prock mock 5

Proctored Mock CAT-5 2012

1. Doodhnath, a milkman, has 100 litres of milk and water solution that contains 70% milk. Whatquantity of water (in litres) should he add to the solution to bring down the concentration of milk to40%?(a) 65 (b) 75 (c) 40 (d) 85

2. If a1 = 3, a2 = 7 and an = 3an–1 – 2an–2 for n 3,≥ then the value of a8 is

(a) 255 (b) 1023 (c) 511 (d) None of these

3. Arnav can complete one-fourth of a piece of work in five-twelfth of the time taken by Bhavan tocomplete the entire work. If they together can complete the work in 15 days, then in how many dayscan Bhavan working alone complete the work?(a) 17 (b) 24 (c) 30 (d) 40

4. If 3

(ax b) 2,(ax b)

+ + =+

then the value of 3(ax b) (ax b) + − + is

(a) –2 (b) –6 (c) –3 (d) None of these

5. If Billu’s father bought 3 oranges, 4 apples and 5 bananas for �62 and his sister Pinki bought4 oranges, 5 apples and 4 bananas for �72, then what amount (in �� did Billu pay for 1 orange,2 apples and 7 bananas?(a) 44 (b) 54 (c) 58 (d) 42

Directions for questions 6 to 8: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.The line graph given below shows the GDP, I(A) and NR(K) figures (in �‘000 crores) of Kinderland fromFY 2007-08 to FY 2010-11.GDP – Gross Domestic ProductI(A) – Income earned by Kinderland citizens from overseas investmentsNR(K) – Income earned by foreign nationals in KinderlandGNP = GDP + I(A) – NR(K)

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41594650

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2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

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GDP I(A) NR(K)

Proctored Mock CAT-5 2012Section – I


6. What was the average (in � ‘000 crores) of the GDPs of the fiscal years in which the GNP was morethan the GDP?(a) 4379 (b) 4273.5 (c) 4631 (d) 3841.5

7. What was the approximate percentage change in the GNP of Kinderland in FY 2008-09 overFY 2007-08?(a) 5.94 (b) 6.72 (c) 15.52 (d) 21.60

8. What was the difference (in � ‘000 crores) between the average NR(K) and the average I(A) for thegiven period?(a) 75 (b) 90 (c) 105 (d) 120

9. A teacher asks one of her students to divide a 30-digit number by 11. The number consists of sixconsecutive 1’s, then six consecutive 2’s, and likewise six 3’s, six 4’s and six 7’s in that order fromleft to right. The student inserts a three-digit number between the last 4 and the first 7 by mistakeand finds the resulting number to be divisible by 11. Find the number of possible values of thethree-digit number.(a) 82 (b) 92 (c) 81 (d) 91

10. Let S be the set of the first six natural numbers. If five numbers are picked randomly from S, what isthe probability that the sum of the five numbers is divisible by 3?

(a) 19

(b) 16

(c) 13

(d) 18

11. A treacherous fruit vendor, while purchasing apples from the wholesaler, manages to receive 25%more apples than the quantity for which he pays. He cheats his customers as well and while selling

the apples to them he delivers 2

16 %3

less apples than the quantity for which the customers pay. If

he claims to sell the apples at their cost price, find his net profit percentage.(a) 50 (b) 45 (c) 60 (d) 55

12. Two equal circles with centers O and O’ cut each other at two distinct points C and C’. If neitherO nor O’ falls within the intersection of the circles, what is the smallest range that includes all the

possible values of COC' CO'C'?∠ + ∠(a) Between 0° and 180° (b) Between 0° and 120°(c) Between 0° and 360° (d) Between 0° and 240°


Directions for questions 13 and 14: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

An insurance company, Becho Pvt. Ltd., started its operations in the year 2006 with some employees. Thebar chart given below shows the number of employees in the company at the end of each calendar year forthe period 2006 to 2011. Among the employees who joined in the year 2006, 20% left the company exactlyone year after joining and 25% of the remaining left the company exactly two years after joining. The samewas true for the employees who joined in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. No otheremployee left the company in the given period.

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13. How many employees left the company in the year 2009?(a) 36 (b) 40 (c) 32 (d) 24

14. How many employees joined the company in the year 2010?(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 32 (d) 36

15. The 23rd term and the 32nd term of a geometric progression are the number of factors of 54 and 72respectively. What is the geometric mean of the first 54 terms of the progression?

(a) 4 3 (b) 6 2 (c) 8 3 (d) 4 6


16. The graph of 2y – x against 2x + y is as shown below. (All graphs in this question are drawn to scaleand the same scale has been used on each axis.)

2y – x

2x + y

Which of the following shows the graph of y against x?

(a) y

x

(b) y

x

(c) y

x

(d) y

x

17. How many two-digit natural numbers satisfy x x

19 101

= + , where [x] denotes the greatest integer

less than or equal to x?(a) 7 (b) 10 (c) 9 (d) None of these


18. The question given below is followed by two statements, A and B. Mark the answer using thefollowing instructions:Mark (a) if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot beanswered by using the other statement alone.Mark (b) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot beanswered by using either statement alone.Mark (c) if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Mark (d) if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together.

Q. If ax2 – 2bx + a = 0, what is the value of a – b?A. The roots of ax2 – 2bx + a = 0 are real and equal.B. a and b are natural numbers.

19. The cost of a gold biscuit varies directly as the square-root of the cube of its weight. A goldsmithmakes a big gold biscuit by combining three smaller gold biscuits whose weights are in the ratio64 : 81 : 144. If the cost of the resulting big biscuit is �98260, find the sum of the costs (in �) of thelightest and the heaviest smaller biscuits.(a) 44800 (b) 49140 (c) 24820 (d) 59580

20. In how many ways can 73 identical chocolates be stuffed into three boxes – B1, B2 and B3 – suchthat B1 contains more chocolates that B2 and B2 contains more chocolates than B3?(a) 888 (b) 444 (c) 222 (d) 666

21. How many distinct regular polygons can be constructed by using 24 sticks, each of length 4.75 cm,such that all 24 sticks are used together and no two sticks overlap?(a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 12


Directions for questions 22 to 24: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

A travel agency called ‘Pleasant Travels’ operates AC/Non-AC buses between the six most happeningcities of ‘Paradise-Land’. The table given below lists each pair of cities between which the buses operateand the distance between them. All the passengers take only those routes for travelling where they don’thave to change the bus more than once to reach their destination. The cost of travelling between two citiesdepends on three factors – boarding city, the kind of bus i.e. AC or Non-AC and the distance between thetwo cities. The fare of AC buses is �2/km if starting from P, R and U and is �2.2/km if starting from Q, S andT; whereas the fare of Non-AC buses is �1/km if starting from Q, T and U and is �1.2/km if starting from P,R and S.

Pair of cities Distance (in km) between citiesP, Q 90P, S 110P, T 195P, U 115Q, R 75Q, S 115Q, T 95Q, U 190R, U 110S, T 80S, U 60T, U 85

22. What is the minimum amount (in �) a passenger has to pay for travelling from P to T if she does notwant to travel in Non-AC buses?(a) 396 (b) 389 (c) 390 (d) 380

23. What is the minimum distance (in km) a passenger has to travel if she wants to go to U from Q byusing the bus service of Pleasant Travels?(a) 175 (b) 170 (c) 185 (d) 190

24. Which route should a passenger take to travel from R to S to keep the cost of travelling lowestpossible?(a) R – Q – S (b) R – U – S (c) Either (a) or (b) (d) None of these


25. Rohan, Shikha’s boyfriend, had to pick her from her home for a live concert on her 23rd birthday. Thevenue of the concert and Shikha’s home were in opposite directions from Rohan’s office. He got latebecause of some work at office and realised that if he goes to pick Shikha from her home, whichwas a 48-minute drive from his office, they would be late for the show by 16 minutes. He asked herto start from her home towards his office in an auto-rickshaw and himself started driving towards herhome. Both of them started simultaneously, he picked her as soon as they met and they managedto reach the venue just in time for the concert. If Rohan drives at an average speed of 60 km/h, findthe speed (in km/hr) of the auto-rickshaw.(a) 16 (b) 20 (c) 12 (d) 15

26. Let Z = {1, 11, 111, 1111, ..., 11111 up to 55 times} and T be a subset of Z such that the sum of no twoelements of T is divisible by 3. The maximum possible number of elements in T is(a) 20 (b) 18 (c) 19 (d) 37

27. In the figure given below, ∠ABC = ∠BEC = 90°, AB = 15 cm, BC = 20 cm, BD = 12 cm and CE = 16cm. Find the length (in cm) of DE.

A

D

CB

E

O

(a) 18.60 (b) 19.20 (c) 20 (d) 20.80



The table given below shows the break-up of questions and marks across the sections in MXAT-2011exam. In the exam, each incorrect answer carried a penalty of 1/4th of the mark(s) allotted to the question.

SectionNumber of questions

for sectionTotal marks for section

1 2 3 4 5QADI 7 14 14 0 8 43 117VRLR 13 8 12 2 2 37 83ARDM 1 8 12 2 2 25 71Total 21 30 38 4 12 105 271

Marks per question

28. Sukriti attempted 22 questions in the QADI section and scored 40 marks. If she attempted six5-markers in the section and got only one of them correct, find the number of questions that Sukritiattempted correctly in the section.(a) 16 (b) 15 (c) Either (a) or (b) (d) None of these

29. The sectional cut-offs for QADI, VRLR and ARDM were 12, 13 and 13 respectively and the overallcut-off for the paper was 44. In none of the sections did any test-taker score more than 75% of themarks allotted to the question(s) attempted by her in the section. What was the minimum numberof questions required to be attempted in the paper to clear the three sectional cut-offs as well as theoverall cut-off?(a) 13 (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 21

30. Two horses are tethered at diagonally opposite corners of a square field of area 96 m2 by ropes oflength 8 m each. Find the approximate area (in m2) inside the field that cannot be grazed by thehorses.(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 33 (d) 55


Directions for questions 31 to 33: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions.Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Nonetheless, Sereny on Stangl has much in common with Arendt on Adolf Eichmann. Both resisted theeasy characterisation of evil as something done by people with horns and funny accents: that is, done bypeople not like you and me. What is so terrifying about the work of Sereny is that she makes evil lookordinary and every day. And in this way she shows us how close we all could be to it.

The myth she seeks to expose is that evil people are somehow qualitatively different. Stangl wasn’t muchof a man, she insists. He was more concerned with the neatness of his uniform and with getting thingsdone efficiently and decently. Stangl had no perception of the big picture. He saw himself a minor functionary,just obeying orders and doing his best. His whole identity was so bound up in this function that it was onlyat the very end of his life that he was able to glimpse something of his own guilt.

The sociologist Gillian Rose once challenged those who represent the Holocaust to do so in a way thatdoesn’t just lead to identification with the victims, but in a way that also leads to the deeply uncomfortableidentification with the perpetrators. One of the most morally transformative experiences one can have is tocatch one’s own reflection in the face of the Nazi murderer. For this can prompt a sort of spiritual crisis ina person and thus act to warn us not to be so trusting of our own virtue. Evil is not done by other people. Itis done by people like us.

No wonder some got so angry at Sereny’s work. She was blamed for being too soft on murderers, ofunderstanding them too much. But her writing was driven by something much deeper than soft-heartedliberal understanding. She took the reader on a journey not just into the dark soul of the Nazi guard, butalso into darkness that is our own. And no one was going to thank her for that. Except that one of the mostimportant ways to avoid evil – or whatever one wants to call it – is by having the self-critical vigilance thatsuch a journey can scare you into developing. Which is why her work is among the bravest and mostsignificant literature of the century.

31. Why, according to the author, is Sereny’s work significant?

(a) The work warns us not to be too trusting of our virtue and judge people from a high moral ground.(b) She provides us with an understanding of murderers and their motives which ensures that we do

not become like them.(c) She allows us to glimpse the evil that is present in all human beings.(d) She makes us identify with perpetrators of evil acts and enables us to avoid similar behaviour.

32. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

(a) According to Sereny, Stangl was able to insulate himself from guilt by being concerned with theefficiency of his work.

(b) People do not like Sereny’s work because they are uncomfortable with confronting the evilinside them.

(c) Sereny’s work is brave as very few authors have chosen to write about this subject matter.(d) Sereny was a liberal.

33. The author is least likely to agree with which of the following?

(a) It is easy to view people who commit evil acts as being different from the rest of us.(b) Sereny’s work can make readers uncomfortable.(c) The discovery that the potential to commit evil acts is present in everybody can be terrifying.(d) Sereny’s work has an important role in enabling people to understand the true nature of evil.

Section – II


34. A cuboid of dimensions 8 cm × 6 cm × 4 cm is painted by red colour. If it is cut into 192 smallercubes of equal size, find the number of smaller cubes that will have exactly two faces painted.

(a) 56 (b) 42 (c) 48 (d) 36


In the hope of settling this dispute, I ask you to consider the history of literary women. It turns out, oddly,to be also a prolific history of “men,” among whom the most celebrated are Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell(Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë), George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), George Sand (Amandine Aurore LucieDupin), Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Vernon Lee (Violet Paget).

The motive behind these necessary masquerades is hardly an urge to hide. Instead, it is a cry for recognitionand a means of evading belittlement, or worse yet, the curse of not being noticed at all. The most pointedsymptom and symbol of this pervasive fear is the poignant exchange between the 20-year-old CharlotteBrontë and Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Humbly and diffidently, she had sent him a samplingof her poems, trusting that he might acknowledge the worth of what she knew to be her “single, absorbing,exquisite gratification.”

His notorious reply, while conceding her “faculty of verse,” is nearly all that remains of his once powerfulfame. “Literature,” he chided, “cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be. The moreshe is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure she will have for it, even as an accomplishment and arecreation.” If such condescending sentiments leave a contemporary writer feeling sick at heart, Brontëthought the letter “kind and admirable; a little stringent, but it did me good.”

The Orange Prize, then, was not born into an innocent republic of letters. Nor need we thumb through pastcenturies to discover the laureate’s enduring principle. After gaining a modicum of notice following aneclipse lasting years, I was once praised, as a kind of apology, by a prominent editor with these surprisingwords: “I used to think of you as a lady writer” — an inborn condition understood to be frivolous and slight,and from which recovery is almost always anomalous.

So much for the defense of a reparative award dedicated solely to writers who are women. Advocacy of thissort, vigorously grounded as it is in a darker chamber of the literary continuum, is not the Orange’s onlydefense. We are reminded that there are, abundantly, prizes for regional writers, for black writers, forChristian writers, for Jewish writers, for prison writers, for teenage writers, for science writers, and on andon. Why must a prize for women’s writing be the single object of contention?

Yet this argument will not hold water. Each such category signals a particular affinity, or call it, moreprecisely, a culture (and in the case of Jews and Christians, a deeper and broader civilization), and womenare integral to all of them. To argue for femaleness-as-culture is to condemn imaginative and intellectualfreedom and to revert to the despised old anatomy-is-destiny.

35. The author is likely to agree with which of the following?

(a) Women writers look for recognition from their male counterparts and this has led to theirsubservience in the field of literature.

(b) Orange prize is another form of the old condescending attitudes of the literary establishmenttowards women.

(c) The prizes given exclusively to cultural groups are justified but the same cannot be said forprizes exclusive to women.


(d) Women writers have had to face much derision in the past and the Orange Prize has come asa form of reprieve.

36. Why does the author bring up the instance where she was called a ‘lady writer’ in paragraph 4?

(a) The author wishes to demonstrate the prejudiced views of an important individual.(b) The author wants to prove that women writers are inherently different.(c) The author wants to argue that there is a genuine case for the Orange prize being a reparative

measure.(d) The author wants to demonstrate that opinions regarding women writers have not changed since

the time of Robert Southey.

37. Why does the author ultimately concede ‘this argument will not hold water’?1. There are no awards that women writers are barred from competing for.2. The award categorises women writers as a separate culture.3. The award works against the principles of intellectual freedom.

(a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) Only 3


Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats;a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keephimself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand ‘under the shelter of the wall,’ as Plato putsit, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incompa-rable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil theirlives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism— are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find them-selves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that theyshould be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence;and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much easier to havesympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, thoughmisdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedyingthe evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, theirremedies are part of the disease

They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a veryadvanced school, by amusing the poor.

But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstructsociety on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented thecarrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and soprevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by thosewho contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are thepeople who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied theproblem and know the life—educated men who live in the East End—coming forward and imploring thecommunity to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on theground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude ofsins.


38. Why does the author say that charity creates a multitude of sins?1. The resources that charity uses in order to alleviate the evils are the very sources that create

these evils.2. Charity is an inadequate mode of partial restitution.3. The poor are grateful for charity because they do not realize the motive behind it.4. Charity postpones the recognition of wrong.

(a) 2 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (c) Only 4 (d) 1, 2 and 4

39. In the passage, the author states that “But this is not a solution”. Which of the following is in linewith the author’s view as a possible solution to the problem discussed in the passage?

(a) Realign the social structure so that each member of the society share the general prosperityand happiness of the society.

(b) Converting private property into public wealth, and substituting co-operation for competition.(c) Making possible the availability of necessities for the poor.(d) None of the above

40. The tone of the author in the passage is

(a) persuasive (b) opinionated (c) didactic (d) caviling

Directions for questions 41 to 43: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Each of the four diplomats – Kabir, Laxman, Manan and Nayodita – worked for an integral number of yearsin each of the three countries – the USA, the UK and China. The sums of the number of years spent in thethree countries together were distinct for the four diplomats. The sums of the number of years spent by thefour diplomats together in the USA, the UK and China were 11, 13 and 13 respectively. No diplomat spentan equal number of years in any two countries. No two diplomats spent an equal number of years in anycountry. It is also known that:

(i) The number of years spent by Kabir and Manan in China were 4 and 1 respectively.(ii) The sum of the number of years spent in the three countries together by Manan was not less than

that of Kabir.(iii) The sum of the number of years spent in the three countries together by Laxman was 15.(iv) The absolute difference between the number of years spent by Kabir in the USA and the number of

years spent by Manan in the UK was 2.(v) Among the three countries, Nayodita spent the least time in the UK and the maximum in China.

41. What was the number of year(s) spent by Nayodita in the UK?

(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) 3

42. What was the difference between the number of years spent by Manan in the USA and Nayodita inChina?

(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) 3

43. Among the four diplomats, who spent the least time in China?

(a) Manan (b) Laxman (c) Kabir (d) Nayodita


44. A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

In the last century, when the intellectual and didactic element had intruded to such an extent intothe kingdom which belongs to poetry, it was against the claims of the understanding that an artistlike Goethe had to protest. ‘The more incomprehensible to the understanding a poem is the betterfor it,’ he said once, asserting the complete supremacy of the imagination in poetry as of reason inprose.

(a) But in this century exists, at the base of their poetic creations, a desire for a deeper spiritualvalue to be given to poetry.

(b) Poetry should contain the impression of a distinct individuality, individuality remote from that ofordinary men, and coming near to us only by virtue of a certain newness and wonder in the work.

(c) But in this century it is rather against the claims of the emotional faculties, the claims of meresentiment and feeling, that the artist must react.

(d) The artist is indeed the child of his own age.


Certainly a good deal of men’s tyranny over women can be observed through data, experiments, andresearch. Many things can be known in this way. But it does not show that it is unnecessary orchangeable, except speculatively, because what is not there is not considered real. Women’ssituation cannot be truly known for what it is, in the feminist sense, without knowing that it can beother than it is. By operating as legitimating ideology, the scientific standard for verifying reality canreinforce a growing indignation, but it cannot create feminism that was not already there.

(a) Social institutions are constituted, at least in part, by sets of shared beliefs and conventions.(b) Knowing objective facts does not do what consciousness does.(c) This means that we can speak here not only of error, but of illusion.(d) We are not simply cogs in structures and practices of subordination, we enact them.


In the face of mounting evidence that college is an inherently broadening experience, it seemsalmost impossible to complete those four years without growing a little. Twenty-two-year-olds havebeen known to emerge from their chosen institution of higher learning dogged by greater perspectiveand even fulfillment despite their best efforts to the contrary. This is no cause for panic, however,since there exist a few well-tested countermeasures that can be easily employed. The following tensteps, if pursued diligently, can actually help the entering student avoid getting virtually anythingfrom his or her undergraduate years.

(a) But one false move in this direction and the whole carefully designed structure could collapse.(b) Students should busily set about learning which of the courses require the least work. (c) It is crucial that academic interests not be influenced by real-life experience, particularly if you

hope to remain in academia and be hired to teach.(d) Advance reports even suggest that some regression is possible for those who religiously put

into practice all of the recommendations.



Ten flowers – F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9 and F10 – are to be planted in two gardens – G1 and G2 –such that each garden has at least four flowers. It is also known that:

(i) F2 and F10 cannot be planted in the same garden.(ii) If F5 is planted in G2 then F6 must also be planted in G2.(iii) F1 and F9 are to be planted in the same garden.(iv) Exactly one among F3, F4 and F10 is to be planted in G1.(v) F7 and F8 are to be planted in G2.

47. In how many different ways can the ten flowers be planted in the two gardens if F10 is to be plantedin G2?

(a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 10 (d) 8

48. One more flower called F11 is also to be planted in one of the two gardens. If it cannot be planted inthe garden in which F9 and F10 are planted, then which of the following must be planted in G1?

(a) F3 (b) F4 (c) F5 (d) F6

49. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.

A. One such group is the nation.B. What is so important about the existence of nations?C. Throughout history, humans have formed groups of various kinds around criteria that are used to

distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them’.D. This is one of the reasons why it is so important to understand what a nation is: this tendency

of humanity to divide itself into distinct, and often conflicting, groups.E. Many thousands, indeed millions, have died in wars on behalf of their nation, as they did in

World Wars I and II during the 20th century, perhaps the cruelest of all centuries.

(a) ADBCE (b) CBDAE (c) BCDAE (d) BCAED

50. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.

A. Fifty years ago in Britain, the social class of men, women, and children could be recognizedfrom their clothing.

B. This is usually attributed to the growth of mass production and the fact that the garment trade isthe first route to the global economy for a low-paid workforce in the ‘developing’ world.

C. In a partial, incomplete, but visible way, several of the revolutions he sought have already trans-formed the surface of life.

D. Today this is no longer true, except for the tiny minority who can read the signs of expensive andexclusive dress.

E. To take an example that is by definition superficial, one that is obvious and visible but seldomdiscussed, consider the revolution in dress in the second half of the 20th century.

(a) ADEBC (b) CEADB (c) CAEDB (d) CEABD


51. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logicalorder to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriateone.A. He inspired emulators in several countries and aroused the enmity of the church.B. Radically different as it is from the history of education as taught to student teachers, this

approach helps us to locate the anarchist thinkers in the spectrum of educational ideas.C. Ferrer opened his first school in Barcelona in 1901, aiming at a secular, rationalist education.D. When the Spanish government called for conscription in Catalonia for its war in Morocco in

1909, Ferrer was held responsible for street battles in Barcelona in which 200 demonstratorswere killed, even though he was not present.

E. These include, for example, the speculations of Leo Tolstoy on the school he started at YasnayaPolyana, and those of Francesco Ferrer (1859–1909), the founder of the ‘Modern School’ movement.

(a) EBCDA (b) BECDA (c) ECBDA (d) BECAD

52. There are two gaps in the sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choosethe one that fills the gaps most appropriately.

_____________, bothered and often _________by the pressures of the cold war, West Berlinerswere ready and waiting for Bobby Kennedy.

(a) Acerbic, misled (b) Hemmed, intimidated(c) Beleaguered, bewildered (d) Moved, girded

53. There are two gaps in the sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choosethe one that fills the gaps most appropriately.

If _________school aid does not go to Roman Catholic schools it should not go to any schools atall, the U.S. Catholic hierarchy maintains. Last week a leading Catholic weekly magazine found thisview dangerously____________.

(a) constitutional, prosaic (b) unplanned, demeaning(c) Communist, vitiating (d) Federal, obstructionist

54. The word given below has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the optioncorresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.

THINK(a) Come to think of it, it was imperative for him to meet her.(b) He likes to think ahead to his childhood.(c) She can think up many ways to impress him.(d) He thought through the pros and cons of his decision.

Directions for questions 55 to 57: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.Each of the six men – Akrosh, Arun, Lakshya, Manav, Shandu and Sujeet – got married to a differentwoman among Aditi, Ishita, Nisha, Rozy, Shilpi and Sona in the year 2012. The marriages happened on sixdifferent dates – 27th January, 10th February, 17th April, 26th April, 12th May and 8th June – and at sixdifferent places – Agra, Auli, Corbett, Dalhousie, Mussoorie and Shimla, in no particular order. It is alsoknown that:(i) The marriage of Nisha and Arun took place on 10th February and that of Aditi on 17th April.(ii) Shilpi’s marriage took place in Mussoorie. It happened after Lakshya’s marriage and did not happen

on 8th June.


(iii) Ishita’s marriage took place in Auli and she did not get married to Lakshya. She got married beforeAkrosh but not in January.

(iv) Sona and Shandu got married in Corbett. The marriage did not happen in January.(v) Rozy got married to either Manav or Akrosh.(vi) Neither Nisha’s nor Aditi’s marriage took place in Dalhousie.

55. Who got married to Shilpi?(a) Akrosh (b) Manav (c) Sujeet (d) Cannot be determined

56. Which of the following is a correct combination of person and his date of marriage?(a) Lakshya – 27th January (b) Akrosh – 8th June(c) Sujeet – 26th April (d) None of these

57. Where did the marriage that happened on 8th June take place?(a) Mussoorie (b) Agra (c) Corbett (d) Either (a) or (c)

58. Given below are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s)or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose themost appropriate option.1. Nearly 3,000 US and NATO soldiers have died during the Afghanistan war from 2001.2. Obama visited with troops during a stay of roughly six hours in the country.3. He left Afghanistan on Air Force One shortly soon after delivering his speech.4. But even as he asserted in his speech that there was a “clear path” to fulfilling the US mission

in Afghanistan he warned of further hardship ahead.(a) Only 1 (b) 2, 3, and 4 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 3 and 4

59. Given below are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s)or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose themost appropriate option1. Analysts feel that a Romney presidency would be good for India.2. Romney will restore US leadership on free trade to deepen economic ties between the US and

India.3. He would pursue an allies-first foreign policy that accords pride of place to core US partners.4. Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute feel that Conservatives (Republicans) pay

more attention to India than to Liberals (Democrats).(a) 1 and 3 (b) Only 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 2 and 4

60. Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three statements need to bearranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choosethe option that does not fit the sequence.(a) Whatever spiritual message an artist brings to his aid is a matter for his own soul.(b) But for warrant of its truth such message must have the flame of eloquence in the lips that speak

it, splendor and glory in the vision that is its witness, being justified by one thing only - theflawless beauty and perfect form of its expression: this indeed being the social idea, being themeaning of joy in art.

(c) To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals,and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadsidehas been defined by one of your poets as a flawless triumph of art.

(d) He may bring judgment like Michael Angelo or peace like Angelico; he may come with mourninglike the great Athenian or with mirth like the singer of Sicily; nor is it for us to do aught but accepthis teaching, knowing that we cannot smite the bitter lips of Leopardi into laughter or burden withour discontent Goethe’s serene calm.

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