (for civilisation), a form (classification), a standard (pleasure), an imagination (the ‘scene’), a discourse (his book), all of which pretty well define the action of the signifier or the signifier in action. This action continually makes visible on the page a glaring lack, that of science and politics, that is, of the signified.

• (A) What Fourier lacks points in return to what we ourselves lack when we reject Fourier: to be ironic about Fourier is always even from the scientific point of view to censure the signifier.
• (B) However, the relationship of Desire and Need is not complementary were they fitted one into the other, everything would be perfect, but supplementary; each is the excess of the other.
• (C) The excess: what does not pass through.
• (D) The vomiting of politics is what Fourier calls Invention.

The Nostradamus fad might have been just that, a short-lived blip that would evaporate when the next big thing came along. And it might have been dismissed as
nothing more than a few whackos' nutty obsession with doomsday. But a lot of un-nutty Japanese take it seriously and it's influence has persisted for nearly
three decades. The most alarming development occurred when certain cults including Shoko Asaharas Aum got in the act. Aum which allegedly masterminded
the deadly sarin gas attacks to attract followers alreadygnialbitten by the Nostradamus bug. Other groups did likewise while also providing avenues for surviving doomsday.Writers like Goto fanned a sense of fear. The books sells
but they do not have any answer and the cult steps in and generates followers in mere sensationalism. These days Nostradamus has become such an ingrained
part of Japanese pop culture that most people are well versed with his doomsday scenario. Even many skeptics pause to consider his predictions when confronted with the real world dangers. Ever since pyongyang sent a missile flying over Japan last August, North Korea has been considered as the most plausible source of apocalyptic of the yen, Martina Hingis loss atWimbledon would suffice among the faithfulas aidoncee that Nostradamus was on to something. This fever in Japan tends to skew towards young people like 18 year old Inoue, who wanted to feel as if she had achieved something before the world ends. The goal she decided would be to create fashion. She promoted beach clothes, cosmetics and drugs that would enhance a woman's bust. Here it is not sure whether she was using Nostradamus to promote a career in marketing And she is a perfect example of how fact and fantasy can coexist in today's Japan. Nishimoto on other hand has made full preparations and needs no convincing. He has outfitted his home in
Habikino, a suburb of Osaka with a personal bomb shelter. It has 30 cm thick concrete walls reinforced with steel escape hathes, a hand cranked battery
operated generator and a ventilation system that pumps in air while filtering out radioactive elements and biological and chemical contaminants.

What is the author’s view on Japan?

• (A) People in Japan are great believers of Nostradamus
• (B) People of Japan depend on sensationalism
• (C) Fact and fantasy coexist in Japan
• (D) Both (b) and (c)

“Here it is not sure whether she was using Nostradamus to promote a career in marketing.” What is the underlying tone in this line?

• (A) Appreciation
• (B) Sarcasm
• (C) Criticism
• (D) Both (a) and (b)

Which of the following can be implied from the passage?

• (A) Nostradamus’ prophecies have been influencing the people of Japan for the past thirty years.
• (B) Nostradamus’ prophecies have been the inspiration for various pop songs in Japanese.
• (C) Nostradamus predicted the Korean missile, Hingis' Wimbledon loss, weakness of the yen and the European chicken.
• (D) (a) and (b)

What according to the passage is probably the most deadly effect of the Nostradamus fad?

• (A) It seriously influenced Japanese people.
• (B) The cult gains strength.
• (C) The scare is one that demands blind following.
• (D) A sense of power that generates no real followers.
• (E) All of these

This fever in Japan tends to skew towards young people like 18 year old Inoue, who wanted to feel as if she had achieved something before the world ends. The
goal she decided would be to create fashion. She promoted beach clothes, cosmetics and drugs that would enhance a woman's bust. Here it is not sure
whether she was using Nostradamus to promote a career in marketing And she is a perfect example of how fact and fantasy can coexist in today's Japan.
Nishimoto on other hand has made full preparations and needs no convincing. He has outfitted his home in Habikino, a suburb of Osaka with a personal bomb
shelter. It has 30 cm thick concrete walls reinforced with steel escape hathes, a hand cranked battery operated generator and a ventilation system that
pumps in air while filtering out radioactive elements and biological and chemical contaminants.

What is the “optical illusion” referred to in the passage?

• (A) A rounded man looking villainous
• (B) A rounded man looking hungry
• (C) A rounded man looking cherubic
• (D) A rounded man looking more trustworthy than the lean man

How can an interlocutor be ‘disembodied’?

• (A) Because the telecasts are poor
• (B) Because the frames are edited haphazard
• (C) Because the viewer never sees them physically
• (D) None of the above

What are the two public arenas referred to by writer?

• (A) Market place and speaker’s corner
• (B) Television and presentations
• (C) Interlocution and television
• (D) Political speech and presenters on television

Last November, I organized a seminar about terrorism in aviation. In order to drive home the potential hazards to the students, we visited a large eastern U.S
airport with the intention of acting like a terrorist group looking for targets of opportunity. What we discovered was, at times fascinating and at other
frightening. In general US airports have two areas where the visitors have access: a a public area with little active security measures and a more secure area in the airport waiting and boarding areas. The less secure areas
usually contain ticket counters, baggage claim, gift shops, restaurants and other airport services. Getting into the main areas involves going through a screening process that includes X-ray inspection of carry-on items and walking through metal detectors. Other security measures include limiting curbside parking at the terminal, securing unattended luggage and requiring that all passengers be identified by the airlines by use of a picture identification. In the academic exercise, the group made several notable security observations.
Most of the trash bins in the terminal areas were set within larger concrete containers. An explosive set within one of these containers would likely be directed upward. However, in several cases there were metal and fiberglass containers, sometines adjacent to the concrete ones; also located around the terminal. During visit, there were numerous announcements about how unttended baggage would be collected by the airport authority. At one point, our party observed an unattended umbrella propped against a wall near one of the screening areas. The umbrella was plain in view and in close proximity to constant foot traffic. It was over 45 minutes before an airport staff member removed the umbrella. Most areas of the terminal were designed such that it was difficult to leave a bag unattended in heavily travelled areas of the terminal without it being seen. Our group specifically observedcustodial staff going about their duties to see they were security conscious.In general, we were quite impressed with the level of security. The most worrisome aspects of what we saw
were that the effectivenesss a-е security measures varied greatly, and that a group ofpeople unschooled in the ways of terrorism could very quickly discover numerous opportunities for committing mayhem without being detected

Which statement is correct?

• (A) Ticket counters are more secure than boarding areas.
• (B) Boarding areas are as secure as ticket counters.
• (C) Boarding areas are less secure than ticket counters.
• (D) Boarding areas are more secure than ticket counters.

Which statement/s are incorrect?

I. US airports have two insecure areas where the visitors have access.

II. The effectiveness of active and passive security measures varied greatly.

III. The US airport authorities were quick in collecting the unattended baggage.

• (A) Only I
• (B) I, II
• (C) I, III
• (D) None of these

Given \( a \) and \( b = a - b \); \( a \) and \( b \) but \( c = a + c - b \); \( a \) or \( b = b - a \); \( a \) but not \( b = a + b \); find 1 or (2 but not (3 or (4 and 5 but (6 but not (7 and (8 or 9)))))).

• (A) 9
• (B) -8
• (C) -11
• (D) 17

Given that \( x \mathbin{@} y = x - y \), then find \( (x \mathbin{
(} y) + (x \mathbin{£} y) \).

• (A) \( 2x^2 \)
• (B) \( 2y^2 \)
• (C) \( 2(x^2 + y^2) \)
• (D) Cannot be determined

The expression \((x \mathbin{£} y) + (x \mathbin{@} y))^2 - 2(x \mathbin{£} y)\) will be equal to:

• (A) \( x \mathbin{£} y \)
• (B) \( x \mathbin{
  (} y \)
• (C) \( (x \mathbin{£} y)(x \mathbin{@} y) \)
• (D) Cannot be determined

Which of the following combinations of participants in a room will satisfy all conditions for both the rooms?

• (A) B, C, F
• (B) C, D, F, G
• (C) A, D, E, G
• (D) D, G, C, E

What is the total number of various combinations of room-mates possible, which satisfy all the conditions mentioned?

• (A) 2
• (B) 3
• (C) 4
• (D) 5

If another participant \( H \) is to join the group, then he can be placed with any of the following, except:

• (A) B, E and F, if H is a Bengali
• (B) C, D and G, if H is a Tamilian
• (C) B, E and F, if H is a Tamilian
• (D) A, B and F, if H is a Gujarati

Three trains-Rajdhani Express, Shatabdi Express and Taj Mahal Express-travel between two stations without stopping anywhere in between. No two trains have the
same starting station or the same terminating station or the same travel fare. Also, the following known about these trains.

(i) The fare for the train which travels between
Chennai and Pune is 1650.
(ii) Taj Mahal Express runs between Delhi and
Mumbai.
(iii) Fare for the train which trawels between Bengaluru
and Agra is* 750 less than the fare for Taj Mahal
Express.
(iv) The fare for Rajdhani Express is 150 less than
the fare for Taj Mahal Express.
What is the fare for Shatabdi Express?

• (A) Rs. 1650
• (B) Rs. 1800
• (C) Rs. 1050
• (D) Cannot be determined

Which among the following statements is definitely true?

• (A) The fare for Shatabdi Express, which travels between Bengaluru and Agra is Rs. 1800
• (B) The fare for Taj Mahal Express, travels between Delhi and Mumbai is Rs. 1050
• (C) The fare for Rajdhani Express, which travels between Delhi and Pune is Rs. 1650
• (D) None of the above

Among the given five players, who scored the least number of runs in the 3rd match?

• (A) Sehwag
• (B) Ganguly
• (C) Tendulkar
• (D) Cannot be determined

If Tendulkar scored more runs than Ganguly in the 2nd match, then who is the second highest scorer in the 1st match?

• (A) Sehwag
• (B) Laxman
• (C) Dravid
• (D) Ganguly