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1 b 2 d 3 a 4 c 5 c 6 d 7 b 8 a 9 c 10 b

11 c 12 c 13 d 14 a 15 b 16 c 17 d 18 c 19 c 20 a

21 c 22 b 23 c 24 b 25 c 26 b 27 c 28 c 29 d 30 c

31 a 32 b 33 c 34 b 35 a 36 b 37 d 38 d 39 c 40 d

41 c 42 a 43 a 44 a 45 b 46 a 47 c 48 b 49 c 50 d

51 c 52 d 53 b 54 c 55 b 56 a 57 c 58 c 59 b 60 b

61 a 62 a 63 c 64 c 65 b 66 b 67 a 68 c 69 d 70 a

71 c 72 d 73 b 74 d 75 b 76 c 77 d 78 c 79 a 80 b

81 a 82 d 83 b 84 a 85 d 86 a 87 c 88 b 89 b 90 c

91 b 92 d 93 a 94 b 95 c 96 a 97 c 98 d 99 a 100 a

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1. b Positions of persons in descending order of theirheights are shown below:X > A > Z > Y > B

For questions 2 and 3:The given information can be tabulated as below:

Person City Day

Ajay Kolkata Wednesday

Bijay Delhi Thursday

Chinki Mumbai Monday

Deepak Chennai Tuesday

2. d

3. a

4. c The passage states that although the courts are wellmeaning in their intention to uphold equal rights forwomen, they are unable to provide equality to womenin the real sense. This is partly due to the fact that thejudgment deliverers are predominantly male and thusthe judgments carry a male hue. Option (c) states thesame and is thus, the correct answer. The societybeing male dominated and judgment deliverers beinglargely male are causes for the courts inability toprovide equality for women and not for the incessantperpetuation of gender discrimination in the society.Option (a), thus, cannot be inferred. Option (b) cannotbe inferred from the passage as there is no informationto support the case for gender based laws. Option (d)cannot be inferred as although the passage statesthat womens equality as delivered by courts can onlybe an integration into a male dominated world, it doesnot mean that equality for women is possible only onpaper. Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.

5. c There is no information in the passage from which wecan infer anything about the eligibility criteria to declarea species extinct. Thus, option (a) is incorrect. Option(b) is incorrect as it can be inferred from the passagethat these species have been missing from ourrecords during the said period. This does not imply,that they have not been present in their natural habitator have not come out in the open. Option (c) can beinferred from the line, "The search is taking placesimultaneously in 15 States, because the monsoonseason is the best time..." Thus, the search ishappening in the 15 states where monsoon hasarrived. Option (d) can't be inferred because early inthe passage the author says that the species beinglocated are amphibians (not necessarily only frogs).Though it is possible that most of the 50 species befrogs because the author has specifically talked aboutlocating frogs, it cannot be concluded that all thespecies being tracked are of frogs. Hence, option (c)is the correct answer.

6. d Options (a), (b) and (c) can be inferred from theinformation given in the passage. Only option (d) cannotbe inferred as it states that epilepsy can be diagnosedeasily. However, there is no information in the passageto support this claim. Thus, option (d) is the correctanswer.

7. b Option (a) can't be inferred from the passage since itonly says that in India the norms of girlhood areincompatible with the basic principles of education.Nothing is mentioned about other countries and theissues there. Option (c) can't be validly inferredbecause the socialization of boys and their formaleducation have not been discussed. Option (d) statesthat the home environment is to be blamed. The authorhowever indicates that tradition and customs areresponsible for their lack of empowerment. There maybe cases for e.g. where at home there is nodiscrimination and neither is there discrimination atschool but in societal settings there is lack ofempowerment. Also, the first part of the sentence,that girls and boys are imparted the same formalteaching, cannot be inferred from the passage. Option(b) talks about the fact that there are many restrictionswhich girls have and boys don't have, like restrictionson physical movement of girls etc. as mentioned in thepassage. We can infer that women are a suppressedlot from the fact mentioned in the passage that theyhave to "submit to male authority in all aspects of theirlife." Thus, option (b) is the correct answer.

8. a The passage states that all other benef its arediminished if water and sanitation do not exist. Thiscan be evidenced in even though the benefits ofthose are diminished if their recipients have no cleanwater or toilets. Thus, option (a) can be inferred fromthe passage that water and sanitation are moreimportant than schooling and medical aid. Option (b) isincorrect as the passage states that the budget forclean water and sanitation is shrinking which doesntmean that it now accounts for the least proportion inthe global aid budget. Option (c) doesnt follow fromthe passage as we dont know what makes the useof development aid effective nor has anything beenmentioned in the passage regarding the effectivenessof the use of development aid in water and sanitation.Option (d) talks about western countries, whereasthe passage talks about rich countries. It cant beassumed that the rich countries talked about in thepassage are western countries. Thus, option (d)cannot be inferred. Option (a) is the correct choice

9. c Except in figure C, in each of the remaining figuresnumber of circle(s) inside the square is square of anatural number.

10. b Except in figure C, in each of the remaining figuressum of number of sides of interior figures is 10.

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11. c An elephant trumpets and a horse neighs. So, option(c) is correct. A mosquito whines, a sheep bleatsand a cow moos.

12. c The pair in question portrays the connection betweena substance (rock) and its texture (hard). Option (c)portrays a similar relation and is the correct answer.Option (a) is incorrect as it talks about coal and itscolour. Option (b) is inappropriate as it states one ofthe properties (sweet) of sugar. Option (d) is alsoincorrect as it indicates one of the characteristics ofbees.

For questions 13 and 14:The arrangement of the boxes can be shown as below:

Shelf Box

7 (Upper most) B

6 C

5 F

4 E

3 G

2 D

1 (Lower most) A

13. d

14. a

15. b 'Cape' and 'pace' are formed by the rearrangement ofthe same letters in a particular order (1234 to 3214).Similarly, 'pane' and 'nape' also use the same lettersand same rearrangement logic as above to form twodifferent words. Thus, option (b) is the correctanswer.

16. c Petrology is the study of rocks while ornithology isthe study of birds. Thus, option (c) is the correctanswer.

17. d The sitting arrangement can be shown as below:

Suraj Parul Binu Anuj Rekha Tanya East

18. c In the grid, cells column-wise have been filled by theletters corresponding to the consecutive primenumbers starting from 2. Hence, S will come in placeof (?).

B(2) G(7) Q(17)

C(3) K(11) S(19)

E(5) M(13) W(23)

19. c Lakha must be telling a lie.

20. a The given information can be shown as below:

V

T

S/Q

P

Q/S

R

21. c

D T

LL

L

As shown in the Venn diagram above, all those lionsthat are tigers are not dogs because according tostatement I, tigers and dogs are disjoint sets. Hence,option (c) is correct. Options (a), (b) and (d) can all benegated as shown in the diagram above. The dog setcan be completely inside, intersecting or completelyoutside the lion set.

22. b P

SH

S

Some sadness is happiness and all happiness ispervasive. Therefore, some sadness is pervasive.Therefore, option (b) is correct.

23. c

WD

OD

Option (a): The Venn diagram above shows that theset of doors may or may not intersect with the set ofwindows. Hence, option (a) is incorrect.

D

WWhite

White


Option (b): All windows are doors means thatwindows is a subset of doors. Also, statement visays that windows is a subset of white. Thus, whitemay or may not include doors. Statement ii does notfollow the two statements in the given option andthus, option (b) is incorrect.

White

DW

Option (c) is the correct choice. Since windows is asubset of doors and doors is a subset of white,therefore, windows is a subset of white.

White

D

Windows

D

Option (d): Both windows and doors are subsets ofwhite. They may be intersecting, overlapping or disjointsets. Hence, option (d) is incorrect.

24. b The day after 1001st day from today = 1002nd day.Number of odd days in 1002 days = 1Hence, the required day will be Monday.

25. c Let the required angle be .

11m 30h2

(where m = minute and h = hours)

11 40 30 32

= 220 90 = 130.

26. b Option (a) is incorrect as the passage clearly statesthat only one in 20 people who consume alcohol inIndia become alcoholics. Option (b) is correct as it isstated in the passage that those who are not heavydrinkers (alcoholics) also run the risk of harmingthemselves and others when they drink, howeversmall the quantity be. Option (c) is incorrect since thepassage only states that there is no medicinal cure foralcoholism, but there may be other steps that could betaken to help with and mitigate the problem ofalcoholism. Option (d) is incorrect as the passagetalks of five percent of people who drink becomingalcoholics and f if ty percent of people who drinkindulging in hazardous drinking. This cannot be said tomean that alcoholics and hazardous drinkers are twomutually exclusive categories.

27. c Last few lines of the passage clearly state that whensomeone indulges in hazardous drinking, he drinksso much that he is no longer in his senses. Henceoption (c) is correct. Statement (ii) is incorrect because

driving a car after drinking is an example of behavingin a hazardous manner but cannot be termed ashazardous drinking. Statement (iii) cannot be inferredfrom the information given in the passage.

28. c Option (a) is an incorrect interpretation. Even thoughthe passage says that society sees crime againstwomen as an accepted practice, the concept that it isevil is that of the author and we cannot attribute it tosociety i.e. we can't say that society also views it asevil. Option (b) cannot be inferred because all that wecan infer from the passage is that India has enactedlaws to protect women. This does not tell us whethersuch laws have been successfully implemented.Option (d) is a sweeping statement that cannot beinferred from the passage. Whether the social conditionof women can be redeemed or it is hopeless is out ofthe ambit of the information presented in the passage.Option (c) can be clearly inferred from the line, "judicialredress lies beyond the woman's horizon."

29. d Refer to the line If enactment of lawsare on velvet.It can be clearly inferred from these lines that Indiahas enacted laws to protect women. This makes option(d) the correct choice. Option (a) is not implied in thegiven statement. Option (b) is incorrect as the authorclearly says that enough laws have been enacted toprotect women in India. Option (c) is beyond the scopeof the passage since it talks about power and rightsof women which is nowhere mentioned in the passage.

30. c The paragraph does not say anything about copperbeing converted from ore into usable form; this rulesout option (a). While the paragraph does say that thecopper mining project is owned by HCL but it does nottalk about where they put this to use. We cant assumethat HCL does not export and the entire copper is forthe countrys use; thus, ruling out option (b). The lastsentence in the paragraph mentions that the tribalresidents of the surrounding villages suffer from healthproblems caused by the copper mining project.However, we cannot infer, on the basis of this, thatthe waste produced in the mining which is lying aroundin the open and in large quantities is causing the healthissues. Thus, option (d) is also incorrect. Theparagraph states that it is the Malanjkhand CopperProject, located in Balaghat's Birsa block, that accountsfor 70% of the country's copper reserves. Balaghatmay have more places like the Birsa block which couldbe producing copper, Birsa alone contributes 70%and hence Balaghats contribution could be more butis at least 70%. Thus, option (c) is the correct answer.

31. a If something falls through, it fails to materialize orhappen, like a plan, deal or an arrangement. The correctphrasal verb here is option (a). To fall out means toend friendly terms with someone. Fall over means tofall on something or fall down. Fall behind means tomove slowly so that you lag behind someone.

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32. b The sentence is in present perfect tense (have known)and needs the following verb (make) in the sametense. Option (b), has made, f its in well in thesentence.

33. c The key word here is urgent. The sense of urgencygoes with escape. None of the other optionsappropriately fit in the first blank. In the second blankimmune, inured (to accustom to hardship, difficulty,pain, etc) and unconvinced can all make sense butunconvinced works best. Immune and inured meannot to be susceptible to something or someone.Uninitiated means not knowledgeable or skilled.

34. b Option (a) is incorrect as the word dissipate (to

exhaust or be exhausted by dispersion) can be usedwith energy, smoke, clouds etc. but not with savings.Expend means to use or spend but the sentencerequires a word that goes with useless spendingmaking squandered (to spend or use money or timeextravagantly or wastefully)correct. Clamouringmeans loud and persistent outcry from many people.The word aptly fits in the second blank making option(b) the correct choice. Clinkering and vociferatingmean making a lot of noise. Trifled is to deal withsomething as if it were of little value or significance.Remonstrate means to rebuke.

35. a CB forms a mandatory pair. Your indulgence in Brefers to that of the chocolate lovers mentioned in C. Dfollows B as it explains how indulgence in chocolatewould help lower the risk of stroke and heart attack. Asupports the same with facts and figures making DA amandatory pair as well. Hence, option (a) is the correctchoice.

36. b Only sentence B can begin the passage as it introducesthe topic i.e. the existence of methane beneath theAntarctic ice sheet. This is followed by sentence C asthe gas in C refers to methane mentioned in B. A hasto follow D as the organic material in A refers to theorganic matter talked about in D. The correctsequence thus would be given by option (b).

37. d D starts the passage by addressing the reader aboutthe possibility of an investment opportunity in anenvironment friendly venture. B takes the point forwardby mentioning a possible reason for not wanting to goin for a regular investment option. Thus, DB is amandatory pair. A has to come after D and B as it sumsup the earlier two statements by stating if that soundslike you. C concludes the passage by mentioning thename of the bank that has come up with the proposal.Thus, option (d) is the correct choice.

38. d A 'church', 'temple' and 'synagogue' are all places ofworship. A monastery is however a community ofpersons, esp. monks or nuns, living under religiousvows and/or the place of residence occupied by suchpersons. Thus, option (d) is the correct answer.

39. c Options (a), (b) and (d) have parallelism errors. In (a)the two gerunds (dancing and drinking) are followedby the infinitive to which is an incorrect construction.The correct sentence should be, ...dancing, drinkingor going to... In (b), the infinitive to should be placedbefore dance to maintain the parallel structure of thesentence. In (d), the correct sentence should be, ...todance, drink or go to ... Thus option (c) is the correctchoice.

40. d There should be consistency in the use of pronoun tokeep the sentence parallel. In (a), the sentence beginswith the pronoun one, so the passive pronoun usedfor referring to it should be ones and not your. Option(d) is the correct choice. Option (b) can be eliminatedfor the same reason as (a). In (c), the possessivepronoun used should be yours and not ones.

41. c Option (a) is incorrect because saying without hardlyis redundant. It is a double negative mistake whereintwo negatives make a positive. Thus, option (c) iscorrect. In (b), with hardly a warning is an incorrectphrase and has no meaning. Option (d) is incorrect asit is incomplete and thus is an incorrect construction.

42. a To talk turkey means to have a frank discussion,often in a business context. Thus, option (a) is thecorrect answer.

43. a Wheels within wheels implies complex interactingprocesses, agents, or motives that inf luence aparticular situation, making it more complicated than itat f irst seems. This term, which now evokes thecomplex interaction of gears, may derive from a scenein the Bible (Ezekiel 1:16): "Their appearance and theirwork was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."

44. a An idealist is someone guided more by ideals than bypractical considerations. Hence, option (a) is correct.Someone who strives for or demands the higheststandards of excellence in work is known as aperfectionist.

45. b No sooner than means as soon as. So the givensentence would mean, As soon as I left the house, itstarted raining. Hence option (b) is the correct choice.

46. a The phrase, face that could stop a clock is used torefer to a person who is very ugly. Hence, option (a)i.e. pleasant and appealing is the correct choice.

47. c Adjourn (verb) means to break off (a meeting, legalcase, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.The opposite of adjourn is thus convene whichmeans to call people together (for a meeting) or toassemble or cause to assemble for a common purpose.Thus, option (c) is the correct answer.

48. b Waive (verb) means to refrain from insisting on orusing (a right or claim) or to refrain from applying orenforcing (a rule, restriction, or fee). Thus, claim,option (b) is the correct answer.


49. c Compunction (noun) means a feeling of guilt or moralscruple that follows the doing of something bad. Thecorrect antonym is shamelessness. Option (c) iscorrect.

50. d Option (d) is the correct choice. The correctconstruction has the possessive noun (his) as thesubject of the gerund (being). Option (b) is incorrectas the subject of the gerund is missing and there isambiguity as to who was caught on CCTV. Options(a) and (c) are grammatically incorrect.

51. c Total numbers from 1 to 100 divisible by 2 = 100

2 = 50

and that of by 5 = 100

5 = 20

Also, the total numbers from 1 to 100 divisible by both

2 and 5 = 10010 =10

Hence, the total numbers from 1 to 100 divisible byeither 2 or 5 = 50 + 20 10 = 60.

52. d Expenditure of Mr. Y = Income of Mr. Y Saving ofMr. Y = 20000 7500 = `12,500Expenditure of Mr. X = 60% of Expenditure of Mr. YY= 0.6 12500 = `7,500Hence, the income Mr. X = Expenditure of Mr. X +saving of Mr. X = 7500 + 10000 = `17,500.

53. b9x 58 9x 40 = x + 1

10 8

x = 48.

54. c The ratio of amounts contributed by Sukhwinder, Ajayand Kangkana = 120 : 144 : 156 = 10 : 12 : 13

The share of profit of Sukhwinder =315 10

10 12 13

= `90

and that of Kangkana = 315 13

10 12 13

= `117

Hence, the answer = 117 90 = `27.

55. b Let the cost price of the article be `100x.The selling price

30 30 30100x 1 1 1100 100 100

= `118.3x

Hence, the profit percentage = 118.3x 100x 100

100

= 18.3.

56. a Area of the rectangular sheet = 14 50 = 700 cm

Area of the semi circular paper = 222 7

7 2 = 77 cm

Hence, the required area = 700 77 = 623 cm.

57. c The pattern of the series is shown below:532 4 = 528528 4 = 132132 4 = 128128 4 = 32 32 4 = 28Hence, the next term of the sequence = 28 4 = 7.

58. c Number of Massai lions = 10Number of Congo lions = 15Let x be the average age of Congo lions.10 19 + 15 x = 25 22 x = 24 years.

59. b Let the five digit number be 4N.

Hence, the percentage change = 16N N

100N

= 1500%.

60. b As there is one 5 in the set of all odd prime numbersbetween 1 and 1000.Unit digit of (5 odd number) = 5.

61. a 62. a 63. c 64. c 65. b

66. b 67. a 68. c 69. d 70. a

71. c 72. d 73. b 74. d 75. b

76. c 77. d 78. c 79. a 80. b

81. a 82. d 83. b 84. a 85. d

For questions 86 to 90:

Year Supply (In crore barrels)Demand (In crore barrels)

2006 24.6 32.2

2007 26.4 36.5

2008 27.2 34.2

2009 30.5 38

2010 26.8 36.6

2011 28.2 32.6

86. a The percentage increase

= 36.6 32.2 100 13.7.

32.2

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87. c The percentage increase in the supply of crude oil inIndia in:

2007 = 26.4 24.6 100 7.3

24.6

2008 = 27.2 26.4 100 3

26.4

2009 = 30.5 27.2 100 12.1

27.2

2011 = 28.2 26.8 100 5.2

26.8

Hence, the percentage increase was the highest inthe year 2009.

88. b The average demand (in crore barrels)

= 32.2 36.5 34.2 38 36.6 32.6 35.

6

89. b The shortage (in crore barrels) of crude oil in India in:2006 = 32.2 24.6 = 7.62007 = 36.5 26.4 = 10.12009 = 38 30.5 = 7.52010 = 36.6 26.8 = 9.8Hence, the shortage was highest in the year 2007.

90. c The percentage = Demand Supply

100Supply

34.2 27.2 100 25.7.27.2

For questions 91 to 95:The table given below shows the production of cotton (in '000 bales) by six major cotton-producing states of India individuallyand together in six different years.

Gujarat 5610 5975 6080 5760 5810 5480 34715

Maharashtra 3193 3193 3050 2400 4639 2670 19145

Punjab 2700 2670 2650 2650 2750 2580 16000

Karnataka 1643 1315 1580 1675 1640 1622 9475

Andhra Pradesh 1997 1390 1543 1380 1010 980 8300

Madhya Pradesh 857 957 697 665 651 673 4500

Total 16000 15500 15600 14530 16500 14005 92135

2011 Total Years States 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

91. b The approximate percentage decrease = 3050 2400 100 21.3.

3050

92. d

93. a The required difference (in '000 bales) = 34715 19145 = 15570.

94. b 20% of the total production in 2007 = 20 15500 3100

100

There were only two states which produced more than 20% of the total cotton produced by the six states together inthe year 2007 and these were Gujrat and Maharashtra.

95. c There were two such states which witnessed growth in two consecutive years and these were Gujarat andKarnataka.


96. a From statement I: No information is given about a.Hence, statement (I) alone is not sufficient.

From statement II: Let the values of a and b be 5xand 3x respectively.

The percentage = (5x 3x) 100 66.66%

3

Hence, statement II alone is sufficient.

97. c Information given in either of the statements is alonenot sufficient.From statements I and II: On combining theinformation given in the two statements, it can beconcluded that R is standing at extreme left position.Hence, both the statements together are sufficient.

98. d The only thing that can be concluded on the basis ofthe Information given in either of the statements is thatx is a positive real number. Even after combining thetwo statements, it cannot be concluded that whetherx is an integer.

99. a From statement I:Let the number of boys and that of girls in the class bex and y respectively.

17x + 13y = 15(x + y) xy

=1

Hence, statement I alone is sufficient.From statement II: Information given in the statementis not sufficient to answer the question.

100. a From statement I: Nothing can be said about thedivisibility of m by 13 on the basis of the informationgiven in the statement.Hence, statement I alone is not sufficient.From statement II: Since m is divisible by 1001, itmust also be divisible by 13Hence, statement II alone is sufficient.

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